Archive for January, 2010:
Inchies and Twinchies Challenge Winner
Congratulations to Shuggy aka Angie
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Subscribe to the comments for this postSunflowers and Dragonflies Challenge 27: ATC’s
Howdy. Can it really be Saturday already?! Where does the time go. I can’t believe it’s the end of January. Are you feeling the same way?
We love our ATC’s here at Sunflowers and Dragonflies, so we’re doing another ATC challenge. If you are looking for stamps that are perfect for ATC’s, may I suggest our very own Beautiful Life series. These ladies have coordinating flourishes and fit perfectly on an ATC.  These stamps can be stamped just as-is or can be coloured in. Our ladies are ethnic in origin too.
My card uses the recent Side Step Card technique from Splitcoast Stampers. The decorative paper was made using the Technique Junkie’s Waxy Cuttlebug technique. The ATC uses our Melody and Melody Flourish, and the sunflower was made using Spellbinder’s sunflower die cut. Many layers of yellows, oranges, burgundy and brown ink brought the flower to life. The butterfly is from K&Co.
This week’s prize
Any two of our beautiful ladies and their coordinating flourishes
Kim used Cheyenne and Cheyenne Flourish
Beth used Amber and Amber Flourish
View of Beth’s ATC closed. BasicGrey DP was used as well.
Cathy used Cheyenne and Cheyenne Flourish as well as BasicGrey
Karen used Lottie and Lottie Flourish
Jerusha used Amber Flourish, Amber and Joy
Rose used Melody and Melody Flourish
To be eligible for this weeks prize drawing, please post a direct link to your challenge project from either your blog or an online gallery to the Sunflowers and Dragonflies blog, specifically on the Challenge #26 Blog Post, so we can view it. If you upload to an online gallery, please use the keyword SD25. Don’t forget to add Sunflowers and Dragonflies name and link on your post.
Deadline for this challenge is next Friday, February 5th.
Winter Wonderland Challenge Winner
Opps, look like I forgot to post the Winter Wonderland challenge. There were many awesome cards for this challenge. Random.Org chose
Please e-mail (scrapbook4ever@yahoo.ca) your mailing address Hazel.
Congratulations
ATC’s–anyone interested in a swap?
Two more ATC’s that I made for a swap a couple of months ago. I just mailed out swaps for this month and will post them once everyone has received theirs. Don’t want to spoil the element of surprise.
These photos were downloaded from Etsy. After downloading from Twisted Papers, I learned it pays to buy high quality images.
Is anyone interested in trading some ATC’s? Please let me know and I will arrange the putting together of a little swap group. Just use the words “sign me up” in your comment section. Please note that these ATC’s are not available.
Hugs, Beth
How to Create Faux Embossing and More Masquepen Masking
Have you ever wanted to emboss certain areas of your work and couldn’t? Today I will show you how you can create faux embossing in any spot you want. Nothing is impossible 
You will also learn more about Masquepen masking as a resist. If you do not have Masquepen, the same technique can be done using clear embossing powder.
Let’s begin, shall we….
Supplies:
Masquepen
Brayer
Acrylic Paint in same colour as cardstock (for faux embossing)
Stylus
Colour your image.
Cover entire image with Maaquepen and add decorative lines around your image. Let air dry completely. Do not use a heat gun.
Brayer colour over entire image and cardstock. Let ink air dry completely.
This is the fun part! Once your ink has dried, rub Masquepen off your image. Pretend I let my ink dry completely and ignore the fact I smudged my ink onto the ice rink.
Using a stylus, dip the tip into acrylic paint and tap onto cardstock. To maintain even shapes and sizes, redip into paint with each dot. Faux embossing is created when you use acrylic paint in the same shade as the cardstock. The acrylic paint is slightly raised, thus creating a faux embossed look. Pretty neat, eh?
Finish your piece with fun embellishments such as punches and Flower Soft.
Here you can get a closer look at the faux embossing.
For a complete list of my tutorials, please see my Tutorial page.
Be My Valentine
No, I didn’t get the title wrong. Indeed this is my Valentine card for Donnie this year. No, this is not a picture of us, although I’ll admit I chose a lady on the heavier side, since it reflects who I am today. The image is a download from Twisted Papers. I wanted to give Donnie something unique that can sit on his bedside table as a little reminder of how much I love him. He knows how much I love sunflowers so he’ll think of me every time he sees this card.
How to create this card
- With the SU die, cut two shapes out of heavy cardboard
- Cover back and front with decorative paper
- Using yellow cardstock, cut two sunflowers from Spellbinder’s Sunflower die
- Using green cardstock, cut one leaf
- Layer light yellow to dark brown. My sunflower was done in this order: SU Marigold, Adirondack Sunset Orange, SU Dusty Durango, Adirondack Cranberry, Adirondack Ginger
- Rub a dark shade of green over top of the leaf; darkest on top and lightest at the tip
- Glue Flower Soft onto the center of the flower
- Punch four holes and tie together. I used my Crop-o-dile to punch holes.
- Place pop dots between the two layers of flowers and on the back of the flower and attach to the cardboard
- Image was downloaded from Twisted Papers, mounted onto brown cardstock and glued onto the cardboard
- With one of my Spellbinder flourishes, I cut out a yellow flourish and sponged with SU Dusty Durango
Sneak peak for tomorrow’s tutorial
See you tomorrow!
Sunflowers and Dragonflies Challenge 25: Inchies and Twinchies
Do we have a treat for you! Inchies and Twinchies are today’s challenge, and let me tell you my design team pulled out all the stops to create the most awesome projects for you this week. This is definately my favourite challenge yet!
My card uses cupcake stamps. They were stamped onto watercolour paper and watercoloured with Tombow and Stampin’ Up markers. The background is the Waxy Cuttlebug technique from the Technique Junkie Newsletter. Our cupcake stamps come in a variety of sizes and can be purchased individually or in a set. Our set includes four cupcakes and five sentiments.
Do you want to see what’s up for grabs this week?
The prize consists of all our 1 1/4″ cupcakes.
Need inspiration? Just look at what the design team has for you….
Karen used Chocolate Dipped Strawberry
Jerusha used Joy Flourish
Kim created inchies for other projects. She used the Alice in Wonderland accessory set
Beth made an inchie book and here is the cover. This cute little girl came from Cricut’s Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge. Designer paper is BasicGrey’s Urban Praire.
all images are Alice in Wonderland
Jennifer created an inchie mosaic with Picking Flowers. The sentiment comes from Four Seasons.
Kim used the cat from the Alice in Wonderland accessory set
To be eligible for this weeks prize drawing, please post a direct link to your challenge project from either your blog or an online gallery to the Sunflowers and Dragonflies blog, specifically on the Challenge #25 Blog Post, so we can view it. If you upload to an online gallery, please use the keyword SD25.
Deadline for this challenge is next Friday, January 29th. One lucky winner will receive five cupcake stamps.
Have a nice weekend!
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Be My Valentine
Good Friday morning! Today I have the day off and I’m thrilled. I really need catch up time in my studio. Don’t you feel like you can never get ahead of the game?
I’m starting to make some Valentine Day cards to sell at work. Twisted Papers is a sponsor for the Technique Junkie Newsletter, so I like to give back by purchasing goods from sponsors. Not sure what they offered, I spent quite a bit of time on their website and was thrilled to discover that they carry a ton of high quality downloads. I’ve downloaded from Etsy and thought I was getting high quality–until I printed off my download from Twisted Papers. I think you can tell from my photo just how good their quality is. I paid $2.00 for a sheet of about 10 different images.
Don’t forget to submit your card for the Sunflowers and Dragonflies Winter Wonderland challenge.
Card Details:Â DP is BasicGrey; music sheet is an authentic old music sheet purchased at a flea market; pink cardstock was cut out of the SU diecut; ribbon is from the dollar store; buttons from Hobby Lobby; heart sticker is from Dollarama, and image is from Twisted Papers.
Faux Stitch Winner
Congratulations Irit
You won the faux stitch challenge.
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