My last reject

This is the last reject from my heap of Stamp-A-Stack candidates. I can't show you the three keepers, but I think they're great.

This one is mostly Very Vanilla cardstock with some Always Artichoke and Bravo Burgundy.

The wheel is actually a retired "Leaves ala Carte" wheel that matched the retired Carte Postale stamp set (oh, how I miss it!). If this had made it into the Stamp-A-Stack, I would've swapped that wheel out with a holly one.

The bottom half of the Very Vanilla layer (3.75 x 5") is wheeled in Artichoke before being layered onto a piece of Artichoke and tied with a Bravo Burgundy 1/4" grosgrain ribbon.

The Peace Love Joy is stamped in Artichoke on vanilla (Stamp from All Holidays), and the vanilla is matted first on bravo burgundy and the on the artichoke. I raised it off the card a bit with some dimensions.

It's a pretty little card, but a titch on the "ho hum" side.

Now that you've seen all my Stamp-A-Stack rejects, sign up to come see the cards we'll be making at the Stamp-A-Stack!

A Pacific Point Reject

Welcome to my penultimate Stamp-A-Stack card reject. I actually kinda liked this guy, and probably would've added a mat under the centre blue mat, but in brushed silver cardstock. But, alas, he was rejected.

This card uses Pacific Point paper; one of the new In Colours.

The card is made from Whisper White, with a mat of Pacific Point on top.

Another layer of Whisper White is on top of that (3.75 x 5"), and I rolled it with the wheel from the Scandinavian set in the new Holiday Mini catalog. Of course, the name escapes me right now and I'm nowhere near my catalog. I'll add it in here later I guess. Sorry!

The sentiment stamp is from All Holidays, and again is in Pacific point. It's matted on some PP paper, and tied with some silver stretchy cord.

Thanks for dropping by,
C

Not my cuppa

Hi again!

This little card is another Stamp-A-Stack reject. I really am not crazy about this one; I tried something a little outside my comfort zone, and it crashed and burned. *laugh* (click the picture to view the catastrophe up close).

First up, the card base is Sahara Sand. I'd have used Kraft paper if I had it, but I didn't, so I didn't.

I made a cereal-box-cardboard embossing template (cut a rectangle out of the box), laid it under the card face, and rubbed the back of the card front with an embossing stylus - does that make sense? - to raise the rectangle on the front of the card. The three trees are from Holiday Blitz, and are stamped in Garden Green, Real Red, and Old Olive. I coloured them with a bit with a white gel pen, but that didn't improve them much. They were pretty lonely on that rectangle, so I added some faux stitching around the edge with a Real Red Stampin' Writer marker. The Sentiment at least suits the little trees; it's from Many Merry Messages, an amazing stamp set to get if you're making your own Christmas cards.

This one clearly deserved to be rejected. *laugh* Or it needs a bit of an overhaul.

Tune in next time for another exciting installment of: Stamp-A-Stack Rejects!

Flakey reject

Thanks for checking back again! Here's another one of the cards that was rejected as a candidate for the Stamp-A-Stack. (did you sign up yet?) Click the image to view it in detail.

It's probably just as well this one got vetoed, as the snowflake is one that's no longer available. I miss having a nice big legal snowflake set this year. I keep resorting to my contraband stamps.

Anywho, back to the card. The card base is Ballet blue (8.5 x 11", chopped in half).

The snowflake was created by first punching out 4 squares of whisper white using a 1" punch. I arranged them into a square (no spaces between the "tiles"), and then stamped on all 4 pieces simultaneously in Ballet Blue. You may want to mark the backs of the tiles (top left, bottom right, etc) so it's easy to reassemble the snowflake. It's not too tricky when you're making 1 card, but if you're mass producing them, things can get a little ugly. After I stamped the snowflake, 2-way glue and Dazzlin' Diamonds were applied. oooooo... glitter....

The tiles were then mounting on a slightly larger piece of Night of Navy, and raised off the card with dimensionals.

The sentiment (from All Holidays I think - correct me if I'm wrong) was stamped in Night of Navy.

Come back tomorrow for more!

C

Finally, some rejects!

OK, that's perhaps not the greatest hook for a post title, but after weeks of top-secret Christmas card making, we've finally settled on the 6 designs you'll be making at the Stamp-A-Stack (it's not too late to sign up). Consequently, I now have all the rejects that I can share with you.

Today's reject is a card a friend is making for her own Christmas cards, so I'm sure she'll be pleased we're not mass-producing it. (Hi Heather!) It is taken almost verbatim from SCS, so check out the Season of Joy gallery there if you're searching for the original. Click on the image on the left to view a close-up.

The card base is a typical 8.5x11 sheet of Real Red cardstock cut in half.

The Whisper White layer on top of that is 5.25 x 4" to start off with, but once you stamp the flowers from Season of Joy on it in Real Red classic ink and trim them with snips, it's more like 5.25 x 3". Around this piece of white I tied some 1/4" Real Red grosgrain ribbon.

The sentiment on the bottom is also from Season of Joy (I just love one-stop stamp sets) which was stamped in versamark, coated in white embossing powder, and heated with a heat tool.

A stamping pal (Hi Nicole!) decided it needed to be tarted up a bit, and added some 2-way glue and Dazzlin' Diamonds to the centre of each flower. I'm always a sucker for more glitter.

Apart from the cutting this is a dead simple - and affordable - card to make. It requires only two colours of paper, one colour of ink, and one stamp set. Email me know if you want a price list for the supplies needed (this will make 48 cards).

Check back tomorrow for more from my parade of rejects!

Pretty Happy

This is a pretty little birthday card I made for a friend's cutie-pie daughter and am just now getting around to uploading the photo. If it looks vaguely familiar, good for you; you have a killer memory! I made a card with a very similar layout for my m-i-l's birthday.

It's predominantly Pretty-In-Pink, with a hit of Rose Red on the sentiment (from It's Your Birthday - retired).

I inked the 'bug embossing folder before I ran the pink cardstock through it. I love the way it makes the embossing jump out a bit more. It also has a nice kind of aged or distressed look about it. I wrapped this lengthwise in a strip of pink 1/4" grosgrain ribbon before adhering it to the white card base.

I cut the oval out with my Nestabilities (swoon) and played with it a bit. After running the cutting die through the 'bug, I left the cardstock lodged in the die (perfectly normal), and ran it through a second time with the tan embossing mat to raise the edges. I removed the die from the bug, leaving the paper in it, and lightly sponged inside the die opening with some pink ink (I like to think and drink pink ink), which left a white frame where the paper was covered by the die. Sneaky!

I used my fake-a-ma-jig (like a stamp-a-ma-jig, but made by my dear Dad) to align the sentiment in the oval; after all that work, I needed to get it perfectly aligned the first time. It's adhered to the card with some pop dots and I finished it all off with a little pink bow.

So pretty.

Sunset

I've been scrapping again!

This time it's a 2-page spread for my 8x8 2007 album to capture the beautiful sunsets we see at the cottage every summer. On Lake Kashagawigamog. I love saying that. Kashagawigamog. Kashagawigamog.

The background paper is from an Old World slab at Michael's. I love this paper. I think I need to pick up the 12x12 slab too. The other papers are Soft Sky (ret.), Baja Breeze (new!), and Blue Bayou (ret.) with a splash of Apricot Appeal DS paper. That's such a tricky colour, Apricot Appeal. Is it orange? Is it yellow? It can't decide! But, it was the perfect complement to the colours in the photos.

The chipboard is all SU!, from the Loads of Letters package. I adhered some stripey greeny bluey plaidy paper from another Michael's slab to the big letter S with my new latex adhesive from SU!, and did the same with the wee hearts before giving them a coat of Crystal Effects to make them shine. The stickers are dollar-bin stickers, and the metal hardware is from my Hodge Podge Hardware pewter hardware kit. The remaining letters were punched using my 'bug. Love the bug. The circle and scalloped circle were punched using Stampin' Up! punches.

Thanks for checking it out,

C