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Week 2: Behind the Scenes


We are always looking for fun new ways to use stamp sets, right? Try using Craft Room to inspire fun teacher projects.  With a quick masking of the letter "T", we now have a fun project for that one-of-a-kind teacher...



STYLE BOARD:

DIRECTIONS:
  • Create a 4.25" x 5.5" A Blanc Check card base.
  • Stamp shelf, bucket, pencils, jar of scissors and markers, and jar of buttons in Perfect Little Black Dress ink.
  • Stamp the "T" from the word CREATE at an angle leaning against the pencil bucket in Perfect Little Black Dress ink.
  • Color images with Copic Trio Marker sets: {Warm Gray Trio 1, Yellow Trio 2, Yellow Green Trio 2, Red Trio 2}.
  • Add a highlight to all images with BG0000 from the pastel marker set.
  • Loop ribbon, staple, and adhere to card with adhesive.
  • Stamp sentiment in Dare to be a Diva Red and You're Such a Gray-cious Host ink.

SUPPLIES:
STAMPS: Craft Room, Crafty Sentiments, Alpha Varsity
INK: You're Such a Gray-cious Host, Perfect Little Black Dress, Dare to be a Diva Red

PAPER: A Blanc Check
COPICS: Warm Gray Trio 1, Yellow Trio 2, Yellow Green Trio 2, Red Trio 2, BG0000
OTHER: Ribbon, Staple/Stapler




Week 1: Behind the scenes with yours truly

 

Welcome! Could you use a little MOJO kick start?
Challenge yourself to use some of your old designer papers and supplies with a few new CSS goodies in your stash. For this week's Style Watch project, I used some old scraps of designer papers left over from previous projects and paired them up with a couple of my new stamp sets: Craft Room and Crafty Sentiments. I took the challenge a step further and made everything look a bit aged by using my Copic marker trio sets. I love that you can get your main color, highlight and shadow bundled together at Clear and Simple Stamps.  Blend a few earth tone trio sets together with your blender pen and you can easily age any image or card project.



LINK: See full card here! Inside and out.

DIRECTIONS:
  • Stamp background sentiment with Blanc Check ink onto Your Style Blue Me Away card base.
  • Distress edges with A Blanc Check ink.
  • Cut tickets and designer paper to size.
  • Stamp sentiment background in A Blanc Check on designer paper and adhere papers and tickets to card base.
  • Distress edges with Earth Trio 5 and Earth Trio 6.
  • Blend with the 0 Colorless Blender fro the Basics Trio
  • Adhere to bottom of card base.
  • Stamp polaroid image on A Blanc Check paper twice in Perfect Little Black Dress ink.
  • Stamp button jar in one polaroid in Perfect Little Black Dress ink and stamp quote background on the other polaroid.
  • Color buttons with trio marker sets and cut out polaroid.
  • Color other polaroid the same way you distressed the edges of the papers.
  • Cut out Polaroid to include the picture window and layer onto button polaroid.
  • Stamp sentiments in Perfect Little Black Dress ink on the polaroid, and in Dish All the Dirt Brown ink on the bottom right of the card base.
  • Cut strip of Dish All the Dirt Brown cardstock, flag one end and adhere to card.
  • Add a Creamsicle Cardigan button to right side of card base, warp with twine and tie into a bow.
  • Adhere layered polaroid image to card base on an angle with dimensionals.

SUPPLIES:
STAMPS: Craft Room, Crafty Sentiments, Quotes I
INK: Dish All The Dirt Brown, A Blanc Check, Perfect Little Black Dress
PAPER: Your Style Blue Me Away, A Blanc Check
BUTTONS: Creamsicle Cardigan
COPICS: Yellow Red Trio 1, Blue Trio 1, Yellow Geen Trio 1, Basics Trio, 

Earth Trio 5, Earth Trio 6
OTHER: Bakers Twine, Designer Paper, Dimensionals

60 minutes of Fame!


In case some of you missed out on my Featured Artist spot at Caardvarks on World Card Making Day.
Here is the interview and my most recent creations.

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Please welcome
Caardvarks World Card Making Day
Featured Artist:
Stephany Zerbe


One look at Steph's work and the word "eclectic" comes to mind. This girl has such a creative streak that she manages to come up with some very unique and innovative card designs. And she doesn't just "do" cards, she creates gift ensembles, jewelry, 3-D greeting card projects and she does it all very, very well! So let's find out how she manages to come up with these cool cards and projects!

How did your passion for card making begin?
The day I discovered stamping is when I shifted from scrap booking to card making. I love the quick satisfaction you get from making a card. Instant gratification! Not to mention they are designed to be given away. I love to give my cards to anyone and everyone that touches my life. Even the folks that cut my grass!

What's on your craft table right now?
Everything. From last weeks scraps to every little embellie I pulled out over the last month.
It's a mess, as it should be! I often start one thing that leads me to start several other things. Which leaves me with many unfinished projects

Do you send or hoard your cards?
Hoard. It's shameful, I know!

Other than card making, what other hobbies do you enjoy?
I move from hobby to hobby. I don't often do more than one at a time. I used to love making soap, then scrapbooking, then making jewelry (I once dabbled in making my own glass beads but gave up when my husband could make a better shaped bead than I could, and he's not even crafty!), then pottery, I even own a potter's wheel, then ATCs and now almost strictly card making and 3-D paper crafts. Every once in a while I get the urge to paint with acrylics on canvas.


What color combos do you most enjoy?
I've been told I'm an earth-tone junky! I am not so good with color combos so I don't think I have a fav. I let the papers or embellishments guide my color choices. However, I do prefer a Craft colored card base.

Where do you gather inspiration?
Other bloggers mostly. My go to gals are Nichole Heady and the entire Papertrey Ink Crew, Kristina Werner and Melissa Phillips.

What is your favorite part of the card making process?
Definitely not the beginning! I think I spend more time trying to start a project than I do actually making it. I enjoy finding that pretty little embellie that guides me through the process; helps me choose my papers and stamps.

What's your favorite card theme?
Apparently BABY, because I have a ton of baby stamps!

How many cards do you make in an average week?
Oooh, that's a tough one. My creative spurts come and go. I could knock out 20 in a day or one in a week.
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- There were so many talented designers featured on this day and I am very honored to have been featured amongst them! Thanks to the incredible Design Team at Caardvarks and to all the bloggers that left comments and played along on World Card Making Day 2009!
Thank you!

Card Frenzy











Some of these cards are published in a book called "1000 Handmade Greetings".
It's such an honor to be in print with so many great crafters.

Very inspiring book!

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