Sue’s Advent Series – Week Three, Owl Christmas: Day Two

Finished size: 4.25:’” x  5.5″
Supplies:
Stamps:
Owl Christmas -CL238 (Hero Arts)
Papers:
Brown Recycled paper (unknown)
Cream card stock scrap (unknown)
Green card stock (Die Cuts With A View)
Decorative paper (Basic Grey)
Inks:
Mementos: (Tsukineko)
     Tuxedo Black 
     Cottage Ivy
Other:
Circle and Scalloped Circle Nestabilities (Spellbinders)
Glue stick
Top Note Die(Stampin’ Up!)
Corner Rounder (unknown)
Red Gingham Ribbon (unknown)
Colored Pencils (Prismacolor)
Foam tape
Directions:

Cut a piece of recycled brown paper to [...]

Sue’s Advent Series – Week Three featuring Owl Christmas by Hero Arts

 
Week Three-Yikes!! It’s beginning to look like Christmas around here! I am frantically putting my holiday cards together. I look around my studio and there are cards waiting for glitter glue to dry, ribbons strewn all over, card scraps littering my desk, and amidst it all sleeping serenely is my Pinkie cat. If you haven’t started your [...]

Sue’s Advent Series – Week One, Tree Border: Day Five

 
 
This wraps up the first week of my Advent series.  I hope you returned each day and were inspired by the variety of ways I used  the tree border stamp by Memory Box. Come back on Monday for Week Two!
Finished size 4.25″ x 5.5″
 
 
 
Supplies:
Stamps:
Tree Border -D1277 (Memory Box)
Snow flake backgrounds – CL117  (Hero Arts)
Papers:
Matte white cardstock
Decorative [...]

Sue’s Advent Series – Week One, Tree Border: Day Three

Finished card  4.25″ x 5.5″
Supplies:
Stamps:
Tree Border -D1277 (Memory Box)
Merry Holiday Borders- LL113 (Hero Arts)
Night Before- CL141 (Memory Box)
Papers:
Matte white cardstock
Decorative paper (Memory Box)
Blue paper (Die Cuts With a View)
Hot Press water color paper (Arches)
Inks:
Memento: Tuxedo Black  (Tsukineko)
Distress Inks: (Ranger)
     Broken China
     Faded Jeans
     Weathered Wood
Other:
Glue stick
water brush (unknown)
Directions:

Stamp trees on water color paper with [...]

Gratitude Card for the Adventurer

By: Christine Candora-Hickey, Artistic Guide
Finished card size: 4.5″ x 6.5″
Supplies:
Stamps:
Pumpkin Patch (Great Impressions)
Time of Gratitude (Hero Arts)
Words: family, celebrate, thanks, together (Stampin’ Up!)
Paper:
Speckled cream cardstock (Stampin’ Up!)
Mustard cardstock (Bazzill)
Rust cardstock (Paper Source)
Tan cardstock (unknown)
Chocolate mulberry paper (PSX)
Ink:
Black Memories permanent ink pad (Stewart Superior)
Coffee Archival ink pad (Ranger)
Garden Green dye ink pad (Close to My Heart)
Other:
Sweet Apricot Radiant Pearls [...]

Holiday Blizzard Project – Autumn Leaves Pencil Cup

Welcome Autumn and Happy Thanksgiving!
 As a certified custom framer working at Michaels Arts and Crafts, I see a lot of frames.  Some made of wood, metal and even acrylic (such as those box frames).   I can’t tell you how many times I’ve restocked the little swivel photo pencil cups and never gave any thought to [...]

Holiday Blizzard Project – Joy Coasters

By: Sue Trembeth,  Artistic Guide
Finished Size: 4″ x 4″
Supplies:
Stamps:
Find Joy- C3065 (Hero Arts)
Upsy daisy (Stampin’ Up!)
Papers:
White Tissue paper (your choice)
Scrap glossy card stock (your choice)
Inks:
Tuxedo black- Momento (Tsukineko)
Adirondack Brights alcohol inks: (Ranger)
     Raspberry
     Sunset orange
     Watermelon
    Ssunshine yellow
Other:
Alcohol Ink Applicator (Ranger)
Alcohol Ink applicator felt (Ranger)
Stone tile 4″ x 4″ (home improvement store)
Thin sheet of cork trimmed to 3.5″ [...]

Saying Goodbye for the Discoverer

Floral Remembrance Card
By Janice Ellis, Artistic guide 
Finished Card Size: 4.25″ x 5 .5″
Supplies:
Stamps:
Words (Inkadinkado)
Potted Plant (Hero Arts)
Paper:
Cream and pink matte cardstock (Marco’s Paper)
Specialty Asian paper (The Paper Place)
Other:
Light and medium pink, dark brown and green markers (Marvy)
Directions:

Use markers to colour in the potted plant as shown.

Huff to reactivate the colours, then stamp onto a  scrap of [...]

Switch Plate Memories for the Inventor

Switch Plate Memories
By: Sue Trembeth, Artistic Guide
This project was inspired by Shari Carroll from her book- Layers
 
Supplies:
Stamps:
Smile Moments- D3042(Hero Arts)
Your History – C2712 (Hero Arts)
Moments- C2768 (Hero Arts)
Papers:
Chloe’s Closet paper pack (Making Memories)
Matte white card stock
Inks:
Momentos Tuxedo Black dye ink (Tsukineko)
Other:
3 electical outlet or switch plate covers of your choice
Glue stick
Red line tape
PVA glue (Lineco)
Foam brush
Craft knife
Pearl [...]

Memories Mini-book for the Inventor

“Memories” Mini-book
By: Marcia Mattos, Artistic Guide
 Finished size: 6” x 6”
As I mentioned before this month’s theme is “remembrances”.  So, I decided to honor the memory of my mother, who passed away 15 years ago. I made a little Keepsakes mini-book, where I intend to add some of her photos and some written messages and cards [...]

August 2009 Sketch Card

August’s sketch has a trio of tags with a scalloped border to set them off to inspire your creativity.  There are no limits to what you can do!

Go ahead, let your creativity run wild…check out our Artistic Guides’ interpretation of this super cool sketch.  Tags and more were used for their cards!

Melanie Smith
Stamps: Hampton Arts
 
Sue Trembeth
Stamps: [...]

Ebony and Ivory Card for the Discoverer

By: Christine Candora-Hickey, Artistic Guide
Finished card size: 8.5″ x 5.5″ 
Supplies:
Stamps:
Mixed Bouquet stamp set (Stampin’ Up!)
Printer’s Alphabet, uppercase and lowercase (Hero Arts)
Paper:
Black cardstock (Stampin’ Up!)
White cardstock (Stampin’ Up!)
Black & white polka dot paper (Black Market Paper Society)
Handmade black mulberry paper
Ink:
Petal Point – Essential Shades pigment ink option pads (ColorBox)
Blanco dye ink pad (StampaRosa)
Memories black dye ink [...]

Chips Ahoy: my adventures with paint chips- Day 3

Paint Chips, Day Three
Windows?!! Did I see paint chips with wee windows?!!? What will they think of next?  Who knew that the average paper crafter would love to see precut windows- no trying to line them up!! As you see I grabbed lots of these and I didn’t even touch the enormous color selection that [...]

We Apologize

We inadvertently missed including one of our new Artistic Guide’s sketch cards for the month of June and July.  Maria, we are so sorry! 
Maria’s cards are so beautiful, and we want to make sure you get to see them! So here they are:

Stamps: Magenta and Hero Arts

Stamps: Stampendous, Magenta, Savvy Stamps,
Judikins, and Acey Duecy

Stamps:  The [...]

July Sketch

July Sketch Card
By: Regena
The sketch card this month is so versatile and fun!  Lines intersect to create visual division in the card, with circles and rectangles for added interest.  Our Artistic Guides certainly enjoyed working with this sketch. The sketch is a great one to use scrap paper sitting in your stash!  How about flowers? Chipboard? Ribbon?  Oh, the [...]

Happy Birthday, 1 Stamp=3 Cards. Day 2

One Stamp – 3 Cards
By: Michael A. Trent, Artistic Guide
Here is the 2nd card in this week’s blog entry – again using the same image from Monday.  With this card I used the whole image.  Add a little color and some bling, and you have a beautiful birthday card to give to someone.
Remember to check [...]

Fabulous Friend, 1 Stamp=3 Cards. Day 1

One Stamp – 3 Cards
By: Michael A. Trent, Artistic Guide
I have a new motto when deciding if I want to buy a certain stamp – if I can’t think of at least 3 cards or projects to use the stamp with, I don’t buy it.  When I saw this image at my LSS I immediately [...]

June Sketch Card

Oh my goodness! Can you believe it’s June already?  Where has 2009 gone? 
This month our exclusive sketch card, designed by Regena,  is long and skinny with circles and squares. (And you thought you wouldn’t use geometry after high school!)

Our guides share a variety of interpretations with you.  Instead of all long and skinny, some are made [...]