March's "Stamp Artist Of The Month" is
Dawn Fagerstrom
Materials:
White cardstock
Black inkpad
Colored pencils
Scissors
Half of a 4" doily
Small paper cutter
Royal Fiber Kraft colored cardstock (#94951)
Stampin’ Up Chocolate Chip inkpad
Fiskars swivel knife
Barely Banana Stampin’ Up cardstock
Wausau Paper Astrobrights Re-Entry Red cardstock (#22751)
Scotch 3M Clear Mounting Tape; Heavy Duty (4010)
UHU glue stick |
"Basket of Cheer"
Stamp Artist Dawn Fagerstrom |
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Directions:
I stamped the Bird of Paradise, Long Stem Daisy and Long
Stem Tulip onto white cardstock with a black inkpad. I colored
the flowers with colored pencils and cut them out with a scissors.
I stamped the basket onto the Royal Fiber Kraft colored cardstock
(#95951) using a Stampin’ Up Chocolate Chip inkpad and the
bow onto Wausau Paper Astrobrights Re-Entry Red cardstock (#22751)
with a black inkpad. I cut out the basket and bow with a pair
of scissors and the inside of the basket with a Fiskars swivel
knife.
The "tablecloth" is a 4" paper doily cut in
half and glued onto Barely Banana Stampin’ Up cardstock
with a UHU gluestick.
The basket, flowers and bow are attached to the card with
Scotch 3M clear mounting tape.
Stamp Credit - Impressions Of Faith
J1021-56 Basket, F643-48 Bird of Paradise , E557-49 Long-Stem
Daisy, E558-48 Long-Stem Tulip
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“Take a Break”
Stamp Artist Carolyn Summers |
Randomly stipple 2-1/2 by 3-1/2 ivory card
using cactus stencil and ColorBox Peacock Gold ink and edge with
Marvy silver marker. When dry, mount to a purple card approximately
1/8 inch wider than the stippled card. Set aside
Stamp lantern on brown cardstock
with black ink and emboss, using the bleach technique to remove
color from the bulb portion of lantern. (The cardstock used changed
the color to yellow so no additional color was required.) Cut
out lantern and set aside.
Stamp cowboy boots on cork with black ink, emboss and cut out.
Take 3-4 strands of 26-gauge wire and loop as shown and attach
to back of cowboy boots with glue or tape.
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Using the Peacock Gold ink, randomly stamp a 4 by 5-1/4 ivory
card with the Joshua tree and emboss with clear embossing powder
then edge in silver. When dry mount to a slightly larger purple
card.
Assemble all sections as shown to an ivory card, using mounting
pads to elevate the hat, and tie the lantern to the top of the
card with raffia.
Stamp Credits: Desert Stamper:
Joshua tree 022A, Cowboy Boot 044C, Cowboy Hat 046BB, Lantern
048C, Cactus Stencil by PLAID
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"Painted Peacock"
Stamp Artist Cherylynn Moser |
Drop Studio-2 Green and Blue ink randomly on freezer paper.
Drop Gold ink onto same freezer paper. Cover with another sheet
of freezer paper and press down to disperse. Pull apart, set
aside to dry.
Using Rollagraph speckle wheel, stamp in Gold ink onto 5-1/2"
black cardstock.
Stamp Peacock feathers (Peddler's Pack) onto colored freezer
paper in black ink, emboss, cut out. Mount onto gold paper; affix
to left hand side of stamped black cardstock.
Stamp Peacock (Stamp Zia) on second sheet of freezer paper
in black ink, emboss. Cut out inner circle and head, affix to
card stock for stability.
Attach feather to cardstock. Mount Peacock head with foam
tape. Add glitter to peacock eye to complete.
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"Indian Summer"
Stamp Artist Christy Weise
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Background is dye inks on white glossy
paper. Spritz the paper with water until paper is misted lightly.
Place two drops of ink in the left hand side of the paper, reasonably
close to each other. Using the spritzer, spray the dye ink to
fan out. When ink covers sufficient area of the white paper,
let dry. Best results if some white area is left.
On acetate, stamp the image and verse
using permanent ink (213 or Decor-it). Place acetate over the
background and frame with contrasting paper.
Using your favorite calendar program, print the monthly calendars.
I used Microsoft Outlook. Using the Outlook print options, I
formatted the calendar to print one month per page, portrait
on 8.5 x 11 paper. That gave me 12 months with the calendar on
1/2 of a sheet. Since the calendars were for the family, I made
stickers of each family members birthdays, anniversaries, etc.
and adhered them to the associated date on the calendar.
Mount calendar and stamp art onto a
sheet of white card stock.
Instead of having to punch any holes
into the calendar sheets, I decided to display the calendar using
platter stands that are metal frames that stand on the table.
Usually a platter stand holds a platter for display, but worked
nicely for the calendar since it stood 10" high and supported
the entire sheet. The platter stand also had nubbins at the base
that hold the sheets onto the frame.
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