Fright Night

All month the Stampendous Design Team is playing along with "31 Days Of Halloween."  Each day at least one Designer will be sharing a Halloween card, but don't expect anything cute and sweet!  You will want to go to the Stampendous Blog (link at the bottom) for links to other Designers playing along today.

1. Stamp Twisted Tree on acetate with Jet Black StazOn ink and let dry.
2.  Turn acetate over and apply Glossy Accents to the tree and sprinkle with Purple Micro Glitter.  Let completely dry, then brush off the excess glitter with a Swiffer cloth.  I tried a micro fiber cloth but it didn't remove all of the glitter, too much static electricity. Repeat using Orange Micro Glitter on the cats and owl.  This is really sparkly in person!
3.  Spritz a lime green panel with black metallic spray and sponge the edges with Onyx Black Versafine ink. On the back side of the acetate, apply small amounts of Glossy Accents to the dried glitter sections and glue to a black card with an orange strip on the left side.
4.  Stamp words from the Life Words Perfectly Clear Set with Onyx Black Versafine on white cardstock, cut out and sponge edges with violet ink.  Glue to card on top of pieces of black May Arts ribbon.

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Near The Sea

Today I have some glittery goodness for you!  This is a technique I really enjoy doing, it looks impressive but it isn't difficult.  It is an acetate, Sticky Panel, glitter, gold leaf technique and I don't think it has a name.

Here is what it looks like when photographed outside.

1. Stamp Gold Fish Pair on acetate with Black StazOn ink.
2. Apply a Sticky Panel to the back of the acetate and cut the acetate to the desired size.
3. Put the acetate panel face down on a light box and using a craft knife, cut the outline of both fish, remove the carrier from the fish only and apply gold leaf in a Mardigras color.  Burnish with a brillo pad type tool.

This is a picture of it face down on a light table and the Sticky Panel backing facing up ready to cut.

4. Remove the carrier from the rest of the acetate and lightly sprinkle with Gold Lux Mix then sprinkle with Teal Micro Glitter and rub with your finger or the back of a plastic spoon.
5. When all of the acetate is covered layer onto a cream and rust panel and mount to a card.
6. Stamp Near The Sea on cream paper with rust ink.  Apply a strip of Sticky Panel to each end, sprinkle with Teal Micro Glitter and pop up on card using foam squares.

Stampendous:
P256 Goldfish Pair
L263 Near the Sea
MG10 Teal Micro Glitter
FRM02 Gilded Mica Fragments
FX71 Sticky Panels

FRL02 Gold Lux Mix

Plus:Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®
Zip Dry™ Paper Glue by Beacon Adhesives

Acetate sheet

Black StazOn Ink by Tsukineko®

Rust ink

Light Box

Gold Leaf in Mardigras color

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Christmas In August

Yes! It's that time of year again! The time when we inspire crafters on both sides of the "pond" with a mix of both Dreamweaver and Woodware UK* products for the holidays! Six days, SIX, of beautiful, elegant, merry, cute, artsy, and craftsy projects to have you heading out to your local stores or internet sites to buy these goodies immediately!

Of course, there will be prizes as well. Three prize packages will be given to three commenters during this week's posts on the team's blogs, including five stencils and one nested die set. You can have an opportunity to win these goodies by leaving some holiday sweetness for each team member posting each day, to be one of the three winners for the week.

Here is how my card was made:
1.  Stamp sentiment from Woodware on acetate with black Stazon ink and set aside.
2.  Use the double glitter technique (youtube tutorial) with the LJ921 Heart Ornament and Stampendous glitters.
3.  Place acetate piece over the glittered pieces and place photo corners on all corners and glue to a black panel with Zip Dry Glue from Beacon Adhesives and glue this to a red card.
4.  Place red and blue Dot Sparkler stickers on the acetate piece as shown and you are done.

 Here are the team members that are inspiring you today:

Dream it Up!

Woodware UK

Louise Healy

Pam Hornschu

Gill Wilson 

Jamie Martin

 Jane the Flower Girl

*For a stockist near you contact Woodware Craft Collection in the UK and Notions Marketing in the USA.

Acetate, Glitter, Mica...Oh My!

This card is so sparkly and pretty in person!  You get a dramatic effect using glitter, mica and gold leaf on acetate and it's not really that hard.  Just take your time and enjoy the process.  So here is your tutorial!!!!

1.  Stamp Apricot Plum by Stampendous... of course, on acetate with black Stazon. Be careful when stamping, the acetate can be slippery so don't let your stamp slip.
2.  When dry flip over and apply a Fran's Sticky Panel. 
3.  Place acetate piece on a light table with the stamped side down.  Use an exacto knife to lightly cut the Fran's Sticky Panel liner paper from the Apricot Plums only and remove the liner from the fruit.
4. Apply varigated gold leaf and burnish.
5.  Using the light table again cut out the leaves, remove the liner and apply Emerald Ultra Fine Jewel Glitter, rub in and shake off.  Put the excess glitter back into the bottle.
6.  Now for the last of the cutting, cut out that little branch, apply Copper Ultra Fine Jewel Glitter.

7.  Remove the remaining carrier and sprinkle with some Pearlized Mica Fragments then sprinkle on Blue Ultra Fine Pastel Glitter, rub in and shake off excess to put back into the bottle. Now sprinkle on  Royal Ultra Fine Jewel Glitter over the Blue Pastel, rub in and it will stick to just a few areas and shake off.
8.  Layer onto a black panel, decorative paper and onto a black card.
9.  Print out the sentiment which is a Stampendous Digital Download, sponge with peach ink, layer onto black paper and apply stick on pearls.
10.  Add light blue ribbon to the bottom by glueing the folds using Beacon 3 in 1 glue. Apply stick on pearls to the ribbon and to the right side of the card.

Bloom

Here is another acetate card using the Petal Plus Set from Stampendous. I stamped the petal five times with blue Brilliance, cut them out and colored the little flowers with a glitter pen and a white gel pen. The center of the flower was stamped with VersaMark and embossed it with white. The petals were glued to a white circle that was glued on the front of the acetate card and the dark blue circle was glued to the inside front page. I stamped a design on the front of the acetate with white Brilliance ink. The ribbon was tied around the card for the final touch.

Well this week I've had a pesky cold and I have finally gotten rid of it, so now I have housework to do since the cleaning fairy didn't stop by :(

Have a good weekend and thank you for stopping by!

Caught A Bug...

Stampendous has this super cute little stamp set that has a bunch of small images and saying to go along with them. So I stamped this little ant three times on white squares with black VersaFine ink, layered them on to red and black papers. These were glued to the front of an acetate card and the checkered, red and black papers were glued to the inside of the card. Inside to write on is a white panel. I cut the tag free hand and stamped "heard you caught a bug", tied it with ribbon and glued it down. This card is really cute and there is no coloring involved!
Check out Stampendous' new blog and see my "Spring" card", woo hoo! And keep checking back I have several other acetate cards that I will be posting in the next couple of days.
Have a great day!

Acetate Love

I have this great stamp set from stampendous "Hugs Topper" that is a pail topper, it's designed to fit on the clear pails that they carry. Well I don't have any pails but wanted to use it so here is what I came up with.
I knew I wanted to make an acetate card and this stamp set just happened to be perfect for it. The red outer circle and the pink inner circle is all one stamp that I cut apart with my Coluzzle.
1. Stamp three times with black ink, once one red, pink and white.
2. Lay a circle Coluzzle on top of the stamped image and cut apart (the Coluzzle just happens to fit perfectly). Do this for all three colors.
3. Outline the red circle with a white gel pen and glue to the inside of an acetate card and glue the white inner circle to the center. See below.
4. Glue the pink circle to the front of the card making sure it is in the center of the red circle.
5. Stamp and emboss the "love heart" on red paper with VersaMark ink and black powder. Cut out and glue to the center of the pink circle. Line the heart with a white gel pen.
6. Stamp the XOXO at the bottom of the card with white Brilliance ink.

The inside of the card is perfect for writing a message.

Now I need to decide which of the Valentine's Day cards I've made to give to my hubby.

Have a great Valentine's Day!

Foil and Glitter Technique

Here is a card I made awhile ago, but it is one of my favorites and I'm sad to say this stamp by Stampendous is discontinued. I used a really great foil and glitter technique on the fish. What I did was
1. Stamp the fish on acetate with black StazOn ink then applied a piece of Peel N Stick to the back of the stamped image, leave the paper carrier on the exposed side.
2. Place the piece on a light box stamped side down and using an exacto knife cut out the fish on the carrier being careful not to cut threw the acetate.
3. Remove the carrier from the fish, leaving the paper on the surrounding area.
4. Apply variegated gold leaf to the fish and burnish with a kool tool (this looks like a little brillo pad on a stick) until no loose pieces are left.
5. When all of the excess gold leaf has been removed, peel off the remaining carrier and sprinkle with blue glitter, rub and remove excess.
6. Cut out stamped image from the acetate, layer onto tan and black papers.
7. Randomly stamp the branch on a tan panel with copper Brilliance. Layer onto a black card then glue on fish image as shown.
8. Stamp "happy birthday" on tan paper, cut out and mount to card as shown.
Have a great weekend!

Glitter and Lace

If you want to make a card with a lot of sparkle, this is the card for you! A great glitter and lace technique was used to make this card and the best part, it's easy.
1. First I used my Sizzix tag die to cut sticker paper and acetate into a tag shape.
2. Remove the paper from the back of the sticker paper and place the tag down, sticky side up.
Place a piece of lace on top of the sticky side of the sticker paper and rub to make sure the lace is stuck down.
3. Sprinkle a small pile of ultra fine multi glitter in the center of the tag and using the back plastic spoon, rub the glitter all over the tag being sure to press the glitter into the lace. When done, turn the tag upside down, shake off the excess glitter and remove the lace.
4. Sprinkle a small pile of blue glitter in the middle of the tag and again rub the glitter around with the back of a plastic spoon. Shake off excess and set aside.
5. Stamp the cake and sentiment onto the acetate tag with StazOn ink, let dry (about 30 seconds) and color the cake with Sharpie markers from the back.
6. Place small circle stickers on the cake, on the front side of the acetate. Lay on top of the glitter tag and tie with ribbon.
7. Glue diagonally to a your card and apply stickers as shown.
This card is beautiful IRL, unfortunately the scanner just doesn't show the shimmer and shine of glitter.
Recipe
Stamps- Hero Arts
Inks- black StazOn
Paper- misc light blue and dark blue card stock, sticker paper
Plus- acetate, Sizzix tag die, stickers by Stampendous, Sharpie markers, ribbon

Thank You

This card is for the WT150 challenge over at SplitCoastStampers. The challenge was to make a card using acrylic paint. So I painted a piece of acetate with pink acrylic paint, let it dry and then stamped Thank You on the opposite side using StazOn ink. Then I attached the acetate to blush cardstock using small gold brads. I applied circle stickers to the thank you to add a little bling! The card was stamped with a background stamp using pastel pink chalk ink.
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Recipe
Stamps-Stampendous
Ink-black StazOn, pink pastel ColorBox chalk ink
Plus-acetate, small gold brads

With Love

Here is a Valentine's Day card I made a while back, but I love it! It is made using acetate and metallic Marvy markers.

1. Take two quarter sheets of acetate, on one lightly spritz with water and diagonally scribble with several different colors of markers.

2. Place the second sheet of acetate on top of this and slide them a part diagonally and set aside to dry.

3. Place gold lined stickers on the side of the acetate that was not colored on, cut out and glue onto dark colored paper (black is best).

4. Then just stick on the word stickers and you are done!

Well, now I need to get back to taking down the Christmas decorations, couldn't do it last weekend because it was raining. Today it is beautiful and about 73 degrees :)

Recipe

Stickers-Stampendous

Markers-Marvy in pink, purple, green and gold metallic

Paper-acetate, black cardstock