Thursday, April 28

Quick and Easy Soldier Card

Soldiers have been close to my heart for many years. One Uncles served in WWII and Korea, my husband served in Viet Nam and a dear friends son-in-law served in both Iraq and Afghanistan. 
As we approach Memorial day I thought it would be nice to give you a quick and easy card to make to give to a service person. We must never forget to thank them for their service to our country.




As you can see the card is very easy to make but would mean so much to any service person to receive it. The base card is red card stock (8.5" x 5.5") folded in half. On that I layered a blue card piece  (3.75" x 5").
I cut a piece of white card stock (3.5" x 4.75") and using red dye ink (Adirondack red pepper) I inked up the large star from my Stampin Up set "Old Glory". Stamp this off once on scrap paper then stamp onto the white piece. 
Then ink up the Soldier saying stamp from Paper Inspirations using navy blue dye ink (Adirondack denim) and stamp into the lower right of the card. Use any corner punch on the white piece and layer onto your card front. 
Done!!!

If you don't have or can't find the saying you could print a saying out on your printer just thanking the soldier from your heart. If you can't find the star (it's and OLD set), try cutting out a star from card stock and  use it as a stencil!


I would really like you to send cards to say thank you and if you are interested in helping in other ways or want to find an address to send your cards here is a link to sign up to be a soldier angel!

http://www.soldiersangels.org/


Thank you for helping a great cause!!!

Tuesday, April 26

Picture this ... Rubberstamping on Photos

As I gazed out my back window this morning it reminded me of a card I made using an actual photo.


The card is VERY simple and yet you can use any picture and apply any image. Above is facing East on my property after a full flood. I used the couple (not sure of the company) and the saying (Stamp Oasis) with Staz-on black ink. I layered it onto black cardstock.

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The card below is done a bit differently. Another picture is used but I also had to pull out my Stamp-a-ma-jig positioner. I used dye (not permanent ink) to stamp the image onto my positioner plastic (using dye ink allows you to clean off the plastic with water for future use). I taped down the picture using double backed temporary tape. Placed the postioner image (Stamp Oasis) over the picture to get it "just right". Using the "jig" I stamped using Staz-on black the image to the picture. I layered that with a thin border of black card stock. Then I layered it onto a base card of brown that had been stamped with Versamark ink using a JudiKins stamp.

Thursday, April 21

Celery Rubber stamping


Yes, we will be using a vegetable to make a terrific background for 
this card which also uses a Magenta rubber stamp.

Supplies:
Celery          Kaleidacolor pad      Stazon black      
Glossy card stock     Black card stock   
Spritz bottle with water              Paper towels     Magenta rubber stamp

Cut piece of celery. Using 2 colors of Kaleidacolor pad, lightest first, 
stamp, using the celery all over the glossy card stock leaving some 
white areas. Repeat with darker color leaving less white. 
Spritz with water and using celery smear a bit. Load celery with 
darker color and stamp while still wet. Blot to dry off.

Stamp, using the Staz-on black, over the dried background.


Monday, April 18

Batik Technique

A sweet friend told me tonight that I should post most often. 
So here I go:

Batik Rubber Stamping Instructions

1.      Emboss on mulberry paper using solid stamp, clear embossing pad or resist pad pad, clear embossing powder and heat tool just until image is clear.
2.      Place on one side of newsprint and spritz with water until it’s soaked but not drippy.
3.      Drop re-inker of one color is several places. Using brush dribble more water on to spread the color, BUT leave some places available for more color. Clean the brush. Now drop another color and repeat with the brush from a clear cup of water. I also added Daniel Smith metallic pale gold watercolor to mine.
4.      Fold newsprint over and press and leave for few seconds.
5.      Now carefully unfold and transfer to a couple of clean sheets of newsprint in a flip flop method. (Don’t throw out your first newsprint, allow it to dry it makes great wrapping paper or backgrounds).
6.      Fold this newsprint over and with a medium to hot iron press about one minute. Carefully begin to lift off the newsprint. It may stick, if so then put the newsprint down and heat that area until it releases when you lift it up.
7.      The paper will stick because you are removing the powder from the mulberry paper when you heat it. That’s why it’s important not to move the paper just keep heating until it comes off the newsprint.
8.      That’s your Batik paper. You will find that it will show up best when placed on a sheet of white card stock. I do this by using glue stick my card stock then placing the paper over it and smoothing out with a bone folder.

Based on a technique from Impression Obsession.




Wednesday, April 6

Collage Squared Card

Collage Squared Card with rubber stamps:

Supplies list:

Card stock 5”x 5", light color, for collage
Card stock, for main card, 11”x 5½ "
Card stock 5¾” background piece

Scraps (tissue, light weight papers, collage type)
Glue stick

Ruler (clear)
Pencil

Scissors
* Optional : permanent ink and rubber stamps

1. Glue, in collage style (this means all over willy nilly), all the bits of scrap papers to the 5"x5" 
    card. Tear them for a collage effect! Let papers go off the edge of the main paper. Allow it to
    dry a bit, trim excess off edges.
2. Flip over and measure 1" rows horizontally and vertically. Cut along these lines. You should
    have 25 pieces.
3. Fold main card in half.  Mix up 1” squares and glue to front of card starting with four corners.
    After gluing down the 4 corners apply the rest of the squares using 1/8” in between.
4. Glue main card to background piece. 


*You will note that on the two examples I have stamped images (leaf ). I did this with a permanent ink before cutting the squares.*