September 12, 2013
September 11, 2013
Scent Embossed Gingerbread Cookie Cards
I started this last week after seeing this tutorial on Papertrey Ink's Capture the Moment blog for making your own scented embossing powder. I remembered this cute recipe book cover on the Lawn Fawn blog from last Christmas with a design I wanted to reproduce. I actually bought the stamp set they were profiling because I liked that cover so much.
So, first I needed my spices. I mixed the spices used for gingerbread cookies, which turned out to be too strong for what I wanted and didn't quite smell like gingerbread. The tutorial for this technique emphasized not adding sugar (because it will burn when you heat the powder), and I imagine that and molasses help give the traditional scent. I messed with the powder, adding some more ginger, etc, until I liked what I ended up with well enough. I then use 1 tsp of my spice mix and combined it with 1* tsp clear embossing powder in a small container I got at the dollar store.
[* After looking at the tutorial post again, it's supposed to be 2 tsp embossing powder to 1 tsp spice/scent, which is probably why I had issues if I used too much powder at once. Having said that, the 1-1 ratio did work, just probably not as well as the 1-2 I was supposed to use.]
Now, my gingerbread cookie stamps aren't solid, so this was the perfect excuse for me to pull out the Versamark pen I bought years ago and never used.
I started the cookies by stamping a bunch in white pigment ink and another set in black dye ink. I wasn't sure which I'd prefer, so decided to do both. After the pigment ink had dried, I went over the faces of the figures with the Versamark pen, and then added the embossing powder on top. I did 3-4 at a time (and found that 4 was pushing it, as the 4th ones turned out spotty) and tapped off the excess powder. Then I heated the 3-4 designs before shaking my powder to keep it properly mixed and moving on to the next group.
Here, you can see a few embossed. The cardstock looks darker (due to the spices in the embossing powder). Here's a close-up. You can see how the embossing makes the cookies look a bit rough. And if you scratch them a bit, they smell!
Fussy cutting them all out took a decent amount of time, but they look great. I added a few gel pen accents to the arms/legs/hem and tree.
The final step, which I did today, was to cut out the cookie trays with my Silhouette SD and assemble the cards. I also cut out a slightly smaller tray out of acetate, which I used to help me white gel pen a line around the pan.
I did two cards, trying out slightly different designs. For the first card I added a strip of glitter ribbon above the stamped sentiment. I attached the cookies using pop-dots.
For the second card, I added a contrasting panel, which allowed me to wrap some twine around the card. I'm submitting this card to this week's Simon Says Stamp's embossing challenge.
So, first I needed my spices. I mixed the spices used for gingerbread cookies, which turned out to be too strong for what I wanted and didn't quite smell like gingerbread. The tutorial for this technique emphasized not adding sugar (because it will burn when you heat the powder), and I imagine that and molasses help give the traditional scent. I messed with the powder, adding some more ginger, etc, until I liked what I ended up with well enough. I then use 1 tsp of my spice mix and combined it with 1* tsp clear embossing powder in a small container I got at the dollar store.
[* After looking at the tutorial post again, it's supposed to be 2 tsp embossing powder to 1 tsp spice/scent, which is probably why I had issues if I used too much powder at once. Having said that, the 1-1 ratio did work, just probably not as well as the 1-2 I was supposed to use.]
Now, my gingerbread cookie stamps aren't solid, so this was the perfect excuse for me to pull out the Versamark pen I bought years ago and never used.
I started the cookies by stamping a bunch in white pigment ink and another set in black dye ink. I wasn't sure which I'd prefer, so decided to do both. After the pigment ink had dried, I went over the faces of the figures with the Versamark pen, and then added the embossing powder on top. I did 3-4 at a time (and found that 4 was pushing it, as the 4th ones turned out spotty) and tapped off the excess powder. Then I heated the 3-4 designs before shaking my powder to keep it properly mixed and moving on to the next group.
Here, you can see a few embossed. The cardstock looks darker (due to the spices in the embossing powder). Here's a close-up. You can see how the embossing makes the cookies look a bit rough. And if you scratch them a bit, they smell!
Fussy cutting them all out took a decent amount of time, but they look great. I added a few gel pen accents to the arms/legs/hem and tree.
The final step, which I did today, was to cut out the cookie trays with my Silhouette SD and assemble the cards. I also cut out a slightly smaller tray out of acetate, which I used to help me white gel pen a line around the pan.
I did two cards, trying out slightly different designs. For the first card I added a strip of glitter ribbon above the stamped sentiment. I attached the cookies using pop-dots.
For the second card, I added a contrasting panel, which allowed me to wrap some twine around the card. I'm submitting this card to this week's Simon Says Stamp's embossing challenge.
September 6, 2013
Becomes a Butterfly
This was a pretty quick card I made using one of the paint chips you get at hardware stores. I started by punching a butterfly from each section, giving a gradient effect. Then I took a lighter piece of purple cardstock, stamped the Unity Stamps sentiment (which I can now get straight using my stamp positioner. It's unmounted rubber and it was a pain to get it correctly placed before) in purple ink. I glued on the butterflies and added a few pearls to the sentiment for effect.
September 5, 2013
Colourful Vines
I started this card a while back but only finished it today. I started out by stamping the image in white pigment ink on black paper. Then, when it was dry, I coloured over the image with pencil crayons. I added some dots with a white gel pen and mounted it on a piece of light blue cardstock.
August 30, 2013
CAS Just Because, Flower
I made this card for 2 challenges, CAS-ual Friday's challenge to use kraft and text and Simon Says Stamp's anything goes. I don't normally use kraft, but I remembered this tutorial by Jennifer McGuire for a technique called ghost stamping.
The idea is to stamp your image with white pigment ink and when it's dry, to stamp over it with a coloured dye ink.
I added a sentiment and voila, a quick, clean and simple card.
August 28, 2013
Butterfly Music
I made this card quite a while ago, back when I first got my neon pink ink. I stamped a music notation background with it on pink paper, then added a bunch of punched black butterflies. The top butterfly has a pink on over the black and they all have rhinestones in their centres (pink for the black and black for the pink).
I've been frantically making Christmas cards, having realized that the holiday's fast approaching and my time's going to be more limited the closer we get to it. That means you may see a lot of older unposted cards appearing. But we'll see.
I've been frantically making Christmas cards, having realized that the holiday's fast approaching and my time's going to be more limited the closer we get to it. That means you may see a lot of older unposted cards appearing. But we'll see.
August 22, 2013
Baby Snuggle Kaylee Card
I made this card for a family member who recently had a baby boy.
I printed the Some Odd Girl digi, Baby Snuggle Kaylee, and coloured it with pencil crayons. I die cut the frame out of my cardstock card, glued the picture to the back, stamped 'Adorable' from a Fiskars stamp set and added the embellishments. The duck was cut on the Silhouette SD and coloured in with markers. The safety pin and buttons were embellishments from a button company I bought at a craft show several years ago.
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