Pink Persimmon

Thinking of You - Card Tutorial

Ronda Palazzari designed this beautiful card with the Perfumery Stamp set.  Don't you love the background with the vintage text?  Ronda was kind enough to send us a tutorial on how she made the entire card. 

Supplies:

• 2 coordinating pieces of Patterned Paper
• Cardstock
• Watercolor paper
• Grungepaper by Tim Holtz
• Antiquated Collection Perfumery Stamp Set
• Sentiment stamp set
• Maya Road Paper roses (or small flowers)
• Maya Road Cording (or baker’s twine)
• Permanent (waterproof) black ink
• Spray inks
• Watercolors Crayons or Markers
• 3-d adhesive

1. Stamp the larger perfume bottle from Antiquated Collection twice onto the grungepaper using permanent ink.  Trim off the crown and color the bottle of one of the images using watercolor crayons, watercolors, or markers.  Cut out the label from the other image and color it in. 

2.  Trim a piece of Watercolor paper to 3.5” x 4.75”.  Using the Crab Apple Text stamp (from the Perfumery Set), stamp the text using a masking technique over the entire background in a random pattern.  (Use a post-it or other thin piece of paper to mask off the larger title of the stamp). Spray with coordinating spray inks rubbing off some of the image to give it a worn, tattered look.

3.  Add your first patterned paper (5.25” x 4”) to a 5.5” x 4.25” piece of cardstock.  Then layer the watercolor paper on top of the patterned paper.  Next add your 2.75” x 4” patterned on top of the watercolor paper.  You can stitch around some of the papers.

4. Add the paper flowers to the top patterned paper and glue down the perfume bottle.  Add some 3-d adhesive to the back of the label and add it to the perfume bottle to give it some dimension.  Tie your cording into a bow and add to the perfume bottle.  Add your sentiment to the upper right corner.

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You can see more of Ronda's creations at her blog:  Help Me Ronda

 

Make your own Washi Tape

Karin Aguirre experimented with some off-white painter's tape and made her own version of Washi tape with the Antiquated Collection stamps. 

Read the full tutorial at Karin's blog:  Creative Chaos

She experimented with ink and paint and came up with some beautiful results.

 

Shawn's version of the Holiday Wall Hanger

Shawn from poetryinapotoftea.blogspot.com sent us her version of Lisa Pace's wall hanger. 

If you are signed up to receive our newsletter, then we sent you the link to the PDF tutorial for this fun project in December.  I love Shawn's version of the project.  If you haven't already seen the PDF, you are welcome to download the tutorial here and get a head start on holiday projects for next year!  OR you can modify the project slightly for a romantic Valentine's Wall Hanging! 

Do you have pics of projects you have made with Pink Persimmon stamps?  Be sure to share, we love seeing your creations! 

Perfumery Tag Tutorial

Kate Yetter from The Scrap Yard is back again with a new tag using the Perfumery stamp set.  I love how she added the late collars to the bottles after she cut them out.  See below for the step-by-step from Kate. 

Supplies:
Antiquated Collection: Perfumery Stamp Set
Antiquated Collection: Stylish and Fashionable Stamp Set (bird)
Archival Sepia Ink
Distress Inks: Rusty Hinge, Black Soot, Iced Spruce
3 1/8 X 6 ¼ white cardstock tag

Directions:

• Use Chevron stencil and ink on tag in black soot distress ink.  Dry with heat tool. Line up chevron pattern and spray with various colors of mists. In sepia ink, stamp over background with text stamps from perfumery collection.
• On plain cardstock stamp text stamp and set aside.
• Distress edges of tag with distress tool and ink edges with black soot distress ink.
• On plain cardstock, stamp in sepia ink and fussy cut both perfume bottles. On complementary pattern paper, stamp both perfume bottles and cut out just the labels from each bottle. Ink edges of labels and bottles in rusty hinge distress ink. Layer pattern paper labels on top of plain cardstock perfume bottle and glue. Add vintage lace and bling to perfume bottles.
• Stamp and cut out bird from Stylish and Fashionable Stamp set. Ink in Iced Spruce distress ink.
• Spray various vintage laces in mists.
• Cut Fleur-de-lis border from plain cardstock and mist. Cut Fleur-de-lis motif from script or plain paper.
• Layer laces and glue down to right side of tag. Adhere pop dots to fleur-de-lis border and layer over lace. Glue Fleur-de-lis motif to top right border.
• Angle Jubilee die cut on top left of tag and adhere. Glue flower to right of die cut careful not to cover the image or border. Add a piece of lace to top right corner of die cut if desired.
• Add pop dots to large perfume bottle and a double layer of pop dots to small perfume bottle. Layer small bottle slightly over larger bottle and adhere to tag. Add pop dots to bird and adhere to bottom of small perfume bottle.
• Cut and ink in Rusty Hinge a portion of the perfume text. Glue leftover lace to left edge of text and glue down to tag above perfume bottles. 

 

Fine and Dandy Tag Tutorial

We have been having so much fun with the Fine and Dandy stamp set around here!  Kate Yetter of The Scrap Yard made this tag using the stamp set.

Kate was nice enough to include some instructions on how she made this tag.

Supplies:
Antiquated Collection: Fine and Dandy Stamp Set
Archival ink: Sepia and Black
Distress inks: Iced Spruce, Festive Berries, Evergreen Bough, Rusty Hinge, Embossing Ink
3 1/8 X  6 ¼ inch white cardstock tag

Directions:

• Stamp in Sepia inkand fussy cut out the Gentleman, pocket watch, necktie and Fine and Dandy images from the stamp collection. Color in the images with the following distress inks.
  • Gentleman- iced spruce for his gown and festive berries for his necktie and skin toned marker for face and hands. Add silver stickles over swirl patterns in the dressing gown and allow to dry completely.
  • Pocket watch- rusty hinge; astamp hands and add copper brad to center of clock.
  • Necktie- festive berries and gold pen for metal tie tack
  • Fine and Dandy- ink edges with rusty hinge
• Cut seam binding to desired length for tie. Spritz with water and ink with iced spruce distress ink. Crumple into ball and dry with a heat tool.

• Stamp your border with embossing ink, add silver embossing powder and then heat until shiny. Fussy cut border.
• Blend together Evergreen Bough and Rusty Hinge distress inks on tag to create a background.  Stamp French Script in a random pattern over tag in black ink.
• Punch hole for ribbon tie in the top of the tag and add an eyelet.
• Glue embossed border on tag right under eyelet, centered.
• Place pop dots on back of Fine and Dandy text and adhere to embossed border  1/4th inch from the left. Adhere pop dots to necktie and place it to the right of the Fine and Dandy text with 1/4th inch space from end of the border.
• Glue pocket watch in lower right hand corner and layer the gentleman on top.
• Add gears, bling and beads in desired placement and tie ribbon onto top.

Kate is working on Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of Christmas project too, so you'll get tons of ideas if you head over to her blog.  Thanks for sharing this beautiful tag Kate!  (We'll have another tag tutorial from Kate tomorrow!). 

Make your own scalloped border

Nancy Grant made this sweet Pumpkin Card using the wagon from Little Red Wagon Stamp Set and wanted to have a large scallop trim, but didn't have the right tool to die cut or punch this size.  She did a little improvising with her colluzzle circle cutter and came up with a great solution.

I love how Nancy masked the jack-o-lantern part of the stamp to make plain pumpkins in the wagon.

Here is what Nancy did to make her large scallop:

To make the smaller scalloped trim paper she simply drew a pencil line on the back of the paper and cut across the line with ProvoCraft scallop scissors.  Nancy saved the negative side of the scalloped paper and you'll see that edge in one of her other cards later this month. 

Editors Note:  I think that the Coluzzle Cutting System has been discontinued, but you can still find a few sets on Ebay.  There are so many other circle cutting systems available now, but the Coluzzle is perfectly suited to making the half circle shape show here. 

Skin-Tones tutorial using colored pencils

Lindsay used our new Hello Vintage Girl stamp set along with colored pencils to create beautiful skin tones and shadowing.  She used Prismacolor pencils (not water color) so this is a great tutorial for those of you who have colored pencils in your stash, but were afraid to use them for blending. 

Check out the tutorial here:  The Frugal Crafter - Easy Skin-Tones in Colored Pencil

Time for Tea? or time for A-Tea-C's?

By Melisa Waldorf

I've been busy making ATC's again. Ready to trade??  Artist Trading Cards are fun to make and at 2.5" x 3.5", don't require a lot of resources or time.  If you are new to Artist Trading Cards, you learn more about them and see a list of resources on one of my older posts HERE and HERE.   If you would like to trade for these ATC's, please email me at luv_2_stamp@yahoo.com

I used images from two Pink Persimmon stamp sets for these ATC's.  "Tea and Cake"  is so sweet, and girly, and vintage!  I LOVE it.  It comes with 2 different tea pots, tea cups, and a cake stand.  I used the tea cup images and stacked them on ATC #1.  My daughter had a tea party as a child for one of her birthdays, so I'm thinking this set would be just perfect for a future layout as well.
 


 
"Singing Birds"  comes with an arch / frame image and of course, some singing birds.  Oh the possibilities for adding things in the center  ...  big bird's nest,  a tree.  I thought there should be a little bird house dangling from the center so  I created my own for ATC #2.  What would you embellish or add to this image to finish it off ??
 
 

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Project Details
 
Stamp Sets : Pink Persimmon "Tea and Cake" and "Singing Birds"
Copic Markers
Spray Ink : Tattered Angels Pink Taffy

Trim black cardstock 2.5" x 3.5" twice.  Trim lined pattern paper slightly smaller.
 
ATC #1 - Adhere lined paper to black card base.  Spritz doily with pink spray ink, adhere to front of card and trim along edges.  Tie green seam binding and tie bow.  Doodle around edges.  Stamp bottom tea cup on white cardstock.  Stamp tea cup on Eclipse Masking Tape and trim.  Lay tea cup mask over bottom tea cup and stamp tea cup #2 with the bottom of the cup over lapping the top of the bottom tea cup, giving the appearence that is is sitting down in the bottom tea cup.  Remove mask from bottom tea cup and cover tea cup #2.  Stamp tea cup #3 the same way, creating a stack of tea cups.  Remove tea cup mask and color.  Trim image and use raffia to build a little nest by adhering it to the back of the top cup.  Stamp a singing bird, color, and trim.  Adhere tea cup stack and singing bird to front of card.  Print this phrase or one of your own, trim, adhere and doodle around edges.
 
ATC #2 - Stamp part of the tree frame on the lined paper and color with markers.  Adhere to front of card.  Tie ribbon around bottom border and tie a bow.  Create you own bird house by cutting a square and triangle and adhere to front of card as if it is dangling from a hook in the center.  Doodle around the edges and embellish with rub-ons.  Stamp tea cup and singing bird on white cardstock and color with markers.  Adhere raffia to back of cup to create a nest, then adhere to front of card.  Print this phrase or one of your own, trim, adhere, and doodle around the edges.
  

Classic Beauty Scrapbook Layout

Laura Achilles has such a talent with adding stamped elements to her scrapbook pages. This layout is titled "Classic Beauty".  I love how she picked up the red from her daughter's dress and made smaller red accents on the page, but kept most of the background soft and warm with creme tones.  It's hard to see the all the beautiful details in this full image photo, but keep reading below for some close-ups and see how Laura made the banner embellishment for this layout. 

Material List:
Big Banner with Rosettes
Ric Rac Circle
PP – October Afternoon, MME, Making Memories, Crate Paper
Chipboard- American Crafts
Letters – American Crafts & Basic Grey
Embellishments – Prima 

To create the banner, use the rosette images from Big Banner with Rosettes stamp set and stamp two different images multiple times.

Use two different punches to punch out alternating circles.  I used a circle and a scalloped circle punch to alternate.

Fold over the circles in half.
For dimension and depth use pop dots to secure the ends together.  I used Zap Dots by Helmar USA.

Adhere your banner to your project.

To finish it off stamp smaller rosette circles, punch them out and adhere them between each half circle.

 

Watercolor pencil technique with Vintage Cupcake stamp set

Lindsay Weirich created a very fun video tutorial highlighting how to use watercolor pencils to create backgrounds, color your images, and even a fun technique using an old toothbrush!  

Watch the tutorial here:  The Frugal Crafter