Saturday, April 16, 2011

OWH Blog Skip

Welcome to the blog skip.   If you arrived here from Julie's blog, you're in the right place.  If not, please start at the beginning.

  1.  OWH Stars and Stamps blog.
  2.  Barb at Paper Therapy Ponderings
  3.  Erica at Creative But Messy
  4.  Jan at Jan's Gone Stamping
  5.  Sherry at Bits of Cheer
  6.  Julie at Handmade by Julie
  7.  Velda at OldStamper Musings  - (You are here)
  8.  John at John VM's Cards
  9.  Steph and Robin at SR Cards
10.  Paula at Handmade by Paula
11.  Samantha at Expressions of a Craftaholic

Today we are sharing with you ways to use stickers wisely on our cards.  My recommendation is to choose good quality, appropriate stickers - not those made for kids to play with.  You can find these in stores that sell stamping and scrapbooking supplies or online.  Stampendous has some very nice stickers.  Just do a search and you can find lots of others.

Treat the stickers with respect and consider them part of your design, not an add-on to fill a blank space.  Some stickers are too lightweight to stand alone, so put them onto a piece of cardstock and cut them out.  If your sticker doesn't have adequate adhesive, add your own.

I chose a sticker from this sheet by K & Co.  I placed the circle sticker onto a piece of neutral cardstock.  I then cut it out with a circle Nestibility, using small pieces of painter's tape to keep it lined up.  I distressed the edges a bit, so the cardstock will blend with sticker.
I made the card, using layering and embossing.  The sentiment is stamped with a Hero Arts rubber stamp and Memento Bamboo Leaves ink.  Edges are distressed with some of the same ink.  I added the butterfly sticker, using foam mounting tape to make it more 'on top' of the other elements.  You may need to put the sticker on cardstock and cut it out for stability.
I added a liner to inside of card with smooth writing paper because card is textured.  I embellished  the liner with some stickers from a coordinating set of borders and corners by K & Co.
Finally, I added a small bow to soften the entire card.

Tip:  You should be able to click on any of the photos to make them large enough to see the details.
For this card, I choose these metallic corner stickers from Starform.  I just stamped an embossed gold sentiment in the middle of red cardstock and placed the stickers in the corners.

This background paper is an old one from my stash, when I was practicing techniques.  Save them, you never know when they will work for for another card design.  I had brayered Liquid Applique onto a card and heated it.  Didn't like result, so I sprayed on some black webbing.
I added some layering and ribbon for a completed card.
This card was made using metallic stickers.  The dragonfly is from Class A'Peels and the Happy Birthday is from Starform.  The background is from my stash and I'm not sure how I made it.  It's on black glossy paper and either Marvy Metallic markers or Lumiere paint were daubed on.  I have a lot of these old backgrounds that I've saved from my experiments over the years.

Now, to continue on the OWH Blog Skip, take a jump over to John's blog.

43 comments:

  1. So glad you saved the papers you made. They are lovely and perfect with your stickers.

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  2. Hi Velda, as always, your cards are lovely; my favorite is the first one!! I love how the embossing looks on that creamy textured card stock; pairing it with the green is a beautiful color combo. I also love the beautiful image and sentiment. Great work!

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  3. Gorgeous cards Velda. I love the embossing (1st) one the best but all are wonderful. TFS

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  4. I like the gold stickers... they really make the card pop! I love the first one also those stickers go well with the embossing!

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  5. these are all so pretty... especially the first one.. that's my favorite! thanks for sharing ~ Pam

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  6. The thank you card is so elegant. All of your cards are great. So glad I have time for a quick skip this morning.

    annjerryk at aol dot com

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  7. Beautiful cards. Like your photos showing what stickers for each card used. Great inspiration.

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  8. Thank you for some great tips, Velda. Your butterfly card is very pretty and I like to see what you've done with the gold stickers, too. I've got some of those in my stash! --Yvonne

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  9. Absolutely gorgeous cards. #1 is my fave. All the colors just blend so elegantly.
    Hummer Hugs,
    Misty
    http://deliteful-gifts.blogspot.com/
    hummingbird204 at comcast dot net

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  10. Velda, all of your cards are georgous!! And thank you for the great tips!

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  11. These are beautiful cards. I like how you've made background papers yourself.

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  12. Velda! Your cards are gorgeous! I especially like the first card and your tip to use painters tape! That will totally make some of my future cards a whole lot easier! Great use of stickers! You nailed this challenge!

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  13. wonderful cards! i especially like the gold embossed thank you card.

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  14. Great cards. I'm getting excited about using my stickers. Thanks for the inspiration.

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  15. I love how you save your "practice" papers because they have become some beautiful cards. There are no mistakes that way- just opportunities for later!

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  16. WOW! I thought they were all embossed! So lovely.

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  17. great job. i liked the textured stickers you chose, they really added a lot of great dimension to the cards. also, the paper you "experimented" with looked great. i'd say, "experiment successful"! love, andrea

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  18. love your background papers - fun to use something you created yourself.

    I forgot I had some of those Stampendous stickers also - thanks for reminding me.

    Wonderful cards.

    Barb Housner

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  19. What a nice variety of stickers and cards! How can you go wrong with the pretty K and Co and nesties?!! Thanks for sharing!!

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  20. Beautiful! Loved the first card with the butterflies and sentiment the best.

    mallisonr at aol dot com

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  21. The gold stickers are very elegant and delicate. Some of those don't like me since they are so delicate. I have a hard time getting them off the packaging without breaking some of the delicate work. Beautiful cards.

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  22. Beautiful cards Velda! I have a new respect for stickers after accepting the challenge to do this skip project.

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  23. I like the metallic corner stickers, it gives it a beautiful embossed look. TFS!

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  24. Beautiful cards. The first is my fav.

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  25. Beautiful cards, Velda! I love the one with the gold corners, what a neat way to use those! I'm going to try that :) Happy skipping!

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  26. Beautiful cards! I'm getting inspired by all this talent and great ideas! Gotta go dig out my stickers! ;)

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  27. Wonderful job Velda. What a great piece of advice about searching out high quality stickers. My local suppliers seem to carry stuff geared more towards kids or obviously meant for scrapbook work like titles. Seeing these really nice stickers you've used, I now think that may be part of the reason I struggle with them.

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  28. Fabulous cards--thanks for all the tips on using stickers.
    slrdowney at hotmail dot com

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  29. Velda, your post has some great advice! Treating the stickers as part of the design is exactly on target! And your cards are terrific!

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  30. Velda, these are wonderful cards! The background papers you chose really made the stickers NOT look like stickers. Great job!
    hiscreation2 at hotmail dot com

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  31. Great cards and some great advice!!! All of your cards are awesome!!!! I am loving all of your experimental paper!

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  32. Lovely cards I love your ideas!

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  33. Love these, Velda! Using Nesties with them is a great idea, and distressing the paper to match - brilliant!

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  34. Nice job on all three cards! The floral/butterfly one is my favorite.

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  35. These are such elegant cards with beautiful stickers. Will have to look for some now.
    Your creative background papers are wonderful.

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  36. Very elegant cards... I adore those 'peely' stickers. :)

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  37. Wow, you did an awesome job with those stickers. I love the gold stickers too, they really pop.

    Thanks for being in the skip!

    circlebenterprises.com

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