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:

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings!  Tina

SIP Challenge #15 Color Challenge

Good Morning!  Have you ever looked at colors in a color challenge and wondered why you hadn't thought of those colors together?  That's exactly what I did when I saw the banner for this week's SIP Color Challenge!

How gorgeous are these together, right??  There are so many possibilies but I decided to pull out my favorite sentiment set, Feel Goods, and do a simple Reverse Smooshing background.

Reverse Smooshing.. yep, that's what I said.  How fun is that??  I saw such a fun quick tip tutorial on it on an email from Unity Stamp Co.  The quick tip came from Heather Hoffman.   If you don't follow Heather, I can tell you right now, she is Fabulous!!  



Now, I've Smooshing for a while now but I had never Reverse Smooshed... well now I'm hooked. lol So here's how it's done... I started with a 4 x 5 1/4" piece of watercolor paper.  I heat embossed my sentiment in black embossing powder first.  Then I laid a piece of wax paper over my card front and pushed my ink directly onto the wax paper (remember it will be reverse from where you are putting it now).  Once I had applied both colors of ink, in this case Daffodil Delight and Pool Party, I spritzed the card front a few times and then placed the wax paper ink side down onto it.  Rub your hands over the back of the wax paper to apply the ink and allow it to smoosh out.   That's it.  How easy is that!  I mounted it onto a Basic Black card base, added a few Pretty Pink Posh sequins and called this one done!



Here are the Stampin' Up! Products used:

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

Non Stampin' Up Products:

Pretty Pink Posh Sequins
Wax Paper

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Blessings,
Tina