Distressed Charming card CASE

I saw this beautiful card on Sandi MacIver's blog and copied it. Isn't it lovely? I love the vintage, distressed look but it doesn't come naturally to me. However, I copy rather well. I used the SU stamp set called Charming.
To make the create embellishment I stamped the frame image and create image on a piece of paper, attached it to a metal label from the Vanilla Hodgepodge Hardware and filled it in with Crystal Effects. I added a little glitter to the CE. Actually I added a little too much glitter at first but was able to gently remove some with a scrap of paper. (After a few moments of panic as the glitter slowly covered the entire stamped image!)
It is hard to see in the photo but the brad in the corner of the tag is a Build-A-Brad with the butterfly image from the Charming set.

Stamps: Charming
Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Close to Cocoa,
Paper: Kraft, Very Vanilla, Rich Razzleberry, Basic Black, Thoroughly Modern DSP

Just one more Charming card!

Here is one more Charming card! I just can't help it; I love using this set. See the sentiment at the bottom-well the first time I stamped this I stamped the "Happy Birthday" upside down! Yep, upside down and not because the stamp was mounted wrong just because I did not pay attention. Fortunately the word window punch helped with my cover-up!
Usually while I stamp I watch my portable DVD player. I know better than to watch anything too intense because I get distracted and make all kinds of disasters! Right now I am watching Alias (thanks to Contessa Kris loaning me her copies) and there are many car chases, fights and breath holding moments. Where are those Disney movies????

I am working on Christmas cards right now but it just seems too early too start posting them. Maybe I will give a sneak peak of what we will be making at the Stamp-a-Stack. Normally, I have my own personal Christmas cards done by October but not this year. I do have about half cut but not stamped, embossed or put together. Oh well there is always tomorrow!!!
Paper: Night of Navy, Real Red DSP, Bashful Blue,
Ink: Whisper White craft, Bashful Blue, Night of Navy, Real Red
Stamps: Charming, Teeny Tiny Wishes

More Charming Cards!

I am still having fun with the new stamp set Charming that is in the Holiday Mini Catalog. It really is a charming stamp set! The first is a mini album that we made in stamp club this month. Once again I copied Amy Rohl except I didn't have enough buttons in the right color so we inked some chipboard circles with Not Quite Navy craft ink and used the white gel pen to make them look like buttons. Sorry the first photo is a little fuzzy-I didn't notice until I uploaded it-I probably forgot to change the settings. The pear is a piece of chipboard that was stamped with the background stamp from Charming with Old Olive craft ink and the little flourish was stamped with Not Quite Navy craft ink. The outside cover is textured with a SU Texturz plate.


The second is a card made from a piece of scrap Old Olive laying on my table so it is a little smaller than a standard A2 card. The background is stamped with Versamark and embossed with clear EP. The ribbon is a piece of Elegant Eggplant card stock that I punched on both sides with the SU Eyelet Border punch to make it look like ribbon. When I first started making cards this was my favorite color combo-Old Olive and Elegant Eggplant. Old Olive is still one of my go-to colors but I don't use Elegant Eggplant very often.

A Charming Card

As a Stampin' Up! demonstrator we receive a monthly magazine called Stampin' Success. This month there was an article featuring demonstrator Amy Rohl. She created several items using the stamp set Charming that is in the Christmas mini. It is the featured stamp set to be used in the Simply Adorned line of jewelery charms SU has. I really didn't notice this set until I saw what Amy had done with it. This card was inspired by her work. I like the color combo she chose, Ruby Red, Not Quite Navy and Old Olive. Here is a link to what she made.
One of the things I have noticed is that it is the small details that make the difference in nice card or scrapbook page or a fabulous card or page. That little extra strip of paper, little twist of hemp or just distressing the edges can make the difference between an ok creation and one that catches your attention.