It's a Flustered Friday Card

Wrapping up this week of new image cards is this Friday's card which reflects how we all feel at times...

Supplies:
                 Ruffle Your Feathers  3710F
                 Owl B. Flustered  3714NN
                 Fancy Feather  1569E
                 1 Action Wobble Spring
                 Memento Ink - Expresso Truffle
                 Scissors
                 Stardust Pen
                 Copper Gel Pen
                 Cardstock - yellow, light green, lime green
                                       taupe dotted scrapbook paper
                 Double Sided Adhesive
                 Colored Pencils
                 Mounting foam

         Cut lime green cardstock 5" x 10", score, and fold in half to create a 5" x 5" card base. Cut light green cardstock 4 3/4" square and the yellow paper to a 4 1/2" square. Tape the light green paper to the card base. Lay aside.
          Stamp Owl B. Flustered on the yellow square in the middle. When dry, tape the yellow square to the prepared green cardstock.  Stamp a second time on extra yellow cardstock and color the owl. Cut out the owl image.
          Stamp the Fancy Feather three times on the scrapbook paper and cut around the images.
          Stamp Ruffle Your Feathers sentiment on the dotted paper and trim to a rectangle.
          Peel off the paper on the top of the Action Wobble. Adhere it to the back of the Owl B. Flustered image. Peel off the paper on the bottom and press it on the center of the stamped owl image on the yellow square. You should now have an owl that wiggles.
         Use the Copper Gel Pen and the Stardust Pen to create swirls and fill in the star on the background of the owl. Tape the sentiment in the lower right corner.
         Cut small pieces of the mounting tape to stick on the Fancy Feathers and place them around the main owl image.

          You will now have a wonderfully fun card that takes the Friday frustrations and dissolves them into chuckles. I love the craziness of the owl and how the Action Wobble makes it come alive. :-)

        I hope that this week has given you some fun, creative ideas to use with our new stamps.
       
        Happy Stamping!

           JoLayne
         
         


                

Thursday's card is a High Flyer

So, what do inks, stamps and painter's tape have in common? They can create an abstract, yet very easy card as in today's High Flying card.

Supplies:

                 Stamps used:

                 Eagle   3729K
                 Wings Like Eagles   3720H
                   (Into the Wild set)
                 Distress Inks - Fired Brick, Scattered Straw,
                                             Dried Marigold, Broken China
                 Memento Ink - Tuxedo Black
                 Painter's Tape
                 Southwest Corner Punch
                 White Glossy Cardstock
                 Turquoise Cardstock
                 Double sided Adhesive
                 craft gloves

          Cut the turquoise cardstock to 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", score and fold to create a 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" card. Cut glossy cardstock to
5 1/4" x 4 1/8" and punch corners with SW punch.
          Tear four pieces of painter's tape approximately 5" long. Tuck each end under about 1/8". (Put on gloves because you can get really inky with this!)   Press painter's tape on selected color and gently press tape into ink pad. Peel off and press down at angle on glossy cardstock. Rub across and remove.
           Do the same with each of the Distress ink colors. This first generation of color will be strong hued.
        I found that as I do each color I keep an extra piece of glossy cardstock on the table and reapply the tape on that. You get a less intense color, which you may like better. But you now have a second cool background to use for another card .
       Since the inks are on a glossy surface, it may take up to 5 minutes to dry completely. This process can be speeded up with a heat gun. If you try to stamp the image on before it is dried, the image has a tendency to smudge. (As I discovered when I first tried this.)
      Stamp the Eagle and Wings Like Eagles sentiment with Tuxedo Black ink. Let dry. Adhere white glossy piece to base card.
       This technique is so simple and yet looks so cool. You can use any color ink as long as it is dye based. You also could use pigment inks if you emboss it, which would give a raised look to it. 
       I hope you have fun with this simple, yet effective background technique.

     Happy Stamping!
                 JoLayne

Wednesday's Question: RV There?

It is Wednesday, the middle of the week, and the question is: "RV There Yet?"  Today's card features travelers somewhere in the Southwest desert and the kids are asking the question that make all parents cringe!

Supplies
                       Stamps used:
                            Spiral Sun  -  1101B
                            Desert Scene w/Stream  -  1304R
                            RV  -  3723J
                            RV There?  -  3725C

                       Memento Ink - Tuxedo Black, Peanut Brittle
                       Scissors
                       Double sided Adhesive
                       Colored Pencils or markers
                       Cardstock  8 1/2" x 11" - cream, white and blue
                       Mounting tape
                       Southwest Corner Punch
                       Stardust Pen
                      
            Cut the blue cardstock to 8 1/2" x 5 1/2". Score and fold so card measures 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". Punch lower corners with SW punch. Lay aside.
            Stamp Desert Scene with Tuxedo Black ink on cream cardstock and trim edges so when laid on top of folded card there is a 1/8" border of the blue showing. Use punch on all four corners.     
           Color the scene with colored pencils as desired. I tried to use shades of browns and taupes with accents of green to give the sense of the vastness and beauty of the desert. Stamp Spiral Sun in upper right corner with Peanut Brittle ink. Use the Stardust Pen on the rays of the sun image. 
            Stamp the Spiral Sun (2nd time) with Peanut Brittle, the RV and the sentiment on white cardstock with Tuxedo Black. Color. Cut around the RV and cut around the center of the Spiral Sun. Cut the saying, RV There? into a rectangular shape.  Swipe the paper edge of the words with Tuxedo Black and mat with cream cardstock that has also been swiped along the edges with Tuxedo Black.
            Adhere small pieces of mounting tape to back of RV image and the center of the Spiral Sun. Place sun in the sky and RV in the lower middle of the scene. Tape the sentiment in the upper left section at an angle.
             When I showed this to my husband, he laughed, because we have had many times with our kids when traveling where that was the constant question!

              Check back tomorrow for the 4th installment.
Blessings!  JoLayne

             
                     

Tuesday's Card is on the Hunt

Here is Tuesday's installment of our newly released stamps used to make another handsome masculine card.

 

 

Supplies used:

                           Serengeti Tree   2206K

                           Hunter Silhouette   3727JJ

                           Reason & Faith   3728G

                           (stamps by Stamps on Fire)

                           Versamark Watermark Ink

                           Memento Ink - Northern Pine

                           Cardstock - dark green, light green, white

                           Southwest Corner Punch

                           Scissors

                           Adhesive - double sided tape

                                               mounting tape

 

          Cut dark green cardstock to create a folded 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 card. Stamp Serengeti Tree onto card front with Versamark, placing image so it doesn't overlap.

          Stamp "Reason & Faith" on white cardstock, trim, punch corners with SW punch and swipe edges with Northern Pine ink.  Adhere to light green cardstock, trim with 1/8" border, use SW punch on corners and lay aside.

          Stamp Hunter Silhouette on white cardstock and cut around the image. Adhere to light green cardstock and trim around so there is a border. You could swipe around the edges, although I did not do that in this sample.

          Now take the card base and decide how you want the images to be placed. (I found that the placement of the Hunter Silhouette fit nicely between two of the watermark trees. Yours may be different depending on where the trees were stamped.)   Once you have it the way you like it, use the mounting tape to adhere the images so it has a slight dimensional look.

           Sometimes it is so hard to find stamps that address a more masculine audience, but with this one,( and the others from the Into the Woods set), creating a card for your special guy has become easier.  You could switch it up by placing the Reason & Faith image on the inside and use other stamps as the front greeting...ex. Happy Birthday, Thinking of You, etc.  The possiblities are unlimited.

 

         Thanks for reading this blog and check in again tomorrow for another installment.

   

         

        

         

     

 

 

                         

Easy Masculine Card

This week I am going to show you cards that I have created using the new images released in early July.

Stamps used:

                   1355E  -  Birthday Greetings
                   3726JJ - Barn/Stable
                   1601H -  Mountain Streams
                   (All stamps by Stamps on Fire)
                   Memento Ink - Expresso Truffle
                                                Northern Pine
                    3 Candi Dots (I used green, but coordinate to
                                              your color scheme.)
                   Stamp Positioner
                   Cardstock - yellow, brown and white
                   SW Corner punch
                   Sticky notes (to use as a mask)
                   Colored Pencils or markers

    Stamp Barn/Stable onto white cardstock with Expresso Truffle.  Stamp image a second time onto the sticky note, making sure the image overlaps the sticky part. Cut just inside the lines to use as a mask. Place over the Barn image.
    Use your positioner to stamp Mountain Streams twice behind the Barn using the Northern Pine ink. Color, if you desire to do so. Punch the corners with the SW punch. Use Expresso Truffle to swipe the edges. Mat on brown cardstock and punch corners also.
     Stamp Birthday Greetings on white cardstock, trim, score and edge with Northern Pine. Cut 8 1/2 x 11 yellow cardstock in half to 8 1/4 x 5 1/2, fold in half and swipe Expresso Truffle around the edges. Punch corners.
      Adhere matted image and the Greetings to the yellow cardstock. Adhere the three dark green Candi Dots.
      An envelope could be stamped with the Mountain Streams image to tie it in with the card.

     You can chose any color scheme you wish to create a one of a kind card for that special guy.