Scrape Painting

Welcome to this week's Fabulous Friday post.... sure, it's a little late! Better late than not showing you this fun, messy technique, it's called Scrape Painting and it was featured on Splitcoast Stampers earlier this year. On with the show!

Debbie is up first with her card. She used Pool Party, Bermuda Bay and Pacific Point in her scrape painting. I really like the motion that the paint and the butterfly give to the card. Here is a link  to her post.  

Next, is Karla's Cocktail inspired card. She used Old Olive and Crushed Curry Scrape Painting. She used a slightly different twist, go to her post to read how she modified the technique.

Lastly, we have Rachel's fun Birthday card. She used Bumblebee, Just Jade and Magenta Madness to make her Scrape Painting. She also tweaked the tutorial a bit, read up in her post for this project.

That's it for us this week. Go try this "fun but messy" technique today, Scrape Painting.

The Sisters in Stamping,

Karla, Rachel and Debbie 😃

Fabulous Techniques featuring Ink Refills

  Hello and Happy Friday!  This week we are sharing projects that feature techniques that use Stampin' Up! ink refills. This product is such a bargain and oh-so-versatile - priced at just $3.75 per bottle, you can use these to refresh your ink pads and stampin' write markers (which prolongs the life of these products), and as a bonus you can even use them to create your own custom ink spots.  In addition, there are a ton of fabulous stamping techniques that feature ink refills.  Please read on to see which ones we chose this week...

  Up first is this gorgeous thank you card created by Karla Anders. She used a Credit Card technique to create the interesting panel on her card. Please be sure to visit Karla's blog post here for more information about this project.

  And here is a fall-colored birthday card from Debbie Naylor. She used a Shaving Cream Marbling technique for her background. Hop on over to Debbie's blog post here to get more details about this card. 

  As always, thanks so much for stopping by to visit with us this week. We hope you have a fabulous weekend and find some time to stamp!

* Debbie, Karla and Rachel *

Masking Tape Tutorial Friday

 This is Karla's bright and fun card for this week, she used a bunch of retiring product on her card. Here is a link to her blog where you can read up on her card.

Next up, is Jennifer's technique card. I love the soft muted colors she used on her Thank-you card. Hop on over to her blog to find more details on how she made her card.

Make sure you come back next week to see some pretty Spring projects and cards!

The Sister's in Stamping, 

Karla, Jennifer and Debbie 

Fancy Folds

Fancy Folds techniques are a fun way to kick up your card projects a notch or two.  They usually do not require much more time or effort, but the results are fabulous.  Here are a few examples of fun Fancy Folds our designers created for you today.

First up is Karla Anders with her Fancy Fold technique called Cross Fold.  She features Birthday Cheer with an awesome color combination: Daffodil Delight, Whisper White and Flirty Flamingo.  Be sure to visit Karla's website here for more information.

Next is my Easel Technique featuring the Sale-A-Bration stamp set Home to Roost.  This Fancy Fold is perfect for displaying works of art or even a calendar that can be used throughout the year.  Please visit my blog here for more photos and details of this project.

Finally, we have Debbie Naylor's tropical Big Buckle card.  With the snow heading to many areas this weekend, I'm wondering if Debbie is dreaming of warmer weather!  :)
This is such a fun technique!  Hop over to Debbie's blog here to learn how this is done.

Thanks so much for visiting with us today.  Please be sure to come back next week when we take a look at projects using some of the best Sale-A-Bration products.

** The Sisters in Stamping **Debbie, Jennifer & Karla

Last Chance Occasions

There are only a few more weeks left for this year's Occasions catalog

Thankfully some of our favorites will return in next year's annual catalog, but there are some terrific items that will retire at the end of May.  Here are some of the SIS designers favorite retiring items.  If any of these are on your wish list, don't wait too long to place your order!

First up today is our returning guest designer, Cindy Blekas.  She used the retiring Flying Home stamp set.  Take a closer look on her blog here.

 Debbie Naylor is getting quite skilled with her coloring techniques!  Today she submitted this fabulous bird-day card using the Bird Banter stamp set.  Hop over to her blog for all the details.

Next up is Jennifer Rawlings with her no-stamping "21" balloon card.  Visit her blog here to find out which retiring Occasions products she used in her project.

Karla Anders also used the Flying Home stamp set on her card - what a great set!  I love how she used the wood-grain background on this card to really tie everything together.  

Also featuring the Flying Home stamp set is Rachel Yurkanin.  This set is obviously a favorite, and for good reason!  Take flight over to Rachel's blog to see other favorites!

Thank you again for stopping in today.  Have a fabulous weekend!

**  Debbie, Jennifer, Karla, Rachel **

Technique Challenge: Faux Tile

Welcome to another Fabulous Friday! 

This week I wanted to try something a little bit different and challenged the designers to a fun stamping technique - Faux Tile.  The idea here is to create a background or focal point that looks like decorated tile.  Maybe something you would see in a fancy kitchen or home and garden magazine.

First up for this challenge is Debbie Naylor's Thoughts & Prayers card.  I love her color combinations - very spring inspired!  Hop over to Debbie's blog here to see just how this project came together.

For my card, I opted to create a glossy tile look.  This is one of those cards that didn't pan out exactly like I planned in the beginning, but I'm very happy with the results!  Be sure to join me on my blog here for the additional details and pictures.

Thank you so much for joining us today.  We look forward to another visit with you next week!  Be sure to bring a friend along too!

**  Debbie, Jennifer, Karla, and Rachel  **

Fun and Fabulous Techniques

  Happy Friday and thanks for stopping by today!  This week we are featuring a few fun and fabulous techniques you can use with your Stampin' Up! goodies  to step up your hand-stamped projects and give your creations a WOW factor.  We hope you find inspiration here and give one of these techniques a try this weekend!!

  First up is our guest designer Cindy Blekas with her "marker direct to stamp" technique - using markers on a large image like this allows you to have a variety of colors on a solid image stamp.  For more details about her project, please be sure to visit Cindy's blog post here.

  Next up we have this great grafitti-look birthday card perfect for your favorite Teen designed by Rachel Yurkanin using the "inked texturing" technique.  Make sure you check out her blog here to get all the details on how she created it!

  Guest designer Jennifer Rawlings used both a masking and watercoloring technique for her fantastic masculine card.  Find more information on her project by visiting her blog post here.

  Here is Karla's addition to this week's challenge. She took a technique and tweaked it a bit to make her card. Go to her blog to read up.

  And last but not least is my thank you card featuring the Batik technique - it takes heat embossing to a new level!  Please hop over to my blog post here for instructions on this fun technique.

  Thank you for visiting with us on this Fabulous Friday!  For those of you in the U.S. we hope you have a great Labor Day weekend and for everyone else, enjoy your weekend as well!!

* Cindy, Debbie, Jennifer, Karla and Rachel *

Fabulous Techniques for Fabulous Friday

  Happy Friday and thanks for visiting us!  This week we are sharing some of our favorite techniques with you... once you have mastered straightforward stamping, it is fun to start learning new ways to use your products in different ways to achieve some gorgeous effects.  There are thousands of techniques out there, here are just a few to inspire you and hopefully get you started!  Enjoy...

  First up is this gorgeous emboss resist Christmas card by Rachel Yurkanin.  Read all about the great products that she used from the Holiday catalog here on her blog.

  And my card this week features the Delft Tile technique.  You can get more information about my project including a link to the technique on my blog post here.

  Thanks so much for visiting and we hope we have inspired you to try one of these techniques soon.  Once you start creating cards and other projects with new techniques you'll find that your Stampin' Up! products offer lots of versatility.  Have a great weekend!!

* Debbie, Karla and Rachel *

Flowers, flowers everywhere!

  Happy Friday and welcome back!  This week we are featuring FLOWERS in our Fabulous Friday designs.  Who doesn't love receiving flowers, real or made of card stock and ink?!  With Stampin' Up! you have so many choices with flowers, too... different designs in our stamp sets, a variety of Big Shot accessories and even punches to choose from.  Let's get you inspired...

  Up first is this great chalkboard technique card designed by Rachel Yurkanin.  Please be sure to visit Rachel's blog here to get all the details about her beautiful card and find out how she achieved this gorgeous look!

  Next is my altered floral picture frame.  Don't you just love these paper roses?  The new Typeset specialty DSP  is perfect for this vintage look.  Please hop on over to my blog post to check out which products I used to create these flowers and frame.

Here is Karla's card for this week. A simple but lovely flower card, she has another shot of her card on her blog that shows a fun embellishment.

  Thanks so much for stopping by today!  We hope we have inspired you with our flower projects.  There are so many ways to create fabulous floral designs with our Stampin' Up! products and we hope you give it a try.  Have a fabulous weekend and see you next week!!

* Debbie, Karla and Rachel *

Reinkers are fabulous, too!

  Happy Friday and thanks for stopping by today!  This week for our Fabulous Friday projects we want to share with you different ways to use reinkers/ink refills... not only are they a necessity for keeping your ink pads nice and juicy, but they can be used in a variety of stamping techniques!!  Plus at just $2.95, they're inexpensive and so versatile!  It's a good habit to get into to purchase a reinker at the same time you buy an ink pad... that way you have it when you need it.  And did you know that you can use your Stampin' Up! ink refills to reink your markers?  Just pull out the brush tip carefully and put a few drops down in the barrel of your marker. Replace the tip and store your marker horizontally so the ink can settle between the fine point and brush tip.  Easy, right?!  And now on to our projects...

  Up first is our guest designer (and my talented sister in real life) Cindy Blekas.  She created these stunning cards using reinkers and water to create the backgrounds.  Please check out her blog here to find out exactly how she did it.

  And here is my card featuring the Reinker Background technique.  Like Cindy, I used my reinkers to create a background for my card, but instead of using water my technique features rubbing alcohol.  Please hop over to my blog here to find out how quick and easy this technique is.

  We hope we have given you some fun ideas for using reinkers and that you'll add some to your next order.  You'll be glad you did, especially when you need them for your ink pads, markers and to try these great techniques.  Have a fabulous weekend and thanks for stopping by each week!

* Debbie, Karla and Rachel *

Fun and fabulous techniques featuring stampin' ink refills

  Happy Friday and welcome back for another edition of Fabulous Friday here on the Sisters in Stamping blog!  This week we are featuring techniques that utilize stampin' ink refills.  These little bottles are great to keep on hand for re-inking your ink pads but did you know that they are useful for many stampin' techniques as well?!  And at $2.95 each they are a bargain!  Get them with free shipping this weekend only April 6-8... contact your demonstrator to place your order.

    First up we have this beautiful card designed by Rachel Yurkanin.  She used the Acetate Smoosh technique to create the fabulous backdrop for her trees from the Lovely as a Tree stamp set - please hop on over to her blog here to get all the details on her project.

  Next we have this fabulous card created by Karla Anders.  She used the Reverse Reinker Spread technique for her project and you can find all the information about it on her blog post here.

  I invited my team member Jennifer Rawlings to be a guest designer with us this week and she created this stunning card featuring three different techniques using ink refills.  Check out the blog post here for all the information about her card.

  I, like Rachel, chose the Acetate Smoosh technique for my project this week.  You will find a step-by-step tutorial on my blog post here for this card and technique featuring the Swallowtail stamp set from the Spring catalog.

  Thanks so much for visiting us today!  We hope you found some inspiration and will pull out your stampin' ink refills to try one or more of these techniques!  And if you don't have any ink refills we hope we've given you some reasons to purchase some.  Have a wonderful weekend!!

* Debbie, Karla and Rachel *

Fabulous Easter Cards for Friday

Welcome to this week's edition of Fabulous Friday! The Sisters are showcasing Easter Cards this week. My family lives far away and we send out Easter Cards most every year. First up is Jacque--

Really like this little bunny from the So Cute stamp set and the way the Designer Series Paper matches. Very fun! Here is the link to Jacque's blog so you can go check it out.

Next up is Debbie--

 Debbie was very creative using her BigShot! You can find out all of the punches and dies she used to to make her Bunny on her blog.

Here is Rachel's Easter card--

This little bird just begs for sweet Easter wishes! Find out more about Rachel's card and the technique she used here.

Lastly is my submission for this week--

This card was a swap at my Downline Meeting last week. Katie (http://www.stampladykatie.blogspot.com/) said she copied it from Jackie Topa's blog (http://jackietopa.typepad.com/addicted_to_stamping/). Isn't it the cutest??
   I have been missing the last couple of weeks because we are in the middle of a major bathroom remodel...not quite done yet, but we are very close! Bathroom #1 is new a porcelain tile floor, Bathroom #2 is a TOTAL gut, knocked down 2 walls (read lots of drywall dust), Bathroom #3 was just a few rough in pipes in the basement floor, now it's a real live bathroom with a toilet and everything--my customers will appreciate this. I will post some pictures when we are completely done.

Thank you for stopping by this week! The Sisters are taking next week off to spend time with our families.

Jacquie, Debbie, Rachel & Karla c(:

Shimmer Abounds

This week here at Sisters in Stamping we are focusing on shimmer paint and techniques using it.  Hope you have enjoyed our focus on techniques for the month of March.  It was a lot of fun to play with some items we have in our stashes that don't get used too much anymore because we have too many favorite things to use.

Don't forget Sale-a-bration ends next Thursday, March 31, 2011.  So contact your demonstrator today to place your Sale-a-bration order.

First up we have Debbie's beautiful card, using shimmer paint in a polished stone with a twist technique.  Be sure to head over to Debbie's blog for complete details on how you can remake this card for yourself.

Next up, we have Jacque's very pretty card that uses two different shimmer paints with a watercoloring technique.  Need more details, jump over to Jacque's blog for all the details.  You won't want to miss out on how to do use this technique.

And finally, we have Rachel's card that uses shimmer paint directly on an inked stamp.  For all the details go to Rachel's blog and she will explain it all.

Karla will be taking the next couple of weeks off, there is some remodeling going on at her house.

Thanks for stopping by this week.  We hope you have found a tecnhique or two that you can't wait to try on your own.  Come back next week, when we will have Birthday cards for you.  We can all use more birthday cards, right?

Have a great week!

Debbie, Jacque, Karla & Rachel

Emboss this... it's fabulous fun!

As we continue our focus on techniques this month here on the Sisters in Stamping blog, we are featuring those that employ heat embossing.  Ever since I was first introduced to stamping seven years ago at a Stampin' Up! Christmas card workshop I have been enamored with the idea of embossing powder, Versamark ink and a heat gun and the "wow" effect it creates for such little effort.  Let's take a look at the fabulous projects created for you this week by the Sisters...

Jacque Craig submitted this gorgeous card featuring the Eat Chocolate stamp set found in the Occasions mini catalog.  She embossed the tops of her chocolate bon bons... get more details on her blog here.

Here is the card from Rachel Yurkanin - I love the soft spring colors.  Her technique with the Bold Blossoms stamp set from the Occasions Mini catalog is "emboss resist" - you can find more details on her blog here.

Karla Anders created this great project featuring Iridescent Ice embossing powder.  You can get all the details of her project on her blog here.

And here is my contribution for the week - I used the cracked glass technique to create my faux cameo with the Easter Blossoms stamp set from the Occasions Mini catalog.  You will find full instructions on my blog post here.

Thanks for visiting with us today!  We hope you have a fabulous weekend and have a chance to give one of our featured embossing techniques a try.

* Jacque, Rachel, Karla and Debbie *