Pamela’s Gallery

Our guest designer for February is Allison Fillo from Canada!

A little about her:

Hi! I am Allison and you may know me from my blog Stampin’ When I Can. I have three children - Tristan, Charlotte and Avery. I started stamping in 2004 with some nudges from my sister-in-law (since I was not going to stamp…no, not me!). After making my own Christmas cards, and learning that one of my neighbours was a SU! demo, I was hooked and readily enabled! While I enjoyed making cards, it wasn’t until I started my blog that I was able to better my efforts through daily card-making. My blog has been a fabulous outlet for improving my skills, meeting people from around the world and getting exposed to so many different styles. In my spare time (ha!), I work as a technical writer for an explosives detection company…needless to say, stamping is a necessary diversion from the travails of manuals and housework!

Check out my blog http://stampinwhenican.blogspot.com

and now some gorgeous creations she made!

Stamp sets used: Oops a Daisy

by Allison Fillo

Love the fun dp she used in this one…the orange mat really brings out the center of the daisy.

by Allison Fillo

TFTI!

Here’s a card my dd (15) created, using an image I did with a simple mask and the new Heart Strings set. I took a bunch of pix of the masking part, so you can see how easy this really was to do.

Finished card:

Stamp sets used: Heart Strings Digital images: Conversation Heart Words (freebie)    Colors: Triart/Copics    Inks: Memento-Black;  Brilliance-Pearlescent Sky Blue   Extras: ribbon-stash; circle punch 1.5 and 1 1/8″, scallop punch 1.5″

How to create the heart/flower:

Step 1:

Stamp the single swirl image on plain copy paper and cut out. Don’t worry about the dots, just cut out the swirl part and heart.  Use a 1″ circle punch and punch out a mask for the center. I use ZIG 2 way glue on the back of my masks, to make them sticky. (let dry before using or you won’t be able to remove it..lol)*

Step 2:

Place your circle mask in the center of your card stock. Use a transparency to figure out where to stamp your first image. (Stamp the image on the transparency with staz on ink, and lay it over the circle)

Step 3:

Stamp the first swirl.

Step 4:

Now place the swirl mask over the image you just stamped, and carefully stamp the image a second time. I tried to line up my swirls so the base would be at the edge of the circle mask, and the outer edge of the swirl would just overlap the ’stem’ of the previously stamped image.

Step 5: repeat step 4 (carefully moving the mask to the last stamped image as you work your way around the circle mask) Watch the angle of the stem portion of the image, so they lean the right way.

Continue stamping until you have completed the circle.

Step 6:

Remove the circle mask, and stamp the XO image inside. Color as you like. (as you can see in the card above, I cut out this image following the line of the top of the swirl.)

* (For a more in depth masking tutorial watch this video. )

TFTI

Yes, you read it right! My dd, Katie has created 2 more freebies for you to download and play with! (to download, please go to the digitals page here)

Here’s what I did with them!

Digital image used: Shroom 1   Colors: Triart and Copics      Paper: Club Scrap pops, Card base-The Paper Studio     Extras: White gel pen, embossing folders-dots, and paisley, bling, 3″ circle punch, ribbon-Michael’s    Technique used: Tjs Bandana (sorta) Vol.6 Issue 6 Aug. 2008

digital image: Shroom 1-Life is too short to stuff a mushroom

Digital image used: Shroom 2  Red Rubber stamps used: Create A Scene Colors: Triart and Copics      Paper: DCWV-pocketful of posies, Card base-Halcraft    Inks: Color Box-Peacock, Ranger Adirondak-Lettuce, Pesto          Extras:  3″ circle punch,   Technique used: Tjs Wisped Frames Vol.8 Issue 3 Feb. 2010

the smurfs are little blue people who live in magic mushrooms. think about it.

Hope you are inspired enough to play along with our FB challenge! All the details are on our FB fan page!

Here’s another card using that fun Celebration Froggie Digital…

Enjoy!

Digital image used: Celebration Frog Rubber Stamps used: Birthday Balloons Papers: White cs, Club Scrap mat, unknown RAK mat   Inks: Adirondack-lettuce, meadow          Colors: Triart/Copics           Extras: glitter glue-Michael’s dollar bin; ribbon-Michael’s; birthday phrase-popdotted set from dollar store; circle tag-RAK; corner diecut-Sizzix        Digital printed on Epson all in one, RX620 on normal setting

TFTI!

Be SURE to check out the January album in the art gallery! The DT have really outdone themselves!! WHOO HOO!!

Here’s a small sampling to tickle your tastebuds! And here’s the link to the January album: HERE