Root Beer Father's Day Card

  The Root Beer stamp from Sweet Stamp Shop's May Release is one of my new favorite stamps. Besides being cute, it is the perfect size stamp for cards and planners. One of the many ideas that came to me for this stamp set was a Father's Day card, a holiday which I'm sure will be here before we know it.

 
  What is one stamping technique you have always wanted to try but were afraid to?  For me, it was the mirror image stamping technique. It just seemed a little intimidating to me and I always wanted to try it out but never did. So I bit the bullet and tried. I feel that my mirror image stamp doesn't really do justice to the actual stamped image (I'm sure you can tell which one it is -- the left one) but I thought I would share it with all of you anyway as I keep practicing this technique. Maybe it will inspire one of you to try a new technique that you haven't tried before!
 
  I found a few YouTube videos with different ways to do this technique and after trying a few of them, I found one using the Misti stamping tool by Sharon Curtis (click here for the video). This method was the easiest one for me. After I mirrored the image, I darkened it using my Memento Dual Marker because it was much lighter than my regular stamped image. I then needed to touch up my regular stamped image with my marker also, as the mirror image was a little darker.

  The card bases, background, and stamped images were all cut out with my Silhouette Portrait. I used Spectrum Noir markers as my coloring medium for all of the stamped images. For the pretzels, I "salted" them with a Molotov paint pen and applied a coat of Glossy Accents. I also added a touch of "fizz" to the root beer bubbles with my Wink of Stella brush.

Hope you all have a Happy Tuesday! And let me know in the comments below what technique you will be trying next!
 -Kim

I am linking this up to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes.


(Disclosure: I am not affiliated with any of the below companies, I just like their stuff!)

Supplies:

Stamps:
Sweet Stamp Shop - Root Beer (root beer floats); Just Icons (pretzels); Blocked Alpha (alpha)
Avery Elle - The Man (Father's Day banner and Happy Father's Day Sentiment)
-Misti Stamping Tool  by My Sweet Petunia
-Silhouette Portrait
-Silhouette Studio Designer Edition
-cardstock by Bazzill and American Crafts
-Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive
-Glossy Accents by Ranger
-Memento Ink - Tuxedo Black by Imagine Crafts
-Memento Dual Marker - Tuxedo by Imagine Crafts
-Spectrum Noir Markers - TN1, TN3, EB1, EB3, TB4, TB5, Blender
-Wink of Stella Brush - Clear Glitter
-Molotov Paint Pen in Signal White
-Black Pearls by uknown

Always Be a Unicorn - Shaker Box

Hi Everyone!

This Unicorn Shaker Box is super easy to put together. For the color scheme, I used the exact same colors as both Lori Whitlocks' and Miss Kate Cuttables' samples. I honestly just love both cutting files exactly as they made them and I think they look so cute together.

In Silhouette Studio DE, I opened the 3D window shaker box file and cut it at that size and glued it together. (For the sequins inside, I die cut them from a sequins Die-Namics Die using my Cuttlebug.) In Studio DE, I then sized the unicorn and clouds to the top of the shaker box and cut them out as well. I pieced together and adhered the unicorn, and added Stickles to the clouds. The hardest part of making this box was waiting for the Stickles to dry. Once dry, I adhered the clouds and unicorn to the top and added a little bit of bling.

Thank you for stopping by my blog! If you have any questions, leave me a comment.
Always be a Unicorn!

- Kim


(Disclosure: I am not affiliated with any of the below companies, I just like their stuff!)

Supplies:
-Silhouette Cameo
-Silhouette Studio Designer Edition
-Studio Files: Unicorn by Miss Kate Cuttables (Design ID:40572) ; 3D Window Shaker Box by Lori Whitlock (Design ID: 27670) ; Cute Spring Clouds by Miss Kate Cuttables (Design ID: 73630)
-cardstock by Bazzill and American Crafts
-Rock Candy Distress Stickles by Ranger (for the clouds)
-star and round bling by unknown
-Die-Namics Sequins Die by My Favorite Things
-Cuttlebug by ProvoCraft
-Pop Dots
-Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive  

Under The Sea Bookmark

  The Sweet Stamp Shop Fan Club on Facebook has a Bookmark Challenge for the month of May. So exciting! Who doesn't love bookmarks?! I can still remember one of my favorite things about going to the library when I was in elementary school was getting to pick out a bookmark after you checked out your book for the week. The librarians would cut out the illustrations from old donated greeting cards and make them into bookmarks. My friends and I would always search for the cute animal ones first. So much fun!

  For this challenge, I created a bookmark with an under the sea theme. I like to read paperback books on the beach rather than an e-reader and I wanted to create just a fun summery bookmark that I could use.

  I started by cutting down a piece of Ranger Gloss Paper into a strip for a bookmark and inking it with Salty Ocean Distress Ink. After it dried I punched a hole in it so I could later attach ribbon, and then I stamped the anchor stamp all over the bookmark in Brilliance ink. After that was dry, I coated the whole bookmark with my Ranger Clear Resist Pad and then clear embossing powder and heated it to give it a watery look. Next I stamped out the mermaid, shells, seahorse, jellyfish and bubbles from the Mermaid Shelfie stamp set in Memento Ink on Spectrum Noir cardstock, colored them in with Spectrum Noir Markers and fussy cut them out. I applied them to my bookmark using my Xyron Create a Sticker. The shells and bubbles have a touch of a Wink of Stella Clear Glitter applied to them to give them a little bit of a shiny look.

  Here's a closer look so you can see the embossing on the bookmark. Sorry the pic is a little blurry!

  Thanks for stopping by my blog! My supply list is below. If you have any questions please leave me a comment or send me an e-mail.

Have a great Thursday!
- Kim

(Disclosure: I am not affiliated with any of the below companies, I just like their stuff!)

Supplies:

-Stamps - Ahoy and Mermaid Shelfie (Sweet Stamp Shop)
-Spectrum Noir Markers: PP2, PP4, PP5, DR1, DR6, DR7 (Hair); CG2, CG4, DG3 (Mermaid Fin); TN1 (Skin); HB1, HB2, HB3 (Shells); IB1, IB2 (Bubbles); CT1, CT3, CT4, BT5, Blender (Seahorse); BP1, BP3, Blender (Jellyfish)
-Memento Tuxedo Black Ink (Imagine Crafts / Tsukineko)
-Wink of Stella Brush - Clear Glitter
-Salty Ocean Distress Ink (Tim Holtz / Ranger Ink)
-Ranger Mini Ink Blending Tool
-Brilliance Ink in Moonlight White (Imagine Crafts / Tsukineko)
-Ranger Clear Resist Pad
-Recollections Clear Embossing Powder (Michaels)
-Hero Arts / Wagner Embossing Heat Tool
-Ranger Gloss Paper
-Ribbon - white 3/8inch by Celebrate It (Michaels)
-Fiskars Paper Trimmer
-Fiskars Hole Punch
-Xyron Create A Sticker machine
-EK Tools Scissors

Cinco De Mayo ATC's

For online card classes Day 1 - I made some ATC's using the attaching vellum strip method. These are going to be for a Cinco De Mayo pocket page I am making.

all stamps - Sweet Stamp Shop
Vellum
Paper - We R Memory Keepers "Fiesta"
Embossing Powder - Recollections (black) Darice (white)

- Kim

Fun with Vellum

I've been taking Online Card Classes newest class - Clear and Sheer. I love their classes! Tomorrow is wrap up day and I haven't been able to create in my craft room as much as I would have liked to - so I'm posting a few things a little late.



This watercolor Mermaid card is from Day 1 - Attaching Vellum.

For this Mermaid Birthday card I used Ranger Distress Inks as my watercolors, Stamps by Sweet Stamp Shop and embossing powder by Darice and Recollections.

Thanks for stopping by!

- Kim