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Sunrise Sailing

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I love this double z fold card, that was taught to me by Irene Wardlaw at our annual stamp camp earlier this year.

One of the great techniques is the use of the two tone paper. This paper has a white core, which once embossed can be sanded to bring out the textures even more, by revealing the white core.

The birch wood embossing folder was perfect to make waves for this card. Who would have thought a wood grain type of embossing folder would make such effective waves and clouds?

The stamps and dies used are from the Sunrise Sailing bundle. The sailboat dies reminded me of a punch I had a few years ago. The middle Sunrise Sailing die is very similar in size to my old punch. The retired punch is on the left with Basic Beige sails. The current die is on the right with white sails.

Another great thing about this card, is that it can be folded flat for posting.

Colouring Techniques

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I made this card to showcase a painting technique using the fine tip glue and our Stampin’ Up! reinkers.

It also uses the Nothing is Better Than stamp set. I stamped the cocktail glasses in Memento black ink and then mixed up a mixture of fine tip glue with a drop of ink colour to colour the cocktail glasses.

I used an old jar lid to mix up the colour and then painted it inside the stamped area. The glue dries fairly quickly, maybe in fifteen minutes or less depending how thick you paint it on. Once it is dry, it leaves a glossy, raised look behind.

Pretty easy to do and it is always fun trying out something new.

Rubber Band Stamping Technique

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Here is an oldie but a goodie technique that I revisited this week. Stamping with clear blocks and rubber band stamping. By putting rubber bands on a clear block you can ink them up and stamp stripy lines onto your projects.

This first card, I inked up a D block with Mint Macaron and So Saffron inks and stamped the block directly onto my white card. Then I inked up my block with the rubber bands on using Pool Party ink and just stamped in the “blue” portion to create wave like lines.

I added a die cut tree from the Paradise Palms bundle.

Inside the card I used So Saffron to stamp the shore line and then I made a mask to cover it while I stamped over the image with an inked block (I size). I used Pool Party ink. Finally I stamped the trees.

Here is another card I did with the same rubber band technique. Colours used are Pumpkin Pie and Cajun Craze

Using dies in different ways

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Over the next few days I will be giving out tips on different ways to use your dies.
Tip # 1
USE DIES AS STENCILS
There are two ways to do this. Either directly sponge into or around your die as I have done on the fish card or create a stencil from your die and then sponge with that.

Fish card: To create rings of water, I used the smallest layering oval die and daubered balmy blue around the oval so I had a ring of colour both sides of the die. When I lifted the die off, there was stark white where the die had been, but then I lay down the next size up oval die and repeated the process by lightly daubering garden green ink. This filled in the white space and added extra rings of colour.

Paris card: I made a stencil by diecutting the swirl shape out of window sheet. (A couple of the inside swirls I had to add back in with red sticky tape.) I have used this stencil for several classes now and it is still holding up well!
I used white shimmery embossing paste to press into the stencil. I think it gives a great look to this wintery day card.
The basic card layout minus the swirls came from a card made by UK demonstrator, Mikaela Titheridge.