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Happy Monday!!

How was your weekend?  Get any scrapping done?  I did!  Want to see?   Here is a card I made with the Sheena A6 EZMount™ Xmas Stamps - Ivy Borders.  (the stamp set that one lucky person is going to win today!)

 



I used Tsukineko Memento Luxe inks in Grey Flannel, Rich Cocoa, Morocco, Love Letter on this card.  These luscious inks are pigment inks and the color and coverage are amazing!  They will be in the Crafter's Companion Store very soon!

 



I wanted to use one of the edge stamps from this set to make my card.  I pulled out some Kraft paper and my inks.  The Heart stamp called to me so that is the one I used.  I started stamping the image with Rich Cocoa, next I used Morocco, then Grey Flannel, then Love Letter.  I moved the stamp from side to side to nestle the hearts together.  I finished up with Rich Cocoa again. 

Since these inks are pigment inks they sit more on top of the paper and take longer to dry.  You can either set your project aside to dry for awhile or you can heat set the color.  You will want to do this otherwise you might smear it.  The beauty of pigment inks is that they are generally opaque so the colors are extremely vibrant.

For my sentiment, I used a sentiment from the Barkley Rubber Stamp Everyday Set - Heartfelt Wishes.  I stamped it out with Memento ink in Tuxedo Black onto a scrap of Ultra Smooth Premium White Cardstock for Alcohol Markers that I had sitting on my scrap desk. 

I decided to custom color it to go with my project.  I used one of my Spectrum Noir markers that matched the closest - DR2.  I colored the stamped image and then die cut it out.  I added some clear bling that I also colored with DR2 to match.

I decided that I wanted to carry the color to the card base.   I pulled out a piece of Luxury Centura Pearl 8" x 8" Printable Snow White Cardstock and trimmed it a little wider than my Kraft topper.  I flipped it to the non-shiny side and quickly colored a strip down the two side edges.  I didn't have to be neat because the Kraft topper was going on top of it and would hide any imperfections.

Here is what the colored edges look like before I added the Kraft topper.

 

Here is it with the Kraft topper added to the custom colored base paper.

 

I finished up the card by adding a bit of faux stitching to the edges and some twine from my stash.  I like the clean and simple lines of this card.  And I had fun playing with my new Tsukineko Memento Luxe ink pads! ha

 

Okay, you have waited long enough to find out the winner of the Crafter's Companion Design Team Welcome giveaway. 

 

Without further ado...the winner of the Sheena A6 EZMount™ Xmas Stamps - Ivy Borders is:

 

Amy BovairdAugust 4, 2013 at 7:53 PM

Lovely! Thank you for the opportunity to win!

 

Congratulations Amy!!!  You will need to email me your full name and US mailing address to Scrapwithstacy(at)Gmail(dot)com by Thursday, August 8th or you forfeit your prize.

 

Thanks to all who joined the giveaway!  Until next time...happy scrapping!

 

Stacy

Who is Interested in a Giveaway?

Woo hoo!  The new term is starting today for the Crafter's Companion design team.  And I'm still on it!  Yeah!  I am sad to see Stephanie "Arty Carty" Lee go. She was such a fab team member and I will miss her.

We did however add a couple of awesome newbies that I just know you are going to love, Tenia Nelson and Leah L'Orange.  As a fun way to start the new term each Design Team member will be giving away a stamp set on their blog. 

To enter to win the stamp set giveaway on my blog, you just need to leave a comment on this post telling me what is your favorite stamp set at Crafter's Companion and then link back here from your blog. The giveaway starts today Thursday, August 1, 2013 and ends on Sunday, August 4, 2013.  I will announce my winner on Monday, August 5th and that winner must contact me with their full name and mailing address at scrapwithstacy(at)gmail(dot)com by Thursday August 8th or forfeit their prize. Unfortunately this giveaway is only open to folks with a U.S.mailing address. 

I am giving away the cool new Sheena Douglass A Little Bit Festive -Ivy Borders stamp set that we just launched! 

 

One of the things I love about this holiday stamp set is that you can use it all year long.  You don't just have to use it for Christmas.  In fact, I used it on a multi media wall hanging.

 

 

I really had fun making this.    I prepared my canvas with a coat of gesso.  After that dried I pulled out some patterned paper from my stash and tore the edges.  I adhered it to the canvas with some Claudine Hellmuth Studio  Multi Medium – Matte. When that dried I found that I had some old sheet music that worked so perfectly with my "heart" theme so I adhered it on top of the patterned paper with the CH Multi Medium too.  It was music for a song called My Heart Sings. Perfect!   I took some Ranger Tim Holtz Paint in Broken China and rubbed it randomly over the paper and canvas and set it aside to dry.

 

Using Tsukineko Memento Rich Cocoa Ink, I stamped out a gazillion flowers from the Sheena's A Little Bit Sketchy EZMount Stamp Set -Always Floral, layered them and added some Ranger Liquid Pearls – Rouge to the centers.

 

While the Liquid Pearls dried, I decided to use some homemade modeling paste to add a bit of fun texture.  I grabbed a mask from my stash and an old credit card and smoothed the paste over the mask.  Then I lifted off the mask and I did this in a couple of places.  Then I set the canvas aside to dry....again... ha  This is the hardest part of doing multi media projects for me, the waiting for things to dry.  

 

After it dried I decided to tone down things with a bit of Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Ink – Walnut Stain.  I used my inking tool to darken the edges and the white of the modeling paste.

 

After this, I laid out my flowers in a heart shape and when I liked the way they looked I adhered them to the canvas with some Collall Quick Dry Tacky Glue.  I'm loving this new glue!  Have you tried it yet?  It dries quick and clear.

 

Next it is the finishing touches.  I stamped out a sentiment from Sheena's A Little Bit Sketchy EZMount Stamp Set -Only Words - From The Heart using some Tsukineko Memento Luxe Rich Cocoa Ink.  This is awesome stuff and we will be carrying this new ink at Crafter's Companion very soon.  Keep your eyes peeled! ha

 

 

I stamped out a heart using some luscious Tsukineko Delicata Golden Glitz Ink.  This ink is just so gorgeous I can't stop using it!  I layered a few pieces of washi tape to the upper left side, stamped out a few of the hearts from the heart border stamp on the Sheena - Ivy Borders set.   I took a piece of washi tape and covered the hearts I didn't need and then inked up my stamp.  Then I took off the washi and stamped the hearts on my canvas.  I added the inked heart with some double sided adhesive squares and it was finished.

 

Remember - every team member is giving away a stamp set.  So go check them out and enter to win!  Here is our Design Team list:

 

Chrissie Tobas -- http://harvestmoonpapiere.blogspot.com

Christiana Reuling -- http://christygetscrafty.blogspot.com/
Denise Coulter -- http://lalasworldblog.blogspot.com
Kendra Wietstock -- http://kendrawietstock.blogspot.com
Khristen Foss -- http://khristenscraftroom.blogspot.com
Leah l'Orange -- http://thechroniclesoforange.blogspot.com
Mary Dawn Quirindongo -- http://mypinkmexico.blogspot.com
Roxanne O'Brien -- http://projectorganizedchaos.blogspot.com
Stacy Harper-Watson -- http://scrapwithstacy.blogspot.com/  You are HERE
Stephanie Severin -- http://ingeniousinkling.typepad.com
Taylor Usry -- http://taylorusry.blogspot.com
Trena Brannon -- http://trenastampinhq.blogspot.com
Tenia Nelson -- http://jazzypaper.blogspot.com
Good luck!  Thanks for stopping by and looking today.  Until next time...happy scrapping! 

 

Stacy



Brambly Hedge

Want to see a fun card I made using the Brambly Hedge Papercrafting Collection Triple CD-ROM SET
from Crafter's Companion? 

 

All I had to do was print out the pages for an Easel Card and all the bits were right there ready for me to put together.  I just trimmed them all out and then put them together.   I added some green cardstock, twine and buttons from my stash to finish it up.  Easy peasy!

 

I just think these little mice are the cutest things and I just had to share with you!

 

Thanks for stopping and looking today.  Until next time...happy scrapping!

 

Stacy

 



Christmas in July at Crafter's Companion

Hello everyone!  This week Crafter's Companion is "officially" celebrating Christmas in July.  They have opened the doors to their Christmas store and you are seriously going to want to check it out.

I'm pretty happy to have gotten one of the new Die'sire holiday Embossalicious embossing folders - Christmas Patchwork and I used it on the card I am sharing with you today.  Isn't this folder gorgeous!? 



 

I trimmed the base card out of Luxury Centura Pearl Printable Snow White Cardstock.  And then layered some pattern paper and then the embossed paper. 

 

I pulled out some paper from my stash and trimmed out the Christmas ornaments to use as embellishments.  I recently purchased some Bakers Twine from Tim Holtz at my LSS so it was sitting right there on my scrap desk just calling my name. ha 

Have I mentioned lately that I love my Crafter's Companion Ultimate Tool?!  Seriously, I do!  You can do a million things with this beauty but one of the best things about my Ultimate Tool is the bow maker.  And guess what?  This card needs two bows!

 

So of course I grabbed it and got out the pegs from inside of it and set them in the smallest holes since I wanted very small bows. 

 

 

Then I just wrapped the twine around the pegs, slipped one end under the twine in the middle and tied a knot.  

 

 

 

Slide it off the pegs and you have a perfect bow!  And as you can see these would work perfectly on my card. (if I was using green! ha)

 

Crafter's Companion will soon be launching some FANTASTIC holiday sentiment stamps called ironically Sentimentals (hehehe).  I used one on this card by stamping it out with Memento Ink in Tuxedo Black onto a scrap of the patterned paper that had been using and trimmed it into a banner shape. 

 

I added it to the card with double sided adhesive squares and finished it off by making some Pearls  on the sentiment banner with my Viva Pearl Pen.  I also just had to add a bit of this luscious stuff to a couple of snowflakes on the embossed paper to make them stand out.  And since I'm addicted to sparkle I put a little Star Dust Stickles on the ornament embellies. 

 



I like how it turned out.  How about you?  Thanks for stopping and looking today.  For more Christmas inspiration check out the Crafter's Companion Facebook page or website.

July Crafter's Companion Die Cut Challenge

Have you joined in on the July Die Cut Challenge at Crafter's Companion this month?  Well, if you haven't you still have time.  Here is my take on the challenge for this month.

I made this card by using only scraps left out on my desk after I made another project.  I love to do that. 

And since I have been an embossing fool lately, I just had to run the base card paper through my 6" X 6" Embossalicious Embossing Folder - Petite Dot.  This folder is obviously too short for the size of paper I ran through so I added the striped paper to the bottom.  I added the ribbon to tie the two together.  You will notice that I pulled out one of my Martha Stewart edge punches to use also because the scrap of striped paper was too short to go all the way to the bottom.  I was only using my leftover scraps remember?  (smile)

To finish things up I stamped out in Memento Ink - Rhubarb Stalk the Happy Birthday sentiment from the Stamp-It Australia EZMount Stamp Set 61 - Sentiment Swirls.  I die cut it out and added it to the front of my card with Double Sided Adhesive Squares for a little extra dimension.

Now it's your turn.  Go and get your challenge project made while you still have time to win the awesome $30 gift certificate to the Crafter's Companion store!  Until next time...happy scrapping!

Want To Win a Prize?

Help me win an fantastic prize by LIKING the Crafter's Companion USA facebook page and telling me you did it. The Design Team girls are having a little friendly competition! 

 https://www.facebook.com/CraftersCompanionUSA?ref=br_tf

If I win the fab prize, I will randomly pick a person from those that let me know they did this and will send that person a fab prize!

So help a sister out!!!!  lol

Stacy

Christmas in July with Barkley

How about a little Christmas in July?!  It seems like this is the time when all good little crafters start working on their holiday projects so here is my first Christmas card of the "season".  It was easy to be inspired to make it because I have been having so much fun with that Barkley CD-ROM that I received last week.  And starting tomorrow you will be able to get one of your very own to enjoy!!

This card went together so quickly and I know that if you are anything like me you don't have a ton of free time so any time I can make something great in a short amount of time I'm thrilled!

To make this I grabbed some Kraft paper and cut out my card base and scored it on my Ultimate Tool.  Then I printed out my sentiment sheet and the topper sheet and trimmed out the ones I wanted to use.  I inked the edges and added them to the card base with double sided adhesive squares.  I finished up with a little Star Dust Stickles and Liquid Pearls....(I told you I was addicted to them! ha)  Voila!   All done.   

Thanks for stopping by and looking!!  Until next time...happy scrapping!

Stacy