Today I am sharing the second foiled and fabulous Taylored Expressions Sarcasti-Chick card I made for my newest YouTube video here. On the front are two starry foiling techniques made with Gina K Designs/Therm O Web Gold Sequins Fancy Foil. The little sparkly stars were created with Therm O Web's Transfer Gel through an Echo Park Stars stencil. The top stars were stamped with a Taylored Expressions stamp and die set called Cutting Edge - Stars and Versafine Ink, then embossed with a clear embossing powder. I die cut the top out with a matching die from that TE set and then I laid a piece of the gold sequin foil across the whole piece and ran it through my hot Minc. This shows that we can add the sparkle of foil to just about any stamp or stencil.
But of course the best part of this card is the lol caped Sarcasti-Chick and her super funny sentiment. I used stitched die cuts from Lil' Inker and My Creative Things to cut out the stars and oval and speech bubble. The front stands up to create an easel card.
For links to all the products used and to learn more about how to add foil accents to Sarcasti-Chick cards, watch the video here.
I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday and the Stamp On it challenge at Simon Says Stamp Monday.
I am in love with the new Taylored Expressions Sarcasti-Chick stamp sets and am sharing two cards in my latest video featuring her and Deco Foil. Here is the card I make from start to finish in the video:
The front is gorgeous with foiled snowflakes made with a Gina K large snowflake Foil-Mate and the new Tide Pool foil from Brutus Monroe and Therm O Web. A still photo cannot do justice to the beautiful sparkle of the foiled snowflakes. The sentiment is part of a set from Crackerbox Palace. Where is the snark of Sarcasti-Chick you ask? Take a look:
Taylor from Taylored Expressions will be making more snarky and fun Sarcasti-Chick sets, but not in time for this Christmas. So I looked through my stamps and found the perfect sentiment for this boozy Santa chick. I created her Santa outfit using a hat from Tim Holtz's Crazy Bird Things set and added Taylored Expressions Sugar Coated Felt to an outfit from the TE Sarcasti-Chick Closet set of stamps. I popped her up with a couple dies from Karen Burniston. To see how that was done and how to make a Santa Sarcasti-Chick, please take a few minutes and watch the new video here.
I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday.
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It’s Saturday and time for another
fun challenge at Send a Smile 4 Kids! This year, all challenges at
SAS4Kids are Anything Goes 4 Kids! We will often have an alternative theme
that you can choose to follow, but are not required to. Create and link any card
that is appropriate for a child and your card could be chosen as one of our top
three cards and you could join us as a guest dt member on a future challenge.
The theme for this
challenge is: Cute Fall or Halloween
Cards 4 Kids OR Anything Goes 4 Kids.
I created a cute Halloween card for a child for this challenge using dies from Impression
Obsession, Cheery Lynn Designs and Lil’ Inker. Be sure to check out the rest of
the cards from TEAM SAS here and we
would love it if you entered our challenge.
Another gorgeous Christmas stamp from the latest Stampendous! release is the Ponsettia Collage I used on this card. I used my Tonic Studios Tim Holtz Travel Size Stamp Platform to stamp the Poinsettia Collage on three squares of white cardstock attached with temporary tape. With the stamp platform, I could stamp it several times to get the best image. Then I separated the three squares, layered them on dark red cardstock and attached back on the square card base.
On the inside of the card I continued the poinsettia theme with a pretty patterned poinsettia from the Poinsettia Parts set of stamps and dies and another sentiment all from the new Stampendous! release. I added some gold Nuvo Crystal Drops to both poinsettias to complete the card.
Thanks to Stampendous I have five more cards done for special friends and relatives at Christmas. I hope you check out the new stamps and dies in this release and also watch my video to learn how to make the cards I shared earlier in the week.
I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday.
Thanks for your visit and for helping me #share the joy of creativity!
This "merry and bright" snowman from Stampendous! is sure to bring a smile to the persons who receive this card! I created a 5 x 7 portrait landscape impossible card out of two sided Christmas cardstock. When I first started playing with the impossible fold, I found this blog post and video by MayMay that shared templates for all different sizes of the impossible fold card. I chose the last template she shows in her blog post, but increased the side smaller pieces to 1 1/4 inches wide. Making that change made the card sturdier and created a pop up that was the perfect size for the cute Smiling Snowman from Stampendous. I paper pieced his wardrobe and added an oval "Merry and Bright" from the Christmas Bright set of dies and stamps.
On the back side of the 5 x 7 impossible card, I added a tag for my signature with another cute Stampendous snowman and some snowflakes.
I recently received many of the stamps in the Stampendous fall and Christmas release and had so much fun designing with them that I will be sharing Stampendous! cards all week on my blog. Today I am featuring the cards I show in my latest video all of which feature the new Buck Scene stamp, different masking looks and many new Christmas sentiment stamps. The first card above is my favorite and it combines the Black Ice technique with masking of the gorgeous Buck Scene on copper foil paper and I show how to make this card in the video. I did some layering and added a lovely "peace" die cut from Quietfire Design. On the inside of the card is a perfect sentiment from this set of stamps.
The card above is the 2nd card I show how to make in this video. I stamped and masked the Buck Scene and then I stamped the Silent Night background stamp using my Tim Holtz Travel Size Stamp Platform. I added some red pearls and some Nuvo Fresh Snowfall Glitter Accents for snow on the roof, fence and mountains. The beautiful Stampendous! sentiment on the inside of the card is from this set of stamps called Snowman Wishes.
My last Stampendous! masked card was very easy to make using an oval mask after stamping the Buck Scene, and then sponging with blue distress oxide ink. I cut the oval mask and the "merry" with an oval die from this set of stamps and dies. The oval die I chose was stitched and after I removed the mask, it is was fun to see that the stitching from the mask transferred to the cardstock. The sentiment on the inside of this card is also from the Snowman Wishes stamp set.
We all need to stretch our crafting budgets and one great way to do that is to find different ways to use the same stamps and dies. I hope you will take a few minutes and watch this video, and then come back later this week when I post more cards using stamps and dies from the fall and Christmas Stampendous! release.
It's back to school time and I made this card for my grandson who loves Harry Potter with new stamps from Crackerbox Palace/So Suzy Stamps and some cool marbled Park Lane cardstock I found at Joann Fabrics. I typed up the sentiment and continued the thought on the inside of the card:
But what makes this card really special -besides the awesome Harry Potter stamps- is what happens when he pushes where it says "Press Here:"
Isn't that neat? I used some Chibitronics LED lights and copper tape and a battery to create the light up star. Brilliant! I think Nate will love it.
I am entering this card in the Back to School challenge at Simon Says Stamp Monday.
