Happy Thanksgiving One and All

Here is a little Thanksgiving cheer for all of you with one of my favorite parts of the meal. Pumpkin Pie and a healthy dollop of whipped cream! I used the liquid applique I've had in my drawer forever and a day once I saw this image from Cornish Herritage Farms. It's the perfect touch to make this otherwise simple card have a little wow factor.

The tube will tell you for best results to let the applique dry overnight, but who has time for that? I ignore that suggestion and just let it sit for about 5 minutes or as soon as I'm ready for it. Just use your heat tool and it puffs like magic. I can't imagine how big it must get if you actually let it sit over night!

Papers: Cosmo Cricket DP, Pumpkin Pie, Close to Cocoa, Vanilla

Images by: Stampin' Up and Cornish Herritage Farms

Three CAS Christmas Cards

Here are three Clean & Simple Christmas cards I'm sure anyone can recreate. My biggest piece of advice for new stampers is to let designer paper do the work for you. Collections are perfect for taking the guess work out of mixing and matching patterns. It's almost like being on a wire while climbing a rock wall. All the colors match and just about anything you mix will look good if not GREAT!

These all use the cutest little sentiment set for Christmas I've ever seen. It's from Papertrey Ink and was only $15. I'll be getting a lot of used from these since I love the hand written look. Just maybe some of the people I send these cards to will think it's my handwriting!

Star Card - Basic Grey designer papers, ribbon, SU chipboard star, jumbo eyelet

Glitter ornament - SU ornament punch, Sizzix ornament die, American Crafts Glitter Pallets paper, Basic Grey DP.

Red Ornaments - SU DP, Vanilla paper and ribbon

Copic Textures

Today I gave faux texture with copic blending solution a try and have to say I like the results. For this card I used the same texture but next time I'll play with different fabrics to acheive more pronouced effects. I colored my images as usual with my copics, being sure to saturate the paper. After I finished I soaked a scrap piece of twill tape in the blending solution and dabbed on my images. Because copic ink is alcohol based it dries very fast. I had to resoak the fabric often.

Thanks for looking!

Images by Cornish Herritage Farms and senitment by Stampin' Up!

CAS Monday

Today's CAS challenge over at Splitcoast was a sketch. I love a sketch challenge and it doesn't get much easier than this! I used the tag (part of an Etsy minibook kit) to stamp part of the sentiment and then used a little scrap of the Basic Gray DP. Add some ribbon and a little button then you've got yourself a card.
This is a great example of how to use scraping supplies for card making. The sentiment is from an Ali Edwards collection of stamps I love to use for titles. It was time for their debut into the world of cards!

Happy Halloween!

Here are a few things I made this year for Halloween. I'm too busy finishing last minute costume creation for details but wanted to spread a little cheer with a photo. I hope you all have a safe and fun Halloween!

Got Tunes?

Remember making mixed tapes? That's what I thought of when I looked through the Boyfriend mat pack from Comso Cricket. For my submission to week two of the Torendi Design Team search I made this CD holder using some of that great paper with cassette tapes on it. The idea is to take 10 songs that seem to be in constant rotation on my iPod for Fall and document it. I'll do this for each of the four seasons through next summer and place these decorated albums into a 6x6 album sleeve with a page. I love the idea of combining scrapbooking and music for memory sake, both take me back to a specific time and place...now they are married into one.

I used a sheet of paper cut 12 " x 5 1/2" and scored at 2" & 7 1/4" to make the pocket. I slipped small magnetic closures under the paper of the flap and opening of the pocket to ensure it stays sealed, plus it makes a cool snap sound :) I think using your own hand writing is special so I covered the back with the songs. The other unique thing with this CD jacket is the base of the tag. It's a very thin strip of wood veneere which adds a little something special in real life since the feel of the wood on the tag is unexpected. The CD is decorated with a doodle stamp from Autumn Leaves, stazon ink is perfect for this.

Thanks for looking! If you like this creation please consider voting for me (Sarah Shewell) over at the Torendi blog, I'd love to be in for week 3!

Sharpies and Rub Ons...who knew!

Today's Inspiration Challenge on SCS is based off ceramic tiles and I wanted to bring the shine of a glaze onto my card. Then I remembered hearing about blending sharpies with the Adirondack alcohol blending solution. I pulled out some rub ons with an outline shape and put them on acetate. Simply flip that over and color with your sharpies on the reverse side. Be sure to leave space between the colors for blending (see photo below). Then apply a little of the solution to a Q-tip and swirl away.

This solution is powerful and will take all the color away with just a little bit. The good news is you can just keep adding more ink if it takes too much. I played with it a bit and started pouncing the Q-tip to make a texture. I liked the look of this rather than a smooth blend this morning.

Now go on and pull those rub ons you haven't used in ages out of a drawer and do it! I know it can't just be me who has these supplies sitting around.

Supplies: rub ons, acetate sheet, sharpies, Tim Holtz Adirondack belending solution, Q-tips