A Rocking Card for Baby's First Christmas - Try Stampin' on Tuesday #479

 I have never made a rocking card (Schommelkart) before, but after reading several tutorials on You Tube it turned out to be quite an easy card to make. I decided to make the Rocking Card  rather than another card shape, as I had a baby card in mind, particularly baby's first Christmas.

I made this card for the sketch/technique challenge at Try Stampin' on Tuesday #479 

The card was made by die cutting a series of circles in decreasing sizes layered on top of each other. I used the Layering Circle dies.

For the base I used the largest of the circle dies, scored and folded it in half. This is the basis of the rocker card. If placed on a surface open ends down it will rock.

The next layer was die cut with a circle die about 1/4" smaller than the base, using the snowflake pattern from the Trimming the Town DSP.  This was cut in half, with one half adhered to the front, and and the other half on the back.

For the art piece, a 2 1/2" circle was die cut using glitter foam and a 2" circle in Misty Moonlight card stock.  These were adhered together and tiny snow flake dots were added with a fine tip white deco pen.

On a separate piece of Whisper White, the image on the bunnies was stamped from "Wildly Happy" stamp set using Black Memento, and the Christmas trees  from "Snow Wonder" in Shaded Spruce ink. The Bunnies were coloured with  Stampin' Blends and fussy cut. The trees were also fussy cut and some Dazzling Diamonds added to the 'snow'' areas.

The trees were added to the Misty Moonlight matted circle with the top of the trees extending over the top and right side of the circle.  Dimensionals were used to adhere the bunnies below and to the left of the trees and some left over glitter foam was added below them.

The finished smaller circles are then added to the center of the base making sure the ''rocker' was balanced.

Four snowflakes were die cut using glitter foam and added to the rocker base. Five stars were die cut using the So Many Stars die - 3 in Whisper White, and 2 with gold glimmer paper. Four were adhered together with the gold glitter one on top,  with one of the tips adhered to the top of the smaller circle.  The 5th gold glitter star is added to the back of the other stars.

To finish the card, rhinestones are added to the center of each snowflake, along the bottom edge and some randomly around the bunnies.  A double bow made with the 1/4" whisper White crumpled ribbon Is added above the bunnies on the left.

The sentiment, from "Unto Us" is white embossed on a scrap of Misty Moonlight card stock, matted with left over glitter foam, and adhered to the lower left base.  I had to round the  corner of the bottom edge so that the card could rock.

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Wildly Happy, Snow Wonder, For Unto Us

Inks:  Black Memento, Shaded Spruce, Stampin' Blends (Smoky Slate, Flirty Flamingo), Versa Mark, White deco pen

Papers:  Whisper White, Misty Moonlight, Gold Glitter, White Foam Glitter, Trimming the Town DSP, Whisper White

Accessories:  Stiched Star dies, So Many Snowflake dies, Rhinestones, 1/4" Whisper White crumpled ribbon, dimensionals, Layering Circle dies,

A Bright Christmas Star a tutorial

Ever wonder what to do with the Mercury Glass Acetate Paper in the Holiday catalogue?

For this card, I die cut a fairly large star using a Stitched Star die using this Mercury Glass window sheet-like paper, and adhered it over a sponged background.

The card is partially cased from a card made by Sarah Fleming 

Stamps :  So Many Stars, Making Christmas Bright

Inks:

• Sky:  Sponged with Shaded Spruce and Daffodil Delight on Whisper White card stock
• Small Stars & edges: stamped  and edges sponged with Shaded Spruce ink,
• Sentiment :  Real Red
• Embossing:  Versa Mark  

Papers:

• Real Red       5 1/2 by 4 1/4"  Card base
• Shaded Spruce  4 by 5 1/4" first layer
• Whisper White 3 3/4 by 5" Art piece
• Whisper White 2" circle for sentiment
• Whisper White to die cut star swirl and smaller stars

Accessories:  Stitched Star dies, dimensionals, glitter white embossing powder, 2" circle punch.

Putting card together:

1. Fold  Real Red base at 4 1/4" and burnish fold
2. Adhere 3 by 5 1/4" Shaded Spruce layer to card base  - set aside
3. On Whisper White layer, emboss stars with glitter white embossing powder.
4. Then sponge Daffodil Delight in upper right corner of the art piece and Shaded Spruce ink on the rest. Blend the two colours together a little bit. With a clean dry paper towel, wipe off the ink over the embossed stars.
5. Die cut the star swirl and small stars using Whisper White and adhere to art piece
6. Die card medium star with Mercury Glass Acetate paper and add to art piece using mini dimensionals.
7. Stamp sentiment on a separate piece of Whisper White and punch with a 2" circle punch.  Stamp some small stars over the sentiment with Real Red ink. Add punched circle to art piece with dimensionals partially covering die cut star and swirl
8. Add completed art piece to card front.
9. Finish inside.

When you wish upon a Star

I must admit the "So Many Stars" stamp set with its coordinating dies intimidated me somewhat.  You would think that having been a demo for almost 12 years that nothing would intimidate me.  Well, you would be wrong.

After procrastinating, I finally took the plunge and worked with the wonderful product ---and I was actually enjoying myself.

Here's the card I finally came up with.  And, as usual, it is not a simple card.

It was difficult to take a good picture of this card because there was so much glitter going on the camera was dazzled.  The background on the actual card is much more colourful!

I made a galaxy background to show off this spectacular star - sponging Crushed Curry, Rich Razzelberry, Gorgeous Grape, and Night of Navy on a 5 by 7" piece of watercolour paper.

Above is a close up of one part of the star and the colourful background is much more evident.  The large star is comprised of 4 layers of thick Whisper White card stock adhered together to give is a 3D look.  Some smaller die cut stars were adhered in the middle.  Other die cuts adhered between the star points give the appearance of a second star behind the large one.

I used Champagne foil rather than silver foil, mainly because I ran out of the silver foil, but I quite like the cross between the silver and gold.  The sentiment, with its wonderful font, was embossed with gold embossing powder , the gold working very well with the Champagne foil elsewhere.

Supplies Used:
Stamp:  So Many Stars
Inks:  Versa Mark, Background:  Crushed Curry, Rich Razzelberry, Gorgeous Grape, Midnight Blue, and Basic Black
Papers:  Blackberry Bliss base, Champagne Foil, Watercolour paper, Whisper White
Accessories:  Stitched Stars dies, Gold embossing powder

In a Galaxy Far, Far Away.......

Now that the stress of getting ready for a craft show is over, I have time to 'play' with some of the stamps/dies that have been sitting on my shelf feeling very neglected..

One of them is "So Many Stars" with its coordinating dies "Stitched Star"

I must admit I found all those stars rather daunting, until I saw a picture of a card with the galaxy background.  So, I searched for a tutorial, and found one that was very helpful here

Here's a picture of my card with the galaxy background technique, made using sponging and Stampin' Up inks.

This is a larger card than one I usually make - 5 by 7".  When I finished sponging the background I could not bear to cut it up .  Next time I will make the watercolor paper the right size for an A2 card.

On watercolour paper, I sponged the following colours:  Crushed Curry, Rich Razzelberry, Gorgeous Grape, Night of Navy and Basic black.

After I finished with the sponging I sprinkled water over the surface followed by application of white acrylic paint using a tooth pick.

Then I die cut some stars and the string of stars and added them to the galaxy.  The sentiment "Joy" was embossed directly onto the background using the new white glitter embossing powder.

This background was matted with Whisper White and adhered to a Basic Black card base.

Supplies Used:
Stamp:  So Many Stars
Inks:  Crushed Curry, Rich Razzelberry, Gorgeous Grape, Night of Navy, Basic Black, Versa mark
Papers:  Watercolour, Whisper White, Basic Black, Silver Foil
Accessories  Stitched Star dies, White acrylic paint