Inkspiration for Stamping and Scrapbooking

A Few More from Disney

There are TONS of photos to scrapbook from our trip, so some layouts are simpler than others - so that it doesn't turn into a lifetime project.

This layout is about the SpectroMagic parade we saw in Magic Kingdom. Ideas for it came from a few layouts I saw on the TwoPeas member gallery.

This is about It's a Small World. There will eventually be a 2nd page, as for some reason, both dd and I snapped lots of photos on that attraction. I tried to pick up on the exoticism of that part of the ride. I used a gold leaf pen around the edges of the page and the leaf shape that came from the background wall mural. Lots of rubons from Basic Grey...

In late October, I attended a class at Two Scrapbook Friends. This layout was designed and taught by Karan Gerber. It was meant to be a Halloween layout, so the title was originally "haunting Halloween" but I tweaked it for this layout about the Haunted Mansion.

Those trees were painstakingly cut from patterned paper after they were treated with a Crackle Glaze to give them shine and a cracked texture. 

Each of the layouts features a little hidden Mickey head - there are apparently all kinds of them throughout the parks, and a lot of the pins (we got into pin trading - layout to follow) feature them too. I think it's fun, so I'm going to try to incorporate one into every layout (not every single page, but somewhere on a double spread.) For fun!  

Lots to Show You Today

This is DD's grade four photo.

White gel pen on the scalloped half circle, Crystal Effects (like Glassy Glaze) accents the paper cut-out flowers, felt flowers, Prima flowers, brads, border punches and ink.

We went camping up north in August and celebrated our anniversary shortly after our return. The views up there inspired this card for DH. The sky is sponged with about 3 or 4 colours of ink. Actually lots of sponging on this card if I recall. Images are stamped on glossy cardstock.

DD had her birthday not too long ago and she & her friends went horseback riding for her party. I borrowed some stamps from a friend to play with the horse theme. Lots of background stamping. The colouring is a combination of Copics and Stampin' Up! markers.

The title for this double pager is Oopsie Daisy and tells the story of the reaction when Sarah's autograph book falls during her character greeting with Daisy Duck. The right page was done first, following a sketch challenge posted by Dee during a recent online crop at Two Scrapbook Friends. The left page followed a little later in the day.

The paper flowers were created by punching out scalloped circles and then cutting in toward the centre. Glimmer mist tints the felt branch. Lots of glitter on the chipboard title. Inked edges.

DD also used the sketch challenge for her 8x8 page - didn't she do a great job!

Come on back tomorrow -I'll have Christmas cards to show you and I'll try to get a few more layouts from Disney posted over the weekend.

Thanks for stopping by! 
 

Rub On fun

Just having more fun decorating items with the rub-ons.

These ones are from the Sale-A-Bration brochure, which means they are free with a $70 order. There are 4 sheets in this package, not 2 as in the catalogue. The sheets vary in colour, Chocolate, Olive, White and Black.

I used the Chocolate ones on this candle set that has been sitting around for awhile. The tags are also incorporating rub-ons. The funky ribbon actually came with the candle jar but it matches the chocolate perfectly.

Remember this is the last week of Sale-A-Bration, so if you haven't taken advantage of this offer yet, you still have time. If you don't have a demonstrator of your own, and you are in Canada, I would be happy to help you out.

Happy stampin' and blessings! - Ann

Sale-A-Bration Fusion

As promised, here are more cards from Stamp Club.

There actually isn't any stamping on this card, but what a wow it is.

These are the Sale-A-Bration rub-ons, Love and Happiness. After we applied the rub-ons, and we all either used the green or the white sheet, so each card is a little different as we each clipped a piece of flourish, we attached the felt fusion flowers and the rhinetone brads. Fast and funky - gotta love it!

This card was inspired by several on SCS.

The third card didn't use rub-ons; instead we played with the set that co-ordinates with the rub-ons, Friendship Blooms.

  This card was inspired by one made by Glenda Mollet, who was inspired by Josee Smuck. Both of those cards were a 6 x 6 piece of cardstock folded in half to make a 3 x 6 card.

This card is 5.25 x 5.25, so it started with a 10.5 x 5.25 piece of Sahara Sand cardstock onto which I layered the Soft Sky. The top half of the vanilla piece is stamped with the leaf stamp from the Friendship Blooms set. The lower right uses a greeting from All Holidays.

The focal point is done by stamping the flower once onto vanilla and once onto Soft Sky with celery ink and then trimming each flower out. They are attached each other with a "sugar-coated" brad. That means I put a glue dot on the brad and then dipped it into glitter. The girls had a tough time deciding whether to use the cleery or the light blue glitter from the Fine Cosmo collection. The green looked really green on top of a gold brad and the blue looked more blue when it was applied to a silver brad. The leaves are totally inspired by Patty Bennet. Alll you do is fold a scrap of cardstock in half, run it through the paper crimper, hand cut a leaf shape and open it up again.

I love both of these cards, though they are very different - what do you think?

Are you wishing you could have been part of the fun? You can - I'd be happy to get another club going!

Guest Artist Embraced

Doesn't this card have a slightly Asian flair? I love the "feel" the artist created. The artist is Jamilla Ivits, a member of my team of demonstrators.

At first glance, I thought Jamilla stamped on designer paper, a huge trend right now. Instead, Jamilla created the effect of designer paper by stamping two images on the Groovy Guava piece. The leafy image is white embossed and then she overstamped the flower image with Ruby Red ink. The embossing resists the ink - neat, eh?

ETA: Jamilla's technique was to stamp the leafy image in Versamark on vanilla cardstock and emboss with clear embossing powder, brayer over top with Groovy Guava and then stamp the flower stem with Ruby Red. Wow - great effect, eh?!

She used 3 brads for some visual interest on the left, and tore and rolled the Kraft cardstock. The Kraft cardstock is stamped with the Define Your life set - this set is SO versatile for cardmakers and scrapbookers! And the rub-ons from the Urban West collection set off the sentiment.

Thanks so much, Jamilla, for participating in my New Set swap, and for allowing me to share your card.

I have had my eye on that Define Your Life set for awhile, now! Maybe I'll earn it for free as a bonus during Sale-A-Bration. If you LOVE that set, you can get it for FREE during Sale-A-Bration - it is the bonus set added to the starter kit for anyone who starts their own Stampin' Up! business during Sale-A-Bration. AND another bonus - Stampin' Up! announced over the weekend that the starter kit is on SALE during Sale-A-Bration - 20% off. That's just $208 + PST for over $400 worth of product! I'd love to tell you more, so just email me for information.