Faux Silk Technique

The other night I made 4 very simple and quick cards. One was posted yesterday, today is one, and two more to follow.

This was my first time trying the faux silk technique. It was really easy. I colored my stamp with SU markers and stamped the image onto white wrapping tissue. Then I crumbled the tissue into a ball and straighted it out. I used a glue stick and rubbed glue onto some whisper white cardstock and then smoothed the tissue over the cardstock. I used scissors to easily trim off the tissue paper edges hanging over the cardstock. Super easy and quick!!

Eastern Blooms bag-a-lope

This is a bag that I made out of a large 9x12 envelope. You can fit a decent sized gift in this bag. I'll do a video tutorial tomorrow showing you how to do this. It's very easy :) And it's great because your gift bag can coordinate with your card and maybe even with the gift.

I used the Eastern Bloom stamp set and in color inks to decorate this bag. Don't you love the in colors? The greeting uses the Best Yet hostess set that we'll soon say goodbye to :( I love that set. :( But on the happier side, there will be new fun things to take its place!!

Make sure you come back tomorrow. I'll be making my bag with the in colors AND a sneak peek stamp set that will be available new Spring/Summer 09 catalog. It's a very cool set!!

See you tomorrow. Until then, happy stamping!!!