Shoebox swap

I did a shoebox swap with a bunch of friends. Shoebox swap is where you prepare a card for as many participants that are playing. Another words if 6 are in the swap you prep supplies for six cards and place everything into a shoebox then pass the shoeboxes around and everyone makes one card out of each box. In the pictures here are the six cards I made from our shoebox swap. What fun!

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Fun in N.H.

I will be away this weekend visiting friends and stamping. We are doing a shoebox swap and this is the card for mine. Stamped Rubber Stamp Tapestry Strawberries set for my card.
Have a great weekend everyone.

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Lots to do Saturday - black & white

Challenge for http://lotstodocallenges.blogspot.com/ is black & white which is a favorite of mine to do. This is a square white card using LIWP Puffins for an anniversary card. enjoy!


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Thursday Theme challenge - Glamour Girls

This Hero Arts girl looks like a Glamour Girl to me. This is a card challenge for http://themethursday.wordpress.com/.

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Published!

I am so lucky to be published in Scrap&Stamp Arts June 2009 issue and to have three pages. I was at craft store yesterday and saw the magazine there and couldn't resist picking up the magazine and flipping to the pages. What a kick to see yourself on the pages of a magazine! Check it out if you get a chance. All images used in article by Faerie Song Rubber art stamps.

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Thursday Rainbow Lady-Transport

This week theme for Rainbow Lady http://rainbowladyschallengeblog.blogspot.com/ is Transport. Vintage car by Stampers Anonymous. Words by Postmodern Design.

On this card I did TH Burnt (think that is what it is called) edges technique. A lot of blending of colors with Ranger blending tool.

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Mixed Media Mon.-Mermaids

Mixed Media challenge http://mixedmediamonday.wordpress.com/ this week is Mermaid. This Mermaid is by Lasting Impressions with Panache. Background is marbling with shaving cream: spread out foam shaving cream in a flat pan, squirt a few drops of ink then with a toothpick swirl it around to create a design. After design is done gently place a piece of cardstock on top of it then remove the card from the shaving cream mixture. Wipe off excess shaving cream to reveal your background. Stamp on top of background with black ink and add color with prisma color pencils.

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Sunday International Designer page

I'm happy to announce that Sunday International have their design team page up for everyone to see. There are a lot of great ideas from all the design of which I'm proud to say I am one of their designers. Check (hope this works) it out here: Design Team if the link doesn't work please go to my sidebar and click on Sunday International home page.

Guilt free Ice-cream cone

Here is what should have been an easy card to create but for some reason it wasn't ..... at least for me. Took many tries to find a background I liked for the ice-cream cone to sit on top. Tried plain background, pattern papers then last I stamped & added extra texture with Cuttlebug embossing folder. Brown/pink card is with textured embossing folder. Green card is with just stamped background.

To make the cone I first used Tiny Mosaic Cuttlebug embossing folder to create a waffle cone. I preferred the backside of the embossed card for a more realistic looking sugar cone that I remembered from my childhood. With a sponge add dark highlights to the cone. For the ice-cream scoops I used 2" Paper Shaper scallop circle & 1 1/2" Paper Shaper scallop circle. Cherry is 5/8" Paper Shaper circle. For the cherry stem on the green card I just free cut it.

Background: Stamped small checkerboard (moon rose art stamps) & swirl (ASITH) along the border of the card. Used Swirl Cuttlebug embossing folder to give it more dimension.....more life to the card.

To assemble: Tape the ice-cream scoops with double stick tape then tape to background card. Mounted the cone with foam mounting tape. Added saying with double stick tape. Taped finished ice-cream cone card to card with double stick tape.

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Lots to do Saturday - numbers

This card is for Lots to do Saturday challenge...theme is numbers.

Check out more number ideas here http://lotstodocallenges.blogspot.com/

Sometimes it is fun to go out of your color scheme and that is what I did here using yellow, bright green and red (my least favorite color). I think this is a big & bold card.

enjoy!

All images by Sunday International

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Brayer over Circles

BRAYER OVER CIRCLES
April 2009
by Sue Wisniewski
Stamp credits:
Funky Flowers, baby's breath & Bloom – Sunday International, Dee Gruenig series
single leaf – Vertical Inspiration Birds of Paradise #POSH-81
Inks:
Ranger Adirondack ink pads – Cranberry & Bottle
Staz-On Jet Black (SI)
Supplies:
3M double stick tape & repositional double stick tape
Speedball brayer (SI)
EK Success 1 3/8” circle Paper Shaper
Marvy 1” circle paper punch
text wt. copy paper
glossy cardstock
Instructions:
1. Stamp Funky Flowers & baby's breath randomly on glossy (3 3/4” x 5) cardstock with Ranger
Adirondack Cranberry ink.
2. Stamp single leaf with Adirondack Bottle green ink randomly on same card.
3. Let the images dry on their own or zap it with heat tool to speed up drying time. images must
be dry before going on or they will smear.
4. Punch out circles with Paper shaper and circle punch. As many or as little as you desire.
5. Apply paper circles over stamped card with 3M repositional double stick tape.
6. Ink up Brayer with Adirondack Cranberry ink and brayer over entire stamped card with circles.
7. Remove circles to reveal highlighted areas.
8. Stamp Bloom on the right side of stamped card with Staz-On Jet Black ink.
9. Layer stamped card on dark green (4 x 5 1/4”) cardstock with 3M double stick tape. Layer this
piece onto maroon note card.
Tips:
1. Over stamp images and off the card.
2. Images must be dry before going on or they will smear.
3. Think odd numbers when punch out circles. Odd numbers are more pleasing to the eye.

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saw this idea on Dawn's Thoughts blog

Daring Cardmakers- Hide & Seek- Friday challenge

Hide & Seek - hidden message cards. One of my favorite things to create are mechanical cards or cards that move. This is a pop-up card with the message hidden until you pull the ribbon.

Check out http://daringcardmakers.blogspot.com/ to see other hidden message cards.

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Crazy Amigo Tues. - anything Tim Holtz

This challenge was to use any of Tim Holtz ideas. This is a tag I created using Ranger Crackle paint as an accent on my tag with grunge board pieces also with crackle paint. This crackle paint is so easy to use because it is a one step crackle. I like easy!
All stamps by Faerie Song rubber art stamps.
http://crazyamigochallenge.wordpress.com/
Can't wait to see what everyone else creates.

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Resist plus technique

Here is a fun card doing resist technique but when I was done I didn't like it so I kept going adding more ink.

TOUCAN RESIST WITH A TWIST
April 2009

card by Sue Wisniewski member Sunday International design team
Stamp credits:
Vertical Inspiration Birds of Paradise #POSH-81
Inks:
Ranger Adirondack ink pads – Lettuce, Wild Plum, Bottle
Ranger Distress ink pad – Pine Needles (SI)
Tsukineko VersaMark ink pad (SI)
Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder
Supplies:
3M double stick tape
Speedball Brayer (SI)
the Paper cut white Matte Coate (4 ¼ x 5 ½) Postcards
Imaginisce white brad
Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder
Ranger Clear embossing powder
McGill corner punch
Silk flowers
Instructions:
1. Stamp double leaf with Adirondack Lettuce ink pad randomly on white matte coate postcards.
2. Stamp little flower with Adirondack Wild Plum ink in the same random fashion. Over stamping and off the card is eye pleasing for this technique.
3. Repeat stamping process with single leaf in Adirondack Bottle ink.
4. Let all images dry. To speed up drying process use heat tool.
5. Stamp Toucan with VersaMark ink in the middle of the card over all the images.
Sprinkle Ranger clear embossing power over Toucan. Tap off excess powder and heat emboss with heat tool.
6. Ink up brayer with Adirondack Lettuce ink and brayer color over entire card.
7. Buff with paper towel to reveal Toucan with images inside image.
8. With Ranger Distress Pine Needles ink pad do DTP technique over entire card. Tip: DTP (direct to paper) means place ink pad on card and rub over card.
9. Buff the card again and see the magic! The Toucan will show up with the dark Pine Needles color in the creases of the image.
10. Punch out all four corners with McGill corner punch on stamped card and pink layer.
11. Using 3M double stick tape layer the stamped card onto pink layer. Set aside till ready to assemble.
12. Place a piece of dark green cardstock in Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder, and run it through Cuttlebug machine or compatible personal die cutting machine.
13. Layer Swiss Dots green cardstock onto bottom right side of bright green greeting card with double stick tape.
14. Layer stamped card on top of Swiss Dots layer with double stick tape.
15. Add white brad to the center of silk flower and mount onto bottom right of card with 3M Foam mounting tape.

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More Mystery Fish

Here are three more Mystery Fish ATC from the swap I hosted on yahoo group. What fun it is to recieve all these fish. In order left to right. left-Paddy, great fiber around her atc. center-Grace, she calls her's Easter Egg fish. right-Georgia, Bubble Fish. All of them are terrific. Thank you!

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Shaving Cream background

Another oldie but goodie when it comes to backgrounds. Here is another page out of my Background Sketchbook.

SHAVING CREAM technique:

supplies:

foam shaving cream - cheap brand works best

dye re-inkers

toothpicks, comb or anything you can use for making design in shaving cream.

Basic instructions:

1. Squirt shaving cream into shallow pan.

2. Spread it out like you were frosting a cake.

3. Put a few drops of re-inker on shaving cream.

4. Move the ink around with toothpick or whatever implement you choose to use.

5. Press cardstock onto shaving cream.

6. Remove & scrap off excess shaving cream to see the design.

7. buff with paper towel.

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Fun Masking!

Fun with Masking!

Finished teaching my creative cards class at my local Adult Education. Here are just a few pictures. What fun we had stamping together! In this class I was showing everyone how to mask images.

Once you master the art of masking an image you can really make your scenes on your card pop!

With just a few tools like Adirondack ink pads (really like the colors), Post-It sticky notes, stipple brushes (a stamper's best friend) and of course stamps you can have fun creating cards by masking.

Basic Masking technique:

Masking is a term which means "to cover". In the world of stamping it is used to bring images to the forefront by covering the main (foreground) image with a mask, and then stamping over it with another (background) image. This technique is easy, fun and very useful.

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