Thursday, December 26, 2019

Secret Santa Stamp

Check out the cute stamp I got from my Secret Santa.  We have 2 pickle ornaments on our Christmas tree and I love this stamp.  I actually plan on keeping my stamp this year.  I usually plant them as traditional boxes or send them off as hitchhikers.  Thanks AdventurousAcorn!



I sent my stamp off to RDHG.  They have a travel blog and I thought they would enjoy this traveling Woodstock stamp. 

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year <3

Saturday, December 21, 2019

Winter Craft & Swap

This is my LTC for aMAZEing adventure frog's Winter Craft & Swap tracker.  My card is called, "The Holy Family."

For this card, I used the same technique as my last New/Underused Product LTC.  HERE is that blog post if you want to see it.  And HERE is the video that I tried to copy if you want to go straight to the pro ;)

I rolled a layer of alcohol ink on the Gelli Plate with a brayer.  Put down a stencil and press it down with the bubble wrap.  Now, add more alcohol ink colors and use the cardboard/bubble wrap to add texture/transfer color from one area to another.

I went to buy more alcohol inks recently and accidentally got the pearl kind.  I had never used it before and tried it on these cards.  It looks pretty cool.  I'll have to use it more often.

Winter Craft & Swap 2019: The Holy Family 
When the inks are dry, roll out a layer of paint.  I used cream color paper and white paint.  You can add more texture after the paint if you want.  The first pull I smashed a wadded up plastic bag, but forgot about it on other pulls.

I have been using a lot of vellum here lately.  I stamped my stamp on vellum and attached it with a simple brad.  Then glued it to brown textured scrapbook paper.  I carved a small star stamp to stamp on the Gelli background but didn't end up using.

Thursday, December 12, 2019

Christmas Ornaments 2019

2019 Ornaments
This is my 4th year to participate in the Christmas Ornament swap, hosted by Moose on the Loose.  I got a bunch of fun ornaments today.

For this swap you are supposed to make an ornament and include a stamp.  The stamp can be on the ornament or a tag or something like that.

Last year someone made personalized ornaments for each participant.  I decided to do that too.  I got this idea from Pinterest.  I had an old atlas that was worn and had been wet.  I found each persons city on the map and made sure that it was inside the ring of the ornament.

Home is where the heart is 
If you follow my blog, the stamp should look familiar.  This is the stamp that I used all year in the New/Underused Product LTC swaps.  Here I made Shrinky Dinks with them.  I'm very happy with how they turned out :)

Merry Christmas <3

Sunday, December 1, 2019

Scrap LTC

 This is my card for Gypsy Fiddler's "Scraps Challenge-The Sequel" LTC tracker.  When She hosted the first one, it filled up before I could join.  I thought about making cards anyway in the hopes someone would drop, but didn't. 

My original idea for a scrap card was a crazy quilt.  But when she posted the second swap she suggested that we make something for the upcoming holiday season.  That is when I decided to make the cornucopia. 

For the swap, we had to make at least 3 stamps from our scrap pile.  I carved 14 but only used 13.  I didn't end up using the curved leaf.

Carving the stamps was the easy part of this tracker.  Making time to color, cut, and assemble was the hard part.  This was my first time using Copic
markers and I really enjoyed it.  I tried shading three different ways- going over the area with the same color, going over the area with a darker color, and going over the shaded area with grey.  The princess was excited to play with them and shaded some of the pieces. 

Another new thing I used on this swap was a sticker machine.  My mom is a scrapbooker and she uses these to assemble layered embellishments that she makes with her Cricut.  My daughter saw them, asked for one for her birthday, and I borrowed it for this project. 

I think it was easier that gluing them all individually but it leaves a residue like rubber cement.  I had to rub down all the cards at the end to get it off. 

I'm happy with how the cards turned out but I will probably not be doing anything like this again.  I am turning these stamps into an event box.  You may see them in the future :)