At the Cross

 

 

 

I am loving the new Piccolo Products.

 

Today I am featuring one of the new crosses.

 

Along with an Oval Frame Kit.

 

I covered the back of the frame with a charcoal paper.

 

Using the following Embossing Powders, I covered the parts as follows.

-Solid Frame Edge -Platinum

-Frame decorative edge -Mermaid Tears

Cross Backer - Victorian Bronze

Decorative Overlay on Cross -Mermaid Tears

 

I added pearl beads and glued it all together with Glastique.

 

Have a wonderful Sunday.

 

 

Teresa

Frame - Guest Designer Penny Ward

Hey friends and welcome to the Sweet Stamp Challenge Blog.

Penny Ward here for the last time as a Guest Designer. I have had so much fun playing with the super cute stamps and spending time on this blog.

So let's get to it.

Let's Make a Card and then change it ...

I started with white card stock and stamped the Floral Corner Wrap, turned the stamp 90 degrees and stamped it again. As you can see, I started with light Blue ink, then added two other Blues to the stamp before I actually stamped the card stock. Gives the vines a nice variegated look.

Now the fun part...color the flowers.

I used the same inking technique on the sentiment Thank You Curly, then cut it into a banner shape.

Flowers and foliage were cut with Silhouette Cameo and inked.

There is hardly a card that I make that doesn't have Liquid Pearls on it, and this is no exception....absolutely LOVE my Liquid Pearls!

While writing this post I am thinking "how cute would this be to cut out the center of the card and actually make it into a picture frame"...now why didn't I think of this sooner?

So...let's change it into a Frame ...

Took the embellishments off  (carefully) and used Deckled Rectangles Large to cut the center from the card.

Used an Aqua card stock as a mat for the frame, die cut the center with Deckled Rectangles Small. When adhering it together I left the top unglued leaving an opening for the picture (my handsome son and my adorable grandsons...just sayin').

To make the frame a little more sturdy, I adhered two panels of heavy watercolor paper and made an easel.

Re-attach the embellishments.

This frame is still sized at 5.5 x 4.25 inches...so you could still pop it in the mail.

I have had a total blast Guest Designing here at Sweet Stamps and I hope in the future you will bookmark my blog Penny Ward Ink and come visit me often.

Many many hugs,

Penny Ward

Let's go Shopping:

White & Aqua card stock

Heavy Watercolor Paper

Stamps: Floral Corner Wrap, Thank You Curly (Sweet Stamps)

Inks: Memento Summer Sky, Nautical Blue, Pear Tart, Bamboo Leaves, Versafine Deep Lagoon (Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko)

Dies: Deckled Rectangles Large & Small

Spectrum Noir Markers

Liquid Pearls: Royal Blue, Peacock (Ranger)

Roses Challenge by Guest Designer Michelle McClure

The Project

Hello sweet friends! For this week's challenge, I wanted to alter a frame for my grandmother's 92nd birthday. 

Since the theme is roses and I didn't have a rose stamp, I rolled and twisted a strand of ribbon into a rose. It was very easy, if you'd like further directions, see this tutorial.  I then paired the roses with my Bold Medium Butterfly stamp, and it was a perfect combination. 

The Process

I started by stamping my butterfly stamp onto vellum using white embossing ink and white embossing powder. 

After heating it, I cut out the butterflies and wrapped them with floral wire stamen. 

Using craft paint, I painted in some wispy lines onto my frame. I coated the lines with Mod Podge. I adhered the butterflies and roses with some clear craft glue. I also added some smaller butterflies that are from a punch. I finished with a few pearls. 

I took three of my leftover butterflies and made a matching monochromatic card. I hand wrote the sentiment in Chinese with a white pen. 

If you have a project that you would like to link to this week's roses challenge, please see this post. 

This is my last project as a guest designer this month. It was a pleasure to work with you all!

Thanks for your support,

Michelle McClure

Stamped Frame Challenge Winner

Using Random.org, a winner from last week's challenge was chosen.

And the winner is....#9

 

Congratulations
Irit
 

Please contact me for your winning prize of a $20 shopping spree for rubber stamps at SweetStamps.com.

Thank you to everyone who joined in on the challenge, we hope you had fun and will join us again — we have a new challenge every Tuesday!

SweetStamps Challenge #62 Stamped Frame

Hello everyone! Welcome to our sixty-second challenge at SweetStamps, where our theme this week is:

Stamped Frame

Join us in this challenge for a chance to win $20 of rubber stamps from SweetStamps. Rules are listed in the sidebar and instructions can be found at the bottom of this post.


Check out the creativity of our sweet & talented design team this week:

Bonnie Brown

Calypso Bastian

Dawn Bennett

 

Dawn Lotharius

Jacki Randolph

Jenn Cochran

Joni Mastronardi

Kendra Sand

Linda Jover

Shelly Schmidt

Tamara Morton

Sandy Fredrick

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Our online store has lots of lovely frame stamps to choose from (and some gorgeous frame dies too!) 

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Join our weekly challenge

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Next week's challenge is For Mom.

Happy Stamping! Hope your day is super sweet!

:) stacey