Hanna’s A Mermaid!

Hi all … I am back today with two more Hanna Stamps sneak peeks of the new stamps that will be released after the release party this Monday 6th July. Today I am using the new “Mermaid Hanna” set.

I always look forward to seeing what Hanna will be getting up to each month! And she certainly hasn’t disappointed me this month!

For my first card I used some of the stamps from this set to create an underwater scene. I stamps Hanna on another piece of white card and cut her out and then attached her to the rock using foam tape. I also used one of the bubble stamps from the set to stamp bubbles around the edge of the teal layer of my card. The blue sea was created using my copic airbrush system.

It has been a while since I have created a transparent or acetate card whichever you wish to call them. Which is what have done for my second card today.

I really wanted to use this designer paper for one of my cards using this set so I cut a large piece and attached it to the back panel of my card. I also stamps the clam all over the front piece of acetate using white stazon ink.

Here is the inside view of my card, I added the oval panels so that a sentiment or greeting can be written here without it being seen from the front of my card when it is closed.

Recipe:

Stamps: Mermaid Hanna – Hanna Stamps

Paper: White; Black; Pretty In Pink & Taken with Teal - SU; Vibrant Teal – Prism; DP – Scenic Route

Other: Black Ink; Sage Shadow SU Ink; White Stazon Ink; Acetate; Oval Nestabilities; Grosgrain Ribbon; Pink Candy Dots; Foam Tape; Copic Airbrush System; Copics

Laugh Clown Laugh!

Happy Monday everyone, I hope you all had an enjoyable weekend. Well as you know on Mondays I always do a challenge with my goofy CCEE friends on SCS. As it is a new month that means that we get a new hostess, this month I get to issue all the challenges each week .... I can't wait to see what they do each week.

Anyway onto today's challenge:

I like acetate or transparent card ...... you can find a tutorial for this in the resources section of SCS, if you have never done them before. Click here for the Acetate Card Tutorial.

I was also checking on special holidays for this time of year and notice that it is "Clown Week" 1 - 7th August each year in the US & also that Lucille Ball was born on the 6th August .... so my challenge this week is:

To create an acetate or transparent card that has a humorous theme to it. You can see my friends cards on our CCEE Stampers blog. Don't forget you can play along too, just leave a comment on our CCEE Stampers blog so we can check out your card and if you upload to SCS please use the keyword CCEEC

As you can see I decided to use a clown on my card, I think we all know how humorous clowns can be and it definitely fits in with it being clown week. The stamp used here is a cheap one I purchased a few years back ... it is actually a series of 6 clowns. I used my long rectangle nestabilities to create my layers for the clown panel. The turquoise scallop layer is actually attached to the inside front of my card to hide the adhesive used to attach the clown layer.

The dotted paper is attached to the inside back panel, again with the turquoise being on the back to hide the adhesive. I stamped the word laugh all around the 3 sides of the front of the acetate card using black stazon ink. I used star punches to create the star accents on this card.

Recipe:
Stamps: Clown - Unknown; Laugh Sentiment - Hero Arts
Paper: White; Real Red & Tempting Turquoise - SU; Dotted DP - Pebbles Inc
Other: Black Ink; Star Punches; Red Stripe Grosgrain Ribbon; Blue & Red Brads; Long Rectangle Nestabilities; Foam Tape

Clearly Pretty Bug!

Two more challenges I can cross off my list for the Dare to Get Dirty challenges that have been going on all this past week over on SCS.

Today is the last day of the challenges, and I have now finished them all ... although you won't get to see some of the others for another couple of days as I used new release stamps on those ones so I can't share just yet. I will also have another later today for my CCEE challenge that I did earlier.

The challenges used here are Rohla's "Clearly Size Matters", Rohla instructed us to make a 3 1/4" x 6 1/2" card and we also had to incorporate something clear on our card. Well I did change the size ever so slightly, only to accommodate it easier to metric measurements. And of course the clear part I went with a transparent card.

For the second challenge it was Jacksonbelle's "Color Challenge/Faux Stitching" the colors we had to use was pink & black and we also had to add faux stitching to our cards. I have done another for this particular challenge but again it is a new release so I figured it was easy enough to just use those colors again for this card.

The image I used here is another of the Lilly Ladybug stamps from alota Rubber Stamps. I created the stitching along the edges of the pink card by using my new Tim Holtz ruler, which includes paper piercing holes.

Recipe:
Stamps: Lilly Ladybug & sentiment - alota Rubber Stamps.
Paper: White; Black; Pretty In Pink - SU; Acetate
Other: Black Ink; Paper Piercing Tool, Paper Piercing Ruler; Black Grosgrain Ribbon; Word Window Punch; Corner Rounder; Black Gems; Foam Tape.

Sandy Claws Transparent Card

This is for this weeks featured stamper challenge on SCS. This week the featured stampers is Bev aka Texas Grammy on SCS. Tex is also on the Hanna Stamps design team so I have been getting to know her a little better recently through emails. I enjoyed browsing through her gallery and decided to CASE this card, I have done transparent cards before ... but hadn't thought to use the nestabilities so of course had to so one.

As per the rules of the Featured Stamper challenge I changed at least 2 things.

• I changed the image used
• I changed the colors.
• I used a different stamp to stamp my transparency going all over my background

One thing I did learn while creating this card is to assemble the scallops on the inside of the card before you actually stamp the verse ... for a transparency card it is important that everything lines up so you can't see them through the front when closed and if you stamp first your verse can be crooked!

Recipe:
Stamps: Sandy Claws - Gina K Designs; Snowflake - Hanna Stamps
Paper: White; Red; Transparency
Other: Black Ink; White Stazon Ink; Circle Nestabilities; Sheer Ribbon

Tis the Season .... Sneak Peak!

Are you ready for another sneak peak .....

It's almost time for the 2nd set of Hanna Stamps to be released. A little birdie told me today they would be released this Friday! This new set is called "Tis the Season" and would make a perfect addition to your Christmas stamps. Hanna & the Tree are two separate stamps so it would be easy to use Hanna for other occasions during the year as well.

For this card I decided I had to do another transparent /acetate card. I stamped Hanna twice, once on the white card and once on some DP, I cut out the dress from the DP and added that to Hanna. Hanna was also masked so I could stamp the tree so she would look like she is standing in the snow! I added glitter to the snow beneath the tree and also on the sides of the tree.

The snowflakes on the acetate sheet were stamped using white stazon ink. This was a really simple card to make but I really like how it turned out if I do say so myself :)

Recipe:
Stamps: Tis the Season - Hanna Stamps
Paper: Real Red - Stampin' Up; White; Fruitcake Basic Grey DP; Acetate
Other: Black Ink; White Stazon Ink; Ticket Corner Punch; Clear Glitter; Ribbon

Wedding Transparency Cards

A friend came down today to share some of the transparencies she had purchased recently as the ones I had purchased were slightly thinner so not as sturdy for a card as I would have liked. So this afternoon I set to to make a wedding card that my daughter needs for a wedding she is attending in October ..... yes I like to get things made early!

Basically this card is exactly the same as the Pink Transparency card I made in July, the only difference is the image and the colors. Apparently the colors for the wedding are a beige/brownish color so I decided to stick with white, gold and beige colors for this card. Hopefully my daughter will approve!

Recipe:
Stamps: Precious Moments Wedding Couple - Stampendous; Flourish - Autumn Leaves
Paper: White; Gold; Lustre Metal Antique Paper
Other: Black Ink; White Stazon Ink; Acetate; White Brads; Gold Ribbon

Dirty Dare - Pink Transparency

Well today there are 4 more great challenges for the Dare to Get Dirty challenges on SCS. Here is my first card, again I combined two of the challenges, this time Cambria's "Pink it Up!" challenge and also Candy William's transparency/acetate challenge. I thought as I have been wanting to make a transparent card for ages this would be a good opportunity to get one done, and of course making it a pink transparency card was an easy thing to do.

While I was looking for some pink card to make this card, I stumbled on some thick acetate which I thought would be perfect to use for the card so cut that down to the size I wanted and then stamp the flourish stamp all over the front of the acetate using white stazon ink. I stamped the little girl on white card and of course colored her in pinks! She is then layered onto the pink passion card and attached to the front of the acetate card. To hide the sticky tape showing from the back of the card I then applied sticky tape to the back of the panel I had just attached to the card but on the inside of the card and then layered my pale pink card over this .... this is most probably the harder part of making the card cause you have to do it kind of back to front so yu can get the border right .... but not impossible. I also cut a piece of pale pink card exactly the same size as the piece I had put over the back of the image and attached this to the other side of the inside of the card (the side you normally have a verse etc) .... to get exact placement, lay it over the top of the layer you did before and close the card .... easy! And then the final pink passion card is attach to the very back of the card.

The happy birthday is stamped using the new Papertrey Ink Borders & Circles (rectangle) set - I used the solid birthday verse first and then stamped over the top with the frame .... I don't have a punch but hey how hard is it to cut out a rectangle! To finish off the card I added the flowers to the top & bottom right hand corners and the ribbon to the folded side.

This was a fun card to create and I must make some more in the near future!

Recipe:
Stamps: Girl - Whipper Snapper; Flourish - Autumn Leaves; Sentiment - Papertrey Ink
Paper: Pink Passion - SU; White; Pink
Other: Black Ink; White Stazon Ink; Pearlescent Coral & Pearlescent Orchid Brilliance Ink; Acetate Sheet; Pink Brads; Pink Polka Dot Grosgrain Ribbon; Flowers.