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Crayon Resist

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This technique is an oldie but a goodie!  To make this Crayon Resist background you take a piece of Glossy cardstock (do not use photo paper – it doesn’t work, trust me!) and stamp with Basic Black Ink.  In this sample I used a 3.75 x 5  piece of Glossy and stamped with the small flower from Time Well Spent.  Let the ink dry or use you heat tool to speed up the process.  Take a white crayon and color the areas that you wish to highlight.  Ink up your brayer (Certainly Celery) and brayer over the Glossy cardstock – reinking until you’ve reached the color that you want.  Then take a tissue or cotton ball and wipe over the cardstock making sure to remove the white crayon.  Your highlighting appears!  It’s very fun!

To finish this card I matted the Glossy paper on Regal Rose ( 4 x 5.25) and then adhered a piece of Ribbon Original to the front and taped it to the back.  This piece goes on a Rose Red card.  To make the butterfly, I stamped it on a piece of Whisper White and colored it in with an Almost Amethyst Stampin’ Write Marker.   I cut this out then I pushed it in to a Versamark pad and covered it with Heat and Stick Powder.  You only need to heat the powder for a few seconds – it melts very quickly!  Dump some Dazzling Diamond over it – shake off the excess – and re heat for a few more seconds. I popped it up on Dimensionals on top of the layers sentiment from Sincere Salutations (my favorite all around sentiment set!) 

I hope you’ll give this technique a try!  Enjoy!  Hugs, Fran

Going Out In Style

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There was an article in our demonstrator magizine Stampin’ Success recently on making colored Dazzling Diamonds!  I made some Lovely Lilac DD to give this lovely lady’s boa some sparkle.  And it’s easy!

Take a small container – the ones that our buttons come in are perfect – and put 1 drop of reinker and 2 drops of water (or a couple of squirts from a spray bottle) and add about a 1/4 teaspoon of Dazzling Diamonds.  Use a skewer or something similar to mix it up.  It gets kind of fuzzy looking.  When it appears to have soaked up the reinker – add some more Dazzling Diamonds – until it is no longer “chunky” looking.  Then you can apply it with the 2-way glue pen.  I poured what I had left over into an empty Dazzling Diamonds container and wrote the color on the top of the lid (so I didn’t just “grab and pour” thinking it was something else!)

So now this gal’s all sparkely – and I put just a drop of Crystal Effects on her ring – she’s got bling!

The stamp set is Going Out In Style (which is on the retired list….. sigh.) The card is Whisper White with a 4 x 5 1/4 piece of Basic Black.  The stamped piece is 3 3/4 x 5 of Whisper White.  Use Real Red eyelets in the corners and some Silver Cord – easy!  Basic Black Ink and a Real Red and Lovely Lilac Stampin’ Write Marker.  Enjoy!

Baby Wipes Technique

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Baby Wipe Background 

This fast and easy background was created using Baby Wipes!  The entire tutorial can be found here – http://www.franticstampers.com/Tutorials/Baby%20Wipe/baby_wipe_techniques%20Background.htm

To make this card, I started with a Certainly Celery card and did the technique on a 3″ x 5″ piece of glossy cardstock.  For this card I used Ballet Blue and Bashful Blue reinkers.  The squares were stamped with the square from Simple Shapes on a scrap of glossy cardstock and mounted across the front.  Then I tied a piece of black grosgrain ribbon around this and mounted it on the front.

To make the flowers, I used All Natural and stamped them on another scrap of glossy.  I used a sponge dauber to make an Apricot Appeal center.  I mounted these with Dimensionals.

“Smile” was stamped with Wonderful Words.  Easy and cute!

Album in a box

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Here’s a box –




Open it and you get –




So tell me that this isn’t the most wonderful thing you’ve ever seen!  This is one I made for Mother’s Day.  The best part – they take almost no time at all to make!  Fast, fun and adorable – what could be better?  I went into a store to show a friend this cute idea and was besieged by people wanting to make them – so let’s do it!  I have some open time coming up in June.  Of course, school’s out and it is Memorial Day weekend – but I’ve got May 30 and 31 available and June 3 and 5 open.  Any takers?  Let’s set the best date for all!

Monogram News!

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The Monogram Alphabet is a hit – and with that comes the news that the Monogram Alphabet will be in the 2006-2007 Idea Book and Catalog!  (However, the background special will end on April 30th!)  And since I’m so crazy about these new letters – you’ll probablly get tired of me using them!  Here’s a sample I made for the Envelope Album class!  I simply embossed the “C” and cut it out.


First Things First

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Probablly should have talked about this first!  The Monogram Alphabet is a die cut stamp – You don’t have to cut out the letters!  This gives you a great advantage when mounting your stamp – 2 stamps in one!  Without removing the letter from the block of rubber, peel the backing off of the outer part of the rubber (leave the backing on the actual letter – peel around it) and stick this to your wooden block.  Then remove your Monogram letter, peel the backing off the letter and stick it to the other side.  To see a visual of this go to the Art Gallery/Monogram Alphabet – and I’ve taken some pics of this process! Hugs!

Monogram Alphabets/Backgrounds

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SU’s April special is buy 2 get the third 1/2 off – on any background stamp including the Monogram Alphabet in the Spring Mini catalog.  This is sooo exciting because these stamps work together in wonderful ways!  On this scrapbook page I used the Floral background stamp – inked it up and then stamped the Monogram S – to make the S really stand out.