Layering Flowers for Friday Mashup

It's time for another Friday Mashup and this week Sara is our host! She'd like us to try the Triple Stamp Technique and create a project that's all about the flowers.

I love flowers in the garden but it's never really been my thing in stamping so the only flower stamp I have is pleasant poppies. I went with red poppies and a black border, finishing it off with some retired ribbon. 

Head on over to The Friday Mashup to see all the great projects from the rest of the DT and then play along with us!

This week's Mashup Challenge is:

• Create a project with the "Triple Layer Technique" Tutorial HERE.
• Create a project that's "Floral". 
• or Mash it Up! and create a "Floral Triple Layer Project".

Stamps: Pleasant Poppies

Paper: Basic Black, Whisper White

Ink: Real Red, Old Olive, Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: Real Red Ribbon(retired) 

Diamond Dust Christmas for Friday Mashup

This week at The Friday Mashup Sara is our hostess and she has a color challenge for us as well as a technique. The colors we are to use are Island Indigo, Garden Green and Rich Razzleberry. The technique is the Diamond Dust technique.

I haven't done this technique in a long time but I love it because it is so sparkly and pretty and what better technique to use for a Christmas card! I also love these dark, rich colors so I had no problem converting them into something for the holiday season. I used the Endless Wishes set and stamped snowflakes in the challenge colors. I then covered the image panel with Versamark, put some heat and stick powder over it, used the heat tool to heat it up and then added the Dazzling Diamonds. 

My layout came from the current sketch challenge over at Sunday Stamps. The film die was a bit bigger than I remembered and it covered up the strips underneath a bit more than I would have liked but overall I am still happy with how it came out!

I hope you'll come by The Friday Mashup and check out all the great projects from the rest of the design team, and then play along with us!

This week's Mashup Challenge is:

• Create a project using the "Diamond Dust Technique" Tutorial Here. 
• Create a project using the colors "Island Indigo, Garden Green & Rich Razzleberry (or similar colors if you don't have these exact colors). 
• or Mash it Up! and create a project "using the colors above and the Diamond Dust Technique".

Stamps: Endless Wishes

Paper: Rich Razzleberry, Island Indigo, Whisper White, Garden Green DSP, Rich Razzleberry DSP

Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Garden Green, Island Indigo, Versamark

Accessories: Big Shot, On Film Framelits, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, Island Indigo Bakers Twine, Heat and Stick Powder, Dazzling Diamonds, Heat Tool, sponge, dimensionals

Beauty of the Season Sketch Resist

It's Friday again, where did the week go? It's been a stressful week in my house full of dr appts for my oldest son and myself so I love every opportunity that comes along to help me relax and The Friday Mashup does just that!

Sara is our hostess this week and she has a great sketch for us, plus she wants us to give the technique 'emboss resist' a try. I've never done that before (not that I could remember anyway!) so I sat down to give it a whirl!

I don't have any white embossing powder so I used some other powder that I've had for years and years. It's not SU and the label was faded so I cant even tell you where I got it from. It did the trick though! I stamped the bird image from the Christmas set Beauty of the Season on Naturals White card stock with Versamark and then heat embossed it. I then grabbed my sponges and sponged Night of Navy and Island Indigo over and around the embossed image. After I got the area covered I used my aquapainter to blend the inks together. I had an image of a bird sitting in the snow on a tree branch at night...I'm not sure if that's what the final image conveys but that's what I was going for! After I was done with the aquapainter I gave the embossed image a final swipe with some tissue to make sure no ink was left on it and called it good!

I hope you'll come by The Friday Mashup and see all the great projects from the rest of the design team, and then play along with us!

Here's your mashup challenge:

• Create a project using the sketch
• Create a project using the 'emboss resist' technique
•  Or Mash it up and create a project using the sketch and the emboss resist technique!

Stamps: Beauty of the Season

Paper: Early Espresso, Naturals White, Festival of Prints DSP (retired)

Ink: Versamark, Night of Navy, Island Indigo

Accessories: Big Shot, Ovals Collection Framelits, Very Vanilla Candy Dots, Cherry Cobbler Ribbon (retired),  Embossing Powder, Heat Tool

Going Dimensional for Friday Mashup

Normally I show my 18 yr old daughter all of my projects to get her opinion on them but this one has to stay hidden for a few more weeks. She has been asked by a family friend to help them open a coffee stand in North Dakota so my little girl is moving to the Lower 48 :( In Oct/Nov she'll be moving to AZ to live with her best friend and start a new life there. She hasn't even left yet and I miss her already....sigh.....

Needless to say Sara's challenge for us at The Friday Mashup came at the perfect time, as I will be sticking this card in my daughters luggage to read when she gets to the Lower 48. So whats the challenge? Sara wants us to use a background stamp and to also have a 3D item on our project.

I used the stamp World Map for my background and although its hard to tell, I used 3 different colors to ink it up......Mossy Meadow, Island Indigo and Soft Suede. I took the globe from the Traveler set and inked that up with the exact same colors and stamped it on some Whisper White and cut that with the Window Frame Framelits. I stamped the image on a scrap piece of paper and cut out the globe portion. I took the stylus from the Simply Scored Tool and moved it around in circles on the back of the globe. This puffs up the globe and makes it pop off the page (I know, you cant really tell in the photo but I promise the globe does puff out off the card!). I layered the Whisper White piece on a piece of Mossy Meadow also cut with the Window Frames Framelits and popped the whole thing up with dimensionals. To finish it off I added a sentiment from Just Sayin', one that fits the way my heart feels!

I hope you'll head over to The Friday Mashup blog to see the rest of the great projects from the DT, and then play along with us!


Here's your Mashup Challenge:

• Create a project using a "Background Stamp".
• Create a project with "something 3-D on it".
• or Mash it Up! and create a "project with a 3-D element and a Background Stamp".

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: World Map, Traveler, Just Sayin'

Paper: Island Indigo, Mossy Meadow, Whisper White

Ink: Mossy Meadow, Island Indigo, Soft Suede

Accessories: Big Shot, Window Frame Framelits, Word Bubbles Framelits, Festive Paper Piercing Pack, Paper Piercer,dimensionals

Flowers for Friday Mashup

Oooops, I totally spaced getting my post up last night for today's Friday Mashup! Another sign that I need to spend this weekend sleeping and getting rid of the last of my jet lag!

Sara is our hostess this week and she wants use to the colors Daffodil Delight, Wild Wasabi and Perfect Plum. She'd also like us to watercolor or use our blender pen.

I grabbed the set Pleasant Poppies and used all 3 colors on the stamp, which was stamped on watercolor paper. I then used a blender pen and aquapainter on the lines to soften them and get the water colored look. The 'love' was cut out in Perfect Plum and adhered to the watercolor paper.

The pic doesn't do it justice, in person its really pretty!

Make sure you head over to The Friday Mashup to play along and to see what the rest of the DT came up with.

1. Create a project using the colors "Daffodil Delight, Wild Wasabi & Perfect Plum".
2. Create a project using "an Aqua Painter or a Blender Pen to create a Watercolor Effect".
3. Or mash it up and create a project with the "Colors above & a Watercolor Effect".

Going to the Horses for Friday Mashup

I'm late but at least I'm getting my Friday Mashup post up ON Friday, that's a good thing :) Sara is our hostess this week and she has a great sketch for us, plus she'd also like us to do some sponging on our project. As my daughter will tell you, I am addicted to sponging. There is something about seeing bare edges that just freaks me out. She'll tell me to leave an image alone but I sit there and stare at it and cant do it, I grab the sponge and get those edges taken care of. It's a sickness LOL

For today's card I used the set Horse Frontier. I don't like horses myself but I have a ton of family and friends that do so I got this set back in October, and it hasn't seen ink until today! I stayed monochromatic, using Baked Brown Sugar and Soft Suede (ok, I also used a touch of Old Olive for the grass but that's just a small detail right). I sponged the image panel in Baked Brown Sugar. Nice and simple card!

Head over to the Friday Mashup to check out the rest of the great projects from the DT, and play along with us!

1. Create a project with "Sketch."
2. Create a project using some "Sponging". 
3. Or Mash it Up and create a project with "Sponging using the Sketch