Stamping at The Warren: Regals

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Friday, 26 August 2016

Flower Shop Masked Watercolour Technique with One Big Meaning Thank Handmade Thank You Card Using Stampin' Up! Products UK

Today's card is a great way to start with Masking & Watercolour Techniques, on this Flower Shop Thank You Card.

There is no need to buy watercolour paper, but if you have it, then use it.

In my o photo above, I have used a piece of Whisper White Cardstock, and works well, so long as you don't get the cardstock really well.

You will need an Archival ink pad or a Stazon Ink Pad, as this prevents the inks leaching out when you begin watercolouring, Plus an aquapainter Brush

For the watercolouring, I I used Archival Gray, to give an almost invisible outline to the flowers.

I used ink pads from the Regals Colour Collection, to keep the project co-ordinated.

Masking is a way of rubber stamping, that doesn't have any overlapping of the images. You start from the foreground and work backward masking off each flower in turn, before stamping the next image.

To make a mask is super simple.

Take a Post It Note, and stamp your image onto the note, ensuring some of the stamped image is over the area of sticky (i.e. you stamp on the front of the note); then use paper snips to cut around the image so you are left with an outline of the glower, and a small strip if sticky on the back.

To build the card, stamp your first flower & once dry, cover the flower with the mask. Stamp your next flower, remove the mask, and repeat with each flower until you have the effect you want, leaving space for the sentiment

To watercolour, select your ink pads, and if you are using Stampin Up Classic Ink Pads, all you do is squidge the ink pad firmly to transfer ink from the pad to the 'well'. Then you pop a single drop of water into the well by gently squeezing the aquapainter, from there you can start painting.

If the aquapainter gets too wet, dry it on a piece of kitchen towel.

I used dilute Crushed Curry Ink to add highlights around some of the flowers, and on a scrap of white cardstock, and painted as above, this was then punched out using the Pansy Punch, and added to the card front using Stampin Dimensionals.

Allow the cardstock to dry thoroughly before stamping your sentiment and mounting onto your card base.

Finish with a flourish of Rhinestones

Below the photo, you will find the cardstock dimensions and a list (with product codes) of all the products used today, along with a link to my online store

Feel free to CASE any of my creative projects (Copy & Paste Everything)

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CARDBASE - Always Artichoke measuring 30 x 10.5 cms; score long side at 14.9 cms; fold & Burnish
FRONT PANEL - Whisper White measuring 14.4 x 10.1 cms
INSIDE PANEL - Whisper White measuring 14.4 x 10.1 cms
Scrap of Whisper White Cardstock to stamp & Punch the additional flower

PRODUCTS USED TODAY

STAMP SETS
Flower Shop - 130942
One Big Meaning - 139420
INK PADS
Archival Basic Black - 140931
Archival Basic Gray - 140932
Crushed Curry - 131173
Elegant Eggplant - 126969
Island Indigo -126986
Rose Red - 126954
Perfect Plumb - 126963
CARDSTOCK
Always Artichoke - 108610
Whisper White - 106549
ACCESSORIES
Basic Rhinestones - 119246
PUNCH
Pansy - 130968
ADHESIVES
Stampin Dimensionals - 104430
Multipurpose liquid glue - 110755
TOOLS
Stampin Trimmer - 129722
Bone Folder - 102300
Paper Snips - 103579
Acrylic Block C - 118486
Acrylic Block H - 118490
Aqua Painter - 103954

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Tuesday, 9 August 2016

Kinda Eclectic Stamp Set & Creating Unique Backgrounds for your Handmade Cards Stampin' Up! UK

Today I am sharing with you the second card in a set of three that I made recently. They feature the Kinda Eclectic Stamp Set, and I used a combination of the stamps in the set to create a unique hand-stamped Designer Series Paper. This is always a great favourite technique in my Card & Papercraft Classes. Half the fun is getting really inky fingers to show the loving effort you put into creating your card

The Colour-scheme is

Always Artichoke

Old Olive

Island Indigo &

Rich Razzelberry Ombre Ink Pad

The card base is Island Indigo to tie in with the stamped background on

This set of cards, are very resourceful to make if you purchase one of the Ink Pad & Cardstock Assortment Bundles, giving you a saving compared to purchasing the items individually

In this case Most of the ink pads, come from the Regals Color Collection

The great thing about these colour collections, is that they are co-ordinated within their own colour collection AND all the other colour collections in the current Stampin' Up! Catalogue.

So if you are a novice card maker, or you are returning to Card making (or memory keeping), you can start creating immediately, as all the colour combo work is already done for you.

Plus, there is a large range of co-ordinating products, from ribbons, to decorative papers, rhinestones, pearls & ,much more

So have a go at creating your own backgrounds, then follow my Stamping At The Warren Community Pinterest Board (see the side bar on this blog) and I will invite you to join the board, where you can begin pinning your own creations (full details at the bottom of today's blog post

You will also find a list of products used today, a typed tutorial and a link to my online store

Feel free to CASE any of my creative projects (Copy & Paste Everything)

Click HERE to view/order any of the products used Today

PRODUCTS USED TODAY

STAMP SET

Kinda Eclectic

INK PADS

Island Indigo

Always Artichoke

Old Olive

Memento Black

Rich Razzelberry Ombre Ink Pad

CARDSTOCK

Island Indigo

Whisper White

ACCESSORIES

Basic Rhinestones

Regals Enamel Shapes

Crumb Cake Stitched Satin Ribbon

PUNCH/FRAMELITS DIES

Layering Ovals

Elegant Butterfly

TOOLS

Big Shot Die Cutting Machine

Magnetic Platform

Stampin Trimmer

Paper Piercing Tool

Acrylic Blocks

Paper Snips

Bone Folder

ADHESIVES

Tombow Multi-purpose Liquid Glue

Stampin Dimensionals

Mini Glue Dots

Tutorial

CARD BASE - Trim a piece of Island Indigo Cardstock to 30 x 10.5 cms; score long side at 14.9 cms; fold & Burnish
Trim a piece of Whisper White Cardstock to 14.4 x 10.1 cms & adhere to the inside of the card base for your to write your greeting on (I used Tombow)
Trim another piece of Whisper White Cardstock to 14.4 x 10.1 cms, this is going to be stamped to make your background; Begin by stamping the Ombre Ink Pad several times across the centre of the card base (horizontally) ... this gives a grungy feel to the background.
Randomly Over-stamp this panel with the dotty stamp using Island Indigo Ink Pad, with 4th generation stamping technique (this means you ink up the stamp & stamp the cardstock four times before re-inking the stamp)
Using the Island Indigo Ink Pad, stamp the Sunburst twice without re-inking (second generation stamping technique)
Take the Leaf Stamp and onto scrap Whisper White Cardstock, stamp one leaf using Always Artichoke Ink Pad, and another using the Old Olive Ink Pad; Fussy cut these out using Paper Snips (remember to rotate the cardstock and not the scissors when fussy cutting)
Stamp your sentiment onto another scrap of Cardstock in black ink and Die cut using the best fit Layering Oval Framelits Die
Next, using the Ombre Ink Pad, stamp the larger butterfly three times onto scrap white cardstock, using a different area of the ink pad to get tonal differences.; Punch these out using the elegant Butterfly Punch.
Wrap around a piece of Stitched Satin Ribbon and tie a bow.
Mat this panel onto the card base; add stampin dimensionals to the back of the sentiment and the leaves you cut out and mount into the card front; Add the butterfly's using Mini Glue Dots, Finish with some Enamel Shapes and basic Rhinestones

How to Contact or Follow Me

Kim Tolton, Independent Stampin Up Demonstrator.

Card & Papercraft Tutorials

Please feel free to comment below, and ask away with any questions. You can also find me via the links below

Blog:

http://www.stampingatthewarren.blogspot.co.uk

Online Store:

http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/stampingatthewarren

Stamping @ The Warren Craft Forum:

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Friday, 29 July 2016

Lovely As A Tree is Better Together with a Work of Art & Stampin' Up! Products UK

Feel free to CASE any of my creative projects (Copy & Paste Everything)

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PRODUCTS USED TODAY

STAMP SETS

LOVELY AS A TREE

WORK OF ART

BETTER TOGETHER

INK PADS

ARCHIVAL OR MEMENTO BLACK

CRUSHED CURRY

CAJUN CRAZE

ALWAYS ARTICHOKE

ISLAND INDIGO

CARDSTOCK

WHISPER WHITE

NIGHT OF NAVY

ACCESSORIES

REGALS ENAMEL SHAPES

TOOLS

STAMPIN TRIMMER

ACRYLIC BLOCK BUNDLE

PAPER PIERCING TOOL

BONE FOLDER

ADHESIVES

TOMBOW MULTI PURPOSE LIQUID GLUE

Watch the Video Below

Tutorial

Trim a piece of Night of Navy Cardstock to 30 x 10.5 cms; score long side at 14.9 cms; fold & burnish
trim two pieces of whisper white cardstock to 14 x 10.1 cms; Using Tombow Liquid Glue, stick one of these pieces of cardstock inside the card base (to write your greeting on)
You are going to stamp onto the second piece of Whisper White Cardstock
Pick the medium sizes faux watercolour stamp from WORK OF ART stamp set, and stamp once in an arc shape using the following ink pads - Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze, Always Artichoke; then swap the stamp for the large arc one, and over stamp the above using Island Indigo Ink Pad
Using Black Ink, Stamp the Lovely As A Tree so it partially overlaps the images you have already stamped.
Stamp the Greeting in the top left using Black Ink Pad
E,mbellish with a few Regals Enamel Shapes
Mat onto the card base using Tombow