Happy Sneezin' Season!

here it is, the last sketch of 2013 by 

CAS(E) this Sketch!

and below is my take on it:

My camera turned the pretty blue paper into drab grey

so I scanned but now my sparkly snowflakes blurred.

Guess today is not mine!

Stamps by Darcie's and the

snowflakes are done with a

Martha Stewart punch.  Those snowflake 

centers are some clear skittles.

Thanks for stopping!

Connie

Kaliedascope Technique

Today I am giving you a technique.  One you might not have tried, thinking it was too 

advanced.  Try again!  This is really not hard to do and you can easily get some

awesome results.

Basically your template will be a circle (think pie here) that you mark

out wedges & remove one wedge.  Easy peasy!!

My sample card uses images by Darcies and The Stamp Pad with the

leaf stamp beside my card to show you what it looked like.

1)  Make a copy of your template on plain typing paper, overhead transparency...anything thin and reusable is good.  The template is no more than a circle with equal pie shapes drawn on it and one of the "wedges" removed.  You may make it wth 4 wedges, 6 wedges, 8 or 12....whatever number you prefer.  Cut out and remove one of the wedges.

2)  Position your template on your stamping surface, make a faint dot to mark the center of the circle and adhere your template with a scrap of low-tack double-stick tape.

3)  Position your stamp over the open wedge of your template....DO NOT INK YET!  Mark 2 sides of your stamp onto the template with your pencil.  This will aid you in lining up your stamp with future stampings.

4)  Ink your stamp, line up the edges on the template and stamp the image.

5)  Lift the template, turn it just until a tiny bit of the last stamping shows, adhere it down again, lining up the pencil dot...ink and stamp again.

6)  Repeat step 5 until entire circle has been stamped...carefully lining up the center pencil dot each and every time.

7)  Mat, color or embellish as desired.

This works well with verigated pads, can be stamped in one color and colored with markers later; Versamark and chalks work as long as you color with chalk before moving your template each time.

My samples are truly a beginner's try at this technique.  I somehow ended up with 2 extra wedges on one, but decided I liked it enough to use it after all.  This technique always seemed too involved for my taste before but I tried it, I liked it and will certainly do more.  Trust me!  This is very easy to do and does not take lots of time or trouble.

Cuttlebug Baby Card

On the outside this card has no stamping, but the sentiment:

"Life is tough when your bottle's

empty and your diaper's full"

on the inside is by Darcie's.

I know you can't see it, but I know it's there.

I had to make a card for a baby shower for our neighbor who just had their first child.

I ran some Cryogen paper thru the Cuttlebug with the baby folder and then swiped some pink ink over it.

I added a metal diaper pin brad with some light pink sheer ribbon tied on and put that all on a pink base.

I am watching g-kids again this weekend so it had to be something pretty quick!

TJN Holiday Blogstravaganza

Here is a card I made using the Frost Glass Technique from the Dec '02 issue of TJN

Stamps are by Darcie's and About Art Accents

Be sure to check out Pat's blog: The Technique Trail for more Blogstravaganza!

Happy Thanksgiving!!