It’s RemARKable By the Tide

Posted on May 11, 2013 by mauistamper

Welcome to another Stamp of the Month RemARKable Blog Tour! If you’re starting the tour here at the Maui Stamper, our featured set this month is By the Tide. We hope you’ll enjoy the creative expressions of this talented group of stampers.

Not sure what it was that inspired me to start embossing but I nearly burned down the studio with my heat gun, I embossed so many images! This seashell was embossed with Irridescent Ice embossing powder on Very Vanilla cardstock and was then sponged with Island Indigo. The sparkle is hard to see in the photo, but it’s there in real life.

A Baja Breeze card base (say au revoir to Baja Breeze!), a little 1/8 inch Very Vanilla ribbon and some stamped – and stamped-off – coral branches are all it took to finish this card off. The sentiment is from Loving Thoughts, with those beautiful script capital letters.

I tried over and over to capture this card, but my little camera was having nothing of it. Trust me when I say that the embossed coral image – again in Irridescent Ice – is sparkley and elegant and would be perfect to attach to a wedding gift.

There. Can you see it now? At least you get the idea, right? And Best Wishes is from Petite Pairs, a very useful little set to have on your stamp shelf.

I got a little bit giddy with this last card. I used clear embossing powder for the coral image (have you guessed which image I like the very best in this set?). I stamped some sea horses and cut one of them out, and then I started playing with my ink pads and some Stampin’ Sponges. The results surprised me – this is Lucky Limeade and Baja Breeze ink:

The yellow and green tones were much stronger than I expected, but I liked the finished card all the same. I think they call that serendipity 🙂

Time to sail on over to the Trinity Design Studio and see what Robin is up to. I’m sure she has a briny treat in store for you. Thanks for making the tour with us today!

RemARKable Blog Tour: Best of Love 25th Anniversary

Posted on March 16, 2013 by mauistamper

Another Sunday, another tour! I’m going to show my age, but I remember going for Sunday family drives years ago when gas was cheap. It’s hard to imagine doing that now, both with the cost of gas and our busy busy lifestyles, but back then we thought it was a real treat! Today you’re in luck: you don’t need to fill the tank to go on a blog tour!

Speaking of treats, Stampin’ Up! is setting the bar high with the “Best of” Anniversary stamp sets. February’s set, Best of Love, has a great assortment of sentiments and a romantic detailed heart image perfect for wedding, anniversary, Valentines and I Love You cards.

Best of Love 25th Anniversary stamp set
Whisper White, Real Red and Basic Black card stock
Black Staz-On ink
Versamark ink
Pewter Embossing Powder
Embossing Buddy
Stampin’ Up! Heat Tool
Red Glimmer Paper
Owl Punch (heart)
Real Red 1/8 inch taffeta ribbon

This card is 3 x 6 1/2 inches, and although Stampin’ Up! no longer carries the envelopes to fit this size card, it’s a simple matter to make one with a Simply Scored tool.

Do you have the Pewter embossing powder? If you don’t, maybe this will change your mind:

This second card popped into my head just as I was putting the stamp set away. The concept is simple, but it took me a few times to get things lined up correctly (mostly because I was too lazy to do a bunch of math to get it exact!)

Best of Love 25th Anniversary Stamp set
Whisper White, Crumb Cake and Midnight Muse card stock
Crumb Cake and Midnight Muse FFIP
Midnight Muse stitched 3/8 inch ribbon
metallic brads

Truthfully, I did this about 6 times until I was satisfied, and if I’d broken down and done a little math it probably would have taken less time. However, I am a Stubborn Stamper. I did it Myyyyyyyyy Waaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy. (Thank you, Frank).

Enough of that!! Time to move on to the next blog on the tour – let’s see what Robin has done!

RemARKable Stampers Stamp of the Month: Ciao, Baby!

Posted on March 9, 2013 by mauistamper

Aloha! You’re on Maui – at least for a little bit. If this is your first stop on the RemARKable Stampers Stamp of the Month Club tour for March, then welcome – and I hope you’ll enjoy all the fabulous projects today.

Ciao Baby is a bit of a sleeper – small images designed to be used with either the Petite Curly Lable Sale-a-bration punch or the 7/8 inch Scallop Circle punch. I thought they would be a great unifying item for a set of notecards. First up is a card using the Madison Avenue Sale-a-bration set:

Each card is made using the Note Cards and Envelopes (#107311, 20 cards and envelopes, $5.95). The Ciao Baby images are stamped and punched with the Petite Curly Label punch, then popped up on a Stampin’ Dimensional. I kept a uniform color scheme but changed up the stamp set for each card. The second card features Morning Cup:

A little bit of ink brushed across the Needlepoint TIEF embossing helps the design to stand out. Morning cup is perfect for coloring with Stampin’ Write markers!

Oh, Whale seemed like a perfect fit for the next sentiment:

I originally cut the whale out with the framelit, but decided it wasn’t necessary and ended up just stamping it directly on the front panel. Have I mentioned lately how much I appreciate clear mount stamps? Those little waves were simple to line up!

The last card in my set is a little Owly love note using the Aviary set. Call me crazy, but I just can’t bring myself to put the birds inside the cage. I like to see them outside and free!!