Clear Dollar Stamps Sneak Peak – Yummy Cupcake 1

This was my favourite set to work with, I mean, who doesn’t love cupcakes! This set lets you build different types of cupcakes with different icing and different toppings!

For this card, I used the strawberry and I masked them until I had a whole bunch! YUM! For the ‘bowl’ I stamped the cupcake bottom on the back of the DP I used. To make it look like I used a stamp, I traced the edge with a Copic Multiliner. The strawberries were coloured with Copic Y21 as a base and R37 and 89. For the leaves I used G24 and 28.

This set will be available June 1st. The link on Lori’s blog, Clearly iStamp will be active then. Be sure to visit the rest of the DT who are previewing sets today.

Angela Thomas
Tricia Traxler
Cassie Trask
Linda Anderson
Laurie Wilson
Lori McCrosky
Linda Borneman
Nancy Grant
Katie Renz
Candy Fosta
Sarah Taylor
Trudy Sjolander
Wendy Hall
Tori Wild
Stacy Morgan
Sarah Gilreath
Tracy Johnson

Enjoy, Rebecca

RECIPE
Stamps: Yummy Cupcake
Ink: Memento black
Paper: Basic Grey DP – Nook and Pantry, Ivory CS-SU!, white CS-Taylored Expressions
Accessories: eyelet borderabilities, ivory satin picot ribbon-stash, foam dots-Jody Morrow, corner rounder-EK Success, pearls-Dollarama, circle Nestabilities

Clear Dollar Stamps Sneak Peak – Air Flair 2

Last but not least, my final project for May’s release.

Do you know we got my mom and dad a hot air balloon ride for their anniversary, 3 years ago, and they have scheduled it about 6 times but each time the weather or wind isn’t favourable? Whew! I hope they enjoy it when it finally happens.

I used a quilt design background  for the base of this card. I love the sentiment ‘make a wish’  and since the background was too busy to stamp directly so I decided my balloon is trailing a banner like planes do. I don’t have any ribbon to match so I coloured mine with a B72 Copic marker. Works great!

This set will be available May 1st. The link on Lori’s blog, Clearly iStamp will be active then. Be sure to visit the rest of the DT who are previewing sets today.

Angela Thomas
Tricia Traxler
Cassie Trask
Linda Anderson
Laurie Wilson
Lori McCrosky
Linda Borneman
Nancy Grant
Katie Renz
Candy Fosta
Sarah Taylor
Trudy Sjolander
Wendy Hall
Tori Wild
Stacy Morgan
Sarah Gilreath
Tracy Johnson

Enjoy, Rebecca

RECIPE
Stamps: Air Flair – Clear Dollar Stamps
Ink: Versamark, baja, not quite navy-SU!
Paper: Basic Grey-Two Scoops DP, baja, another blue )I can’t remember the name), ivory CS-SU!
Accessories: eyelet-SU!, white taffeta ribbon-SU!, foam dots-Jody Morrow

Clear Dollar Stamps Sneak Peak – Air Flair

What a fun set! I really enjoyed working with this it – OK, I know I’ve said that about all of them but I really love Clear Dollar Stamps!

This is a card organizer file, made from a Timeless Template from PTI. I used the dandelion image on the base CS in watermark ink. The main body is stamped directly on the DP so the legs would show up without having to cut out those skinny lines! I stamped and cut the wings out, glittered them and adhered the wings to the stamped body. Then I stamped another body on CS and popped it up on dimensionals. The wings are glittered and the body was painted with Lumiere, a pearlescent paint.

This set will be available May 1st. The link on Lori’s blog, Clearly iStamp will be active then. Be sure to visit the rest of the DT who are previewing sets today.

Angela Thomas
Tricia Traxler
Cassie Trask
Linda Anderson
Laurie Wilson
Lori McCrosky
Linda Borneman
Nancy Grant
Katie Renz
Candy Fosta
Sarah Taylor
Trudy Sjolander
Wendy Hall
Tori Wild
Stacy Morgan
Sarah Gilreath
Tracy Johnson

Enjoy, Rebecca

RECIPE
Stamps: Air Flair – Clear Dollar Stamps
Ink: Versamark Champagne, Versamark, amethyst-SU!
Paper: Basic Grey-LilyKate DP, amethyst, celery, bashful blue CS-SU!
Accessories: Lumiere, white opal Stickles, foam dots-Jody Morrow, brads-stash, celery dotted ribbon-stash, scalloped punch-SU!

Clear Dollar Stamps Sneak Peak-Yummy Cupcake 2

This was my favourite card of mine for the May release. I love shabby chic but I have to work at it so I don’t do it as much as I’d like.

The cupcake itself is layered with the bow popped up on foam dots. The ‘icing’ is Liquid Pearls. The poofy bow is made from seam binding tape that I wet and bundled into an elastic. After a few minutes, unbundle the tape and allow it to dry all messy. I sponged some ink on it so it is slightly pink in places.

This set will be available May 1st. The link on Lori’s blog, Clearly iStamp will be active then. Be sure to visit the rest of the DT who are previewing sets today.

Angela Thomas
Tricia Traxler
Cassie Trask
Linda Anderson
Laurie Wilson
Lori McCrosky
Linda Borneman
Nancy Grant
Katie Renz
Candy Fosta
Sarah Taylor
Trudy Sjolander
Wendy Hall
Tori Wild
Stacy Morgan
Sarah Gilreath
Tracy Johnson

Enjoy, Rebecca

RECIPE
Stamps: Yummy Cupcake – Clear Dollar Stamps
Ink: memento black, pretty in pink, celery-SU!
Paper: Basic Grey-Porcelain DP, white CS-Taylored Expressions
Accessories: seam tape-stash, flower-Scrapbook Sally, punch-MS, foam tape-Jody Morrow, pearls-Dollarama, Liquid Pearls, button-PTI, Labels 8 Nestabilities

Clear Dollar Stamps Sneak Peak – Tag Blessings 2

I tried very hard with my sneak peaks to make cards or projects that were all quite different in style to show that CDS has stamps that work no matter what style you work in. Wait until you see my Shabby Chic card tomorrow!

I have loved this paper for ages but with such a busy, large print, it takes some work to find a layout that doesn’t get overwhelmed by the paper or covers so much of the paper that you can’t see the print anymore. I thought the circle designs in the paper worked PERFECTLY with the circle designs in Tag Blessings! See the white flower just above and to the right of the circle? Looks a lot like the flowers in the circle! And this sentiment really covers so many possible uses. Sympathy, Thinking of you, Get Well are all covered by this one sentiment.

I stitched around the edge of the card and as usual, I didn’t decide to do so until the card was put together so the stitching shows inside. I used green bobbin thread so it isn’t too bad. Then I really wished I had pierced along the outer edge of the stamped circle image to echo the dots in the black circle of the DP but I decided against it, figuring there were enough holes inside the card front already!

It is a bit hard to see but the velvet ribbon is tucked a couple times for added texture. I airbrushed the pearls and flower to match. The leaf is velvety, it is sold in a long chain like ribbon! The sentiment was first stamped on the DP and I also stamped it on the circle, deliberately leaving some of the sentiment off the edge, it does fit if you turn the circle more but I wanted the flowers to be pointing the same way as the flower in the DP. Then I carefully aligned the two when adhering my circle.

This set will be available June 1st. The link on Lori’s blog, Clearly iStamp will be active then. Be sure to visit the rest of the DT who are previewing sets today.

Angela Thomas
Tricia Traxler
Cassie Trask
Linda Anderson
Laurie Wilson
Lori McCrosky
Linda Borneman
Nancy Grant
Katie Renz
Candy Fosta
Sarah Taylor
Trudy Sjolander
Wendy Hall
Tori Wild
Stacy Morgan
Sarah Gilreath
Tracy Johnson

Enjoy, Rebecca

RECIPE
Stamps: Tag Blessing – Clear Dollar Stamps
Ink: cocoa-SU!, Memento black
Paper: celery, white-SU!, DP-Scarlet Letter Basic Grey
Accessories: velvet ribbon-Clear Dollar Stamps, thread, flower-Scrapbook Sally, brad-K&Co (I think), pearls-Dollarama, leaf-May Arts