Sunday, August 2, 2009

Stamp Camp Creations

I ran a Stamp Camp with a sister SU Demo, Natasha Murray, in June. We each presented 3 projects - a card, a 6"x6" scrapbook page and a 3-d item. Our theme was Paper, Ribbon and Punches. Here are mine (the first 2 are CASE'd from the current SU Idea Book and Catalogue here in Australia):

This card used a technique I had wanted to use for a while - bleaching. The Hippo was black embossed on Kiwi Kiss cardstock and then bleached was applied using a paintbrush. I was thrilled with the effect - the Kiwi Kiss turned to So Saffron. The "balloon" has Dazzlin' Diamonds over the Pumpkin Pie heart for some bling.
On this scrapbook page I managed to use all three of our theme items (DSP, Ribbon and a Punch (Crop-a-dile). The base is Certainly Celery textured cardstock (I love the textured cardstock). I used the Big Bold Birthday set to create the cupcake, using the Stamp-a-ma-jigto make sure everything was correctly aligned. The Crop-a-dile was used to emboss the dots down the right-hand side.

I have been wanting to make one of these Coaster boxes ever since I saw one on the blog of one of my SBS sisters, Karen Rogers. I sourced the coasters through Karen (thanks so much) and used a tutorial from SCS for the instructions. The stamp set is A Rose is A Rose, a 2-step set which I adore. The DSP comes from the Bella Rose pack (another favourite).
For the projects that Natasha contributed go to her blog Natasha's Creations.

I have been playing with the new sets from the Australia/NZ Spring Mini Catalogue so I'll have some more creations to show you soon.
Bye for now.




4 comments:

Leslie said...

Sharon, what great creations. I love the way your kiwi paper turned to saffron with your bleaching. When I bleach paper, it usually looks like someone spilled bleach on my paper!! LOL!!
Hugs, Leslie

Vanja said...

These are just beautiful, Sharon! I love the box!
Hugs, Vanja

Debby said...

Hi Stranger! Beautiful projects but that coaster book is screaming wowza! Beautiful!

Ali said...

Hi sharon!
Love the bleaching effect! I have never tried that yet. Looks great.
The coaster box is beautiful!
I have an award for you on my blog Here
come on over and grab it when you can.
take care,
Ali