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 #21 Clean & Simple Christmas Wonderland

Hello and Happy Tuesday!  Can you believe it's already November???  If you haven't started on your Christmas cards yet, you better get a move on it!  Christmas will be here before we know it!  So here's an opportunity for you to do just that.. Stamp, Ink, Paper has a Clean & Simple Christmas Challenge this week!  

Let me tell you...simple is easy for me but clean is not!  I absolutely love CAS cards but I tend to overthink them.  That being said, he's what I finally came up with.. Yes, I know it doesn't have a lot of white space but let's just pretend that the Pool Party Background DSP is White and we're good to go!  lol

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So if you know me at all, you'll know that I was dying to stamp these gorgeous Wonderalnd trees on Whisper White cardstock that have been sponged with a minimum of 3 or 4 ink colors.  I would have then added white embossed snow.  But that's not Clean or Simple.  So I ditched the sponges for this one and stamped the trees and sentiment in Mossy Meadow Ink directly onto Pool Party Background DSP.  I layered it on Whisper white, and then Pool Party onto an A2 Mossy Meadow Card Base.  I added three Silver Sequins and then walked away.. it was hard but I did it!  lol

The inside of my card was a layer of Pool Party that was stamped with the trees again on the lower left corner in Mossy Meadow.  I added the sentiment from Merry Everything in Mossy Meadow as well.  

Here are the Stampin' Up! Products used:

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Thanks so much for stopping by!

Blessings,
Tina