Local Stamping/Scrapbooking Garage Sale

Just wanted to let everyone who is local to me in Texas know about this sale coming up on this Saturday. There are always some AMAZING deals to be found!!

Hope to see you there... :)

7th Stamping & Scrapbooking Garage Sale

Saturday, March 23rd from 1-5PM 

Held indoors, rain or shine, at:

903 Apple Rock Leander TX 78641

In the Boulders at Crystal Falls subdivision

(Enter address at Mapquest.com for accurate directions)

 This is a MULTI-vendor sale with TONS of new

 and gently used merchandise at a fraction of the cost!

Prima products, Cricut machines and cartridges, Basic grey, Tattered angels, Graphic 45, Paper, Stickers, Rub-ons, Stamps, Ribbons, Kits, Flowers, Embellishments, Fibers, Jewelry supplies, findings, beads, Idea books & Magazines,  Storage totes, Organizational Items Tools, Die cut machines, Dies, Clay, Clay oven, Pasta Machine for clay, Stampin’ Up, Close to my heart, Creative Memories and much more.

If you paper craft, this is a sale you don’t want to miss.

Texas Twinkle Card: Yellow Rose of TX

Here's another card I created last week:

To create the background of the card, I used a 6x6 star stencil and colored over it with a yellow inkpad and a foam blending tool. While the stencil was still on the card base, I sprayed it with the pearl glimmer mist to give it some shine.

The rest of the card needed to have some twinkle to it too! I stamped the Texas Yellow Rose stamp twice and colored one of them with a blue and green inkpad and the foam blending tool to give the state of TX a good background color. Then I colored just the rose on the other image, using Promarkers/Flexmarkers. Rock Candy Distress stickles were added to the top of the rose image. Once the images were dry, I cut them both out and added the colored flower on top of the Texas shape with a foam square.

I stamped the sentiment with black ink and then punched it out. To add the glimmer to the words, I traced over them with a glitter pen. It's very subtle, but you can definitely see it sparkle when you tilt the card. 

The card was finished off with some washi tape under the saying, and the card front was mounted on a green piece of cardstock.

Here's a picture of all of the card's sparkle:

 

Supplies Used:

 *Texana Designs Stamps: Yellow Rose, Wishing You some TX Twinkle

Bazzill: Green Cardstock

Georgia Pacific: White Cardstock

Tsukineko: Memento Inkpad (Tuxedo Black)

Ranger: Distress Inkpad (Squeezed Lemonade, Tumbled Glass, Peeled Paint), Distress Stickles (Rock Candy), Foam Blending Tool

Letraset Promarkers/Flexmarkers: Primrose, Lemon, Canary, Lime Twist, Bright Green

The Crafters Workshop: 6x6 Stencil (Mini Punchinella)

Tattered Angels: Glimmer Mist (Pearl)

Kid Made Modern: Washi Tape (Yellow)

Recollections: Washi Tape (Green Polka Dot)

EK Success: Punch (Photo Labels)

Sakura: Gelly Roll Pen (Clear Star)

Foam Squares

*Products received as Texana Designs Team member. All other products were purchased personally by me.

Lemur Card: Cloud Tutorial

I've been busy creating some cards the past few weeks and can't wait to share them with you all! Today I want to share a fun card that would be perfect for Valentine's Day along with an easy tutorial for making a cloud background. This card uses stamps from Texana Designs.

 Here's the finished card and a detail shot:

 And here's how to create the cloud background:

Start with some scrap cardstock and cut it into a cloud shape with your scissors. The bottom edge doesn't need to be cut, just the top edge. You will also need a sponge and your inkpad. I used Weathered Blue Distress Inkpad.

 

 Tap your sponge on the inkpad to pick up the color, then rub the sponge over the edge of the cloud cutout onto your card base. I usually start at the top near one of the edges. You will just rub lightly then move the cloud shape over a bit and rub again. This gives you the depth of color and looks like lots of big fluffy clouds. Just know that the color looks really light until you move your cloud cutout over, then you will see your color pop off the white background. Continue moving the cloud cutout around until you have sponged all your clouds on the card front.

Here's what mine looked like when I finished the whole front of the card:

I didn't take pictures of my coloring steps, but I stamped the lemurs with my black Memento inkpad and colored the image with my Promarkers. I cut the image out using my scissors and a craft knife. Then I die cut an edge of a frame label on black cardstock stamped my sentiment on a strip of red patterned paper. I glued the red strip down onto the black piece and trimmed the edges, and adhered that whole piece to my card. Then I glued down my lemurs to the card front

 

 Once I had my lemurs down on the card front, I took my large house stamp and trimmed the heart off the top of the chimney. This way I can just just the heart on my project, but the stamp can be put back together when I use the stamp on my clear block. I do tend to get "scissor happy" with my stamps and cut all my sentiments apart too...so many more possibilities for ways to use them! :)

 

With my heart stamp, I inked it in red ink and stamped it three times above my lemurs without reinking. This gives me a 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation inking of the same stamp. Each time I stamp it, the ink will be lighter. This is a great way to have ink colors in lighter tones that match the original color.

 

To finish off the card, I colored some clear gemstones with my black Promarker (alcohol ink marker). You could also use Copics or Sharpie markers. I use my craft knife to cut these gems apart and I use the edge of the craft knife blade to pick up the gems and place them on my projects.

And here is the finished card again:

Supplies Used:

*Texana Designs Stamps: TD003 You Make My Heart Happy, 50803Lemurs in Love, JH002 Jam’n House (heart only)

Georgia Pacific: White Cardstock

Sweetwater: Autumn Sweet Black Polka

Close To My Heart: Red Linen Pattern

Letraset Promarkers/Flexmarkers: For Lemur--Nutmeg, Saddle Brown, Morning Mist, Grey Squirrel, Cool Grey 1, Blender.  For Tree—Caramel, Burnt Sienna, Walnut, Umber. For Gemstones: Black.

Spellbinders: Nestabilities Die (Labels 8)

We R Memory Keepers: Corner Chomper (1/2”)

Ranger: Distress Inkpads (Weathered Wood, Fired Brick, Black Soot); Foam Blender Tool

The Paper Studio: Clear Gemstones

*Products received as Texana Designs Team member. All other products were purchased personally by me.

"Texas- Sized Christmas" Card

Here is my latest card creation using Texana Designs stamps. :)

To create this card, I stamped the Texas image onto white cardstock, then colored it brown using a foam ink blender tool and walnut stain brown inkpad.

This is what the image looks like when I have the first layer of brown down on the paper.

Then I used some saran wrap and crinkled it up to stamp a random pattern on top of the brown ink. I used a black inkpad for this step.

Here's the first "stamping" with my saran wrap. I just lightly pounced it back and forth from the black inkpad to my paper.

This is what it looked like once I had finished the first layer of black texture.

Then I went back over it with more brown ink and the blender tool to deepen the color a bit, then I stamped on it some more with the black inkpad and saran wrap.

I cut out the Texas shape, then cut two small pieces of tinsel to wrap around the state where the barbed wire sections were drawn.

To secure the tinsel, I taped the ends to the back of the stamped image.

The next step was to stamp the image again on another scrap piece of white cardstock and use my copic markers to color in the leaf and stars. I cut these out with my scissors and glued them directly down to the large stamped image.

Stars just *need* some twinkle, right? So I added some diamond stickles to the stars to help them pop.

Then I added dots of red stickles to create the berries for the holly leaves.

 A few other details: I stamped the holly onto the kraft background with a lighter brown inkpad. Then I stamped the sentiment on top in black ink. The edges of the kraft cardstock were sponged with some green ink and the foam blender tool.

I die cut the label shape with my Cuttlebug and Nestabilities dies, then inked the edges with red ink and added a hand-drawn black line. The state of TX was adhered with foam tape to the label and that whole piece was glued down to the left side of the card.

Supplies Used:

Texana Designs Stamps: TX002 Christmas Texas, TX046 Holly, TX047 Have a Texas-sizedChristmas

Georgia Pacific: White Cardstock

DMD Inc: Kraft Cardstock

Tsukineko: Memento Inkpad (Tuxedo Black)

Ranger: Distress Inkpads (Fired Brick, Forest Moss, Brushed Corduroy, Walnut Stain, Black Soot); Foam Blending Tool; Stickles (Diamond, Candy Cane)

EK Success: Zig Writer (Black)

Copic: W3, Y17, YG63

Spellbinder Nestabilities: Labels 18

Tim Holtz: Silver Tinsel Twine

Foam Tape

Merry Tex-Mas Snow globe card... take 2

I created this green snow globe card last year based on a card sketch by Allison Davis, and I wanted to redo the card using all Texana Designs Stamps, so I came up with this cream version and I think I like it even better!

I started by stamping the holly in various directions on the cream background paper, then I added a swirl of glue pen and some prisma glitter to the background to connect the holly stamps to where the snow globe stamp will be adhered. I stamped the holly to look like a "swirl" of Texas "snow".

Once the background was prepped, I stamped the holly images on white cardstock and cut them out and glued them on top of the stamped holly leaves. Tweezers worked great on these tiny stamped images!

For the snow globe image, I stamped it on white cardstock then colored it with my copic markers. I added dots of glitter to the snow globe image, then covered the glass part of the snow globe with glossy accents. Once it was all dried, I cut it out and used foam tape to adhere it to the card.

To finish off the card, I cut a strip of green pattern paper and wrapped some ribbon around it. This whole section was attached to the card front with my Tiny Attacher staples.

Here's the finished card all by itself:

Supplies Used:

Texana Designs Stamps: 100706S Snowglobe (Small), TX046 Holly

Cardstock: Bazzil (Red), Georgia Pacific (White)

Pattern Papers: October Afternoon (Thrift Shop), K&Co (Yellow Distress Wood Flat)

Ranger Distress Inkpads: Walnut Stain

Ranger: Diamond Stickles, Glossy Accents, Foam Blender Tool

Tsukineko: Memento Inkpad (Tuxedo Black)

Copic Markers: YG03, YG63, YG67, E31, E33, E37, W1, W3, W5, BG10, C1, R24, R29, R39

Ribbon: American Crafts

Other: Prisma Glitter, Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher

Allison Davis: Card Sketch #14

Hummingbird and Hibiscus card

I've been so into stamping and cutting out images lately and these cards are no exception!

I began by stamping the flower and bird image stamp onto ivory cardstock with black ink and coloring them with my copic markers. I find it so relaxing to just sit and color my images. I love the vibrant colors I get with my copic markers and I love how they blend together so well. 

Once the images were colored, I cut them out and added some rock candy stickles to the flower center and some glitter to the bird and swirls. The ivory cardstock frame was die cut with my Nestabilities dies, then I inked the edges and stamped the image with 2nd generation brown ink. I glued the cut out flower and bird images to the ivory frame on top of the brown stamped image.

The base of the card was also white cardstock that I ran through my cuttlebug with an embossing folder, then I inked the embossed image with turquoise, brown and black inkpads. I trimmed around the edge of the embossed design and mounted it on black cardstock. The ivory panel with the stamped images was mounted on top of the card base with foam tape. I used both sentiment stamps for some variety.

Supplies Used:

Texana Designs Stamps: 80815 Hummingbird/Hibiscus, TD059 Caring Thoughts, TD060 Thinking of You

Tsukineko: Memento Inkpad (Tuxedo Black)

Ranger: Distress Inkpads (Brushed Corduroy, Black Soot, Tumbled Glass, Scattered Straw); Foam Blending Tool; Distress Stickles (Rock Candy)

Nestabilities: Labels 8 Die Frame

QuicKutz: Geometric Circles Embossing Folder

Sakura: Gelly Roll Clear Glitter Pen

Martha Stewart: Glue Writing Pen

Copic Markers: Y15, Y17, Y21, R22, R24, R29, R39, BG10, BG15, B02, E31, E33, E37

Wausau: Ivory Cardstock

EK Success: Maple Lane (Black Cardstock)

WRMK: Corner Chomper 

Foam Tape