RemARKable Blog Tour -- Affection Collection

Welcome to the RemARKable Stamp of the Month Blog Tour.  This month we're featuring projects using the stamp set Affection Collection.  You may have arrived here from Jackie Bottomley's blog.  What creative projects she put together!!!




This stamp set is one that I received at the Stampin' Up! Convention last summer.  I've used it a few times since then.  But I have to admit that it's not one that I would have purchased because it's just not my style.  This blog hop was a good exercise in stretching my creativity.

Here's what I came up with:

I used my Stamp-a-ma-jig to stamp onto the Floral District designer series paper using Chocolate Chip and Crumb Cake ink.  Then I stamped the Love image on Very Vanilla, cut it out, then sponged it with Crumb Cake.  I added Large Pearls and some ribbon.  I layered that piece onto Crumb Cake, then adhered it to a Riding Hood Red card base.

I made another one using the same color combination.  This time I followed a sketch challenge, Freshly Made Sketches.

For this card, I inked up my Fancy Fan embossing folder with Crumb Cake ink, the transferred the folder design onto Crumb Cake card stock with a brayer.  This is a technique I learned while I was at convention last summer. I punch the Friend image using the Modern Label punch and adhered it to the Riding Hood Red image with Stampin' Dimensionals.

Up next on the tour is Deb Currier. Click on the image below to go to her blog.

Stamps: Affection Collection
Paper: Riding Hood Red, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Floral District designer series paper
Ink: Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Riding Hood Red
Accessories: Fancy Fan embossing folder, Large Pearls, Corner Rounder punch, Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch, Modern Label punch, Early Espresso 1/4" Stitched Grosgrain ribbon, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Stampin' Dimensionals

Happy Stamping!

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Sally's workshop

Today I'm showing you a card that I designed for Sally's workshop tomorrow tonight.  (Hope she's not reading this post because I wanted it to be a surprise!)  When Sally scheduled her workshop, I asked her if there was anything special that she wanted me to demonstrate.  Some hostesses don't know what to say.  Well, Sally immediately said something like, "Can you show me how to use the Stamp-a-ma-jig?  A lot of us need a refresher on how to use it." 

In preparation, I went to my stamps to find a two-step stamp set and chose the level 2 hostess set called Fast and Fabulous.  I made two cards.  The first one was done with two stamps from the set:



Oops!  My SAMJ wasn't perfectly positioned for the left petals.

In this next card, I stamped the outline of the flowers, then colored in the flowers with markers,  I also used a different embossing folder.



For this card, I also colored in some of the step and the top of the bloom with my Certainly Celery marker.



I'm gonna give the ladies at Sally's workshop the option of stamping or coloring in their flowers.  Let me know which one you like better.

Stamps: Fast and Fabulous

Paper: Certainly Celery, Naturals White, Regal Rose, Pink Pirouette

Ink: Certainly Celery, Regal Rose; Certainly Celery, Regal Rose, Pretty in Pink and Pink Pirouette markers

Accessories: Big Shot, Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder, Finial Press embossing folder, 1 1/4" Certainly Celery striped grosgrain ribbon, dimensionals

Happy stamping!

Susan

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