Collage Stamping Challenge

Greetings from a very wet, rainy Oregon!  It has been raining constantly for the past couple of days. Accumulating two inches in one day, and another inch is expected today.  I am hoping we get a slight reprieve soon....

Just Us Girls is hosting a challenge this week - #119 that requires a card made by collage stamping.  An example of collage stamping would be where you stamp a background and then stamp over it.  Here I applied that technique.  The cream paper I used is very thin, almost to the point it is like vellum, which I love the texture.  I used some swirl stamps for the background, using silver and gold ink.  Then over that I stamped the sentiment Happy Birthday.

What do you think? I really love the way this one turned out. It seemed to fit really well with the background papers.  And it was really fun to try a technique I have seen quite a bit for myself!

Supplies used:

Green patterned paper (DCWV); creme paper (scrap); border punch (Martha Stewart Crafts); swirl stamps (Inkadinkadoo); gold & silver ink (Studio G); adhesive gems (Recollections); adhesive (Elmer's).

Red, White, & Green Tag - Just Us Girls Challenge #111

One of the fun challenges I participated in this week was the Just Us Girls challenge - challenging a red, white, and green themed project.  Here is my take (and yes I was listening to Christmas music while making it!)

I made these two tags, they are slightly different but the same concept, with lots of layers, which must be my theme!  Over the white base, I layered red strips of paper that were border punched with designs, with a middle layer of velum.  Then on the upper portion I fixed punched leaves on the left side with three tiny gems for a makeshift "holly" look. Then I added a sentiment and ribbon to the punched portion on top.  Which one do you like?

Supplies used:

Red  card stock (Recollections); Green card stock (Recollections); Border punches (Martha Stewart Crafts & Recollections); Adhesive gems ( Recollections); Stamp & Ink (Studio G); Leaf punch (Martha Stewart Crafts); Ribbon (Offray); Adhesive (Elmer's).