Greyt Paper Crafts: Rejoicing with You

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Stamping with New Stampin' Up

Happy Sunday to everyone! Yesterday was an exhausting day of having a garage sale, breaking it down and then starting in on the overhaul of my basement. Needless to say, I thought today would be a great day to take it easy and relax. What better thing to do to relax than to stamp?
I made this card for the Featured Stamper Challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers-

This is a very simple card using the masking technique. It is also a single layer, but gets some dimension from the scoring with the Simply Scored tool and from double stamping some of the rattles from the Button Buddies set and popping them up on dimensionals. I mixed up the colors some, some old and some new: Pumpkin Pie, Gumball Green, Real Red, Summer Starfruit and Tempting Turquoise.

The next couple of cards use a set that is not new to Stampin' Up but is new to me. It has turned out to be quite versatile. I made this Get Well card with Thoughts and Prayers, as well as the following Sympathy card. To learn what materials were used for the Sympathy card, see this post.

Finally, I gave one of my newest sets another try and came up with a card that I really like. I just did not have any mojo the first go around with this Rejoicing with You stamp set. Today, however, the results were golden!

For this card I used-

Stamp set-Rejoicing with You

Paper-Brushed Gold, Real Red, Whisper White, River Rock, Twitterpated

Ink-Versamark, Basic Gray

Other-Dimensionals, Whisper White organza ribbon, Gold ep, Stampin' Up's new framelits and new paper piercing templates

I hope you like the results as much as I do. I think this basic design will be used for one of the Christmas cards in my Christmas in July stamp camp.

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Angelic Card

I am so happy that I just got my new order from Stampin' Up and am ready to try out all my new goodies! The first stamp to get inked up is this morning was the angel from the Rejoicing with You set. I wanted to experiment with supplies and not be afraid of the end product possibly not being what I wanted it to be. So with that in mind, I decided to try the sketch over at Merry Monday.

Unfortunately, I was not able to get a good picture of this card. The Bravo Burgundy card base looks washed out and the gold frame around the circle does not look gold. This looks better irl, but still does not compare to a card that inspired me from the Merry Monday blog post earlier this month. If you want to see perfection, check out this card.

I used:

Stamps- Rejoicing with You

Paper- Bravo Burgundy, Crumb Cake, Nataurals Ivory and gold

Ink- Versamark, Bravo Burgundy

Other-sponges, gold ep, Victorian ef, new Stampin' Up framelits

Well, time to "experiment" with more new supplies! Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by!
EDIT-Thursday evening-
I have been working with this set much of the afternoon and evening and am getting closer to what I want, but still not there. These cards no longer follow the Merry Monday sketch, but I do like them much better than my first attempt with this stamp.

Honestly, I think I am making this too difficult, but as my mother always has said, I make more work for myself than anyone else she knows! Oh well, back to the Angel drawing board!

I did have fun trying out another new set today. I know a lot of you will love this fun set, Happy Hour. I hesitated getting this set, but am so glad I did. And in contrast to the angel cards, this one was a snap!