Daily Archives: March 13, 2008

Truly a Bundle of Joy!

Posted on March 13, 2008 | 23 comments

What a nice surprise to be asked by the mega-talented Anna Wight to be a Guest Designer for her new line of stamps with Whipper Snapper Designs!   Yes, yes, YES!!  I was just a bit excited (lol) and even more so when I saw the first set, Bundle of Joy.   

Congratulations

ZTRI can’t show a baby frame without a cute baby, right? Meet my nephew, Zack.  Isn’t he cute?  Actually, he’s five now but still totally adorable.  

I thought I’d make a little gift set using the sailboat and star.  The frame was a Target Dollar Spot find.  Since the photo is not covered by glass but a thin, removable piece of plastic, I had to be creative in getting the sailboat to appear to “float” over the photo.   I stamped the image onto a transparency using black Stazon then paper-pieced the sailboat, stamping onto the back sides of the Crate Cowboy patterned paper.  Once the pieces were adhered to the transparency, I carefully cut around the sailboat, and attached the water to the backside of the patterned paper frame cover.  (The actual boat is not attached to anything but upheld by the transparency.)

Don’t miss out on samples by Anna’s other March/April designers.  I think we all had a fun time with this set!BOJ

Meg Shumaker

Shellie Daniel

Valerie Stangle

Yvette Ashe

I’ll be back soon with more!  Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Trees Teach Us

Posted on March 13, 2008 | 16 comments

My Lizzie Anne Designs focus set this month is In the Treetop, another of their latest releases, and my first sample fits this week’s WT challenge at SCS–to use patterned paper…for the entire card front…even the focal panel.  I love stamping directly onto patterned paper and many of the packages and paper pads available today have “solid-ish” pieces that match the patterns perfectly.  (I also like to use the solid-ish pieces to cover a white or vanilla card front if I don’t have cardstock to match.)

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For this card, I used Basic Grey Perhaps.  The closest ink match I could find to the green was Wild Wasabi, but it was too dark (in my opinion) for the leaves, so I stamped off once before stamping onto the patterned paper.  And I stamped some leaves a second time without reinking the stamp. 

Once the tree was stamped, I traced over the leaf and flower lines with a white gel pen to tie into the bits of white on the patterned paper.  I also partially outlined the bird with a Cocoa marker after stamping.  The sentiment is stamped in Chocolate. (I often like to stamp sentiments a bit darker than the other colors on the card or I feel they sometimes get kind of lost.)

I’ll have more In the Treetop samples soon!  Thanks so much for stopping by, thanks SO much for all the wonderful comments on my daughter’s birthday card…I’m completely overwhelmed…AND don’t forget to check out Jacksonbelle Embellishments–new store!  Use code Opening02 to get 15% off your entire order through March 31st!  I’ll be back tomorrow with some things I’ve been very anxious to share!!! 🙂  Have a great day!

Cardstock:  SU Very Vanilla (base)  Patterned Paper:  Basic Grey Perhaps   Stamps:  Lizzie Anne Designs “In the Treetop”   Ink:  SU Close to Cocoa, Wild Wasabi, Regal Rose, Chocolate Chip   Accessories:  Signo white gel pen, white organdy, Barely Banana eyelet, Crop-a-dile, slit punch, sewing machine/thread.  Card size 5 ½” x 4 ¼”.

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