Overlapping Hearts Stamped in a row

The patterned paper is by  Deja Views. The vellum sentiment is by Quick Quotes, and I adhered it with a Xyron sticker maker. The heart stamp is unknown.  I added pearls by Couture Creations and sequins by Fun Stampers Journey.
It was by accident that I stumbled onto this design. It’s not a new, original, or even cre8ive design, but it’s not what I was trying to do.

I was auditioning different shades of pink ink with a different heart stamp onto white cardstock. I couldn’t find the right pink or red color for yesterday's card, and so I thought maybe if I stamped one heart on top of the other, I would get the color that I was trying to match. I’m looking to match the patterned paper. But then I quickly realized that you can’t do that with rubber stamps on a wooden block. They end up kind of halfway on top of each other. Tada, this stamped border design was put together and then changed up for this card. So that’s what I thought of when I first came up with this idea.  

Thanks for looking.

Manly Monday graduation cards

Details/Products: The stars tape is by Scotch, the black cardstock from Scrapbook Made Simple, and the cap and diploma are puffy stickers by Paper House Productions. The sentiment is cut out with my Cricut and adhered to vellum. I adhered the vellum to a blue cardstock, which made the vellum look blue. I popped up the sentiment with white foam squares. The two corners were rounded with a CM corner rounder.

Details on my second card: Dry embossing folder by Darice. I inked it with distress ink. I adhered the sentiment to colored vellum that didn't match the school colors. So I colored the back of the vellum with a blue Copic marker before running it through my sticker maker by Xyron. The graduation cap is a sticker by Jolee's Boutique by EK Success. Thanks for looking.

25th Wedding anniversary card

The card base is by The Paper Studio. The happy sentiment is by Lawn Fawn. The white rim tag in the center is by Stampin Up.  The 25 is from a frame that my in-laws had hanging in their home with their 25th-anniversary picture. The vellum sentiment is from Quick Quotes and I use a Xyron Sticker Maker to adhere the vellum. The word anniversary and the champagne glasses that are on the inside of the card are cut out using my Cricut.

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Save the Purple Hello Card!

This card came to me in a bunch from Hubby's grandma. She knew that I liked to recycle cards and gave me every single card that she received.

The stamped front panel was also the card base and it was thin. 

It had some damaged edges, a crease in the white cardstock, and missing rhinestones.

I started by cutting off the front panel with the stamping. I love the stamping she did and may try something similar someday. 

 

Next, I matted the stamped panel onto two separate recycled cards. 

Below you will see pictures of the 2 recycled cards.

I made the sentiment on my Cricut using a purple glitter pen onto vellum. 

 The vellum helps cover the crease.

I always use a Xyron sticker maker for vellum. It's the best adhesive for vellum that I have found.

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Deep Red Stamps Tree of Life Friend Cards

I used the Tree of Life stamp by Deep Red Stamps
Heat embossed in gold and then copper. Random paper on the top one and sentiment die-cut by Clearly Besotted. The bottom card is not my favorite because the sentiment is too big and looks stupid. The sentiment is vellum by Creative Memories and I use Xyron create a sticker to adhere it. The image is on a Spellbinders die-cut that was inked with distress ink. The package for the burgundy patterned paper says, "Divine Collection". Hmm. The background patterned paper is by Prima.

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Manly Monday Deep Red Stamps Big! Elephant Card

This is one of those labor of love cards. It's also a see if I could do it and make it look like I envisioned it cards.
Results-I love the way it turned out.
Start with a 5 ½ x 4 white card base (Recollections) and adhere to it white cardstock that has been embossed with a Darice embossing folder and inked with distress ink (Ranger).

Stamp African Elephant by Deep Red Stamps with Hero Arts black ink onto Strathmore watercolor cardstock. Color in with Peerless watercolors. Stamp elephant onto patterned paper (Me and My Big Ideas) to act as a mask. Cut the pieces surrounding the elephant image. Adhere those pieces around the elephant and rip the bottom edges at the grass line.
Elephant stamp is on sale at Scrapbook.com.

Before adhering the image to the card base, run vellum sentiment through a Xyron Create a Sticker (Model 150) and adhere to the left side of card. Adhere image and add letter stickers (Stickopotamus).

I know I said this above but this close up may give you a better idea of what I did. 

I cut out the paper between the legs and blended it into the stamped image by roughing up the bottom of the patterned paper and inking it with Mowed Lawn distress ink.

I traced the edges of the elephant with a black pen by Creative Memories.

Thanks for looking

Shabby Chic Cards

I'm not a shabby chic kind of gal but thought I'd take the challenge for an ATC swap. I started by running the base thru the Xyron upside down and adhering some lace scraps to the card. Then I picked out some scraps blue patterned paper by Basic Grey and some peach colored Die Cuts with a View cardstock. 

I knew I wanted to use these giant rhinestones by Glitz. They have a lot of dimension and I can't see using them for a card or scrapbook page. That's where an ATC can be a perfect canvas for things you love but can't use in other places.The half circles of rhinestones are by Heidi Swapp. They were complete circles until I cut them in half. So each card has the giant rhinestone, a half of a blue rhinestone circle and a Tim Holtz die cut word.

The other products I used:

Flowers by Recollections

Chipboard circle by Prima

Deckled edge square punch by McGill Craftivity which I cut in half

Pearls by Forever in Time

and

I did end up using some brads to hold the flowers in place and dotting some i's. I wasn't able to get the glue dot to adhere to the lace.

Hope you like them. Thanks for looking.

Friend Masterpiece Card

I love this background stamp by Hero Arts. I've used it on two other posts: Best Wishes and Friend and I'll have another won to share coming up in the next few months.

 For my card I stamped the background with Versa Mark ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder on watercolor cardstock by Strathmore. I colored the images in with Peerless watercolors and a water pen by Ranger. The sentiment is vellum by Quick Quotes. I die cut the vellum with a Spellbinders die before I ran it through my Xyron sticker maker to adhere to the card front.

Very simple but anything more would make it look cluttered. I will say it took a while to color in that background, which made me not want to do anything more to it.

Thanks for coming by and checking out my new card.

Geotag Balloon ATC

Today I have an ATC (Artist Trading Cards) that I made for a swap at Scrapbook.com. The theme: Balloons. I found this geotag cut with a how air balloon on one of my Cricut cartridges and really liked it. To add to it I decided to stamp a regular balloon stamp inside using a stamp by Stampin Up and charcoal ink by Hero Arts. 

I masked off some clouds using a small cloud Marvy punch and Post-It tape. I masked off the sun using a circle punch. The sun rays stamp is unknown but I can tell you that I used two different colors of distress inks to ink the stamp. Then I used Tumbled Glass distress ink and ink blending tool (Ranger) to ink the card except for some yellow ink on the corner of the sun and brown ink for the bottom.

Since this is a Geotag I thought it fitting to pin it to a map. So for bottom I decided to use vellum for my map. I inked up a map background stamp (Stampin Up) with Versa Mark ink and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. I proceeded to color the back of the vellum with two Copic markers so it would match the background of the card. I used a Xyron 250 to adhere the vellum to the card. The travel word is ribbon (Queen and Co) that covers the line of the vellum. 

Thanks so much for looking.

Deep Red Stamps and Xyron Blog Hop Day 5 + Giveaway

Final post for the Deep Red Stamps and Xyron Blog Hop

I have an ATC (Artist Trading Cards) to share with you today and it uses two Deep Red Stamps:

Ducks Rubber Stamp

and

French Swirls Background Stamp

along with the Xyron Create a Sticker 250

I stamped the background with the French Swirl with yellow ink (Stampin Up) and then inked the edges with the same ink. I die cut the window using my Cricut and the cartridge Christmas Noel. When I used my friend's cartridge I die cut the window frame in white so that I had the opportunity to change the color if I wanted to. This frame was inked with distress inks colors Walnut Stain and Vintage Photo (Ranger). On the outside scene I used a scalloped template to create the grass with Mowed Lawn distress ink. The sky was created with Tumbled Glass and Broken China distress inks. I sprayed the scene with water mixed with gold Perfect Pearls (Ranger). The ducks were stamped when the water dried with a charcoal ink (Hero Arts). I ran the window frame through the Xyron Create a Sticker 250 which made it so easy to adhere it to the scene.

This is the last day to comment for your chance to win a $25 coupon to Deep Red Stamps. Check out and comment on the past four days projects using Deep Red Stamps and Xyron products to increase your chances to win.

Next thing to do is go visit the Xyron Design Team members participating in today's hop. Each of them is also giving away a $25 coupon to Deep Red Stamps.

Morena Hockley - http://www.morenascorner.com/

Sharon Callis - http://sharoncalliscrafts.blogspot.co

Thanks for stopping by. Good luck on the giveaway.

Deep Red Stamps and Xyron Blog Hop Day 4 + Giveaway

Welcome back to day 4 of the Deep Red Stamps and Xyron blog hop.

I made a layout for my nephew's scrapbook using:

Liberty Bell rubber stamp by Deep Red Stamps 

Xyron Create-a-Sticker 250 for the fireworks, the tabs along the inside of the bottom two photos and on the liberty bell.

I started with a white piece of cardstock, glimmer mist (Tattered Angels), Smooch spray ink (Clearsnap) and a star stencil (The Crafter's Workshop). I masked off a portion of the cardstock and sprayed the blue ink over the stencil and then the red. You can see at the top where I did the masking and I didn't like the separation line of the two colors. It was too bold and I wanted a more airy feel to it. From there I sprayed some more ink and inked the edges with distress ink and an ink blending tool (Ranger). 

I die cut the fireworks from my Cricut (Ultimate Series cartridge) using blue cardstock (Stampin Up) and red sparkle paper (Recollections). The tabs are also die cuts from my Cricut (Art Philosophy cartridge) and I adhered a date sticker (SRM Stickers) and a 4th of July sticker (The Paper Studio). The photo mats are patriotic theme cards for pocket scrapbooking (Project Life). All the corners of the pictures and the white background paper were rounded (Creative Memories) to match the PL mats. I did not round the corners of the blue background paper (Prima) because I didn't want the other layout to show through. Hope that made sense.

The Liberty Bell is stamped onto off white cardstock (Recollections) with a grey shadow ink (Hero Arts). I inked the edges of the stamped image to match the edges of the background paper. The red mat behind the stamp is red (Stampin Up) with a very gold sparkle to it. I sprayed the red with a mix of gold Perfect Pearls (Ranger) and water. It's so pretty I hated to cover it up.

Giveaway Time!

Be sure to comment on this post and the previous posts from this week:

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

For your chance to win a $25 coupon to Deep Red Stamps.

There are other Xyron designers participating today and each of them have a $25 coupon to Deep Red Stamps.

Shellye McDaniel - http://www.shellyemcdaniel.com/

Amanda Vasquez - http://artsymomma.com/
Roni-Ink Stains

Good luck to everyone and thank you for stopping by.

Deep Red Stamps and Xyron Blog Hop Day 3

Day 3 for the blog hop. 

Make sure that you leave a comment on all my blog hop posts this week for a chance at a $25 coupon to Deep Red Stamps. I get to give one lucky commenting participant a $25 coupon to the Deep Red Stamps store. I am super excited for you guys. Good luck.

Today my card uses the Large Sunflower stamp by Deep Red Stamps and a Xyron Create-a-sticker 150.

I had a bunch of scraps of watercolor paper (Ranger) that I didn't want to go to waste. I took three of those scraps that were roughly the same size and taped them together on the back with regular tape. Then I stamped the Sunflower with Versa Mark ink and heat embossed it with a flat gold embossing powder (Stamp N Plus). The image is colored in with with Peerless Watercolors and a water pen (Ranger). I did tap the brush down to the center a bit to appear like the center of a sunflower. Once the watercolor was dry I removed the tape and matted each piece with yellow paper (Creative Memories). I adhered the pieces to the patterned paper (Pebbles) with a small space between each one.

The Xyron create-a-sticker seemed like a great way to adhere the ribbon and lace to the patterned paper. I was able to run both pieces in at the same time.

To make certain the adhesive adhered to the two I burnished the back  of the release paper with a bone folder (Cricut/Provo Craft).

The picture below shows the Xyron adhesive does not show through on the ribbon or the lace. The sentiment is a Cricut cut from the Just Because Cards cartridge. I used the Xyron 150 for the sentiment and the layers.

I embellished the card with "Rain Dots" (Cloud 9 Designs).

Giveaway! Comment on this post for your chance to win a $25 coupon to the Deep Red Stamps store.

Be sure to visit the Xyron Designers involved in the blog hop today that are also giving away $25 coupons to the Deep Red Stamps store:

Mitsyana Wright - http://www.upontippytoes.com/

Katie King - http://www.runningwithagluegunstudio.com/

Thanks for stopping by.

Deep Red Stamps and Xyron Blog Hop Day 2

Day 2 for the blog hop. Sorry I'm so late. All I can say is aging parents are aging me. Ugh!

Make sure that you leave a comment on all my blog hop posts this week for a chance at a $25 coupon to Deep Red Stamps. I get to give one lucky participant that comments that $25 coupon to the Deep Red Stamps store. I am super excited for you guys. Good luck.

I made some ATC's (Artist Trading Cards) for a swap I'm in and the theme is food. I used the Apple Harvest stamp.

I stamp the Apple Harvest stamp onto watercolor paper (Ranger) with Versa Mark ink and heat embossed with a copper embossing powder (Ranger). I colored in the stamp with Peerless watercolors and the gold rim is a Wink of Stella gold. After the image was dry, I cut them out leaving a small white edge around each one.

The sentiment is a Cricut cut from the Just Because cards cartridge. The background is a stencil (The Crafter's Workshop) that I applied Antique Linen and Frayed Burlap distress ink with a distress tool. 

I used the Xyron 250 to adhere the basket and the sentiment to the card.

The back of the ATC is also a Deep Red Stamp called ATC Prof Boston.

The next step to bettering your chances of winning the $25 coupon to Deep Red Stamps is to visit the Xyron Design Team ladies participating today.

Jessica Litman - https://www.theorganizedmama.com/

Stephanie Chan - http://sillypearl.com/
Roni - Ink Stains

Thanks for visiting today.