Challenge #186 Wedding

Hello and happy Tuesday from North Carolina! We're on our way to Norcross, Georgia for a show this weekend so we're on the road again.
It's time for a new weekly challenge and this week's theme is...

WEDDING

Check out these gorgeous wedding designs from our DT Sweeties...(they would also be great for anniversaries too!)

Calypso Bastian

Irit Shalom

Kendra Sand

We'd love to see your Wedding creation (you can dry emboss, heat emboss or even paste emboss), so come play along! {Cards, ATCs, scrapbook pages, mixed media, altered art, etc.} 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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Our Monthly Technique Challenge {Double Side Step Card} runs through September 14th so come play along for your chance to win FREE stuff!

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

Happy Stamping! 

Have a super sweet week!

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Glamorous

Hi everyone Monica here sharing my card for the Challenge #185 - Embossing.  I made a card using a lot of white and just a pinch of color for some reason I love white on white cards.  The image is a new release from the Glam Girls collection.  So be sure to check out our Embossing challenge and get your cards linked it ends soon and one luck winner receives a gift certificate to the Sweetstamps.com store!!

There are so many glamorous girls to choose from!!

Thanks for stopping by everyone...

Dragonfly Medallion

  Happy Monday everyone! leslierahye here sharing a few new releases from last month that I just love! I created a back for the Circle frame on corrugated card board. I heat embossed the backing with Mermaid Tears. Next I embossed the Circle Frame with Gilded Rose Gold. I glued the frame to the backing and added a single crystal rhinestone to each loop. Next I embossed some flower tops with the gilded rose and some with the Girls Night Out and layered them to create dimensional flowers. I bent up the petals just a bit to give a little more dimension. I finished off the flowers with a rhinestone as the centers. These were arranged as on the center of the frame.
Finally I embossed the centers of the dragonflies with the Shamrock Dreams and then embossed over the wings again with Mermaid Tears. I love the opalescent effect it gives the wings when these two powders mix! The dragonflies were place on the flowers and frame to complete the look. This embossed medallion makes a great ornamentation for a shelf of a small wall.

Enamel Powder Adhesive Fluid
Enamel Powder MERMAID TEARS
Enamel Powder GILDED ROSE GOLD
Enamel Powder GIRLS NIGHT OUT
Enamel Powder SHAMROCK DREAMS

Piccolo A165 Flower Tops Accents
Piccolo F104 Classy Circle Frames pack of 2
Piccolo LA120 Dragonflies Accents

Easy Grip Reversable Tweezers

I hope you enjoyed my project! Thank you for stopping by today!

 

You Belong Art Journal Page

Welcome to another Friday with Angi! This week I had the chance to work with a few fabulous stencils from our sister company, Sweet Stamps. Pair those stencils up with Globecraft & Piccolo 3D gels, embossing enamels and accents we get an awesome art journal page!

We know we can't have it all at one time, so use what you have and order G&P items when you can. The G&P embossing enamels and 3D gels go a long way. We know you'll love the products, too!

To make this page, you'll need a few items from the G&P shop:
Embossing Enamel Powder: Copper Kettle
Enamel Powder Adhesive Fluid
3D Enamel Gels: Mars Black, Satin Gold, Turquoise
Accents: LA117 Fancy Labels & Roses, LA120 Dragonflies
Glastique, gloss


Stencils (from Sweet Stamps): AS46010 Aztec Sun, AS46015 Circle Pavers

Other Supplies:
various spray inks (Tattered Angels Glimmermist, Dylusions, Tim Holtz Adirondack Color Washes)
modeling paste
gesso
stamps: flowers, alphabet

Layer the spray inks. Be sure to not waste the ink! ;) After you spray through the stencil, flip it over and use the excess ink in the negative (like a stamp). Refer to the project picture above.

Use the 3D Gels on this project by adding small amounts of water to get the consistency you need: more water to use the gels like ink and less to paint and stamp with.

The picture above shows the drips of Satin Gold over the Aztec Sun stencil.

I stamped the 'dots' below using the gels and a cut up flip flop. seriously!

Copper Kettle is a gorgeous copper powder with bits of copper glitter. LOVE the texture and shine!

So many possibilities with these Fancy Labels and Dragonflies...

I used the Circle Pavers stencil with embossing paste and then stamped over it with the gel. I can't stop looking at the colors on top and under the paste!

That's it! Hope your weekend is fabulous and full of creating!

Inky hugs,
Angi

Christmas is Coming....

Happy Thursday everyone. Teresa here and,  as much as it freaks me out to remind you, there are only 111 days until Christmas. I know that sounds like PLENTY of time. But I know myself quite well and I don't want to be scurrying around at the last minute AGAIN - trying to put a personal touch on my gifts. 

So today we are making a gift tag. 

Let's gather our materials.

From Globecraft and Piccolo

Embossing Enamel Adhesive
Glastique Gloss
Aged White Embossing Powder
Micro White Embossing Powder
Pure Platinum Embossing Powder
Bahama Aqua Embossing Powder
Siam Silver Embossing Powder
Clear Ultra Thick Embossing Powder
Fancy Labels and Roses Piccolo Set
Bejeweled Snowflake Piccolo Set

And from our sister company, SweetStamps

Snowflower Art Stencil  (the art stencils are a new release item for SweetStamps and they are wonderful)

You will also need
- self adhesive glitter dots (you can also use the Glastique and fine glitter)
- a large tag base
- a light blue color spray
- Ribbon for the hanger

Now let's get started.

First - spritz the tag with the light blue color spray - giving that pale blue back ground to work with. I dry mine with the heat gun.

Now for the stencil back ground.
     Lay the tag flat and center your stencil over the tag.
     I wanted a "hint" of snowflakes in the background so I lightly sponged on the Enamel Adhesive through
     the stencil. Keeping in mind my final layout, I applied the adhesive more heavily in some areas.

 

Emboss the tag with the Aged White Powder --- this powder has a lot of glittery sparkle. A wonderful wintry feel is emerging. Set your tag base aside.

I then embossed the rectangular label from the Fancy Labels set. I used the Bahama Aqua on the center of the medallion and the Siam Silver as a "frame" around it. I embossed one of the large snowflakes with the Micro White Powder and the smaller on with the Pure Platinum Powder.

I dry fit the Piccolos on the tag to decide which areas would get a tiny glitter dot accent. And because the Ultra Thick Clear Powder enhances the coloration behind it, I used that to emboss those areas.

Glastique was used to attach every thing. After the tag dried, I added a bit of bright blue tulle ribbon as a hanger.

The first thing a little buddy said to me when he saw it was "It's a Frozen tag". I'm taking that as a major accomplishment - when you can impress a 5 year old - you got it going on.

Beautiful butterfly

Good morning!!
Today is my turn to share my project for this weeks challenge which is:
EMBOSSING 
Now if you are like me...Then you have a HUGE collection is powders!!  Well I have added embossing paste my collection!!  It's the new craze and I have to tell you it is so much fun to play with!!  SweetStamps carries them and I will tell you that you will not be disappointed with the results.  Have you also seen the new collection of Art Stencils?

M y card today uses one of these new Art Stencils and clear embossing paste. 

I love the black and gold color combination of the this card.  It is very simple, but I love the texture that the paste and embossed butterflies add to this card.

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Next week's challenge #186 is:

Wedding
The monthly technique challenge is:
Double Side Step Card
Details and Link-up can be found HERE

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Haunted House and Graveyard

Here is a fun dimensional card I made using Piccolo Haunted House Accents and Haunted Graveyard Accents.  These are such fun sets for those crafters who love Halloween as I do!  This card will fold flat and measures 4.25 x 5.5 inches.  I used three different embossing enamels on this project:

House and Fencing - Vintage Black

Tombstones - Aged White (added a touch of Black Soot Distress ink)

Grass - Mossy Glen

For the Gnarly Tree, I used a combination of Burnt Umber and Mars Black 3D Enamel Gels.  I also used the Mars Black to create the steps leading up the hill.

For this pic you can see all the parts that create the scene.  You just make long rectangles any size you need, adhere them to the back and bottom of the card stock and they will fold forward when you close the card.  You just have to make sure your items are not too tall when closed.

I added a bit of yellow card stock behind the House to simulate candlelight.  And for the great background, I used the newly released Art Stencil Going Batty from Sweet Stamps.  I used painter's tape to mask off the bats I did not need and then applied Black Soot Distress ink.  I added a bit of distressing around the edges as well.  The Happy Halloween is from Cheery Lynn Designs.  I hope you enjoy my card,  I had great fun creating it.

Challenge #185 - Embossing

Happy Tuesday from New York! Hope you had a great time with family and friends for the Labor Day weekend. 
Did you get the email about our September New Release?
We now have our very own line of ART STENCILS!
You can see a few of them used in this week's challenge...

EMBOSSING

Take a look at these fab designs from our DT Sweeties...

Donna K


Irit Shalom

Lisa Lahiff

Roxie Glaza

Shelly Schmidt

We'd love to see your Embossed creation (you can dry emboss, heat emboss or even paste emboss), so come play along! {Cards, ATCs, scrapbook pages, mixed media, altered art, etc.} 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.

 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Our Monthly Technique Challenge {Double Side Step Card} runs through September 14th so come play along for your chance to win FREE stuff!

***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

BBQ Layout with Piccolo Accents and Sweet Stamps Art Stencils

 Happy Monday everyone! leslierahye with 6×6" layout featuring the BBQ Fun Accents from the August Release and the Tire Tracks Stencil from the September Art Stencil Release at Sweetstamps.com!  I began by heat embossing my tools and grill with the Vintage Black Emboss Powder. I left the flame untouched so that I could come back with the 3D Enamel in Deep Red and Orange. All accents were set aside to cool. The BBQ was coated with Mars Black 3D Enamel.

On my scrapbook page, I stenciled with the adhesive fluid the Tire tracks on their side so that it looked like smoke! Skipping around on the stencil so that there is not full coverage in all areas adds to the smokey effect! I embossed with Mermaid Tears and when it cooled added White chalk powder to further enhance the smokey feel. I then went around the edges of the page with Vintage Black emboss powder. I completed the layout by matting my photo of the yummy steaks and layering the matted photo on top of the smoke and a strip of pattern paper. Next the Piccolo accents were layered on the layout. Finally I went around the edges with pen-doodling.

Enamel Powder Adhesive Fluid
Enamel Powder MERMAID TEARS
Enamel Powder VINTAGE BLACK
3D Enamel Gel DEEP RED
3D Enamel Gel ORANGE
3D Enamel Gel MARS BLACK
Piccolo A163 BBQ Fun Accents
Easy Grip Reversable Tweezers

Art Stencil TIRE TRACKS as46013

I hope you enjoyed my project! Thank you for stopping by today!

 

Masculine card

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to our Masculine Birtdhay challenge!

Irit is here and also it's a lst day to enter this challenge, you still have pretty much time to do so.

Here is my card made for this challenge: masculine colors and very general sentiment, but then it's just a good fit for the challenge.

First I made a background with Memory box mask : Texture distressed grid  and distress inks.
Then I made the focal panel with new released Backgrounds stamp using my favorite resist emboss technique: clear ink, white embossing powder and then  a lot of inking over the embossed image.
I used ATC white cardstock and then matted it over ATC black one with a bit of edge cutting.

I made the embellishment with Globecraft/Piccolo bird cage chipboard covered with embossing enamel and layered over the background shape and just added a piece of twine.
The sentiment was made with the new gorgeous sentiment set and my card was all done.
Seams like a lot of techniques, but then it's easy to make card.
Now it's your turn: just  one more day to enter the challenge! Go for it and you can win!

ATC Backgrounds #3 Clear Stamp Set	Distress Ink Pad DUSTY CONCORD	Distress Ink Pad MOWED LAWN	Black Artist Trading Cards ATCs
Distress Ink Pad PEACOCK FEATHERS	Distress Ink Pad SALTY OCEAN	Simple Greetings Clear Stamp Set	Black EP

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