Stampin' With TNT: 2013

Saturday, August 10, 2013

A Sweet Birthday

I'm so sleepy after working a long shift tonight, but I just had to unwind in my stamping room (and by stamping room I mean dining room table lol) before hitting the hay.

A very good friend is celebrating a birthday soon. I used Oh Hello and Create A Cupcake stamps for her card; along with Basic Black, Ridinghood Red, and Primrose Petals ink. I just love the cutesy taffeta ribbon and bow.

Thanks for looking. Time for me to get some sleep! Happy Stamping!

Thursday, August 8, 2013

CCMC263 Sketch Challenge

Hey stampers,

Today I set out searching for inspiration for a card and came across this sketch challenge from Create with Connie and Mary. I always love doing challenges, they really help you get a card started when you can't think of anything to do. Here's the challenge...

And here's the card I made this morning. My four-year-old daughter, Audrey, helped me decide on what stamp set to use. She adores horses, so Horse Frontier was perfect.

I used watercolor paper and Stampin' Ink with my Aqua Painters to make the background, then I stamped the horse in Stazon' Jet Black (permanent- no smears) ink. Then I cut it up, placed it on a black mat, added some (of course) blue jean ribbon and a little hello on the side. Voila. I haven't entered very many challenges. How cool would it be if I won this one? Either way though, I love how this card turned out. I'm thinking of sending it to my cousin who's a cowgirl through and through. She's an excellent horse rider and roper, and she's starting eighth grade this year.

Well, there you have it folks. That's my sketch challenge entry. Hope you've enjoyed this post. Leave some love, and have a fabulous day.

Happy Stamping!

Oh, Hello

Hey stampers,

How's it goin'? I can't believe summer is almost over already. I got a catalog in the mail for halloween costumes! Halloween, people! That's just craziness. I'm such a procrastinator, but one of my goals this year is to plan ahead and make my Christmas cards early! Jimmy and the kids poured over the halloween costume "book", but Christmas is my personal favorite. I don't care so much about the spooky day at the end of October. Shhhh, don't tell my husband. :) Anyway, within a couple weeks you'll start seeing some Christmas projects of mine. Stampin' Up! has so many adorable new holiday products. Check out the holiday catalog here.

Today I want to share with you a card I made that I am quite happy with. For the first time I did the Triple Time Stamping Technique.

Is that a cool technique, or what? And I never would've believed it was so simple. You just stack the top layers together and stamp them all at the same time. Naturally there's a little gap where the edges don't get stamped, but the Calypso Coral mats that you then put behind the top layers fixes that for you. It all lines up nicely, don't ya think? If you'd like a detailed tutorial, just comment on this post and I'll write one up for you.

After I finished stamping and putting together the card, I knew it needed something more. It needed a sentiment. I didn't want to add another layer of paper, so my go-to solution for a sentiment that pops is heat embossing. Then I added a bow made out of paper, in basic black.

Here are the products I used:
Oh, Hello stamp set
Bloomin' With Kindness stamp set
Calypso Coral cardstock
Basic Black cardstock
Whisper White cardstock
Versamark Ink
Basic Black Heat Embossing Powder
Heat Tool

Thanks for looking and reading. If you like this post, leave a comment. Come back tomorrow to see another card from my stampin' room!

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

What is "C.A.S.E"?

Stampin' Up!'s tagline is:

"Inspire. Create. Share."

One of the things that I love about being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator is that you can share your cards and projects with other fellow demos and friends. A lot of times, people will copy (C.) and (A.) share (S.) everything (E.), or "case". I fully support casing other people's work, I know that I love seeing that people pin my work onto their pinterest boards. It's an honor to know people like what I make and want to create it themselves.

Since I'm already on the subject of things I love about being a Stampin' Up! demo, let me share another plus. It's called Stampin' Connection. It's a website for demos only, all around the world, to upload photos of their projects and view other people's creations.

Today I was looking at people's cards and came across this one:

Isn't this card that Beth made just so striking and pretty? It's simple enough that I knew I could re-create it using products that I have handy, so once I fed the kids eggs and bacon and cleaned up the kitchen, I poured myself a second cup of coffee and sat down to stamp. The stamp set Beth used is called Secret Garden and is on the bottom of page 94 in the catalog, and the stamp set I used while casing her card is at the top of that same page, Flower Shop.

The Secret Garden stamp set is on my wishlist. The fact that Stampin' Up! offers matching framelit dies so I can cut them out in seconds is a huge plus.

But, since I don't have those things yet, I went ahead and pulled out my Flower Shop set and coordinationg Posey Punch, and came up with this card.

I didn't have white ribbon, so I used a strip of white cardstock and embossed it with the Polka Dot EF (embossing folder). I added a sentiment from the Easy Events stamp set, only inking up the "thank you" and not the rest of the stamp. Then I used a photopolymer stamp, the banner looking shape, from the Designer Type Stamp set to outline that "thank you".

Well, that's all for today, folks. Hope you enjoyed seeing my cased card today. A big thanks to Beth for the inspiration. If you'd like to purchase any Stampin' Up! products just go to www.stampinup.net and click "store" and do all your shopping, then when it prompts you to name your demonstrator, just type in my name, Tori Tedder or Victoria Tedder. Either will work. Thanks for reading and...

happy stamping!