Stampin' Up! Demostrators present "The Wacky Watercooler New Catalog(ue) Blog Hop"

Welcome to our first ever Wacky Watercooler Blog Hop! We hope to make this a fairly regular happening. If you come across a broken link you can find the participating blogs on our home blog site.

You may have hopped over from Kathe's Blog, I have hopped with her on our Llama Ladies Blog Hops. I enjoy visiting her blog and was lucky enough to meet her last week and will share her swap at a later date.  So I thought I would share the swaps I made as well as one additional project.

This is my favorite swap I made! Hopefully the ladies I swapped with liked it too.

Faux Watercoloring

Mist Watercolor paper with water. Ink stamp and stamp on moist paper. Dry paper, re-ink stamp and stamp again.

Stamps: Too Kind, Lots of Thoughts

Ink: Old Olive, Melon Mambo, Raspberry Ripple

Paper: Old Olive, Melon Mambo, Very Vanila, Watercolor, DSP Stack

Misc: Chalk Talk Framelit, Mosaic Punch, Fancy Fan Embossing Folder, Dimensionals

My second swap uses a stamp from the annual cataloge as well as a sneek peek of Washi tape from the upcoming holiday catalog (ask your demonstrator how you can get it before the catalog is released)

Stamps: Seasonal Sayings

Ink: Basic Black and Pumpkin Pie Markers

Paper:Very Vanilla

Misc: Witches Brew Washi Tape and Dimensionals

My last project isn't a swap it is a gift I made for a Bridal Shower I used both current and retired product on this project along with a couple of non SU items. I have several pictures so bear with me.

I made the cover of the scrapbook by cutting the very heavy (almost chipboard) cardboard that comes with the Specialty DSP in three pieces to make the spine and front and back covers. I covered the boards with DSP adding Cherry Cobbler Co'ordination CS as a wrap around the spine. I heat embossed in Gold "Forever and Always" from Loving Thoughts on the cover and decorated the front with Basic Pearls.

Here is the Spine.

 I tied the retired Cherry Cobbler Tulle and some gold non SU wired ribbon around the spine, hanging from the ribbon are three Cherry Cobbler tags gold embossed with words from Loving Thoughts as well as a lock and key.

I'll Show you a few of the pages.

The pages are made from envelopes(left over from my daughter wedding invitations) they are cut so each envelope is a tube and covered with DSP and then Decorated with current and retired elements. I used many different Framelits to create mats for photos or journaling in each pages tube the are two pull out pages.

 Pull out page with a copy of their wedding announcement already added, the rest of the pages are for her to fill.  Here are a few more pages.

There are more pages but that gives you an idea of my project. 

I used the following Framelits:

Window Frames Collection, Labels Collection, Ovals Collection, Circles Collection, Chalk Talk, Apothecary Accents and  Hearts Collection.

Edgelits Used:

Adorning Accents, Finishing Touches and Large Scallop.

One of my customers saw it and has asked if I will be offering a class so I am working on that idea.

So now it is time to hop on over to Bev's Blog.

Seasonal Sayings

• Card base is Cherry Cobbler the front of the card was ran through the Big Shot with the Petals-a-Plenty folder. I used the new Stampin' Dazzle Marker in gold to dot the centers of the flowers it is really pretty in real life.
• I stamped the phrase from Seasonal Sayings in Versamark on Very Vanilla CS and heat embossed it with Cherry Cobbler embossing powder. I cut it out with the Apothecary Accents Framelit and sponged the edges with Lucky Limeade Ink.
• I cut a piece of Candlelight Christmas DSP with another Framelit from the same set. I added it to the base and the popped the phrase up with Dimensionals.

I hope you are having a wonderful day!

October Club Cards

So I started a new job this week thus the lack of posts. I'll do better next week.
This month for club we did the Shaving Cream Technique, these are the cards we made, a halloween and a Thanksgiving.  The Technique is as follows.

Shaving Cream

Fill your container with shaving cream.   Use a wooden stick to smooth it out a bit.

Add several drops of each of your re-inker colors to your shaving cream.

Mix shaving cream and re-inker in a swirling motion.

Continue to mix until you like the design/swirls you see

Press your cardstock into the shaving cream. Make sure the card front is completely coated.

Pull cardstock out of the shaving cream.

Lay another piece of cardstock on top of the one covered in shaving cream. Press together, then pull apart. giving you two shaving cream coated pieces of cardstock.   This will give you two shaving cream coated pieces of cardstock.

Take a paper towel and wipe away the shaving cream in a swirling motion.

Let dry.

Finish your card. Either layer an image on top or stamp directly onto the background.

• The card bases are More Mustard.
• The DSP used to make the flags is from Howlstooth & Scaringboone.
• I used More Mustard, Tangerine Tango and Cajun Craze reinkers for my swirls in my technique.
• For the Halloween card the Frightening Feline was stamped with Versamark onto the swirled glossy paper and heat embossed with black. the image was cut with the Window Frame Framelit on layered onto Basic Black CS cut the next size up. The eyes don't show well in the photo but they are rhinestone colored green.
• The Thanksgiving card has a phrase from Seasonal Sayings stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with Early Espresso. It was cut with the Apothecary Accent Framelit and layered onto Early Espresso CS.

I hope you have fun with this technique!