A Walk In the Park With Mom

This was the card we made at my Stamp Club for April. Since Mother's Day is just around the corner I knew this would be a perfect card. It features a fun way to use the Texturz Plates for the Big Shot as well.

Brayered Texture:
1. Ink up your Brayer in the coordinating ink as your cardstock or a darker shade.
2. Roll Brayer all over the Texturz Plate.
3. Build your "sandwich" carefully laying your cardstock over the Texturz plate.
4. Roll "sandwich" through the Big Shot.
5. Pull out cardstock. Thoroughly clean Texturz plate.
6. Your cardstock will now be dry embossed in the color of the paper and the rest of the paper will be covered in ink.


RECIPE: Stamps-A Bunch of Love; Ink-Old Olive, Baja Breeze, Regal Rose, Basic Gray & Black; DSP-A Walk in the Park; CS-Baja Breeze, Whisper White & Basic Gray; and Ribbon-Regal Rose.

Shadow Effect With Bleach

After trying to get pictures off of the camera all day, I finally got a few to download.

We learned about stamping with bleach at my January Stamp Club. It is a fun technique but the smell can be a bit much. I recommend doing this either outside or in a well ventilated room. I used the "Upsy Daisy" stamp set for this card. I wanted to bleach out the flowers but have a bit of a shadow effect to give some detail. This is very easy to do...

Shadow Effect with Bleach:
1. This works better with lighter colored cardstock. Stamp the image with the same colored ink as the paper (So Saffron in this instance).
2. Make a stamp "pad" with a plate or bowl. Place paper towel in the bottom damp towel with bleach. ***Note: Bleach is only really active within the first 20 minutes of pouring it. So don't make your bleach pad until right before you go to stamp.
3. Press stamp into the bleach and stamp it onto the paper slightly off of the first image. This will give the "shadow". It will take a couple of minutes for the paper to bleach out.
4. Finish card. ***Be careful: The bleached cardstock is still active for 20-30 minutes after you bleach it. Meaning, if you lay it on another piece of cardstock, it will bleach it out.


Once again my picture isn't great quality. The shadow is a bit hard to see but it is there.

RECIPE: Stamps-Upsy Daisy; Ink-So Saffron, Ruby Red, & Bleach; CS-Ruby Red, So Saffron, Mellow Moss, Baja Breeze & Chocolate Chip (scrap); Ribbon-Baja Breeze Striped Grosgrain; and Punch-Heart to Heart.

Cupcakes, MMMMM!

I have seen many different ideas using this stamp set--Simple Birthday Thanks. I must admit when I first saw this stamp I knew I had to have it. Than when I got it, the thing sat on my shelf forever. What would I possibly do with this stamp besides my kids' thank you notes? (Plus I bought it in October and all my kids have spring and summer birthdays).


Than I started to see different ways to use the stamp--on cards, scrapbook pages, by itself and so much more. So here is my attempt at thinking outside of the box. Here is an adorable cupcake birthday card!


***TIP: How do you get rid of the words if you don't have SU! markers? Simple! You just use a blender pen. Ink up your stamp on the pad. Than run your blender pad over the parts of the stamp that you don't want inked. The blender pen absorbs the ink off of the stamp. You may have to rub the ink off the blender pen onto scratch paper a few times before you can get all the ink off. I usually run my fingers over the stamp just to make sure I got it all. Breathe onto the stamp to moisten the ink, stamp and there you go. Simple!***

RECIPE: Stamps--Simple Birthday Thanks; Ink-Chocolate Chip; DSP-Sweet Always; CS-Chocolate Chip & Regal Rose; and Embellishments--Crystal Effects.