Supplies:
All Stamps by Stamp Zia
White Shrink Plastic
Cardstock – white, dark green, orange, black
Brilliance Ink – blue, black, gold, green
Versamark
Prismacolor Colored Pencils
White skeleton leaves
"Super Tape"
Diamond Glaze
Perfect Paper Adhesive
Markers
Ribbons – orange, and beaded
Krylon – Gold

Directions:
Sand shrink plastic, stamp images with Brilliance (blue and black for the birds, gold for words), allow to dry. Color the birds with colored pencil. Cut out each shape and shrink. Apply Diamond Glaze to the birds. Apply Gold Krylon along the edges of all 4 pieces.

Stamp Bird Of Paradise on white cardstock, emboss with clear, and color with markers. Cut out.

On dark green cardstock, stamp the leaf branch with Versamark.

On white cardstock, stamp the leaf branch in several greens. Section off an area and stipple green around the edges. Apply green dye ink to the skeleton leaves.

Assemble as shown. Use "Super Tape" strips to adhere the ribbons, and also to adhere the shrink pieces. Use Perfect Paper Adhesive to glue down the skeleton leaves. Used double sided tape or Xyron adhesive for cardstock.

Supplies:

Glue stick
Assorted card stock
Rubber Stamp
Brayer
Dye inkpads
Hand made papers thin
Scissors
Bone folder
Pencil and ribbon.

Instructions:

1.Cut darker card stock 5 ½” x 11” and fold in half to make 5 ½” square.

2.Cut light colored card stock to 5 ¼” square and stamp with dye ink. Attach to main card.

3. Using template #1, trace around template onto hand made paper. Cut out. Attach to stamped front of card.

4. Take light colored card stock and stamp randomly over entire card with two darker color dye ink pads. Using lighter color ink pad brayer over entire stamped area. Using template #4 cut out 8 triangles. Attach as shown on sample. Using same stamped paper cut rectangle to use as post on front of card and attach.

5. Glue hand made paper to light card stock. Using template #2 or #3 trace around and cut out half circle. Run round edge of half circle in dark ink pad. Glue onto card covering tips of triangles.

6. Attach ribbon.

"Journal in Green"
Stamp Artist Cher Blasengame

Brayer "Big and Juicy" (Spice) ink pad on to glossy cardstock.

Stamp the image of dog sleeping in black dye ink. Trim to size. Mat the stamped image on black, then on rust, then on black corrugated, then final mount on to rust cardstock. Dog tag was made using an actual dog tag as a template.

Cut tag out of silver paper, mount it on to black paper.

Stamp "nap dogs" words on to silver cardstock. Using hole punch, attach beaded "collar".

Sleeping dog image: Stamps by Judith, H-10
Saying: Stamp Camp, Sheet #S 137 "Dogs"

Materials

Heron head by Stamp Zia
Elm arch by Stamp Zia
Peacock feather
Velvet paper
Mat board
Platinum embossing powder
Pearl-Ex powder-assorted colors

I stamped and embossed the images with platinum powder, cut out, and colored Heron Head with Pearl-Ex powders. Those were set aside.

I covered the matboard with velvet paper, and then sprayed the feather with adhesive and applied it to the velvet paper. Elm arches were glued to the sides and Heron head was glued off center.

Materials:

Zia’s Fish Stamp (retired image)
1 turquoise cardstock 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 folded in half
1 confetti blue cardstock 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 folded in half
1 mauve cardstock 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
Top Boss
Silver Embossing Powder
Exacto knife
Glue
Aleene’s "Laminate It"
Crystal Lacquer (blue, clear, pink)
Glitter
Foam Mount
Pencil with unused eraser tip

1.Stamp Zia’s fish on mauve cardstock, emboss with silver embossing powder and cut around outside edges of image. Use an exacto knife to cut out the square area around the main part of the fish.

2.Glue fish to confetti blue cardstock and with an exacto knife, cut out the triangles behind the head and tail (cutting through both the mauve and the confetti blue).

3.Lightly pencil in the sea grass and cut out the grass blades with exacto knife.

4.Glue confetti blue assemblage to folded turquoise card.

5.Color fish with various shades of green created with a green Marvy stamp pad and water, leaving some areas of mauve cardstock for a "rosey" look.

6.Give the top fin and either side of the tail a lift with foam mount.

7."Paint" only the fish with Aleene’s "Laminate It" and while wet, give it a light sprinkle of glitter if desired . When dry, do a second coat of "Laminate It" for added gloss.

8.Accent Fish with pink crystal lacquer on eye, mouth and gill

9.Make bubbles:
Use the pencil eraser tip as a stamp to make the bubbles. Emboss with silver embossing powder. When cooled, cover bubbles with clear crystal lacquer, and when that is dry, dot with blue crystal lacquer.

10.Give yourself "credit" on the back of the card.

Images: Stamp Zia

Materials:
Tooling copper
StampZia 4" tulip fan stamp
StampOutCute elongated tulip with words stamp
Stamp-A-Claus swirled border stamp
Hand stained background paper
Skeleton leaf
Butterfly charms
Copper wire, amber beads and a handmade paper clay button bead
Terra Cotta embossing powder
Krylon clear acrylic spray
Copper Pearlex
Linen card stock

Directions
Hold copper over flame until it is covered with soot. Be sure to use a tweezers to hold it because copper gets hot. Use a dry stamp and stamp on the soot. The areas that are uncovered should be colorful with pinks, greens and blues. If the colors are not visible reheat the copper very slightly with the image now up, facing you. You should be able to see the copper change color.
When heating is done spray the image with a clear acrylic coat. (To get added shine to the sprayed image I once again passed it through a flame, image side up. Care must be taken not to overheat because the acrylic finish is flammable. This step is only needed if you want more gloss than the acrylic leaves)
Stamp the words on hand stained paper and emboss with Terra Cotta embossing powder.
Stamp the paper clay button with the border stamp and after it is dry brush with Pearlex
Twist copper wire, adding beads and place the paper clay button bead on the end

Assembling card
Tear the hand stained paper into 2 uneven pieces to cover the linen card, overlapping a little off center.
Cut around the copper image and adhere it to peel and stick, then dry emboss with a stylus and attach to background paper.
Hot glue 2 butterfly charms on the left above the image
Hot glue twisted wire on the right above the image.
Hot glue under the button bead and place the skeleton leaf with the bead covering the stem of the leaf.

Images: Stamp Zia

Stamp both stamps with black ink onto cream-colored
paper. (My paper had little black speckles in it, which reminded me of the sandy shore.) Color the mermaid with colored pencils. Take an embossing pen, and use it over her tail and the top and bottom trim of her bodice. Then use it over her hair. (This will give her hair a greenish tinge, which I thought was appropriate for an undersea dweller.) Emboss with clear embossing powder.

Tear both images around the edges. Adhere to a piece
of deep blue cardstock. Tear the edges of the blue
cardstock.

Cut a piece of blue wavy corrugated paper just a little bit smaller than the size of the card you are using. Adhere corrugated paper. Then cut a smaller rectangle out of complimentary paper. I used something very thin and light blue, which had small fibers in it as well as gold and silver speckles. Adhere this to the corrugated paper at an angle.

Adhere the mermaid to the upper right-hand corner.   Use pop dots to adhere the saying to the bottom left
corner.

With a tiny hole punch, punch 2 holes through the corrugated paper near upper left hand corner of the card. Thread fibers through and tie off as you wish.   Embellish with tiny shells.

Stamps Used: Designs Ink'd - Mermaid, What Wondrous Beauty
Fibers from theCardLadies