CPS and KIT card club

KEEP IN TOUCH or KIT card club was the sponsor this week at Card Postioning Systems blog. Let me tell you, I have NEVER received such an amazing mix of totally and completely YUMMY supplies ever! I had to create two cards even and this still isn't everything. My cards have a little more foof on them then I would normally use on a card but I just HAD to do it. I had to use these amazing cuties! Take a peek at my two cards and the close-ups of the details. And be sure to stop by CPS to see what the other team members created because our kits were different.

DEAREST card

Close-up of DEAREST card

MONOGRAM "L" card

Close-up of MONOGRAM "L" card

The only supplies I added to my creations was my Fluid Chalk stamp pads, a Martha Stewart border punch on the first card and my cardstock bases for the cards. My kit contained pieces of patterned papers, buttons, ribbons, rhinestones and pieces of accents like the monogram "L" piece!

Thanks for visiting, Linda, (lbpost)

Some Flower Yum!

YUM & YUMMINESS and variations thereof must be my new "go to" words!

Anyway, the cards I'm going to share with you today were created using Kitchen Sink Stamps and HELLO!, just the name of the company alone makes you want to use these things! They were the sponsors for Card Positioning Systems blog when we did Sketch #73 and can I tell you, I quickly feel in love with them. The set I picked to work with includes some Hibiscus flowers and some words or phrases. The deal on these stamps is that they are 3-step. You are going to stamp what looks like one flower but with three different layers. WOWIE, does that ever make the flower come to life. (their images don't just include flowers with this same process) The hardest part is to figure out what stamp pads you have that will work for the three shades, one needing to be very light, the last needing to be rather strong. I just played for awhile to find out what pads were going to work well. I actually ended up using stamp pads from different companies and with different kinds of inks but they still worked together. Another interesting note is that after you have finished stamping and you image sits for awhile, the colors seem to melt together.

For this card, I stamped the flower and the two sizes of leaves and then I created a mask of the flower so that it would be covered and I stamped the words over that. A mask in this case, makes the flower then look like it is sitting on top of the words when in reality I stamped that first.
For this card, I found these amazing papers just sitting on my desk as scraps from other projects and they were just the perfect colors for bringing out the single stamped flower. The card base is a printed vellum. It has a second white cardstock card inside of that for added sturdiness.

On this card, I stamped my flower and leaf and then cut them out. My background is created with random stampings of the smaller flower in the set and then my cut out pieces were added with foam tape. I love the dimension that is added when some pieces are placed on the card with the foam tape.

Thank You for Visiting, Linda (aka lbpost)

DEAR FRIEND card - Materials:
Rubber stamps courtesy of KITCHEN SINK STAMPS
3 step Hibiscus set
Cardstock
Stamp pads – Ancient Page and Fluid Chalk/Clearsnap
Cuttlebug embossing plate – Provo Craft
Ribbon

HIBISCUS FLOWER card - Materials:
Solid Cardstock
Patterned paper – Scriptease Screen Prints/Hambly Studios and Scenic Route
Three step flower stamp – Kitchen Sink stamps
Stamp pads – Ancient Page/Clearsnap
Rhinestones – Mark Richards

Card Positioning Systems #74

I promised you my Card Positioning System cards for this week using the JustRite stamps, so here they are with a little close up of each one to show off the details of the stamp.
Because the kit comes with LOTS of little tiny letters and numbers, you can pretty much say anything you want in a stamp you make yourself. What I really liked about this one is after I got all the stamps placed where I liked them, I could stamp this over and over to make birth announcements. How easy, fast and fun!
(HINT) when placing all of these little letters/numbers, arrange them around the circle in the groove. The kit comes with a pair of tweezers to help deal with these things cause they are TINY. Just go ahead and get everything you want in place and then do practice stamps to check on the placement, rearranging them until you like the placement and spacing. You can just gently push the group of letters to change the spacing. I had my "E" backwards so the practice stamping is a MUST!
This card uses one of the ornate borders and a monogram. You can simple place any letter or number on the stamp and again, have a very custom look to your creation.
The materials lists for both of these cards are listed on the CPS blog site.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (aka lbpost)

"Self-Adhesive" Makes Me Happy!

Maybe you need to be a crafter who has attempted to apply glue to the back of a tiny rhinestone or bead to understand the happiness found in the words, "self-adhesive". And it gets even better because there are a number of companies that specialize in these accents that can bring just the right amount of "bling" to a project.

Here is a layout where I put them to good use.

I hand cut the partial circle design and added self-adhesive half pearls to the design on that. I used a matching punch-out swirl for an accent and added red self-adhesive rhinestones to that. Isn't that just the perfect accent to a "girly" layout? A little hint: the lace/paper flower started out white, I applied ink from a Fluid Chalk stamp pad to it to make it a color that would match my layout a little better.

Some companies to look for for these are Mark Richards, Inc, Me & My Big Ideas, Darice and K&Co.

This cutie patootie is my nephew's little girl. They recently sent me a few photos of her and I knew I needed to use this one.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (aka lbpost)

FASHION CAN BE BOUGHT layout
Materials: Solid cardstock
Patterned paper - Cosmo Cricket
Punch out designs – Cosmo Cricket
Rub-on word – Cosmo Cricket
Self Adhesive Pearls and Rhinestones – Mark Richards, Inc.
Lace flower – Making Memories
Fluid Chalk stamp pads – Clearsnap
Machine sewing