Quite the Pear | AWW

Welcome to the 2014 *February* edition of the Wednesday Artisan Blog Hop.  Check back every Wednesday to see new projects that all 10 of the Stampin' Up! Artisans have created. 

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I'm still grooving on the new Mini Catalog?  Are you??

GORGEOUS.

I am in LOVE with hybrid craft projects in any form.  How about a Scrapcard?

Yeah, I said it.

Scrapcard.

To get the look of the faux metal on the polaroid die cut, I cut the image out of Basic Gray cardstock and then used the direct ink to paper technique.

Lay your paper on some scratch paper, then lightly blot your inkpad on top of the paper.  Repeat the blotting until you get the desired coverage.

Don't press too hard with your ink pad.  Since it's like a sponge, if you press too hard, you'll get a lovely rectangle of ink instead of just on the raised/embossed images.

Practice if you're scared.

Where did I get my gorgeous Coastal Cabana pear?  Since there isn't a download available for the Quite the Pair images (yet) I had to get a little creative.  I took a screenshot of the stamped image, put it into some photo editing software I have, erased the words and background, then plopped it into my Silhouette Designer Edition software.  From there I could trace the pear and cut it out.

GENIUS?

I thought so too.

I love the look of distressed stamping.  The way I achieve this look is to only ink parts of the stamp so that it looks like the image is already faded and distressed.  See?

 

Stamps: Dictionary, Quite the Pear
Paper:  Basic Gray, Coastal Cabana, Whisper White
Ink: Coastal Cabana, Silver Encore Ink Pad, Coastal Cabana Stampin' Write Marker
Accessories & Tools:  Big Shot, On Film Framelits, Sweet Sorbet Accessory Pack (Thick Baker's Twine), Paper Snips, Dimensionals, Glue Dots, Snail Adhesive, Tombow Multipurpose Liquid Glue
Other: Sewing Machine, White Thread, E-Cutter
 
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Go back and visit my fantastic friend Erica's blog or move on to the next blog and visit Jeanna's.  I'm so lucky to be sandwiched between two of my great friends.

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Did you order your Paper Pumpkin yet?

Full project kits delivered straight to your door.

What are you waiting for??

 

Artisan Wednesday WOW *hello glimmer treat bag*

Welcome to the 2014 *January* edition of the Wednesday Artisan Blog Hop.  Check back every Wednesday to see new projects that all 10 of the Stampin' Up! Artisans have created. 

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I hope you are enjoying all these new projects the Artisans have been creating with items out of the new Mini Catalog.

LOVE.

I love getting little packages.  They're just SO fun!  I also think it's fun to receive little packages for no reason at all.  *hint* *hint*

Easy and fast.  You can make this too!

To create the star banner, I fired up my Silhouette (I seriously don't know how I ever created without this machine.  LOVE!!) and used the Star punch from MDS.  I used 3 different sizes and just placed them randomly all over my glimmer paper.  Then I used the Banner Framelit to cut it out.

I like to use my Bone Folder to curl up the edges of my banners.  It gives it more dimension.
LOVE!

This super awesome arrow is a book end (so I have 2.)

I saw it and HAD to have it.  Do you love it?

Just wanted to share.

MDS:  Star Punch
Stamps: Perfect Pennants
Ink:  Coastal Cabana, Daffodil Delight
Paper:  Daffodil Delight, Very Vanilla, Silver Glimmer Paper
Accessories & Tools:  Big Shot, Banners Framelits Dies, Tag a Bag Gift Bags, Tea Lace Paper Doilies, Bone Folder
Other:  Stapler, eCutter
 
Order everything from my site {HERE}

Go back and visit my fantastic friend Erica's blog or move on to the next blog and visit Jeanna's.  I'm so lucky to be sandwiched between two of my great friends.

 Do you follow me on Pinterest?  You can.

 

Did you order your Paper Pumpkin yet?

Full project kits delivered straight to your door.

What are you waiting for??

 

Artisan Wednesday WOW *i miss you already*

Welcome to the 2014 *January* edition of the Wednesday Artisan Blog Hop.  Check back every Wednesday to see new projects that all 10 of the Stampin' Up! Artisans have created. 

Follow the 2013 Artisan Design Team Pinterest Board:


Holla!!  It's January.  I feel like time is going SO fast!!  It'll be summer before we know it!  Anyway...  Are you loving the new Mini Catalog?

GORGEOUS.

Hi.  Hello.  I am in love with the new wooden embellishments AND the word bubble framelits.
L.O.V.E.

 
 

I created these adorable hearts using my Silhouette Cameo.  Here is how you can create the same thing:

1. Create a rectangle that will be the size you'd like your top layer to be cut.  Mine is 3.25" x 4.75".
2. Import the heart from the Bookstagram MDS download into your program.
3. Resize your heart to be .25" wide.
4. Open your trace window
5. Click Select Trace Area
6. Then click Trace Outer Edge
   You should have a red outline around your heart.
   You can move your black heart out of the way.
7.  Click the red outline of the heart and create several duplicates.  I just placed them randomly all over the square.  I made sure to have some hearts go outside of the square too.
8. Click the Select arrow on your toolbar.
9. Draw a square around your rectangle with hearts in it.
10. Your rectangle and all the hearts should have outlines around them.
11. Click the Open the Modify Window.
12. Click the Subtract option.
13. Your screen should look like this:
14. Now you can cut your project.

If you saw this post earlier you're probably thinking,"Wasn't there some twine on this card that looked like a guppy fish?"  Yes, there was, but I had to fix it.  I just couldn't stand it. Yay!

Are you wondering what I did with all the cute little hearts that were cut out?  They're on the inside of the card, of course.

MDS: Bookstagram - Heart

Stamps:  Just Sayin'

Ink:  Melon Mambo, Jet Black StazOn

Paper:  Whisper White, Coastal Cabana, Watercolor Paper

Accessories & Tools:  Aqua Painter, Big Shot, Word Bubbles Framelits, White Baker's Twine, Wooden Elements Embellishments, Dimensionals, SNAIL Adhesive, Glue Dots

Other: Ecutter

Order everything from my site {HERE}

Go back and visit my fantastic friend Erica's blog or move on to the next blog and visit Jeanna's.  I'm so lucky to be sandwiched between two of my great friends.

 Do you follow me on Pinterest?  You can.

 

Did you order your Paper Pumpkin yet?

Full project kits delivered straight to your door.

What are you waiting for??