Sweet Stamps: Love is in the Air

I have another card over on the Sweet Stamps Blog.  Be sure and visit and see how I created this card with the stamps soon to be released.

I think this card came out quite nice.  It would work for a baby shower or Valentines.  

Thank you for visiting.  All supplies and stamps are available at Sweet Stamps.

Happy Crafting,

Josette

Sweet Stamps: Bear Hugs

Today is Tuesday and that means another card for Sweet Stamps.  Visit Sweet Stamp Blog for more information about this cute card.

This was made to honor all my Washington State friends  who are fellow Cougars. WSU is one of my alma maters and two of my children graduated from there as well.  Have you ever had Cougar Cheese, oh my.  

Stop by again soon and see all my new creations..

Happy Crafting,
Josette

Tuesday Post for Sweet Stamps: Hello Penguin

I just posted another fun card over on the  Sweet Stamps Blog.  Jump on over and see how I made this adorable card.

All new stamps sets are on sale through January.  Details are available at the Sweet Stamps

Happy Crafting
Josette

Pre-Order Special on NEW Sets for January

SHappy New Year!
Get 15% Off with coupon code 15YEARS

Happy Penquin

Stop by the Sweet Stamps Blog and see my new card.  Here is a preview.

Full details are available at:  Sweet Stamp Blog

Remember all new stamps sets are on sale:

Happy Crafting:

Josette

Sweet Stamps: Treat for a Snowman

Today I have a card over on the Sweet Stamps site:  Sweet Stamps Blog.
Be sure and follow the link and see all the other amazing creations by the design team.

She was colored with Copic Markers and embellished with glitter and a texture paste to represent snow.  Layered on a colored mat and then onto an A2 white card base.

What a big difference a little glitter makes!!  This is a very flat card and was easy to mail.  I added a piece of bubble wrap to the front to protect the snow and bow, popped it into an A2 envelop and it went regular mail.  A little extra postage was added.  This was because it did feel a little heavier than a regular card.

Have a Merry Christmas, will be back next week with another Sweet Stamp Card.
Stayed tuned for Club Scrap Team Challenge and the conclusion of my Treasure Chest.
Josette

Supplies Used.
Winter_Treats_Snowman digital stamp
Copics:
R:      11
RV:    04,10,14,23
Y:      00,11
YG:  03,11,23,25
BG:  0000
B:     0000
E:     13,77,79,99
G:     40
C:      000,00,01
W:     5,7,9
Micro glitter: clear, white black, red, green
Texture Paste and assorted sequins
White Seam Binding
ATG, Score tape, Glue Dots

Sweet Stamps: Holiday Kittie

Hi, I have another holiday card over at Sweet Stamps Blog.

This is a watercolor card.  The trees were masked and watercolored with Peerless Water Colors and then embellished with pigment pens.  The Kitty was also painted with Peerless, fussy cut and mounted onto the card base with 3d foam dots.

Below is a pictorial of the steps.  Fairly straight forward.

Masked with removable tape.

Painted and masking is being removed

Trees finished and now adding blue skies and background

Finished.  The cat has been embellished with Gel Pen, the tree with micron markers.  The snow is just a wash of blue and grey.  Added and embellishment, popped up the cat and it is ready for the mail.

The stamp is available at Sweet Stamps Shop.  Love this cat..  Kitty_Sweets__Set_SS4414

Peerless watercolors, Strathmore Cold Press Water Color Paper and other supplies from Stash.

Happy Crafting,
Josette

Flowers, Flowers and More Flowers, all from Scraps!!

Hi, today I am posting on behalf of Sweet Stamps.  This is a fun card.  All made from scraps or failed background attemps.   Whenever I am creating backgrounds, I make several.  Some work and some do not.  Also when I am stenciling, or playing with paint or ink on my craft sheet, I use a left over pieces of Water Color paper to mop up the excess paint/ink.  I keep these in a container.  You never know when there might just be the right combination of colors for a project.

A tip:  When purchasing Water Color Paper, buy the largest size sheets available and cut it down to size. I buy mine at Hobby Lobby or Michaels when they have the sale, and then cut them up at once.   I cut mine at 5 X 6 or 5 X 7 and store them together.  I leave a few the width of the paper by 5" wide (5 X 11 or so).  It is more cost effective than purchasing them pre cut.  Cutting them up saves on space and saves on time when you "just need another piece".  At the end of the cut there is always a 2+/- strip, I put these on my work bench and that is what I use for "mopping up".

Ok here is the Card!!

The entire card, including the ribbon was made from left overs and scraps.  

The base is a piece of water color card that I had watercolored.  It came out to purple for the project so was thrown into the bucket.

The flowers were die cut using various dies from Sweet Stamps:  Visit their blog for links to all the dies and stamps.  Sweet Stamps Blog

Here is an example of one of the papers that came out of my bucket.  This was a spray, direct application, I am thinking it is either a delusion or Calico Studio.

This sample is a failed background.  The paint was left on my craft sheet.  The paint had been applied to a stencil.  When the stencil was picked up, I sprayed the remainder with water and laid down a piece of paper.  Too much water and it bled, not distinct enough.  But makes great flowers.  

I flip over the paper and applied a piece of score tape to the back.  Then when die cut, all the parts are sticky.  

Here is another piece of sprayed paper, score tape has been added to back side, and then the dies are cut.  

Closer view.

The next part was tedious.  Some of the inside petals were swapped out with another die cuts petals.  This is where the score-tape came in handy.  I picked up the petal from one with tweezers and placed it into a different petal, inlaying.  The Score tape kept everything together.  Some I only used the frames and discarded the insides of the petals.  

On 2, I needed to use an additional piece of score tape.  I cut it into a square and applied it to the back of the flowers.  When I was done, I just cut "close" to the flower, removed the backing and dipped the flower into Glitz glitter.  Burnished in.  This gave me a halo of glitter around the flower and took care of the stickiness.  

 The flowers were arranged onto the mat card, a ribbon, that was left over from another project, was added to the bottom.  I found a piece of left over cardstock that had been misted with a gold spray, stamped the sentiment in black, heat embossed with a clear embossing powder, die cut and popped it up on the card.  Final step was to mount on a card base.  This too was retrieved from my scrap bin so that I could say this was a 100% scrap-paper card.  

A different view.  This card was difficulty to photograph with all the glitter and gold paint/ink, but in person it is a show stopper.

Thank you for stopping by,

Happy Crafting

Josette

Links:  Sweet Stamp Blog Posting

Supplies:Sweet Stamp Shop

SWEETCUTS-our-exclusive-dies_

Sentiments-Words Stamps

Other supplies:  Various inks and dies

Strathmore 400 series, 140# Water Color Paper, Cold Press

Glitz glitter

Score tape

Seam binding

Black Pigment ink and Clear embossing powder

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Sweet Stamp: Anything But a Card Challenge

Stop by Sweet Stamp Blog and see all the wonderful creations for this Challenge.  I created a mate for my ColourArte Shadow Box.  Together they will make a nice arrangement.

I used the same background, or rather similar to the background used on the ColourArte Butterfly piece.  The video that shows this technique is located here:  YouTubeVideo: Reverse Stenciling.

I started with the Stenciled background, cut it down and matted it onto a Bronze Shimmer Cardstock. Then I distressed the edges and curled the corners.

Using Piccolo's from Sweet Stamp (product list in description) they were covered with enamel powder and heat set.  Several different Enamel Powders were used but all had the molten metal as the base layer.  Bow was created from seam tape and was colored with Distress inks: Picked Raspberry and Festive Berries.  Then just before completely dried was spritzed with ColourArte: Ancient Coin that had been mixed with water in a mini-mister by Ranger.  Once dried, a bow was tied.  In the video is a demonstration of the bow being tied.

The large butterfly is a Piccolo from Sweet Stamps and the smaller one is a Sizzix mover and shaper die.  Both were coated with Piccolo enamel adhesive and heat embossed using Enchanted Aubergine from Sweet Stamps.  The final step was to adhere some crystals in various purple shades to the wings.
The entire project was placed into a 5 X 7 " Shadow Box frame.

I think it turned out very well.  The organic nature of the gears with their gold shimmer adds to the elegance of the jewel encrusted butterflies. Thank you for stopping by to share my "Little Bits" of inspiration.
Happy Crafting
Josette

Supplies and Links
YouTube ColourArte Video
Previous Blog posting:  November 14, 2015, Reverse Stenciling
Adhesive Fluid_for_Enamel_Powders 

Enamel_Powder_
ENCHANTED_AUBERGINE
Fine-Detail-EP-MEDIEVAL-METALS
MOSSY_GLEN
I also used a very small amount of a reddish orange embossing powder to simulate rust on the gears.  Real Rust by Sweet Stamps would be a good choice
Piccolos:
Vintage_Gears_Large_
Vintage_Gears_Large #2
Large_Butterfly_Accents