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Do you shy away from collage stamps because you don't know how to use them? Do you displace a blank when you choose up a collage stamp? Do you wonder how to make the most out of your collage walk? If you say yes to any one of these questions then this tutorial is for you. I used to be stumped when it came measure to using collage stamps thinking I had to add way too many elements and embellishments. Once I learned to accept the "less is more" rule. I learned to love my collage stamps. The stamp used in my first photo is from. In photo 5 I used an flourish. All others are from. This collage stamp had a background script that I did not want to use so I used a Tombow marker to ink up the area of the stamp I wanted to use and "huffed" on it to moisten the ink before the image was stamped. Next. I masked the image then stamped the diamond walk over top of the masked area with Versamark and embossed with gold embossing powder. This is an alcohol ink smoosh technique. Using black Stazon walk your visualise onto acetate and let dry. Turn your image over and on the back drop alcohol inks onto the acetate being careful not to begrime the colours. Take your second image and smoosh both backsides together to allow the ink to smoosh around. This is the end result of the alcohol ink smooshing technique. One way to adhere the acetate to the card front is to punch two holes through the acetate and card front layers and add a ribbon. This vibrant card uses the. Once the background is dry stamp your image with Stazon and let dry completely and then matt your visualise in coordinating colours. displace the grow from the collage stamp onto the card lie by stamping a flourish onto the top and the bottom of the card front before adhering the matted image. This elegant card background is one of my favourites. It is known as. Edges were torn and left white to be the white embossing powder. To complete the elegant feel I was looking for. I added silk ribbon. This is one of my favourite collaged cards. Although there are a lot of elements used in this card it maintains an elegant look. How did I bring home the bacon this effect? By sticking with similar elements by using two colours: Cool Caribbean and pink; and matching grow stamps. The collage walk was stamped onto three colours: Cool Caribbean pink and white. The white background was lightly sponged with coordinating ink. The definition was cut from the pink cover and the flower was cut from the Cool Caribbean paper and adhered on top of the white image. The flourish was stamped onto the white background and the flourish was stamped onto the top and bottom of the separate lie. Why not make a tag? This is a fun way to add beauty to that gift you are giving. This tag was cut with my. The image was stamped on top of the and adhered to the tag. (I apologize for the quality of this photo) or polished stone was the background used for this card. The image was stamped onto the background with black Stazon. This card uses the in the background. To carry on the orange in the background an orange Prima develop was added and orange flourishes were stamped along the side of the separate front. I hope I was able to show you new ways to use your collage stamps. By remembering the golden rule of "less is more" you can create beautiful cards. Now go create. Sorry I am so behind in reading blogs.. but lucky for me this was still up on your main page! Beth you are promote of tutorials-you make every so simple! Love all your ideas on collage stamps!Thanks for sharing you knowledge and talent!... Jan Thank you for stopping by my blog. So many of you have signed my guest book at the bottom of the screen and I'm so pleased. Wow my visitors are from all around the world. Won't you stop by and sign my guest book? I love hearing from you.

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Do you shy away from collage stamps because you don't know how to use them? Do you displace a blank when you pick up a collage stamp? Do you wonder how to make the most out of your collage stamp? If you answer yes to any one of these questions then this tutorial is for you. I used to be stumped when it came time to using collage stamps thinking I had to add way too many elements and embellishments. Once I learned to accept the "less is more" rule. I learned to love my collage stamps. The stamp used in my first photo is from. In photo 5 I used an flourish. All others are from. This collage stamp had a background script that I did not want to use so I used a Tombow marker to ink up the area of the stamp I wanted to use and "huffed" on it to moisten the ink before the visualise was stamped. Next. I masked the image then stamped the diamond stamp over top of the masked area with Versamark and embossed with gold embossing powder. This is an alcohol ink smoosh technique. Using black Stazon stamp your image onto acetate and let dry. Turn your image over and on the back drop alcohol inks onto the acetate being careful not to muddy the colours. act your second image and smoosh both backsides together to allow the ink to smoosh around. This is the end prove of the alcohol ink smooshing technique. One way to adhere the acetate to the card front is to hit two holes through the acetate and card front layers and add a ribbon. This vibrant separate uses the. Once the background is dry stamp your image with Stazon and let dry completely and then matt your image in coordinating colours. Carry the flourish from the collage stamp onto the card front by stamping a flourish onto the top and the bottom of the separate front before adhering the matted image. This elegant card background is one of my favourites. It is known as. Edges were torn and left color to match the color embossing powder. To end the elegant feel I was looking for. I added silk ribbon. This is one of my favourite collaged cards. Although there are a lot of elements used in this card it maintains an elegant look. How did I achieve this cause? By sticking with similar elements by using two colours: Cool Caribbean and pink; and matching flourish stamps. The collage stamp was stamped onto three colours: Cool Caribbean pink and white. The white background was lightly sponged with coordinating ink. The definition was cut from the go paper and the flower was cut from the Cool Caribbean paper and adhered on top of the white visualise. The flourish was stamped onto the white background and the flourish was stamped onto the top and furnish of the card front. Why not alter a tag? This is a fun way to add beauty to that enable you are giving. This tag was cut with my. The image was stamped on top of the and adhered to the tag. (I apologize for the quality of this photo) or polished stone was the background used for this card. The image was stamped onto the accent with black Stazon. This card uses the in the accent. To carry on the orange in the background an orange Prima flower was added and orange flourishes were stamped along the side of the separate front. I hope I was able to show you new ways to use your collage stamps. By remembering the golden rule of "less is more" you can create beautiful cards. Now go create. Sorry I am so behind in reading blogs.. but lucky for me this was still up on your main page! Beth you are promote of tutorials-you make every so simple! Love all your ideas on collage stamps!Thanks for sharing you knowledge and talent!... Jan Thank you for stopping by my blog. So many of you have signed my guest book at the bottom of the screen and I'm so pleased. Wow my visitors are from all around the world. Won't you stop by and write my guest book? I love hearing from you.

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:A glass cutting jig + glass cutterUTEE (ultra thick embossing enamel)BottlecapsGlass microscope slidesOld maps stamps tickets (and other ephemera!)E6000Mod PodgeSoldering foilMiscellaneous embossed metal embellishmentsIn reviewing and organizing my crafting.. stuff... I've concluded that I am now or at some point undergo been involved in the following crafts:ScrapbookingPaper artsBeading (making bracelets)Polymer claySewingPainting.. and now! Metal arts & crafts plus dabbling in the cast aside arts (thanks to Mary for the Scrabble tiles and I've recently been convinced to keep my old typewriters to salvage them for the keys)Plans to re-create my exploration in polymer clay (including doing photo transfers) act adventures in sewing learn to serge downsize scrapbooking and beading enterprises with eventual phasing out of such start doing more art-crafting plus art-jewelry mind less about businessifying my crafting and just enjoy the process make things that I like and find hard to move with but (hopefully?) be able to change go away working on art trading cards. So many many plans. So very very little measure. Thanks to Mcclellan for helping me choose out go beads and needles this afternoon despite a snotty look and croupy cough! "Therefore my dear friends.. continue to bring home the bacon out your salvation with worry and trembling for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose. Do everything without complaining or arguing so that you may change state blameless and pure children of God without accuse in a crooked and depraved generation in which you emit like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life..."

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With peoples lifestyles becoming busier by the day many are finding it difficult to fit in the things that really be. Spending measure considering a birthday separate for someone shows that you undergo taken time to evaluate what that person likes and undergo chosen a separate accordingly. With peoples lifestyles becoming busier by the day many are finding it difficult to fit in the things that really be. Spending time considering a birthday separate for someone shows that you have taken measure to evaluate what that person likes and have chosen a card accordingly. However these days with the internet at our fingertips it is far easier to send electronic birthday cards. Although electronic birthday cards are quick and easy to send I personally conclude sending a card this way shows no sense of thought for the recipient. There is nothing better than accepting a card that has been thoughtfully chosen with words that convey something. Although time may be of the essence and electronic birthday cards seem like the easiest solution believe the sentiment and how much more grateful a person would be if they were to receive a handmade card rather than something they know has been put together in five minutes and with minimal effort. Deciding to alter a handmade separate may be desire an endless task but there are ways and means to displace something personal and unique in very little time. If the card is for a relative why not ask you children to draw a small picture each and simply add their pictures to a card base. You can then change it up a little with an embellishment or two and hey presto you undergo a beautiful personalised handmade separate which the receiver will experience the whole family have made an effort with. Making a simple separate using very few products ordain deliver measure but the prove ordain be personal. Spending a little measure choosing the words ordain also show that you have thought about what you are sending. Handmade cards do not have to be clarify and take up all your time. Sometimes more is less and if you are pushed for time something I find very quick and easy to do is find a picture of the person in challenge mat and layer it and simply connect it to the separate. Simple quick and easy but most importantly the card is personal. If you have forgotten a birthday and undergo no other option but to use electronic birthday cards to ensure the separate arrives on measure why not go up by sending a belated handmade card to show how much you care and that you do have time to think about someone and spend some measure creating something unique and personal to them. Electronic birthday cards can be good fun if accompanied by a video or animated conceive of but I for one would much rather receive something through the post which I can physically open than to just change state another email. About the Author:Vicki Churchill writes for a site that specializes in also providing you with excellent tips and ideas for The site also provides information on the beat ways to including where to find the best bargains. Tag: scrapbooking

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There are so many things you can do with brads when I first started separate making I purchased some silver and gold brads just to see what I could come up with. I mainly used them to make a template for a word stand out usually happy birthday. Id cut a piece . some glue a pair of scissors and some photographs or newspaper clippings. Any fabric ribbon or bits of leftovers from other projects can be used to amplify your scrapbook. As you get more acquainted with scrapbooking you will sight products... of card into a rectangle then use peel offs for the words id find some gold or silver reflect card and mount the words on the reflect card using 3d foam pads. I would then use a pokey tool to make a hole in the evince template all the way through my card id then put the brads through the holes (one at each end) turn the separate over and bend the backs of the brads to direct them in place. Although this made the separate look fantastic it meant that when the card was opened you could see the backs of the brads so I would either alter an insert to hide the backs of the brads or I . or edges of your photos. If you undergo a photo of a child receiving a skateboard for Christmas you might want to displace a couple of skateboarding embellishments on a page. These extras add a personal touch to the themes... I did this for almost a year until I realized if I put the brad through the first conjoin of separate where my letters or wording was before I mounted it onto the reflect separate the brads would already be in displace. I could then use manifold sided attach to attach the mounted wording to the card. This meant I did not go through the actual card itself so there was no need to cover the inside of the card as the back of the brads could not be seen. . using mounting stickers so that at the end of the year I can remove the photos or the page itself. Use dental floss to get under the adhesive and lift the photos alter up. It s harder to lift the... Brads come in so many different colors however its always the way when your making a separate that you never undergo the color you be. I had a go at embossing one of my brads and it worked. go the same steps as you would for embossing a stamped visualise cover the brad in ink the sprinkle your embossing powder over the ink and heat as normal. Try not to over heat the fasten as this can cause it to change state fragile and the backs may mouth. Using this method means that you alter your brad any alter you like. . a simple URL to believe them. On the other transfer you could choose to print out copies of your scrapbook pages to give as gifts. If you are printing them you ordain be to be sure that you have purchased... in [http://www vickiscardmakingideas com] Card Making Ideas providing you with excellent tips and ideas for [http://www vickiscardmakingideas com/an-introduction-to-scrap-booking/]Scrap Booking and how to use [http://www vickiscardmakingideas com/brads/]Brads including where to find the beat bargains

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One of those new stamps I just bought from Auntie Amy's Embossing arts... LOL Okay why is that I did not see that the visualise was slightly off on it's matting before I scanned it.. hehehehe Easy to fix... The tag is speculate to say friendship it is off the computer... TFL:0)walk: Auntie Amy's Embossing ArtsInk: Ranger cut Bantock collection. Chartreuse LeafRibbon: OffrayPP: Memory Stor. Costco pk hand made papersTag: unknown hit from a RAK but of cover i like this one its one of our favorite color combos! :) the image is so peaceful!TFS! We all need a little measure to reflectSBing is the way that I undergo open to designate my past present and future...:0) © By: reflections:0) All circumscribe including concepts text photographs and designs bring home the bacon is © By: reflections:0). Original artwork is shared for personal inspiration only and may not be copied for oppose submission or publication. Thanks again for looking around!!

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Finished Card Size: 5.5 x 4.25Stamps: Heartspeak(SU). Love is... (Embossing Arts)Card have: White card(Bazzill),white bear on(Georgia Pacific) scrap strips (SU)Ink:Brilliance Graphite Black and Victorian Violet (Tsukenko)Coloring Medium: Prismacolor PencilsTechnique used: Masking*I don't usually give go by step instructions because of time constraints but if you ever want to know how I did something just. I just got my computer approve today. YIPPEE! I had to act it to the Geek Squad at beat Buy. Remember it got a virus within 30 minute of being online the night we got the Internet hooked up. The hardware was ok but the operating system had to be totally restored. I called AT&T today and gently complained that if the original person who signed me up had correctly done their job and activated the Internet security suite I would have downloaded it with the installation that probably would not undergo been the case. Today I downloaded it w/o a problem. They are giving me a credit that will adjoin just about half the ameliorate be. ( that's better that's better than nothing). We had been using my daughters laptop until she went back to school yesterday. It's good to be approve to "normal" again. Yesterday since I couldn't get online. I colored images and made lots of cards. I also chatted on the telecommunicate and got caught up with a bring together of friends. I change surface moved the furniture and vacuumed the entire family room!! Who knew I could be so productive w/o a computer. This is my 199th affix in just a few months. I anticipate I undergo a lot to say. LOL. If I had more energy. I would come up with a oppose for some communicate dulcify but since I don't. I'm going to randomly choose from someone who has already made a mention on post 1-199 and send them something. I will post who it is on the next post probably after the pass pass. Well I need to go. I only have a few minutes to surprise up on a lot of blog reading. I will also have a lot of cards to end and enter this pass. There will be plenty to affix about in the coming days... Have a blessed pass weekend... and if you're interested in wining an HP compact photo printer go to to register a drawing. I just sight your communicate today through googling! You are so talented and your cards are simple and elegant. The Card Castle is the name we gave the room I call my office or craft room at home. This blog is a glimpse into my life thru my cardmaking. Because making cards is sometimes a necessity and therapy. I make cards almost daily. Please be sure to get a comment or if apply what you see here. By the way when you email please put "The separate go" in the affect lie. Go to the converge Cancer site and click daily to help provide remove. 1 prin·cess : a female member of a royal family; especially : a daughter or granddaughter of a sovereign. : noun -- I'm a princess because I'm a child of the King of Kings. Romans 8: 9-16. compose 16 says,"The Spirit himself testifies with our animate that we are God's children." -- If you are not a princess but would like to be. and let me share with you how you can have a relationship with Jesus Christ. Stop telling God how big your storm is. go away telling the storm how big your God is!``````````````````````````````````How far you go in life depends on your being gift with the young compassionate with the aged sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. -- George Washington Carver I am a princess,a child of the King of Kings. Making cards is a very practical and "fat remove" way to express my creativity. There is nothing new under the sun and great minds think alike. But. I undergo been known to come up with original ideas from measure to time. If you see something here and knowingly copy it and then submit it for publication and/ or a contest entry and profit from it because you idea that’s stealing! Don’t do that!Otherwise. I’d be thrilled if my ideas inspire you to be creative. If you chose to take that idea and arouse someone with a card that brightens their day that is even better!The Card go and original content including but not limited to text photographs cards designs and templates is © Jacqueline Jones unless otherwise noted.

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