Oh Happy Day

Here's a fun card I made using two STACKER words (Happy & Today).  I wanted to play on the small sentiment "Oh Happy Day", so I stamped TODAY twice and discarded the T.  I stacked the "O" at the top of Happy and placed DAY at the bottom.  I used the script word "anniversary" as part of the background.  I made a mistake and stamped one of them upside down, so I just made several of them upside down.  Did you notice it before I pointed it out?  Embrace your imperfections and go with the flow.

Friend Valentine

A2 Card

Fussy Cut Patterned Paper and covered with Glossy Accents

A2 Card

Fussy Cut Patterned Paper and covered with Glossy Accents

 

ATC card

ATC card

Stamps:

FRIEND, BW Heart

Sentiments:  "Happy Heart Day”

Wink of Stella Glitter Brush

Core’dinations Purple Cardstock

Graphic 45 Sweet Sentiments Collection

Violet Bouquet

Fussy cut violets & applied Glossy Accents

Stacker Technique:

Color in shadow only with Wink

Texana Design Team

01/31/2014

You Make My Heart Happy

     

  

Two cards  using Texana Designs stamps.

HAPPY, Lg Face

Sentiments:  "You Make My Heart Happy”

Distress Markers

Chipboard Hearts

ATCs used BW Heart (mini)

Jam'n House Border Stamps

One great stamp, five great looks.  The first card I simply stamped the house border and colored the houses and added a few lights with gel pens.  The second card I cut the houses apart and staggered them around the snow drifts.  The third card I wanted to try the glowing lights technique from Splitcoast Stampers so I stamped and embossed with black on black cardstock and used chalk pastels to add window lighting and Christmas lights.  The tag I made last year by stamping the house border on shrink plastic.  The final card is one I tried to create last year using liquid applique and Delta Decorative Snow.  That technique needs some practice, but it was fun.

Add a little color to your life TODAY

How much fun are these stamps!!!  The card below was my first attempt on regular cardstock.  I used the distress markers to color the sentiment stamp and colored the letters of TODAY with distress markers.  I wasn't crazy with it, so I tried blending the colors with water.  That's when I decided that I should have used watercolor paper.  I also knew that I should pull from my Creative Chemistry 101 class and create a custom stamp pad.

THCC 101 Day 4 Tag 3  Re-Inkers: Custom Stamp Pad Technique.  By using the custom stamp pad I was able to emboss with clear embossing powder to keep the ink from blending the words away.  I colored the large letters with distress ink and misted with water so that ink would blend on the watercolor paper.

Texana Designs Stamps:

TODAY

Sentiment:  "add a little color to your life"

Watercolor paper

Distress Markers

Patterned Paper from Doodlebug - Halloween Parade

Texana Design Team

11/2013

HAPPY everything

Here's a great word stack for every holiday.  I used the large "HAPPY" word with the script stacker "everything".  I embossed it with gold on a shaped tag from my stash.  I colored the inside of HAPPY with a detail waterbrush filled with dylusions.  And then dug into my paper stash to come up with something to stack it on.  In order to get the tag to really pop, I used my versamark pad around the edge and embossed it with the same gold embossing powder.  I attached the tag with a gold flower brad.  The patterned paper on the gold background was a little boring so I pulled out one of my all time favorite corner punch for a little pizzazz. 

Texana Designs Stamps:
HAPPY
everything

Gold Embossing Powder

Dylusions Paint in Waterbrush

Patterned Paper from stash

EK Success Corner Adorner
Basketweave Punch


Texana Design Team
11/15/2013

Snowglobe - Many coloring options

 For the Texana Design Team sample using the snowglobe, I decided to  look at all the different coloring mediums I have.  Silly me, I thought I would find a favorite.  Instead, I love them all! I made two A2 cards and 12 ATCs.  I also created a reference sheet showing all of the products I used.  Maybe this will help me step out of my comfort zone and create with some of my many other products.

Products used:

 

Texana Designs Stamps:

Snowglobe (small) or (large)

Various coloring products

Distress Stickles

Clear Rock Candy

Petaloo Holiday Dazzlers

Snowflakes

Sizzix Embossing Folder

Hero Arts Christmas Words & Dots

Whitecore Cardstock, sanded

Texana Design Team

11/15/2013