The Crafty Thinker: Stephanie Fischer - Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrator: Balloon Bouquet punch

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Monday, 17 July 2017

You've Got Style, Champagne and Balloons!

I love this quirky image of the lady in her fur coat even though I'm not sure it's entirely flattering!

You've Got Style, Layered card, Bleaching Technique, Watercolouring, #thecraftythinker, Stampin Up Australia Demonstrator, Stephanie Fischer, Sydney NSW

Champagne in one hand, balloons in the other - she's ready to party!

Starting from the bottom and working up, the layers in this card are:
Sweet Sugarplum, Very Vanilla, Powder Pink, Very Vanilla, Fresh Fig, Very Vanilla (square with an oval removed from centre), Sweet Sugarplum (inlaid into oval)

The balloons are cut from Silver Foil and Copper Foil and embossed. I tied some Black Metallic Thread around them and attached them to the hand via holes that I poked, before sticking to card front with glue dots.

The greeting is attached with a dimensional.

After heat embossing, I bleached the image prior to watercolouring it.

I stamped the image with Basic Black Archival ink and clear heat embossed it before attacking it with an old paintbrush and household bleach.

Once the bleach was dry, I watercoloured the image with Powder Pink, Chocolate Chip, Sahara Sand and Daffodil Delight inks. I added a wee bit of Chalk Marker to add some highlights to the trim on the coat and hat and then a tiny bit to highlight her skin and wished I hadn't! Ah well!

Tip: When using framelits, I often cut them from the centre of small rectangles &
keep the negative shape for purposes such as this

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

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Friday, 31 March 2017

Party Monster

This happy little party monster will find its way to my little great niece.

Yummy in My Tummy, Monster birthday card, #thecraftythinker, Stampin Up Australia Demonstrator, Stephanie Fischer, Sydney NSW

This little monster is eager to party!

To add some dimension to the card, the monster has a shiny (or slimey!) covering from the Fine Tip Glue Pen and the balloons are at various depths.

The balloons are of different depths to add dimension

I first stamped the monster and the balloons with Basic Black Ink. I coloured the middle balloon with Sweet Sugarplum and Rich Razzleberry Stampin' Write Markers.

I then punched a whole lot of balloons with the Balloon Bouquet punch using Pink Pirouette card so that the edges would blend in with the card front.

Working on the two lower set balloons first, I put some Multi-Purpose glue on the stamped balloon image and placed a punched balloon on top. Then I adhered another punched balloon on top of that. I then used the stripey balloon die from the Balloon Pop Up Thinlits and cut one with Sweet Sugarplum and one with Rich Razzleberry card. I placed glue all over the top layer of punched balloon and added the decorative balloon pieces. Once the glue had had a chance to dry sufficiently, I carefully cut away the part of the balloon that overlapped the neighbouring balloon.

I then repeated the process with the topmost balloons but added more layers of punched balloon.

I hand drew the strings.

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

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Monday, 4 July 2016

Festive Birthday Floral Box Card

We all love a box card, don't we!

This was one was commissioned by a friend of mine. The brief was that it had to be a box of very brightly coloured flowers and that it should include her name, age and the date.

Stampn up, #thecraftythinker, Box Card, Botanical Builder, fun fold, Stampin Up Australia Demonstrator, Card in a Box

Definitely fits the brief of "very bright colours"

Mission accomplished using the Botanical Builder framelits, Balloon Bouquet punch, Large Numbers framelits, Banners for You bundle and Festive Birthday DSP.

The numbers are from the Labeler Alphabet and were the perfect size for the banner. I ended up using the retired Basic Alphabet set for the name as they were the only letters I have that were the correct size.

I used Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer paper for the 70 and, although it doesn't show up in the photo, I gave the balloons a coat of Wink of Stella.

Thank you for visiting
'Til next time

Stephanie

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