ANIMAL STORIES_GIRAFFE

It has been a crazy week around our household! I would have loved to share a few other ideas but did not get around to them yet. I was also working on a project for a team meeting. I will share that project on another post later this week. This card is a SU only card using the fun new in-colors.
This is an idea that I came up with while watching cartoons with my kids. One of the scenes had this burst of color behind a subject and I put it right to work for me. I hope you enjoy it. I have not yet put a greeting on it. I have a brother in-law that really likes giraffes, but I think it would be really cute for a child’s card as well.
If you would like to purchase the animal stories stamp set, please visit my site here.

SUPPLIES:
INK: summer sun, crushed curry, dusty durango, ruby red
PAPER: whisper white (4 x 5 ¼), crushed curry (4 1/8 x 5 3/8), dusty durango (4 ¼ x 11)
STAMPS: animal stories
MISC: versa mark pen, clear embossing powder, heat embossing tool, chocolate chip ribbon (5/8“), summer sun corduroy buttons (2), snail adhesive, sponges, water bottle spritzer w/ water, crop-a-dile







1.. Take one summer sun coduroy button, spritz it with water till fairly wet.
2. Roll the button in ruby red ink till completely colored. While this is drying, start on the rest of the card.
3. Stamp the giraffe (animal stories) with the dusty durango on whisper white card stock.
4. Go over the giraffe with the versa mark pen
5. Heat emboss with clear embossing powder.
6. Take summer sun ink directly to paper using just the edge to create lines across the whole image.
7. Repeat step 4 with crushed curry ink.
8. Repeat step 4 one more time with dusty durango ink.
9. Wipe off the giraffe with a soft cloth.
10. Using a sponge, swirl summer sun just around the giraffe to create a background color.
11. Repeat step 8 with crushed curry, do not cover up the summer sun, it will blend really well.
12. Repeat step 8 one more time, with dusty durango just around the edge of the card and a little onto the crushed curry.
13. Attach the image to crushed curry paper using snail adhesive.
14. Wrap chocolate chip ribbon around the bottom of the 2 pieces of card stock.
15. Using the crop-a-dile, punch 2 holes in the ribbon and through the card stock.
16. Attach 2 corduroy buttons, to the panels.
17. Attach all panels to the final piece of dusty durango card stock.

***** I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THIS TUTORIAL AND WILL GIVE IT A TRY *****
Have a stamping great day!
Robin

ARTFUL INKABLES THINK BIG

Here is another one that I cased from Artful Inkables. I apologize that I do not remember all the items that I used. I did this one a while back and used some old items up to clear up space for some more SU items. Anyway this is one of my favorites that I have setting up on a small shelf in my scrap room. This one reminds me of my daughter and so I just had to get the stamp set. I also got another with the same girl picking berries. I will post one of these later on.

STAMPS: think big (ARTFUL INKABLES)
MISC: diamond square brad (received this from a friend), flowers from my stash, some paper I had in an old stash that I was just trying to use up.

SUMMER BY THE SEA

Here is another one that I cased from Michelle Zindorf. I apologize that I do not remember all the items that I used. I did this one a while back and used some old items up to clear up space for some more SU items. Anyway this is one of my favorites that I have setting up on a small shelf in my scrap room.STAMPS: inspired by nature, summer by the sea, & small script
MISC: wax paper, markers, bone folder, sponges

SENSE OF TIME CHERISH

This is one that I just put together. I really like the baroque on the side. It reminded me a bit of the Razzleberry Lemonade paper that I used in the clock..
SUPPLIES:
PAPER: dusty durango, barely banana, razzleberry lemonade, melon mambo
INK: basic black
STAMPS: baroque motifs, sense of time
MISC: silver brad, chocolate chip ribbon, top note, big shot, snail adhesive, modern label punch
corner rounder, scissors

1. Stamped and cut out the full clock (sense of time), stamped one more time and only cut out
the small clock in melon mambo
2. Adhere the small clock on the larger one, insert a brad into the center
3. Stamped the top baroque motif on the side of the dusty orange, also repeat this on the side of the inside
4. Cut out the top note using the big shot
5. Decided on placement of the top note and cut the one side off before adhering down
6. Adhere a small piece of chocolate grosgrain ribbon on top and around the back of top note
7. Adhere the top note to dusty durango main panel
8. Adhere the big clock on top note
9. Stamp the word CHERISH (baroque motifs) on melon mambo paper
10. Punch the word out with the modern label punch and adhere to main panel

HAPPY NEW BABY

Happy new baby is SU only card. I cased this from Denise. She does such wonderful layouts.






































SUPPLIES:
PAPER: whisper white, bashful blue, pink passion
STAMPS: fun & fast notes, It's a cheer thing (retired)
INK: basic black, baja breeze (old in color), pink passion
MARKERS: bordering blue, pink passion, bliss blue, basic black
MISC: white gel pen, pop dots, big shot, small dots texturz plate, paper cutter, snail adhesive, stamp-a-ma-jig, half back pearls

1. cut paper to following
white = 2" x 2", 3 1/4" x 3 1/4",
pink & blue = 2 1/2" x 2 1/2", 3 1/2" x 3 1/2", 1/2" x 4 1/4"
2. stamp the buggy (fun n fast notes) on to the 2x2 white
3. color buggy & heart with pink/blue, outlined buggy, wheels and bars with basic black, colored center of wheels with bordering blue
4. used white gel pen to color in the dots on the buggy to make them stand out.
5. scored the pink/blue 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" cs at 2 1/8" all around
6. colored the corners of the score with white gel pen to make it look like a box
7. assembled the stamped image on to the pink/blue scored piece
8. once assembled I then added the half back pearl to the middle of the buggy
9. lightly misted the white 3 1/4"x 3 1/4" with water before sending it through the big shot with the small dots texturz plate
10. put white textured cs onto the pink/blue 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" cs
11. assembled this piece onto the card
12. assembled the pink/blue 1/2" x 4 1/4" strip onto card
13. used the stamp-a-ma-jig to place the words exactly where I wanted them
14. assembled the stamped image onto the card using pop dots for dimension
15. On the inside I stamped the stars (it's a cheer thing) across the top

MANHATTAN MERCI

Here is another brayer technique that I had to try out. I loved how this turned out using some of the new DP as well.



SUPPLIES:
PAPER: vellum, whisper white, razzleberry lemonade
INK: pink passion
STAMPS: merci
MISC: brayer, big shot, manhattan flower textured impressions embossing folder, paper cutter
TECHNIQUE: brayer on vellum




1. put vellum in the manhattan flower folder and sent it through the big shot
2. turned the vellum over and brayered on pink passion, put it on lighter in some areas and darker in others. just need to play with it to get the look that you want
3. cut out the flower just around the edge of the vellum
4. attached to whisper white and then cut down to 3 1/2" x 4 7/8"
5. stamped the merci and heart on the white
6. attached to razzleberry lemonade paper 4" x 5 1/4"
7. attached onto whisper white 4 1/4" x 11"
8. on the inside, i used the butterfly and heart again

INSPIRED BY NATURE

So here is my inspiration piece that I used to create the following 2 cards. I hope you enjoy these as much as I do.

SUPPLIES:
PAPER: whisper white, barely banana, dusty durango
INK: summer sun, tangerine tango (retired in-color), dusty durango, not quite navy, basick black, versamark pad and pen
STAMP: inspired by nature
MISC: clear embossing powder, embossing buddy, brayer, sponges, paper cutter




















1. cut whisper white cardstock to 4" x 5 1/4"
2. versamarked up stamp, then put on basic black before stamping on card.
3. embossed with clear powder
4. brayer summer sun over all of whiper white, took soft cloth to remove the ink from the embossed image
5. sponged on tangerine tango on outside of summer sun to create a shadow in the water
6. sponged on dusty durango on outside of tangerine tango for more depth. also sponged it at a little of the top, so it would show around where I wanted to put the mountains
7. sponged not quite navy on outside of dusty durango again at the top of the card, sponged lightly in the sky to cover most of the summer sun
8. tore a piece of paper to create the mountains, and used another straight piece for the bottom of the mountains
9. sponged not quite navy pretty dark, then went back over some of the area with the basic black to give more depth
10. sponged not quite navy in the sky creating a dark area for shadow and clouds
11. sponged some basic black in the water to create a few more dark areas
12 cut some barely banana to 4 1/8" x 5 3/8", assembled the image on the barely banana, then assembled both on to a final piece of dusty durango 4 1/4" & 11"
13. on the inside I used the saying that comes with the inspired by nature stamp