Ever nearly burn your kitchen down in the name of craft? Okay, so I got it in time but I did panic. I had this cool idea (well I thought it was) to burn the edges of my stamped cardstock. Anyone old enough (and I’m really showing my age here) will remember that great Western TV show called Bonzana – at the beginning of each episode, they’d show the map of Ponderosa (the name of the ranch) and it would burn slowly from the edges. So I thought it would be cool to emulate this on a birthday card that I was making for a friend. I like the effect, but next time I won’t hesitate to turn on the tap to douse the fire rather than worry about having to start again. LOL.

I really enjoyed making this card and although I will say “don’t try this at home kids!”, here are the instructions: I started with a piece of Naturals Ivory cardstock and randomly stamped the swirly smokey stamp around the card using River Rock ink then overstamped with the Marlboro Man (that’s my name for him) in Chocolate Chip ink. Next I lit my gas stovetop and carefully (ahem) burnt the edges of the cardstock. This was then adhered to a piece of Close to Cocoa cardstock on which I dragged Close to Cocoa inkpad over it then distressed the edges. This was then adhered to a piece of Sage Shadow cardstock which I distressed the edges of and also ran the Sage Shdow inkpad around to define the edges. The embellishment on the top right is a piece of Close to Cocoa cardstock punched out with the Designer Label Punch then stamped with the swirl stamp and edged in Chocolate Chip ink. On top of the punched label is a 1″ circle punched from some of the Outlaw Designer Series Patterned Paper and on top of that is a star stamped onto Sage Shadow cardstock with Chocolate chip ink which has been cut out and affixed with an Antique Brass Brad. On the bottom left hand corner I simply added a piece of metal hardware with some twine tied around it. The base of the card is some more of the Outlaw Patterned Paper with a sponged and pierced border and wrapped with twill to ‘ground’ the main section of the card. The whole piece was then adhered to a piece of textured Chocolate Chip cardstock.

So that’s it – quick easy instructions, I decided not to stretch it out and bore you too much this time but if those instructions aren’t clear enough then please feel free to email me on angelasargeant@gmail.com to ask me any questions.

If you’ve made it down this far, it’s your turn to tell me, have you ever nearly burnt your kitchen or done any damage to it (or yourself!) in the name of craft?

(All images copyright to Stampin’ Up! 1990-2008 – Card designed by Angela Sargeant)

All products by Stampin’ Up! and available for purchase through me at angelasargeant@gmail.com

Here’s a list of the products I used:

Bronc Buster (man on horse stamp)
Wanted stamp set (star stamp)
Natural Ivory cardstock
Sage Shadow cardstock
Close to Cocoa cardstock
Chocolate Chip Textured cardstock
Chocolate Chip inkpad
Sage Shadow inkpad
River Rock inkpad
Close to Cocoa inkpad
Outlaw Designer Series Double-Sided Patterned Paper
Crafters Tool Kit (for the paper piercer, mat & template to pierce the holes around the perimetre of the patterned paper)
Designer Label Punch
1″ Circle Punch
Sharp scissors
Antique Brass Hodgepodge (brads and fastener)
Hemp Twine
Twill
Cutter Kit (for distressing the edges of the cardstock)