House Mouse Design of the Month

The new House Mouse Design of the Month has just arrived.
They are so cute! Wanted to share how to make a card with these

cute new stamps.

Supplies needed:

Stampabilities Morning Kick Start rubber stamp
Stampabilities Warm Cup of Coffee rubber stamp (for the inside)

Black ink pad

Heat gun

scissors

glue

black eyelets

small hole punch and eyelet setter

small spoon

markers

cardstock

black 5.5x8.5 (fold in half to make card)

tan 4x5 1/4

brown 2 1/8x3 1/8x4

ivory 2 1/8x3 1/8x4

Instructions:

1. Stamp Morning Kick Start with black ink on large ivory cardstock. Sprinkle

with black embossing powder and set with heat gun.

2. Color embossed image with markers. Highlight the cheeks with blender pen
dipped in pink.
3. Stamp Warm Cup of Coffee on ivory cardstock strip. Use scissors to cut out
the word friend.

4. Glue "friend" to the small peice of brown cardstock.

5. Set the 3 eyelets along the bottom of the left side of the kraft cardstock in a line.

6. Glue the kraft piece of cardstock with the eyelets to the front of the black card front.

7. Glue the stamped image to the larger brown cardstock. Since they are the same
size offset the papers to make it look shadowed. Glue this above the 3 eyelets.

8. Glue the matted "friend" piece to the top left side of the stamped image.

9. Glue the small spoon to the bottom right of the card.

10. Stamp inside with the Warm Cup Of Coffee verse

National Card Makers Day Card Contest

Dear Friends,
It's Hot! A great time to stay indoors, keep cool and make cards. What's so special
about handmade cards you ask. (Well maybe you didn't ask) but here goes. Cards
are a great way to keep in touch with friends and family and it's never to early to
get a head start on all those holiday cards. A handmade card shows someone you care
about that they are special, you are thinking about them and that you care enough about
them to make it yourself.

October 7, 2007 is National Card Makers Day and here at S and C Memories we are
celebrating by having a card contest. Winning cards will be featured on our website
and we will be awarding prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners. You may enter as many
cards as you wish in any or all categories. Prizes will be given out for each category.
To have your card returned we ask that you please send us a self-addressed postage
paid evelope and we will return your cards as soon as the contest is over. The Categories
are as followed:

Birthday
Friendship/Thinking of You
Holiday: Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas

We ask that you please use products that we sell on our website. It is ok if you already
have these products at home. All cards must be handmade and be sure to include your
name, address and directions for making your card/cards.
All entries must be in by September 24, 2007.

Send all entries to:
S and C Memories
PO Box 412
Ottumwa, Iowa 52501

Have Fun and Happy Stamping,
Sheli

Lesson 3 Embossing

Embossing is a simple technique of combining rubber stamps, pigment ink and embossing
powder. Take any rubber stamp inked with a pigment ink then stamp and sprinkle with
a generous amount of embossing powder. Shake off excess and put back in bottle.
(a little goes a long way) Heat with a heat gun. This doesn't take to long a minute or less.
You will be able to see the powder melt and turn to a glossy finish. Be careful when using
a heat gun as they are very hot!! and can quickly scorch the paper. Hint: A hair dryer
will not work as they are not hot enough and will only blow your powder around.
Embossing powder comes in a wide array of colors as well as clear. You can mix colored
ink with colored powder or if you prefer to give your ink color a glossy finish without
changing color use clear powder.

Sorry I haven't been able to write my lessons. I have been sick and that leaves all of the
day to day running of the business up to my Mom and keeping up on the new products and
orders. Mom is a hunt and peck method of typing so she only types short things. Keep
checking on us as we are trying to keep up and will post new things as soon as we can.

Ink

Lesson Two: Ink

Basically there are two types of Ink:
1. Pigment
2. Dye

Pigment ink pads are slow to dry and can be used with or without embossing powder.
Dye ink pads dry almost immediately once stamped. You can't use dye ink pads for
embossing because they dry so fast that the embossing powder can't stick.

Have you always wanted to Scrapbook or make your own Greeting Cards but don't
know where to start. Let us help. We are going to be posting simple lessons about
products and how to get started.

Lesson one: Rubber Stamps

Rubber Stamps when cared for properly our an investment that will last a lifetime.
Keep them stored in moderate tempeture away from direct heat and sunlight.
Clean them after use with a good quality stamp cleaner. You can dry them on
a paper towel or soft cloth but we prefer to use a rubber scrubber. If you haven't
seen one of these before just check out our website at www.sandcmemories.com
under stamp cleaners. You just apply a little stamp cleaner to your stamp and then
scrub away. Do not hold under running water or soak in water. This will loosen the
glue that holds the foam to the rubber and wood.

It's hard to believe it's June 1 already. We have been very busy with

all the new shipments. Beautiful new Albums, Stickers, and Paper by

K and Company and lots of great new Rubber Stamps. We try and

keep a good supply of Rubber Stamps with verses for Card makers.

We will have a card featured in the summer 2007 newsletter of

www.wwvisions.com/newsletter am also showing it above.

The supplies you need are listed below:

1. 8.5x11 Red Cardstock
2. 8.5x11 Navy Cardstock
3. 8.5x11 White Cardstock
4. Rubber Stamp Glory Bee by Whipper Snapper Designs
5. Versa Fine Ink in Black and Deep Lagoon
6. Marvy Markers : Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Gray
7. Small Star Punch
8. Glitter Glue: Frosted Lace
9. Emagination Oval Punch 3x4
10. Magic Mesh Fine Weave Navy

Directions

1. Stamp Design using Versa Fine Black Ink
2. Color and Highlight stamped design with markers
3. Punch out design using oval punch
4. Go over stars and stripes with Frosted Lace Glitter Glue
5. Cut navy cardstock in half and fold
6. Cut red cardstock 1/4inch smaller then folded blue card to make mat.
7. Punch each corner of red cardstock with star punch.
8. Adhere mesh across card.
9. Place stamped and colored oval on card.

This would be a great card to send to wish someone a Happy 4th of July or
it could be used as an invitation to a 4th of July party.
All products needed for this card can be purchased on our website at
www.sandcmemories.com

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