Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Three for Tuesday Technique

Happy Tuesdee, Bloggers!

I made three cards in a real big hurry today. That's because I had a crazy day. Does this happen to you? But I've had this idea rolling around in my brain, so I acted on it.

This is something you can do super-duper quick that will make you look like a genius.

1. Stamp some art onto a piece of Ivory paper. My random scrap measured 4.25x9". My stamp choice was the cool medallion from the Tribal Art Nouveau Unmounted Stamps. (I have a really hard time spelling Nouveau. It's worse than trying to spell fuchsia.)


2. Place the stamped paper into a ScorePal with the plain side up. Score every half inch, horizontally and vertically.




3. Rub a CS® Ash ink pad directly onto the raised grid formed by the score lines. I like the Ash color for this . . .  it's a little less harsh than black. Do you have that Ash inkpad? If you don't . . . well, we can fix that. It's sort of like a soft charcoal gray, and it's pretty.


4. Trim the sheet of artwork into three 3x4.25" pieces. Matte with Black (3.25x4.5") and Red (4x5.25"); layer onto a Gray (5.5x8.5", folded) card. I attached the artwork with black photo mounting corners.



5. Add a stamped greeting. This sentiment is from the Tribal Collection Unmounted Stamps I experimented with placement of the same greeting on all three cards. I can't decide which spot I like best.




There you go. Five quick steps to three quite fabulous cards.

Enjoy!
Tricia

13 comments:

  1. Tricia, this was one of my favorite techniques you demoed on Craft TV weekly back in the day. Love the whole TILE look, I definitely need to play with this more, love everything about it! And your cards are gorgeous.

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    1. If anyone is interested, here is a link to the video Tricia did on TV Weekly.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu2wQHy6MiI

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  2. Tricia, love this - so sharp looking. Connie

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  3. Love this and how easy! Thanks Tricia! Mary S

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  4. Thanks, I need to make some quickie cards later this afternoon and this looks like it will fit the bill. I think I'll pull the big flower from Rhapsody.

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  5. Great... something else for me to CASE! I sure hope Keri isn't reading this post for she may be getting one of these from me in the Birthday Swap, LOL!

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  6. So easy and SO COOL! I love love love this and my brain is whirling with ideas of ther medallion-type stamps from CS that would work.... Rhapsody, Sorrento....oooh what about Xmas wreaths???.....

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  7. Anything quick and beautiful is always welcome in my book. Thank you for sharing this wonderful technique.

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  8. Just realized these will probably work with that last bit of yummy metallic red left over from the ALSB set, yes?

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  9. Simple, classy and elegant!

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  10. Very pretty! Sometimes I think that I really need to buy myself a scoring board.

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