Technique Squad Blog Hop – 3D

I’m fighting a cold so hopefully these photos make sense, I wasn’t sure I would get a project done.

This month for the Technique Squad Blog Hop, the theme is 3D. I don’t know about you but we take a family picture every year and I put it in an ornament…eventually. Now the places I pick up these ornaments don’t have boxes for said ornament so I usually use a 3 1/2″ square jewelry box. Unfortunately some years the ornament doesn’t fit so I need to make my own. Here is the box for this year. I didn’t want to do much decorating on the box because it will get get messed up in storage.

The top and bottom of the box go together exactly the same way, I just altered the dimensions. Overall this box is 3 1/2″ x 3 3/4″ x 1″ but I didn’t want the top to go all the way down so it has 3/4″ sides instead of 1″. If the lid doesn’t fit snug enough for you, decrease the length and width by 1/16″. If it’s too snug, increase the length and width by 1/16″. For the bottom, score each side at 1/4″, 1 1/4″, & 2 1/4″. For the top, score each side at 1/4″, 1″, & 1 3/4″.

Supplies:
Stamp Sets – Make a Difference (retired)
Die Cutting & Embossing – Stylish Shapes dies
Ink – Shaded Spruce stamp pad
Paper – Basic White, Night of Navy, Real Red, & Shaded Spruce cardstock
Tools – Paper Trimmer, Simply Scored, Bone Folder, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine
Adhesive – Stampin’ SEAL, liquid glue

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#stampinup #cardmaking #jpollockdesigns #handmadecards #handmadecard #GDPwinner #MakeADifferenceStampinUp #MakeADifferenceStampSet #MakeADifference

Technique Squad Blog Hop – Faux Patina

I LOVE this technique! This is another technique I haven’t tried before but I adore how it came out. I watched a few videos on this technique but my favorite was from Heather Cooper.

I started by inking the Quatrefoil Tile embossing folder with Crumb Cake ink using a brayer for one piece of Very Vanilla and straight with the stamp pad with another piece. I liked the evenness of the brayer piece so I used that as my starting point.

Next I used a blending brush and Soft Succulent ink to unevenly cover the background then I added Evening Evergreen the same way in fewer places. (Of Course I didn’t take photos of these steps.)

After that, I lightly dabbed my Versamark ink pad over the paper and used copper embossing powder. I brushed off some of the embossing powder to make it uneven and not show the stamp pad edges.

After embossing, I added a bit more colored ink then more versamark and copper embossing powder until I liked how it looked.

For the second card, I started with just an emobssed piece of Very Vanilla and no Crumb Cake ink. I was a bit more heavy handed with the ink and embossing powder but I like it too.

I still have the other inked and embossed piece of cardstock so I get to do this again. 🙂

FYI – I used liquid glue on my Stampin’ Dimensionals because nothing wants to stick to the embossing powder.

Blog Hop Roll
JoAnn Pollock (you are here)
Carole Garrison
Vy Tran

Supplies:
Stamp Sets – Blessings of Home, Celebrating You
Die Cutting & Embossing – Potted Succulents dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Quatrefoil Tile embossing folder
Ink – Crumb Cake, Evening Evergreen, Soft Succulent, Versamark stamp pads
Paper – Soft Succulent, Very Vanilla Thick, & Very Vanilla cardstock, Copper Foil Sheets
Accents & Embellishments – Brushed Brass Butterflies, Early Espresso Faux Suede Trim
Coloring Tools – Blending Brushes, copper embossing powder
Tools – Paper Trimmer, Simply Scored, Bone Folder, Stamparatus, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine, Take Your Pick, Heat tool
Adhesive – Stampin’ SEAL, Stampin’ Dimensionals, liquid glue
Other – brayer

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#stampinup #cardmaking #jpollockdesigns #handmadecards #handmadecard #GDPwinner #BlessingsOfHomeStampinUp #BlessingsOfHomeStampSet #BlessingsOfHome #CelebratingYouStampinUp #CelebratingYouStampSet #CelebratingYou

Technique Squad Blog Hop – Pop Up Cards

This month for the Technique Squad Blog Hop we are doing Pop-Up cards. I’ve done a few variations of pop-up cards in the past, but this is the first time I’ve tried this version. I like that it can lay flat, and the pop up still works.

The front of the card was inspired by Hand Stamped Sentiments Challenge 395.

Blog Hop Roll
JoAnn Pollock (you are here)
Vy Tran
Carole Garrison

Supplies:
Stamp Sets – Kindest Gnomes
Die Cutting & Embossing – Floral Gallery dies, Gnome dies, Stitched Rectangle dies, Timeworn Type 3D embossing folder
Ink – Pool Party stamp pad, Memento Tuxedo Black stamp pad
Paper – Storybook Gnomes Designer Series Paper, Basic White Thick cardstock, Pacific Point cardstock, Pool Party cardstock
Coloring Tools – Calypso Coral, Crumb Cake, Ivory, Night of Navy, Pale Papaya, Pool Party, Smoky Slate, & Soft Suede Stampin’ Blends
Tools – Paper Trimmer, Simply Scored, Bone Folder, Stamparatus, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine
Adhesive – Stampin’ SEAL, liquid glue, Tear & Tape

Click here for links.

#stampinup #cardmaking #jpollockdesigns #handmadecards #handmadecard #GDPwinner #KindestGnomesStampinUp #KindestGnomesStampSet #KindestGnomes

Technique Squad Blog Hop – Paper Piecing

Today’s theme for the Technique Squad Blog Hop is Paper Piecing. I haven’t done this in a while because, frankly, I don’t like to fussy cut but I really like how this turned out. It’s a bonus that I like it because this is the only current stamp set I have that I could see working with paper piecing.

I started by stamping the woman on a piece of white cardstock, then I stamped on a post-it note and cut it out to create a mask. (You may not want to include the empty part of the wine glass on the mask, ask me how I know.) Using the blending brushes, I colored the background in Balmy Blue, Pool Party, and Night of Navy. (I wish I’d picked out my background paper before inking so I could match it but my idea was that far along when I started.)

Her arms are colored with the Ivory Stampin’ Blend and the wine with light Pale Papaya (the top is with light Balmy Blue and this is why you don’t want to include it in your mask).

For the hat and dress, I stamped the image on a piece of patterned paper, fussy cut the hat and dress, then used liquid glue to add them to my colored image.

Blog Hop
JoAnn Pollock (you are here)
Carole Garrison
Kristie Wilson
Mackenzie Grimme
Vickie Littlewood

Supplies:
Stamp Sets – Celebrating You, In the Moment
Die Cutting & Embossing – Layering Circles dies, Stitched Rectangle dies
Ink – Balmy Blue stamp pad, Garden Green stamp pad, Pool Party stamp pad, Night of Navy stamp pad, Memento Tuxedo Black stamp pad
Paper – New Horizons 6″x6″ Designer Series Paper, Heart & Home Designer Series Paper, Basic White cardstock, Garden Green cardstock
Accents & Embellishments – Elegant Faceted gems, Denim 3/8″ ribbon
Coloring Tools – Blending Brushes, Light Balmy Blue Stampin’ Blend, Ivory Stampin’ Blend, Light Pale Papaya Stampin’ Blend, Dark Soft Suede Stampin’ Blend, Color Lifter
Tools – Paper Trimmer, Simply Scored, Bone Folder, Stamparatus, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine, Take Your Pick
Adhesive – Stampin’ SEAL, Stampin’ Dimensionals, liquid glue, Tear & Tape

Click here for links.

#stampinup #cardmaking #jpollockdesigns #handmadecards #handmadecard #GDPwinner #CelebratingYouStampinUp #CelebratingYouStampSet #CelebratingYou #InTheMomentStampinUp #InTheMomentStampSet #InTheMoment

Technique Squad Blog Hop – Diorama Card

I’m in love with the card I created for this technique! I watched Sam Calcott’s video on Mixed Up Craft for my inspiration for the specifics of creating a diorama card and I knew I wanted to use the Grassy Grove stamps with Grove dies to create it.

1. Start with a 4 1/8″ x 10 1/2″ piece of cardstock and score at 1/2″, 1″, 1 1/2″, 2″, & 2 1/2″ from each side. (Below is my template.)

2. After scoring and folding, I added a piece of the beautiful New Horizons DSP for the background.

3. Next I used the grove die on a piece of 4 1/8″ x 5 3/8″ Evening Evergreen cardstock. Using liquid glue on the very edges, I attached it to the first of the folds. Fold the edges flat to make sure it doesn’t bow. (It may anyway.)

4. Using Evening Evergreen ink, stamp the grassy mound on a 2″ x 5 3/8″ pieced of Garden Green cardstock. Use the edge die to cut the border and attach to the next fold using a little liquid glue on the edges. Fold the edges flat to make sure it doesn’t bow. (It may anyway.)

5. Add a 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ piece of Garden Green cardstock to the front flap using a little liquid glue on the edges. Using Evening Evergreen ink, stamp the flower bunch on Garden Green cardstock and die cut. Add them to the cardstock strip with a little liquid glue along the bottom of the die cut.

6. Using the third largest Stitched Rectangles die, cut out a window from a piece of 4 1/8″ x 5 1/2″ piece of Garden Green cardstock. Attach it to the folded edges and the bottom cardstock piece. I used Early Espresso ink on Crumb Cake cardstock for the deer. The sentiment is stamped using Evening Evergreen ink on Garden Green cardstock then stamped using Versamark and embossed with clear embossing powder. I cut out the label using one of the ones from the Messages die.

7. For some reason I can’t explain, I hate just having a white panel on the back of a card like this so I added a 4 1/8″ x 11″ card base.

Blog Hop Roll
JoAnn Pollock (you are here)
Lorraine Tierney
Mackenzie Grimme

Supplies:
Stamp Sets – Grassy Grove, Very Versailles
Die Cutting & Embossing – Grove dies, Messages die, Stitched Rectangle dies
Ink – Early Espresso stamp pad, Evening Evergreen stamp pad, Versamark stamp pad
Paper – New Horizons 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper, Basic White cardstock, Crumb Cake cardstock, Evening Evergreen cardstock, Garden Green cardstock
Coloring tools – Clear embossing powder
Tools – Paper Trimmer, Simply Scored, Bone Folder, Stamparatus, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine, Heat tool
Adhesive – Stampin’ SEAL, Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals, liquid glue

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#stampinup #cardmaking #jpollockdesigns #handmadecards #handmadecard #GDPwinner #GrassyGroveStampinUp #GrassyGroveStampSet #GrassyGrove

Technique Squad Blog Hop – Faux Metal

This month’s blog hop technique is faux metal. Nicole is really good at picking things I’ve never done before. So, I watched a couple of videos and gave it a go.

The faux metal technique is creating an embossed piece that looks like metal. You cover a piece of paper with Versamark ink, sprinkle embossing powder over it, and use your heat tool to melt it. You need to do this at least 4 times and you want to use as small a piece of paper as you can. After you get the fourth layer melted, put your embossing on a heat resistance surface and keep heating it so that you can see the embossing flowing. At this point you place your pre-inked with Versamark stamp into the liquidish embossing powder. Leave the stamp there until the embossing powder cools, this shouldn’t take more than a minute or two. Pull your stamp up and you should see an embossed image. If it doesn’t work the first time, you can always add another layer of embossing powder.

This technique made me think vintage so I used Very Vanilla cardstock, copper embossing powder, and Cinnamon Cider ink to stamp and distress.

• JoAnn Pollock (you are here)
• Mackenzie Grimme
• Victoria Littlewood

Supplies:
Stamp Sets – Very Versailles, Calming Camellia Sale-a-bration stamp set
Die Cutting & Embossing – Layering Circles dies
Punches – Banners Pick-a-punch
Ink – Cinnamon Cider stamp pad, Versamark stamp pad
Paper – Very Vanilla cardstock, Very Vanilla Thick cardstock
Accents & Embellishments – Early Espresso Faux Suede Trim, Very Vanilla Scalloped Lace Trim
Coloring Tools – Blending Brush, copper embossing powder
Tools – Paper Trimmer, Simply Scored, Bone Folder, Stamparatus, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine,Heat tool
Adhesive – Stampin’ SEAL, Stampin’ Dimensionals, liquid glue

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#stampinup #cardmaking #jpollockdesigns #handmadecards #handmadecard #GDPwinner #VeryVersaillesStampinUp #VeryVersaillesStampSet #VeryVersailles

Technique Squad Blog Hop

This month’s technique is Creator’s Choice and I chose to do the Whitewash Technique. I saw a card by Lisa Freeman on Facebook and I LOVED IT! I decided that was the technique I wanted to do.

I pulled out my Shaded Summer stamp set to make a background with this technique. (It doesn’t matter that it’s January in Minnesota, I can make a summer card.) I stamped on Magenta Madness cardstock with Magenta Madness ink and then I used my Whisper White ink and a Blender Pen to fill in the flowers. I intended to add some gems to the card but I forgot, I really love how it turned out anyway. The layout was inspired by Inspire.Create.Challenge 108.

First I stamped on Magenta Madness cardstock with Magenta Madness ink.

I colored in the flowers with Whisper White ink using a Blender pen.

Blog Hop Roll
Nicole Mahler
Donna Lester
Karen Egan
Vickie Littlewood
JoAnn Pollock (you are here)
Mackenzie Grimme
Amy Rudd
Carole Garrison
Vy Tran
Kristie Strum

Supplies:
Stamp Sets – Shaded Summer
Punches – Banners Pick-a-punch
Ink – Magenta Madness stamp pad, Whisper White stamp pad
Paper – Basic White cardstock, Magenta Madness cardstock, Expressions In Ink Specialty Designer Series Paper
Coloring Tools – Blender pens
Tools – Paper Trimmer, Simply Scored, Bone Folder
Adhesive – Stampin’ SEAL, Stampin’ Dimensionals

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#stampinup #cardmaking #jpollockdesigns #handmadecards #handmadecard #GDPwinner #ShadedSummerStampinUp #ShadedSummerStampSet #ShadedSummer

Technique Squad Blog Hop – Northern Lights

I find this a challenging and messy technique. My fingers are covered in Night of Navy ink. Last month I did this technique using blending brushes, but this time I’m using sponges (I prefer the control I can get with sponges). I really like using the Shimmery White cardstock for blending because the coating on it helps and the shimmer looks like stars.

I watch LeeAnn Greff’s video for my inspiration to create the background today. I like how she suggested adding the Night of Navy ink between the other colors. My background was created using Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green, Bermuda Bay, Rich Razzleberry, and Night of Navy inks. For the second card, I used Mossy Meadow ink to darken the trees more.

I also included a picture of my cardstock before I added the Night of Navy ink.

My before adding the night of navy ink

This is the type of sponge I use. I cut it into 6 pieces and attach a piece of cardstock with label. You can find them at your local craft store.

Nicole Mahler
JoAnn Pollock (you are here)
Carole Garrison
Mackenzie Grimme

Supplies:
Stamp Sets – Art Gallery
Die Cutting & Embossing – Cabin dies
Ink – Bermuda Bay stamp pad, Daffodil Delight stamp pad, Granny Apple Green stamp pad, Rich Razzleberry stamp pad, Mossy Meadow stamp pad, Night of Navy stamp pad, Versamark stamp pad
Paper – Mossy Meadow cardstock, Night of Navy cardstock, Shimmery White cardstock
Coloring Tools – silver embossing powder, sponges.
Tools – Paper Trimmer, Simply Scored, Stamparatus, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine, Heat tool
Adhesive – Stampin’ SEAL, liquid glue

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#stampinup #cardmaking #jpollockdesigns #handmadecards #handmadecard #GDPwinner #PeacefulCabinStampinUp #PeacefulCabinStampSet #PeacefulCabin

Technique Squad Blog Hop – Hinge Step Stamping

When the group chose the hinge step stamping technique, I knew exactly what I was going to do. I used the border stamp from the Frosted Gingerbread stamp set and created a background. I stamped the border using Whisper White ink on kraft cardstock. (The kraft was a little challenging to work with because it wanted to roll.) I stepped one hinge at a time down my Stamparatus and then embossed with white embossing powder. Then I rotated the border stamp and placed it in-between the previous stamped images and did the same thing. My background was inspired by one of the patterned papers in the coordinating pack, I really liked how the card turned out.

JoAnn Pollock (you are here)
Carole Garrison
Kristie Strum
Mackenzie Grimme

Supplies:
Stamp Sets – Frosted Gingerbread
Die Cutting & Embossing – Gingerbread dies, Hippo & Friends dies
Ink – Whisper White stamp pad
Paper – kraft cardstock, Real Red cardstock, Basic White cardstock
Accents & Embellishments – Real Red Double-Stitched Satin ribbon
Coloring Tools – Clear Wink of Stella
Tools – Paper Trimmer, Simply Scored, Stamparatus, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine, Heat tool
Adhesive – Stampin’ SEAL, Stampin’ Dimensionals, liquid glue, mini glue dots

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#stampinup #cardmaking #jpollockdesigns #handmadecards #handmadecard #GDPwinner #FrostedGingerbreadStampinUp #FrostedGingerbreadStampSet #FrostedGingerbread

Technique Squad July Blog Hop

This month’s theme is alcohol ink techniques. Um…well…this is not my best technique but I tried. I made a card out of the best piece I ended up with. From my experience, vellum works much better than window sheets but that’s the only tip I really have. 🙂 UPDATE: I’ve been informed that a higher percentage would work better, I was using 70%. I will have to try again.

I used the Magenta Madness dark Stampin’ Blend, rubbing alcohol, an old brush, and a can of compressed air to create these. I then added Tombow multipurpose liquid glue (let it dry because it stays sticky) and added Gilded Leaves gold leafing on the glue. I used Tear & Tape to attach the vellum behind the embossed white cardstock and popped it up on dimensionals.

Nicole Mahler
JoAnn Pollock
Tracy St-Louis
Vy Tran
Carole Garrison
Kristie Strum
Mackenzie Grimme
Rachel Tessman
Amy Rudd

Supplies:
Stamp Sets – Shaded Summer
Die Cutting & Embossing – Brilliant Wings dies, Potted Succulents dies, Stitched Rectangle dies, Pretty Flowers embossing folder
Ink – Magenta Madness Stamp pad, Magenta Madness Dark Stampin’ Blend
Paper – Basic White Thick cardstock, Vellum cardstock, Window Sheets
Accents & Embellishments – Opal Rounds, Gilded Leafing
Coloring Tools – old brush, rubbing alcohol, canned air
Tools – Paper Trimmer, Simply Scored, Stamparatus, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine, Take Your Pick, Heat tool
Adhesive – Stampin’ SEAL, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Tear & Tape, liquid glue

Click here for links.

#stampinup #cardmaking #jpollockdesigns #handmadecards #handmadecard #GDPwinner #ShadedSummerStampinUp #ShadedSummerStampSet #ShadedSummer