Sewing Machine

Today on the Gingersnap Creations blog, I have a tutorial.

When I first saw the machine theme for this month, my first thought was SEWING MACHINE! I love the look of stitching on cards. It adds such a nice, subtle detail. But I've spent the last 3.5 months (we get the themes very early on) pondering what kind of tutorial to do for the SEWING MACHINE.

I mean....you either own a machine and know how to use it OR you don't own a machine and it's a mute point. Right?

Then this past week I learned the COOLEST photo transfer technique in a class I' m taking and the ideas started rolling around. So forgive me for taking a slight turn...I promise to include the sewing machine too!

These are just the close-ups of the piece.

Stamps: just a clock stamp...but I can't remember what company
Ink: Distress Ink (Pumice Stone and Fired Brick)
Paper: 6x6 manila square, 7 Gypsies LILLE paper, sticky back canvas (ATC sized)
Clip Art: Dezinaworld Steampunk 4
Accessories: 7 Gypsies rub-ons, Tim Holtz gears & mini bottles, Stampin Up! mini tag punch, red Stampers Floss, red glitter, sequin waste, red wire, Tim's tiny attacher, sewing machine/red thread, Copics, black reinker, mini brads.

The image is a Dezinaworld clip art photo on sticky backed canvas. I also used Tim Holtz gears, mini glass bottle, and some 7 Gypsies rub-ons. And some red glitter for "time in a bottle". (wink)

A few more rub-ons, sequin waste, and red wire wrapped into a coil.

I hope you'll stop over to Gingersnap Creations and read the tutorial!!

GC57 - WINGS

I wanted to do something different for the Gingersnap Creations WINGS challenge. I had pulled out some clip art of cemetery angels but the wings were so small. Then I remember my gargoyle clip art sheet. I'd already used the gargoyle with the big wings - so I used this guy.

The rest is scraps of "Paris" and Eiffel Tower paper. No real stamping here (just a "postmark").

Stamps: 7 Gypsies
Paper: Graphic 45 scraps, clip art by COLLAGE STUFF
Ink: SU! Real Red
Accessories: brads, metal photo corner, glitter, metal fleur de lis

CoC #2 - Fragments Basics

Week Two at Studio L3 'COMPENDIUM OF CURIOSITIES' Challenge is Fragment Basics (pg62). Which in actual fact is very easy! Just gluing Tim's Fragments to bits of paper.

I'm using goodies in the stash lately and found these great 7 Gypsies tags. I think they are for journaling - but have great graphics. I highlighted the green areas with very fine glitter. The Fragments I glued on parts of Graphic 45's DOMESTIC GODDESS papers. I liked the cherry motifs. The girl and her mother are clip art.

To challenge myself (since this is a pretty basic) was to make a double sized tag. the check print is a AMuse paper that was distressed with Old P aper ink.

The left side.

The right side.

G56: Burgundy, Black and Ivory (make that Kraft)

Gingersnap Creations' monthly color challenge ends this weekend. This month it's Burgundy, Black, and Ivory. But Ivory wasn't working with the papers I picked - so in my case it's KRAFT (actually it's SU! Sahara Sand but I won't tell if you don't)!

This is a pretty simple card. The dress stamp is from a set from Stampington & Co. It's a clear stamp so I was able to decide where to stamp. The black ink wasn't showing to clearly on the dark chocolate brown paper, so I highlighted with white gel pen. The sentiment is also from the set.

Stamps: Stampington & Co SMITTEN FOR HOPE
Paper: 7 Gypsies, Stampin Up!, and Memory Box
Ink: Archival Black, ColorBox Chalk WARM RED
Accessories: ticket, red nail head rhinestones

Don't forget to comment on the here for the blog candy - I'll draw a name tomorrow morning!

Eggstravaganza! Finale and Blog Candy

A few more egg cards. At least the backgrounds I wanted to finish.

I'm offering these two backgrounds as blog candy. Leave a comment if you're interested. I'll randomly pick a name on Friday, the 18th.

This is a bit plain but I like the CAS feel of it.

Stamps: none
Paper: Paper Studio
Ink: none
Accessories: Scrapper's Floss, button, Tim Holtz bird die

I stamped and distressed the tag. The three central eggs were colored with Copics (BG10, BG45) and then glittered.

Stamps: Red Lead
Paper: 7 Gypsies, mini tag
Ink: Archival Brown
Accessories: Martha Stewart bird punch, Copic, glitter

Another nest tag.

Stamps: Inkadinkado, Amuse sentiment
Paper: Paper Studio, mini tag
Ink: Distress Ink
Accessories: Scrappers Floss, Copics, glitter

Thanks for sharing in my Eggstravaganza!!

Eggstravagnza! #4

Tired of egg material yet??
I sewed this single egg on the cardstock because it was a extra scrap. I wasn't sure what I would do with until the little bird punch remnant fell on it. It looked like a bird couple hatching their first child. So it needed a little "excelsior" nest.

Stamps: none
Paper: 7 Gypsies
Ink: none
Accessories: excelsior, brads, Martha Stewart bird punch