Just add….Dimension!!
Oh my! Hold on to yourself! I’m posting two days in a row!!!! It’s all the TIME I’ve had with hubby and kids away!! I’m also finished my fundraising commitments and I have no classes to prep for right this minute!! I could play!! Yay!!
Anyway, over on the Just Add Ink challenge blog thier latest challenge is to Just add Dimension. Check it out HERE.
And my card:
The dimension part is the cool flower I made to go on the card. Yes? Dimension-y enough? I was going to add crystal effects to the thermometer bit but I can’t wait for it to dry. Patience is not one of my virtues!! LOL
Wanna know how to make that flower?? It’s super easy. All you need is:
* 1″x12″ strip of Designer Series Paper
* 1 x 1-1/4″ Circle
* Strong Adhesive
* Eyelet Border Punch
* Crimper
* Brad or Button for centre.
1& 2. Punch eyelet border along strip of 12 x 1″ DSP
3. Crimp the strip of DSP
4. Cut circle from base cardstock and cover with strong adhesive.
5. Attach one end to the outside of the circle.
6. Folding as you go, work around and around the circle with the piece of crimped DSP.
7. When finished your flower should resemble something like this.
8. Attach either a brad or a button to secure it together & then add it to your project!
Hope that helps! I’m off to write in my card and post it to a friend!!
Until next time,
Happy Stamping!!
Mad
Envelope Scrapbook Tutorial
Remember my post about the Envelope Scrapbook I demonstrated at Regionals? Well I’ve finally gotten around to doing a quick tutorial. I’m sorry about the delay but I have had my holiday go-slows on!! We got back from the Beach on Tuesday and I have had my Mum staying with me so I have just been enjoying doing not much of anything!!
Anyway you didn’t come here to hear me waffling. With this scrapbook, you can have as many pockets as you please. I chose four because I have four children. I’m sure it would work with as many as you needed it to.
Start with a Whisper White Envelope with the flap open:
Add sticky strip around the flap section, making sure that you do not go right up to the fold. You want to leave a couple of milimetre gap to give you a little room to fill the pocket and still be able to open and shut the scrapbook easily.
Carefully attach your first envelope to the second. Ensuring that it’s straight and that the envelopes are both facing the same way.
Keep adhering the envelopes together until you have the necessary amount for your scrapbook. I used a circle punch to then take out the tab piece from the front of the envelope. It helps to get the inserts out.
The inserts for the envelopes measured 10cm x 15 cm. I just used part of an I wish Scrapping Kit to decorate mine. I think i’d like to do one using some different colours. It would make a cute gift for a new baby too!
Very easy to put together!
I hope that helped. Please email me if you have any questions.
Until next time,
Happy stamping!
Mad
Filed under Techniques, off the page, scrapbooking | Comment (1)It’s been…1 week since I looked at you…
closed my eyes and said sorry!!
Sorry i’m such a bad blogger of late. Would you like a little run down of a week in the life of a stressed out mother of four? About how my washing in that week could fill a small swimming pool? About the trips across Brisbane for nasal gastric tube re-insertion as Miss Lara has found that if she worries at it for long enough she can get it out {and that i’m a wus and can’t do it myself yet}? Or shall I skip the nitty gritty and get down to the cards people?? Yeah, I know. I’d rather the cards too!
At Lucinda’s workshop {waving to the girls} on the weekend we covered some embossing techniques. I was mortified when I had left ALL my stamps at home!! And the trip over to Lucinda’s is a mere hour and a bit away from my house! Yes, that was a moment worthy of a hung head! Lucky Lucinda came to the rescue with stamps that worked with the card and we could proceed! As Lucinda has joined my team this month it’s probably a good lesson for her to learn how NOT to run a workshop eh? And I am blessed that my customers are my friends and forgive me for my incompetencies. Right. Sorry. The cards!
Once again a big fat FAIL on the photography. I swear the card is straight in real life…I just am a bit of an ordinary photographer! Base is Tangerine Tango, Basic Grey stamped an image from Circle Circus with versamark. Next layered strips of Baja Breeze and Tangerine Tango Prints DSP. Embossed images from Circle Circus on Baja Breeze DSP and punched out using various circle punches. Stamped the sentiment from the Trendy Trees set and voila all done. LOVE this colour combo. LOVE the Circle Circus set.
The next two cards (also a bit wonky…:oops:) were other ways to use embossing.
Emboss Resist on Gloss Cardstock. Stamp image in versamark, emboss with white powder, using ink and sponges colour around the flowers etc wiping off excess ink off the embossed image to make it stand out. {Like this card? You could make it at my embossing classes – 11th & 18th of June email me at madonna@madonnadunnDOTcomDOTau for more information.}
And the last card to showcase the embossing. The main damask motif from the Friends 24-7 stamp set was used. Have I mentioned that I got this set for FREE at convention yet?? It was exciting!! LOL. I stamped the image in versamark on a piece of DSP from the Bella Rose pack and embossed using clear powder. I then used Choc Chip ink and brayered over the rest of the paper so that it was just the centre image that stood out. The Choc Chip base was also embossed in clear powder with the Damask image.
Anyway, hope you like them. I’ve hardly had a moment to stamp this last week in between all the running around i’ve been doing with the kids and such. I’m hoping to get the chance to do some tomorrow…or maybe Friday! Fingers crossed for me!
Until next time,
Happy Stamping!
Mad
xo
