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Masked Cupcakes

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

I finally have attempted masking!!!! And it turned out really well! Why am I such a chicken to try things?!?!?! For Taylor Van Bruggen's Cupcake Challenge this week I had a vision in my head of what I wanted to do and I did it and it worked! Don't ya just love that?
This is my entry for the TECC41. I really liked that sketch and like I said had a vision in my head when I saw it. The cupcakes are from Unity, as is the scalloped frame. Masking is really easy! Wish I would have tried it sooner! Have a great day!

*Live*Laugh*Love*Create*
Tessa

Labels:card,cupcakes,stamping,techniques,unity | 7 Loves

Pink Twinks - Find A Cure

Monday, October 20, 2008

The pink continues! All this week the challenges on SCS are going PINK in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Today's Try a Technique Challenge was Penciled Pink Twinks - using watercolor pencils and twinkling H20's. I had to change it up a bit since I don't have Twinking H20's. I stamped my image the ribbon in SU's Pretty in Pink and then used my markers to shade some areas with Pixie Pink. I then used my aqua pen and some Perfect Pearls to paint over the stamped image. It worked great! So shimmery! I cut my stamped image out and then inked the edges in Basic Grey and Stamped the Find a Cure in Basic Grey as well. I then straightened the sentiment and stamped it repeatedly on the pretty in pink cs to create a unique patterned paper for my card! The scalloped piece is SEI patterned paper that I used the Threading Water punch on and then finished it off with some sheer "wedding" ribbon from HL and some little adhesive rhinestones - those two seem to be showing up on a lot of my projects! Oh and the cut out ribbon is popped up on dimensionals. I am giving this card to one of the secretaries at work. She is a BC survivor and one of the most awesome people I know! I used a sketch for the card from my new blogger friend Liz's blog Scrapbooking, Sketches and Life, oh my! It was a great sketch and she also created a 12x12 layout with the same design! Check it out! Don't forget to scroll down and check out my BLOG Candy!

Tools:
CS: Basic Grey, Whisper White, Pretty in Pink
PP: SEI
Stamps: Always Remember by CTMH
Ink: Pretty in Pink, Basic Grey, Pixie Pink
Other: Perfect Pearls by Ranger, Threading Water Punch, Adhesive Rhinestones, Wedding Ribbon from HL

*Live*Laugh*Love*Create*
Tessa

Labels:Breast Cancer Awareness,card,Close to My Heart,CTMH,stamping,techniques | 13 Loves

a FUN sketch!

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Isn't this a fun sketch? I thought so when I went looking for a challenge any challenge on Serendipity Scrapbooks. Cause that's what our final blogging challenge was for JULY - to find any challenge and do it and upload to our blog. I love me a good sketch so naturally Iwent for the sketch forum! When I saw this one for some reason it jumped out at me and I thought BUBBLE WRAP! I have been wanting to to try inking bubble wrap for an interesting look on a layout and this looked like the perfect opportunity.

So I pulled out some pictures and used them to guide my color choices. I started with a piece of yellow Bazzill bling paper and inked up my bubble wrap with Wild Wasabi ink and laid it down on my cardstock - I used a Brayer to really go over it -w hich caused it to slide a bit - but still interesting look! I matted the top two pictures on Wasbi and Perfect Plum Cardstock. The bottom one I matted on wasabi and then on to a little file folder I made from Afternoon Tea Designer Paper which I then faux stitched on either side and used my corner rounder on. The tab is from Fancy Pants acrylic which I stamped on using STazon "fun file" wound up having to back it with bashful blue cardstock which was not what I originally intended but you know how that goes! I journaled on some Notebook Designer Paper and added paper clips with

Bashful blue taffetta ribbon. Here is a close up of the little journaling tags (I guess they're tags). I stamped the title FUN in Perfect Plum using an OLD acrylic alpha set from Leaving Prints (yikes!) It needed more and so all along the edge of the bubble wraped area I used an assortment of buttons to line it. I think it's pretty cute! Thanks for looking! And if you still haven't go check out Serendipity Scrapbooks already! What are you waiting for?!

Tools:
CS: yellow Bazzill Bling, SU wild wasabi, Perfect Plum, Bashful Blue
PP: SU Afternoon Tea, Notebook
Ink: Wild Wasabi, Perfect Plum, Basic Black (marker) Stazon Black
Stamps: Old Alpha from Leaving Prints, Simple Alphabet from PTI
Other: Fancy Pants Acrylic, Paper Clips, Bashful Blue Taffeta ribbon, LOTS of buttons and lots of glue dots, bubble wrap
Tools: Corner Rounder, Paper piercer, paper piercing stitches template, brayer

*Live*Laugh*Love*Create*
Tessa

Labels:Kaden,layout,Scrapbooking,Serendipity Scrapbooks,Sketch,techniques | 8 Loves

Try a Technique Tuesday - Polished Stone

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

This is a super cool technique that I first saw done by my friend Jac! We then did it at club and it is soooooo easy and so cool looking. The card I have for you we also did white embossing and so it's extra special. Check out this: Polished Stone for the "original" technique using metallic ink. This card is using this technique: Magic Snowflake which is similar to Polished Stone but uses glossy cardstock, and you emboss your image in white first and then do the polished stone over the image which after wiping "magically" appears! (note: SCS tutorial says to emboss again after dabbing with cotton ball - can just wipe off) This is just so fun and can be a really intense background or very subtle like shown here!

To do this stamp a solid image in white craft ink on glossy cardstock and emboss with white EP (or I guess clear would work too). Take a cotton ball and partially soak with rubbing alcohol then put a dot of each ink you want to use and dab onto cardstock - repeat and swirl and such to hearts content. Let dry a few seconds (dries super fast) then wipe off image with paper towel - ink doesn't dry on embossed image. Trim to desired size, use to create card! Viola!

Tools:

Cardstock - SU Glossy White, Blue Bayou

Stamps - Heartfelt Thanks

Ink- Craft White, Blue Bayou stamp pad and Reinker, Soft Sky Reinker, River Rock Reinker,
Ribbon - Double Stitched Soft Sky

Other - White Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Ribbon Slide from Pewter HP hardware

Labels:card,Stampin Up,stamping,SU,techniques | 2 Loves

Try a Technique Tuesday - Rock and Roll

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

The first new technique I have for you is Rock and Roll! I read the tutorial at splitcoast and then we did it at club too!

The rock and roll technique is pretty simple but hey - anything that takes stamping to the next level is good right? Here is the link the the tutorial at SCS. Rock and Roll

You need a solid image stamp to do this. I chose the set True Friend. I love that set - even better that it is die cut!
I did the big medallion. Ink up your lightest color first - here groovy guava - then you roll the edges in the other color - I chose Close to Cocoa. Super simple!

So then I decided to do another image and make a card! I used the tri-flower and just did the tips. The card base is River Rock, then a layer of groovy guava corners punched with my CM fancy corner punch, then some Apple Cider DP (love it hope it comes out in fall catty) punched with SU's ticket corner punch. In the bottom right corner I used a sentiment from Simple Delights and stamped "Just Because You're You" in Close to Cocoa - I love that saying! I punched out the image with my PINK Marvy oval punch and layered it on a close to cocoa piece punched out using the PURPLE Marvy scalloped oval punch. I added my ribbon by punching a hole and threading it through then tying a bow I used Groovy Guava stitched ribbon. I just love this year's in colors! What am I going to do when they retire????????? Thanks for looking!

Tools:
CS: River Rock, Close to Cocoa, Groovy Guava - SU
DP: Apple Cider - SU
Punches: CM Fancy Corner, SU Ticket Corner and tiny hole punch, Marvy Oval and Scalloped Oval
Ribbon: Groovy Guava Stitched - SU

Labels:card,Stampin Up,stamping,SU,techniques | 5 Loves