Bella Carta at Art 'n Soul: August 2012

Friday, August 31, 2012

If you're a blog reader, you will learn tonight that all ribbon at Art 'n Soul will be discounted 25% during the holiday weekend (Saturday, Sunday and Monday!).

Susie made this beautiful card using a stencil from Dreamweaver, Prismacolor colored pencils and lots of different Zentangle patterns.

by Susie Tracy

Recycled Rubber starts in a little under 11 hours . . . at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning at Art 'n Soul. There is an abundance of Recycled Rubber that awaits you.

The Magenta order arrived today and I was fortunate enough to be there and help Sue. I say fortunate because I had not pre-ordered a few of the stamps that I just had to have. Take a look . . .

STAMP BY MAGENTA

STAMPS BY MAGENTA

The order from Gary Burlin also arrived today, so we have lots of Copic Marker colors in stock again.

Speaking of Magenta . . . Helene has started her own blog at www.helenemagentastyle.blogspot.com. I know you'll like it. I love the paper collages she made using Magenta papers and the Magenta bird template . . .

COLLAGE AND TEMPLATE... by Helene Metivier
"I have a lot of fun using Magenta's trio of templates # TM13 to create cards using decorative papers.
All I have to do is to sort the papers, trace the shapes with the template, cut and paste... So easy!
I trust these few samples will inspire you to do your own cards. Please note that I used Magenta's papers and the cards are 5 1/4" x 5 1/4".

I LIKE THE VASE AND BOWL HOLDING THE BIRDS!

I LOVE THIS ONE!

More tomorrow . . . the blog peeps are acting up again, so I'm going to log off and give them a rest.

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

There are stamping good reasons to stop in at Art 'n Soul . . .

New Karen Lockhart stamps, and some Christmas images will be at Art 'n Soul in a couple of days
The Local King Rubber Stamp Trunk Show ends at the end of the month, i.e., this Friday! Pick out your selections now! And ask how you can earn a free Local King Rubber Stamp or die with a multiple purchase of the Local King Rubber stamps and dies.
As you prepare for the holidays, you're going to need lots of "Be Creative Tape" for your glitter designs. We still have the larger width tape rolls available. As we know from experience, there are times that tape becomes totally unavailable.
Recycled Rubber is this Saturday beginning at 10:00 a.m. There is sooooo much going out on the tables because we're submerged with everyone's recycled goodies . . . all waiting for you!

From the Memory Box blog . . .

3D Card

"Hello Dear Stamper Friends:

Today, I am sharing with you a shaped card called a “Tent” card…all the Memory Box dies are excellent to embellish these type of cards… They are very fun to make and very special to give away …So I hope you give it a try…BTW you can use any kind of “window” shape for the aperture on the middle of your front panel…

TIP: use the left over from the “window/aperture” for the base of your card…see the “side” picture.

Instructions:

1) For the inside: stamp “the brilliant tree” (heat emboss it with white EP) and stamp “the woodland vine” in brown; distress w/ blue inks, wipe “tree” with baby wipe

2) Die Cut all your pieces:

1 cage in gold mirror CS*

1 lacy butterfly in white CS*

1 solid butterfly in white CS*, distress w/ blue ink;

1 window aperture on the front panel of your card

TIP: Use the remaining CS* for base of card, score 3 times into fourths and fold (2 valley folds and one mountain fold)

3) Add embellishments, then assemble the card and Voila! a "Tent" card"

Supplies:

Memory Box Brilliant Tree

Memory Box Woodland Vine

*Memory Box CAROUSEL BIRD CAGE POPPY STAMPS Craft DIE 800	*Memory Box VIVIENNE BUTTERFLY Craft DIE 98265	*Memory Box DARLA BUTTERFLY Craft DIE 98264

From Els at Elizabeth Craft Designs . . .

"AdI made two Christmas cards with the Snow Covered Stacker Tree dies nr IME-027 Large Tree and the IME-026 Small Tree.The Peel Off stickers that I used on these cards are the 8530 Snowflakes, 351 Merry Christmas, 842 Straight lines and 8540 Reindeer border all in gold caption"

I have just run out of capacity again on the laptop so I will have to step away from the blog and transfer more pics so I can return and post the 'how-to' on these beautiful cards.

See ya soon!

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

From Els at Elizabeth Craft Designs . . .

"5 Minute card! Emboss a piece of Turquoise Gemstone Shimmer Sheetz and rub over the embossed side with a black StazOn ink pad. Put the card together and add the Happy Birthday Peel Off sticker (nr 390) and a black line (nr 842) or, as you can see on the other card, just some glitter lines (nr 7018). What could make it into 10 minutes is that you have to wait for the StazOn to dry before you put the card together.
For a card like this you can use any color of Shimmer Sheetz any color of StazOn ink pad and any Embossing folder you like. This one is from Sizzix from the Bohemian Lace set nr 756811 which I happen to love."

This is another way to use the Shimmer Sheetz 'jewelry' technique
for a great key fob!

From Cheery Lynn Designs . . .

"Love"ly card - with New Release Dies

"Hello Everyone...This is Jeannie with a beautiful card to show off some of the new release of Cherry Lynn Designs dies.

In the top left corner I have used the new Butterfly Out die.

The bird on the branch is a combination of the new Hummingbird die and Embellishment #2 set.

The delicate flower is made from the Build a Flower #2 Plate.

I've embellished some of the flowers and the butterfly with some i-rocks from Imaginisce, leftover from our fun joint swap with them.

My card is based on a design and products from a kit from Deena Ziegler.

I hope you have enjoyed my creation today. I live for making these weekly creations, I really do!

Cheery Lynn Designs are magical to work with and this new release, WOW!! That about says it all!

Have a great weekend, this has been Jeannie with The Polka Cabana posting forCheery Lynn Designs."

I've been away from the computer because our granddaughter, Cecilia, is here from Milan, Italy. There hasn't been anything that will take us away from "Cecilia time" because we only have a couple more days to enjoy her sweetness.

I'll be back soon!

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

My 'internal' calendar just doesn't work well late at night, not that it always works well during the day. RECYCLED RUBBER is not this Saturday . . . it's next Saturday, September 1. And you have until next Wednesday to bring in your treasures for RR. I corrected the dialogue on the last posting, but just in case you've already checked the blog . . .

This Saturday is Lisa Lee's Kaliedoscope Inchie Class! I'm so sad that I won't be able to take the class . . . but I'm happy for everyone who is!

I'll be back later . . .

Dianne is so excited that the Mini Candi's arrived, along with stamp sets that can be used to stamp on the Candi! Mini Candi's are smaller bags so you may purchase a smaller quantity.

The new embossing folders from Couture Creations' Romantique collection are here. Better grab 'em fast. I have photos to show you tomorrow. And My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Halloween papers are on the spinning rack . . . really nice! The chipboard pieces are also on the rack. Photos of those tomorrow, too!

Here is the listing of the new Impression Obsession metal dies . . . after you've ooh'd and aah'd, let us know which one(s) you want to order! Call the store at 360.357.6820 or, better yet, please come into the store to fill out your very own IO Pink Sheet! There are several IO stamps that go with some of these dies. After seeing this introduction, Susie immediately declared Impression Obsession an 'open catalog' company! Of course, it goes without saying that IO stamps are also 'ripe' for selection too!

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From Millsrepco for Dreamweaver Stencils and Memory Box . . .

Zentangle Dreamweaver Tree

"For this card, Dreamweaver owner Lynell Harlow pasted the Open Christmas Tree with Copper Embossing Paste. When dry, Wayne (Lynell's husband) broke out his fine line pens and went to town creating amazing patterns that take this tree to the next level. Granted, this is not the type of card that you'd want to create fifty of to send to those on your Christmas card list, but for a few special people in your life, who love art and can appreciate the time that goes into it, this is the card that elicits the amazed "WOW!" "

Poppy Card from Memory Box

Instructions:
1-Die Cut:
(1) poppy in white cardstock
(1) poppy in silver mirror cardstock (mirror side down)
(1) “Tessatina” border in parsley cardstock
(1) “Madera” corner in parsley cardstock
2- Assemble the card

Card by Design Team member Bibiana of California

From Cheery Lynn Designs . . .

The grace of the Humming Bird

"Good Morning again all you gorgeous Cheery Lynn Fans. I have another project to show you today of a bookmark that I made using some of Cheery Lynn's old and new dies.

The total length of the bookmark is 20cm with a 5cm fold at the top. I have put a small strip of magnetic tape on the back to hold the bookmark in place.

Cheery Lynn dies I used are

Celtic Band, Lace Humming Bird, Scalloped and Classic Circles (XM)

Anastasia Border, Buttons #1

I'm not sure what the the colour of this paper is but its from Bo Bunny's double dot collection. The Sentiment is a new one from Lilli of the valley, I used distressing ink aged mahogany which matched the paper...

Here is a close up of the Anastasia Border with buttons #1 which I have threaded with plain white string.

and here we have one of the new release dies

this one is called "Celtic Band".."

"Hello! Jodi here with a 5x7 card featuring a couple crosses from the new Cross Set and With Sympathy sentiment.

I used the Mini Pearl Rectangle Reflections set to create the base of my card, and layered it with Classic Coved Rectangle Silver Stacker, adding a piece from Lace Corner Deco F to dress up the corners, giving the card a more elegant feel. TheScalloped Oval Stacker, layered with the Classic Oval Silver Stacker is raised on pop dots to give the card a bit of dimension. I added a Large Rose with leaves from Build a Flower #2 and Olive Branches.

There are three beautiful crosses in the Cross Set. I chose two crosses, layering one atop the other!

Thanks for stopping by!!"

"It's hard to even think about Halloween time. Before you know it we will be making Christmas cards etc too. In this last batch of New Release dies, there were a couple of dies for Halloween and I thought I'd pair them with some I already had and

I came up with this fun card.

I embossed my card background with Leaves Embossing Plate.

The dies I am using from the new releases are CREEPY GATE and PUMPKIN SWAG.

The black cat and tree are a set called SCARE ME and the moon is made from the center of the SUNFLOWER die.

The cloud is a stamp that I stamped and cut out.

I think that the card turned out so cut and not too spooky!

What do you think?

I am having a lot of fun with the new release of dies.

I hope to have time to play with the flowers this next week.

This has been Jeannie from The Polka Cabana posting today for Cheery Lynn Designs."

Another late night but the view is worth staying up for. Recycled Rubber is a week from this Saturday -- can you believe it will be September 1? Yikes! Anyway, you have through next Wednesday to drop off any Recycled Rubber you want included in next Saturday's sale (9/1/2012); be sure your item(s) is well marked with your identification in addition to the price label because there are times when the label and item become separated. There is so much to sell . . . we're loaded to the gills!

More tomorrow! (or later today if you want to be really technical about it!)

Bella Carta at Art 'n Soul