I thought today when never arrive. I have been so excited to finally share some cards using one of my favorite stamp sets from the release (who am I kidding though, they're all my favorites). The set is called Sock Hop and it includes iconic pop culture images from the 50's with a playful twist.
Up first is a card focusing on the poodle skirt wearing dog, the Letterman sweater wearing cat and the little ice cream soda images from the set. I didn't have room to include a table when creating the stamps so I created my own table by using the tree trunk from Summer Picnic as my table base and tracing two oval shadow die-cuts with a sharpie from the Sunny Borders die set to form my table top. For my black and white tile I drew my own floor using this post by Sandy Allnock as inspiration.
I heat embossed a scalloped border in white on black cardstock using the Sunny Borders Stamps and Dies and then repeated the ice cream soda motif on some cardstock inked up with Spun Sugar Distress Ink.
Up next is a card focusing on the fun car from the set. I love that it can fit the critters in the car--They almost remind me of a set of kids riding along in a 1950's Pedal Car.
To set my scene I loosely sketched out my street in pencil, fussy cut it out, erased the pencil lines and then inked it up with Black Soot Distress ink. Before adhering it to my card I inked up a panel in Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn and then added some texture with my Copic Markers. When I was done I cut off a little wavy portion along the top to form my horizon and adhered it to my card base which had been inked up Tumbled Glass ink. To complete my scene I added trees to the background from our Happy Home stamp set.
Up next is a card spotlighting the cute jukebox from the set. I thought it would be fun to use the checkered blanket from our Summer Picnic set to form my black & white tiled floor. This is a great option if you're nervous drawing your own. I'm sure there is a great way to mask it off to repeat the design, but in the end I decided to stamp 4 of them and just cut them out (which is so easy to do with the straight lines) and then to adhere them on the card so that they formed one continuous design.
For my last card I used Silhouette's Circle Burst cutting file. I opened it up in the Silhouette software and then added a 4.25 x 5.5 rectangle over the top. I used the align commands to center them together and then trimmed it to leave just the areas where the two shapes overlapped. It left me with these rays which were so easy to quickly cut out and apply to my card panel.
I then stitched through the center of each ray with my sewing machine and covered up the messy intersection with a 3-1/2" wide circle cut from white cardstock. For my kitty image I added the sunglasses and guitar accessories from the set and one of the fun retro sentiments from the set.
Here's an official look at the new Sock Hop set with the coordinating dies. I spent quite a bit of time researching popular catch phrases from the decade and had a blast creating this one. I hope you like it. :)
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Hello there! Welcome to day 3 of our inspiration week! Today I am sharing ideas using our new Sweet Shoppe stamps and dies! :)
Up first is a card focusing on the soft serve ice cream cone from the set. I started by coloring one of the ice creams blue for fun which sparked the idea of coloring them in a rainbow of bright colors (your guess is as good as mine what flavors they are). To add a little personality I stamped a happy face from the set onto one of the cones and then added glossy accents to the ice cream portion of each cone.
For my card panel, I inked the bottom portion up with Tumbled Glass Distress ink using a jumbo dauber. I finished off my card with a sassy sentiment from the set.
For my next card I inked up my background with Picked Raspberry, Carved Pumpkin, Mustard Seed, Twisted Citron, Peacock Feathers and Broken Glass distress inks. I then used those same inks to stamp a trio of sprinkles to form a subtle repeated pattern on my background.
I cut a 3" circle from white cardstock and stamped my sentiment using a MISTI tool and coordinating colors of distress inks. By using the MISTI I could repeatedly ink up the individual letters until they stamped a solid image. I then colored each of my candies with Copic Markers, arranged them around my circle (popping some up with foam tape) and then coated the centers of each with glossy accents.
For my third card I lightly drew diagonal lines across my black cardstock panel 3/4" apart and then repeatedly stamped the word "sweet" using clear VersaMark ink. I then sprinkled a rainbow of different embossing powders starting with red and working my way to the opposite corner. If you don't have a lot of embossing powders on hand, you could also heat emboss in white and then use an alcohol based marker to color over the top.
For my sentiment I cut the word "sweet" using the Sweet Word die and colored it in coordinating colors with my Copic Markers. I then cut 4 more sweet words from black cardstock to layer under the rainbow one. It pops up the word and gives it a cool look when viewing it from an angle. I completed my card with some simple machine stitching along the top and bottom of my sentiment panel, adding a simple cupcake with rainbow sprinkles.
For my fourth card I completely switched gears and went with a Neapolitan ice cream color scheme. I adore pink and brown together, don't you? To give my cones some sparkle I colored over the ice cream portion with a Wink of Stella clear glitter pen and then went over the top with glossy accents which really magnifies the sparkle. For my pink scalloped edge, I stamped and die-cut the edge using our Sunny Borders Stamps and coordinating dies. I completed my card with a sentiment heat embossed in white and a sprinkling of some pale pink iridescent sequins.
For my last card I wanted to do a partial die-cut treatment of the sweet word die so I hung the bottom of the word off the edge of the cutting plates so that when I ran my sandwich through the machine it wouldn't cut along the bottom edge. I then took my craft knife and a ruler and trimmed along the edge to form a small strip below then word. I then trimmed one end off of using our Fishtail Banner dies.
The Sweet shoppe set comes with a stamp of 12 connected sprinkles that were designed to stamp on half the doughnut and then flip around and stamp on the second half of the doughnut. This allows for quick and easy decorating of the donuts, cupcakes and ice cream while still saving some space on the set for more images.
For the jelly filled doughnut, I cover the doughnut hole on my stamp with a bit of scotch tape, inked up my stamp, peeled off the tape and then stamped my image. I then was able to stamp the swirl of frosting in the center. I completed my card by giving the bottom edge a decorative scalloped edge with our Sunny Border dies.
This set can create 15 unique sentiments perfect for both card making and scrapbooking. The sprinkles and toppings in the set can also mix and match for endless customized cupcakes and donuts.
And here's a full look at the new Sweet Shoppe stamp set, coordinating dies and Sweet Word die.
Thanks much for swinging by today. I hope you enjoyed this look at our newest set. Please join us again tomorrow for the full reveal of our fourth stamp set, but before you go make sure to sign up for your chance to win a $20 gift certificate to our store using the rafflecopter below.
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