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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks for the info. I'd try the foil/writing if I had better penmanship.
It looks pretty and a lot of fun.

I've never distressed anything (except DH when I go to a convention) but it
sounds interesting. Will have to check it out on-line. Do you know of a
website?

Now that you explained about the Embossing Paste it reminds me that I've
done that but used Joint Compound from DH's garage (more stress). As soon
as I step into his garage he gets a pained look on his face, wondering what
I'm going to find to use in my craft room. LOL

I've used black Memories permanent ink to stamp on acrylic but it never gets
very dark. Maybe a StazOn pad would work better. I glue and glitter the
back side of the acrylic afterwards. Is that what you do or is there new
things to do with it now? I can see I need to go to a convention again
since there's so many new things out there in the world.

SAD


On 8/25/05 12:20 AM, in article ,
"Jeannette Marsala" wrote:

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

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

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