All About the Guys - Stampin' Creative Global Blog Hop

Hello!  Happy Thursday and welcome to another awesome Stampin' Creative Global Blog Hop!

Each month demonstrators from around the globe offer you our creations around a common theme.  This month the theme is "All About the Guys"

I'm Tamara Bertram, creating up in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and I wanted to create a card that I could use for my Dad this Father's Day.  This is what I came up with:

This card TOTALLY speaks to me and I know my Dad will love it.  One of my earliest and fondest memories of spring involves Cattails.  I was FASCINATED by them - they were fuzzy!  Dad LOVED the outdoors as a young man; fishing, hunting, camping ... he spent a LOT of hours amongst the reeds and cattails.  This one is all about him!

I used my new stamp set and coordinating dies "Friends Like You".  I'm sad!   This bundle is on the "Retiring Products" list but the items ARE carrying over (just not at the 10% discounted bundle price). This one is a KEEPER I tell ya!  Just LOOK at those cattails!  This was SUCH a quick and easy card to put together!

• I started with a standard size Crumb Cake base (5 1/2" x 4 1/4")
• The Very Vanilla layer is 5 1/4" x 4"
• I used my layering ovals dies to first cut the large oval in the Vanilla layer, and then a smaller oval to cut the actual Crumb Cake base.  I added a 5 1/4" x 4" Very Vanilla piece to the inside of the card and then I stamped the image in Early Espresso through the hole.
• I cut the grass and Cattails out of Old Olive card stock and coloured the cattails with my Espresso marker.  I actually cut TWO sets.  One piece is attached to the front (with glue) and another was tucked in between the base and Vanilla layer and glued in there.
• The top Vanilla layer is attached with dimensionals.

The dragonflies are stamped in Early Espresso and cut out with the matching dies.
I couldn't resist bringing in the leaping from cut out form the By the Dock bundle.

On the inside I added some more grass/cattails that were cut out of Very Vanilla card stock.

I love the clean, simple look of this card.  It really takes me back and I can almost smell the water and feel the breeze ... and watch the cattails sway back and forth.

I hope you like it too :)

Click on the links below to see what everyone else came up with and have a stampy day!


Tam

Split Negative Technique - Kylie's Maui Achievers Blog Hop

Happy Monday! ... well, Monday in Edmonton, Canada, where I'm coming to you from.  Thanks for popping in to check out this month's Maui Achievers Blog Hop!  Each month demonstrators from around the globe create a new project that we hope excites and inspires you.  Our projects are all using current Stampin' Up! products.  We hope you enjoy what we've created!

My offering this month is VERY simple ... yet striking!  I've used our new Ornate Garden bundle of products (available for in April ... but then not again until JUNE!) and an old technique called "Split Negative".  I kept the colour palette VERY simple - Whisper White and Old Olive.  Adding additional colours and/or textures really does take away from the beautiful simplicity of this image.

I will be doing a Facebook Live video showing you how to make this card tomorrow night, Tuesday, April 21st, 2020 at 7:00 pm Mountain Time.  Find me FB page "Tamara's Paper Trail" here and check it out! 

I can't provide you with EXACT dimensions, but roughly ...

Card Base - Standard Whisper White card base of 5 1/2" x 8, 1/2"

Mossy Meadow card layer -5" x 3 3/4"

Whisper White layer and Old Olive Layer - 4 3/4" x 3 1/2" - you need one of each

General technique:

• Using your stamparatus, stamp the image on your Whisper White layer in Old Olive ink.
• Cover the wet ink with Crystal Clear embossing powder and heat set.
• Using your stamparatus, stamp the image on your Old Olive layer in Old Olive ink.
• Cover the wet ink with White embossing powder and heat set
• Cut both layers in half (about 1 5/8" is the half way mark)
• Switch one of the Old Olive pieces with one of the Whisper White pieces and attach to your Mossy Meadow layer.  You want to line up the images of two pieces so the are exact.  This will require a bit of trimming!
• Pop the Mossy Meadow layer up on dimensionals
• Stamp your sentiment in Old Olive - pop up on dimensionals
• Add faceted rhinestones to finish it off

This technique is really quite easy ... and you get two cards for the price of one - but it really is easier to understand when you SEE it being made.  I hope you can either catch my LIVE video or the replay, on my Facebook Page.

I hope my project inspired you to try a new technique!  Check out all the other projects on the blog hop by clicking on the links below.

Have a stampy day!

Tam

Free as a Bird Picture Frame Card

Happy Saturday! ... and Happy Easter Weekend :)

I hope you're having a relaxing weekend so far - I am!  The girls and I started painting our bonus room window yesterday to add a little cheer to the house.  Naturally it's making Craig a little twitchy about how easy it will be (or won't be) to get off! lol.

I am also spending a bit of time in my Craft Cave, in between family games, watching RuPaul with Alicia and prepping for Easter Sunday dinner.  I FINALLY made a new YouTube video for my channel!  Something I haven't done in many many months!

Here is the card I created last week.  I drew the inspiration from a card created by Sharon Hashimoto Burkert over at "As the Ink Dries".  She made a card I'm calling a "Picture Frame" card.  Here's what I came up with:

I absolutely ADORE this card!  I have 10 more in the works, now that I have about 100 of the birds fussy cut out of the delicious Bird Ballad designer paper!  This is a REALLY quick and easy card to put together.  Check out my 16 minute video!  While you're there I'd LOVE if you would subscribe to my channel!  The plan is to do MANY more videos in the coming months as I get back to business in this new world of ours.

I HAD to laugh when I realized that the card WASN'T the wrong orientation after all!  *lol*. You just never know what you're going to get with MY videos! lol (did you notice I referred to the square as a circle??  lol).  Polished to the end! .... not ... hee hee.

Have a blessed Easter everyone!  Stay healthy; Stay safe. xoxox

Tam