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Technique Tuesday: Add a Little Dazzle

 

Want to see an amazing and exiting product? It's called Add a little Dazzle! They are Metal Sheets that are high quality and are great for crafting.  You can easily die cut and emboss these sheets with your die cutting machine as you create beautiful cards, scrap booking pages, 3d items, and much more! I love that you can stamp, color, emboss, or sand to change the appearance of them.

I thought it would be a fun idea to do something a little different, so I made this card and included a handmade hair accessory!

We love to hop and here are today¹s featured blogs with Stampendous and Add A Little Dazzle

Stampendous

Lea Kimmel

Add a Little Dazzle

Pam Hornschu

Cathy Parlitsis

Vicki Dutcher

Kate Capper

Amy Hurley-Purdie

PS. If you get to a blog and it says something like "that post isn't here", just click on the blog header or look for a link that says Home near the top. That will take you to the blog home, and the blog hop post should be somewhere near the top. Thanks for your patience!

NOTE:

Your definitely going to want to use Beacon Quick Grip Adhesive for this project because it holds great and dry's almost instantly! It's my GO TO adhesive for projects like these, as well as Zip Dry for cardmaking and scrapbooking!

 

 

Supplies:
Add a Little Dazzles Metal sheets in black and bronze

Stampendous Wine Label

Stampendous Glance 

Stampendous Vintage Glass Glitter in Champagne

StazOn black ink

Distress Ink Antique Linen and Black Soot

HOTP Bodacious Blooms Cutting Die

Large Rhinestone

Beacon Adhesives Quick Grip

Beacon Adhesives Zip Dry

Bobby Pin

 

 

Color Me Monday

As summer slips away I felt the need to make one more summer card. This weeks color's inspired me to think clean, simple, and fresh for my card. I used Penny Black Soft Whisper stamp to create the  branches with yellow ink, then stamped it a second time with a light brown ink. Paper Wishes Flower Frenzy cutting dies gave me the perfect little flowers for my branches. "Sunshine" is stamped at the bottom of the card for a simple greeting.  Aghhhh...goodbye summer, can't wait for fall.

Making your card photo ready!

I've been asked several times "How do you get your card's to look so great?" I know the struggle of working really hard on a beautiful card, only to photograph it and have it look terrible! It's so frustrating!!! I came across a pin on Pinterest awhile back, and I actually followed through and made it(for once)! Here is the pin from Annette at Tips from a typical mom, and she has a fabulous post you can read about HERE!

You can see the difference on these cards. The first one I took with my old system. The next one is with the system above.

You can see how much more vibrant the colors are in the second picture, and you can see the details better. The colors are truer to the actual colors, and that's important when others want to make the card because they will have trouble matching those colors if their not correct. The project was really affordable to make, and well worth it. The results are amazing! So go out and create you own!

Monsters aren't just for Halloween!

I am a monster fanatic! I love them! Especially when they are as stinkin cute as Lawn Fawn's Monster Hugs stamp set! They even have matching cutting dies, LOVE IT!

 

I wanted to show that you could use monsters for an everyday card, and here is what I came up with! I think the eyeballs make it, don't you?

I used paper from Bella Blvd. called summer breeze, and Spectrum Noir markers BT1,BT2,BT4, CG3,CG4, OR1,OR2,CT2,CT4

 

Stampedous House-Mouse Halloween

I saw this cute little stamp called Monica Butterfly Stamp by House-Mouse Designs®, and I knew instantly what I wanted to do with it! I have long been wanting to make a box card, and thought how cute would it be to have this adorable trick or treat-er waiting on the other side!

 

 

Supplies Needed:

Cardstock: Dark purple, orange, white

Distress Inks: Ripe Persimmon, Seedless Preserves, Faded Jeans, chipped Sapphire, Black Soot, Pumice Stone

Spectrum Noir: Pumpkin: GB6,OR1,OR2 / Mouse:BG1,BG2,BG4,PP3,CR1, Blender / Wings: CG1,CG3,PL5

White paint pen

Hinges

Stampendous "Halloween Wish" and "Tricky Words" sentiment stamps

Memento Ink

Acrylic Block

Zip Dry

Glossy Accents

Score Board

HANDOUT:

 

Step 1. Score dark purple cardstock as shown on handout. Fold. Cut 3 1/2 x 6 1/4" white rectangle, and then cut 3" x 5 3/4" rectangle from center. Cut cut 3" x 5 3/4" rectangle from the front of dark purple box card in the center. Glue white rectangle frame around cut out.

Step 2.Glue bottom of hinges to left side of frame with Glossy Accents. Cut 3 1/4" x 6" orange cardstock rectangle. Glue 3"x 5 5/8" orange centered onto larger orange rectangle. Glue four 1 1/4"x 1 3/4" orange rectangles to create panels on door as shown. Cut 2 3/4"x1 1/4" orange rectangle and glue to bottom of door, add door handle. Open hinges. Take orange door and turn over. Then glue  door onto hinges with glossy accents, let dry. *BE SURE NOT TO GET GLOSSY ACCENTS ON WORKING PART OF HINGES BECAUSE IT WILL KEEP THEM FROM WORKING PROPERLY*

Step 3.Cut 3 1/4"x 8 1/4" white cardstock. Using an ink blending tool create background with Distress Inks. Add stars to sky with paint pen. Glue onto inside card panel.

Step 4. Stamp Monica Butterfly Stamp onto white cardstock with Memento ink. Color with Spectrum Noir. Cut out and Foam tape onto background. Stamp "Happy Halloween" and "Tricky Words" sentiment stamps onto white cardstock. Cut "Happy Halloween" into a 4"x1" strip, and glue to card front as shown. Cut out "Tricky Words" sentiment in the shape of a speech bubble and glue to inside of card as shown.

Step 5. Glue box card edges together to complete card.

*NOTE: you can make a stand to add to the back of card for extra stability

 

 

 

Technique Tuesday: No Line Coloring

This weeks technique is new to some and familiar to others! Either way this technique is worthy of being repeated! I love the technique of no line coloring because when your all finished your image looks as though you created the image yourself! You've got to love that! You simply stamp your image with light colored ink and color in as usual. This gives you no stark black lines and gives the look of a hand drawn image!

This soft pink fluffy kitty was created with Spectrum Noir: PP3,PP4,PP5 and a grey colored pencil

Also used were silver glitter paper, Recollection Meow Meow Stamp Set (both at Michaels), Paper Smooches Slang Gang Stamp, Distress Ink Spun Sugar, Ranger Archival black ink, Spellbinders Labels 17 cutting dies, and Spellbinders Circle cutting dies

 

Meow Meow	Spun Sugar	Spectrum Noir	Colored Pencil
Paper Smooches	Glitter Paper	Label Cutting Die	Circle Cutting Die

Color Me Monday

Saturated Canary has long been a favorite Digi Stamp site of mine, and this stamp is close to my heart because she's holding a Copic marker! Her name is Sketchie! I thought she needed to have as much sparkle as possible, and this painting really inspired her colors! I love all the cool tones in this painting.

*I found it on Bing with no link, so if someone knows who this amazing painting belongs to please let me know because I would love to give the artist credit!*

I used Copics: Skin: E000,E00,E01,R20 / Eyes: YG05,YG03 / Lips: R20 / Eyeshadow: B01 / Hair: V01,V04,Vo5 / Wings: B00,B01, YG00 / Clothes: YG03,YG05,YG09, BG05, BG02

You can just as easily create this same look using Spectrum Noir markers that are currently my new fav's.Spectrum Noir: Skin: FS2,FS3,Tn2 / Eyes: CG1,CG3  / Lips: CR1 / Eyeshadow: BT2 / Hair: LV1,LV2 / Wings: BT1,BT2,CG1 / Clothes: CG1,CG3,BT4,BT2,BT1

AND DON'T FORGET TO ADD LOT'S OF STICKLES!!!!

Technique Tuesday on Thursday!!!

Here is that Technique Tueday video I promised! It's a Back to School card with a painting activity for you and your child! Try this activity with your child, and I promise they will want to make a ton of backgrounds for you! All you need are some watercolors, watercolor paper, brushes, and some oil! Science and art come together for a one of kind masterpiece made by your child, and turned into a card as a special gift for their teacher!

I've also included this cute digital apple stamp for you to color! For my apple I used Spectrum Noir colors DR7,DR5,DR3,CR10,CG3,LG5, and TN7.

 

 

 

Watercolors	Envelope Stamp	Watercolor Paper

Digital Stamps

If you haven't tried digital stamps . . . you really should! They are easy to download, print great, and work great with alcohol based markers! I was inspired to do this card by one of my favorite digital stamp companies. . . Saturated Canary. This stamp is called Alternative Beauty, and I love it!!!

I used Spectrum Noir Markers: Hair-LV1,LV2, LV3 / Face-FS2,FS3,TN2 / Shirt-IG6,IG8,IG10 / Skirt-TB5, TB6 / Leggings-LV1,LV2 / Boots-IG6,IG8,IG10 / Sleeves and socks-CR10, DR5

I added some black colored pencil to deepen the hair and skirt.

Here are some other digital stamp companies that are definately worth taking a peek at:

Mo's Digital Stamps

C.C.Designs

Whimsy Stamps

Technique Tuesday???

Technique Tuesday this week will become Technique THURSDAY!!! Today kicks off our first official day of homeschool! I home school my son and we are beginning his Freshman year! AGGGHHHHH! Excitement mixed with TERROR!

I will be posting a really fun Technique video on Thursday that involves a "Back to School" card! I'll show you how to do a fun painting technique with your kido's that you can then turn into a card for them to present to their teacher! I'll be including a free digital stamp as well! Here's a sneek peek, and make sure to check back Thursday!