Watercooler Wednesday WWC#155 - "Anything Goes"

Welcome to this week's Watercooler Wednesday Challenge. Our WWC155 challenge this week is an "Anything Goes". That means that anything you want to share with us is a-okay. It could be a card, a tag, a project, whatever. All you have to do to play along is take pictures of your "anything goes" and post to our Linsky by 5:00pm on Monday February 5th, 2018. Check out our rules and how to play along on our main page.  Kath Ricks is leading the way for our Design Team on this challenge.

Here's My Card:
My "Anything Goes" project features a technique called "Ghosting". Using this technique and the floral image from the "Amazing You" Sale-A-Bration stamp I made a total of eight thank you cards in a very short time.  Here are some views of my cards: 

 

Supplies:
Stamp Set: Amazing You SAB 2018, Painted Harvest,One Big Meaning
Ink: Whisper White, Fresh Fig
Card Stock: Crumb Cake, Fresh Fig
Accessories: Trimmer, Tom Bow Glue, Basic Rhinestones, Clear Wink of Stella, Purple Sharpie Marker, Heat Gun.

Details:
1. Card Base - Cut a piece of Crumb Cake 4 1/4" x 11. Score at 5 1/2".
2. 1st Layer - Cut a 5 1/4" x 4 1/8" piece of Fresh Fig and adhere.
3. 2nd layer - 5" x 4 piece of Crumb Cake.
4. Ghosting Technique:

• Begin by stamping the flower from Amazing You on the 2nd layer with Whisper White Ink.  Set aside so ink dries or use a heat gun. 
• Once the Whisper White ink has dried begin stamping over the images with Fresh Fig.  Make sure you offset the image slightly to create a shadow. And, that's all there is to this simple yet beautiful technique.

 5. To finish off the card face I stamped the "Thank You" from the One Big Meaning stamp set.  As you'll see later on I added some Wink of Stella and some rhinestones for some glam.

6.  I stamped the inside panel of the card with a sentiment from Painted Harvest and the flower from Amazing You.  I also stamped the back of the card with the flower and my logo stamp.  Another flower was stamped on the matching envelope. 

7.  Because I wanted to mail these cards locally instead of making a special trip to the postal station in town, I kept them very simple.  I added Clear Wink of Stella to the centers of the larger flowers and some of the greenery so there was some sparkle and shine without being weighted down with embellishments such as rhinestones.

I decided to add some Basic Rhinestones that I'd coloured with a purple Sharpie Marker to two of the cards I planned to hand deliver.  I also added some Wink of Stella to the flower centers before setting the rhinestones. 

The great thing about these cards besides, being super simple and fast to make, is that by having minimal to no embellishments added, they are inexpensive to mail. That's right - no extra postage and nothing to get mashed up in the postal machines. 

Thanks for dropping in and visiting my blog this week. I hope you enjoyed my project and that my tips on how it was designed were helpful. I love reading comments so before you go if you can leave me a few words of encouragement you'll make my day. 
 
Don't forget to check out the other Design Team Artist's at the Watercooler Wednesday Main challenge page. To get a closer look at their creations simply click on their name below their sample picture. Until next time..........

Happy Stamping!
Penny Tokens Stampin Spot

WWC87 - Masculine Challenge

I'm very excited about today's WWC87 Watercooler Wednesday challenge.  Why?  Because it touches an area that I think we don't do enough of, and that's create masculine cards.  

Kath our host this week has also defined the style for this challenge as "Masculine - Anything Goes" which makes it even better because it opens up a broad spectrum of possibilities! Yippee!!! 
Here's My Card:  

One of my guy friends John Clark, who recently passed away was really in to model trains.  Because it would have been his birthday on the 27th he's been on my mind a lot and so I decided to dedicate this masculine birthday card featuring the locomotive from the Traveller stamp set to him.  

The Traveler set is my "go to" for a lot of masculine cards, and I'm so happy that Stampin' Up! decided to carry it over into the Annual Catalogue.  I am CASEing a card by Pat Mayer featuring this set when it was first released back in 2014.

This set comes in Wood Mount #13450 or Clear Mount #134513, see pg 116 of the Annual Catalogue.

The method  used to layer the train on this card is called a "Telescope" Technique. To create the multiple layers I used the new Layering Squares Framelits.  Here's a link to a video by France Martin  where she demonstrates her "Telescope Out Card".  France aptly demonstrates how simple this card is to assemble, so I hope you'll try it out.

Assembly:

1.  Begin by cutting a 10" x 5" card base from Basic Black card stock and score it at 5" for a top or side fold. Mine is a top fold card.

2.  Cut a 4 1/2" x 4 1/2" piece of Whisper White for the first layer and adhere it to the card base with Tom Bow Glue.  

3.  Cut a 4 x 4" piece of Basic Black for the second layer and a 3 3/4" x 3 3/4" piece of Whisper White for the final layer.  Stamp the image you want to telescope in the center of the 3 3/4" square.

2.  Choose which framelits you are going to use and then layer three consecutive square framelits over your image and run them through the Big Shot.  I chose to use the Scallop Squares on the top left in the Framelit set. 

Layering Squares Framelits # 141708 pg. 193 of the AC.  There are 19 dies in this set.

3.  Adhere the 3 3/4" square of Whisper White to the Basic Black layer with Tom Bow adhesive. 

4.  I attached the largest frame section with dimensionals to the inside of the cut out square on the 3 3/4" Whisper White piece.

5.  The next square needs to stick out a little bit further so I used Foam Adhesive Strips which are 1/8" thicker than Dimensionals to attach it.

6.  To raise the third and final square even higher, I mounted three stacked dimensionals to the back of the center square.  Remember to remove the protective layer in between each Dimensional so they will stick to each other. 

7.  I stamped the birthday banner from the "Time of Year" hostess stamp set on a scrap of Whisper White card stock, in Momento Tuxedo Black ink. This image was cut out with the Bunch of Banners framelit dies. I adhered the banner with Dimensionals to the top left corner of the card. 

 8. I cut another 4 1/2" x 4 1/2" piece of Whisper White Card stock and adhered it with Tom Bow Glue to the inside of the card.  I stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment from the "Stylized Birthday" stamp in Momento Tuxedo Black ink in the center of the card stock.  

 

Supplies:

Stamp sets:  Traveler, Stylized Birthday, Time of Year (Hostess)

Ink:  Momento Tuxedo Black ink

Card Stock:  Whisper White and Basic Black

Accessories:  Big Shot, Layering Squares and Bunch of Banners Framelits, Trimmer, Tom Bow Glue, Dimensionals, Foam Adhesive Strips.    

Well that's it for this week's challenge.  I love this card.  It has such clean lines and kind of a Wow Factor going on.  If you like cards that come together quickly, have some Wow Factor and would work with a broad range of stamp sets then this is a technique to add to your "to do list".  Let me know if you like this card and whether you've tried out my version of this technique. I'd love to hear your thoughts and share your experience.

Along with leaving me a comment (I love comments) I also hope you'll take a look at what the other members of the design team have created for this week's challenge.  There are some awesome cards available to view.  

And before I leave, "how about you"? Feeling up for this challenge?  Why not create a masculine card of your own and link it to our Watercooler Wednesday challenge WWC87.  We'd love to have you join us.  The linky at our site is open until 11:00 MT Monday October, 3rd, 2016.  Until then,

Happy Stamping! 

Penny Tokens Stampin' Spot