ADDINKTIVE DESIGNS

Have you seen the 'twirly Linen Thread' craze that has popped up on cards all over Blogland?  It's fun to see the different ways designers have used it to add texture to an embellishment. I first spotted a sample on the Stampin' Up! ® Website and 'pinned' it for future reference.  You can see it HERE . Wow!  That was 26 weeks ago and I've just got around to 'CASE'ing the gorgeous design.  Instead of the Dictionary Background Stamp , I used Off the Grid in my first project and the beautiful flourish stamp from Creative Elements for the second card. 1 - Off the Grid Bitty Butterfly 2 - Creative Elements Bitty Butterfly Thanks SU for giving demos an amazing array of sample projects to use as a 'springboard' for our own! Project Recipe: Stamps: Off the Grid (1), Creative Elements (2), Six-Sided Sampler (sentiment for both) Card Stock: Crumb Cake, Pool Party, Old Olive (1), Wild Wasabi (2) Ink:   Soft Suede, Smo...

It's time for another Stampin' Up! ® Only Challenge (SUO) and this week we're asking you to create a one-layer card .  The idea is to use just a single card base and embellishments are allowed. I actually made a set of tags.  They certainly have only one layer of card stock but there are many 'layers' of ink - I think the technical term is 'collage stamping'. SUO 89 - One-Layer Challenge These litttle beauties were made using a brand new product (only just released TODAY in Australia) called the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch .  You just cut your card stock 2" wide and it slides through the punch and cuts the scallop bit at the top.  This allows you to cut the tag to the length you need - brilliant! My one-layer tags were made using a variety of stamp sets (please refer to the 'Labels' below) and stamped with Metallic Gold, Crumb Cake, White StazOn, Basic Black, Always Artichoke, Soft Sky and Marina Mist inks onto Soft Sky Core'...