29 August 2008

Matching Card and Envelope



Dawn is keeping me SO busy, copying her videos to my blog. Thanks Dawn! This is a wonderful video of Dawn making a matching set - card and envelope. It's a great watch.







Sunset Card By Dawn

Creating cards using a brayer technique is all the rage right now. Dawn does it beautifully in the following video. Thank you Dawn. You really are quite amazing!









Faux Metal Embossing With Dawn

Just a piece of cardstock, embossing ink pad, embossing powder, a rubber stamp, and a heat gun is all you need to make a faux metal tag.

Thank you Dawn!











23 August 2008

Dawn's Rock-N-Roll Technique, Along with how to use the Stamp-A-Ma-Jig



Using the Stamp-A-Ma-Jig






Rock-N-Roll Technique





Separating Stampin' Up! Stamps For Versatility AND Making a Gift Bag



Dawn shows us how to make some of our stamps more versatile, by cutting parts out and placing them on different sides of the wood block.













Gift Bag Video by Dawn





The size of my bag is

7" X 3 5/8"

2 pieces of designer paper

(1) cut at

6 7/8 X 3 5/8 ( front )

( 1) cut at

9 1/2 X 3 5/8

scored at 2 1/2"( back )






More Videos by Dawn



Money Holder Card










You will need a piece of card stock ( She is using Pink Pirouette ) cut at 7 1/2" X 7 1/8"

Whisper white for the belly band cut at 1" X 7"

Bella Rose DSP I cut that at 2" X 7 1/4"

Punches: 1", 1 1/4", and 1 3/8" circles AND scallop







Cute Punched Sheep Card









Scallop punch ( whisper white Card stock )

5 Petal flower punch ( Black card stock )

Bashful blue card stock ( cut at 4 1/4 X 11 scored at 5 1/2")

Certainly celery card stock ( cut at 1 3/4" X 41/4")

Pretty in ink card stock cut at ( 1 1/2" X 4 1/4")

I will be using Bashful blue in the video for the strip on top of the pretty in pink this is cut at 1/2" X 4 1/4" BUT on my sample card posted here I used certainly celery card stock

Apricot appeal cut at 2 1/4" X 2 1/4"

Crop-a-dile ( for embossing circles )

Stem = A

Flat = 3

white gel pen

Also used my Paper piercer tool and mat to the sides of the apricot appeal






Triangle Tri-Fold Card












Cutter,

Scoring tool ( bone folder )

Piece of card stock (Chocolate chip) cut at 3 1/2" X 10 1/2"

Piece of Designer paper ( Berry Bliss) 3 1/4" X 3 1/4"

and some ribbon ( Chocolate Taffeta )





Pin Wheel




1 piece of DS paper cut at 5"x 5"

1 Pixie stix

1 Brad

1 Button

Cutter, Scoring tool, Scissors, and Adhesive






Frankenstein Card - Video by Dawn of Dawn's Thoughts








13 August 2008

Using Heat and Stick Powder







Using the Stamp-A-Majig







Mirror Image Stamping







Fresh Cut Notes







Sugar Coated Brads







Scalloped Edge Using The Corner Rounder Punch







Faux Shaving Cream Technique







Black Magic Technique



Amazing to me, I just learned about the "Black Magic Technique". I'm adding a YouTube video of it here, which I know I'll be referring back to later. Hope you enjoy.








It's a very easy technique and a great way to use your solid stamps : stamp your solid image using white Craft ink onto black card. Dry with your heat gun. Now use your SU Pure coloring pencils to color the white parts .

Now for the 'Magic' bit..... Highlight the lines of the image with a white Gel pen which really makes it pop! Also, try using a Sakura Stardust pen instead. They come in lots of colors and work on dark as well as light paper.