OSAT Blog Hop Holidays

Hello and welcome to One Stamp At a Time's awesome monthly Blog Hop!  There are seriously so many Fabulous Bloggers along the way so make sure you hop along to get every bit of Holiday Inspiration!  If you have already been hopping you should have landed here from Lori Mueller's blog!  Isn't Lori amazing!  Since our theme this month is the Holidays, I decided to make a matching card and coaster set using one of my new favorite stamp sets, Wonderland. 

Here's a closer look at my card....

I started with a Soft Sky A2 card base.  My next layer was a 4" x 5 1/4" piece of Whisper White cardstock.  My top layer was watercolor paper that measured 3 3/4" x 5".  The reverse smooshing technique was used to create my background.  I smeared Soft Sky, Wisteria Wonder, and Pink Pirouette Ink on wax paper and sprayed both the wax paper and watercolor paper with water.  I pressed the inky side of the wax paper down onto the watercolor paper and smooshed the ink onto the paper with my fingers through the wax paper. After drying the paper with my heat tool, I stamped my trees in Mossy Meadow ink along the bottom of my watercolor paper alternating the height of the trees.  I then used my 1 3/4" punch to punch out a moon.  I punched the trees again on a scrap piece of Whisper White Cardstock and then aligned it under the watercolor paper and then glued the edges of it down on the back and then mounted it on the Whisper White Layer.  This gives the appearance that the bottom layer is stamped and aligned perfectly with the top layer but of course, now you know it isn't.  This technique is called Negative Spotlighting.  My sentiment was stamped in Mossy Meadow Ink onto Whisper White and backed with a layer of Soft Sky Cardstock. 

Here's the inside of my card...

The inside layer is a piece of 3 3/4" x 5" Whisper White Cardstock.  I stamped part of the trees in the lower right corner in Mossy Meadow.  The sentiment is from the
All Ye Faithful stamp set and is stamped in Mossy Meadow as well.  

Here's a little better look at one of my coasters....

Normally when I stamp on Tumbled Marble Tile Coasters, I only use Stazon Ink so that they don't have to be sealed.  Well this time, I broke my own rule.  I used a punched out circle of a post it note to mask my moon, and then used chalks in Lavender, Pink, and Blue around the mask to give the sky some color.  After removing the mask, the trees were stamped with Stazon Olive Green ink.  Since I used the chalks the tiles had to be sealed with a spray sealant to make them waterproof.  After sealing the tiles I added 1" self-stick felt circle pads to each of the corners on the bottom of each tile.

I hope you enjoyed my card and project and are ready to head over to Raquelle Clifton's blog to check out her amazing work!  Just click the next button and you'll be there!

Following is a list of all of the fabulous bloggers on our Hop in case you lose your way..

1. Ginger Pelfrey 

2. Elizabeth  

3. Diane Squires 

4. AJ Bodine 

5. Wynne Grob 

6.  Maria Willis 

7. Martie 

8. Renee Ondrajka 

9. Megan Thompson 

10. Kim Smith 

11. Marisa Gunn 

12.  Dena Rekow 

13.  Lori Mueller 

14.  Tina Riddle - That's Me!

15. Raquelle Clifton 

16. Jeanna Bohanon 

17. Andrea Tracy-Tucker 

Here's a list of the Stampin' Up products that I used:

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Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings!  Tina

SIP Challenge #18 Sketch Challenge

Good Morning!  I hope you are having a great week so far!  It was a laid back weekend for me which is always good so that I can rest up for the work week.  Of course, I did manage to get a few cards made!  Since it is Tuesday, that means time for another Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge and this week it's an awesome sketch!

There are so many possibilies with this sketch but the more I looked at it, the more I was convinced I needed that circle to be either a Sun or a Moon.  Since I am loving Daffodil Delight right now, I went with a sun!  lol    Here's what I ended up with...

Of course since I had trees stamped at the bottom of that layer,  I needed to turn the sketch upside down so that the sentiment was at the top.  I just adore my well loved Lovely as a Tree stamp set and it was perfect on this card.   I had recently seen a card on Pinterest that used this negative spotlighting technique thanks to my sweet friend, Shelley Glassco.  For a link to the Pin she sent me, click here  It's a super easy technique as once you stamp and then die cut the circle, you just stamp the same portion of the image on cardstock the same color as your base and line it up and then cut it to fit under your other stamped image. Once I had it lined up, I taped it down with Washi tape and then adhered it to my Chocolate Chip layer with Dimensionals.   It really gives the appearance that you had stamped the image on the base and the upper portion and that it just magically lined up.  Anyone that has stamped with me, knows that is an impossibility.  lol   I really wanted the grassline and hills on the tree line duplicated behind the trees so I used my Early Espresso Stampin' Write marker and just drew then in as close as possible to the hills on the stamp.  I'm actually pretty happy with how that turned out!  The Thank you sentiment on the banner was from my retired Definitely Dahlia stamp set.  I really liked the size and the boldness of the font on this one.  

On the inside layer, I added sentiment from another vintage set, Petite Pairs and then stamped some of the same trees on the lower left.  That was it for this card.  

Here are the current Stampin' Up! Items used:

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Thanks so much for stopping by!

Blessings,
Tina