Monday, August 13, 2012

Stamping My Own Paper


Oh my goodness!  I have three followers who are not my husband and kids!  Pam, Nancy and Terry, YOU ROCK!!  Everyone's been extremely supportive.  That reminds me, I have to go back and fix the spelling of Craisins!  There!  Another thing checked off my to do list!

No story today, sorry.  I don't know if I'd even call it a technique.  I take that back. There is a technique and it turned out quite well too!  My goal for today was to recreate this paper which came in a specialty pack called "Dotty For You."  It was a promotion that was only available for 6 weeks.  I love this paper, but I can't make it last forever and only 2 sheets of this pattern came in the package of 24. 


 Luckily, I have the stamp of this flower and the little leaf in a set called Card Word Puzzle C1494, and I have these ink colors too, of course, so:



In essence, I made my own paper.  I was actually going to print an entire sheet, but then decided to stamp right on the card and overlap on the back since I always like to add a little something on the back. :)


If you look at this photo closely, you will see that I cheated and set it up after the card was finished, mini pearls and all.  Ignore that part!  The important thing is the masking technique.  You just stamp the image on a cheap piece of scrap card stock and carefully cut it out.  Then use this mask  to keep your card clean while coloring the image with, in this case a sponge swiped over an ink pad.  I tried hard to vary the amount of ink for shading and highlighting individual petals. 


 I'm quite pleased with the overall effect.  The teeny tiny pearls are actually called bitty pearls!


The sentiment is from one of my favorite "word" sets called Card Chatter - Birthday D1475.  I just looked at the link for that stamp and it doesn't do it justice at all.  See below for the punchline!!


Now that's funny!  And so ME!!!!

Okay, this is what Card Chatter -Birthday  D1475 really looks like:

P.S.  I just had Will, my 21 year old, proofread this entry and he started singing "Interjections" from Schoolhouse Rock to me.  That was money well spent!!  Got the whole collection years ago at Sam's Club.  I'm still smiling!  :D


8 comments:

  1. I've had "Conjunction Junction" stuck in my head all morning now!

    I can imagine a challenge to make cards using all the stamps in the "Card Chatter" set. You could get some interesting results.

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    1. At first I read that as "make cards using all the stamps in the "Card Word Puzzle" set, and my reply was going to be: "You've got to be kidding!", but the "Card Chatter" set? You're On!!

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  2. Your card turned out just beautiful Karen!! Great job re-creating the Dotty for You paper!

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    1. Thanks, it was so much fun! btw, did you notice I called them mini pearls instead of bitty pearls? Gotta go back and fix that!

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  3. great job making your own paper Karen!
    your card is beautiful!!

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    1. Thanks, it was fun and I need to do it more often. In my last post I played around with the colors of that same card and was really pleased with that one too. I think I should make a box to match!!

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  4. Your paper turned out great! And I like the belated birthday card sentiment.

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  5. The belated birthday card sentiment is so positive!! It's so perfect for people like me!! You, on the other hand, Gail, are one of those people who have the "birthday-card-organizational-gene" and that's awesome!!

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