May Creative Images Meeting

We had three former members, good friends, join us last Wed. night and we all had a good time.  Very happy to see Dee, Pat and Genny again. They brought exchange cards, too, so we had lots of cards.  Our exchange card theme this month was “Seaside Adventure.  Therese used her bathing beauty from January’s stamp camp transfer on canvas taught by Jeannie.  Click on any card to see details, then “back” to return.

Dee made the palm trees with white micro glitter and gold outline stickers, colored with Copics or whatever she used.  I love this technique.  You can see more about it in my previous post.  On the right, Ella made this little fussy cut girl on a sandy beach.  Definitely bright and sunny!

Genny did this lovely Father’s Day card with a water colored lighthouse.  Jeannie made this great card with three sailboats with lots of bellies for interest. 

This next card is my three bathing beauties done from the stamp camp, with flip flops and tiny shells added.

 

Pam used one of my favorite SU sets for this lightly color washed beach scene.  I always think of my sister when I see this stamp.

Pat water colored this beautiful, relaxing, beach scene.  It feels more New Englandy than Florida.

Tange made this lovely, simple card with the same SU set Pam used.  She stamped it and then used bleach in a water pen to remove color.  Will have to try this again, soon. 

Eleanor did the project, a technique new to most of us, white embossing on black cardstock, colored with pastels.  You can see a tutorial on Splitcoast here.  Here’s four of her samples.  Gorgeous!

Most everyone took to heart my concern that not many of us ever finished the project at the meeting, especially when someone goes to the trouble to teach it to us and provide everything we need to do it.  Almost everyone finished their cards!  I got pictures of most of them.

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For contrast in techniques, here’s a Black Magic card I made long ago that is similar, but uses white craft ink instead of white embossing and pencils instead of pastels.  Both have great end results, especially if you can’t find your pastels!  LOL

Tange’s birthday was in April and Jeannie gave her a belated birthday card at the meeting.  Tange is one of a kind!

Last, but not least, Ella submitted her proposed project for the January stamp camp.  The colors behind the fussy cut silhouettes are from brightly colored bits of egg shells! 

That’s it for this month.  Thanks for stopping by.  Comments always welcome.

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Fun Times With Pat J.

Last week I got together with my friend Pat for a stamping day, including lunch, show and tell and a trip to Spring Hill to see a new stamp store.  Lunch and the store were okay, but the time stamping with Pat was the highlight.  She showed me two techniques (actually had done them so long ago I forgot) and got me started on being able to do them myself. 

First was a gorgeous stenciling technique with gold leaf.  The stencil was filled with gold embossing paste and after it had dried a bit, gold leaf was pressed into it.  Here’s two of her samples, one on black with the gold leaf and one on gold with white:

Here’s the one I started working on, showing the paste, offset spatula and brush.  All the gold leaf hasn’t been brushed off, yet.

Here’s the stencil.  I liked this so much, I have the paste and the stencil ordered.

The other technique is one I saw the first time at a class at Priceless.  It uses silhouette stickers and ultra-fine glitter.  The class I took used different colors of glitter, which I didn’t get into it then.  The glitter is expensive.  Pat used white glitter and colored in the silhouettes with Copics.  Here’s a few of her cards.  Gorgeous.

These next two use the same sticker design, one gold, one black, and they’re colored differently. Love them both.  I’ve bought what I need to do this technique myself.  This is much prettier in real life.

Here’s some other cards Pat showed me and she gave me the first two.  The first one uses a different fold and herringbone embossing folder and . . .

this one uses a window die and Lovely as a Tree.  The black layer is actually shiny gold and very classy.  Going to make some of these. 

On the left, these flutters make a very simple card and on the right, the flutters are colored and layered on rounded squares.  Very cool.

This card is gorgeously colored with tiny punched butterflies for embellishments. I think this was white on gold, again, not black.  Hard to tell. Pretty, either way.

We’re going to play again soon with embossing folders and my Big Shot.  Thanks, Pat, for letting me post these cards.  Thanks for stopping by.

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April Creative Images Meeting

We had six members at last night’s meeting, but only four exchange cards.  Jeannie brought a guest, Phyllis, someone I’ve known almost 9 years, though we hadn’t seen each other in years.  Jeannie sent me and Therese an e-mail that Phyllis would be there, or we would’ve just looked at each other wondering where we knew each other from.  Nice lady.  Hope she joins us. Phyllis is a total newby to stamping!

Our exchange card theme this month was “Embossing,” and everyone did at least some on their cards.  Our project, since Herman is no longer with us, was to make new name tags.  First up, the cards.  Pam’s card is in black and white, a flower shop, with the honeycomb embossing folder at the bottom, sponged for contrast. 

Ella used a different embossing technique, embossing green glitter for the flower sprays.  She fussy cut the little girl for a lovely focus point.

My card also used the honeycomb embossing folder.  I sanded it lightly to reveal the white core of the cardstock.  I ran some brown and peach CS and a piece of the bee paper through the folder, too, then cut out little hexagons to attach to the honeycomb.  Sounds tedious, but kind of like piecing on a quilt.  I’ve always liked fussy cutting, too.

Jeannie didn’t know which embossing we were supposed to do, so she did both.  She used the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder on the white CS and gold embossing on the butterfly.  Ribbon and feathers and ric rac finished it off nicely.

  

I was the only one there last night that needed and/or  wanted to make a new name tag, so here I am with Phyllis and my new tag.

Here’s a close up.  Yes, that’s a cute little beaver  and pinecone stickers, three layers on each.  They were given to me months ago by Wanda and I kept track of them enough to finally use them.  I had die cut the letters off mirror gold CS with an alphabet set given to me years ago by my Aussie Buddy, Tracy.  I got pearls and glitter CS from Therese.  Everyone enjoyed watching me put it together and I got feedback as I worked along.  It fits perfectly into a plastic badge holder.

That’s it for this month’s meeting.  Thanks for stopping by.

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March Creative Images Meeting

We had eight members Wednesday night, but we will be down two in the future.  Herman has a new job with Hospice, but it is shift work and he will only be able to attend meetings once in a while.  Lona says she has been too busy with her guardianships and that Wednesday would be her last meeting for a while.  We’ll miss you both.

Of the eight who were there, we had seven exchange cards.  The theme this month was “Stampers’ Choice,” so lots of different cards. First is Ella’s peaceful butterfly.  She covered the butterfly with crystal lacquer to give it dimension and shine and added jewels.  Lovely.

Helen made these bright slices of watermelon with some banner dies.

Herman made this soft layered, sponged card.  We’ll miss Herman’s cards.

Jeannie made this pretty layered birthday card with some fussy-cut bathing beauties.

I used the honeycomb embossing folder on some white-filled gray CS and took a sander after it to highlight the embossed hexagons on this sympathy card. 

Lona made this pretty collage card by stamping on acetate, running it through a Xyron machine and coloring with Perfect Pearls.

 

Therese has quite a collection of humorous stamps and this one is a great addition.  If he was bald and skinny, he could be my fisherman brother.  Love the coloring job.

Tange had the project Wednesday.  She showed us three coloring/blending techniques, samples below.  Then she handed out little rings to put our tags together with stickers of instructions on the back.

That’s it for this month.  Thanks for stopping by.

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Sale-A-Bration (SAB) Workshop

We had a great workshop at Jeannie’s last Saturday, or as Jeannie likes to call it, a “funshop.”  Jeannie is very happy with the free stuff she earned and she got herself a Big Shot half off!  Almost everyone earned a free SAB set, too.  Love that free stuff.

As a little background for what we played with at the workshop, in January, Stampin’ Up hosted a Sale-A-Bration Celebration in Orlando.  I went with Jeannie and Helen and had a good time.  After dinner at Uno’s, we went to the Convention Center and learned a few cool ideas with the SAB sets, a couple techniques, and Helen took lots of pics.  Thanks, Helen, for giving me all your pics on a CD! 

First thing we really liked were two cards made by Brandi Barnard with the SAB Vine embossing folder (EF).  She cut strips of cardstock, stuck them to another piece of CS, then ran it through the Vine EF with her Big Shot.

Then she trimmed it, mounted it on a card base and embellished it.   

I really liked her concept, but not her execution.  The vine pattern was meant to be centered on each strip and I thought reversing direction of every other one would be more interesting.  Sooo, I CASE’d her idea but did it my way. 

I cut quarter sheets of CS, ran them through the Vine EF, took my Versamark pad straight to the CS to pop out the vines just a bit, cut the CS to strips 1” wide by 4” long and adhered them to the card front, alternating them in direction.  Much happier, I was.  I liked her colors better, so I see another one in my future.

I liked Brandi’s next card, too, and learned how to neatly put a notched banner end on the strips with a square punch.  Who knew?

Her final card was pretty, but I wasn’t crazy about her crooked tearing on the DSP or that her vine strips had two going one way and one the other.  Nice, but . . .

This is my sample of a make and take at Jeannie’s workshop.  The ladies liked mine much better, too.  Instead of Versamark on the Vine pieces, we brayered them with ink before cutting the strips.  This card is in Tempting Turquoise and So Saffron, using a sentiment from Blooming With Kindness and Tea for Two Designer Series Paper.

Another idea from the show in Orlando is from one of the samples on their wall.  It used the Elegant Butterfly and the Itty Bitty Butterfly punches and the Vintage Wallpaper EF.

I loved it, but thought it was a little detailed for a workshop, so here is my sample for our other make and take.  Instead of white on white, we used Riding Hood Red for the card base.  I love how the two punches fit together.  The sentiment is from Ciao Baby set punched out with the SAB petite curly label punch.

Brian Pilling was another speaker at the SAB Celebration and he demonstrated masking with the little cup from SAB Patterned Occasions. I loved this card so much, I have that SAB set coming to me soon so I can CASE this.

 

Hope you enjoyed seeing some of what I saw in Orlando and what we did at Jeannie’s.  I love feedback.  Thanks for stopping by.

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