Pile It On Challenge #26-Flowers and Flourishes

It's Pile It On! Week. Along with Pile It On! I created this card for my Prickley Pear team I used one of the New Christmas Transparencies. I coated the back of it with blue and white glitter before I glued it to the card. What is great about the transparencies is they are ATC size, so you can use that for that as well.

Here's a close up of the glittered bear. He really sparkles on the card.


Here are the challenges that I used for my card.

• Pile It On-Flowers and Flourishes
  
• Papertake Weekly-Christmas Crackers
• ABC Challenge-Indigo (blue)
• Charisma Cards-Anything Christmas
• Whimsy Stamps-Christmas

Happy Thanksgiving

When you play along with us, please remember to post your sample to your blog or gallery, and then include a link in the Mr. Linky form at the Stamps and Smiles Blog so we can all easily find each other. If you upload to SCS, please include “stampsandsmiles” in the keywords.
Stamps and Smiles stamps are not required for our challenges, grab some of your favorite stamps & supplies and have fun with our sketch each week!


Here's the sketch

Here's another project I made just for this occasion:
He's a Turkey ATC! I had so much fun making him.
Take a look at his belly button :) it's holding on his tail!
I ran all of his tail fathers through the Cuttlebug, he needed to have a little texture added.



The stamp on his chest is embossed in clear and then I took some distressing ink and rubbed over the thanks part so the paper behind it would take the ink (the embossing resists it) and the thanks would then pop out.

Still playing with metal tape and alcohol inks

This is (a copy of) the ornament I created for the blogger ornament exchange (bad blogger, I forgot to take a picture before I sent it, the only difference is hers said joy instead of happy). I hope my exchange partner (Lori) likes it. I am really liking what the alcohol ink does to the metal tape. I did find out that if you tap with the felt applicator all over the tape first, and let it dry completely, that the drops of ink tend to stay and not run as much.

As you can see I also am in love with the "branch" punch from Martha Stewart (purchased at Walmart, not at Michaels, that one is a different branch). I attached the fragment (also loving these days) with a Around The Block paper tail, so it moves.

METAL Embossing

I've been having a lot of fun playing with 3M metal tape. It is so much fun. It is thin so you need to adhere it to a piece of paper, but it is so thin you can cut it into any shape you need. It also embosses with an embossing folder beautifully. I found mine at a garage sale, but I think you find it in the roofing section of the hardware store. It is about 2"wide.

Star is a tag card. It is smooth on the back so you can write on it.

I created this card for the Prickley Pear Design team. Here's how it is done:

Instructions:
I first started by laying 3 strips of the 3M tape onto a piece of paper. I then cut the paper slightly larger than the star template (provided at Prickley Pear). I used the embossing plate and ran that piece of paper through the Cuttlebug (had to do it a couple times to fill in the entire paper). After I embossed it I used the Alcohol inks and added red and green to the metal. I used the tapper with a felt pad as well as dropped a couple drops right on the metal tape. I then used the sketch template and cut out the larger star out of the metal embossed piece. I mounted that embossed piece onto a piece of solid red paper and trimmed slightly larger. I then used the template to cut out the inside star out of the striped patterned paper. I punched a hole and set a red eyelet at the top.

The stamped center:
I used a Tim Holtz Fragment and dripped cranberry alcohol ink right onto the disc. Dried it completely with a heat gun. Now, this step has to happen really fast. On the inked side of the disc I stamped the PP Dove with a solvent based ink and then rubbed it off right away. (The ink will remove the alcohol ink from the disc). So it stands out a little more I added a piece of white paper behind the disc. I glued about 10 punches of the branch in green behind the white circle (which is behind the disc). I attached the fragment disc to the star with a paper tail (that lets it move). To finish it off I added a small bakers twine bow.

Supplies:
Paper} Solid: Red-Papertrey Ink, Green-DCWV, White-Mohawk PP: My Minds Eye

Ink} Cranberry and Meadow Alcohol Ink
Ribbon} Offray
Tools} 3M Metal Tape, Spots and Dot Embossing folder, Martha Stewart-Branch Punch, Around the Block-Paper Tails, Tim Holtz-Fragments, One Hundred Wishes-red and white string, Eyelet for JoAnns and Stampin Up Dimensionals

Here's some more embossed and alcohol ink samples

Happy Thursday! It's Stamps and Smiles day

This weeks card was a little challenging for me (I guess that is why it is called a challenge :-| ). Here is the sketch we were to follow:



And here is what I came up with:

OK so I added a window...but where else were we going to see Cuppy? This way you can watch her decorate the Christmas tree. I have been looking for that "branch" punch (the one my wreath is made from) made by Martha Stewart for the longest time. I checked Michaels every time I went...nothing. NOTHING on Martha Stewarts online craft store either...what? Where are people getting it? I checked Ebay, found a couple but the shipping was too expensive. Then, you'll never believe it...I was at my local WalMart picking up my spruce tops for my outdoor planter ($4.00 cheaper than anywhere else, still almost the cost of a whole tree, really $16.00 for just 5 tops. But I paid it). Anyway, I remembered that Walmart carried Martha Stewart craft supplies. Yep! They had it. I was so excited. The only difference between the one I got and the ones they sell at Michaels is that it has a light green casing instead of white. So if you are looking for it too, try Walmart.

Have a great rest of your day!

Stamps and Smiles Project Showcase

Hello SAS Friends! We have been busy over on the The Stamps and Smiles blog, here is a fun project sample using the NEW Fall/Winter stamp release.

I created a snow scene in this great old apothecary jar I had. I stamped Cuppy holding a ornament and the tree. Cuppy is holding a mini pom-pom ribbon that looks like a string of lights. There is glittery snow in the bottom along with some fiber fill. I added some mini ornaments and the tag to the top. I hope you like it.

Now go and visit the Stamps and Smiles blog to see the other projects the team created.