Parchment Stampng

 When I first met Sweet Stamps, the thing that grabbed my attention was the Parchment stamping.  I saw Stacey doing parchment stamping and embossing, and I just HAD to buy the supplies and give it a go! (HERE is a Pintrest link for the demo)  I also love the elegant Parchment stamps in the store for card making too!

 I just love the elegance the parchment piercing adds to a card.

 And, around the outer border, I rubbed the stylus over the parchment on the metal piercing plate, and it leaves a dotted pattern on the vellum. The image is colored from behind with Copics.

 If you are not into Parchment, the images make lovely cards as well : )

 Here are the products I used from the SweetStamps.com store:

Pansy Layers Frame	Distress Clear Embossing Ink	Detail White EP	Queen's Gold	Copic Sketch Markers	Parchment Craft Vellum PCV25
Soft Grip Stylus Tools	Piercing/ Perforating Pad 31419	2 Needle Pergamano® Piercing Tool 10261	6x9 Straight Magnetic Grid	Simple Greetings Clear Stamp Set	Forget Me Not Ink Spot
Silver Rhinestones	Core'dinations Lavenders

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Our challenge this week is Anything Goes.  Hope to see you join in the challenge!

Shelly Schmidt

Parchment CAS

For my card(s) this week,  I decided to get out the Parchment and make some CAS Christmas cards.

  Hard to photograph with the gloomy lighting here. I love using Parchment and embossing and using the stylus to 'deboss' on the Parchment as well.
  The frame on the Lt is called Elegant Scrollwork Frame. I always use the Antistatic pad to swipe the Parchment cardstock before embossing on it. I used Sweet Stamps Detail White EP. I added the sentiment in the center and embossed it, and to finish the card, I fussy cut around the outer edge of the frame.
  The card on the Right uses the Artist Trading Card Frame. I used the antistatic on the Parchment Vellum first, then embossed with Queens Gold Embossing Powder. Lastly,  I added the sentiment in the center and embossed it, and to finish the card, I fussy cut around the outer edge of the frame.

 I needed a Sympathy card, so I quickly whipped up one additional card:

 You can see the detail a bit better on this card- in the swirls in-between the gold embossing is where I 'debossed', or used the stylus from behind to add detail- looks white- in that space. I added a small bow using 3/8" ribbon- SU retired Gold Organdy.

Here are the supplies I used from the SweetStamps Store:

Parchment Craft Vellum PCV25	Embossing Pal Anti-Static Pouch	Distress Clear Embossing Ink	Detail White EP	Soft Grip Stylus Tools	All Purpose Spray Adhesive by Krylon
Artist Trading Card Frame (ATC)	Queen's Gold	Joyous Wishes	Staggered Sympathy

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The weekly challenge -Non-traditional Colors is HERE. Come join us- we'd love to see what you are creating!

Sweet Stamps has a Pintrest board HERE

Sweet Stamps has a Facebook group HERE

Thanks for stopping by!
Shelly

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

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

Christmas Parchment with Guest Designer Hilde

Hi everyone, hope you have all been well and had a great week so far...

It's an honour to be chosen as a Guest Designer for Sweet Stamps. I just love using their stamps, they stamp crisply and cleary, and the range is just awesome!

Just a little about myself...I have been crafting for as long as I can remember. I was always doing something...I have pretty much tried everything, from folkart painting, watercolours, mosaics, cottage crafts, sewing, crochet, quilting, smocking you name it.....but papercrafts has me going now, and I have been making mainly cards for about 8 years and am loving it...I am now venturing into the 3d paper crafting, and I have a lot to learn, my mistakes (and I make a lot of those) end up being tags or small gift tags lol, at least nothing is wasted.....I have accumulated a large selection of the 6 x6 paperpads which I adore...Love collecting more and my second favourite tools are dies, I am really enjoying using them on my creations....

This card is my first contribution as a Guest Designer this month.  It's Christmas with Parchment paper (vellum), using Christmas Rose Candle and Merry Christmas stamps.

I have to be honest and admit that I had never used parchment paper before. I put it through an embossing folder and then stamped the rose candle image on the back and coloured it from the back with promarkers and then flipped it over, then placed it over a some designer paper from my stash, from memory Kaisercraft-just believe...added bling and some stickles (warning, the stickles will crinkle the parchment as I found out..oops)

Hope you like it, blessings Hilde
you can check out my blog here

Challenge #125 Christmas Parchment (Vellum)

Hello from Georgia! We're still thinking of Christmas, so this week's theme is...

 Christmas Parchment (Vellum)

• • • Check back later this week for some great creations from this month's Guest Designers: Emily Thubbron {Em's Many Thoughts} and Hilde Marsh {happyglitzygirl} • • •
 
We're having a facebook Release Party this week to introduce our NEW line of images {ArtsyfArtsy} please join us!

Check out these beautiful Christmas designs from our talented DT Sweeties:

Annette Andersson

*Calypso Bastian*

Carolyn LaBille

DeNetra Bates

Erika Selander

Irena Kowalczyk

Irit Shalom

*Jacqueline Hill*
My, oh my, you are gonna LOVE all the great illustrations Jackie has drawn up for us to share soon! 

Karrie Snider

*Kendra Sand*
Kendra's been busy organizing our 
facebook Preview Party (July 10-15) and our 
Release Party that will be LIVE on facebook July 16th
9pm Eastern/ 8pm Central
Join us for the Release Party & your chance to WIN some new images! 

Lisa Lahiff

Monica Edwards

Roxie Glaza

*Shelly Schmidt*

*Tamara Morton*

We'd love to see your Christmas Parchment (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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Don't forget - our current Monthly Technique Challenge {Chalkboard Technique} runs through July 14th. Check out all the monthly challenges here.

Next week's challenge will be ANYTHING GOES!

Happy Stamping! Have a super sweet week!