A Modern Grid Technique

Man is my summer flying by!! I can't believe the 4th is past and that we're already well into the month of July. I hope all of you have a fantastic weekend. We thoroughly enjoyed our holiday with good food, outdoor games, friends and fireworks.

Since this is the first Monday of the month, that means we have a new CCEE challenge hostess. This month it's Dawn, and she challenged us to do a *Modern Grid Technique.* Now I'd never even heard of this technique before, so I needed to see the examples that Frances (StampOwl) provided for us. You can find them HERE, HERE, and HERE.

I decided to combine this Modern Grid Technique with the Tri-Shutter Technique that we did last month. And this is my very first Christmas card of the season too.

To start, I drew my grid lines with my SU! Going Grey marker. Each square is 1"x 1". I then stamped the Snow Swirled (SU!) images with White Craft (SU!) randomly throughout the piece and embossed with White ep. I used a sponge dauber to add Currant (Adirondack Dye Ink) to the centers of the flakes and Lettuce (Adirondack Dye Ink) to the tree center, and then used an aqua pen to pull the color out and blend it. The sentiment was stamped onto one of the Lots of Tags diecuts.

Finally, I added some Multicolored Mini-Rhinestones (Zva Creative) and Clear Rhinestones (Kaisercraft) to the snowflake centers and sentiment piece.

Now, you need to go check out what creative ideas the other girls have come up with. Head on over to the CCEE Stampers blog. We'd love to have you participate too. Just follow the linking instructions when you get there.

Thanks for stopping by. I always love visitors!!
Happy Stamping!





Stamps: Snow Swirled (SU!)
Paper: Wizard Dark and Light, White (Prismatics)
Ink: Currant, Lettuce (Adirondack Dye Ink), White Craft (SU!)
Accessories: Scor-Pal, Sponge Dauber, Ruler, Lots of Tags diecut (SU!), Rhinestones (Zva Creative and Kaisercraft), White ep

CCEE Tri-Shutter Card

It's time for another CCEE Challenge. This week Charlene challenged us to make a Tri-Shutter card found HERE on SCS.

There is NO stamping on the card. I know...the horror!! *grin*
I just dry embossed Core'dinations paper with the Sizzix Wedding Set #2 Embossing folder and sanded it with a Sanding Block (SU!). The Vintage Metal piece is from Making Memories, and the rhinestone flourishes are Prima.

I made the flowers with a Spellbinders flower die, and Martha Stewart and Carl Carlacraft punches. The swirls are a SU! die, and the stamens are from Impress.

The edges are all ink distressed with Tea Dye and Aged Mahogany Ranger Distress Ink.

That about sums up this no stamping card. We'd love to have you play along too. All you have to do is go to our CCEE Stampers blog and link your creation in the comments section. It's always fun seeing where stampers' creativity takes them.

Thank you so much for stopping by.
I hope you have a fabulous and blessed week!!
Happy Stamping!

Tosh

Tri-Shutter Card

I don't normally attempt too many new techniques. Mainly because I hate making mistakes and having to start over. But Lynn provided one on SCS today that didn't scare me too much. It's called a "Tri-Shutter Card". All it involved was some scoring and a bit of cutting. I can do that. *grin* To check out SCS's Technique Challenge today, click HERE.

All the images stamped onto the Dancing Jewel Kaisercraft dp, are by Verve. I'll list the links in the supply list below.

The decorative brad was made with Chatterbox's Easy Brad Maker Kit. All I did was punch a circle out of the dp with the punch provided and added the epoxy circle....also provided. Way easy and elegant. I made the tiny bow with a Bow Easy tool. Sharon sells them HERE, and and Jerri provides a very easy tutorial HERE.

Here's the card closed. It will fit into a standard A2 envelope.

Hope your Monday is off to a great start!!
Happy stamping!
Tosh

Supplies:
Stamps - Because of You, Fairy Tales, Artful Elegance, Beautiful Kindness, Filigree Fantasy, Thankful Blossoms (Verve)
Paper - Dancing Jewel (Kaisercraft), Birchtone Light and Dark, Vellum
Ink - Frayed Burlap and Walnut Stain (Ranger Distress Ink), Currant (Adirondack Dye Ink)
Accessories - Corduroy Brad (Stampin' UP!), Easy Brad Maker (Chatterbox), Organdy Ribbon (Offray), Ultrafine Glitter (JudiKins), Quickie Glue Pen (Sakura)