TIPsy Tuesday - Fake Torn Edge

Have you ever wanted to have a torn edge but could not because the paper was just too small?  I really wanted the torn edge look for this song sheet paper from October Afternoon but I didn't want to cut into the actual wording and images. 

To get a torn edge look without sacrificing much paper:

1. Trim the very edge with a rough edge decorative scissors.  These are from Provocraft.
2. Use a distressing tool to rough up the edge more naturally.  This tool is from Stampin' Up!

That's it.  Then you can ink as desired.  I put some Ranger Old Paper on first further onto the DSP.  Then went around the edge with Ranger Vintage Photo.  It almost looks like a burned edge.

The flower was spritzed with two different Angel's mists.  It is just a regular silk flower from Hobby Lobby that I pulled apart for this collage card.  The scallop circle is cut from newsprint and distressed.
Happy day!  Thanks for spending part of it here.

Ingredients:  Baroque order wheel from SU!
Cardstock:  Certainly Celery
Ink:  Mellow Moss; Vintage Photo and Old Paper from Ranger
DSP:  Thrift Shop by October Afternoon
Ribbon:  Gingham by SU!; Dot by Paper Studio
Saying is from K & Company

Great TV

Congratulations to my three favorite shows for Emmy wins - Jim Parsons for the Big Bang Theory, Archie Panjabi for The Good Wife and two wins for the wonderfully cast and written Modern Family!

Soon the fall TV season will be starting.  Personally, I'm much more of a traditional TV fan than a movie buff.  I want the backstory, I want to learn about the characters gradually and I want to experience their future.  Movies always leave me with more questions than answers.  I wonder if the happliy-ever-after really is. 

By traditional TV, I mean sitcoms and dramas.  I greatly dislike any type of reality TV or contest show - too much chatter, too much build-up and summarizing and I really think a lot of it is just fake.  If I'm going to watch fiction, I want to know it is fiction.

Last year introduced two new series that have become favorites in our house:  The Good Wife (Tues. CBS) and Modern Family (Wed. ABC).  The Good Wife is really smart TV.  The characters are sharp, interesting, and interconnected.  Apparently, I can't guess what will happen because I never thought they would let the husband - the cheating, politician husband - out of jail.  It would change the dynamic at home and the show was all about this wife going back to work and the kids having their father in jail.  Well, I was wrong, they brought him home on house arrest.  It's made the show far more interesting.  Another plus, the clothes are fabulous! 

Modern Family looked funny in the promo's last fall but I didn't watch it at first because I thought it would be a silly sitcom where the characters are the same 10 years down the road as they were at the beginning (i.e. Seinfeld).  It's not like that at all.  The humor is often dry.  The shows are filled with great lines and some physical comedy.  Everyone is likeable - even Phil has his strengths though not nearly as many as he thinks.

Will this fall bring a surprise show to love?  So far, I''m interested in seeing the Defenders though it looks to be a bit predictable.  Hawaii 5-0 looks like a very cheap knock-off.  But then again, who knows?  Fortunately, my husband will watch just about anything once and bring me in if it is something he thinks I'll like.

DSP Day - Cricut Assisted Card

This week's Designer Paper card uses paper, die cuts and stickers from a single collection from Crate Paper.  I started by using the Cricut to cut a leaf layout from the Storybook cartridge and went from there.  Since this one relies heavily on a specific cartridge I did not do a sketch.  Use a die cut, Cricut or Silhouette cut image as a starting point and build from there.  You can get a very rich look using all designer papers.

Project Notes:

• Detailed images often cut better from a good quality designer paper than cardstock.
• One of these flowers is a die cut, the other is trimmed by hand from matching paper in the collection.
• I decided on the ribbon after glueing most of the cut image down so I just used a strip of ribbon on one side woven around some of the unglued branches.  Another die cut and a brad anchor it in place.

Thanks for visiting today. Hope the rest of your weekend is great.

Ingredients:  DSP, stickers, die cut:  Mia collection from Crate Paper
Brad: Oriental Trading.
Ribbon:  Chocolate Chip Taffeta from Stampin' Up!

Just for You Challenges Card

I just love the colors in this week's color challenge at Splitcoaststampers.   Pacific Point, Razzleberry, and Old Olive look great together, don't they?  This card is also for the sketch challenge.  I flipped it up vertically and used the flower for the circle in this week's sketch. 

The floral stamp set is from Hampton Arts.  The detail of their acrylic sets is great and they work so well with Stampin' Up! ink.  "Just for You" is part of a new SU! hostess set I just got in so naturally I had to use it. 

To get the tone-on-tone design in the corner only I used a square design from Stampabilities.  After inking the entire stamp, I rubbed off much of the ink from corner and the middle with a paper townel and then stamped.  This worked fine since I was using Rich Razzleberry ink on designer paper of the same color.  If there was a shadow left in the area rubbed off it didn't show and I got a corner design as desired.

Thanks for visiting!

Ingredients:  Stamps: Fabulous Flowers  by Hampton Art; Afterthoughts by Stampin' Up!; True Elegance by Stampabilities
Ink:  Pacific Point, Razzleberry, Whisper White and Old Olive; Versamark marker
Cardstock:  Old Olive, Rich Razzleberry
DSP:  Old Olive; Razzleberry Lemonade
Ribbon:  Fabric store

TIPsy Tuesday - New Pastel Case Labels

Just received my new Stampin' Up! Pastels upgrade kit over the weekend.  The upgrade kit contains the new case and all the new colors.  You just move the colors that are still current from the old case to the new one.  I like how they grouped all the reds/pinks together, blues/greens and then the violets while still keeping each row per color family.

One thing I'm not getting about this is the labeling that comes with it.  Either I'm misunderstanding how it goes, or the label seemed to be shifted over to the right.  The color family names are on the far left with all the color names following.  So the color names aren't lined up over the actual colors. 

This bugged me so I created a new template in Word with the colors lined up over the actual pastels and the family names on the far right over the eraser.    The names are only listed in English so I could make the font quite a bit bigger than the SU! version.  My new label is shown in the photo above.

If you would like to use this same color guide, click on this link to a thread a Splitcoaststampers where the files are located.  One file is for those with wide format printers so you can print this on a 12x12 page.  The other is for those who have regular printers.  In that case, the guide prints on one 8 1/2 x 11" page but you have to cut the color names and paste them on the end - literally.

files at Splitcoast - http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/tool-product-talk-f128/new-su-pastels-kit-labeling-t503761.html#post17209896

If you paste your guide inside the lid over the old guide you won't have room for the foam insert.  It is a very tight fit anyway.  I don't really travel with mine so I just removed the foam and use a plain piece of cardstock to keep the colors from rubbing against the color guide.

Hope you find this helpful and enjoy the pastels.

my Maytag repairman

Do you ever have those times when it seems like everything breaks?  In the last month, I've had an expensive car repair, a very leaky faucet, a completely dead DTV converter box, and a washing machine that wouldn't spin the clothes.  Fortunately, I have a very handy husband. The car repair was too extensive this time but he has handled everything else beautifully!  Who knew I married the Maytag Repairman?

journaling reads:

No wonder the Maytag repairman on TV gets to be so lazy. If your washing machine breaks, the manufacturer recommends you just replace the damaged circuit board. How hard is that? Not difficult, but darn expensive - $200 + labor – which is bound to be high priced labor even if it isn’t that tough.


But hold on, I have a REAL repairman. He doesn’t just throw a perfectly good circuit board away and buy a new one! No. Thanks to years of experience repairing pinball machines, he can diagnose and replace the 2 cent part pronto. Yes, that’s right 2 cents rather than $200. Sounds like a deal to me.


In less than 24 hours we went from soppy clothes, to perfectly clean, spun laundry. Amazing!

Laundry is on again now - happily spinning away!
 
Ingredients:  Designer Paper:  ledger paper from Basic Grey Basics collection; Marrakesh collection
Cardstock:  Pacific Point by SU!
Letters:  Dear Lizzy Blackberry and Marquoise by American Crafts
Cork accent:  Pink Paislee
Brads:  Basic Grey Marrakesh; Stampin' Up! Antique Brads 
Fonts:  Baskerville Old Face, Arial, Futura LT BT

DSP Day - Happy Autumn

For today's designer paper card, choose a stamp set that would work well in a large circle.  I selected Season of Friendship from Stampin' Up!  These fall papers were released with this set a couple of years ago.  I've always wanted to use this large leaf print paper.  Putting it on opposite side of the card from the large stamped tree balances the image and keeps the paper from being overwhelming.

Here's the sketch.

Project Notes:

• This trifold card is made from a piece of kraft cardstock 5 1/2 x 8 1/2".  It is scored at 2 1/4" on one each side.  To keep from having a gap where the edges meet in the middle, the narrow rust DSP overhangs the edge about a quarter to a half inch.
• I cut the full circle and stamped the tree image.  I did not trim off the right right side of the circle until after it and the larger circle mat were attached to the card.
• I cut a slit in the side to run the ribbon through the right side of the card only.

Thanks for visiting today!

Ingredients:  Stamps:  Season of Frienship from SU!; Mailbox Greetings from PTI
Ink:  Really Rust, More Mustard, Chocolate Chip
Cardstock:  Crumb Cake (kraft), Whisper White
DSP:  Autumn Vine
Ribbon:  So Saffron grosgrain
Button:  Basic Gray

Using Versamark Challenge

Today's Ways to Use It challenge at Splitcoaststampers was to use Versamark.  I stamped the background flowers above in Versamark, coated with clear embossing powder and heated. 

This card is also for Kristina Werner's A Year in Cards - August over at Two Peas.  I used the layout from the small card she did only in a regular size.  I masked the area for the greeting before stamping the background.  The butterfly is cut on the Cricut using the Storybook cartridge.  Since it is just a profile of a butterfly, I used a combo of adhesives to get its wings to stand out.  The body is glued with Tombow glue and the wings attached with tiny pieces of dimensionals. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Ingredients:  Stamps:  Kind and Caring Thoughts by SU!; Happy Birthday by Cloud 9
Ink:  Versamark, Prussian Blue by Colorbox
Cardstock:  Poppy Parade by Stampin' UP!
DSP:  Pink Paislee 365 Degrees; Basic Grey Offbeat
Twine:  Martha Stewart