Dreaming Ornate and Gorgeous!

We have a Dream Team free week, so I'm taking the opportunity to post one of my favorite cards that I designed for the July Holiday release of Dreamweaver Stencils. The "Christmas Tree" stencil has an almost Icelandic sweater motif design which I love. The stencil was placed on a panel of deep blue cardstock, taped down around the edges, and using the new Paste Spreader, I applied Silver Embossing Paste over the image. Removing the tape and the stencil (be sure to clean right away!), I left the paste to dry. Once dry, I placed a panel of Stampee Holographic Foil over the image face up, and placed this inside a folded piece of printing paper. Then the whole "sandwich" was run through my hot laminator to adhere the foil to the paste. It is hard to tell in the photos, but this left a holographic shimmer over the surface that is unbelievably cool. You'll just need to try it for yourself! I added some lavender rhinestones, adhered the panel to a lavender card which I'd wrapped with yummy ribbon and a bow. Such a gorgeous card. However, if I were to mail it, I think it would have to go in a box, but the shipping cost would be worth it. Imagine the look on the receiver's face when they open this card and compare it against the boxed cards that they received from everyone else. Hmmm? 'Nuff said.
Have you seen the post from Dreamweaver Stencils about the new Design Team call? You can get all the info HERE! This provides you with a great opportunity to play with all the Dreamweaver Stencil products and techniques while showing off your own creative style. Don't forget to check out the rest of the Dream Team's projects this week:

Dream It Up! blog

Kristi

Wendy

Louise

Laura

Liz

Georgia

Lee

Terrece

Positively Angelic!

I've had kind of a fixation lately with working with the positive and the negative of images, and this new image from Gourmet Rubber Stamps worked perfectly for this process. I stamped the music score from the Lizzie Anne Designs "Good to Be Queen" set with Rich Cocoa Memento ink once over the the one ivory panel, and repeatedly over the second ivory panel. Then after wiping the surface of each with some talcum powder (preventing the EP from adhering other than where I want it), I stamped the angel, from the new GRS "Season's Greetings" Diner's Club set, on the multi-stamped-music panel in Versamark and embossed with Stampee Bonding Powder. I heat this slightly before placing a panel of Stampee Gold Foil over the top, face up. Placing this layered panel between a folded sheet of printer paper, I then ran this through my heat laminator for a perfect cover of foiling on the angel image. When removing the carrier, you could see the angel within. This was used for the second card. For this one, I inked the other ivory panel with the entire Versamark pad just once centered on the panel. This was embossed with the same bonding powder before carefully placing that carrier sheet of foil over the top. This too, was run through the laminator to adhere the reverse portion of the image over the ivory panel. Pretty cool, huh? The remainder of both cards is fairly self-explanatory and simple to reproduce...adding this great sentiment from the GRS (LAD) "Season's Greetings" set and a few rhinestone accents. This technique works the best when you have a fairly solid, recognizable shape, and can even be done with a sentiment if the lines are fairly bold.

CAS143 Peace on Earth

 My friend Taylor was in charge of the CAS (clean and simple) challenge this week at Split Coast Stampers, which gave me even more incentive to play along. My version uses the Dreamweaver Stencils "Peace on Earth", paste-embossed on a medium blue cardstock panel and sprinkled with Stampendous Crystal Glitter. This panel was punched at the edges, adhered over the top of glitter paper, and then on top of the Wassau Crepe cardstock. A couple of rhinestones to accent the snowflakes complete this CAS card for the holidays.

Homey and Sweet

 Quickie post featuring a super simple card created with Gourmet Rubber Stamps Diner's Club set for November, "Season's Greetings". I stamped and embossed the curly tree in white on a kraft panel, matted by a kraft Dotted Swiss panel, on top of a kraft card with just a strip of plaid ribbon. The simple sentiment at the bottom in red, and the one red rhinestone on the tree finish this CAS card off nicely. I kind of wish I'd made an entire batch of this card as I love the simple hominess of this design...maybe I'll just have to do that! Check out the rest of this Diner's Set HERE.

Feeling "Chipper"?

 Welcome to the Stampendous November Challenge post! This month our challenge was to use chipboard in some way on our project. This was fun! I have a ton of chipboard shapes that I tend to forget about, so posting for each week of this month will be no issue for me. This week I used these cute ovals. I painted them in white and then covered them in this gorgeous Blizzard Crystal Mix Glitter from Stampendous. The ovals were used to frame these cute little images from the Perfectly Clear Yule Penguins set. The red and pink combination of the Echo Park "Trim the Tree" paper provides a retro and girly feel. I stamped snowflakes from the same clear set in red and pink inks. To add to the "chilly" atmosphere, I added a Martha Stewart edger border from glitter covered paper. Some paper-piecing, baker's twine, and a sparkle pompom finishes off this fun card.To complete the gift set, I created this Chilly Ornament to match the card using most of the same elements and techniques. Then I added some fun beads for sparkle. The rest of the Stampendous Design Teams have been playing with chipboard as well...let's see just what they've been up to:

Cyndi
Taylor

Wendy J.

Lynn

Suzanne (our new team member!)

Krissy

Now it's your chance to go chipboard crazy! Pull out your stash and play along this month. Link your creation(s) to the Stampendous Impressions blog by December 1st, and you have the opportunity to possibly win the Jumbo Cling Songbird set. Be sure to come back next Saturday as we feature Fran's new Encrusted Jewel Technique for a blog hop! While you are visiting the realm of Stampendous fabulousness, be sure to take advantage of this great gift idea for the holidays...and buying two of these will get you free shipping! Wow! What a deal!

A Simple Snow Globe

 The Lizzie Anne Designs' line from Gourmet Rubber Stamps are the perfect images to go CAS. This card may not look precisely simple, but really...it is! I ran a white cardstock panel through the Big Shot with an embossing folder. A layered panel of white cardstock with a panel of glitter paper over a ribbon border. A Nestie cut embossed panel for the window. And finally...I embossed this darling snow globe in white on acetate. Cute, huh? This image and sentiment are from the November Diner's Club set, "Season's Greetings", which is full of wonderful images for all manner of holiday greetings...cards, tags, gifts, decor. You will totally want this set, so go...get it...NOW, right HERE! Better yet, sign up to receive each Diner's Club set...one each month. It's a great gift to give yourself, the fun of opening a new batch of creative goodies every month! Need inspiration? Sign HERE to receive the email newsletter each month.

GRS Halloween Hop Winner!

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Congrats to ~Kathy

on winning the darling Gourmet Rubber Stamps

Stick Chick "Girl with Wreath" 

from the Halloween Hop!

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