Faux Silk

Sorry I have been MIA for a few days, I have been preparing for my Virtual Stamp Night Hostess debut! My challenge was posted last night. There is no time limit on the creation and you have until March 15 to play. Find out all about VSN here.

So my challenge was to make a card using the Faux Silk Technique. Basically what you do for this technique is stamp your image on tissue paper, crumple it up and smooth it out. You then adhear the tissue paper to some card stock, trim and use as part of your card. It is really a great technique. Click here for a tutorial of the technique, courtosey of Splitcoaststampers.

Here is the sample I made for the challenge:
Interesting color combo, huh? I just happened to order ribbon in these 3 colors and saw them sitting on my table to be put away - I knew that I wanted to create a card using these colors!

You can't tell from the picture, but the flowers around the sentiment are made using the faux silk technique as well.

Stamping Supplies: Elegant Eggplant, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie and Whipser White Card Stock; Elegant Eggplant, Real Red and Pumpkin Pie Classic Ink; Elegant Eggplant Grosgrain Ribbon, Black Brads, Red Eyelet, 1 3/8 circle punch, Designer Label punch, oval punch, crop-o-dile (for setting eyelet) tissue paper.

There were 3 other great challenges posted last night. I will try and feature them throughout the week for your enjoyment. Until next time - Happy Stamping!

It's Wednesday....

And you know what that means! Yeap, half way through the work week.

It's been almost 2 weeks since I have posted! What am I thinking? Oh yeah, I am getting ready for the next VSN at SCS! There is a Mini coming up on March 8 and then the big event on April 4th and 5th.

Now you may ask yourself why I am getting ready for an event that is so far off in the future? That is because I have been selected to host one of the challenges! What day and what is the challenge you ask? Well, you will have to stay tuned, I can't say when I will be hosting the challenge quite yet...and you will have to wait for the day and time of my challenge to see what it is!

What is VSN you ask? Virtual Stamp Night is a series of challenges. You have usually have 45 minutes to complete the stamping challenge, then 15 minutes to clean up, take a picture of your project and upload your picture. Challenges are posted every hour! It is great fun...click here for more information. I hope you will be able to join me!

Pre-Challenge for April VSN

OK, I LOVE challenges! I love being given a little nugget of information and then allowed to do with it what I please. In January I particiapted in a VSN (Virtual Stamp Night) on SCS. Challenges are posted every hour, on the hour. You have 45 minutes to complete your project and then 15 minutes to clean up and up load your project. It is so much fun! The next one will be April 4th and 5th. There will be a mini VSN on March 8. Check out the link above to learn more.


The dates and theme for this next VSN were just announced over the weekend - and they gave us a pre-challenge - make a card using something a baby would wear. Here is my entry:

I used the new Berry Bliss Designer Series Paper for the background. I didn't mean for it, but it so happened that I was able to line up the eyelets with the circle pattern on the paper. I used my Crop-o-Dile to set the eyelets, I love that you are able to see where you are going to punch a hole.

As you can see I have found a photography solution that I am happy with at the moment. The only problem is that it has to be daylight out for me to take pictures. I took several today and will be posting more in the days to come.