Retro Week: Thursday

It's been fun looking back at cards I made and liked. I didn't pick the ones that I didn't like and it's nice to be reminded of different techniques that I used and which turned out.

Here is a pretty easy card.


I just made a background using Distress Inks. I smeared them on my craft sheet, spritzed with water and then pushed my white cardstock into the wet mixture. Then I just added some stamped images in various brown Distress inks and my favorite Eiffel Tower (Art Impressions) stamp in black. I stitched the outside of this card, but for the class, I just poked holes and drew the stitches.

Retro Week: Monday

Here is another old card I made.


I love this Eiffel Tower stamp and script background (both by Art Impressions). I seem to use them a log. This card is just the two stamps stamped in blue ink. Then I used a little glue and added some glitter so areas of the Eiffel Tower.

All done in navy, of course; one of my favorite colours!

Spotty Eiffel Tower

I love this Eiffel Tower Stamp (Art Impressions). I don't know what it is about it, but I just love it. And I love the background stamp which I've used on several cards recently.

The background is the same as has been featured all week. This one was done with Victorian Velvet & Dusty Concord Distress Inks and the Seeing Spots folder. I then stamped the background image (from "I See Paris" by Tim Holtz) with Dusty Concord. I stamped the Eiffel Tower and saying (Inkadinkado) in black overtop.

To create the perfectly matching bottom design, I cut the spotty background and a purple cardstock at the same time with one of my Tim Holtz border dies. The trick is to make sure your purple cardstock is about an inch bigger than what you are going to layer on top of it. Then place and match up the bottom and cut the rest of the sides to fit.

Then I just stamped the saying below the panel. It's another saying from one of Tim Holtz' word sets stamped in Dusty Concord.

An oldie

I haven't been stamping a lot lately; life is just too busy, but I'm hoping to get back to it this week. The kids are off school tomorrow and I have a few things to do, but I'm hoping to get back into my craft room and get going again!

In the meantime, here is an old card I did for a class last year. It's so simple, but I still really like it.

I flicked wet Twinkling H2Os to create the background. When you look at the card close up, the spots sparkle which I loved. Then I just over stamped the Script and the Eiffel Tower (both by Art Impressions - that Eiffel Tower is one of my favorite stamps). The half scallop is just a scallop circle (Spellbinders) that I folded in half to create an accent.