Enjoy Your Birthday

Supplies: Stamps: Enjoy the Sunshine by Gina K  Ink: Gina K charcoal brown  Paper: Gina K kraft and layering white cardstock, 40# vellum  Accessories: Gina K butterfly die cut, nestabilities, twine, gems, banner die cut, swiss dots embossing folder.

I made this card for the Stamp TV challenge: This or That.  You had the choice to use vellum or embossing, I chose to use both.  I die cut my butterfly from vellum, and embossed the front panel of my card.  I also used the reversed nestabilities technique that Gina K has a video tutorial on.  I completed the card with a white and silver sparkle twine to compliment the sparkle of the butterfly's body, and a banner with the sentiment.  

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Terri

Another Boo Card!

The clean and simple challenge over at SCS was to use the faux letterpress technique. I had just made a card using this technique! So I got out the same spider web embossing folder and inked it up again. This time I stamped a ghost by whipper snapper, and I also used Gina's tutorial on reverse nestabilities only I used circle punches instead of nestabilties.

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Stamp TV Favorite Technique

Gina K. is searching for a new Center Stage guest design team member for August, so I decided I am going to give it a go! She wants us to choose our favorite technique that she has shared over at Stamp TV. It was hard to choose so I went with my most recent favorite, Reverse Nestabilities. I love the dimension it gives to the card. I used Label 9 and circle nestabilities and a circle punch to make the opening for the focal image on this card.

For the sentiment I first punched out the label and then I used my stamp a ma jig to place the "I've been." After inking up the stamp I placed scotch tape over the "thinking about you" part of the stamp, and then stamped. I did the same for the "thinking about you" only I stamped it on a small piece of white paper to place behind the punched out label.

For the focal image I used Gina's video on Happy Fish Copic Coloring. I never would have thought to color in the fish bowl first. I would have been trying to color around that fish! I love how realistic it looks colored this way. When I stamped the fish bowl I didn't ink up the jumping fish so I could place him out of the focal image circle. Then I thought that I would add even more dimension on this card. I stamped the jumping fish on heavy weight pure luxury white paper, colored and cut it out. I attached it to the card using a pop dot to make him look like he's coming at you! ;)

For the inside of the card I had a little bit of the patterned paper left from the focal image, so I used a scallop border punch to fancy it up, and then I stamped the fish image again. It is so fun to color this, I couldn't resist!

Card Details:

Stamps: Enjoy the Sunshine

Ink: memento rich cocoa and tuxedo black

Paper: GKD green apple, chocolate kiss, white, and patterned paper from Enjoy the Sunshine Stamp TV kit
Accessories: Labels 9 Spellbinders, circle spellbinders, 2 1/2 inch circle punch ek success, modern label punch, offray grograin ribbon, pop dots
Copic Colors: BG000, BG01, Y21, Y38

Thanks for looking!

Another Reverse Nestabilities Card

I guess I really like this technique! My tiger lilies are in full bloom now, they are mostly red and a splash of orange in the center of each petal. I tried to duplicate this... My ribbon is colored with copic markers, I was surprised how hard the ribbon got after drying. But the ribbon matches perfectly!



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Reverse Nestabilities

This week on Stamp TV Gina had a video called reverse nestabilities, where you pop up the card front of your card after die cutting your shapes with nestabilities. I had to give it a try! I used the iris stamp from Gina K,and colored it with copic markers. Next I cut out a square that would frame the iris image and embossed it with the swiss dots cb embossing folder. On the lightest purple I cut out and embossed the label and fancy label for the focal image and my sentiment. I stamped my sentiment and popped up the entire card front with pop dots. I really like the look of this card, you'll have to give it a try! Check out the video reverse nestabilities. Thanks for looking!