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Monday, September 19, 2016

"Celebrate Friendship" Door hanger

Hi! This is Joyce Shaulis focusing on friendship this month. I love sweet little surprises of gifts and so today I will share an idea on how you can surprise a special friend or neighbor with a simple gift. I made this door hanger plaque that I can hang on a neighbor's doorknob to surprise her when she arrives home.

I used Susan's co-branded stamps, Celebration of Simple, from Unity Stamp Co. These stamps are super versatile and have endless possibilities. I also used the mini POP ink in Ice and her Bouquet scrapbook paper. I stamped with Ice the four banner images on the backside of the scrapbook paper. Then I cut them out and swiped the edges in Ice.

Next, I swiped the Ice Mini POP ink onto a small scrap of white cardstock. Using Mystery, I stamped the sentiment onto the Bouquet paper.

I cut out the sentiment and edged it in Kiss. I drew an arrow shape onto the Ice stamped cardstock, cut it out and edged it. I glued the sentiment onto the arrow. Then, I painted Bahama Blue on a 5 x 7 matte board.

I cut two strips from the Bouquet paper ( 5 1/2" x 1/2"). Then I glued the arrows onto the strips. Next, I glued down the banner pieces and the sentiment strips. Using a ruler, I made a dashed border around the banners with a white gel pen. I edged the matt board with the Kiss ink.

Using flowers from my craft stash, I layered flowers and glued rhinestones on top. See photo for placement.

I used a 8' piece of pink ribbon to make a hanger and glued a small paper flower in center of ribbon.

I hope you enjoyed this idea to make a surprise gift for a friend, the possibilities are endless.

Susan K. Weckesser products:
Bouquet scrapbook paper
Mini POP inks - Mystery, Ice, Kiss https://www.clearsnap.com/
Celebration of Simple stamp set https://www.unitystampco.com/

Other Products:
white gel pen https://sakuraofamerica.com/pen-gel
Bahama Blue acrylic paint https://decoart.com/
assorted paper, fabric and felt flowers
pink ribbon
pink rhinestones
white glue
matte board 5' x 7'
white cardstock

Joyce Shaulis Susan K. Weckesser Design Team Member

Sunday, July 31, 2016

Live, Love and Create with Irit

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to me second July inspiration made with Susan K. Weckesser products for her blog.
This month of July were all were inspired by Home Sweet Home things and this 3d small display is my home inspiration.
I have those small chipboard houses from Tando Creative UK for ages and never had a chance to use them. So here is my chance to use Susan K. Weckesser products together with those houses and I made a small tutorial for you all to share:
1. Paint the chipboard houses with white acrylic paint and let them dry.

2.Use Susan K. Weskesser Color Box mini Pop inks in three colors to color over the white paint.
I used Ice,Fresh and Sky color of those inks.But as I wanted the colors to be light and mute I just wiped the colors with wet baby wipe.

3. Using Susan's Doodle stencil I made the lines with texture paste over the each chipboard roof shape and after it was dry I painted them with here mini Pop ink in Kiss color.

Cover the chipboard base with Live in color cardstock (I used the backside of it ) and distress the edges a bit with a sand paper.

4. Stamp Celebrate the small things saying over the same cardstock with Celebration of Simple Susan's and Untiy co- branded stamp. Glue the stamped saying as shown over the base.

5. Make the " wooden" sign with faux wood (gesso, texture paste, old tooth brush and Susan's mini Pop Cocoa ink. The cut the parts to make this triple arrows sign and add the Live, Love and Create words that were cut out from Susan's Live in Color Tags cardstock.

Paint the small chipboard windows and doors from the chipboard set with white paint and glue them over the finished houses.

And here is my little 3d display on my vintage findings shelf!

I really hope that you liked my small tutorial and see you again in two weeks!

Thursday, July 21, 2016

Live to Create and Create to Live tag

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my very first post made for Susan K. Weckesser blog.

This month we, the designers, were asked to make something with houses. So this is my first post for the theme and I just decided to make a nice and creative tag.

Here is a small tutorial I made for you:

1. Make the basic Kraft cardstock tag and add the second tag, a bit smaller size, made from Susan K. Weckesser cardstock named Color Burst.

the edges with Susan's new Clearsnap Color Pop Mini inks. On this photo I used the Ice one, but later I added the Kiss ink too.

Glue the cardstock tag over the Kraft one and make a hole on the top for the ribbons.

2. Stamp some flowers with Susan's Unity Celebration of Simple stamp . This set includes 4 flags, but I just wanted the flowers for this tag. I used Susan's Color Pop Mini Mystery Archival Dye ink and I didn't try to make the nice stamping as this is just a background add- ons to the patterned cardstock.

3. Mask Tando flat house shaped chipboards with some tape (washi or painter's one, whatever you have) and stamp the lines with another Susan's stamp from the same Celebration of Simple stamp set. This time I used clear embossing ink and heat embossed the roof lines with black embossing powder.

4.Cut two cardstock pieces from Susan' s Color Burst cardstock (the back side this time) and glue them over the houses front.
Paint the roof of each house with Color Pop Mini Kiss ink, ink the edges of those houses too and heat emboss with clear embossing powders.

5. From this step and on I didn't make any step by step photos as it's clear visible.
I hand cut two sentiment strips using Susan's Live in Color Tags cardstock and inked the edges with the same Kiss ink.
The small doors and windows chipboards were heat embossed with white embossing powder and glued over the houses.
I also added the white chipboard fence. Both houses were adhered over the tag and I added some hand cut cardstock banners under the sentiment.

The double ribbon was tied on the top.

And yes- in my house I live to create and create to live!

I hope you liked my small tutorial and see you in a few days with another Houses inspiration.

Product list- non Susan K. Weckesser products
Kraft cardstock- craft shop
Chipboards- Tando Creative
Embossing powder- WOW! Embossing Powders
Ribbon- May Arts
Clear embossing ink
Heat gun
Adhesives

Thursday, May 12, 2016

It's An INKY Feast For the Senses!

It was my pleasure to be one of the first people to use and review the new Susan K. Weckesser inks by Clearsnap: ColorBox Color Pop Minis

Here are the two cards I created using these inks...

And here is my review

I LOVE them! Grin

These are all the things I love about these inks:

The 1"x2" size is perfect, small enough to easily have within reach but large enough to handle most stamping jobs. The Lid fits snugly so the ink won't dry out and it does not come off when I throw them in a basket (which is my usual modus operandi).

The dye ink colors are vibrant, both when they go on and when they have dried (not always the case with some inks) and they blend beautifully with water - again without fading!

The pigment ink is thick and opaque, just the way I like it, and takes a while to dry unless you use your heat gun - all Good qualities in a pigment ink. But the Metallic ink... Swoon! Seriously, the best metallic, pigment ink I have come across to date and I have used a LOT of them! This ink dries metallic and looks like I used metallic paint - which is what I have resorted to since I have been unable to find a metallic ink that still looks like metal after it has dried - that is until NOW!

And now for the fun stuff. Because I was trying out a new product I wanted to use these inks in a few different ways and I took photos along the way so you could join in... I hope you enjoy this mini card class and a peek into my creative process.

I decided to ink the background of my cards and then use the white pigment ink to stamp right onto the dark background. For me THIS is the true test of a both a dark dye ink and a white pigment ink. will the dark ink stay dark? And will the white ink be opaque enough to show up and not fade away?

Not only did both inks pass, but I needed very little of the dark blue ink to create a wash on my background... I used way too much! Grin

Then I stamped right onto my background (after the ink had dried of course) with white and gold pigment ink. I used a masking technique to make the sun appear as if it was coming out from behind the clouds.

You can see how the pigment inks stay crisp and bright and how the background ink is still dark even after drying. Then I did something CRAZY! I used water with my white pigment ink and added a light wash to the clouds... This NEVER works for me with pigment inks and yet here it is!!

Then I stamped a whole bunch of tiny house images onto white 100lbs card stock, grabbed my water brush and started painting in the houses. I used Archival waterproof ink for this part since I knew I wanted to get my images wet. These dye inks acted like a watercolor paint and blended beautifully. They worked so well I went and grabbed another of my ColorBox dye inks in yellow, (Not the mini pops 'cuz NO yellow) and it did not work at all! So this confirms for me that all inks are NOT created equally!

And then I did the same sort of things for the second card in Red...

The rest of the photos are all about design and embellishing... using my very favorite techniques of fussy cutting and popping the images, and then using gel pens and Stickles & Liquid Pearls to enhance the card.

Then of course you have to mount the card image onto a card base...

What I love the most about these two cards is how the ink stayed dark and vibrant so the white, un-coloured houses I stamped just jump right off the page... but then that one coloured house becomes the focal point...