Linda Tolson Designs

Another project I designed for my Artisan Design Team application was a card where I attempted my first “chalkboard” technique.  I’m not sure I should have included my first try at a technique with my submission but …

If I had a chance to do this one over, I would have used a different approach to get the chalkboard look (involves white craft stamp pad and sponge daubers).  The version of the technique I used here was using the Embossing Buddy to make the black card stock look chalky.  Didn’t turn out as I had hoped.  But as they say, practice makes perfect so you should expect to see me try this technique again soon – especially with all the new stamp sets that have chalky images.

Here are the supplies that I used to create this card:

Card stock:  Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Rose Red, Whisper White
Classic Stampin’ Pads:  Rose Red, Versa Mark
Stamp Sets:  Bloomin’ Marvelous, Itty Bitty Bits, Amazing Family, Oh, Hello
Tools:  Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack, ½” Circle Punch, Stampin’ Trimmer, Paper Snips, Craft Scissors, Bone Folder, Embossing Buddy, Heat Tool
Other Supplies:  Snail Adhesive, Mini Glue Dots, 2-Way Glue Pen, Rose Red Seam Binding Ribbon, Natural Composition Specialty Designer Series Paper, White Stampin’ Emboss Powder, Water Color Pencil, Silver Soda Pop Tops, Ruler, Crumb Cake Medium Envelope

Have you tried this technique yet?  I’d like to see what you have designed if you would care to share them with me!

Thanks again for stopping by.  I hope you had a great weekend.

Until next time, stamp on my friends,
Linda

My Saturday didn’t work out as I had planned – I was scheduled to attend a meeting with the Stamped With Joy group (Amy Storrie), but a migraine sidetracked my day.  I’m sure I missed all kinds of fun and can’t wait to see the projects posted by members of our group.

I wanted to still share with you a project I designed and since I have yet to show you all 10 of the projects I submitted with my Artisan Design Team application, I thought I would share this card with you:

This was the first project that I designed and was by far my favorite of the five cards I submitted.  Here are the supplies that I used:

Card stock:  Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Very Vanilla, Summer Starfruit
Classic Stampin’ Pads:  Soft Suede, Pink Pirouette, Primrose Petals
Stamp Sets:  Bloomin’ Marvelous, Itty Bitty Bits, Vintage Verses
Tools:  Big Shot, Honeycomb Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack, Ticket Duo Builder Punch, Bitty Butterfly Punch, Stampin’ Trimmer, Paper Snips, Craft Scissors, Bone Folder
Other Supplies:  Stampin’ Dimensionals, Snail Adhesive, Mini Glue Dots, Pink Pirouette Two-Tone Ribbon, White Lace Paper Doilies, Tea for Two Designer Series Paper, Designer Builder Brads, Jewels Basic Pearls, Very Vanilla Medium Envelope

Speaking of the day not going as I had planned, my guy Phil Mickelson had a horrid day on the golf course today and absent some gigantic miracle he has no chance to win tomorrow.  I guess it’s a good thing that I have Time Warner Cable and wasn’t able to see his poor performance play out on CBS!

More projects will be coming soon.  Thank you for stopping by my blog.  Come back again and see what else I have to share with you.

Until next time, stamp on my friends,
Linda