OSW project

Card: old olive, elegant eggplant, melon mambo, whisper white, basic grey

Ink: old olive, elegant eggplant, melon mambo

Stamp set(s): delicate doilies, curly cute

Accessories: beautiful wings embosslit, big shot, scallop trim border punch

Rachel Knight took us through how she does a One Sheet Wonder (OSW) at Stamp Camp. This is a technique that I am so going to use again! It's where you stamp up one sheet of A4 cardstock (I used whisper white here) and cut it down so you can make 6 cards from it. Very cool. I love these colours together, and it's one way to use up scraps, but also to make a number of different cards at once.

Card: crumb cake, whisper white, early expresso

DSP: well worn

Stamp set(s): word play, need for speed, solid strips

Ink: real red, early expresso

Accessories: real red embossing powder, heat gun, foil, cork

This was one of the projects we completed at Stamp Camp a few weekends back. Bev showed us how to create this amazing masculine easel card, with dry embossing on foil, and heat embossing. I love this card with the foil embossing, and the flags and car just make it masculine! The cork sets it off nicely, too.

A wee card to say hello

Card: tempting turquoise, real red, whisper white

Ink: tempting turquoise, real red

Stamp set(s): just believe, elementary elegance

Accessories: beautiful wings embosslit, big shot, pearl, brayer

This project was going to be my swap for Stamp Camp a few weeks ago, but I decided to do something different. It's a 3" card, which is my new favourite size. I have brayered the real red on whisper white, stamped the images, and added the butterflies with a pearl. It's a simple card, but I love the detail and brayering! The pearl gives it a little bit of elegance!

Punch art madness!

I thought I would share another Stamp Camp project today. Vicki-Lee showed us how to make this oh-so-cute cute pengiun card, and very cute lion calendar (an easel card) - she is the queen of punch art! I wasn't too sure what to think of these projects at first, but they are definitely growing on me. May have to invest in some more of Stampin' Up!'s wide range of punches...! While these were fidley to put together, it's quite amazing what you can up with with a snip here and a snip there from the different punches that are available. I ended up cutting one of the pieces for the pengiun incorrectly, so I had to improvise and it hasn't turned out quite the way I wanted it to, but it's still pretty cute :-)

If I created these projects again, I would make sure I had my sponges or daubers handy (forgot to take them to camp, doh!) to highlight the edges. This would create more depth and dimension to the punch art. I have only tried this technique once before, so I thought I did pretty well, all things considered...

Polished stone project

Card: wisteria wonder, river rock, concord crush, glossy whisper white

Ink: concord crush

Reinkers: river rock, wisteria wonder, bashful blue, crumb cake

Stamp set(s): zoo review, under the big top

Accessories: framped tulips embossing folder, big shot, decorative label punch, word window punch, cotton ball, rubbing alcohol, gold brad

At stamp camp, we learned the polish stone technique with this card, and how to resize the tulip frame embossing folder. Very cool. The lovely and very inspiring Heather taught us, and I reckon I'll be using both of these technqiues again - thanks Heather!

Stamp Camp - Rotorua!

Card: old olive, rich razzleberry, whisper white
Ink: old olive, rich razzleberry
Stamp set(s): delicate doilies, because I care
Accessories: beautiful wings embosslit, big shot, rhinestone

I've been away in Rotorua at Stamp Camp this past weekend, which is why you haven't seen me here for the last few days... Stamp Camp was fab! Amazing talent, it was lovely to put faces to names, and it was very special to spend time with my upline, Paula :-) I'll be posting pics of the camp, and the projects we completed (um, some I still need to complete -hehe!) over the next few days.

First up, I did swaps with 20 other ladies that I met at camp. I decided to do small cards with the tearing/sponging technique and with some 12x12 cardstock (to make it easier to trim up 3"x6" cards) that I had, which just happened to be my favourite colours - old olive and rich razzleberry. Love how these came out, and I received some amazing swaps in return :-) Thanks ladies!