Showing posts with label dies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dies. Show all posts

Friday, March 24, 2017

Fake ironing Friday and a giveaway

We have heard a lot about fake news in the last year. Today's card has a lot of fake going on. I'm so current. This woman in the window is fake ironing. Kind of the same thing I do.

The interior sentiment, My Birthday Suit is Wrinkled, is from Hampton Arts. I don't have an iron stamp or a stamp of someone ironing, but I found that I could use this woman if I crop her at just the right spot. She looks like she is ironing through the window. The woman in this image doesn't have hair and is holding a watering can. I love finding a new way to use stamps.



I used a die set for the shutters, window frame and the flowers at the bottom of the card. The flowers are very small and my fingers are rather large so I needed a small applicator for some kind of adhesive. I used Ranger's Multi Medium Matte in the small .5 oz bottle. Even though it's a small bottle I wanted a smaller applicator. I bought an empty precision tip applicator bottle a while ago and put the tip on the Multi Medium Matte bottle. Ranger has a special tip for this size bottle, available here, but I didn't go that route because I didn't know it existed back then.


GIVEAWAY

Have you ever ordered something online and accidentally hit the order button twice because you are so excited? I have done it more than a couple times. I did this in my last order from Simon Says Stamp that arrived last week. Soooo

I have an extra stamp that I want to send to a Katemade Designs reader. I have a goal of reaching 100 followers this year. I am 52 followers away from my goal. If I reach 100 followers on the blog I will add a paper crafting product. For each 100 followers, I will add another product to the pot. I have a set of Tim Holtz Distress crayons, a few duplicate stamps including a background stamp and numerous embellishments. 


Saturday, January 28, 2017

Let's Fiesta

Recently a friend of mine celebrated his 40th birthday. He likes tequila, so I purchased a bottle for him. I made a tag/bottle decoration to celebrate his Mexican heritage using two SugarPea Designs sets, Let's Fiesta and Hug-A-Bull. They were the perfect stamps, but there seemed to be something missing. There was too much white space. So I looked around for a way to make Papel Picado for the background.

"Papel Picado ("perforated paper", literally "pecked paper") is a decorative craft made out of paper cut into elaborate designs. It is considered a Mexican folk art. The designs are commonly cut from tissue paper using a guide and small chisels, creating as many as forty banners at a time. Papel picado can also be made by folding tissue paper and using small, sharp scissors. Common themes include birds, floral designs, and skeletons. They are commonly displayed for both secular and religious occasions." — Wikipedia
I found a white doily that's probably been in my stash for years. I die cut mini Papel Picado with a Kelly Purkey die from Hero Arts. Once cut I used ink to color the doilies. I love the way they turn out and will but making more cards using these stamps and mini Papel Picado.