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I am so nice. Really. Today I took the time to create this video to show you how I did this:
And so the adventure began. For one thing, I needed software that would capture video as I worked on my computer. I found some free software called CamStudio that I downloaded and started to play with. My main problem was that the sound was choppy, so I ended up creating a separate recording using the Windows Sound Recorder as I was working in MDS. I then simply substituted the recording for the audio that recorded with the video and synced them up in Windows Movie Maker.
Easy peasy...well, no, this has taken me most of the day, so I wouldn't call it "easy peasy" at all! The things I do...just for you! Add to that that people kept coming downstairs just as I started over again, so that I would have to start over again, only to have yet another person come downstairs....sigh. The nice thing about it was that since it was in MDS, I didn't have to worry about making another set of materials to use and didn't waste any supplies at all!
Anyway, I think it came out pretty good and my voice actually sounds less demented than usual, so I'm fairly pleased with it. Here it is...take notes, there will be a test later:
I bet you thought I'd forgotten HOW to make a video, eh?
Well, I didn't. I just got so busy there for a while...you understand, don't you? I hope so!
Back on the last blog tour, so many people wanted to know how to do burnishing, that I thought that it would be great for my next video and so today I sat down and whipped this out. It was pretty easy, compared to other videos, because I had no problem keeping it under 9 minutes.
And so here it is, enjoy:
Here's the card that I made:
Ingredients: Stamps - Awash with Flower, Teeny Tiny Wishes; Paper - Sweet Pea DSP, So Saffron, Rose Red, Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White; Ink - So Saffron, Rose Red, Regal Rose, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, Basic Brown; Other- Old Olive 5/8" Satin Ribbon, gold brads, sponge daubers, Scallop Trim punch, Curly Label punch, dimensionals, Chocolate Chip marker, gold brads.
Isn't it GOJUS?!?!? (YILM!)
For those of you who can't watch the video, to burnish you simply use sponge daubers to rub the ink gently on the cardstock.
Hope you enjoy this technique...time to go stamp some more! Ta!
I must be getting better at this, 'cause I was able to crank this out fairly quickly, once I got down to it!
Here it is!
Now, wasn't that fun? Here's the necessary materials:
1 - 4 1/4" x 11" piece of cardstock
4 - 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" pieces of vellum cardstock.
Here's the completed version of the one I was working on in the video:
Ingredients: Stamps - Holy Triptych, Sanded; Paper - More Mustard, Vellum Cardstock; Ink - Basic Black; Markers - Elegant Eggplant, Rose Red, More Mustard, So Saffron, Handsom Hunter, Always Artichoke, Brocade Blue, Blush Blossom, Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Bordering Blue, Chocolate Chip, creamy Caramel, Close to Cocoa; Other- Movers & Shapers Die, Eyelet Border punch, sponge wedges, sticky strip.
GOJUS!!! (YILM!)
I really love this project and have a half a dozen more ideas for diffrent votive covers. These would make great teacher gifts and you don't have to limit yourself to Christmas! If you missed seeing the first two covers I made they are in this post.
So get out there and make your own and link back up here for everyone to see! Can't wait to see what you make! Ta!
Wow! Wasn't that a great blog tour yesterday! And, as promised, I am here to toot.
NOT that kind of toot! (We had enough of that the other day, anyway, didn't we?)
And not that kind of toot!
I'm talking about my TUTORIAL...which us papercrafting types call "toots" because we are too lazy to say tutorial all the time!
Well, enough tooting my own horn! (had to slip one more in there for ya!)
Here it is!
As you can see, it is supremely simple, yet incredibly GOJUS. I am SO STINKIN' CLEVER!!! (YILM!) For those who can't see video, here are the basics:
Stamp woodgrain background on Very Vanilla cardstock using Soft Suede.
Stamp woodgrain background again using Sahara Sand, making sure that the cardstock is oriented in the same position as the first time, but NOT trying to line up the image with the previous stamping...it should be close, but not in the same place.
Rub inks of choice on the cardstock using a sponge.
Stamp woodgrain background yet AGAIN using Very Vanilla craft ink, again making sure the cardstock is oriented in the same position, but NOT trying to stamp right on top of previous images.
Different combinations:
Golden Oak - More Mustard and Soft Suede.
Cherry or Mahogony - Bravo Burgundy, Soft Sued, Dusty Durango
Walnut or Pine - Soft Suede, Creamy Caramel, Sahara Sand
Ready to see some GOJUS creations? Here's a twist on the Woodgrain background; I've used my famous technique, Joseph's Coat Iniside-Out with this one.
Ingredients: Stamps - Medallion, Sincere Salutations, Woodgrain; Paper - Soft Suede, Dusty Durango, Real Red, More Mustard, Very Vanilla; Ink - Versamark, Soft Suede, Sahara Sand, Dusty Durango, More Mustard, Real Red, Rich Razzleberry, Very Vanilla Craft; Other - Large Oval Punch, Antique Brass Jumbo Eyelets, Rich Razzleberry dotted grosgrain, clear EP, dimensionals, sponge wedges
Transcendent, isn't it? (YILM!)
And with this one, I created a totally new look, which I'm calling "Inlaid Veneer":
Ingredients: Stamps - Inspired by Nature, Oval All, Woodgrain; Paper - Very Vanilla, More Mustard, Soft Suede; Ink - Soft Suede, Sahara Sand, Very Vanilla Craft; Other - Large Oval Punch, Vanilla tafetta ribbon, gold brads, dimensionals, sponge wedges
With this technique, you use a piece of lighter stained Wonderful Woodgrain background and you dust down your cardstock with an Embossing Buddy to get rid of residual dampness. Then stamp with Versarmark, emboss with clear EP, then the fun begins. I rubbed more Soft Suede over the piece using a sponge wedge, depepening the color until I ended up with what looks like inlaid veneer on very fine furniture. It's BRILLIANTLY GOJUS, isn't it? (YILM!)
Hope you enjoyed the toot! Y'all come back now, hyere?
Well, I'm telling you, this was so much fun to make, LOL! At least, when I finally got it all recorded! Still some things to tweak as far as videos go, but I think you'll find this is an improvement over the last time.
I made one of these cards before and posted it here. I always meant to get around to making a tutorial or at least posting a template and it just never happened. Mea culpa.
But now I'm going to fix that and this video will make those of you wanting to find out how to make a cylinder card very, very happy! So, without further ado:
Here's a picture of the card:
Ingredients: Stamps - Circle Circus, Happy Everything, Tart & Tangy, Itty Bitty Backgrounds; Paper - Bermuda Bay, Whisper White, Crushed Curry, Melon Mambo, Vellum Cardstock; Ink - Bermuda Bay, Basic Black, Crushed Curry, Melon Mambo , Versamark; Other - White EP, Trio Flower punch, 3/4" square punch (retired), black gingham ribbon, Vintage brads, paper piercing tool, sponge wedges, Basic Black marker, SU! Timeless Type Junior Alphabet Sissix dies
Isn't it GOJUS?!?!?! (YILM!) And as promised, here is the template for the mechanism:
The first thing you need to know is that it is far from perfect. And it's like the fourth or fifth whack at it I took. I kept screwing up, then when I finally had something I thought was worthy, it ended up being 18 minutes long! Too long for YouTube, apparently. So I had to pull the plug on that one, then start all over again.
I figured out the software that came with my camera, ArcSoft TotalMediaExtreme can do almost everything that Windows Movie Maker can, but one thing it doesn't do well is text. I set up text, saved my project and when I pulled it up again, the text had mysteriously traveled over to the right. And you couldn't drag it back! And there was no way to copy it and paste it. Phooey. And Windows MovieMaker does not like the format of the video that my camera takes, so I am forced to use the ArcSoft software.
I like the camera, it is not perfect, but it only seems to have the same kinds of flaws that other cameras of its kind do, so I'm happy with it.
So once I figured out that I would have to do text in Photoshop and put it in as a photo rather than using the text editor, everything went along swimmingly. And actually, it looks much better and I could put photos with the text in my screen, which I can't do with this ArcSoft software. But by the time I finally got done filming yet AGAIN, I decided that a few mistakes on my part would just add to the charm of the whole thing and forebore to start over once again. Then it was on to figuring out that the format I saved it in was ALL WRONG, so I had to reprocess the thing, reupload it, and let YouTube start processing it. Who knew all this stuff took FREAKIN' FOREVER!!!
So it is what it is and I hope you like it. I'm sure as I go along, they will get more professional. Though one thing will never change and that is my voice, which I have always hated. I sound so stinkin' DOOFY! Oh well.
So without further ado, here is the Marvelous Magical Marquee Tutorial video!
Well? Didja like it? Didja?
I hope so. Because this has consumed most of my time this weekend. Oh, what I do for you, my readers!
Here are some still photographs of the cards I showed at the end of the video, with all the ingredients::
Ingredients: Stamps - Just Buzzin' By, Sprinkles; Paper - Bashful Blue, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, Real Red; Ink - Basic Grey, Bashful Blue, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Summer Sun (marker), Pumpkin Pie (marker), Real Red (marker), Basic Black (marker), Blush Blossom (marker); Other - CircleScissors Plus, Scallop Circle Punch, 1 3/8" circle Punch, 1 3/8" square punch, sponge wedges, black gingham ribbon, Stampin Up! Backgrounds I Texturz plate
Here it is open:
STINKIN' CUTE!!! (YILM!)
Dimensions for the pieces again, for those who did not pause the video to write them down:
1 - 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" piece of cardstock for the base. score at 2 1/8" from each short side. 1 - 3" x 5 1/2" piece of cardstock for the "proscenium." 2 - 2" x 3 1/4" pieces of cardstock for the "marquee" or curtains score 1/2" from one short side
Ingredients: Stamps - Season of Simple Grace, Itty Bitty Backgrounds; Paper - Night of Navy, Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive, Ballet Blue, Whisper White; Ink - Night of Navy Craft ink, Versamark, Night of Navy Classic, Old Olive Classic, Summer Sun Classic, More Mustard Classic; Other - 1/4" white grosgrain, Wide Oval Punch, 1 3/4" circle punch, CircleScissors Plus, Clear EP, White EP, Silver brads, dimensionals.
And here it is open:
Dimensions for the basic card:
1 - 5" x 10" piece of cardstock for the base. score at 2 1/2" from each short side 1 - 3 1/2" x 5" piece of cardstock for the proscenium. 2 - 3" x 3 3/4" pieces of cardstock for the marquee. score at 1/2" from one short side.
GOJUS!!!!! (YILM!) Isn't this just the COOLEST thing?
And the amazing thing? You want to know what the amazing thing is?!?!? I sat on these projects for MONTHS! I made them at the end of June and I was able to not show them to you for almost two months!
I don't know how I managed it, especially considering these are SUCH cool cards, but I knew that a standard photo tutorial would just not show the complete and absolute amazing quality of these cards (YILM!), so I held out for video. And I also knew that if I showed them to you WITHOUT having a video ready, that you would all be after me all the time to post a tutorial, so I held myself back. And it nearly KILLED ME.
But I'm feeling much better now. Now that this thing is finally DONE. Now that all I need to do...
Is...
START THINKING ABOUT WHAT TO DO ON MY NEXT VIDEO! What have I done? What have I gotten into? Ack!!!
Time to go crawl under the covers and try not tor dream about Bejeweled Blitz. Ta!
The opening date of the Holiday mini is getting closer and closer and I. Can't. Wait!
There is so much really coolio stuff in it that you are not going to be able to resist! Well, if you go by what has happened to ME, that is! And since I'm the poster child of low-sales-resistance when it comes to objects of extreme psychic resonance, such as are contained in almost every catalog SU! puts out, if I'm a sucker for this stuff, I can guarantee you will be too!
Another thing I'm excited about is my blog is going to be undergoing a makeover soon! I've engaged Michelle Laycock to give me a whole new look! And along with that new look, you soon will have a new feature added to the insanity I already am providing:
Yep...it's on its way and will be here TOMORROW. Soon, you will not only be enjoying my regular zany prose, you will be able to witness, through the medium of digital video, ME up close and personal as I show you some of my favorite stampin' tricks and tutorials.
I have to blame my buddy Dawn Griffith...she encouraged me to add video to what I offer you. Well, really she backed me into a corner and said, "YOU NEED TO PUT VIDEOS ON YOUR BLOG!!!!" And since she is such a persuasive person, I squeaked out in a tiny voice, "Okay! I will!"
Okay, it didn't really happen like that. We had SUCH a good time, though, the Friday evening at the Stampin' Addicts meet 'n greet!
Dawn sent me this picture, which her roomate at convention, Carlene, took. I asked, "Was there chocolate dropping from the ceiling?" I look like a very...er...feathery bird waiting for mama to drop something in there! But as you can tell we were laughing so hard we almost peed our pants! I wish I could remember what was so funny.
Anyway, you are all probably tired of waiting for a card to show up so you can at least have something (besides Dawn, that is) worth looking at. So I'm going to prove my initial point as to the extremely psychically resonant products in the Holiday mini! Lookie:
Ingredients: (all SU!) Stamps - Four the Holidays, Serene Snowflakes (Holiday Mini 2009); DSP - Christmas Cocoa DSP (Holiday Mini 2009), Real Red, Soft Suede, Very Vanilla; Ink - Real Red, Soft Suede; Other - Champagne Shimmer Paint (Holiday Mini 2009), 1 1/4" & 1 3/8" circle punch, Vintage brads, jumbo Antique Brass eyelet, Sleigh Bells ribbon (Holiday Mini 2009), dimensionals
Well? Well? Do you feel the WAVES of PSYCHIC RESONANCE oozing from the photograph, urging you to grab your mouse and visit my web-store to buy these products to make this GOJUS (YILM!) card!
No? Well, that would because I have a psychic resonance damper in place right now! 'Cause you still have almost a week before you can order this and I didn't want anyone to suffer from PURCHACUS INTERUPTICUS on my account! I will remove the psychic resonance damper on the morning of the 1st and then this photo will cause hoards of people to order from me! I will achieve world domination! I will...!!!!
Ooops...there is an unfortunate side effect of having the psychic resonance damper in place...the psychic resonance has a tendency to back up and create a state of mania in the operator. Pay no attention to the blogger behind the curtain! She's going to go jump in a very cold shower and soon she will be herself again!
ANYWAY, this card was one I created for my downline to stamp at my meeting last week. I came back from convention with all kinds of ideas, and PRESENTS for them. Since Sharon wasn't having a meeting this month, I figured I would and we would make some stuff from the Holiday mini and they could see all the stuff I brought back and all my swaps and what not.
So, you ladies in my downline who missed coming to the meeting, now you can see what you missed. We not only stamped this card, we stamped the one from the open house as well.
I'm sorry to make you so sad...but there will be other times! Really!
Well, I better go take care of this strange and sudden mania! A cold shower and an afternoon of stamping ought to do the job! Ta!
