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Secret Pal inspiration

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This past weekend, Caro and I attended our first crop and it was fantastic fun! We made cards, met new people, deepened our relationships with others, spotted words in songs for raffle tickets, participated in swaps, played bingo, drank wine and margaritas and stayed up way too late. It was a blast. The New Jersey Crop Weekends are highly recommended. We’re very lucky in that they are at a hotel about 20 minutes from my house so it’s easy to get there – that’s not to say that we didn’t stay over – remember the margaritas? 🙂

We took part in the Secret Pal swap. The idea is that you shower your pal with gifts over the weekend and there’s a reveal on Saturday evening when you find out the wonderful person who was spoiling you. My pal was Jill. She definitely was extravagant and took the showering almost literally! One of the first gifts was a copy of Cardmaking & Papercraft, the UK’s number one crafting magazine. This confused me rather since I knew that Caro was gifting Jill and I hadn’t heard any other British accents – I later found out that Jill found this at Barnes and Noble. Anyway, I flipped through the magazine (didn’t want to waste crafting time and I can read it this week) and found an article on gold gilding. Well, I didn’t have the products but it did inspire me to take the tree stamp that I’d picked up at Michael’s and heat emboss it in gold.

hero tree gold emboss on white

The tree stamp is from Hero Arts – I posted a card with it last week. The text is from Stampin’ Up!’s The Newborn King stamp set. I really love the typeface and the simplicity of the card.I used whisper white for the stamping and matting and adhered it to a whisper white base. I like the white layer on the white card base – it looks rather classy. This is definitely a card that I’m going to be sending myself. So apologies in advance if anyone reading this gets a spoiler on their Christmas card!

Newborn King Challenge

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I really like the Newborn King stamp set and have used it today in a challenge. The Freshly Made Sketches challenge this week is a fairly simple sketch challenge so I felt I could play. 🙂

I decided to finally use the Glory to the Newborn King sentiment – I love the typeface. Here’s what I ended up with:

newborn king cherry cobbler plus sentiment

I flipped the sketch by 90 degrees and embossed my images in versamark with gold embossing powder on cherry cobbler  (don’t forget the embossing buddy!) and then cut out the sentiment with the #4 circular framelet. I cut out a basic black circle using the 2 inch punch. I then stamped and embossed my main image with the gold embossing powder and trimmed it down and then made a basic black mat 1/8 inch bigger. I like how the card comes together although the bottom part of the circle was a bit floppy so I put a small piece of card under it – there wasn’t enough room for dimensionals..

 

The Newborn King

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I received The Newborn King stamp set in my Big Order last week – so heavy that I actually strained my wrist! I’d stocked up on paper when it was on sale and that’s heavy. At least that’s my excuse. I really like this stamp; my brother thinks it looks a bit “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”-esque, I think it’s more like the inside of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. For my first card using this stamp, I decided to just go straight down the middle. The photo is a little dark, but it shows off the silver embossing better than photos with more light.

newborn king navy and silver

Details:

Base: 8.5″ by 5.5″ Night of Navy

Mat: 4 5/8″ by 3 1/8″ brushed silver

Top layer: 4 3/8″ by 2 7/8″ Night of Navy – the odd measurements due to cutting the top layer until it looked “right”.

Stamp set: Stampin’ Up! The Newborn King

Other: Versamark, silver embossing powder, embossing buddy

This is my favourite kind of card – clean and simple. I think that the brushed silver mat saves it from being too simple. I used the embossing buddy on a decent sized scrap of Night of Navy (you DO keep your embossing buddy on top of your versamark ink pad, don’t you?) and then inked up the stamp with Versamark. I sprinkled on the silver embossing powder and used the heat tool to give this fabulous image. This was the first time that I’d stamped the image so I hadn’t grabbed a full sized piece of card – I was just testing it out, but it came out so nicely that I wanted to make a card out of it. This meant that I’d either have to have a large mat or a lot of the base card showing. I tried both and chose to make the silver mat a quarter of an inch bigger than the top layer. I think it sets off the image really well.

I remember seeing a video on Brian King’s site showing the effects of different sized mats; I think I need to play with mats some more.