Tinkerin In Ink with Tanya: August 2016

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Creative Crew: Rainbow Spotlight

We all need some encouragement in our lives sometimes. And rainbows. Lots and lots of rainbows!! This card is the result of the Creative Crew Catalog Focus challenge this month. Take a tutorial from Splitcoaststampers.com and use your favorite new SU product.

Well, I am loving the new In-Colors!! I can't get enough of them! And I used a couple of them on this card with the Spotlighting technique. I don't have a MISTI, so I had to improvise a bit and plan for some wiggle room :) Here is how I did it:

Cut a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock to 4¼"x11", score in half at 5½". This is the card base.
Cut a piece of Crumb Cake to 4"x5¼". Cut a piece of watercolor paper to about 1½"x4½".
Stamp Rainbow on the watercolor piece with part of it off the bottom, use Archival Black ink. Color each letter a different color in rainbow order with an Aqua-painter: Real Red, Peekaboo Peach, Daffodil Delight, Cucumber Crush, Dapper Denim, Bermuda Bay, and Rich Razzleberry.
Lay the watercolor panel down on the Crumb Cake panel where you want it to be. Ink up your image with Crumb Cake ink, then slide the watercolor panel up until you can stamp the image where the watercolor panel with overlay it, but you can still use the panel as a reference.
Repeatedly stamp the rainbow image all over the Crumb Cake panel and alone the bottom edge of the inside of the card base.
Lay the watercolored panel over the image you intend to spotlight and trim down to the right size, starting with the ends, and trimming the top down to just above the image. By leaving extra paper to begin with, it gives you wiggle room to adjust the angle and the centering of the image.
Stamp the other pieces of the sentiment in Archival Black ink above and below the panel.
Outline the Crumb Cake panel with a white gel pen or chalk pencil.
Apply dimensionals to the back of the water color panel and adhere to the Crumb Cake panel. Then apply dimensionals to the back go the completed panel and adhere to the cardfront. (I am still using coasters for all of this). All done!

Here is a side view which shows all of the dimension, and a peek at the stamping inside. I made this a top-fold card, just because I felt like it!

Have you tried the spotlight technique? I think it has a lovely and dramatic feel!

If you have seen something you need for your crafting life, just click the image in the supply list below and it will take you to my store! If you order less than $150, please use this month's Host Code, which can be found at the top of the sidebar on the right.

And be sure to check the box allowing me to contact you when you check out. I can't send you a thank you card if I don't know your address! And I promise to only send you happy mail, no junk mail :)

Product List

Over The Rainbow Photopolymer Stamp Set

[138770]

$21.00

Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[120953]

$8.00

Watercolor Paper

[122959]

$5.00

Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

[140931]

$7.00

Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad

[126949]

$6.50

Peekaboo Peach Classic Stampin' Pad

[141398]

$6.50

Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad

[126944]

$6.50

Cucumber Crush Classic Stampin' Pad

[138324]

$6.50

Dapper Denim Classic Stampin' Pad

[141394]

$6.50

Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' Pad

[131171]

$6.50

Rich Razzlebberry Classic Stampin' Pad

[126950]

$6.50

Aqua Painters

[103954]

$17.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$4.00

Stamp-A-Ma-Jig

[101049]

$12.00

Thursday, August 25, 2016

Christmas in August

It is the end of August already, just 4 months left before Christmas! Who is getting excited for Christmas crafting? I know I am trying to sneak it in all over the place :)

This time I created some 5"x7" cards that will hold a 4"x6" family photo perfectly on the front of the card. This way you can send that family photo, and still make a lovely card :)

There is a lot of heat embossing going on on these cards, and I tried a few color combos. This picture shows the difference between Cherry Cobbler with Sahara Sand cardstock/Pewter embossing powder and Crumb Cake cardstock/Gold embossing powder. Both lovely, but will coordinate with photos differently.

Here is the Sahara Sand/Pewter by itself. You could use silver here too. Pewter is a retired Stampin' Up! embossing powder color, but there are a few other brands that make something similar. I just bought extra before it retired because I love it so much! And I bought some Ranger Liquid Platinum just in case I ran out of the Pewter :) This would go well with gray and cool toned photos.

This is the Crumb Cake/Gold combo, and it would go well with browns and warm toned photos. Also a favorite combination of mine!

And oh my gosh!! I cannot stop using the new Copper embossing powder. I just love it! I used vellum as the layers for all of the embossing on this card, and stitched the large panel to the card base.

Now, these cards also need envelopes, and the envelope punch board is just the ticket for this. I haven't created the envelopes yet, but I plan to use some of the my hoarded stash of lesser quality DSP that is printed on only one side. This way I have a nice white surface to put the address on, and a little fun on the inside :)

If you have seen something you need for your crafting life, just click the image in the supply list below and it will take you to my store! If you order less than $150, please use this month's Host Code, which can be found at the top of the sidebar on the right.

And be sure to check the box allowing me to contact you when you check out. I can't send you a thank you card if I don't know your address! And I promise to only send you happy mail, no junk mail :)

Product List

Flourishing Phrases Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[141534]

$37.00

Flourishing Phrases Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[141534]

$37.00

Joy To The World Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[131799]

$16.95

Cherry Cobbler 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[119685]

$8.00

Sahara Sand 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[121043]

$8.00

Pewter Stampin' Emboss Powder

[124114]

$4.75

Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109131]

$5.00

Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[120953]

$8.00

Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109129]

$5.00

Vellum 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

[101856]

$8.00

Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock

[140272]

$7.00

Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder

[141636]

$5.00

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$8.50

Embossing Buddy

[103083]

$6.00

Heat Tool

[129053]

$30.00

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Flashback Birthday

The paper in the Playful Palette DSP stack gives me flashbacks to my middle and high school days. And yes, I know that dates me :) I loved the brushstroke look in bright primary colors when I was living in that era, but I am not as thrilled with them this time... but my daughter-in-law loves them! I do like the colors they used, but not so much the way they used them. So it was definitely time to challenge myself to use this paper! The Creative Crew DSP/Color Focus challenge this time was to take one of your go-to colors and pair it with a neutral you rarely use.

So I chose Peekaboo Peach and paired it with Very Vanilla and Basic Black. I do not use either of them very often. And I used a print from this stack that I do not like very much to challenge myself even further! Here is how I did it:

Create a Peekaboo Peach 4¼"x5½" cardbase.
Cut a ½"x5½" strip from the DSP. Adhere about 1/8" from the fold of the cardbase.
Flip the DSP and cut a 2½"x5" piece of the same DSP. Cut a piece of Vellum to 3-5/8"x5" and emboss with Softly Falling embossing folder. Lightly adhere the DSP to the vellum about 1/8" from left edge, then stitch in place with sewing machine.
Cut a piece of Peekaboo Peach cardstock to ½"x5¼". Cover with Clear Wink of Stella. Adhere slightly over lapping the black DSP strip.
Use dimensionals, or trimmed down coasters if you have a bazillion of them like I do, behind the DSP, and adhere to the cardfront, slightly overlapping the shimmery Peekaboo Peach strip.
Use a scrap of Very Vanilla that is at least 2"x4", stamp the double banner in Archival Black ink, then stamp the sentiments in the banner in the same ink. Die cut with matching die in Bunch of Banners die set. Apply dimensionals to the back of the banner and peel the backing off. Then create a nest of Copper thread by wrapping around your fingers several times, then lay on the exposed dimensionals, arranging as desired. Adhere this unit to the card front.
Inside the card, stamp the candle base 3 times in Peekaboo Peach, then the flames in Crushed Curry stamped off. Then stamp Happy Birthday in Archival Black over the candles. All Done!

This would make a cute card front too, if you like clean and simple! I do like this card. And guess what... this DSP is growing on me too :)

Do you have flashbacks from this DSP? What are they?!

If you have seen something you need for your crafting life, just click the image in the supply list below and it will take you to my store! If you order less than $150, please use this month's Host Code, which can be found at the top of the sidebar on the right.

And be sure to check the box allowing me to contact you when you check out. I can't send you a thank you card if I don't know your address! And I promise to only send you happy mail, no junk mail :)

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