Showing posts with label Ink to Rubber Technique. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ink to Rubber Technique. Show all posts

Tuesday, 10 November 2020

Summer Days

At the back of the annual catalogue are two lovely stamp sets which are only available to buy using Host dollars, and Summer Days is one of those. You don't actually have to host a party, unless you'd like to, but instead you could share the catalogue around your workplace, show it to friends and gather orders that way. You could order your whole wish list at the one time. An order reaching $250 earns you $25 Host dollars and Summer Days uses $22.

The stamp has several smaller images (dog, cat, rabbit, clouds) which can be used to create a picture. There are no sentiments in this stamp set, so Happiest Of Birthdays filled the spot. It's a continuation of a technique I shared recently, using ink to rubber to colour the words in different hues.

The card is longer than usual, fitting a business envelope.


 This little lass under the tree could so easily be my 7 year-old granddaughter. I dressed her in a pink cardigan, since that is Alice's favourite colour.

I've shared this card before, a masculine version using Summer Days and the birthday greeting is in From All Of Us.

If your order is $250 to qualify you to purchase this stamp set, you won't use this month's Host code, you're using it yourself. You can spend more host dollars than you've earned, they add it to your sales as 'overage' so at least add some dimensionals to your host dollar purchase, and don't leave the extra behind.
Any questions, get in touch. 



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Monday, 10 March 2014

Hang In There

I have an extra day to my weekend this week - Yay! Although we are officially into Autumn now, it is very hot outside. I gardened yesterday, when it also was rather hot, so today is an inside day.
I have been preparing for my April class, when we will use large background stamps and the Tag Topper Punch, so although this isn't exactly what I will be offering, I like to show different samples to my crew.

What better for these colours than Lovely As A Tree? This stamp set has been around for years, longer than I've been a demo certainly, but it still has something for everyone in it. Just as everlasting as a tree, I guess.

Firstly, I stamped Crumb Cake card with the same colour ink and the large background stamp, Hardwood. Its very authentic looking, available in the new Occasional Catalogue and I love it, especially stamped in out of the ordinary colours like blue. I'm making some of those too! I didn't want to make the usual Tag Topper Punch card this time, so I snipped the side and trimmed it up. I chose the single old oak tree from Lovely As A Tree and inked the greenery with Pear Pizzazz before thumping with different green Stampin' Write Markers. Also used an Early Espresso marker for the trunk and branches. This is a combination of Ink to Rubber technique and the Thumping technique. The variation in greens is perfect!


For the greeting I went to a very neglected stamp set, From My Heart. You'd really have to know the recipient of this card well, to know whether they would appreciate the sentiment. It says, {HANG IN THERE} and on the inside of the card  'They say "this too will pass" they just never say WHEN'. I was able to use an off-cut from the hardwood card front to trim the bottom of the card.
I'm thinking this card will fit the Clean & Layering section of the Card Concept Color Challenge. Check out the gallery there too.

See you again soon?
Thanks for visiting my blog
Rachel




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Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Freshly Made Sketches #105



I have been visiting  Ireland, United Kingdom and Paris over the last seven weeks. A fantastic experience, but a long time to be away from getting crafty, so I am having a bit of trouble getting the creativity happening. My second son turns 34 this Saturday, and my 4th son will be 26 on Sunday week, so I have to get a couple of masculine birthday cards organised.

I headed over to check out the challenges for inspiration, and thought this sketch  by Allisa Chilton at Freshly Made Sketches was a great starting point. I chose shades of grey with Smoky Slate card  cut to make a 5 inch square card stamped with a splatter stamp from Gorgeous Grunge in Smoky Slate as well. I used a retired DSP, Howlstooth and Scaringbone from last year's Holiday Catalogue, but you can check out the current Holiday Catalogue for some other great 'manly' papers. 

I inked the rubber of the  birthday greeting stamp from Delightful Dozen with Basic Black and Cherry Cobbler Stampin' Writers, and added a fancy speech bubble paperclip from Hung Up Cute Clips. You'll find those clips on page 170 of the Annual Catalogue, there are three cute images ( 8 each of a
coathanger, arrow and the speech bubble).

I hope Jake likes the card, and I hope he has cake! He has two little boys who we missed so much while we were overseas, we visited as soon as we arrived home, taking cake with us. I didn't realise how cake-crazy those boys are, especially the younger one!



This is an easy card to make, and if you pop over to Freshly Made Sketches, you'll find a lot more ways to use this great sketch. Any questions about the products or technique, please email.
 Thanks for dropping by

Rachel