National Anthem....

Hello & Happy Thursday Everyone!

Today's my day to take over the blog at:

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Today I thought I would share a Red, White, & Blue Card-

With the fourth of July coming up I felt the need

to create some Patriotic cards that I will mail

off to some of my friends!

I'm using the TOTALLY AWESOME

National Anthem Background (74508-S) Stamp

from Victorine Originals!! I gotta say this was

so easy to use and I LOVE how my background turned out!!

I used my Distress oxide inks in Candied Apple & Salty Ocean

Then I grabbed my Picket Fence Distress ink and stamped

the center in the white ink - It looked like it might fade out

so I pulled out some White embossing powder and poured

it over the center, part and heat embossed it

It totally made a huge difference and looks great between

the Red & Blue Words ...

As you can tell I did all of that on some Kraft Cardstock

And since it looks so nice, I didn't want to

take away from it too much --

So I decided to use a piece of Vellum and stamp

U.S.A. & an Eagle from the Strokes of Pride Raisin Boat

Stamp set. I used some Ultra Fine Black Embossing

powder on that part and I think it turned out nice...

 I felt my card needed a little something Extra --

So I die cut 2 Medium sized stars in Blue & Red and then 

2 tiny Stars in Silver then I adhered them

in the areas were the vellum was.

-- Just a closer look at my card and the Stamp Sets I used --

National Anthem Background (74508-S)

 Strokes of Pride (10212-Z) 

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Connected by heart...

Hello & Happy Thursday Everyone!
Valentine's Day is next week -
so I thought I would share a sweet
card I made using Distress Inks,
a "LOVE" Word Die, and a  Raisin Boat Stamp Set

The Sentiment is from Playing Cupid (9059-Z)

This set has so many pretty elements -

It's so much more than a Valentine's Day Stamp set-

I just love it!!

I used 3 different Distress inks - Spun Sugar, Picked 

Raspberry, & Broken china

The LOVE word die is from My Creative Time

I used some Ice Cube Jewels from Lucy's Cards for accents

and I used a small heart die for the center of the O

AND - I wanted to remind YOU

We still have our Challenge going on over at

SumMore Fun Stamps

  Our Mood Board is -  Hearts

I'm sure you ALL need to make a Valentine's Day Project
for someone you know!! --  You don't have to use
a stamp from SumMore Fun Stamps if you don't have one!
We have 1 random winner - Prize is a $20 Gift Certificate to 
the SumMore Fun Stamp Store!


All the rules for this fun challenge are RIGHT HERE!

The Challenge ends Thursday, Feb. 15th!!!

So make sure to join us!

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Happy Birthday Monkey...

Hello & Happy Thursday Everyone!

Today's my day to take over the blog at:

SumMore Fun Blog - (Victorine Originals)

YAY for me... 🙌


Today I thought I would share a Birthday 
Card I made for a Teacher at School --

I got real inky making this card -- I'm using the ADORABLE

Monkeying Around Stamp set by Raisin Boat

Details on how I created this card are up

on the SumMore Fun Blog - If you'd like to take a look!

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Have a FANTASTIC DAY!!

Theresa

Baby Wipe Tutorial --

Hello & Happy Monday Everyone!

This weekend my AWESOME Crafty friend

Georgiana from Carson's Creations

asked me if I would do a Follow up

Tutorial on the Baby Wipe Method Card I Made 

RIGHT HERE!

So, I said SURE I could --

Now, I know there are some videos

on how to do this - But I only watched

1 video and it was from a Stampin' Up Demo.

from Aug. of 2017 - 

When she did the Baby Wipe Method -

She used a Stamp with this method

Because that's how you're suppose to do it!

I tried it and didn't like my results with my stamp

and it was TOTALLY USER ERROR!

I should have used a Solid image stamp

Which, well I DID NOT!! LOL

And that's when I thought could I do this

on my water color paper?? Sure Enough &

I got some really NEAT RESULTS from it --

Soooo -- Here ya go - I hope it helps someone out!

I started out with Baby Wipes, 4 Distress Inks and some Tim Holtz Water Color Paper

Now - You can probably use ANY water color paper (I just like this type)

And YOU MUST use DYE INK - It's what works with this technique

So any dye inks you have will work! :)

I took 2 Baby wipes and layed them on top of each other

I folded it in half

Then folded it one more time - to look like this!

You do this so the Baby Wipe acts like an Ink Pad

You only need a few drops of each color - So You can see I only

used 3 drops of the Faded Jeans Color

So this is what I ended up with after adding my inks -

So, in the video I watched, she used a Solid Stamp and just went

straight down into the ink with her stamp - (dabbing it)

It was a straight Up and Down motion - the whole point

was to get your stamp wet using the different colors

But if you dip your stamp in several areas - you'll just have a 

muddy mess -- (I hope that made sense) 

Because I didn't like how my image was - I tried this instead --

I picked up my baby wipe and started to dab at my watercolor paper

Using the different colors -- it turned out neat -- 

Then I added some Water - I wanted my colors to blend a little more

Then I wanted my Background to shine so I sprayed on some

Frost Shimmer Mist -- (NOTE) -- My photo is not in the right steps -

I Sprayed my Shimmer frost first (which is why it doesn't look like my

Colors blended together) - Again User Error!!! LOL

After letting my Paper Dry (I took a Heat tool to it for the Pictures)

I didn't do that the first time I tried this - I actually let it sit off to

dry til the next day - But You can Totally Use your Heat Gun

I know you wanna get this done! LOL 

Then I splattered Some Brushed Pewter Stain on my Background

I thought the Blues & Purples needed a bit of Silver!!!

AND This IS my Final Product!! Everything is blended and actually 

Sparkles in person!

Now another (USER ERROR) I noticed for Myself IS

I like to use the Smooth side of this Water color paper

and what did I do??? The Textured side! GRRR!

In Crafting there are NO MISTAKES! Just Happy

Creative outlooks! :)

As you can see - I Made 2 backgrounds with that same Baby wipe

The second image is where I used the Smooth side of the 

watercolor paper - See the difference? 

They both turned out great, but I'm a SMOOTH Side Gal!! LOL

I do hope you guys try this and let me know if you did --

I would LOOOOVE to see what you create --

Here's the Link to the video I watched

Video Link

Big HUGS and Have a Great Week!!!

Theresa