Blue Block Stamping

On the Two Peas in a Bucket board we have been discussing "oldies but goodies" techniques. I love techniques, but I haven't done any for awhile. I took out my blue foam block. Do you remember those? You heat it up with a heat gun and then press it on an object to make an indention in the block, ink up the block and stamp! I used the cuttlebug ceiling tile folder for my impression as you can see in the first picture. I then used a Nellie die to cut out the impression that I stamped in blue to use on the card.

Window Card

I just got back from a great week at Pigeon Forge, although yesterday we had tornado warnings from 5pm to 12:30am! Thankfully none came through where we were staying even though they were close! I am teaching my local stamp group -- The Stamping Divas -- how to make this window card out of one piece of double sided card stock, next Monday. I will put up some instructions soon.

Happy Easter

I want to wish each of you a wonderful and blessed Easter as we celebrate the resurrection of Christ. Praise Him for His wonderful love and gift of salvation!

Join The Party

These last 2 cards have been birthday cards. It seems I always need them. So for this Cat's Pajamas sketch challenge, I made another one. This was a fun sketch and a fun card to make. I have not made a long card in a LONG time.  LOL! You can see the sketch here -- http://dancinginpajamas.blogspot.com/ . I just love this Cat's Pajamas cat. I have used him a lot! The little dog is cute too. I was happy to use this birthday pad of paper that I bought recently. I have seen it many times and it would always catch my eye, so I finally bought it!

Do The Polka

I made this card for the Impression Obsession challenge -- Do The Polka.  We were to make a card using dots. I used their cover-a- card dots background stamp and colored some of the dots with Twinkling H2Os. The balloons were also colored with Twinkling H2Os. Hoping everyone is having a good day. We just had a downpour here, but I am glad it is warm.  You can see the challenge by clicking here -- http://mitrafriant.typepad.com/impression_obsession_news/

Keeping It Kool

Recently I had some friends over and we worked some more on the Art Lenz products that we took a class on a few weeks ago. They have some special paper that you can put under the Art Lenz to make your stamped image look 3-D. I just love this paper! You can see the red lines behind the penguin on this card. If you wiggle the card the lines will move.  You can see the Art Lenz products and videos here -- http://www.artlenz.com/

Magic Card

We are having another warm and beautiful day here today. I hope you are having a good day. At our local stamp club ( The Stamping Divas ) we learned how to make a magic card. This is an oldie, but I have never made one. At the club mine turned out rather weird, so I tried it again at home. I wanted to master this. Well, this is the card I came up with after 3 attempts! LOL! Here is a tutorial of how to make one. http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/magic_card/. I modified mine a little by making the window smaller in order to have more of a front to decorate.