Dapper Dad #3

The last of the cards I made at Julie's training.  This one is my favourite, we used the argyle embossing folder again and I looks great on this card.

Here are all three cards together:

Dapper Dad #2

This is the second card we made using the Dapper Dad stamp set, simple but effective, I love the argyle embossing folder, (another thing I haven't got but is now on my wish list!).

I will show you the last card tomorrow.

Dapper Dad

More from Julie's training.  We used Dapper Dad to make some masculine themed cards, again this is something I haven't got so it was good to try out something new.
Here is the first card:
  

 I love how we stamped the watch out again then punched out watch face and stuck it on one of the large Basics Designer Buttons from the spring mini.

I will show you another card we made tomorrow.

Thinking outside the Boutique Box!

I went to Julie's team training at the weekend which was lovely, (as usual). The theme was Men, which put most of us outside of our comfort zone! In the afternoon we made an interactive scrapbook page using the boutique boxes designer printed kit, Julie named it the 'Thinking Outside the Boutique Box' class.  To be honest I've never really taken much notice of this kit as it just didn't catch my eye, too many feathers I think, so it is definitely something I would never have bought myself.  Surprisingly in real life I liked it and for only £7,25 for the kit it is really great value. It has 8 die cut boxes, 8 note cards, 16 buttons, 4.6m of crumb cake bakers twine a 12" x 12" sheet of die cut decorations and 24 dimensionals! 
I added a couple of sheets of very vanilla 12" x 12" card and an A4 sheet of crumb cake and basic grey to make my two layouts, plus some punches.
Instead of making boxes I made 6 pockets by butting some of the sides down.  Julie had all six pockets on her layout, here, but I decided to do a double page layout with three pockets on each.  Here are my pages, just have to find the right photo's:

Here is a close up of the pockets:

To make the pockets you have to cut the top flap off but then I stuck them back on again to make the pocket flaps.  One tip though is if you want to make a finger hole at the top using a circle punch, it is much easier to do this before you stick the pocket together, (I didn't!).
Both pages together:

Thank you Julie for this great idea. I have quite a bit of the die cuts and two boxes left to make some more things too!

More Postage Due!

This is the last card from my little set of cards made using the postage due stamp set.  I stamped it in the same way as yesterdays card but because it was very blurry I stamped over it in island indigo. 

 Here are all three cards together, which one do you like best?

Faux Water Colour Postage Due

When I made the card I showed you yesterday I really liked how it looked before I heat embossed it so I thought it would be a great technique to do for my swap cards at Julie's training.  The card I showed you yesterday did have a link to a tutorial but I thought I'd do a quick one here as I didn't have time to write the instructions on the back of my swaps.
This is one of my swaps, they were all a bit different and I tried a few different colour combinations but this looks like island indigo pool party, wisteria wonder and calypso coral.

First choose three or four re-inkers and put a few swirls of each onto a plastic wallet. 

Then spritz with some water, the colours may mingle a bit.: 

 Use this to ink up your stamp, (mines from postage due):

 Stamp onto whisper white card, sometimes the first one or two images are very inky like the one below, if it is too blurry you can either stamp over with versa mark and heat emboss like I showed you yesterday or stamp over again with one of the darker inks you used to give more definition, (tomorrow I will show you a card where I did this). 

Here is a card I made using this technique:

 I stamped the image in island indigo and cut and layered a triangle for the middle section.

This technique is great for making a few cards quickly as, depending on how much re-inker you used, you can usually get 6 or 7 images stamped from it. If you haven't got any re-inkers or only want one image you can ink your stamp using stampin write markers (lightest to darkest) then spritz stamp with water.  This will give you a similar effect and you can be a bit more precise with your colours.

Faux Watercolour and Embossed Postage Due

I saw this card on the internet and thought I would give it a go. You squirt some re-inkers onto a plastic sheet, (I used a plastic wallet) and spritz with water. Use this to stamp your image onto whisper white card then allow to dry. Ink the stamp up again in versa mark ink use a stamp-a-ma-jig to line up your stamp and stamp over the inky image, heat emboss with white embossing powder. There is a little tutorial on the link to show you how to do it.
Here is my card:

 It is a few weeks since I made it but I think my re-inkers where, island indigo, calypso coral, pool party and wisteria wonder, the stamp set is postage due.  Here is a close up.

I really like this effect, what do you think?