Travel book

I decided to create a travel book inspired by the tag I created for Tag Tuesday. The stamping overlays was so much fun, I thought why not create a little book that could be used to journal, capture tickets or other odds and ends and hold small pictures.

This is my book and it was so much fun to stamp in multiple colors and ideas. The most fun was to see which stamps I had that I could use to create the different pages. I tried not to re-use any stamps in the different pages.

The cover was created using one of my favorite stamps from Hero Arts (map stamp) and one of my new favorites from Memory Box (Create, Discover, Explore).

I stamped on the reverse side of each page.

I left a little room for writing notes. The next page I added a pocket and I purposely stamped the script background unevenly to allow for a faded look. Can I just say how much fun it is to not stamp perfectly! :)

The back of this page was a mix of stamps but I loved how the dark blue damask looks like wallpaper. That was another bonus of this was getting to try some different things with my stamps and see what I would like to use again!

The next page I finished and decided I wanted to add a pocket. I already had this stamped piece but I had cut out a circle for the tag you will see on the last page. I decided to use it anyways as it reminded me of a knot hole.

I created a tag to showcase the pocket. The last page of the book has a layer because someone meaning me... doesn't know how to check her sentiments before she stamps them. So when I finished the page I stamped the sentiment upside down.

This also has a pocket to hold other mementos. The back of the book looks like this:

Would you believe that I would once again stamp my sentiment upside down? Yep!

Well I am not going to list all the products I used in this project, but if you see something you want to know, drop me a line and I would be happy to look up which set/stamp it was.

I hope you enjoyed my travel book.

Have a lovely day!

Suzz

Virginia's Challenge

Virginia is hosting a challenge over on her blog called "Beat the Winter Blue's Challenge" . The key is to have a wow factor and beat the winter blues. I have been wanting to try this folding technique found here .

So I created a card where the wow is just about the folding and unfolding. :) This card was created for someone special and the sentiments were selected because of them.

The front of the card folded looks like this. The ribbon is important, and if I had thought about it more I would have designed a little differently to accommodate the ribbon.

If you don't use the ribbon your card will look like this...

Even with a bone folder and creasing this the folds alone won't keep the card closed.

When opened it looks like this:

The last picture isn't the greatest but I wanted to show what it looks like completely flat.

The card on the Outside the box blog was 3 1/2" x 3 1/2". I wanted to make mine bigger. So I took 2 sheets of ivory card stock and cut them 5 1/2" x 11". I then scored them at 5 1/2". This gives you two 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" cards which I just overlapped the inside of the two cards to make the inside of this card.

Score the front of the cards at the diagonal. This is easy to do because you go from your score line to the corner. Make sure you score one in one direction and the other in the other direction so when you fold them up they meet in the middle on the front of the card.

The rest of the card is about stamping and masking where you do/don't want the patterns to mix. I folded the front of the card and stamped the flowers across both parts of the front. I also stamped my background across the front of the card.

I almost forgot... Tanya asked me to post this little tag she made awhile ago and I am just getting around to it. So here is a tag Tanya created from some of my scraps.

She punched the tree out and then hung it on there and found the snowflake stamp and stamped that too.

Thanks for stopping by... I hope you have a lovely Sunday.

Suzz

Silhouette Burst

Happy Saturday!

I had an idea Friday that I wanted to try with masking the circle and stamping the silhouette burst in the masked circle. I was planning on having the flowers stamp outside of the mask partially.

I actually ended up with two different cards. I created this one first.

I used the same mask and reverse masked to get the sponged circles. I added a touch of brown flowersoft to the edges. This didn't end up reflecting what I had first envisioned so I created a second card which was closer to what I was thinking of. I also switched the colors to make it more spring like.

The dark color is actually purple but it shows up black.

I hope your weekend is going to be very inky. :)

Suzz

Tag Tuesday Challenge # 36

Tag Tuesday Challenge # 36 theme is time. Much easier than last weeks challenge. :)

This was so fun and easy to create. I have one Time set of stamps from Cornish Heritage Farms. (LL-6005FUM Time to Stamp) which makes the starting point for the tag really easy.

I also pulled some of my new Hero Arts Stamps to stamp up the background. The butterflies were left over from my last project and I decided to add them as accents.

Products:

• Cornish Heritage Farms - LL-6005FUM Time to Stamp
• Recollections - Autumn Pearls
• Hero Arts - K5285 Outline Bold Flourish
• Hero Arts - K5314 - Silhouette Fern
• Hero Arts - H5312 Silhouette Burst
• Hero Arts - Artistic Butterfly
• Versafine - Black Onyx, Vintage Sepia, Toffee
• Zing Embossing Powder - Brown
• Ranger Distress Inks - Faded Jeans

Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz

Mojo Monday Sketch - 123

Mojo Monday sketch challenge this week is from Teresa Kline and offered the choice of a round or square format.

I knew when I saw the sketch that I wanted to play, as I am really fond of circle cards.

Here is the results of one of the cards I started for this sketch. The main image is the Hero Arts Silhouette Bells. Love this stamp! I embossed the background with Zing chocolate embossing powder and then sponged in the background color and added a little white coloring pencil around the edges to lighten up the sponging.

The edges of the ivory surfaces have been sponged with a brown dye ink and stamped using versafine vintage sepia.

I had such a great day yesterday... in addition to my fun news with Hero Arts, I also received my March Cardmaker magazine in the mail from them. I have a card posted in the magazine and had forgotten about it so was pleasantly surprised to get the magazine in the mail! I also blogged over on the Outside the Box blog with a favorite card of mine!

I also wanted to say thank you to everyone for their wonderful comments yesterday, here, the Flickr group, on the HA blog and even over on SCS. I recieved so many kind words from everyone which were really unexpected and very appreciated.

Suzz

Tag Challenge # 35

Today is Monday and a new tag challenge will come out tomorrow. SO I have to get this posted up today... The challenge by Louise was to create a doll tag.

I thought about this for awhile and had a few failed attempts... I am a little worried how easily I was able to cut little legs and arms from cardstock that actually looked like legs and arms. Maybe something left over from childhood paper dolls?

But I decided to go way outside my comfort zone and try something very different for me.

Anyways... Without further ado...

I think she looks a little like a garden baby? I think it is always good to try something new and different and helps us grow in our creativity.

So show a little kindness to my little butterfly girl.

The little girl's face is a Paperbag Studio stamp. The body is made using the Hero Arts old french writing and antique flower brocade. The wings are from a beautiful stamp set from Tattered Angels.

Thanks for stopping by..

Suzz

My fun news...

I was lucky enough to be asked by the Hero Arts crew to be a Hero Arts Hostess. This means I get to help out over at the Flickr Group for Hero Arts Challenges. There is so many interesting topics and inspiration over at the Hero Arts Flickr Group.

My introduction was today on the Hero Arts Blog. One of my cards is posted today on the blog too!

Very exciting as I am a big fan of my Hero Arts stamps!

On to other fun stuff... Here is a card that I am teaching in my next class with the new Memory Box stamps.

No surprise here ... More trees!

Thanks for stopping by and sharing in my good news.

Suzz