Whoo Hoo Wednesday........masking and background stamps.

Hello there my friends, I hope you are all having a good week. It's my turn for Whoo Hoo Wednesday. I will be showing you how to use a mask and background stamps.

You can find the tutorial over on Joanna's blog, if you create a card/project using this technique, one lucky winner will win a $15 gift card to the Inspired by Stamping Store.

Happy Crafting
xxxxDebxxxx

Whoo Hoo Wendesday........fabric flowers.

Hello there my friends, how is your week going, so far ? It's my turn to do the Whoo Hoo Wednesday for Inspired by Stamping. I'll be showing you how to make these fabric flowers.

You can find the tutorial over on Joanna's blog, if you create a card or project using this technique, one lucky winner will win a $15 gift card to the Inspired by Stamping Store, you can find Mr Linky, here, with the full details.

It is day 3 of Let's Get Trendy Now! 3 and today it's about "Handmade Embellishments" I love making my own embellishments especially flowers. I'd forgotten this post was scheduled today, I hope it's ok to link it up to today's challenge.

It's the start of Inspired by Stamping June releases, tomorrow, here are a few sneak peeks.

Happy Crafting

xxxxDebxxxx

Whoo Wednesday.........stamping on canvas.

Hello there, how are you all doing? Today, it's my turn to do the Whoo Hoo Wednesday tutorial over at Inspired by Stamping. I'll be showing you how I stamped on canvas and how I created this decorative embroidery hoop.

The tutorial is over on Joanna's blog, if you create a card or project this week using stamped canvas, one lucky winner will win a $15 gift card to the Inspired by Stamping Store.

You can find the Mr Linky here, with the full details.

Happy Stamping
xxxxDebxxxx

Whoo Hoo Wednesday........Embossing Folder Kiss Technique.

Hello there my lovely friends, I've created a card today for Whoo Hoo Wednesday, if you head over to Inspired by Stamping, you can find a tutorial on how-to do the Embossing Folder Kiss Technique.

Also, if you give this technique a try and link your creation to Mr Linky, one lucky winner will be randomly chosen to win a $25 gift card to the Inspired by Stamping Store and featured on Joanna's blog.

You can find out all the details here.

Happy Crafting

xxxxDebxxxx

Whoo Hoo Wednesday.........stamping on ribbon.

Hi there, crafty friends, I'm back today with this week's Inspired by Stamping Whoo Hoo Wednesday. Today, I'm going to show you how to make your own custom ribbon by stamping onto some plain ribbon. My favourite sort of ribbon to stamp on is a plain cotton with a nice, even weave.

Decide what stamps and inks that you want to use, I choose to use the bunting from the Mason Jar set and 'birthday wishes' from Little Phrases. I'm using SU water-based dye ink in Tempting Turquoise, Summer Starfruit, Calypso Coral, Lucky Lemonade and Melon Mambo.

I prefer to use darker, deeper colours so it shows up better on ribbon, the colour doesn't stamp as dark as if it was on card.

So that's all there is to it, very simple, you could use any stamps, any colours, to match whatever papers, you want to use.

It's my friend's little granddaughter's birthday soon, so I made this card for her, using the stamped ribbon.

I hope you enjoyed this little tutorial and will give it a go soon.
Supplies
Stamps- Mason Jars, Little Phrases
Papers- Pink Paislee.
Pretties- SU Cotton Ribbon, K and Co Felt Flowers.
Tools- SU Scalloped Border Punch
Happy Crafting
xxxxDebxxxx

Inspired by Stamping Whoo Hoo Wednesday......Button Wreath Christmas Decoration.

Hello there, it's my turn for Whoo Hoo Wednesday over at Inspired by Stamping and I'm going to show you how I made the Button Wreath Christmas decoration that I created for last month's Inspired by Stamping releases.

Lay two different sized Spellbinder circle dies onto some chipboard and cut out. I used the two largest from the set.

Using the largest circle die cut out a chipboard circle and one in your choice of pattern paper. You know have the three circles to start decorating.

Add some ribbon and bells to the bottom of the circle, then arrange and hot glue your buttons to the chipboard circle (not the solid circle).

Cover the solid circle with your patterned paper.

Stamp a sentiment onto white card, I used Inspired by Stamping Christmas Greetings and attach to the circle.

Next, you need to attach some ribbon to the top of the circle, to hang the ornament.

Lastly, attach the button circle to the solid circle, adding a large bow and button.

This is the finished ornament, perfect for your tree or just to hang wherever you want.

Let me know if you make one, I'd love to take a look at what you've created, I'll be back tomorrow with this week's Inspired by Stamping Inspiration Challenge.

xxxxDebxxxx

Whoo Hoo Wednesday.....Emboss Resist Technique.

Hi, it's my turn to host Inspired by Stamping Whoo Hoo Wednesday and I'm going to show you a simple tutorial on the emboss resist technique.

You will need:

Stamps

light colour pattern paper/cardstock 

VersaMark ink

white embossing powder

heat gun

coloured inks

paper towel

Using VersaMark ink, stamp your image onto the paper/card, I used the large doily from IBS Delicate Doilies II and cover the image with the white embossing powder, tip the excess back into the pot.

Heat the image with your heat embossing tool until the image becomes glossy be careful not to overheat as the image will flatten. It doesn't look much at the moment, the magic happens once you add the ink.

Sponge over the entire image with inks or PanPastels, I chose to use TH Distress ink, once you've got the depth of colour you want, wipe over with a paper towel, to take off any ink from the glossy white image, leaving you with a beautiful sharp image that seems to pop off the paper.

Here's my finished card.

Supplies

Stamps- IBS Delicate Doilies II, IBS Fancy Sentiments (released on Saturday)

Papers- October Afternoon Thrift Shop, SU First Edition.

I hope you enjoyed this simple tutorial and thanks for stopping by.

Happy Crafting

xxxxDebxxxx

Whoo Hoo Wednesday......Thrifted Dress Patterns.

Hi there, it's Whoo Hoo Wednesday over at Inspired by Stamping and it's my turn to share a technique with you. I love looking around charity shops for vintage buttons, ribbons, threads and especially old dress making patterns. They are pennies to buy and they are great for crafting, my favourite thing to do with them is making flowers, you can make so many flowers from just one pattern. Here's how I make my flowers.

This pattern only cost me 50p, bargain !!!!!

Choose a die or some flower punches and cut out lots of layers of different size flowers.

I also add some lace, fabric, hessian or whatever you have lying around in your sewing box.

Layer all your flowers and poke a hole through the centre and attach a brad, you could also sew a button in the middle to keep it together.

Once your flowers are secure scrunch all the petals up to the centre, as little or as much as you want depending on the effect you want. When you have scrunched start opening the petals back out until you are happy with how your flower looks.

Here's my finshed flower.

I've kept my card quite simple as the flower is fairly big and I wanted that as the focal point but you could just make lots of small ones, why not make a batch of different ones so they are ready to use as you need them.

Supplies
Stamps- Daisies, Labels 4,
Papers- My Minds Eye Miss Caroline.
Other- K & Co brad, SU pearls.

Dress patterns can be used for other things too, you could use it as your background paper or like I've done here I glued a couple of layers onto chipboard using Glue & Seal, once dry die cut out any shape you want. I used the Sizzix TH Sewing Room and I'll use these on a card very soon.

Thanks for looking.
xxxxDebxxxx

Whoo Hoo Wednesday.......Masking....

Hi there, it's Whoo Hoo Wednesday over at Inspired by Stamping and it's my turn to share a technique with you, I decided to show you how to mask. I love this technique, it is very simple but so effective. Masking is the technique of covering a stamped image so other images can be placed over it without them overlapping, giving a fabulous layered effect.

 Start off by stamping the images you want to use onto some scrap card, I stamped each image twice and cut out as close to the edge as possible. This is the time consuming bit but once you've done it you can keep them and use them over and over again.

Once cut out use a temporary glue on the back, I used the Quickie Glue pen which when applied and left to dry, it becomes repositionable.

I started from the top left hand corner and stamped the two largest flowers from the IBS Daisies set next to each other, I covered them with the masks and stamped the small daisy inbetween the two flowers, slightly overlapping, this image will be now look like it's in the background.I removed the masks and carried on stamping around the card, covering any stamped image with the mask that I was stamping over, as I've shown in the above photo.The little leaf I used is from Little Flowers set, .
Here's my finished card, I left some white space in the centre and added a sentiment, I also added buttons to some of the flower centres to add a bit of dimension.

You will find a new tutorial every Wednesday over at Inspired by Stamping.

Thank you for joining me, I'll be back tomorrow with the new Inspired by Stamping Inspiration Challenge
xxxxDebxxxx