Summer Stamp Camp Week 2 Day 1

Good morning!  I am back this morning with my card from yesterday's class.  We were given 3 new fun sketches and a beautiful new colour combo!!  I went with the round shaped card, but I changed mine into a blossom.  I did some emboss resist (a technique that I love) and then sponged on some Tim Holtz distress inks!  White embossed my sentiment, from Simon Says Stamp onto the vellum, popped that up and added some sequins!  I love sequins and I have a big tub full of them in every colour, lol!   I think I will be incorporating a shaped card into my next card class that I teach!

I can't wait to see what everyone else came up with for this challenge and also to see what the girls have in store for today's class!

TTFN
Dawn

supplies:
stamps:  sweet threads by hero arts (background)
flower friend by simon says stamp
cardstock: bazzill, vellum
white embossing powder, versamark, squins
distress inks: shabby shutters, broken china, peeled paint
spellbinders circle nestabilities
lifestyle crafts nesting blossoms

favorite product of the week

Hi peeps!  Happy 4th of July!  Do you all have plans today?  I think hubby and I are heading downtown.  They have a boat race and a street fair with lots of different craft vendors.  Last year I picked up some pretty cool little things and I am hoping some of the same vendors will be there again today.

Anywho, every week at Scrapdoodles a different employee takes a turn at showcasing our favorite product and this week it is my turn and I chose embossing folders by Lifestyle Crafts.  I love the crisp impression that you get and they have some very cool designs!  I am a pretty clean and simple card maker, but I love texture and dimension and I can achieve that with embossing folders!  I have quite the collection and I love that they work in all kinds of manual die cut machines.  Here are a couple of close ups and you can really see the detail.

 

Enjoy your day, hopefully you will get to spend it with family and friends.

I will be back soon with another card to share.  Here is the link to Scrapdoodles blog: http://www.scrapdoodlesblog.blogspot.co.uk/

TTFN

Dawn

 

Sneak Peak at cards for July

Happy Monday!!  I was a busy girl over the weekend and had lots of crafty time.  Yay me!!  I got all my cards made for my regular July card class.  But first I had to clean up my mess from the kids cards that I was working on last week.  I love to start working in a nice tidy area, but of course it doesn't stay that way for long!  I know what I will be doing when I get home from work today; yup, cleaning up my mess from the weekend, ha!

Anyway, here is a sneak peak at the cards for July's class.  I will post full photo's when I get them up at the store! 

Have a great day!

TTFN
Dawn

Product of the week

I have a simple little butterfly card today.  It is my turn for product of the week at Scrapdoodles and I am focusing on distress inks and the ink blending tool.  I also decided to play along with this week's sketch challenge at Splitcoaststampers.  I am in love with the nesting butterfly dies from Lifestyle Crafts!  I die cut a butterfly using white cardstock and then stamped a background stamp from Hero Arts in london fog ink from Memento.  I then stamped the sanded b/g stamp from SU, also in london fog ink.  Next I took my distress inks in tumbled glass, shabby shutters and a touch of antique linen and blended them onto the butterfly using the ink blending tool!  I love how easily they blend.  I spritzed some pealized water over the top and zapped it with my heat gun.  Unfortunately the photo doesn't capture the subtle shimmer.  The sentiment is from Technique Tuesday and was perfect for my card today!

 

Thanks for looking!

 

Dawn