I saw this cool technique in a video that Betsy Veldman created here. She used the watercolor stamping technique, then heat embossed the image a second time over the watercolored image. I thought the effect was really neat and I wanted to give it a try. So I used it to create this card for the Mojo Monday 286 Challenge using the Postage Due stamp set from Stampin’ Up! Here is the sketch:
And here is the card that I made:
Today I’m sharing a group of cards and a little gift box that I made using the Patterned Occasions stamp set that you can earn for free with a $50 order from Stampin’ Up during Sale-a-bration. I also put together a Tutorial for the Window Frame box. Click here or on the Tutorial tab above to go check it out.
Today I’m sharing a gift box and matching mini card that I decorated with some Designer Series Paper and the new Creped Filter Paper from the 2013 Stampin’ Up Spring Catalog. I also used one of the Sale-A-Bration stamp sets called Pretty Petites and a brand new matching Petite Curly Label Punch that is also available only during Sale-A-Bration.
Today I’m sharing a card that I made using the Build A Blossom stamp set from Stampin’ Up. I made this for Sandi’s Stamping and Blogging Saturday Sketch Challenge 9. Sorry, no sneak peeks to torture you with today, but I’ll try to get something together for you tomorrow. 🙂
Yesterday, I showed you a couple of gift bags that I made with Designer Series Paper. Today I’m going to show you how I made the bows.
I’ll start with the flower bow on the Gumball Green bag. I first saw these on Cathy Parlitsis’ website here. She has a video tutorial showing you how to put the flowers together too so you can watch that if you’ve got a few minutes. I made mine using a slightly different technique, this is how I made my flower:
I’m heading to an ornament exchange party on Monday and I needed to wrap up my ornament. I pulled out my Petite Pocket Bigz XL Die and this is what I came up with.
I saw a cute little turkey on Split Coast Stampers and I knew that I needed to make some for Thanksgiving this year. These are really fun and basically use a bunch of punches and a lot of glue! This would be a great activity to do with your kids too.
