Rick Adkins : first frost stamp set

Hello and welcome to my blog; for this weeks CASE the catalog I am casing a card from the Feels Like Frost Suite in the Holiday Catalog. We went to friends from churches engagement party last night and we needed a gift card holder. So I created a fun gift card holder in their wedding colors. I just happened to ask last week at church what their wedding colors were so it worked out wonderfully. No, I didn't have any idea I was going to be making a gift card holder for them. LOL! Here's a look at the cute little gift card holder that I came up with.

And here's the card that I drew my inspiration from. My inspiration came from the small square card in the middle of this image. This image can be found on page 40 of the Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalog.

image by Stampin' Up!

Their colors are gray and navy so I just happened to have Night of Navy and Basic Gray cardstock.

Since the back side of the designer series paper has silver and white I pulled in those two colors as well with Smoky Slate and Whisper White to round everything out.

To make this card into a gift card holder wasn't two hard. I used one piece of cardstock. I cut it at 5 1/2 x 11 instead of the normal 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. I did this because I wanted a pocket on the inside for the gift card to sit in. And I didn't want to glue in another piece of cardstock when I could just cut it to size. Here's a look at the inside of the card.

I decorated the inside of the card and pocket with the left over designer series paper from the Feels like Frost DSP that I used on the front with a little Night of Navy mat. I also added some left over stamped images from the First Frost Stamp set that is also on the front of the card. I made a little notch in the pocket with my 1" circle punch so that the gift card would slide in and out easily.

To finish off the card and the presentation for the couple I stamped the flap of the envelope in the same colors that I used on the card. Night of Navy, Basic Gray and Smoky Slate. That finishes my card, I hope that you like it and that you may give this a try when you need a card for your next gift card. Thanks for dropping by I will see you again on Monday for another fun project.

Happy Stampin'

Rick Adkins

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First Frost Cling-Mount Stamp Set - 148913

Price: $22.00

Smoky Slate 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock - 131202

Price: $8.75

Night Of Navy 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock - 100867

Price: $8.75

Basic Gray 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock - 121044

Price: $8.75

Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock - 100730

Price: $9.75

Vellum 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock - 101856

Price: $10.00

Feels Like Frost Specialty 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper - 150444

Price: $14.50

Whisper White Medium Envelopes - 107301

Price: $7.50

Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad - 147110

Price: $7.50

Basic Gray Classic Stampin' Pad - 149165

Price: $7.50

Smoky Slate Classic Stampin' Pad - 147113

Price: $7.50

Frosted Bouquet Dies - 147895

Price: $33.00

1" (2.5 Cm) Circle Punch - 119868

Price: $13.00

Whisper White Solid Baker's Twine - 124262

Price: $3.50

Multipurpose Liquid Glue - 110755

Price: $4.00

Stampin' Dimensionals - 104430

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Hello and welcome to my blog; today I am going to share with you six cards that I used the new Basic Pattern Decorative Masks from the Holiday Catalog on. These are not for what you hear the term masks used for all the time. These are our stencils. I know you may have been like me when I heard the term I thought "Why in the world do I need something that they use to decorate walls and craft projects with!" But, I have found masks/stencils are a wonderful tool that allows you to create beautiful cards. I am going to share six cards with you today, where I used stencils and the same card sketch. You will notice that by changing up the stamps, colors, papers, and embellishments you can create totally different looks. Here's a look at all the cards.

Ink Blending:

One of the techniques you can do with masks/stencils is ink blending through them. It's probably one of the easiest and one of the quickest ways to these little plastic bits of goodness. And depending on how you use them you can create completely different looks. You can ink blend through them with many different ways. You can use a sponge brayer, sponge daubers, sponges, make up brushes, etc. Here's a look at all the cards where I used ink blending.

We are going to start with the Fall themed card. I used one of the decorative masks and ink blended two different colors through the masks. I used Daffodil Delight and Crushed Curry inks through the masks on a piece of Whisper White. I attached that to a 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 piece of Crumb Cake. I added two die cut and embossed leaves and stamped some of the pumpkins and I used wink of stella to color them. I stamped the sentiment on a piece of Cajun Craze.

For my Halloween card I used Gorgeous Grape and Granny Apple Green inks on a piece of whisper white. I colored the little monster form Boo to You using matching Stampin' Blends. If you noticed I let the colors fade out where they meet and transition in to each other.

For the Christmas card I used #Elfie and colored one of the little elves and cut him out and popped him on the card. I used old olive and garden green to stencil the back ground.

For the snow man card I used the same stencil three different times to create the tree background to give the look of distance. I used Balmy Blue, Coastal Cabana, and Night of Navy. I just shifted the stencil over and up each time to get the forest look. I stamped and colored the little snow man and added some of the snow accent puff paint to add some snow.

Pastes and More:

On the next two cards I used designer series paper and embossing pastes through the stencils to get the looks. When using the embossing pastes make sure that you have a pan of water close by so that you can place the stencils in quickly when done other wise it will dry in them and ruin your stencils. Don't ask me how I know that.

With this card I used the shimmery embossing paste through the tree stencil. I just wanted to create something that was sparkly and icy looking. Once dried I attached it to my card base and added the sentiment. Once of the best things about the mask backgrounds if you can get so many different looks depending on what you use.

For this card I used the Follow Your Art Designer Series Paper and the decorative masks. The embossing paste was tinted with ink refill and then I used vellum and the First Frost stamp set with white embossing to create the focal image. This helped to draw the eye to the focal images.

I hope that you liked this quick little post about the using the Basic Pattern Decorative Masks. If you need any of the supplies I've used today you can find them in the Shopping List below. I will see you tomorrow with another project and a video.

Happy Stampin'

Rick

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