Sponge Daubers tips & ideas

Sponge Daubers are my little secret… but not any more!  Thank you to Fiona for your question about what you can use sponge daubers for, I’ve finally sat down and put my thoughts together in one place.  Also, Kim B you asked about pastels, you might find some more ideas here.  Karyn, you asked whether I use Sponges or Sponge Daubers, I much prefer sponge daubers – to get the colours blended in well I start with only a little bit of colour and work in small circles while adding more colour as I go if needed.  I love sponge daubers because before them I couldn’t get nice smooth and blended sponging, no matter what I used plus they’re so versatile.  These little beauties are always within arms reach on my desk.  So what can you use sponge daubers for? Here’s a list of Sponge Dauber ideas to keep you busy:

Sponge Dauber Ideas:

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Poppin’ Pastels.  Stamp with Versamark then use the sponge daubers to dab colour onto your stamped image and make your image pop.

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Double Poppin’ Pastels.  Sponge pastels/chalk onto the cardstock first, then stamp your image with Versamark then use the sponge dauber to add the same colour on top.

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Stenciling.  Use your sponge daubers with an inkpad and stencil to do stencilling.

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Pretty rainbow background.  Use your sponge daubers with a variety of coordinating onto glossy cardstock to give a dreamy background then stamp your image over the top of the background with dark ink.  Somehow I can’t photograph that stamped one to show the colours that well but I used the background in the first photo and stamped over it, so the background is green/blue/purple.

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Basic Colouring.  Stamp in a dark ink (black/navy/chocolate) then use sponge daubers with chalk to add colour to your image.

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Colouring Emboss resist.  Stamp in Versamark, emboss in any colour and then add colour to your image with sponge daubers loaded with ink from your inkpad.

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Fun Background.  Load the sponge daubers with chalk then use that to make a ‘dotty’ background.  Do that by pressing the dauber onto the cardstock then giving it a little twist. (that idea from my 11 year old daughter Jade, this photo is of Jade making the background in her favourite colour-combo: Pink Passion and Green Galore)

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Make customised coloured rub-ons! Apply white rub-ons then use a sponge dauber and chalks to add colour to the rub-on to change it from white to any chalk colour you like.  Use a small brush to dust off any excess chalk and an eraser to erase chalk from areas you don’t want it to be on.

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Softening Edges of your cardstock. I use this method a lot!  I love the look of sponging around cardstock, either with a neutral cardstock like white or vanilla or sponging the same colour ink as the cardstock I’m using.  The cards and scrapbooking layout in the photo above all have sponging around the edges, in this case I’ve used three different colours to create a depth and interest. In the second card I’ve sponged blue cardstock with brown but only very lightly around the edges to soften the hard lines.  And in the third card I have sponged Olive ink on Olive cardstock then Ruby Red ink on Ruby Red cardstock to give the card some warmth.

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Multi-Coloured Stamping. You’ve got to try this, it looks absolutely awesome and nothing but Sponge Daubers will give you this smooth and blended look… trust me, I’ve tried many other ways!  Not sure if you can see the grading of colour in the heart but it’s really fabulous.  Ink up your stamp in one colour as usual, then use a Sponge Dauber to add a different colour around the edges to give a two-toned effect.

Sponge Dauber Tips:

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*  I keep one sponge dauber for each colour I use and label it so that I can use that same sponge dauber with either the chalk or inkpad of that colour.  The daubers are then all stored in a plastic Stampin’ Up! container that used to contain little stamps (I gave those stamps away).

*  You might prefer to keep one sponge dauber for each colour ‘group’ such as one for greens, one for yellows, one for reds, etc.

*  Sponge daubers can be washed with a little bit of dishwashing liquid and warm water.  That’s a bit of a hassle for me though which is why I keep one for each colour.

Okay that’s it.  I’m tired now after all that but feeling good that I have a heap of little bits and pieces of stamped and sponged cardstock that I have ready to turn into cards.  I hope you’ve enjoyed my Sponge Dauber ideas.  All the products I’ve used in this post (apart from the one feather stamp) are from Stampin’ Up! and are available for purchase through me at angelasargeant@gmail.com.  Email me now to get your own pack of Sponge Daubers!

Embrace Life

I love Cherry Blossoms so when I saw this stamp I just had to have it.  Here’s the first card I’ve made with my new Cherry Blossom stamp and I made this the other night during my social stamping night.

Embrace Life

I love colouring direct to rubber as it’s such a simple technique which gives you a beautiful effect.  To give this image a multi-coloured effect, I coloured directly onto the rubber using Chocolate Chip marker for the branches and Ruby Red for the flowers then stamped it onto Very Vanilla cardstock.   The larger flowers are from the same Stampin’ Up! stamp set as the Cherry Blossom stamp and they were stamped using Chocolate Chip ink onto Ruby Red cardstock and cut out then a rhinestone brad inserted in each flower.

So there it is, my first card using the Cherry Blossom stamp from Stampin’ Up!’s Embrace Life stamp set.  Feel free to comment on my card and to also tell me your favourite flowers.  My favourite are white tulips, but the Cherry Blossom is definitely up there… maybe tied with white tulips ;)

Products used to make the card above are available through me at angelasargeant@gmail.com

Chocolate Chip cardstock
Pumpkin Pie cardstock
Bali Breeze Designer Series Paper (6 designs in one pack, the paper used above is just one design)
Ruby Red cardstock
Very Vanilla cardstock
Chocolate Chip inkpad
Chocolate Chip marker
Ruby Red marker
Scallop Edge Punch
Chocolate Chip taffeta ribbon
Styled Silver Hodgepodge (ribbon slide)
SNAIL Adhesive
Stampin’ Dimensionals
Fire Circles Rhinestone Brads (4 colours in 3 sizes, I’ve used the smallest of the orange ones)

Elegant Christening Card

Here’s a card I’ve made for the Christening of our friends’ baby girl. The initials are really sparkly in real life but any photo I took which really showed off the sparkle then put shadows on the rest of the card, so here’s the best I could manage:

Christening Card

Here’s a close-up of the embossed background.
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I wanted to keep this card simple and elegant looking so I kept the colours pale and to a minimum. Only two colours used here other than white and they are Certainly Celery and Blush Blossom. The white card has been stamped with the flourish stamp from Stampin’ Up!’s Baroque Motifs stamp set using Versamark ink and then heat embossed with white embossing powder. The letters SNM are the baby’s initials and they have been made using the On Board Lots of Letters Stampin’ Up! chipboard. To get the chipboard coloured and sparkly I simply used a sponge dauber to apply Blush Blossom chalk onto the letters, then I covered the letters with glue using the 2-way Glue Pen then pressed the letters into the Dazzling Diamonds pot of glitter. The letters were then adhered to the embossed white card using glue dots. The flower above the letter ‘S’ is from the Pretties Kit – I decided not to colour it this time and instead used it as it is in white but just adhered a flat-backed white pearl to the centre of the flower using a glue dot. Why is it despite the amount of ribbons one has one still can’t find the right ribbon to use??? I did want to use some of the pretty taffeta ribbon I have but I didn’t have the exact colour I wanted so instead I used the Celery Wide Grosgrain ribbon. I do love the Grosgrain ribbon, I just had ‘taffeta’ on my mind. Oh well. The ribbon was tied in a simple knot and then a hat-pin with pearls and a teardrop bead threaded through it was inserted through the knot.

Any comments are gratefully accepted. :D

Here’s a list of products – if you have any questions or if there’s anything you’d like to purchase then please email me on angelasargeant@gmail.com

Baroque Motifs stamp set
Certainly Celery textured cardstock
Blush Blossom textured cardstock
Whisper White cardstock
Versamark inkpad
White Embossing Powder
Celery Wide Grosgrain Ribbon
Pretties Kit (White flower, pearls, teardrop bead, hatpin)
On Board Lots of Letters (Chipboard)
2-way Glue Pen
Dazzling Diamonds Glitter
SNAIL Adhesive
Glue Dots

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

Punching a bracket using the Stampin’ Up! Tab Punch

So last time we spoke I was going to post some pictures on how to use the Stampin’ Up! Tab Punch to create cool brackets. I took the photos asap, finding the cable that goes from my camera to the computer was another story. Anyway, I’ve found it now – it’s plugged into the Mac and there it’s staying so I don’t lose it again.

Punching out a bracket is so simple. Just a few steps and you can punch it out in a variety of widths.

First use the Tab Punch to punch out a tab shape.
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Here’s a picture of the negative space on the left and the punched out shape on the right.
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Now put the piece of cardstock with the negative space back into the punch. Have the bottom of the punch facing you so that you can see what you’re doing and slide the cardstock so that the side of the negative space goes into the punch. In the picture below you can see it forms the shape of a ‘cartoon bat’.
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Then you punch out that shape, snip off the excess bits on the sides with some small sharp scissors and you are left with the shape of a perfectly formed bracket as shown below.  Cool huh?
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So that’s how I made the brackets in this card.

If you’d like any more information on using this fabulous Tab Punch or any other questions on punch art, cardmaking, scrapbooking or other paper crafts, please feel free to e-mail me on angelasargeant@gmail.com.  Of course comments on my blog are also much appreciated.

Masculine Birthday Card

It’s the husband’s birthday so I whipped up this quick vintage style card for him.

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Lots of people find it difficult to make masculine cards so I have a post here on my blog that can give you some ideas on what to use to make a masculine card. The reason I found this card quick to make is because I knew I wanted some earthy colours so I went for Cranberry Crisp, Buckeroo Blue and Chocolate Chip. I also figured that using lots of hardware on a card would be good for a man’s card which gave me the idea of doing a row of brads. Finally the choice of stamps wasn’t too hard as most of my stamps are floral or feminine so this one which is called ‘Stamp of Authenticity’ by Stampin’ Up! was an obvious choice.

To make this card I took some Kraft cardstock and stamped the Canvas background stamp using Cranberry Crisp ink. I purposely didn’t try to get a perfect image to give it a bit of a ‘rough’ look. I then stamped the small circle “Proof” stamp five times down the right hand side of the Kraft card using Chocolate Chip ink, punched some small holes into the middle of each circle and inserted the Antique Brass brads.
The library card from Stamp of Authenticity was stamped using Buckeroo Blue ink onto Confetti Cream cardstock, cut it out and roughed up the edges with a distressing tool and then edged it with Chocolate Chip ink by dragging the inkpad around the edges of the cardstock. I then stamped the words ‘happy’ and ‘birthday’ from the Everyday Flexible Phrases stamp set using Cranberry Crisp ink and stamped the husband’s name using Chocolate Chip ink with the Classic Alphabet stamp set. The ‘Authentic’ stamp was stamped with Chocolate Chip ink onto Buckeroo Blue cardstock – you can’t see it in the scan very well but I went around the perimeter with a perforating tool to add texture and interest. This was then cut out (just a couple of millimeters past the perforating) and attached to the library card using an Antique Brass spiral clip and mounted onto the Kraft card using double-sided foam tape. The bottom of the Kraft card was stamped with “100 percent” and the ‘original barcode’ (both from the Stamp of Authenticity stamp set) using Chocolate Chip ink. The whole piece was then layered onto a folded piece of Cranberry Crisp cardstock.

Here’s a quick list of the products used:

Card designed by Angela Sargeant
All images copyright to Stampin’ Up! 2000-2007
All products available for purchase through Angela Sargeant on angelasargeant@gmail.com

Stamp of Authenticity stamp set
Canvas Background stamp
Everyday Flexible Phrases stamp set
Classic Alphabet stamp set
Cranberry Crisp cardstock
Cranberry Crisp inkpad
Chocolate Chip inkpad
Buckeroo Blue cardstock
Buckeroo Blue inkpad
Confetti Cream cardstock
Antique Brass Hodgepodge (brads and spiral clip)
Cutter Kit (Distressing Tool and Perforating Blade)
1/16″ Handheld Punch
SNAIL Adhesive
Stampin’ Dimensionals (double-sided foam tape)

Well I think I was successful in making a masculine birthday card and was very pleased with the results. If you have any questions on this card or cardmaking in general or would like to purchase any of these products then please feel free to e-mail me on angelasargeant@gmail.com

Spring Bling Card

Okay, so bling is now a tired and overused word, but I think it suits the card and it rhymes which makes me happy. LOL.

This is a card I made today, I wanted something monochromatic and I knew I definitely wanted my flower to be blue, I absolutely adore stamping blue flowers and I find them such a lovely change to reds/pinks. In the end though I ended up making a sparkly flower which now mostly covers the stamped blue flower.

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All images copyright Stampin’ Up! 1990-2007

To make this card I started with some Confetti White cardstock (hence the flecks you see in the photo) and stamped across the bottom of the card using the trio of flowers from the Looks Like Spring stamp set using Ballet Blue inkpad. I then stamped the harlequin background from the same stamp set again using Ballet Blue on Confetti White, this was then adhered to some Ballet Blue cardstock then adhered to the centre of the card. The large flower was then stamped with Ballet Blue onto Confetti White, layered onto some Ballet Blue cardstock and adhered to the top right hand-side of the card as shown in the photo.

To make the sparkly flower I stamped the flower using the Whisper White inkpad onto some Ballet Blue cardstock and then poured some Heat & Stick Powder over the top. I poured off the excess Heat & Stick and then gave the flower a blast with the heat gun to melt the Heat & Stick Powder. When the Heat & Stick powder melted I then poured some Dazzling Diamonds Glitter over the top then emptied the excess glitter back into the container. A short burst of the heat gun on the flower then secured the glitter. I really enjoy using Heat & Stick powder with Glitter because it gives me a different effect than glitter glue. With glitter glue you get a slightly raised effect and it can be difficult to control, whereas with the heat & stick powder you get a glitter effect that looks like it’s been printed on the card – a bit like buying a Hallmark card. The other benefit of using Heat & Stick Powder with Glitter rather than glitter glue is that the glitter follows the exact pattern of the stamped image whereas with glitter glue it can cover any intricate designs.

Back to the instructions. When the flower was finished I cut it out using some very sharp scissors. The trick to nice cutting is to hold the scissors straight and then move the paper/cardstock around rather than moving your scissors to follow the pattern – this ensures good cutting out every time. The sparkly flower was then adhered slightly off-set on top of the stamped blue flower. For a centre on the flower I punched out a flower from the matching punch which is called Spring Bouquet(*), added a diamond-shaped brad for a centre then adhered it to the sparkly flower using double-sided foam tape.

To finish off I tied some matching blue grosgrain ribbon to the side of the card and that’s it! Sounds like a lengthy process but it wasn’t really. If you’d like more information on this card or would like to purchase any of the products used, please contact me on: angelasargeant@gmail.com. In the meantime, here’s a list of the products I’ve used:

All products used by Stampin’ Up!

Looks Like Spring stamp set
Spring Bouquet punch (this punch matches one of the Looks Like Spring stamp exactly, so when you stamp the trio of flowers you can punch them out)
Confetti White cardstock
Ballet Blue cardstock
Ballet Blue inkpad (dye)
Whisper White inkpad (Craft, i.e. pigment)
Bluebird grosgrain ribbon
Vintage Brads (silver diamond)
SNAIL Adhesive
Heat & Stick Powder
Dazzling Diamonds Glitter
Heat Gun
Stampin’ Dimensionals (double-sided foam tape)

Watercolouring

I think one of the easiest and most relaxing techniques in stamping is watercolouring. Must be my childhood memories kicking in, I never could colour-in between the lines then and not much has changed. LOL. Thankfully watercolouring doesn’t have to be precise (well not this sort anyway).
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To make this card I stamped the flowers from the Stampin’ Up! stamp set called Natural Beauty using Jet Black StazOn ink onto watercolour paper and then coloured in the image using my Watercolour Crayons. The colours I used were Rose Red, Pumpkin Pie and Garden Green. There’s various method you can use such as colouring directly onto the image with the crayons and then blending the colours with a waterbrush, but in this case I picked up the colour directly from the crayon (with the crayon still sitting in the tin) using a waterbrush and then coloured-in the image making sure I blended the two colours well. The waterbrush is basically a brush with a barrel which you fill with water, you just unscrew the brush part and fill the barrel with water then screw the brush back on. The benefit of using a waterbrush over dipping a paint brush into water is that you’ll never dump water all over your work and desk by accidently bumping the glass of water – nor will you ever be in danger of accidently drinking painty water instead of your coffee. Don’t ask!

After I coloured in my image I traced around the edges of the watercolour paper with the Pumpkin Pie and Rose Red crayons then blended them with the waterbrush to soften. I then adhered this to some Certainly Celery cardstock and tied some green gingham ribbon and white organdy ribbon to the bottom. The background is the wonderful Paisley background stamp which has been stamped with Rose Red ink onto a folded piece of Rose Red cardstock. The flower piece was adhered to the background and then I attached some Rose Red stitched ribbon to the right hand side of the card using mini-glue dots. To finish, I stamped the butterfly stamp from the Natural Beauty set using StazOn ink on watercolour paper again and watercoloured it using Ballet Blue and Regal rose with some touches of Rose Red. The butterfly was then cut out and some glitter applied using the 2-way glue pen and then adhered with a bit of Sticky Strip to the top of the card.

All products used in this card are by Stampin’ Up! and are available for purchase through me at angelasargeant@gmail.com
Image copyright Stampin’ Up!

Products used:

Natural Beauty stamp set
Paisley background stamp
Rose Red cardstock
Certainly Celery cardstock
Watercolour paper
Watercolour Crayons
Green Gingham Ribbon
White Organdy Ribbon
Rose Red Stitched Ribbon from Sweet Shop Ribbon Originals
Jet Black StazOn inkpad
Waterbrush
2-way Glue Pen
Dazzling Diamonds Glitter
SNAIL adhesive
Sticky Strip
Mini Glue Dots

Please feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions on this card or any other project on this blog.

Ooooh! Edited to add:  Almost forgot.  Stampin’ Up! has a fab promotion this month – For every $50 worth of purchase on any Stampin’ Up! products you receive 25% off one set of Watercolour crayons or Watercolour Pencils.  So , $100 will get you 25% off two sets of watercolour crayons (or one set of watercolour crayons and pencils), etc.  E-mail me on angelasargeant@gmail.com for more details.

Thumping

Here’s a really easy and cool technique you’ve just got to try! It’s called “thumping” and it’s great for stamps that you’d like to give a mottled effect to. For example, this tree stamp from the Stampin’ Up! stamp set called Lovely as a Tree, I wanted to give it an autumnal feel (yes, yes, I have my seasons all mixed-up again LOL) so I used the thumping technique.

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Here’s how to do it:

First I used the Chocolate Chip marker to colour-in the trunk of the tree (put the stamp wood side down on your desk and colour directly onto the rubber with the marker), then to do the thumping on the branches what you do is to hold your marker between your thumb and forefinger up high near the end (not the tip) – in the same way that you hold a pen or pencil and use it drum on the edge of the desk when you’re thinking – only you do that onto the rubber. First I used Old Olive and thumped that onto the branches, then Creamy Caramel and then Ruby Red. The end effect as I said before is a mottled look or in this case an autumnal tree. To finish off I lightly coloured the trunk with some chalk then sponged the edges of the card with Pumpkin Pie inkpad and swiped the edges with the Creamy Caramel inkpad. This was then adhered onto some Old Olive Cardstock then mounted onto the base card with Stampin’ Dimensionals. The background is simply the Well Worn Words background stamp stamped in Pumpkin Pie onto Very Vanilla cardstock and then the edges of the card are sponged lightly with the Creamy Caramel inkpad. The word “Inspire” at the bottom is from the Natural Beauty stamp set and has been stamped using a Chocolate Chip marker onto some Stampin’ Up! chipboard. The edges of the chipboard have been sponged in Creamy Caramel but the rest of the chipboard has been left raw. This was then adhered to the card using Sticky Strip.

Here’s a quick reference list of what I’ve used:

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

Well Worn Words background stamp
Lovely as a Tree stamp set (one tree used)
Natural Beauty stamp set (just one word of one stamp used)
Very Vanilla cardstock
Old Olive cardstock
Pumpkin Pie inkpad
Creamy Caramel inkpad
Chocolate Chip marker
Old Olive marker
Ruby Red marker
Stampin’ Pastels (Chocolate Chip)
On Board chipboard
SNAIL Adhesive
Sticky Strip
Sponge

Did you need more information on this project? E-mail me on angelasargeant@gmail.com and I’d be happy to help out and answer any questions you may have.

Smile!

I know it’s winter but the weather here in Sydney has just been fabulous – getting a little cool but still lovely and sunny so I thought I’d use my latest favourite stamp set to grab hold of whatever bit of fresh summery feeling is left to create a card that’s might cheer someone up.

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When I received my new 2007-2008 Stampin’ Up! Idea Book and Catalogue at the end of March, there was one stamp set that I was desperate to get over anything else. Now anyone who really knows me will know that I love vintage but this set was just so cool and trendy and I could see that it would be very versatile for boy, girl, woman, masculine cards, scrapbooking layouts, whatever. Actually now that I think of it, I might set myself the challenge to use the same card to make something totally different with it. Okay, so here’s the first thing that I made (at home because I did use it at the Stampin’ Up! Convention last week): Actually what pleased me most about making this card was using my punches. When I first started card making many many years ago, I could never understand geometric punches, I always went out and bought punches that were in the shape of actual items (mainly lots of different flowers), but now I have found the versatility of geometric shapes and I love them! In this card I’ve used two punches, a large oval punch which I used to punch out the flower petals and I also used the 1 1/4″ circle punch to punch out the ’smile’ stamp and then adhered it to the centre of the metal rimmed tag. Sure I could have stamped straight into the tag but I can never do that so that it’s even so I find it much easier to stamp, punch then adhere. So to make the flower petals I simply stamped the spotted tag image from the Be Happy stamp set seven times using the Rose Red inkpad onto the Rose Red cardstock and then punched out the ovals in the middle of the tag images. This is one of the reasons I find this set so versatile, just because the image is of a tag, it doesn’t mean that’s the only way it can ever be used.
Here’s the complete list of products that I used to make this card:

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

Card adapted from a Stampin’ Up! magazine available only to Stampin’ Up! demonstrators. Card made by Angela Sargeant.

Be Happy stamp set
On The Spot background stamp
Tempting Turquoise cardstock and matching inkpad
Certainly Celery cardstock and matching inkpad
Rose Red cardstock and matching inkpad
Sweet Shop Ribbon Originals (5 different ribbons in this pack)
1 1/4″ circle punch
Large oval punch
Metal Rimmed Tag (small)
Sticky Strip (to adhere ribbon)
SNAIL Adhesive to adhere everything else

Colour Challenge

Oh I know, I’ve been incredibly slack and haven’t posted in almost a week.  But in my defence, it’s the last week of school holidays and we’ve been rushing to fit all sorts of things in… dentist, movies, etc.  Where have the holidays gone? I can’t believe school is starting soon.

Aaaannnnyway, last night the Elite Stampers (my Stampin’ Up! team) got together for our first ever Cyberstamp Night.  What a great night it was having lots of fun stamping and chatting on our Forum and then uploading all our creations to our Gallery.  Thank you so much to Jayne Mercer who hosted this event for us.  Jayne set us lots of challenges to get the creative juices flowing and also some other fun impromptu challenges to keep us busy.  One of the challenges that Jayne set was a colour challenge.  It’s easy to keep making cards/layouts in our favourite colour schemes and fall into a bit of a rut, so Jayne challenged us to make a card using Bravo Burgundy, Ruby Red and More Mustard.  The first challenge I suppose is to pick stamps that go nicely with those colours… nothing too cutesy.  I must say I was dubious about using Burgundy and Red together but I think my card turned out not too badly.  So here it is:

You can’t really tell by the scan but what I did was stamp the butterfly from the Natural Beauty stamp set onto vellum using the Bravo Burgundy inkpad then embossed it using Clear Embossing Powder (yes the inkpad is a dye, but stamping it onto vellum meant the ink stayed wet enough for me to be able to emboss).  I then cut out the butterfly and spread some Crystal Effects onto the wings and sprinkled some Dazzling Diamonds Glitter onto it to make the butterfly sparkle.  Lastly, I folded the wings up and using some Stampin’ Dimentionals, I adhered the butterfly to the top of the card so that it looks like it’s just landed on the card.  Thank you to my lovely customer Sarah for giving me this idea for the butterfly - a while ago Sarah sent me a stunning card where she had done something similar.  I loved the look of Sarah’s card (much more elegant than mine) and I really wanted to try out her idea.

Also difficult to see from the scan is that I highlighted the words with markers to give them a two-tone effect.

Here’s a list of everything I used to make this card:

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

Bravo Burgundy cardstock, inkpad and ribbons (remember all Stampin’ Up! products are coordinated so they match nicely).
Ruby Red cardstock, marker and inkpad
More Mustard cardstock
Vellum
Crystal Effects
Dazzling Diamonds Glitter
Stampin’ Dimentionals
Hodgepodge (ribbon charm and brads)
Floral background stamp (stamped in Ruby Red onto Ruby Red cardstock)
Natural Beauty stamp set.

Maybe you’d like to take this colour challenge too?