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What have you been stamping lately?
Been quiet the past week or so on rcs! I imagine many have the "back to
school" chaos that comes with mid-August. If you have found time to stamp, what have you worked on lately? I made a card for a friend. Wasn't incredibly excited with how it turned out, though. Daffodils stamped in green and two shades of yellow on a white background, then layered onto a pink card. I decorative-punched the corners of the white background, and the front panel of the card. Something was wrong or missing, but I couldn't tell what for sure. I think the leaves were too dark of a green, for one thing. The eye was drawn instantly to the leaves. Even after I water colored the daffodils for added emphasis. Ah well. Maybe I'll figure out something better! Any suggestions for what may have been missing? Barbara |
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I went to a Stampn' Up play-time day last week. They were using watercolor
crayons on bold stamps. I used the Heartfelt Thanks stamp set on creamy watercolor paper with Blush Blossom/Always Artichoke watercolor crayons. The Creamy Caramel wash for shading and More Mustard wash for highlights on the background set it off nicely. The card stock was also Blush Blossom/Always Artichoke. I tore and slightly curled the watercolor paper edges to set it off from the card stock. It looked great so sent one to a friend for her birthday. SAD On 8/20/05 1:58 PM, in article , "Barbara Hass" wrote: Been quiet the past week or so on rcs! I imagine many have the "back to school" chaos that comes with mid-August. If you have found time to stamp, what have you worked on lately? I made a card for a friend. Wasn't incredibly excited with how it turned out, though. Daffodils stamped in green and two shades of yellow on a white background, then layered onto a pink card. I decorative-punched the corners of the white background, and the front panel of the card. Something was wrong or missing, but I couldn't tell what for sure. I think the leaves were too dark of a green, for one thing. The eye was drawn instantly to the leaves. Even after I water colored the daffodils for added emphasis. Ah well. Maybe I'll figure out something better! Any suggestions for what may have been missing? Barbara |
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I haven't had time to do much art stuff lately. Although I did go to the
scrapbook convention in Pleasanton, CA last week. Went nuts buying everything Took a couple of classes, one of which gave a distressing pad, so I'm looking forward to playing with that. I finally got a Staz On pad too, so as soon I have time, I want to play Jeannette |
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Jeannette Marsala wrote:
I haven't had time to do much art stuff lately. Although I did go to the scrapbook convention in Pleasanton, CA last week. Went nuts buying everything Took a couple of classes, one of which gave a distressing pad, so I'm looking forward to playing with that. I finally got a Staz On pad too, so as soon I have time, I want to play Jeannette How cool! What new stash did you acquire, other than the two pads? Did you learn any techniques or ideas that you can share? Barbara |
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Oh gosh. I got a foil/glitter writing set, some acrylic blocks, tons of
paper, some stickers, some die cuts, those 2 pads, glue lines, some fabric flowers in milk bottles, and more paper I saw some embossing paste that I wanted to get, but I guess I'll have to get that some other time, since I spent more than enough money. Didn't really learn anything "new" but got to actually do some stuff that I knew only in theory, like stamping on acrylic, the foil stuff, and distressing. Next month there's a stamping convention that I hope to go to, assuming that I've recovered money-wise from the last one. Jeannette |
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Wow! So many things I haven't heard of. I hope you don't mind my asking
questions here. What is a foil/glitter writing set, glue lines and embossing paste? What kind of acrylic did you stamped on and with what? What is distressing? SAD On 8/24/05 12:42 PM, in article , "Jeannette Marsala" wrote: Oh gosh. I got a foil/glitter writing set, some acrylic blocks, tons of paper, some stickers, some die cuts, those 2 pads, glue lines, some fabric flowers in milk bottles, and more paper I saw some embossing paste that I wanted to get, but I guess I'll have to get that some other time, since I spent more than enough money. Didn't really learn anything "new" but got to actually do some stuff that I knew only in theory, like stamping on acrylic, the foil stuff, and distressing. Next month there's a stamping convention that I hope to go to, assuming that I've recovered money-wise from the last one. Jeannette |
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Wave Jumper wrote:
Wow! So many things I haven't heard of. I hope you don't mind my asking questions here. What is a foil/glitter writing set, glue lines and embossing paste? What kind of acrylic did you stamped on and with what? What is distressing? SAD The foil/writing set apparently goes on sale on QVC, it's Tonerex Foils, their website is http://www.tonertex.com/uk/foils.html I got the $40 set which came with a tower of fine glitter, 2 write n rub pens, some foil, and some foil stickers. Glue lines is just an adhesive, a continuous strip of double-stick tape. Embossing paste is used with brass embossing stencils. see http://www.christiancrafting.com/embossing.html Only the ones at the expo came in different colors and came in sets of 6? colors in a tower. Pretty nifty. I just stamped on thin clear acrylic using a Staz On pad. They were cut into tags, circles, and rectangles. They also had them in different colors. Distressing is making something look worn by sanding the paper. We used nail filers to distress a 6x6 album. Making Memories actually has a distressing kit (which I got some time before but haven't really played with yet) Jeannette |
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I've just been stamping a few different things here and there. It gets hot
this time of year in my stamping area, so I don't do as much crafting as usual. I tried Staz On inks and now I'm stamping a lot with them. I always used to stamp and emboss everything just to get deep color, but I like the Staz On when I don't feel like embossing. Now that I have Staz On I might try some of my Blockit stamps again. I took a class a while ago for them but never got back to them. I'm planning on getting my Twinkle H20s out and do some serious watercoloring, but haven't gotten there yet. I've been playing with a few coluzzle templates and find them fun to use with my stamps. -- Karen R. Brooks "Barbara Hass" wrote in message ... Been quiet the past week or so on rcs! I imagine many have the "back to school" chaos that comes with mid-August. If you have found time to stamp, what have you worked on lately? I made a card for a friend. Wasn't incredibly excited with how it turned out, though. Daffodils stamped in green and two shades of yellow on a white background, then layered onto a pink card. I decorative-punched the corners of the white background, and the front panel of the card. Something was wrong or missing, but I couldn't tell what for sure. I think the leaves were too dark of a green, for one thing. The eye was drawn instantly to the leaves. Even after I water colored the daffodils for added emphasis. Ah well. Maybe I'll figure out something better! Any suggestions for what may have been missing? Barbara |
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The Write n Rub pen doesn't require nice handwriting, just a steady
hand. I stamp an image then trace the image with the pen. Then wait for the glue to dry, and place the foil over it or sprinkle glitter over it. For distressing, I found this website: http://www.alysta.com/stamping/de-stres.htm Try a search under distressing or shabby chic, there's lots out there. For the acrylic, we simply stamped on it, using different colors to create a collage of stamped images, using both sides of the acrylic. Then, if you wanted to glue it down, lightly cover the back side with Diamond Glaze and press down so that the entire back is covered with adhesive. Jeannette |
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