Andrea's Scraps

Catch up with Ippity

andreasscraps — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:00:13 +0000

I’ve been busy with the Ippity and Unity stamps these days. Cards, scrapbook pages, altered stuff, you name it! It’s all FUN because I’m stamping!

Ippity and Unity make it easy to stamp. Just place the red rubber stamp onto an acrylic block, ink it up and away you go! You’re a stamper now! It’s fun to watch people stamp for the first time. They’re so tentative and gentile. Rubber is so rugged that it’s doubtful they could hurt a red rubber stamp! With the exception of chemicals or sharp objects, rubber stamps are very good about holding their own!

Supplies:
Ippity Stamps
P K Glitz Ritzy Ditzy Glitz, Sticky Paper, Sticky Tape, Glitter, embossing powder and sketch
My Mind’s Eye patterned paper
Prism cardstock
Ranger inks
Spellbinders dies
Brads

Supplies:
Ippity stamps
Ranger Distress and Tsukineko inks
P K Glitz embossing powder
Copic markers
My Mind’s Eye patterned paper
SC251 sketch from Splitcoast

Tea anyone?

andreasscraps — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:00:36 +0000

I really loved the Nook & Pantry line when BasicGrey introduced it. It has a lot of nostalgic feel to it and of course, classic kitchen icons. I was lucky enough to get my hands on one of the clear stamp sets that came from that collection. It has a great teapot and cup in it shown in the card below. Isn’t that just perfect classic kitchen?? I used some of the beautiful Chocolate colored embossing powder from P K Glitz on the images and strip across the top of the card.

Supplies:
BasicGrey Nook & Pantry patterned paper, brads and stamps
P K Glitz Ritzy Ditzy Glitz, Sticky Tape, embossing powder and sketch
Ranger embossing ink

Kaleidoscope card front

andreasscraps — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:00:25 +0000

I’ve been working with this neat software from Poppy Hill Designs called Dazzling Reflections. You may have noticed the badge on the side bar – they are a P K Glitz Preferred Partner.

The software is straightforward from the start. Start the software, bring in a photo, choose a template then printing size! The tutorials on the web site and in the software itself are very good. The owner Wendy is a whiz at it! You should see the projects she makes!

The card below was made using one of the square templates that comes with the standard software. There are additional themed template sets that you can purchase. I printed the kaleidoscope at just under 5×5, trimmed around the outside then the middle to make the photo frame. I then stamped and embossed the center saying. A nice Easter card using a picture I took!

Supplies:
P K Glitz Amethyst E P Max
Ranger embossing ink
Poppy Hill Designs, Dazzling Reflections Kaleidoscope software
My Stamp Box, Straightforward set
Corner Punch
Cardstock

Look-y here!

andreasscraps — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:00:28 +0000

One of the fun parts of crafting and working at craft expos is getting to meet people across the country that you may not get to meet otherwise. Joe and Kathy from Seaside Stampin’ Ink are two such people. With great rubber stamp images (teal rubber even!) and products, they hail from Maryland traveling to the different shows throughout the year.

I’ve gotten the wonderful opportunity to work with Joe and Kathy, one that I really appreciate! The card below is one of many to come I’m sure! The images are beachy and completely coastal. Anyone who lives on the coast or visits on vacation or just plain loves to stamp seaside images, these are for you. I love stamps like this and am sure that I’ll come up with all kinds of ways to use them. You can visit their site or blog to get ideas too! My card is featured on their blog (thanks Joe!) and the stamps that I used are ON SALE for a limited time!

Supplies:
Seaside Stampin’ Ink stamps: F-224 Beach Fence, G-232 Dune Grasses, D-919 Paradise, G-228 Sand Dune Hills, F-247 Shells on Beach
Tsukineko ink
Stampendous clear embossing powder
Flair Designs patterned paper
Prism cardstock
Fiber
Get Sketchy sketch #27

Unity Shout-out!

andreasscraps — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:04:32 +0000

Can you believe that I was featured on the Unity blog on Friday????

HOW

COOL

THAT?

Thank you Unity!!

Here’s the card that was mentioned:

Supplies:
Ippity stamps
Unity Crazy for Daisies kit
P K Glitz embossing powder
Tsukineko and Ranger inks
Michael’s ribbon
Mojo Monday sketch #128

Woohoo, SEI shout-out!

andreasscraps — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:39:50 +0000

I had fun last month with a sketch challenge on the SEI blog creating the page of Chris and I. The challenge wrapped up and I got a special mention when they announced layouts that “caught their eye”!

Check it out on the SEI Blog, SEI Lifestyle.

How cool IS THAT?? Thank you SEI!

Twinchies anyone?

andreasscraps — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:00:02 +0000

You may remember seeing some “inchies” on here before – the little pieces of 1″x1″ art? Well, the cousin to “inchies” are “twinchies”. I bet you can guess what they are – yes, 2″x2″ pieces of art!

Indeed being double the size of inchies, twinches can accommodate a bit more “stuff”. These are rather simple, but I think would be very cute on a card with a little bit more embellishment by means of ribbon, more patterned paper or bling.

So, I view these as a great starting point!

There are 2 themes here. The green is a March/Clover/St. Patrick’s Day theme. The bunnies are Easter/Spring themed. All have either heat embossing or flocking on them for at least a bit of texture. They’re fun! Oh, you trade them like Artist Trading Cards. I made 3 of each one, so I’ll be receiving 9 back in each theme. Looking forward to it!

Supplies:
Stampin’ Up! stamps
Ranger and Tsukineko inks
P K Glitz embossing powder
Stampendous flocking
Spellbinders dies
Prism cardstock
Karen Foster patterned paper

A couple ATCs

andreasscraps — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:00:56 +0000

My ATC (Artist Trading Card) Club just met over the weekend. It was a great time! I did unfortunately wait until the last minute to make my ATC’s. The usual suspects for delaying – work, fighting a sinus infection, other commitments, yada yada yada. Oh, Stampfest was in there too.

ATC’s are 3 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ pieces of art. Try them sometime, they’re addicting!!

BUT, I did successfully complete them! I like one of them a lot and the other, so-s0. Oh well, that’s how it goes right?

We decided on the rest of our themes for the year – love that! Now I can do them as I have time or supplies. We meet in April next, so I’ll have a couple months to work on 2 batches. Should be able to do that!

Anyway, here are the gems! February’s theme was “Famous Couples” and March was “Recycle”.

Supplies:
BasicGrey patterned paper
Time to Stamp rubber stamps
Ranger Distress inks
Trim and paper rose from Paper Niche LSS
Tim Holtz Mini Fastener
expert sewing by me!!!!

Supplies:
Unity stamps
Tsukineko ink
Provocraft Grass scissors
CM heart punch
Tim Holtz Mini Fastener
P K Glitz glitter
Soda can tab

Apricot Nectar Cake

andreasscraps — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:00:20 +0000

Greg from Marco’s Paper put this recipe up, complete with pictures, on his blog and I just had to try it. Wow, what a yummy cake! So good that I made it twice in the same week! It’s a keeper recipe for sure!

Supplies:
Reminisce patterned Paper
Stampin’ Up! Stamps
Tsukineko ink
Fun foam and eyelets

Happy Dog Biscuit Appreciation Day

andreasscraps — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:00:17 +0000

Ok, I know that’s pretty dang weird, but surprisingly it was the theme for a card swap on Rubber Stamp Chat in February! It was harmless fun and got me to use a dog stamp that I had in my stash for years. It was an opportunity to use this week’s sketch from Card Positioning Systems too!

Supplies:
Prism cardstock
Around the Block patterned paper
Cat’s Pajamas rubber stamps
Ranger embossing ink
P K Glitz embossing powder
CPS sketch #156