presto bling

Another fast and easy card using the presto paper. I used the big shot to cut out a scallop circle

with sticky sheet and poured glitter all over. Our whole family is glittery now.

more presto paper

Here's an easy card using the new presto paper from the summer mini catalogue. I think presto paper is like those choose your own adventure books I used to read as a kid. Instead of choose your own adventure, it's just choose your own colour dsp. This time I choose regal rose and used my brayer to bring out the gorgeous pattern. The pattern was so lovely I wanted to keep to motif simple so as not to distract from the great background. The Defining letters and define your life stamp set seemed good to me. Round the corners with the corner rounder punch and tie a simple 1/4" grosgrain ribbon and we're done. Talk about fast!

my first easel card

Hi! Just thought I would share our club C project that the ladies made this weekend. I've been dying to try and easel card since I've seen so many samples lately. The scallop edge is what is holding the easel part up but it folds down easily to fit into a standard envelope.

The card front design uses the new presto paper with pick a petal flower stamped on the front. I'm using the cottage wall dsp. I love the colours on this dsp and it gave me a chance to enjoy my orchid opulence ink and paper. I never thought orchid opulence, old olive and rich razzleberry would be a good combo but that's why dsp provides such super inspiration. I also showed the ladies how to create a paper flower/rose for the centre. Feel free to contact me if you are interested in joining a stampers club. It's a great way to learn some new things. I will be having a new club starting soon.

Presto!

Here's one of the products available with the release of the summer mini on May 1st. It is called Presto paper. It's white paper with a design embedded in the paper. It kind of works like emboss resist except that you don't have to emboss anything. You just add the colour via brayer, aqua painter etc and presto: the pattern appears more defined. I added soft suede ink direct to paper (basically I rubbed the ink pad all over the paper and it gave a really cool vintage look. I added some pictures and some punched out stamped images and voila, a complete 12X12 scrapbook page. (ignore the paper towel pieces: I tried to cover up any identifying names in my journalling just for safety)