Something Old... Something NEW!

Hello Inky Crafters, hostess Tami here again with a project featuring "something old and something new" - and no - the project is not the least bit bridal.

the something NEW! are the ColorBox Limited Edition Chalk Ink Colors! 6 beautiful NEW! colors that have been added to the rainbow of colors of Chalk Inks already available...

I used all the new ink colors to create this Thank You card...

The something old is the ColorBox Stylus & Tips, the Moldable Black Tips to be exact. Clearsnap has so many terrific products it's sometimes easy to forget how wonderful some of the "old" products are when all the NEW! goodies are introduced!

The Moldable Black Tips work just like they sound - you heat up the Tip, then press it into any surface to transfer the design: stamps, mesh, rocks, shells, texture plates, paperclips, microbeads, jute, ANYTHING with a texture! There are hundreds of things you can use to impress a design into the Tip; just use your imagination.

For this project, I used the Moldable Black Leaf Tip to make the leaves for my flowers. I just heated up the tip for 5-10 seconds using my heat gun, then pressed the tip into a striped background stamp...

I also used a Moldable Tip to make the centers for my flowers; this time the Small Circle Tip. I pressed it into a polka dot patterned stamp...

Here are a few more closeup pics of the project...

the flowers, made by fringing the edges of a circle "thanks" stamp...

 

the sentiment; with dovetail detail...

 

the background and stitching accents... 

SUPPLIES:

Clearsnap Products:

• ColorBox Limited Edition Chalk Inks: Pink Sky, Red Barn, Candied Yam, Guacamole, Sea Crystal and Arctic Deep
• ColorBox Stylus & Black Moldable Tips: Small Circle and Leaf

Other Products:

• The {Stamps} of Life: Sentiments4Circles and Thanks2You
• Memory Box: Scalloped Polkadot
• Hero Arts: Stripes Pattern
• Bazzill Basics: White and Kraft Cardstocks
• Beacon Adhesives: Zip Dry
• 3L: Scrapbook Adhesives: 3D Foam Squares 
• White Thread

Tools:

• Scissors, Trimmer, Heat Gun, 3/4" and 2" Circle Punch, Pencil and Sewing Machine

DIRECTIONS:

NOTE:
You can mold and remold the Black Moldable Tips over and over! Just reheat to remove old design and you are ready to press in a new one! Be careful not to overheat Tip.

Flowers:

1. Stamp "thank you" circle 3 times on white cardstock using: Pink Sky, Arctic Deep and Candied Yam Inks. 
2. Punch out circles and distress edges using corresponding inks.
3. Cut small slits in edges of circles, then gently push in and pull up fringe to create petals.

 Flower Centers:

1. Heat Small Circle Moldable Tip and press into polkadot stamp. Use Stylus & Moldable Tip to stamp 3 centers using Pink Sky, Arctic Deep and Candied Yam Inks onto white cardstock. 
2. Punch out circles and distress edges using corresponding inks.

 Leaves:

1. Heat Leaf Moldable Tip and press into striped stamp. Use Stylus & Moldable Tip to stamp 7 leaves using Guacamole Ink onto white cardstock. 
2. Cut out and distress edges using same ink.

Sentiment:

1. Ink "thanks!" stamp using Red Barn Ink on white cardstock. Cut out, dovetailing right end and distress edges using same ink.

Background:

1. Ink striped stamp using Sea Crystal Ink and stamp onto 2 1/2 X 5 1/4 piece of white cardstock. Distress edges using same ink.

Stitching:

1. Cut a 7 X 7 piece of Kraft cardstock and fold in half to make card.
2. Place background striped piece on card front as shown and use pencil to lightly mark placement.
3. Use sewing machine loaded with white thread to add stitching lines outside of edges of card, beginning close to pencil marks and working outward.
   

  To Assemble:

1. Adhere striped background to card front inside stitching lines.
2. Adhere flowers, centers and leaves as shown; using 3D Foam Squares to adhere Candied Yam flower.
3. Adhere sentiment at bottom left as shown.

Thanks for visiting us here on the Clearsnap Blog! Please be sure to come back tomorrow as we will have a NEW! project waiting for you!