Faux Leather Technique

Tomorrow is Card Club day at my house and we will be making some amazing faux crock leather backgrounds. Here is a sneak peak:

The monster is from the “Make a Monster” set (wood mount: 118742, clear mount: 120606).  The background and greeting are from the "Valentine Defined" set (wood mount: 121941, clear mount: 123057).


I’ll be posting a tutorial for this technique later this week. If you would like to receive an email when I post, leave me a comment to this post or email me (tanja@spunkycards.com).

Tanja
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Make a Monster visits MOJO MONDAY for Christmas

Have you ever seen something that instantly inspired you?  Today, I looked at the Mojo Monday Challenge and I KNEW right away what I wanted my card to look like using this week's Mojo Monday sketch.

SUPPLIES:

Stamp Sets: Make a Monster (W 118742 c 120606), Punch Pals (w 116588)
Cardstock: Cherry Cobbler, Marina Mist, Whisper White
DSP: In Color, Greenhouse Gala
Ink: Basic Black
Markers: Cherry Cobbler, Marina Mist, Pear Pizzaz, Daffodil Delight, Crumb Cake
Tools: Big Shot, Elegant Lines Embossing Folder, Circle Punches (1” and 1 ¼”), Corner Rounder, Stamp-a-majig

Leave me a comment if you like this card and as always, feel free to call or email me with questions.

Tanja
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The Stamp-a-ma-jig, a monster and a Christmas tree!

This year, I am making lots of different Christmas cards instead of sending everyone the same card.  I’ve been having a blast with my Make a Monster and Punch Pals stamp sets as my little monsters are having a lot of fun with the Christmas three.  Here are two of the many cards I stamped:

The girly card on the left is done in all In Colors plus Daffodil Delight. The monster is colored in Poppy Parade and Blushing Bride. The greeting is from the set Four the Holidays.

The card on the right has a masculine feel to it especially when sitting right next to the girly card. I ran a piece of Chocolate Chip cardstock through my Big Shot to give it the wood grain texture (Textured Plates #4) and Pear Pizzazz carstock serves as the card base. I used Cherry Cobbler for the frame of my monster. I think he is going to eat the tree but that’s left to everyone’s imagination. He might just play with it instead. The greeting is from the Short & Sweet stamp set and punched with the 1 ¾ by 7/8 large oval punch.

My secret to combining the tree and the monsters is Stampin' Up!'s Stamp-a-ma-jig.  It is a must have item for any kind of two-step stamping and makes the placement of the images so easy and perfect.

More questions? Leave me a comment or email me. Thanks to new improvements from Stampin’ Up! you can click on the links and see the sets in my online store without having to search for them anymore. Make these adorable sets part of your Christmas by shopping my stamps online!

Tanja
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Stamp-a-ma-jig

MAKE A MONSTER is feeling a little green!

Yesterday was Card Club day at my house and this is the get well card we made.  Can you tell that we like having fun?

SUPPLIES

Stamp set: Make a Monster
Paper: Basic Black, Cherry Cobbler, Pear Pizzaz, Woodland Walk DSP
Ink: Basic Black
Markers: Pear Pizzaz, Cherry Cobbler, Basic Black
Punches: Scallop Trim Border
Other: Stampin' Dimensionals, Brads, Big Shot, Square Lattice Embossing Folder

We had loads of fun yesterday and all of us (especially me) are looking forward to our November meeting, where we’ll be making awesome Christmas tags!

Contact me if you'd like to have fun on a monthly basis.  Come to a club meeting as my guest to see if you like it.
Tanja

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Monsters at the card club!

We really went to town making MONSTER cards at our August Card Club meeting. The stamp set is just so cute and versatile and I can hardly count the number of different monsters you can create out of these parts:

Stamp Set: Make a Monster (Wood: 118742, Clear: 120606)

It is just so amazing to me how you can make such cute happy, sad, funny, mean, ... monsters. I have made cute children's birthday cards and cards for my hubby where two monsters (he and I) are walking hand in hand. It is just tooooo cute.

This card comes really alive with two things:

• The textured background (Square Lattice 119976)
• The offset colored circles.

I hope you enjoyed this cute card. Here are the colors:

Basic Black & Whisper White

Pear Pizzaz, Poppy Parade, Daffodil Delight & Marina Mist

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Tanja

Silly pictures wanted!!

Are you ready to scrapbook your summer pictures? How about this cute layout for all the goofy pictures where the kiddos pose just the way you don't want them to: tongues sticking out, silly eyes, messy hair ...

Background

• So Saffron 12x12
• DSP: Lap of Luxury, cut to two 8 by 8 inch squares. The corner accents are 2 by 2 inch squares cut in half.

Text

• Alphabet Stamp Set: Schoolbook Serif Alphabet
• Stamp Set: Make a Monster
• Classic Stamp Pad: Elegant Egglplant, Basic Black
• Markers: Tangerine Tango, Pear Pizzaz

Spunky Tips

• I wiped the top of the "i" clean before stamping it so that I could then add one of the eyes from the "Make a Monster" set on top of the "i" for the i-ball.
• Suggested picture sizes are 4 by 4 inch for the left page and two 3 by 3 inch and a 4 by 6 inch piece on the right. I substituted a journaling square in a small spot on the right.

Enjoy!

Tanja

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