Merry Monday Sketch - Jolly Jingles & Banners

Pin It Now! This week's Merry Monday challenge is a simple sketch, and I've used it as a break between cleaning my RV and making 16 more pints of mmmmm...strawberry jam!

The ornament on the wheel stamp is embellished with a button, jumbo rhinestone, and basic rhinestones.

I used the Jolly Jingles jumbo wheel stamp to roll out an array of sentiments, and for the banner portion, I took the liberty of making a cluster of small banners against a piece of silver glimmer paper trim.

What I like most about this sketch is the shortened banner portion. If not for that prompt, I would naturally take the banners all the way across the card, and this way offers a little something different!

Check out the Merry Monday challenge and get a little Christmas inspiration!

SUPPLY LIST:
STAMPS: Jolly Jingles jumbo wheel, Chock Full of Cheer
INK: Cherry Cobbler
PAPER: Festival of Prints (2012-13 Holiday Mini Retired), Cherry Cobbler, Lucky Limeade, Very Vanilla, Silver Glimmer
EMBELLISHMENTS: Lucky Limeade Button (?), Basic Rhinestones, Scallop punch, Jumbo Rhinestones

Inside - from Chock Full of Cheer

Have a blessed and creative day! ~Erika

Vintage Christmas Ornament Mini Album HSS131

Pin It Now! Ahh, finally I'm home and have full access to stampin' supplies!  I have a box load of new goodies from the Holiday Catalog, and had time to just tinker around - my favorite way to unwind :)

The challenge theme at Hand Stamped Sentiments this week is Vintage. So I created a mini album Christmas ornament from an empty Dahlias container; it's a bit slimmer than the normal embellishment containers.

You can see here the plastic container that holds the pages.  The tulle flower was CASEd from pg 13 of the July Stampin' Success magazine.  I have a friend that wants to make these, so I set out to figure out the DIY.

The tulle flower is layered on loops of Very Vanilla Seam Binding Ribbon, and then on layers of Fancy Flower punches from the new Candlelight Christmas DSP.

Inside the case is a very tiny mini album of our memorable moments from last Christmas.  They are 2-1/2" punched circles of 4 different patterns, including the flocked window sheet (luscious!).  They're adhered with Sticky Strip to make a micro accordion album. 

The album cover is a pic from one of our many trips to Panera...I'm sure this was a Peppermint Mocha or something equally delish.  Anyway, I converted all of the photos to black & white so they didn't compete with the DSP, and sized them to punch with the 1-3/8" circle punch.  I made tiny ornament hangers by punching the new Champagne Glimmer Paper with the Scallop Ribbon Punch and cutting one scallop for each ornament top.  The cover is rimmed with Champagne Glitter Glass (love that stuff - very vintage!). BTW, I realized after the fact that the album should be dated "2011". Ah, well.  Fifty years from now who will know?!

 Here are the pages.  I kept the journal strips to one or two words each, but I know the inside story to each one.

 The hanger loop is the 7/8" cotton ribbon, stamped with the Good Cheer wheel stamp.  (Wheel stamps are my all time fave :)

 There are a few leaves punched with the Bird Builder Punch from Champagne Glimmer paper.

 The backside, covered with more DSP.

Vintage Christmas is my favorite Christmas style.  What does Vintage mean to you?  Join us at HSS and go all out this week with the vintage / retro / shabby chic, whatever you envision!

Friends Let Friends Emboss Resist!

Pin It Now! Hi crafty friends!  This week's challenge at Hand Stamped Sentiments is Embossing Resist.  It's a really pretty technique, where you stamp, sponge, or paint over a heat embossed image.  You can learn all about it here at Splitcoast Stampers.

My embossing resist sample is a bit more subtle than some, but I really liked the effect.  I die cut a butterfly from vellum with the Beautiful Butterfly Bigz die, and used the punched negative of it as a mask to press Versamark onto my stamped image (Friendly Words wheel with black Staz On). Then heat embossed with Melon Mambo Stampin' Emboss powder, and sponged the sentiment with Certainly Celery, Pool Party, and So Saffron.  The Melon Mambo stays nice and bright and shiny, and looks like a brilliant shadow under the vellum butterfly.


The other details are from the Flirtatious DSP. I cut pieces from the doily laser cut sheets to tuck behind the center image, and cut a bit of a doily circle to make the ribbon banner cluster pop a bit. Added a couple more ribbon bits, and a "Friend" banner. The Basic Rhinestones are colored with black and hot pink Sharpies.  

Here's a close up of the butterfly.  The Melon Mambo is just sheer enough that you can still see the print underneath, but allows all the pretty sponged colors to take over the Friends print.




The inside is blank, except for a punched butterfly, with another doily behind it.

I'm also using this template from Stamping 411, their fun sketch challenge made my work a little easier! Won't you check them out too?

Now, can you tell what my plans are for the evening? Yay!  My SU preorder, new Idea Book & Catalog, and my favorite scrapbooking magazine.  I need a day or so to myself now!

SUPPLY LIST:
STAMPS: Friendly Words Wheel
INK:  Melon Mambo, Black Staz On, Certainly Celery, Pool Party, So Saffron
PAPER:  Flirtatious DSP, Basic Black, Melon Mambo, Certainly Celery, Whisper White
EMBELLISHMENTS: RIBBON: So Saffron Organza 1/2", Certainly Celery 1/8" Taffeta, Basic Black 5/8" satin.  Basic Rhinestones, Vellum Sheets, Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder, sponges.
OTHER: Sharpie Markers



Have a blessed & creative day! Erika. www.erikaclark.stampinup.net