I know can you believe it two posts in one day. It seems to be all or nothing for me these days.
I could not let Time Out Challenges #194 run out without sharing a card inspired by my sweet friend Kim Heggins. Kim is leading this challenge and the inspiration is one of her gorgeous handmade bags!!
I was inspired by all the beautiful women on the bag. All women are beautiful regardless of our skin colour but my today my lady is beautiful in her spa towel and mask!
I used older and sadly retired Essentials by Ellen sets called Spa Day and Mirror Mirror.
Today I am looking at the set with fresh eyes and made a few cards focusing on the graphic images! Head over to the post for detailed instructions about how I made my cards HERE!
If you are looking for some more inspiration from this set I posted some icy summer treats HERE when it was first released.
For my first card I used the stamps and the co-ordinating stencils to shade my butterfly pink and yellow.
The second card I did also with pink and yellow but I only used the stencils, with gave me a pinky peach colour through the centre of the butterfly! The sentiment was foiled in gold but you can't see it in the picture.
I have a post up on the Birch Press Design blog today using the Tranquility Layers dies and the new Brush Sentiments stamp set. These cards are perfect to send to someone you have been missing during the pandemic.
I began by cutting two each of the Tranquility Layers die set using white heavyweight cardstock. I usually save this cardstock for my card bases. However when I want the main die cut image or sentiment to really stand out I do use the heavier weight cardstock.
I cut one die from the Tranquility Layers die set through a 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" panel of white cardstock. Then I taped the panel to another panel of the same size with low tack tape. This creates a well for the die cuts for blending colour on to them.
I glued each layer together before I added colour to them, I usually do the gluing after but I am trying something different. Starting with Layer A, the one with the largest openings, I set the die cut into the well so that it doesn't move around while I blend colour on to it. I kept the centre in place when blending my colours. You could do the centres in a completely different colour but for today I am treating it as a whole. I started with a very light hand blending a rainbow of pink, red, peach, yellow and green on a diagonal. I used Distress Oxide inks.
Next I moved Layer B into the well and did the same colours this time putting more colour down but still not heavy handed.
Finally I put Layer C into the well, this is the die cut that has the smallest size of holes. I used the same colours but I put these on with a heavy hand to really show the depth of the colours.
This is what my stencil well looked like after blending. then after I removed the top panel! To pretty to toss away. Can you see that while I was blending over the layers that it created another image on the bottom panel under the well. We will get to that later on. I will set it aside for now.
To finish out this card I glued the three thick layers together and the results are gorgeous. The double thick die cuts add so much more dimension. Thanks Jennifer McGuire for the tip!
I cut a 5 1/4" x 4 1/4" panel using Radial Pinpoint cover die as a background for my mandala. Next I cut the Hello Honey Script die three times with heavyweight while cardstock and glued it together. I did not use the shadow, only the word. This will sit in the centre of the mandala. Before gluing everything down I stamped the sentiment "I miss seeing you' from the Brush Sentiments clear stamp set on the bottom right corner of the Radial Pinpoint cover die. I added a few Pastel Fairy Jewels to finish it off.
I didn't think I was going to use the panel that underneath my well, but it was too pretty not to use. what happened next was an embossing mistake I think all of us have made at one time or another. I had my plates mixed up in my sandwich and instead of embossing over the image I cut it with the Layer A die and all the teeny tiny pieces! I was too far into it now to back out, so I put a piece of double sided adhesive paper on to the back of the die cut to pick all the pieces up together. That worked great but now the front of my die cut was surrounded by adhesive. Out came the scissors and I fussy cut around the outside of the die to get rid of it. Then I put the mandala onto a panel of cardstock that was a bit smaller than the card base, added a sentiment also from the Brush Sentiments clear stamp set and added some Bright Fairy Jewels.
Thanks so much for stopping in today, have a fabulous weekend.
Back after a bit of a craftcation! That works doesn't it--lol?? I was lucky to have a chance to play with the new Essentials by Ellen Summer of Stamping Stay Cool stamps and Stay Cool dies which is part of their new Summer of stamping Release!
This new release is perfect for summer and I really hope to see lots of warm weather in August. July was a bit too rainy and cool for me but creating with this fun new stamp set has put me in the need for a hot day and a cold popsicle!
I have three cards to share with you today. For this first one the popsicles are stamped directly on to a panel attached to a card base with Catherine Pooler Inks--Sauna, Fiesta Blue and Tutti Frutti. I did some ink blending around the edge of the panel.
My next card includes 5 popsicles that were stamped, die cut and added to a panel with foam tape and once again using Catherine Pooler Inks--Party Dress, Orange Twist, Tiki Torch, Limoncello and Lime Rickey.
For my third card I made watermelon ice pops by ink blending a panel with Distress Oxide Inks--Mowed Lawn, Twisted Citron and Festive Berries. I used the dies to create three ice pops from my panel. The background was a blended using Distress Oxide Inks--Mowed Lawn and Twisted Citron. The watermelon seeds are an image from the Stay Cool stamp set that were stamped in black and clear embossed.
I love that each of the sentiments has it's own co-ordinating dies. I cut the dies three times and glued them together to make them stand out from the design.
Thank you so much for hopping along with us for the second annual Canada Day Video Hop! The winners have been announced and there were three winners from my video, Yay!
For some reason I have been having difficulty inserting videos into Blogger lately so I am sorry that the video links are small. They will be just fine on YouTube!
Watch the video below for the winners and see if YOU were one!
If you missed my video you can find it here on my YouTube channel!
If you were a winner congratulations and the details of how to claim your prize are in the desciption below Emily's winners video above!
Happy Canada Day! I’m joining a group of Crafty Canadian YouTubers and we’re celebrating this special day by featuring Canadian craft products and shops. A total of 16 shops and 2 Canadian papercraft magazines have generously sponsored today’s event and we’re giving away over $1300 in prizes! After you’ve finished watching my video, please leave a comment for your chance to win, and then click on the link in the description below for the next person in the hop.
So if you are ready to hop let's get going and start right here with my video below:
The more you comment, the higher your chances of winning. (Please indicate if you are in Canada or elsewhere as a few prizes are restricted to Canadian addresses only.) All of the giveaway details are on Emily’s blog.
Comments close at 11:59pm EST on Sunday, July 11, 2021 and all winners will be announced on Saturday, July 17, 2021.
Remember if you get lost along the way, please head to Emily’s blog for the full list of participants:
Today I am also guest designing with Penguin Palace and I am using their Stencils 360°™ tool. There are lots of videos on line of how to use this brilliant tool and I have explained how I used it in my video today.
The first three cards with made with the Penguin Palace Sacred Lotus Stencils 360°™ and because I was using eight colours I used 22.5° ring moving 11.25° to the right for each colour.
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