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| Me and Brandy at Convention last year. |
Since becoming a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, I have learned so much about myself and continue to set and accept new challenges. I personally believe that we should never stop learning and this learning keeps us young and promotes a strong sound mind.
With this project, I am highlighting one of my most favourite techniques and one of the first techniques I ever learned. I love the elegant, regal look that is achieved and it is so easy to add a stamped image of any design and wow, a great card! I chose to work with the Wisteria Wonder ink and cardstock, firstly because I like the colour purple and secondly, I absolutely love the finished royal timeless look of this combination . My first project with this technique was before I joined Stampin' Up! so will have to admit I have no fun name to call the colour, and calling it just brown, seems wrong. So let's add some excitement and call it waffle cone brown! Here I pause to giggle, because if you give this technique a try and start with a piece of "waffle cone brown" you will indeed have a piece of paper in your hand that looks like a waffle cone when complete! Yummy! So yes, grab a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock and ink (yes one of the current wonderful Stampin' Up! colours), and try this technique and viola, you have yourself the start of a great ice cream cone card! And who doesn't love ice cream! My fav....Original Moose Tracks Ice Cream...and no, no moose was involved in the making of it, and yes, I too wonder if it's because it sounds so Canadian, eh?
Funny story, about the very Canadian usage of the word "eh?" and my Stampin' Up! travels. It seems that while in the US, my new Stampin' Up! friends in the US where waiting and listening very attentively to be the first to hear me say "eh?" and also some went as far as to some friendly bets with spouses and friends, as to when and how often I would use it! I have since learned that I do say this very common expression of Canadians but not as often as some. So many had to wait a day or two even to hear me use it, and when I did, I was privy to the stories!! I have since read the Wikipedia definition of Eh, because we all know that Wikipedia knows everything, and if you want a chuckle, it is worth the read! And to all those, except those maybe from Michigan and Wisconsin that share in the use of the expression, it's the same as your "huh?" or "right?", eh?
Okay, so I might have gone on a tangent! For those that know me, I might do that occasionally, but without further ado, let's watch my first video, eh!
Base:
1. Cut a 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" piece of Basic Gray and fold in half to be your base.
2. Cut a 5 1/4" x 4" piece of Wisteria Wonder.
3. Score this piece of Wisteria Wonder every 1" the length and width using the Diagonal Score Plate.
4. Distress the outside edge of the card using Wisteria Wonder ink on a sponge dauber.
5. Fold on the score line and distress using Wisteria Wonder ink on a sponge dauber. Flip and distress other side of the scored line. Continue this process for all the score lines both length and width of the card until all score lines are distressed from both sides.
6. Adhere to base.
7. Add Silver Dazzling Diamonds to every intersection of score lines on the Wisteria Wonder card base.
Flower topper:
1. Cut a 2 1/4" x 3 1/4" piece of Silver Foil sheet.
2. Cut a 2" x 3" piece of Whisper White.
3. Stamp Bloom with Hope stamp with Wisteria Wonder ink onto the Whisper White piece.
4. Adhere stamped piece onto the Silver Foil with your Snail adhesive.
5. Adhere Silver Foil piece to card base by placing dimensionals in each corner.
6. Add Sivler Dazzling Diamonds to flower centres.
Supplies for this card:
Inkspirations with Sheri - Shopping
P.S. I love the feeling that I have from making this video and being able to share and hopefully inspire you...so I will be making more videos...so stay tuned!
