Project Life Monday | December Filler Cards...

 Welcome back Project Life Monday Sassy Friends!  Today's tutorial involves three more filler cards to help inspire you to be ready for the silly season that is almost upon us! Eeeek! Apart from my PL2015 filler cards, I am nowhere near to being ready! 
   This week I have created cards that involve both fussy cutting, pocket creating and more stamping using the gorgeous Kelly Purkey | All Decked Out clear stamps.   Merry Christmas | Stamped 3x4 Filler Card   step 1: Using the Merry Christmas tag from the October Afternoon Under the Tree Die Cut Tags and the deer head from the Kelly Purkey clear stamps, stamp the image on the lower edge allowing for the antlers and ears to show. Use a piece of scratch paper below your tag to prevent inking your work surface.          I've chosen to use the Hero Arts Ombre Ink | Pink to Red.  
step 2: Trim a 3x4 card from the OA Under the Tree | Merry Making patterned paper. Adhere the tag to the center of the 3x4 patterned paper.
     Holly Jolly | 3x4 Filler Card   step 1: Gather your supplies - smooth white cardstock, OA Under the Tree Cocoa Sipping patterned paper, the Holly Jolly cut apart from the OA Under the Tree Merry Making patterned paper, ombre ink & an ink blending tool.
  step 2:  On a piece of 3x4 smooth cardstock, ink the outer edges with the help of a blending tool. Leave the center of the cardstock as crisp as possible and once dry, layer a hand cut star using OA Under the Tree Cocoa Sipping patterned paper.     step 3: Layer the Holly Jolly cut apart on top of the star. Machine stitch in place for added texture!           Beginning to Look | 3x4 Filler Card     step 1: Gather your supplies - OA Under the Tree Gift Giving patterned paper,  OA Under the Tree Merry Making patterned paper.     step 2: Fussy cut the snowman image from the patterned paper and using the reverse side of the same patterned paper, trim a 3x4 card.       step 3: Use the Christmas cut apart phrase from the Merry Making paper to layer across the bottom of the 3x4 card. The Christmas phrase is too wide and will need trimming.         step 4: To create a pocket for the fussy cut snowman to slip into, adhere the side and bottom edges only of the cut apart piece to the 3x4 card. Now you can slip your fussy cut image into the pocket along with any other journaling strips or ephemera keepsakes.           Thanks for visiting today. I hope you have found a little bit of inspiration using October Afternoon Under the Tree..x     Sassy Supplies:      

 

Project Life Monday | Stamping...

Hello Sassy Friends! Welcome back to another PL2015 tutorial.  This week I am sharing a few simple ideas on creating filler cards using the Kelly Purkey "All Decked Out" clear stamps & October Afternoon | Under The Tree. These cards came together very quickly once I gathered my supplies, including the smooth classic white cardstock from Bazzill and my favourite ombre inks from Hero Arts.  

 Tis the Season | 3x4 Filler Card step 1: Mount the reindeer image from the Kelly Purkey | All Decked Out clear stamps, on to a clear acrylic block.  Layer the 3x4 blank card on top of some scratch/scrap paper. step 2: Ink the clear stamp with your favourite ombre ink and stamp the image on to the 3x4 card, allowing only half of the stamp to show on the cardstock. See image above.  You want to only have half of the deer head on the cardstock. Having the scratch paper below the 3x4 card will prevent marking your work surface.

step 3: Flick a few drops of Heidi Swapp colorshine | Navy directly on to the card. Trim the "Merry & Bright" banner from the October Afternoon | Under The Tree Merry Making paper. Layer near the bottom of the card.

  step 4: Trim the "Tis the Season" square from the same patterned paper and mount on to foam dots. Angle it slightly and adhere to the top of the Merry & Bright banner.


 Reindeer Mask | 3x4 Filler Card

step 1: Using the reindeer image, ink with a blue ombre ink pad. Stamp the image in the middle of the 3x4 cardstock filler card. Stamp a second reindeer image on to scratch/scrap paper and fussy cut as close to the inked image edge, as possible. This second deer image/paper piece becomes the mask.

step 2: Using removable adhesive, attach the fussy cut deer head directly over the top of the 3x4 cardstock image. Try to line up the images to as near as perfect that you can manage.

step 3: Using a contrasting ombre ink, select the "merry making" clear stamp from the Kelly Purkey | All Decked Out set. Ink the image with the lightest colour from the ombre ink pad and starting from the top of the card, create a brick wall effect, by repeating the stamp. Change the colour of the ombre ink as you graduate down the card, keeping the deepest colour for the bottom of the 3x4 card. Stamp directly over the mask to keep a uniformed look.

step 4: Carefully peel back the paper mask to reveal a clear reindeer image below.

 

 Simple Stamping | 3x4 Filler Card

  step 1: Using the "Magic" phrase from the clear stamp collection, ink with your favourite ombre ink and stamp on to the center lower third of the smooth cardstock 3x4 card. step 2: Ink the "North Pole" round stamp with a contrasting ombre ink and center it to the first stamped image.

  step 3: Add a small piece of patterned paper to the top edge of the 3x4 card, trimming the lower edge on an angle. step 4: Complete the card with a few simple star sequins. ......... Thanks for joining me here this week with some stamping fun!     Sassy Supplies: