A Technique Page

You are probably wondering what all of these little squares are for. Well once a month when our group of Stampin' Up Demonstrators, the PhillyInkers, get together we make a page for our Technique book. We take turns making up the squares for our technique page. In July I did one of the pages. My Technique was the Shaving Cream Technique. This is a lot of fun to do, although a little messy. But I love how different each page came out a little differently. When the squares were dry, I used Basic Black Craft ink to stamp on the flower image from Upsy Daisy.
At the meetings we adhere the squares down to Top Notes which are pre-cut. On the reverse side of this, are the directions of how to do the technique. Below is a finished example.

Cards from Card Club night - Nature

These were on two different card club months, but were both inspired by nature.
The first one used the Upsy Daisy stamp set using the Faux Embossed technique. The background was embossed with the small dots Texturz Plates, and used silver brads, as well as the curly label punch.
The second, was a simple card, featuring the Just Believe Stamp set. The sun was done using sponges.

Upsy Daisy!!!!

I am a little behind in posting pictures due to my camera being out of commission! It had an unfortunate "meeting" with the ground!! I just got it back on Friday, so I am trying to take pictures of some of the creations I made in it's absence. I did take pictures with my daughter's camera, but her's isn't really meant for close ups!

The daises and sentiment are from the "Upsy Daisy" stamp set from Stampin' Up! I used the wonderful "Sanded" background on the Old Olive strip. The Daisies are stamped on the Naturals White Cardstock (love it), and the other cardstock is Rose Red. The ink is the Rose Red Classic ink as well as the Basic Black Classic ink.

This picture is pretty dark, I will have to retake the picture and post it. Stay tuned...

A card for Ann Marie

Some of the PhillyInkers are taking part in a mail swap where we make one card and send it to someone in our group. We draw names of who send to. For July I drew Ann Marie. And since am so into the brayer cards right now, I decided to make her one! I used my brayer to layer the colors (one by one) onto the card. The inks I used were Summer Sun, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie and Dusty Durango. Then I stamped the Upsy Daisy image onto the labels. The cardstock is hard to tell (still no sun), but it is Bravo Burgundy, Basic Black, and Whisper White. The ribbon is Basic Black. The sentiment is from Heard from the Heart and stamped in black StazOn.