Most Adored in Color

Happy Friday, peeps! I have a pretty little card today which uses some of the SAB Most Adored DSP!  I fussy-cut one of the smaller gold-outlined rose images and colored it with some Blends...here we go:

I popped it up on a diecut panel, added a gold heat-embossed sentiment from Lasting Joy, and embellished it with two little Bubble Bath diecut banners:

All of that went on a Soft Seafoam panel, embossed with the Countryside Blossoms embossing folder.  This is such a soft, pretty color combo, don't you think?  I am entering this at the Seize the Birthday challenge; they are looking for dry or wet embossing...and this fits both bills!  

Thanks for popping in today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Lasting Joy, Itty Bitty Backgrounds (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Soft Seafoam, Bubble Bath, Most Adored DSP
Ink	Versamark, Soft Seafoam
Accessories	Dimensionals, Gold Embossing Powder
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Nested Essentials Dies, Countryside Blossoms Embossing Folder, Heat Tool, Blends

Brayered Embossing

At my stamp club earlier this week, I showed my club girls how to use a brayer  while embossing to get more uses from your folders!  We made this card:

using the Stripes embossing folder and Kindness Matters stamp set.  You can see the details of how I did the “gingham” in this post.  Just make sure you ink the inside “lid” of the embossing folder, the piece that you lift up; the front piece, so to speak.  If you don’t have a brayer, you can just rub your stamp pad over the folder, but you get a more even effect with a brayer.  This card uses Crumb Cake, Confetti Cream and Calypso Coral.

Some other samples I made:

This uses the Finial Press embossing folder, Very Vanilla cardstock and Sahara Sank ink.  The embellishments were all cut from Beau Chateau Designer Paper.

The last one used the brayer directly onto the already-embossed piece.  This uses Finial Press again, Scalloped Heart of Hearts Embosslit, Basic Black and Brushed Gold cardstocks, and Gold Encore ink:

Thanks for visiting today!  Email me if you have any questions!

PP26 Embossing Challenge

The baby is sleeping, the cat is snoring (really!) and we are all wheezing and sneezing…it wasn’t a good weekend in the Pugliese household!  So not much stamping or posting for me.  I did have a chance last night to play the Paper Players challenge 26 which is:

I had an idea for this in my head all morning at church, which was to make a pin using silver embossing powder and the Faux Metal technique……emboss a piece of cardstock three times with Versamark ink and your choice of embossing powder; at the last second after the third heating, press your stamp of choice into the still-warm powder and it makes a cool impression!  I thought the circular element from Artistic Etchings would be fun, especially with an Antique brad in the center.  I was going along okay until I decided to add some Gold Glory ink along the edges; then I thought I should probably emboss that with some clear EP so the GG wouldn’t smudge off.  I lost most of my impression then!  So I veered in another direction and just used it to make a sympathy card…..and added some gold embossing to the edge of the vellum piece I used on top:

I kept wanting to add a ribbon or bow or something, but since the colors are so masculine, I resisted!!  Here’s a detail of the actual element:

I added a scallop of Sahara Sand which was distressed with Craft White ink and some more Gold Encore ink.  It’s pretty heavy as cards go, as there are several layers of cardstock making up the emblem----remember I was going to make it into a pin!!!  I’ll pay for that when mailing time comes!  I love how the gold EP matches the Elegant Soiree DP so well.  I also embossed the sentiment from Thoughts & Prayers in gold.  You should check out the samples from all the Paper Players----they have some lovely things there and you can play along too!

I wanted to share a couple RAKS I got!  This is from my friend Penny, who made a lovely Thanksgiving easel card:

and a sweet little “package” from my friend Carol, received at the little stamping outing I attended two Saturdays ago:

and look what’s inside:

YUMM-O!!!  Thanks, Carol!!!  So far I have resisted the temptation to eat it because it looks so sweet, I don’t want to mess it up!!  And finally, a little pic to give you a giggle:

Already she’s giving us razzberries!!!!  Enjoy your day!

ColourQ#17

Imagine my excitement when Arielle from ColourQ Challenges told me that I was to be a Guest Designer for this week! Her challenges are always fun and I was not disappointed when I saw her inspiration:

Now, I must confess that this has an Asian feel to it and I have never been very good at interpreting that style. Normally I would just take the colors and run with my own thing, but I decided to go “literal” and try to re-create the design….with a few little changes. I started by making a little pizza box…

It’s little….only about two inches square…..decorated with some flowers from Eastern Blossoms, some punched Boho Blossoms filled with microbeads, and a little sentiment from PTI’s Mixed Messages. Inside is this little hand-crafted pin I made:

Here’s another view:

This was made by stamping a square of Bashful Blue cardstock with various images. I then added some mini rhinestones and covered the entire piece with Versamark and Glassy Glaze EP and heated it up. I gave it two more coats of GG, then mounted it on a double backing of Basic Black cardstock cut with a Nestie, and added a pin back.

Now to complete my little gift set, I made a simple card:

Here they are all together:

Each piece has it’s own different feel but together they make an interesting set! I really enjoyed creating each piece.

• Stamps: Eastern Blooms, Mixed Messages & Believe, PTI
• Paper: Bashful Blue, WW, Basic Black, Taken with Teal
• Ink: Palette Noir, Real Red, Taken with Teal
• Acc: Markers, Rhinestones, Boho Blossom Punch, Nesties, Gingham Ribbon, Scallop Trim Border Punch, Glassy Glaze EP, MicroBeads, Circle Punches

Just an update on my dad—he did come home and is staying with my sister for a while until he feels better. That is truly an answer to prayer and thank you ALL who prayed and commented!!!

Three One-Layer Cards

The challenge#3 at Stampin’ Royalty today is to make a one-layer card.  That is more difficult than I imagined! I actually did make a set of four one-layer cards yesterday, but I did not photograph them and wanted to do something a little different today.  So I made three!! The first one was not so good, but the second & third were better!  I think it’s because they have ribbon—other than that, they are all pretty clean & simple.  Okay, enough yakking, here ya go:

This is number three.  (I am going backwards here!)  I anchored the ribbon by doing a one-hole bow.  Image is from Holiday Blitz; colors are Real Red, Melon Mambo, Regal Rose and Rose Red; sentiment is from The More the Merrier.

Here’s number two, a REAL simple one:

Card is Pretty in Pink, cut with the Scallop Square BigShot Diecut; again, the image is from Holiday Blitz, stamped in Craft White and embossed with white EP. The little CB cross stitch folder is one I’ve had for a long time!  The sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes and the ribbon is SU’s Satin ---yummeeee!

Finally, this was my first attempt.  I should have stopped stamping while I was ahead:

It just looks BARE, but I do like the white on the BB.  Sets used are Always and Enjoy Every Moment; card and ink are Bermuda Bay, with the bird and sentiment again stamped in Craft White and heat embossed.  A good exercise to get back to basics!  Oh well, you can’t win them all!

Thanks for visiting today!!!  Hey, I am going to put up some blog candy here real soon….keep posted!

Soft Bayou

I had this card in mind for two challenges, today's Embossed Watercolor challenge as well as Beate's weekend sketch challenge. Well, I missed the deadline for the weekend challenge, but I still liked the layout, so I made it anyway! I was hankering to use the beautiful paper that Billie sent me, especially the one that had been CB'd with Swiss Dots, so I based my card and its colors on that. The flower from Touch of Nature is stamped in Versamark on Shimmery White cardstock and embossed in black EP, then colored with an aquapainter using Soft Sky and Blue Bayou ink. I really like using the Shimmery White for watercoloring; it doesn't pill and it accepts the ink very nicely. The center is More Mustard. The base is Blue Bayou, the DPs are Soft Sky Prints. I added some retired organdy ribbon and just as I was adding the sentiment from Papertrey, my mail came from Kitchen Sink Stamps with my Dewdrops!!! (VERY fast service, I might add!!) So I added them too. This will go to my little elderly lady I used to care for, who is now in a nursing home. Her birthday is coming up and I know she will like this! Feel free to click on the photo for a nice closer view!
Stamps: Touch of Nature, Mixed Messages (PTI)
Paper: Blue Bayou, Shimmery White, Basic Black, Soft Sky Prints, Unknown Shimmery Soft Sky
Ink: Versamark, Soft Sky, Blue Bayou
Acc: Markers, Dew Drops, Nestabilites, Small Oval Punch, 1/8" Circle Punch, Organdy Ribbon, thread, Crystal Effects