Floral Anything Goes

Hey stampers, it's Saturday again and time for anoher guest designer post.  The challenge this week is Anything Goes and I have another floral card for you! Remember a few weeks ago when I shared how I became a SweetStamps customer? Well, I was drawn to their Parchment Craft products and have been playing with them over the last few years. I have various parchment projects completed but I never turned them into cards until now!

I started with two images of the Pansy Layers Frame which I heat embossed onto vellum with fine white detail powder. I turned one of the images over and started coloring with various colored pencils using the Gamsol Technique and then I cut out the central part of the image which I layered onto the other image.

 First I took the second image and pierced the lacey edge using a two needle tool, staggered magnetic grid and the piercing/perforating pad. The next thing I did was to take a white gel pen and color in the solid white edge line and fill the center dot  on the fleur de lis motif. The center section was layered with dimensional foam dots to add depth and dimension.  I strategically placed the foam under the center of the pansy so it wouldn't show through the parchment paper. I took the two layers of parchemnt and layered them onto an embossed piece of card stock. The card stock was then layered onto white designer paper. The whole thing was mounted onto a green card stock A2 base. Then the pearls, trim and ribbon were added to finish things off.  I hope you like this project and were inspired to try some Parchement Craft! Be sure to enter the Anything Goes 183 Challenge.  For a detailed materials list, visit my blog.

Paula

Anything goes with new releases and parchment with Irit

Hello my dear crafty friends! 
Irit is here again and this is my Anything goes with parchment project.
I know that it's not a regular parchment, but kind of a stamped one, but this is the beauty of Sweet Stamps! You can make a faux parchment using SS most gorgeous White Dye  ink and any of those deep etched stamps, even acrylic ones.
So here is my card, all made from vellum with cardstock base only.

The new June released  ATC Backgrounds #3  were stamped with white ink over the vellum and heat embossed with Detail  white Embossing powder.
Then I cut this background piece and layered it over red cardstock.
Then I stamped one single border from new June released  Sketched Floral Borders set  several times , again  with white ink and white powder  and punched a circle of those flowers to become my focal stamped point.

Everything else are just a die cut sentiment and some small embellishments: red pearls, a sticker and three real head pins  in great pink colors.

I hope you like my faux parchment card and our SS new release. Please join us in this month Parchment challenge and you can win some great goodies too.
See you in two weeks with more SS inspiration.

Sketched Floral Borders Clear Stamp Set	ATC Backgrounds #3 Clear Stamp Set	Detail White EP	Parchment Craft Vellum PCV25
White Dye Ink Pad for Parchment Crafting

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Parchment Crafting {Monthly Technique Challenge} + Anything Goes

Hello and happy Tuesday from sunny North Carolina! 

Can you believe it is the middle of July already? And we've got one busy day going on...not only do we have our ANYTHING GOES theme for this week, but it's also our

Monthly Technique Challenge:

PARCHMENT CRAFTING

and there is a NEW release of dies from Cheery Lynn Designs along with some NEW ArtsyfArtsy clear stamp sets!!

If you are on our email list, you know we're offering 10% off the newest CLD dies and 20% off ArtsyfArtsy clear stamps for a LIMITED TIME.

If you're not on our email list yet, sign up today. You can access this email from SweetStamps.com's facebook page.

Now let's take a look at the gorgeous Parchment Crafting samples that our DT Sweeties have to share with you this week:

Calypso Bastian

Denise Paxton

Donna K

Lisa Lahiff

Roxie Glaza

Shelly Schmidt

Need instructions on this technique? Check out one of SweetStamps.com's technique videos:

We'd love to see your Parchment creation - if you don't have the tools for Parchment Crafting, you can still enter by using Vellum on your 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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This Monthly Technique Challenge runs through August 14th. Come join us!

***Check back later this week for more inspiration from our DT Sweeties and Guest Designers!***

Happy Stamping! 

Have a super sweet week!

An InLinkz Link-up

Dresden Rose Happy Birthday

Hi everyone! It's Leslie, guest designing for SweetStamps during the month of August, and I'm back with my inspiration project for the SweetStamps Birthday Challenge! Birthdays are so much fun to celebrate with awesome handmade cards, so come play with us! This is the last SweetStamps challenge in August which means this is my last guest design post. I want to thank Stacey, Kendra and team once again for this amazing opportunity! I've thoroughly enjoyed myself!

This is my first parchment crafting project and I can't tell you how much I enjoyed creating this card! I used the beautiful-beyond-words SweetStamps Dresden Rose Circle stamp, embossed with fine detail white embossing powder, colored on the back side, cut with 4-split perforating tool and mounted on three gorgeous die cuts. The inside sentiment is SweetStamps Happy Birthday stamped in Memento Bamboo Leaves ink. For full details, please see my full blog post at Love To Scrap!

Thanks so much for stopping by today - I hope you're inspired to create a pretty project for the SweetStamps Birthday challenge! Have an awesome day!
Hugs,
Leslie

Parchment Craft Winner

The winner of SweetStamps.com's Challenge #121 Parchment Crafting is...

Sandie L

Congratulations!

Please contact me for your winning prize of a $20 shopping spree at shop.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 technique challenge every month, along with a weekly challenge each Tuesday!

Happy stamping!

Challenge #121 Parchment Crafting

Hello again crafty friends! This week's challenge is one of my FAVORITES...

 Parchment Crafting/ Use Vellum

If you don't know what Parchment Crafting is, here is a video I've made of Parchment Crafting with Rubber Stamps. 

Basically, parchment crafting is stamping, heat embossing, etching (dry embossing) and piercing on vellum. You can do any combination of these techniques on vellum and you'll get beautiful results!

Don't forget to come back this Wednesday and Thursday to see some more parchment craft creations by our June guest designers: Donna K and Elizabeth Hart!

Here are some beautiful parchment crafting creations from our DT Sweeties: 

Annette Andersson

*Calypso Bastian*

Carolyn LaBille

DeNetra Bates

Denise Paxton

Erika Selander

Irena Kowalczyk

Irit Shalom

*Jacqueline Hill*

Karrie Snider

*Kendra Sand*

Lisa Lahiff

Monica Edwards

Roxie Glaza

*Shelly Schmidt*

*Tamara Morton*

We'd love to see your parchment craft/use of vellum creation (cards, tags, scrapbook pages, and altered art are welcome), 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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WOW, we have a lot of stuff coming up later this month...our current Monthly Technique Challenge {Flip Flop Card} runs through June 14th, and a NEW Monthly Technique Challenge {Chalkboard Card} starts on the 15th. Check out the monthly challenges here.

Then, June 18 & 19 our Sweeties are teaming up with Pinque Peacock for an ANYTHING GOES CHALLENGE...there are sure to be some beautiful creations to inspire you!

 Happy Stamping! Have a super sweet week!

 

Parchment Crafting Challenge Winner

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

And the winner is....

Congratulations
Linda
 

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 #64 Parchment Crafting

We are showcasing one of my favorite techniques at SweetStamps for this week's challenge:

Parchment Crafting 
with Rubber Stamps

If you need instructions on this technique, please check out our video. SweetStamps.com is sponsoring an Online Parchment Crafting Class through My Creative Classroom, which is being taught by my friend Sandy Hulsart.

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.


Take a look at these sweet creations from the talented ladies of our design team this week:

Bonnie Brown

Calypso Bastian

Dawn Bennett

 

Dawn Lotharius

Jacki Randolph

Jacqueline Hill

Jenn Cochran

Joni Mastronardi

Kendra Sand

Linda Jover

Shelly Schmidt

Tamara Morton

Sandy Fredrick

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Check out SweetStamps.com's online store for a great selection of rubber stamp images for parchment crafting, along with all the tools and supplies you'll need!

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WIN FREE STAMPS! 

Join our weekly challenge

You can use any stamp on your challenge entry, but if you use a SweetStamps image, you will get two entries into the giveaway! To enter the challenge, please add the URL to your actual blog post or online gallery to the InLinkz at the end of this post. Please do not link to your main blog; we want to be able to find your post to leave you comments. Also, please link back to our blog.

Remember, you can only enter the challenge one time, use a SweetStamps image to get an extra entry in the challenge. Please limit the amount of challenges to 10 (including ours).  You must link back to us in your blog post.

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Next week's challenge is My Favorite Color.

Happy Stamping! Hope your day is super sweet!

:) stacey