Thinking of you mingle

This one is one I'm doing for one of the monthly mingles on Stamper's Corner.

Base card is Creamy Caramel.

I got the Precious Memories hymn by scanning the song from one of my hymn books. I laid it out using MS Publisher so I could get 4 images on a page. I then printed it on Natural Ivory cs. To give it the aged look, I tore the edges and sponged them with Close to Cocoa ink.

The flowers are from Stampin Up's Memory of the Heart, stamped in black Staz-on on vellum. I colored it from the back with More Mustard, Rose Romance, Yo Yo Yellow and Old Olive markers.

The sentiment was created by printing "Thinking of You" using the Brushed Script font that is standard in Windows in a size 36 on vellum. I immediately took it out of the printer and covered it with a copper black embossing powder and heated it. I tore it too. The vellum is mounted with some vintage colored brads.

Thinking of You shaker

I made this for my uncle after he was diagnosed with cancer.

Base card is Night of Navy cs stamped in white with snowflakes from SU's Holiday Sampler Set.

White background of the sentiment and shaker were stamped with the same snowflakes in Night of Navy.

The Sentiment is from All Year Cheer 1 and is also stamped in Night of Navy.

The Snow Globe is from the Stampin Up Set of the same name.

Roses are SU's Stipple Rose, stamped with Staz-on on transparent shrink plastic and colored with markers before shrinking with my heat gun and putting them in the snow globe. There are tiny beads in the snowglobe.

Floating Image

I did this one with the Floating Image technique. I used SU's Favorite Teddy Bear. The hearts were cut with my Colluzzle.

The background is a piece of polished stone I had laying around.

Split Negative

I've always loved the look of black and white stamping and was thrilled to try it with the split negative technique with SU's Hearts and Posies.

Stamping on Soap

I also make handmade soaps and wanted to see if you could stamp on soap.

I'm happy to say you can. I used Staz-On to stamp the images. You can stamp on a flat soap surface and It makes for a nice gift. But...the image will come off the first time you use the soap, but the ink will not stain the skin or the washcloth.

Shattered Stone

On this one, I tried combining polished stone and shattered glass techniques.

I also got out of my color comfort zone with this one and worked in browns.

Stamp sets are SU's Elegant Greetings and Elegant Embroidery.

Shattered Script

I did this as my first attempt at shattered glass and using SU's color wheel to choose my colors.

Tempting Turquoise is one of my favorite colors.

Stamps are SU's Script background and Elegant Greetings.