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Beach Buddies

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Here is another card made using the free Sale-a-bration stamp set called Friendly Seagulls.

For this card, I was teaching the technique of water spray on sponged background. We started with a basic white panel 10.5 x 8 cm and used a blending brush to sponge on Azure Afternoon ink. Then we used a water spritzer to spray on one good spray of water. The spray creates fine water drops which you can’t see straight away but as the card dries it becomes apparent.

We then matted our panel onto Lemon Lolly card (10.5 cm square) with the top and bottom edges torn.

We cut a piece of Pecan Pie card for the wharf piles. 9.5 x 2.2 cm. We embossed with the timber embossing folding and sponged with Pecan Pie ink. We cut into two portions. One 5.5 cm long and one 4 cm long. Corner the ends and tied Crumb Cake baker’s twine around. Our Seagulls were fussy cut to sit on top.

Latte Love

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I love these coffee cards. We made them at a team day using a one sheet wonder, which gave us two cards from one sheet of Designer series paper. The paper we used is called Country Woods by Stampin’ Up!

The layout is similar for both cards but the orientation has been changed. For the landscape orientation, I added two coffee cups. I wanted the handle on one of the cups to go the opposite direction, so I stamped it on my silicon craft sheet first, then pressed my Pool Party card onto the craft sheet to pick up the stamped image and voila, it is a reverse image. It’s that easy. The only thing is the image is lighter. I stamped off my right side facing handle coffee to make it lighter to match the one I did with the silicon sheet.

I used white embossing powder to do the coffee beans as they are hard to see on the Early Espresso card.

And of course, I had to stamp the inside. The stamped images are coloured in using Stampin’ Blends.

Blended Alcohol Technique

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I made this card to showcase another way of using our Stampin’ Up’s Blends. This panel on the side is made using a strip of window sheet coloured with Blends, then spritzed with alcohol.

It is a fun technique. It’s easy to do. The longest part is waiting for the alcohol to evaporate so that the ink is properly dry. I ended up using a heat gun to speed up the process which is a good ideas because it spreads the ink around more and creates the marbled look you see on my card.

I did a video of making this card. It’s in two parts as I bumped the camera when I was using the heat gun. Lol. Part one… https://youtu.be/g70SMTehTjk?si=V0HE8VcfgffRSzbZ

Here is part two… https://youtu.be/-L1yVqNeVa0?si=qR6xZIY2IKkZIaNZ

Spotlights Technique

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I have been revisiting some old techniques and decided to make a card using the Spotlight technique.

This card uses the Dainty Delight stamp set, the tailor made tags dies and the stylish shapes dies.

I stamped a mix of flower stamps on my white card, then die cut a circle out of the middle. I coloured the circle with Blends and also added a bit of blue with a blending brush. I matted the circle on a larger one diecut from black card. Finally I glued it back in place to cover the hole it originally came from. By leaving the rest of the card in black and white, this brings the spotlight to just the coloured circle piece. I think it is quite effective despite being a simple card to make.

Peaceful Deer Christmas Card

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I taught a card in class recently using shimmer embossing paste over the top of the stamped and coloured image to add some sparkle. I decided to try it again on this Christmas card.
This is also my entry for the Just Add Ink Challenge #JAI632
The challenge was to choose two items from the list of Deers, Trees, Sparkle.
I chose Deer and Sparkle but there are trees in it as well. Bonus!

You only need a thin very layer of paste. You need to colour your image with Blends. I haven’t tried it with an image coloured with ink but I imagine the ink would run a little with the moisture from the embossing paste when you first spread it on.

If you live in New Zealand and want to recreate this card, you can order all the products from my online store rhondafawcett.stampinup.net

For this project, I used sunprints DSP for the blue circle. I stamped the trees from the Peaceful Deer stamp set in versamark and heat embossed with white embossing powder. I stamped the Deer in black memento ink and coloured it with Gray Granite Blends and a light Crumb Cake Blend. I then added a thin layer of shimmer embossing paste. Once paste was dry I punched it out and added it to the blue circle. I matted the blue circle onto a die cut Gray Granite scallop circle. (Layering Circle dies). I stamped the snowflakes in Navy ink. (Second generation to give a softer look to match the lighter blue on my paper). I adhered this to the bottom right corner of my thick white card base. I stamped a sentiment at the top with Gray Granite ink and finished the card with a strip of Gray Granite shimmer ribbon.