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Copper and Mint

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Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card featuring metallics. I decided to highlight the beautiful new metallic: copper. I think Mint Macaron works beautifully with copper, so I started with my color combination. I created my own background DSP pattern using the Love and Affection stamp set and copper embossing powder. I added a strip of copper foil Affectionately Yours DSP and a strip of the new Mint Macaron Striped Ribbon. A heat embossed sentiment finishes off this card.

 

Detailing of the heat embossing and foil details on the DSP.

 
  • Stamps: Love and Affection; Suite Sayings
  • Inks:
  • Cardstock: Affectionately Yours DSP; Mint Macaron; Crumb Cake
  • Accessories: Mint Macaron Mini Striped Ribbon
  • Tools: Lots of Labels Framelits; Copper Embossing Powder
tags: Affectionately Yours DSP, Heat Embossing, Love and Affection, Suite Sayings
categories: Misc- Cards
Friday 07.22.16
Posted by Tobe Buffenbarger
 

SSINKIC35: Peachy Jar of Love

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using the inspiration picture:

 

I was immediately drawn to the beautiful colors in the picture. I also knew that I wanted to use my relatively new Jar of Love Bundle. And so I pulled out some coordinating colors and started to play. I ended up with a pretty little card highlighting new colors and new products.

 

Detail of the heat embossing:

 
  • Stamps: Jar of Love
  • Inks: Pool Party, Melon Mambo, Peekaboo, Wild Wasabi, Crumb Cake
  • Cardstock: 2016-2018 In Color Envelope Paper, Peekaboo Peach, Whisper White
  • Accessories: Peekaboo Peach Ruched Ribbon
  • Tools: Copper Embossing Powder, Everyday Jars Framelits
tags: Everyday Jars Framelits, Heat Embossing, Jar of Love, Photo Inspiration
categories: Misc- Cards
Monday 07.18.16
Posted by Tobe Buffenbarger
 

Jar of Thanks

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using the new Jar of Love Bundle. This is such a cute bundle! It was love at first sight for me! The bundle includes the Jar of Love Stamp set and the Everyday Jars Framelits. So many pieces!

 

For my card, I decided to choose on jar and make a simple image. I heat embossed this cute mason jar and sentiment with white embossing powder. I love the contrast with the smoky slate cardstock. I then stamped and die cut the greenery and flowers. After embellishment my blossoms with some Wink of Stella (see detail pic below), I went about picking some patterned paper to go with it. Have I mentioned how much I love the 2016-2018 In Color Envelope Paper? It's so great for layering on cards! I chose to repeat the Flirty Flamingo and Emerald Envy from the flowers. The card was still missing something until I added a couple of White Accents. Perfect!

 

Detail of the embossing and Wink of Stella...

 
  • Stamps: Jar of Love
  • Inks: Flirty Flamingo; Emerald Envy
  • Cardstock: 2016-2018 In Color Envelope Paper; Smoky Slate; Whisper white
  • Accessories: White Accents
  • Tools: Everyday Jars Framelits; White Embossing Powder; Wink of Stella
tags: 2016-2018 In Color Envelope Paper, Everyday Jars Framelits, Heat Embossing, Jar of Love, Wink of Stella
categories: Thank You
Wednesday 06.29.16
Posted by Tobe Buffenbarger
 

Purple Birthday Blooms

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using your favorite returning stamp set. Ever since it arrived in the Occasions catalog, I've loved Birthday Blooms. Such an elegant stamp set! For this card, I decided to stick to my favorite colors: one old (Rich Razzleberry) and one new (Sweet Sugarplum). Add a few embellishments and I had a beautiful birthday card!

 

Close up to see the heat embossed sentiment. I love the shine!

 
  • Stamps: Birthday Blooms
  • Inks: Sweet Sugarplum, Rich Razzleberry
  • Cardstock: Sweet Sugarplum, Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White
  • Accessories: Gold Sequins, Sweet Sugarplum Ruched Ribbon, Bow Paper Clips
  • Tools: Gold Embossing Powder
tags: Birthday Blooms, Heat Embossing
categories: Birthday Cards
Wednesday 06.08.16
Posted by Tobe Buffenbarger
 

SSINKMC33: Going Places Thank You

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using elements from the mystery challenge below.

 

For this month's challenge, I used four the elements: shape, colors, special element, and theme. I played with picking some patterns from the Going Places DSP stack and helping to fill out the remaining spaces with a washi tape covered circle and a stamped circle. The size of the circles are slightly off, but overall I love the look of this card.

 
  • Stamps: Another Thank You (retiring); I Think You're Great (retiring)
  • Inks: Delightful Dijon
  • Cardstock: Going Places DSP; Delightful Dijon; Very Vanilla
  • Accessories: It's My Party Washi Tape; Gold Embossing Powder
  • Tools: 1 1/4" Circle Punch
tags: Another Thank You, Going Places DSP, Heat Embossing, I Think You're Great, It's My Party Washi Tape, Mystery Challenge
categories: Thank You
Monday 05.23.16
Posted by Tobe Buffenbarger
 

SSINKMC31: Shades of Red

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create using some of the elements below. This month I went with three of the elements: Monochromatic, Single Layer, and Heat Embossing.

I grabbed four coordinating inks from the red family (Blushing Bride, Melon Mambo, Rose Red, and Real Red) and went to two layering elements from a few different stamp sets. For most of the background images, I stamped off before stamping on the Whisper White sheet. This helped balance the colors and ink saturation. As a last touch, I heat embossed the edges of the large butterfly with gold embossing powder. A nice challenge for this week!

 
  • Stamps: Kinda Eclectic; Timeless Textures; Botanicals for You; Watercolor Wings
  • Inks: Blushing Bride; Melon Mambo; Rose Red; Real Red
  • Cardstock: Whisper White
  • Accessories: Gold Embossing Powder
  • Tools:
tags: Botanicals for You, Heat Embossing, Kinda Eclectic, Mystery Challenge, Timeless Textures, Watercolor Wings
categories: Misc- Cards
Monday 03.28.16
Posted by Tobe Buffenbarger
 

Two Color Balloons

Today's card was my individual swap card for March. I found this beautiful card design from Allison Okamitsu @ Nice People Stamp and knew I had to recreate it for my swap buddy. I've really been into heat embossing lately and this card has just enough to satisfy my craving.

 

The two color balloons are incredibly easy to make. Simply ink up one color (for example Pool Party) and then sponge another color (Wild Wasabi) directly onto the stamp. Stamp your paper and voila! instant two color balloon! I love the look, but the next step took this card to the next level. Next I inked up the confetti stamp with Versamark and then heat embossing with pewter embossing powder. I don't have gold like Allison's card, but pewter turned out very nice! In the photo below, you can see that the embossed parts are a bit shiny. Very pretty! I added a few die cut bows and a heat embossed sentiment on vellum to complete the card. Love this one!

  • Stamps: Celebrate Today; Simply Wonderful
  • Inks: Pool Party; Wild Wasabi; Daffodil Delight; Calypso Coral; Basic Gray; Versamark
  • Cardstock: Pool Party; So Saffron; Daffodil Delight; Wild Wasabi; Whisper White; Vellum
  • Accessories:
  • Tools: Balloon Framelits; Pewter Embossing Powder; Heat Embossing Gun
tags: Celebrate Today, Heat Embossing, Simply Wonderful
categories: Misc- Cards
Tuesday 03.17.15
Posted by Tobe Buffenbarger
 

August PL Swaps (Part 3)

I joined a Project Life Swap group on Facebook a few months back and have really been inspired.  Basically every month, the admins post swap themes (8-10 usually).  You sign up for how many you want and commit to making usually 10 cards utilizing the theme.  Before the due date, you send your cards to the swap host.  She collects everyone’s cards, sorts them, and sends you back a packet of cards.

This month, I joined eleven swaps.  I'll be showing four of the swaps today:

Embossed Stamp -- I started with a large background polka dot stamp in Baked Brown Sugar.  I then added stamped and heat embossed the coffee cup and coffee bean using Early Espresso powder.  I liked that it didn't come out at as a completely clean image.  The smudges add character.  I stamped the "Coffee Run!" in Midnight Muse.  Finally I added a gold sequin and gold flitter tape to jazz up the card a bit.

 

Birds -- For the bird theme, I knew I wanted to use my birdcage stamps, but had to play with them for awhile for inspiration.  I settled on stamping lighting in Crumb Cake onto the pink gingham paper.  That allowed me to layer on the quote (Primrose Petal) and bird (Early Espresso).  As a finishing touch, I added some baker's twine in pink.  I really love this card!

 

Stripes -- The stripe theme shouted washi tape to me.  So I grabbed some fun different patterns and different colors and started layering. This set took forever to finish, but I like the fun stripes.  I completed the card with a "This Week" stamp and some enamel dots.

 

Washi, stamp, and sequins -- My final swap of the month challenged me to use washi tape, a stamp, and sequins.  That's a lot of stuff for one card, but i think I nailed it.  I started with some cute lightly patterned blue paper, but realized that I didn't have enough to make the set.  I search through the stack and found this striped paper that had a similar blue color.  I stamped the Birthday Cake in Midnight Muse and made a sentiment banner in Blackberry Bliss using the A Word for You Stamp Set (retired).  For the washi tape element, I layered a few different tapes underneath the sentiment for a cute peek-a-boo effect.  Finally I adhered a few large fold sequins to complete the look.  Really loving this set!

tags: A Word For You, Birthday Cake, Happy Birthday, Heat Embossing, Washi Tape
categories: Project Life
Saturday 08.16.14
Posted by Tobe Buffenbarger
 
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