Method Monday - Using Versa Marker to Emboss Digital Images

Happy Holidays!!! I hope you are all enjoying this wonderful season!!!

I want to welcome you to this weeks Method Monday! I'm Raquel-- your hostess this week. Today I will be sharing with you a tutorial for Embossing with Digital Images.

Lets start with the supplies...

• Digital Image of your choice (I decided that I wanted to emboss Kimi's wings.)
• VersaMarker
• Embossing Powder
• Embossing Heat Tool

1. Use your VersaMarker and outline the area that you want to emboss.

2. After outlining with your VersaMarker, pour a generous amount of Embossing Powder over the area that was outlined.

3. After added the Embossing Powder, shake the excess amount off and clean any that may not be in the location that you want it.

4. After shaking off the excess powder, heat the area with the embossing powder. You will notice as you are heating that the powder will kindof melt. At that point you want to stop heating, to avoid over heating.

5. Repeat previous steps until you are satisfied with what you have Emboss and then you are finished and ready to put your project together, if you haven't already!!

How simple is that, and it's always such a great touch!!

I hope you enjoyed my simple tutorial!! I can’t wait to see your creations!! Please link back with your embossed creations in the comment section, I would love to see them.

Have a wonderful New Year..

Hugs,
Raquel

Blog Hop Winners!

Hello All,

Wasn't Piali's Monday project too cute? I love making new things and I have never seen one of those shipping holders before. I will definitely be giving that one a try.

I'm here to announce the winners of the Blog Hop *drumroll please*

The random winner chosen from the comments is Monique/Bloem!!!!! And the DT winner is Melissa!

You have 48 hours to claim your prize. Please contact me by email @ vvillasenoratinstylestampsdotcom (remember to take out the at and dot and replace with the symbols @ and .)

Have a great week! And a wonderful holiday.

Method Monday--- Shipping tag treat holder.

Hello Everyone!!!!

Welcome to Method Monday! I'm Piali-- your hostess this week. Today I’ll share with you a tutorial for quick and simple treat holder.

Lets start with the supplies..

2 Shipping tags..if you don’t have shipping tags ,

make your own… 2 5/8” x 5 ¼”.

Cardstock 6 ½” x 3”,

Patterned paper,

Hole punch/ crop-a-dile,

Eyelets,

Scor-tape,

Ribbon

An ISS image..I used JANA today.

Step 1:

Score 6.5” x 3” cardstock ½” on each long side

 Score at 2”and 4 1/2" on the short end.. I have marked with pencil for you all to see the score lines clearly.

Step:2

Cut out small triangles as shown in the picture...

Step:3

Cover the shipping tags  with patterned paper..ribbon as per your choice.

Then set the eyelets...

Step:4

Cut two pieces of patterned paper-- 2" x2" and adhere to the cardstock base...

Step :5

Now adhere the shipping tags to center tabs like this

Step:6

Adhere all the tabs and you have the treat holder almost ready....

Step:7

Adhere the colored  ISS image on the front and close it with a piece of ribbon..

You can fill the treat bag with candies ,gift cards or candle..any gifts you like.

I hope you enjoyed my simple tutorial ! I can’t wait to see your creations! Please link back with your treat holders, I would love to see them.

Have a wonderful holiday..

Hugs

Piali

Love & Romance Blog Hop

***Voting is now closed***

Welcome to the InStyle Stamps December blog hop! We're hopping a week early this month since the last Friday in December is Christmas, and we know you'll be much too busy opening presents to come play with us. This month's theme is Love & Romance, and the design team has created some lovely projects to inspire you. So what are you waiting for? Get hopping! You are going to start with Kim's blog this month, and when you have finished hopping through all of the dt blogs, be sure to come back here to enter to win a great prize and to help us decide which design team member also gets a prize.

Who created the most romantic project?

• 
  
  Angelique
• 
  
  Cyndi
• 
  
  Genevieve
• 
  
  Janelle
• 
  
  Jodi
• 
  
  Joy
• 
  
  Julie
• 
  
  Kim
• 
  
  Lana
• 
  
  Linda
• 
  
  Lysa
• 
  
  Margie
• 
  
  Mary
• 
  
  Maylee
• 
  
  Melissa
• 
  
  Piali
• 
  
  Raquel
• 
  
  Virginia

view results
Free vote poll

We will be giving away a Grand Prize to one lucky Blog Hop participant and also have a prize for one lucky design team member. To enter, hop through the design team’s blogs, (leaving a comment at each stop, of course!) and then come back here and vote for the designer who's project inspired you the most. Then, in order to be entered into the drawing to win the grand prize, leave your name with Mister Linky.

You have until 11:59pm EST on Sunday, December 20th to enter, and the winners will be announced on the InStyle Stamps blog on Monday.

*Please note that after voting, you will need to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the window that comes up to see the voting results.*

It's a new Over The Hump Day Blog Candy Giveaway today!

Are you ready for a new challenge? Great! Let's get to the theme for our OHDBCG.

But wait! We have a winner to announce!
We used Random.org to generate our winner, so without anymore waiting, it's

Juanita, Congratulations!

You have 48 hours to contact Virginia to claim your prize. Email her at vvillasenoratinstylestampsdotcom (make sure you remove the at and dot and replace with the @ and .) Remember those are 2 v's in the beginning of the email address.

For this month we're going to be challenged to create a New Year's themed card or project using an ISS image. All your holiday shopping is done, right? {wink} Well then, give yourself some time creating it up with a New Year's inspiration.

Once your project is complete (and you have 30 days to do this) add your name into Mr. Linky with a link to your specific project blog post before 11:59 pm, PST, January 12th, 2010. We will then announce the winner by 6:00 pm January 13th, 2009. The winner will have 48 hours to contact by email to claim their prize.

OHDBCG was started to give a little boost to get us over hump day. It occurs on the 2nd or 3rd (if there are 5) Wednesday of the month. That was a mouthful huh? I thought it would be a good idea to offer some monthly candy. Who doesn’t like candy?

The prize for this month’s candy are 3 Copic Markers and 2 Spica Glitter Pens.

Look at what our DT created:

Angelique

Jodi

Janelle

Lana

Margie

Mary

Julie

Piali



Cyndi



Geneviève

Click HERE for the Over-the-Hump-Day-Blog-Candy Giveaway!

Method Monday- Scraplings

Welcome to Method Monday! I'm Joy- and I'm your hostess this week. I am a paper hoarder....never throw any paper away that can be used, which is why I love the idea of scraplings. I make a lot of 4 x 4 cards, but don't want to throw away the paper that is cut off the side of the normal sized card....so SCRAPLINGS are a simple solution to use it! Here's how:

Materials Needed:
5 1/2 x 8 1/2 cardstock cardbase
Paper Cutter
Image(s)- I used Cocktail, a digi image from ISS
Designer Paper and Embellishments as desired


Step One

Step 2

Step 3


and VIOLA- an instant card set ready for any gift, any occasion- and best of all- you didn't waste any of your paper!


Thanks for stopping by!

Wednesday Challenge - Snow

Welcome to InStyle Stamps’ Wednesday Challenge. I’m so happy to be your host this week!! This week’s challenge theme is Snow. So use anything snowy on your card.  I hope you’ll join in on the fun.

For my card, I happened to use everything snowflakes for my snow theme and I used a new ISS image called Sarah. Isn't she just perfect for the snow theme!!!

We hope you will join us. One lucky participant will receive an InStyle Stamps digital image of their choice and a WINNER BADGE. If you have an ISS image please be sure to use it but it is not neccessary. Make sure you upload the direct link to your project by commenting at the end of this post by 12:00 p.m., PST, Tuesday, December 15th.

Can't wait to see all of your fabulous creations!
Thanks for stopping by...

Raquel

Method Monday: Treat bag holder

Hi Everyone!  I'm here to share how to make a simple treat bag holder that you can use for when you need something quick and easy!

First- the supplies
- 4"x12" piece of card stock
- Patterned paper
- Colored image (I used Jana)
- Scoring tool (i.e. Scorpal)
- Circle punch
- Cellophane bag
- Ribbon
- Treats!

With the 4"x12" card stock, score at 2", 6", and 8"


Fold along those score lines and add some adhesive on the 2" flap


Fold and adhere the flap to the back


Using a circle punch (I used a 3/4" but any size will work) punch a hole in the center


 Fill the cellophane bag with treats, twist the end & put it through the punched circle, and tie with ribbon


Decorate the front & you're done!



See wasn't that easy?  Hope you give it a try!!

Free Image giveaway

Check out the deets here: Paperyumness

Wednesday Challenge--- PUNCH IT OUT !

Hello Everyone!!

Welcome back for another Wednesday Challenge!

Before we get started I'd like to announce the winners from last weeks challenge...we had Piali's daughter pick a number and the winner is...drumroll please....CABIO. Congratulations!!!! Please email Virginia at vvillasenoratinstylestamps.com (those are 2 v's) within 48 hours to claim your prize. If not, another winner will be selected. Thanks to all that participated.

This week's challenge is PUNCH IT OUT!!!.

Make a winter card using at least three punches...any punch --border,shapes,corner....

I LOVE using punches for my projects . I used the cute SUZETTE digi image and five punches for my card today. 3" circle punch for the image, 3 1/4" scallop circle punch for the frame, corner punch, border punch and snowflake punch. So get your punches out....I hope you’ll join in on the fun.

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One lucky participant will receive an InStyle Stamps digital image of their choice and a WINNER BADGE . You can use any image....if you have ISS image we would like to see it on your card. Make sure you upload the direct link to your project by 12:00 p.m., PST, Tuesday, December 8th.

Can't wait to see all of your fabulous creations!

Thanks for stopping by..

Piali