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Seasonally Scattered for Valentine’s Day

Obviously to a card maker, Valentine’s Day is a fairly important event. In the Holiday catalogue there is the Stampin’ Up! Seasonally Scattered set which had three stamps with season images around them. I’ve used both of Merry and Thanks. Now it’s the turn of the Love stamp.

Sadly it’s rather hard to photograph this beauty – the metallics do not work well with the camera. It definitely looks better in person. After using the embossing buddy, I stamped in versamark on real red and then sprinkled on the gold embossing powder. It’s magic seeing any embossing come to life, but a large stamp is even more exciting. I matted this with the gold foil (the brushed gold cardstock doesn’t stand up to the gold embossing in my opinion) at a quarter inch larger than the real red and then had a larger border of real red around the gold. The base is half an inch larger in all dimensions than the gold mat.

The envelope is lined with Maritime DSP which contains real red, coastal cabana, whisper white and night of navy.

Seasonally Scattered Thanks

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Stampin’ Up! have a set called Seasonally Scattered and it consists of three stamps where the words are defined by negative space – Love, Merry and Thanks. This one seems appropriate today because this weekend my friend Jen came to visit. That may not seem like such an extraordinary thing except that we’d never previously met! We’ve been working closely together for the past two years over email and instant messenger and through countless meetings but never actually in person. So she courageously came down this weekend and met not just me, but also my brother whom she’d also worked with and my sister who is visiting me. I guess she figured that she might as well get the whole trio in one go! We had a great weekend – and my abs are in much better shape after all the laughter. So, thanks Jen.

This is a fairly simple card and is easy to mass produce as long as you’re careful about cross contamination of the colours. Taking a piece of very vanilla, I inked up the stamp in pear pizzazz and then, using a sponger, dabbed some island indigo on some of the stamp. I breathed heavily on the stamp and then stamped it onto the card stock. It’s matted in pear pizzazz on a very vanilla base. I finished the envelope using the largest envelope liner framelit and a piece of 6″ by 3″ background DSP in pear pizzazz. The background DSP packs seem pricey at $21.95 but since you can line 8 envelopes with a sheet and you get 40 sheets, it costs less than 7 cents per envelope.

Since it’s only 7.5 weeks to Christmas, I think I might get the Merry stamp out and play with that again…

Technique Tuesday – sponging

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I partially CASEd the idea of this card from Susan Itell, on another stamp from the Seasonally Scattered set, but she did it with sponge daubers, and I didn’t have any! I just used sponges.

It’s a very Clean and Simple (CAS) card – my favourite kind of card.

Base: Very vanilla

Mat: Wisteria Wonder

Top layer: very vanilla

Stamp set: Seasonally scattered

Inks: wisteria wonder, night of navy, silver

I inked up the image with wisteria wonder and then took sponges to dip into the silver ink and the night of navy (separate sponges so as to keep my ink pads clean) and applied them randomly to the stamp. Then I stamped onto the cardstock. Clearly this will give different results each time. Just be cautious and ensure that the stamp and sponges are not transferring other colours to the ink pads. I think it’s a very easy way of getting an effective image – and a unique one.

Once you’re done with this card, you may notice that the MERRY doesn’t look quite right. The first R looks as if you made a mistake.

There’s a bit too much white space so it looks as if there’s something missing. I just took a marker and added a few dots so that the R looked a bit more regular.