Hetty goes cute

Hello everyone!

Today I have some real cute cards for you with stamps from Sweet 'n Sassy. This company has digital and clear stamps. Cute ones and lot's of flowers, texts and others.

 

Recently I have been showing some iris folding cards and got a lot of comments and questions, so here I have another one for you with a pattern (click on it and save it to your computer).

Have you never tried irisfolding? Please have a look at the tutorial.

When you don't like the tiny pattern, or when you are not so good with little things: enlarge the pattern and use bigger strips for folding. It is also a great way to try and figure it out for the first time.

But when you did a try run, you will notice that  it is quite easy and you do not need anything special for it. If you have any questions feel free to mail me for help.

Both cards are made with the set: Feeling Fruity Cocoa Clear Stamp set.

 On the first card I replaced the strawberry of the stamp with the irisfolded strawberry. In the card below I did the strawberry separate and also used the shape that came out of the frame and used the cutllebug highlight technique (Oct 08) on it as well as on the leave..

Pulled Glimmers meets Scene Silhouettes by Judy Jackson

I love making ATCs. They are just fun to make. I also enjoy being able to just quickly take an ATC that I have made and add it to the front of a card.

I created the Pulled Glimmers background and this ATC just went perfectly with the colors I used. I added the lovely green ad gold trimmed ribbons giving the card a soft touch -- yet not distracting from the masculine image and theme. The gold edging certainly brings out the glimmer shine in the background. I do realize it is past Father's Day but i made this card before Father's Day and am only getting it uploaded the TJ blog. You could certainly add a birthday greeting.

Stamp credits: Stampin' Up, Stampscapes, and At Impressions.

I hope you have a wonderful week filled with creative time for you!

Judy Jackson

Mono Die Baby by Ann Clack

Ann Clack here!  This week has been very crazy but my daughter-in-law's sister's baby shower was a welcome relief.  I made this card for her.  The colors that she has chosen to be her most favorite for the little girl (due in about three weeks) is mostly brown with pink highlights.  The animal she likes is butterflies.  So, I quickly threw this together and she really loved it.  It uses the mono die technique from the February 2010 issue of the Technique Junkie newsletter.  I hope you enjoy it as well.  In retrospect, I could have used a few more dies but I was just out of time!

Try That Technique: Polished Mulberry

Try That Technique! Stampers who have the June 2003 issue of the Technique Junkie Newsletter will find Polished Mulberry, which you can see on my card.

Diana and I challenged each other, once again, to Try That Technique. We hope you join in on the fun too.

If you are a TJ member, submit your card on our Yahoo Group or if you are not a current member, link up your card here for your chance to have your card on the TJ Yahoo Group home page for the week, and with your name in highlights too!

Congratulations Barbara Washington. You are this week's winner and will find your card on the homepage. Thank you for playing.

The background was fun to make, as I do love to get my hands inky, which is why I have a special shirt to use when I work with any liquid product. This shirt came about totally unexpectedly as Donnie pointed out the large ink spot while we were out for supper. Imagine my red face! That will teach me to work unprotected.

Stamp Credit:

Stamp is I Brake for Stamps and is called Large Christmas Femme.

Happy Stamping friends,
Beth

Vintage Wallpaper by Judy Jackson

I chose this shell collage Cuttlebug embossing folder to use with this technique. I wondered how it would work for this super technique! Terrific. I layered some clear vellum over the top at an angle -- then I tied the bow. I attached the clear vellum with two colored brads. I added sentiment stamped on colored vellum and clear embossed. I laid that over the clear vellum. The different layers add texture and interest to the card. The card would be fine without the layers but I think it just brings it up a notch in added detail.

I love the Technique Junkie newsletter -- it enables me to learn new techniques that can spark my own creativity. I love it when someone say to me, "How did you do this?"

Stamp credits: Impression Obsession and Stampington and Company.

I hope you are having a wonderful week and are able to get in some stamping time!

Judy Jackson

Scrunchie.....another old favorite

It's Evelyn here....with a funky favorite technique:  Scrunchie.  It appeared in the November 2007 newsletter.     This past week, I recycled magazines and catalogs and saved several great glossy covers and pages from the Coldwater Creek catalog. There were also some beautiful red and black butterflies on a New Yorker cover, which I used  for this card.    The stamped image is from Diva Impressions, an unmounted I "found" in my mess of unmounteds.    (No one else has that problem, surely!!) 

Evelyn Spikes

Antique Wallpaper with Beth

Happy 4th of July to our American Readers. This is Beth here with my first attempt at Antique Wallpaper from the most recent issue. It is so much fun and I can tell it will be one I use a lot.

My image comes from Stamp Barn in Canada.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.