INKin' All Night! with Rhonda

Beautiful Card with Decor Stencils

And tah-dah, here is a beautiful card that is made with the Stencil Paste and the Decor Stencils too.  As you are done lifting your stencil off a project, you will still have a lot of leftover stencil paste sitting on your stencil... so you need to scrape it off and put it back in the jar to use the next time.  Kind of like glitter or embossing powder, it could last forever!  Well maybe, IF you can stop yourself from stenciling every flat surface in sight!

So the first time I just squeegee'd my stencil right on my blotter sheet - so the large excess was scooped off and back into the tub it went, but a thin layer had been "pulled" through the stencil as I swiped my squeegee tool across the length of the stencil.  Well when it dried it was a perfectly thin image of the stencil... only problem was, it was on my blotter paper!  So I told myself to always make sure I clean my excess stencil off on a piece of cardstock - at least then you have the option of using it later on something else.  So then there's really no waste at all!

So here is my "leftover - last pull" card from making the little square scallop mini books.  For this one I used Kraft Cardstock and once it was dry, I just left the paste white (so it's not sponged) and added some 2-way glue pen and Dazzling Diamonds glitter.  I had a small piece of Chocolate Chip Striped Ribbon laying around so I just pulled it through to a loose knot and glue dotted it on.  Layered it with Whisper White and Chocolate Chip onto a Kraft card base.  Added the "sparkle" greeting from the Warm Words stamp set with Chocolate Chip ink.

Enjoy!
Rhonda

Decor Stencils, oh my!

Hello!!

Thanks for visiting each day!  If you have been here since the beginning of the week then you already know that I am continuing on with the items that I made for my demonstration portion of our event.  The products that I was showcasing were the Decor Stencils & Shimmer Paint. 

This next little gem is a CASE from Kimberly VD, she did something very similar to this on her blog and I thought it was so adorable!  I ordered the Christmas Ornament decor stencil collection just to make these!  I modified mine just a bit (bright colors) and to be honest mine is not yet finished as I still need to decide what to do for the inside pages and more ribbon on the key ring clasp thingy. 
We are cruising for the first time ever during our kids Fall Break this year.  I plan to make these for both of my girls and maybe a couple for the other teenage girl friends that are also cruising.  So the girls would all have little mini albums and they'd just have to pop in pictures and they could jot their journaling down while we are crusing.

This uses our long board chipboard and the Clear Bigz Scallop Square die and the Big Shot Sizzix machine and the new exclusive lower case Stampin Up  "simple alphabet".

The Christmas Ornaments decor stencil, the swirly image.

Crop-a-dile, and jumbo eyelets and chocolate chip striped ribbon, 2 way glue pen and lots of dazzling diamonds glitter!  Stamping Sponges and colors of your choice, mine were chocolate chip and melon mambo and Razzleberry Lemonade Designer Series Paper finish out my supplies.

This picture gives you a close up look of the stencil paste, the color sponged on and then the glitter of course! Gosh they are so addicting!

The Stencil Paste is from Stencil Ease and you can go to their website for more information or just google it!   www.stencilease.com

NOTE: 
SU! does not carry anything like this, so I am NOT in violation of my IDA contract as this is not a competing product.   :-)

This is how it starts out.  Sponge your chipboard with color of choice.

Place the stencil down and scoop out the paste with your spatula tool and pull/press it over the entire stencil and all openings. You can swirl it around like frosting to get it as thick as you want.

Then lift the stencil up away from your chipboard piece - some areas come out thicker than other, especially depending on the size of the openings in the stencil.

TIP:  clean your stencil pretty quick as the paste will dry and it can "clog" the smaller openings ... this happened to me at the event.  just be gentle when you clean so that you don't damage the delicate ares of the stencil.  I cleaned with a baby wipe at the event, or in my sink at home w/warm water and a soft sponge.

I decided on this set up for sponging color on.  Initally I was pinching my sponge so tight when I did the Linen Album (see a couple of days ago) that my fingers hurt... so I looked around my desk and wallah - here was a clip that wasn't being used.

So just squeeze your binder clip open and place your folded up sponge in there.  It is a 1/4 size of a SU stampin sponge.

Here is the same image after I have sponged on Crushed Curry ink

In this picture you can see that I have used the Crop-a-Dile and added the jumbo eyelet in the corner.  I trimmed Jumbo Pop-Up Glue Dots to fit underneath the chipboard letters.  DSP was applied to the chipboard with a SU Glue Stick before cutting them out with the Big Shot machine.

Just a visual of the supplies that I used.  Hope this helps answer some questions and it inspires you to go give it a try!!

You can get 2 scallop sqaures and have about 4" of chipboard leftover from one piece of long board chip board.  The 4" piece was cut to 2 - 2" pieces which fit perfectly over the 0&9 ... so 2 covers & 2 sets of numbers!  Still need the back covers and whatever I'm going to do for inside pages... am leaning towards using the "backer" board from the DSP packages for their pages.

Remind me later and I'll try to post a picture of a finished book once they're done!

Enjoy
Rhonda 

More demonstration samples...

Hi!

Here are some more pictures of the items that I made for my demonstration at the September to Remember Event.  CLICK ON ANY PICTURE to view it larger. 

This is one of our Stampin Up Linen Albums (Mellow Moss, 6x6 size)

I used the Small Kind Thoughts Brocade decor stencil and Stencil Paste to create the raised dimension.

Then I lightly sponged a bit of Mellow Moss ink onto the raised image, once dry I used a bit of the Tombow Multi-purpose Adhesive glue and Dazzling Diamonds glitter. 

Sponged some Pretties Kit Flowers and added a few pearls too - with Crystal Effects as the adhesive for these.  On the spine, I used some of the Medium width Twill Tape Ribbon, added a hat pin with pretties pearls and beads, tied off with some Mellow Moss Tafetta Ribbon.  This inspiration for this album was from non other than Shelli Gardner, CEO & Co-Founder of Stampin' Up!  She shared one similar to this at Leadership last year.  Just took me a long time to get to making mine!  LOL but it was easier than it looked and I absolutely LOVE the way it turned out!

This is a paper mache box that I picked up at a local store and thought the Flourish decor stencil would look great on.

The dimension was created with stencil paste.

Then I sponged a little color with a sponge dauber, then I used the Tombow Multi-purpose adhesive glue and some of the light blue
Fine Cosmo glitter (pg 180).

Tied off with the Light Blue wide grosgrain ribbon and White tafetta ribbon.  Still need to add the final touches with a cute tag of some sort.

With the stencil paste you can apply it really thin or glob it on thick and even thicker yet, to create the layer that meets your needs.

Hope you enjoy these little projects today!
Rhonda

Come back tomorrow for another cute little projects!!  It's so stinkin cute I can't believe I'm not showing you now!  But hey, everyone tells me that quick smaller posts are the way to blog, vs long long posts... so it's not my fault!

Decor Elements Stencil... oh what fun!

Hi

Well, sorry if I get you wet with drool but I am back from the dentist and my mouth, tongue and face are still a bit numb and I swear I am drooling, so careful, grab a kleenex or paper towel to wipe it off!  ha!

But seriously, you might just drool!  These are the projects that I made for my demonstration portion of our September To Remember Event.  My featured products were the Decor Stencils and the Shimmer Paints.  So I made a few things and tried to show a bit of what else you could do with both, and even together..  it was so much fun and addicting that I could hardly stop myself once I got started.  And I am not normally a huge "craft" stamper, I tend to love "paper"!

I want to give credit to Stampin Up because some of this was shared by them at Leadership last January as a source of inspiration as well as at convention this August, and also to Kimberly Van Diepen as she made a video that was posted to her blog... although I can barely get the thing to load and run, instead it sits with the little circle "thinking, waiting" thing going on and on... SOMEONE IN THE KNOW please help me adjust this if it is a setting on my end!  I click on it and it automatically starts to play and I think it's trying to play faster than it's loading but when I hit pause, it just stops all together... same thing if I hop over to UTube to try it there.  So I have watched it but only as a few seconds at a time... but it was very helpful to see.

Click on any photo to view it larger

 I used our Stampin' Pastel chalks and a stenciling brush and colored in through the stencil on Very Vanilla cardstock.

And then I applied a Translucent Stencil Paste over the top of it.  Apply with a spatula tool, drag across the stencil so the paste fills the openings of the stencil, scrape off and return excess to the tub.  let dry and this particular paste dries clear with a glossy finish.

Perfect Plum and Mellow Moss

 

I used the Decor Flourishes Stencil with the Champagne Mist shimmer paint and a dauber to this generic wood picture frame. 

The 2nd element is combining some drops of Close to Cocoa Classic Ink refill to a few drops of the Champagne Mist shimmer paint, mixing it with a paint brush.  Then painted several flowers from our SU Pretties Kit, let them dry, applied them to the frame with Crystal Effects and added a 1/2 Flat Back Pearl to the centers (also from the Pretties Kit).

And since I had mixed more than I needed, I looked around the ol' craft room and lookie what I found, sitting naked in a corner.

Well, about time to decorate this jumbo clip.

This time I used the Floraly-Swirl image from the Christmas Ornament decor stencil pack (you get 4 in this pack, hello!!!).  I used a sponge dauber with the shimmer mix and just daubed it on the wood, turned it, did another side, ...

In person its pretty cool because not only is the color fabulous but it has that "wood burned" look, reminds me of my brothers!  They used to have those tools.  And of course it shimmers like crazy!

I hope you have enjoyed today's post and you'll come back tomorrow to see some more about the other projects and maybe even some that aren't in the original photo!

Have a great day!
Rhonda

September to Remember... ah the memories!

Well we had our September to Remember large group event yesterday, open to all members of my INKin' All Night! downline and my "Adopted INKers" local group of sidelines and other local demonstrators and it was open to our customers as well!  We had about 65 registered and almost everyone made it, we missed the few of you that weren't able to be there in person.

Here is a picture of Diana Gibbs (my downline and cohost) and Linda Hansen (guest speaker/presenter) and myself.  Diana didn't get the memo to wear green... we teased her a little bit!

And quickly here are the make-n-take projects that they made... in no particular order...

This stationary box was designed using a tutorial by Valerie Stangle (stampin val gal)

  

 

And this is a Stair Step card based on a tutorial from Splitcoast Stampers. 

It features the Autumn Harvest, Season of Friendship and Grateful Greetings stamp set from the Holiday Mini catalog along with the new Day & Night designer series paper.

This is our Holiday Photo Card which uses the wood sheets and the Big Shot, cut with the Bigz Clear Scallop Square die for the frame, the Petals a Plenty Textured Impressions folder, the new Snowflake punch, Playground Designer Buttons and the L2 Christmas Punch hostess set, Lg Oval & Scallop Oval punches.

and my girls will kill me because this is a couple of years old... oh well!  maybe if they are younger than I will feel younger? 

This features the Season of Friendship stamp set and the new Night and Day DSP from the Holiday Mini catalog and the Playground Designer buttons again, white tafetta ribbon and the ticket corner punch.

Just a fun 5-1/4" card

And the last project was using the Decor Stencil "Flourishes" from the Definitely Decorative catalog with the White Frost Shimmer Paint from the mini catalog.  Applied to the black canvas tote bag with a sponge dauber.  Easy Peasy, now to bling it up a bit!!

Okay, that's all for tonight!  I have to head out to snag some dinner and family time!

Stay tuned and check back for pictures from the event as well as some pictures of the projects from my demonstration too!

Have a great one!
Rhonda

Spooky Spiders Available Now!

Just in time for your Halloween Holiday decorating... the Spooky Spider Decor Elements vinyl art is available in THREE SIZES (sm, med, lg) ranging in price from $5.95 to $14.95.  The decor elements vinyl art clings are so easy to use!  I was able to purchase one of these adorable spiders after convention and I applied it to a glass jar and one of my stamping buddies Kathy (hey!) applied hers to a mirror!  It looks so cool!  She wasnt sure she had the space or need for a candy jar, so she did a mirror that decorates the house and saves on the calories!!  They are available in black or white vinyl too!  I've also read somewhere (on a blog probably) that someone else used them on a scrapbook page - or it would be really cute on the cover of a scrapbook album if you have halloween pictures of the years for yourself and your kids!  How funny would that be to showcase this fun holiday where you get to be anything you want to be!  Another idea just popped into my head too - you could apply them to a wood surface and make your own holiday outdoor decorations too - especially if you have one of them there wood-handy hubbies!

Order online by visiting my website, www.rhondamorgan.stampinup.com and click on the Online Ordering 24/7 feature!  Easy Peasy - and you'll be on your way to having fun!  Great gift ideas too for someone at the office or a neighbor, friend or family member!

The possibilities are endless!  Just put your creativity to work!  Click on the link in the right side bar to see the flyer!  It has all of the item numbers, sizes, etc!

Enjoy!
Rhonda