A Merry Masking Maniac?? October 1, 2007

Well, let’s just say that I won’t be mass producing this card to send out for the holidays.  Another card that requires patience…but I wanted to see the end result and couldn’t turn back once I started. 

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I had to combine the moose from Moose You stamp set & lights from Simple Snowman stamp set to create my main image.  DIFFICULT LEVEL OF 5.

For the lights, they were colored with Real Red & Old Olive Stampin’ Write Markers (some left white/clear).  I got out the good ol’ Stampin’ Pastels to add a glow around the light bulbs.  Finished them off with Crystal Effects.  It looks so cool.

Card base size is 4-5/8″ x 8-3/4″ Real Red CS folded in half.  Layers of paper on top are 4-1/8″ x 4-3/8″ Chocolate Chip CS & 4″ x 4-1/4″ Dashing DSP.   Added a strip of Chocolate Chip Satin Ribbon and tied in a bow.

Image piece is 2-1/4″ x 2-5/8″ Shimmery White CS; 2-3/8″ x 2-3/4″ Real Red CS; 2-1/2″ x 2-7/8″ Old Olive CS; 2-5/8″ x 3″ Chocolate Chip CS.  Used Ticket Punch to bottom right corner of image piece.  Added a Fire Rhinestone Brad to this area. 

Sentiment piece is 1-3/8″ Circle Punch of Shimmery White CS; Scallop Punched a piece of Old Olive CS and paper-pierced holes.  Real Red CS Circle created with Coluzzle Cutting System. 

Here are the masking step pics:

Gosh, I don’t even know where to begin on trying to explain how I did this.  I had to use my Stamp-A-Ma-Jig and Window Sheet a lot.  Have to do a lot of pre-planning.  I had to know exactly where the moose was located and which parts of the light strand would be omitted.  All the lights in the pic are yellow because I had to patiently cut out image on post-it note and apply to the whole strand of lights…ughhh!!!

After stamping the moose image, I removed the little post-it note light cut-outs and colored. 

TFL.

Have a great Monday.

wsc21 file folder card October 1, 2007

Definitely a challenge!!!  When I saw the sketch for this weekend, I instantly thought that I had to make something that would flow & coordinate with the look of a file folder.  It would have to be office-like with a twist of my style — that was hard since my style is fun and whimsical. 

This is what I came up with for Beate’s wsc21:

I am sending this card to Ethan’s teacher who just retired.  He attended our High School’s Child Development class.  I took him 2x/week so he could interact with other children and the high school students would “study” them.  I was so hesitant to send my little man due to my very protective attitude:)  She was the best teacher and I felt very comfortable letting him “hang out” with the big kids.

Here is the inside of the file folder card.  I added a pocket to the inside bottom portion of the card and inserted a pic of my son.   How stinkin’ cute right???

You can find a tutorial for this card on Beate’s blog.

STAMP SETS USED:  ABC Alphabet Lower; ABC Images; My ABC’s wheel; Define Your Life; Everyday Flexible Phrases.

CARDSTOCK USED:  Shimmery White; Basic Black; DSP from Primary Colors Simply Scrappin’ Kit; Brocade Blue Textured; Real Red Textured.

INKS USED:  Stazon Jet Black; Real Red; Wild Wasabi; More Mustard; Brocade Blue classic stampin’ pad, stampin’ write marker, and craft pad.

ACCESSORIES USED:  Self-Adhesive Die-Cuts from Primary Colors Simply Scrappin’ Kit; On Board Lots of Letters; Jersey Ribbon Originals; Black Mini Library Clips; Earth Elements Colored Brads; Aqua Painter; Stampin’ Dimensionals; Staples; Spiral Punch; 3/16″ Corner Rounder Punch; 3/4″, 1″, 1-1/4″, and 1-3/8″ Circle Punches.