{Touch of Asia} Viva La Verve

I've had a week and a half off from school and you'd think I would have taken
that time to work on my portfolio...well... I am gonna say that I tried to do just that today but
my ideas were so scattered I couldn't come up with one good environment sketch so
I decided to do some cleaning and make my Viva La Verve card instead.

I was inspired by a Bamboo shower curtain I saw on the Bed Bath and Beyond website (Amber let us chose our own inspirational photo this week) and the fact that the recipient of the card swap I'm participating in loves Asian themes and the color red.

Sounded easy enough but turned out quite messy:
I applied white acrylic paint to my bamboo background stamp, stamped it on the ivory DP and then spritzed gold and frost shimmer all over. Acrylic paint dries really really fast so as soon as you stamp your image, run to the sink and wash off your stamp.

For the base of my gold Butterfly Medallion I used chipboard that I had cut out with an oval nestie and then I embossed it with gold embossing powder several times. The more coats you have the better your stamp will read. When you're ready to stamp your image make sure you do it quickly before the embossing powder cools off.

For the red Cardstock I used a stamp from the Verve set Relax, stamped it with Versamark, embossed it with gold embossing powder and distressed the paper with Baroque and Frayed Burlap ink.

thanks so much for stopping by
~til next time,

~ Sony



Stamps: Blue Skies (Verve), Relax (Verve), Bamboo II (SU)
Paper: Winter Wishes Digi (SweetShoppe), Kraft, Red
Ink: Baroque (SU), Frayed Burlap (Ranger Distree Ink)
Accessories: White Acrylic Paint, Spouncer, Gold Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Gold Shimmer Spritz, Frost Psst Shimmer Spritz (Stamper's Dream), Distress Stripes Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug), Nesties, Ribbon

Spring Fling - Challenge #1,3 & 4

Today was Verve's Spring Fling and boy how much fun it was!! There were Challenges, Sneak Peaks and some amazing new Stamps released!

I decided to combine all the challenges I've done so far in one post and here they are:

Note: I have the perfect stamp for Challenge #2 coming to me in the mail (I hope I get it tomorrow) so there is no picture there yet.

Challenge #4:

Tag

Stamps: Cat in a Box (TCP), We've Moved (TCP), Label No.4 (Waltzing Mouse)

Paper: Cottontail Digi Paper (SweetShop Design), Kraft

Ink: Basic Black

Accessories: Sewing Machine, Hole Punch, Ribbon, Button, Jute Twine, Nesties

Challenge #3:

Yellow, Chocolate, Green

Stamps: Peace Within (SU), Teeny Tiny Wishes (SU)

Paper: various Digi Papers, Dark Chocolate (PTI), Crushed Curry (SU)

Ink: Soft Suede (SU)

Accessories: Sewing Machine, Polka Dot Embossing Folder, Stampin' Write Markers, Copics

Challenge #1:

clean, simple, flower

Stamps: Beautiful You (Verve)

Paper: Kraft, Aqua Mist (PTI), Appealing Apricot (SU)

Ink: Soft Suede (SU)

Accessories: Polka Dot Embossing Folder, Pop Up Dots, Brads, Ribbon

My humble Stamping Beginnings...

So it all began about six months ago when my friend Stacy mentioned going to stamp camp. My ears perked up: stamp camp?! What was that? Instead of trying to explain to me what a stamp camp was, she simply took me with her and I was introduced to Stampin' up.

Needless to say it was love at first sight!!!

Here are some of the cards we made at that very first stamp camp of mine. Yes I still have them! I haven't found it in me to part with them just yet! :)