Happy Birthday

Good Morning Everyone- turns out that October is full of Birthdays in my family. So I sat down and made a pile of simple cards.

These are quite simple and easy ----

I had these blank cards (by the Paper Studio) - So I used these and added simple embellishments.

I used the following GlobeCraft and Piccolo products.
- Glastique (as the adhesive)
- Embossing Powder Adhesive
- Gilded Rose Gold Embossing Powder 
- ATC sized Frame from a Piccolo Set - (several sets have the frame, I simply bag all of these together as I punch out my shapes)

From SweetStamps I used
- Birthday Elegant Stamp
- Rustic Ink From the Earth Ink Spots Kit
- legless brads from the Chocolate and Marshmallow set 

- ombre toned embroidery floss

Easy. Quick. Beautiful.

Emboss the corners of the frame with the Gilded Rose Gold. Adhere floss to the back side of the frame and tightly and smoothly wrap the frame with the floss. (a dot of glastique is all you need to hold the floss in place. Glue frame to card to accent the area you like. Stamp with a sentiment. I added the Candi Legless Brads to further accent the corner.

Have a wonderful weekend.

BLESSING YOUR NEW BABY......

Good morning everyone, Teresa here with a pretty gift for a housewarming or a nursery.

The new release items are so fun and vintage in their feel. So I continued the "theme" with my color choices and background. 

Here's what I used

- Classy Circle Frame

- Rose Accent from the Fancy Labels Set

- Blessings Word Accent

- Enamel Adhesive

- Glastique

- Embossing Powders (I am linking to the main tab - there are so many wonderful colors to choose from - you can coordinate with your background image) 

     I used Gilded Rose Gold (on the frame), Cranberry Wine and Mossy Glen (on the roses), and Royal Sterling (on the word) 

Go ahead - blow that picture up and look at the fun colors in the mixture.

The frame was embossed with two layers of the Gilded Rose Gold Embossing Powder. The first layer was fully embossed until it was almost smooth and the second was partially "heat flashed" to give the texture of older brass frames.

I embossed everything and then used the Glastique as an adhesive. The background papers were cream cardstock and a Pretty textured vellum from my paper stash.

Have a wonderful afternoon.

Vintage Black Enamel

My Piccolo project for today features Vintage Black enamel.  I love the beautiful mix of black, silver and gold in this enamel.  It is such a rich color.  Please ignore the plum tones to the above picture, it was taken inside under lamplight and I am unable to adjust the color.  In real life this is warm gray/taupe color.  I used the gorgeous French Oval Piccolo as a backdrop, adding a Vintage Dress Form Piccolo.

This picture is more the true color.  I added an insert to my French Oval Frame on which I stamped Sweet Stamps French Writing with Black Soot Distress ink, then shaded the oval.  On my card base, I stamped a Flourish and again added ink around the edges.   The lovely lady, Sasha, is a new release Glam Girl from Sweet Stamps.   I thought she was perfect for this card.  Finished size is 4.25 x 5.5 inches. 

A2 Album Page 1

Sandy here with you today.  Last week I showed you the cover of an A2 Album that I am working on.  This is the first inside page of my album.  I began with another beautiful French Oval Frame for my image, which I embossed with Victorian Bronze Enamel.  I added a Butterfly Accent colored with Copper 3D Stamp Paint.  I stamped a couple of embellishments with my new Sweet Stamps Creative Corners Set 5.  

For the left side, I created a journaling square framing it with Vintage Corner Flourishes embossed with Victorian Bronze Enamel.  I added a few more accents below from the Steampunk Airship Accents set, also embossed with Victorian Bronze.  

I love the elegance of the French Oval Frame.  I think it is perfect for this vintage image.  This is my first attempt at an album like this and hopefully I can get less structured in the coming pages, lol. 

PinBoard - Pincushion

Good Morning all. Teresa here with this week's project. I had a completely different one planned, then I got my package from Globecraft and Piccolo and there was a new frame kit. I immediately dropped what I was working on and made this.

I sew and cross stitch a lot. and I am horrible about taking pins out and sticking them in my shirt or pants leg. This frame will fit right on top of the box I keep my supplies in because it folds flat, or stand it on your desk and use it as a note pad holder.

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- Medium Fancy Rectangle Frame Kit (note: the frame kit comes with a bubble globe cover. I chose not to                use it for my creation)
- Enamel Adhesive
- Vintage Gold Powder
- Victorian Bronze Powder

 - Fabric of your choice (the powders are so versatile and there are so many colors to choose from, this
    pinboard will be EASY to coordinate with any decor.)
- sheet batting
- heavy duty glue (I used Aleene's MaxTack)
- scissors
- clamps

The frame kit includes a solid back. An inner mat layer. A decorative frame layer. A flat fold easel back. notice the tiny hole in the solid back piece. There is one at the top and bottom of each piece of the frame for aligning the layers.

I embossed my inner mat with Victorian Bronze Powder and the Decorative Frame layer with the Vintage Gold Powder.

Now to assemble.

Cut your fabric the same size as the solid back of the frame. Cut the batting slightly smaller than the back, but still a tiny bit larger than the mat opening. My batting was a lightweight quilt batting so I used two layers.

Lay the Inner Mat face down on the work surface. Add glue to the edges and place your fabric right side down on it. Add the batting to the stack and a generous amount of glue to the edges.

Align the frame back with the stack and flip right side up.

Now, using those alignment holes. Glue the Decorative Trim layer to the front.

Clamp carefully ALL the way around.  Sealing any gaps between the layers  (notice I had to get creative with my clamps, I even stole some of the ikea ones I use to display things on wires in the studio.)

Let this dry overnight.

Glue your easel back to put this at the correct angle for your use.

I love the slight contrast between the two layers of the frame. 

I love this - sitting for small reminders and also for adding to my sewing box top.

A pincushion - pin board - earring holder. Lot's of uses for this one.

Have a wonderful day --- LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL.

Altered Frame & Embossed Accents

This project has been sitting on the back burner for a few weeks now, but until recently it didn't really come together. At first I couldn't decide which Embossing Enamels to use, then it was deciding which Accents to use (there are so many choices!) - there was always something not quite right...have you ever had that much trouble getting a project to work?

Today the stars aligned and I love this mini frame!

"Together is my Favorite Place to Be"

I wanted something vintage-ish, clean not grungy. Worn and well loved was what I had in mind...

Let's get our supplies!

Globecraft & Piccolo:

Enamel Powder Adhesive Fluid

Embossing Enamel Real Rust

Embossing Enamel Platinum

Embossing Enamel Gilded Rose Gold

Embossing Enamel Ruby Red Slippers

Butterfly & Flowers Accents (A153) (or you could use Tiny Hearts, Flowers, Stars & Flourishes A144 or any other set with a small heart)

Vintage Lock & Keys Necklace (CA125)

Glastique (gloss)

Distress Ink Vintage Photo

Thrifted silver frame

Foam tape

cotton (crochet) thread

scrap patterned paper

heart punch

printed sentiment

The How To:

This project is pretty straightforward. Begin by dabbing on some Embossing Powder Adhesive Fluid and then emboss the frame with the Gilded Rose Gold. Don't be too precise. You want to leave areas unembossed. Tip: once the metal frame begins to get hot, you can dip the frame into a pile of the embossing powder without the adhesive.

I didn't have any more tiny hearts, so I used a small flower accent and snipped 2 petals into the shape of a heart. The book board cuts cleanly with scissors.

Using the adhesive fluid and embossing enamels, emboss, the heart, the lock and the key 2-3 times. Tip: to get the texture on the lock - melt 2 layers, while the surface of the lock is still hot, dip the face of the accent into the embossing powder. Heat only just enough to make the powder stick.

Punch out a heart from the scrap paper. Print your sentiment and then trim out the words. (I used a free font: Jane Austen for a little old world writing.) Distress all the edges using Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

Adhere the papers and accents using the Glastique. Use a small brush for the word strips.

 I wanted the frame to have a kind of shadow box effect, so I layered foam strips. (When I was putting the frame together, I had forgotten to account for the thickness of the glass, so I ended up only using 2 strips of foam.) 

String up the key and place one string between the foam strips and the other string over the top. Secure both strings on the back of the white cardstock.

Put the frame back together. That's it!

Stop by every day to see more Design Team inspiration! Don't forget to leave a little comment love and let us know how we're doing!

Inky hugs,
Angi

Vintage Copper Love

I have created a card today with Piccolo's French Oval Frame, Vintage Corner Flourishes and Flourish Accents.   I heat embossed all of the chipboard pieces with Vintage Copper Enamel Powder.  After applying the Enamel Powder Adhesive Fluid to the pieces, I used a spoon to add the Vintage Copper.  I wanted to have more of the green base rather than the copper color.  Be sure to click on the pic and view the larger image to see the real beauty of this embossing powder.

I stamped Sweet Stamps Love Birds Collage with black ink, then airbrushed some Copic E71 around the image.  Using a pencil, I traced the inside of the French Oval Frame around my image, and then hand trimmed it out.  My flowers were created with Cheery Lynn Designs Large, Medium and Miniature Rose dies. The DP is from the Basic Grey Cappella 6x6 pad.  Finished size is 5.75 inches square.

Flower Frames - Julie Warner Guest Designer

Julie here again and I hope your week has gone well! The Sweet Stamps Challenge this week is Anything Goes, so be sure to check it out! Since anything goes, I wanted to use this beautiful Framed Daisies image. This is one of those cards that the idea starts out simply enough, but as it develops, it gets more and more complicated. I'm sure that never happens to you!

After stamping the image on a large white panel and coloring with Copics, I decided I really wanted to die cut it. First problem, none of my rectangle dies are big enough. Ok, so I used a larger square and resized it...not a problem, except I combined it with the out of the box technique, too. So it's a little more complicated. But it worked and I liked the way the corner flowers pop against the navy blue paper. I used the same paper to back the greeting oval. I decided to repeat the daisy corners on the background and colored the lines and shaded the vines but the daisies themselves were fussy cut and added on top. Two extra daisies were added where the frames stopped on the sides, just to finish the line. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25 and these are the Copics I used.

Thank so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend.

Supplies:
stamps: Sweet Stamps- Framed Daisies 3019, Special Day 9114
paper: X-Press It, designer paper (Teresa Collins - Moments collection)
ink: Memento tuxedo black
accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders squares & ribbon tags & labels 33 dies

Happy St. Patty's Day

Today is new release day for Globecraft Piccolo.  All week long you will see projects from the design team using the new product.  I have used three new Piccolo's from the release...

A149 St. Patty's Accents

A157 Vintage Corner Flourishes

F100 French Oval Frame

I started my card by embossing the French Oval Frame and the Vintage Corner Flourishes with Vintage Gold Enamel.  I love the rich old world look of this enamel.  Next came the 3 and 4 leaf clovers from the St. Patty's Accents, which I embossed with Mossy Glen Enamel.  

I stamped Leprechaun onto Cryogen Metallic cardstock with Tuxedo Black Memento ink and colored him with my Copic markers.  I traced the inside of the frame and hand cut a backer, also from Cryogen.  Using Shades Forest ink, I stamped Irish Flourish around the edges of the oval.  The last step was to add some dots on the corners with Titanium White 3D Gel Enamel.  Finished size is 5.75 inches square.

Frames Challenge Winner

The winner of SweetStamps.com's Challenge #141 Frames is...

DebiB

 

Congratulations!

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Thank you to everyone who joined in on the challenge, we hope you had fun and will join us again — we have a NEW technique challenge every month, along with a weekly challenge each Tuesday!

Happy stamping!

Challenge #141 Frames

Hello and Happy Tuesday from Delaware! It's time for a NEW weekly challenge here at SweetStamps.com. This week's theme is...

Frames

Here is some great inspiration from our fabulous DT Sweeties:

Annette Andersson

Carolyn LaBille

DeNetra Bates

Donna K

Denise Paxton

Erika Selander

Irena Kowalczyk

Irit Shalom

*Jacqueline Hill*

Lisa Lahiff

Monica Edwards

Roxie Glaza

*Shelly Schmidt*

We'd love to see your frame creation (cards, scrapbook pages, mixed media, ATCS, etc.), so come and join the fun! You could win a $20 shopping spree for goodies at SweetStamps.com's online store by playing along in our challenge! Click here for our complete Challenge Rules.

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There's still time to join in our Monthly Technique Challenge: Center Step Card. This challenge runs run through November 14th. Check out ALL the monthly challenges here.

Don't forget to check back later this week for more inspiration from our monthly Guest Designers! 

Next week our theme is NATURE. Happy Stamping! Have a super sweet week!