January Club Projects

My stamp clubs met yesterday and these are the projects we created.

Fun little pocket card using my new stamp sets.

Stamp Sets: celebrate everything, fast flowers (wheel) time well spent

Inks & Markers: elegant eggplant, orchid opulence

Cardstock: certainly celery, elegant eggplant, orchid opulence, whisper white

Ribbon: certainly celery grosgrain
Tools: circle punch

Other: staple

This card uses the faux tile technique. Score your cardstock every inch on the diagonal to create this unique look.

Whimsical Tip: I discovered a great new way (at least new to me) to score your cardstock. Of course my cutter has a scoring blade, but I hate using it because I either put too much or too little pressure on it. I usually score my cardstock by running my bone folder in the cutting groove of my cutter, but sometimes it's hard to keep it in the track. By chance I had left my bone folder at my upline's house and needed to score cardstock. So I grabbed my embossing stylus (the brown one) and it works great! I had a super easy time keeping it in the groove. Plus, with a large and a small end, I can choose whether I want a shallow or deep score. This is definitely the way I'll be scoring from now on. Try it yourself!

Stamp sets: baroque motifs

Inks: bayou blue, chocolate chip, versamark

Cardstock: bayou blue, textured chocolate chip, more mustard, very vanilla

Other: clear embossing powder, more mustard brad

My version of the fringed party favor box. Check out the awesome tutorial on Andrea Walford's blog (one of her September 2007 posts): http://andreawalford.com/. Her work is so awesome!

Stamp sets: happy everything, polka dots & paisley

Inks: purely pomegranate, so saffron

Cardstock: purely pomegranate, so saffron, cutie pie designer series paper

Embellishments: purely pomegranate double stitched ribbon, linen thread

Tools: word window punch