Serendipity Stamps - Buttons & Chalkboard

The Chalkboard Technique and Buttons are the Serendipity's Design Team Challenge this time!  All you have to do to enter the Blog Challenge is to use Buttons this month. You have till February 3 to enter.

When I decided to use this stamp for the Chalkboard technique it made me think of a chalkboard outside a specialty WINE shop.  What do you think?  I wanted to use Distress Aged Mahogany Ink for my grapes but my pad was all dried up!  So, I had to use Fired Brick.  Not quite the color I wanted (to match Burgundy wine) but it will have to do!

 Inside I stamped the grapes again on both layers.
 

Finished size is 4 1/2 x 5 1/4.

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Check out what the rest of the Design Team created!

Jeanne Jachna

Jenny Gropp

Julie Warner

Karen Amidon

Marybeth Lopez

Miriam Napier (me!)

Pauline Pollington

Vickie Zimmer

• Stamps: Serendipity Stamps - Eat Drink 1007E, Grapes Cling Set 338QCL
• Ink: Versamark, Color Box - Cat's Eye - Frost White Pigment Ink, Distress - Fired Brick
• Paper: PTI - Kraft & Black card stock, Neenah Solar White, brown card stock
• Other: SU! Seam Binding, misc button, Perfect Layers, white embossing powder, Bow Easy

Serendipity - One Layer Wine!



The Design Team for Serendipity Stamps was given a difficult challenge this week!  Well, difficult for me at least....a one layer project!  That means ONLY one layer of paper!!  So, I decided to make a wine tag and color it with Copics.  I airbrushed around the edges then edged the tag again with chalk ink.  Finished size is 4.5 x 3.

 

 

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Check out what the rest of the design made!

Jenny, Amy , Jeanne , Pauline,  Cathy & Helen

 

• Stamps: Serendipity Stamps - Wine Border 365E,  Wine and Cheese 347G, From Me small 167C
• Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Color Box - Blackbird chalk ink
• Paper: Neenah - Natural White
• Copics: R59, R56, Y21, Y23, G40, G43, RV91, RV95, B34, W0, W1, E11, E13, E15, E81, E84, E87, YR23, YR27
• Other: ABS, Eyelet, May Arts twine, Spellbinders - Curved Rectangles

Serendipity Grapes

I colored up these yummy grapes to match the PTI Scarlett Jewel paper.  The green matches my new Graphic 45 paper, The Magic of OZ.   I love this image and picture it made into gift tags and birthday cards.  Finished card is 5 1/4 square.  Enjoy!

• Stamps: Serendipity Stamps - Grapes & Wine Border
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo  Black, Versafine Onyx Black, Color Box Charcoal Chalk Ink
• Paper: PTI Scarlett Jewel, Graphic 45 The Magic of OZ, Neenah Natural White, black
• Other: Copics, Cuttlebug embossing strip, grapes charm

Wrap it UP! Serendipity Stamps

I am now a member of the Serendipity Stamps Design Team! The challenge this week is hand made gift wrapping and since I love Serendipity's Wine stamps, I wanted to make a wine bag and tag.  The bag was so tall it wouldn't fit in my light tent so I had to take a picture of it the old fashioned way.  Here is a close up of the top of the bag and tag.

I took apart an old worn out wine gift bag and made a template out of it to make my black bag.  I recycled the handles and used my Scor-Pal to make my folding score marks.  I gold embossed the grapes on the bag and clear embossed WINE with black pigment ink on the tag.  Then I rubbed aged mahogany ink over the image to make it stand out against the patterned paper. I reinforced the bag at the handles and bottom with extra cardstock for strength.

Check out what everyone else came up with today:

Jenny, Amy, Anya, Kathie and Lynda....

ps. Lynda will be posting later in the morning on Thursday.

• Stamps: Serendipity Stamps - Wine Vertical 352F, Grapes 338L
• Ink: Versamark, SU! Black Craft, Ranger Distress Aged Mahogany
• Paper: Misc black cardstock, Prima Botanical 6x6 DSP, SU! Bravo Burgundy
• Other: Gold & Clear Embossing Powder, misc ribbon, gold brads, gold leaf charm, Scor-Pal, Heat Gun, Crop-a-Dile