Showing posts with label DSP-Be Merry. Show all posts
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Sunday, May 20, 2018

May's Club Cards

Our May Club meeting turned out to be just the day before Mother's Day.  I used a Mother's Day card design I saw on Pinterest - more on the rest of the story in a bit.

A week before our Club date, I was working on designs for our meeting, and wanted to focus on soon retiring stamp sets and colors.  This birthday card turned out so well! 

It's a watercolor technique.  Stamp the flowers, and immediately use the aqua painters (water brushes) to spread the color around to give the petals color and dimension.


 I saw this pocket card on Pinterest as well, and loved it the moment I saw it.  The Designer Series Paper, Delightful Daisy is retiring and I wanted to present another idea for using this very pretty paper.
We heat embossed the pocket and die cut it.  Use Tear & Tape to get the best adhesion to your paper.

My students earn points for good behavior, and lose points when they are having issues.  One reward I offer is for 100 points - students can do Arts and Crafts with the Teacher.  I had a dozen kids want to make Mother's Day cards.  I had almost everything prepared, and on Friday, I called that group from each class to assemble their cards.  The students had to color the flowers (This was the sample they could use for an example.) and then glue up all their pieces.  

Here is the Christmas Card I offer every club meeting.  I wanted to feature this very pretty Christmas stamp set.  After looking at it, it needs ribbon.  I'll send that along next club date.  We used the Stamparatus to stamp the sentiment and pine needles.  I had a template set up, and we stamped away!

Many of these items are retiring.  Grab them while you can!  


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Saturday, July 29, 2017

Christmas in July - Event!


"This looks familiar," you say?  Why, yes, it does!  It's an update to current paper and supplies from the card I made earlier this month.  You can get the 'stuff' to duplicate this card!
Contact me to find out how to make this card.  It's a cute card, and so very easy when you know the technique! The post from July 10th - I rocked out a dozen of these in a very short period of time. 

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Thursday, July 13, 2017

Christmas in July - Link

http://suescricutandcrafts.blogspot.com/

Click the banner above, or click HERE to go to today's Christmas Card!

What an adventure!
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Friday, July 7, 2017

Christmas in July - Glitter Trees


Christmas in July for today has to do with GLITTER!  
 The stamp set I'm using is older than the hills, but still relevant, and still in the catalog!   The picture below I took without the flash so you could see the sparkly glitter.  SO pretty!

I don't know when Christmas trees became so important to me.  Every year as kids we got to help pick out the tree.  As an adult I haven't always had a Christmas tree for one reason or the other up during the holidays, but I always have them around the house.  I collect them.  My grandmother's ceramic Christmas tree sits in the dining room with a timer so it is lit year-round.  I have figurines of trees, or figurines with trees all over the house.  I really LOVE Christmas trees!
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Thursday, July 6, 2017

Christmas in July - Santa's Shiny Sleigh

 I've got some tips before you get to see the card.  I showed this the other day - use cardboard and clothespins to secure your images for heat embossing.  Save your fingers!
 Above you can see 4 sleighs I worked on at once.  I actually made 6 cards and worked through the images and steps like an assembly line. 
 I stamped the reindeer in Early Espresso, and used Soft Suede on the sponge dauber to add some color on the Crumb Cake card stock.  Below, I used the Basic Black and Soft Suede markers to add details on hooves and noses.
 Though I made 6 cards, I stamped and die cut 12 reindeer.  They will be used for other cards or elements on something!  They will definitely not go to waste.
 I LOVE this stamp so much!  It's long retired (so sad) and I was lucky to get one.  You'll see it often this month.  It fits the new Pretty Label punch so beautifully!

And here is the completed card.  So many elements and details, and very stunning!  Hopefully treasured as well.

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