The Observation Car

These cards with the March Housemouse of the month came out so cute, I don’t know which one I like best!  The first one uses 2 textures of embossing folders.  On Cor’dinations cardstock, when you lightly sand the image it stands out in a lighter color.  You can order this cardstock at our on-line store.  The next card features a unique diagonal layer and a banner with the words.  And the third selection has a woven paper background and ribbon accent.  If you choose to order the stamps and the kits for making all 3 projects, it is just $20.  Go to our on-line store now.  These make adorable Easter cards, spring birthday cards and thinking of you notes.  We colored ours with Copic markers, but you could use watercolor pencils and a blender pen or Prismacolor pencils, gamisol and a blending stump.  We included Copic cardstock in our kits.  You can also order extra sheets at our store.  Have to go now and get a yummy jellybean snack!

Two Textures Card

My Happy Place Card

Woven Background Card

When I watched a tutorial on Becca Feeken’s blog, amazingpapergrace.com, I got all inspired to try this technique with a corner punch.  Of course, I can’t follow directions very well, so I had Ken figure it out for me.  If you don’t know, Ken is my soulmate and husband.  He is also a lot more analytical than I.

Here are some ideas we came up with using a Martha Stewart corner punch and turning it at right angles as we punched along.  The scrapbook page is 8″x8″ and uses the corners as well as a border.  The envelope card is the simplest, and the butterfly card has a long lacy embellishment.  If you’d like personal instruction on these, come to Ken’s class at the store next Monday.  If you can’t make that, check out Becca’s blog.  It just gives you something new to try.  We love new ideas!

Back To School

Apple Stamps: Hero Arts
Sticker Title: Karen Foster
Background Cardstock: Core’dinations
Matted Cardstock: Paper Cut
White Lacy Punchouts: Stamp Express Cardstock
Corner Punch: Martha Stewart

This is the Easy One

Designer Paper: Bo Bunny
Envelope: Stamp Express Cream
Cardstock Insert: Stamp Express
White Lacy Punchouts: Stamp Express Cardstock
Corner Punch: Martha Stewart
Decorative Flowers: Prima
Flower Stamp: unknown
Word Stamp: Hero Arts

A Little More Complicated

Embossed Cardstock: Core’dinations
Embossing Folder: Provo Craft for Cuttlebug
Background cardstock: Stamp Express White
White Lacy Cardstock: Stamp Express White
Corner Punch: Martha Stewart
Butterfly Stamp: Hero Arts

Wahoooo!  Our store, Stamp Express won the contest drawing for tons of color core cardstock from the Core’dinations company.  We are very excited!  Instead of the same color throughout, or a white core inside, this cardstock has various colors inside the color that you see.  So, when you tear or sand the surface the inside color shows through.  Very Cool!

Before we knew that we won the prize, we used this cardstock at the Scrappers Dream Vacation in Camp Hill, PA this weekend for a make-it/take-it project.  See the sample below.  We embossed the diagonal pattern on the color called latte using the Scor-pal. Then we sanded the embossing so that it would look like a waffle cone.  After tracing the cone and cutting it out, we added a scoop of strawberry ice cream (pink printed paper) and a ribbon for more color.  Add this to a Ben & Jerry’s page, or as we did here to Ghiradelli’s in San Francisco. This would also make a great addition to a card or altered book.

See how some of the scrappers at the SDV enjoyed working with this fabulous paper when they made the project with Margaret guiding them.

Photos from the SDV:

Margaret teaches