Bleached Grateful Bunch

This card will be featured in the Crazy Crafters' Team Project Highlights from 6.30 pm on 1st April, so do visit (by clicking on the little image to the left) and vote for your favourite projects.

I have long been a fan of the bleaching technique and had also decided that I should make more use of my Grateful Bunch set so it was almost inevitable that I would combine the two!

Dimensionals give a little bit of ..... dimension!

The various pieces of this card have been sitting on my table for a couple of weeks, waiting for inspiration to strike.  In the end, I had to call "time" and do something with them!

A simply card but I think it's elegantly cheerful!

I started with line of flowers on the Soft Suede cardstock.  It was always my intention to bleach them, so clearly my head was not together when I stamped them with Archival ink instead of heat embossing them in black!  They actually came out better than I expected - I was worried that the black ink would completely bleach away.

I coloured those flowers with Calypso Coral ink (the yellow is simply the bleached cardstock).  Then I masked the flowers while I added the white heat embossed lace elements.

The Wink of Stella is so pretty!

Then I stamped three flowers with Basic Black ink onto Calypso Coral cardstock.  I elected to hand cut them rather than use the matching punch because I wanted them to be cut close to the lines.  I shaded them with Watermelon Wonder ink.

I layered the bleached floral band onto Calypso Coral cardstock and then onto a Soft Suede card.  I added a greeting from Birthday Blossoms (heat embossed in white) and adhered the three flowers - two of them with Dimensionals and the smallest with a glue dot.

Lastly, I added gold Wink of Stella to the centres of the flowers.

Thank you for visiting today.

'Til next time.

Stephanie

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Product List

Grateful Bunch Photopolymer Stamp Set

[140691]

Birthday Blossoms Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[139471]

Versamark Pad

[102283]

White Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109132]

Heat Tool

[129056]

Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

[140931]

Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad

[126983]

Calypso Coral A4 Card Stock

[124392]

Soft Suede A4 Card Stock

[119982]

Gold Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush

[141898]

A Grateful Bunch of What I Love

The Wink of Stella doesn't show up well in the photo but in reality it adds a very pretty element to the card

This bright and cheery card features the Grateful Bunch bundle and also one of the Sale-A-Bration stamp sets called What I Love.

The What I Love set is FREE until 31st March with any purchase of $90 and is a three part stamp. However, on this card I chose to only use one of the images (the other two add shading and depth).

I stamped the image three times onto a piece of vellum with Versamark and heat embossed with white embossing powder.  Then I added the greeting from Another Thank You in a similar way.

I put adhesive around the edges of the vellum and stuck it to the front of my Calypso Coral card.  Then I hid the adhesive (that shows through the vellum) with some Calypso Coral ribbon from my stash (now retired sadly).

I stamped the images from Grateful Bunch in Versamark on Calypso Coral cardstock and heat embossed with white embossing powder.  I punched out the smaller flowers with the matching Blossom Bunch Punch and hand cut the larger flower.  I also white heat embossed a flower from the What I Love set and cut it out.

I assembled and adhered all the flowers to the front of the card and then added Gold Wink of Stella to the centre of one flower and Rhinestone Jewels to the others.  All the flowers received a coating of Clear Wink of Stella - even the vellum ones.

Thanks for visiting!

'Til next time
Stephanie

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Grateful Bunch Shaker Card

The Memories in the Making Project Lift Specialty Card Collection (FREE in Sale-A-Bration) is beautiful - it is a combination of resist cards and metallic printed acetate cards.  I decided to use one of the printed acetate 4"x6" cards in a shaker card.

A Project Life acetate card form the front of the shaker card

The base card is Lost Lagoon and the stamped layer is Pool Party.  There's a very small edge of Blackberry Bliss framing the gold-printed acetate.

I stamped the flowers with Blackberry bliss onto Perfect Plum cardstock and watercoloured them with Lost Lagoon.  The largest flower has a centre of gold Wink of Stella and the others have a sequin centred with a Rhinestone Jewel.

I stamped the leaves from the Grateful Bunch set with Versamark onto the Pool Party layer to create a very subtle background and the greeting from Happy Birthday Everyone is stamped with Archival Black ink.

The two gold sequins are from the Metallics Sequin Assortment and the others are from the Brights Sequin Assortment.

A few sequins adhered to the top of the card with the Fine Tip Glue Pen "blend" the inside and outside of the shaker.

I've included some dimensions below.

So many shiny things!

'Til next time
Stephanie

DIMENSIONS:
Lost Lagoon:                9 1/2" x 6 3/4"
Blackberry Bliss:         6 1/8" x 4 1/8"
Pool Party:                   5 3/4" x 3 3/4"
Printed Acetate card:   Untrimmed 6" x 4"

A Grateful Bunch of Flowering Fields - Side Step card

 I love to create a special birthday card individually for each person but sometimes a birthday sneaks up on me and I need a card in a hurry!

To be prepared for those occasions, I keep a little stash of cards to suit all occasions that I can dip into when necessary.

This card is destined for the stash!

I somehow ended up with 2 rolls of this Lost Lagoon ribbon - so I'm slowly using it up!

It's actually one of several side-step cards that I've created as a sample for class in a couple of weeks.  I'd be completely lost without my Stampin' Trimmer - especially when it comes to making fun fold cards!

I used the Grateful Bunch bundle from the Occasions Catalogue and the FREE Sale-A-Bration Flowering Fields stamp set.

The inks are Lost Lagoon and Blackberry Bliss and can you spot the gold Wink of Stella?

Some Lost Lagoon ribbon and Basic Rhinestone jewels provide the finishing touches.

I hand cut the largest flower but the others are punched out with the matching Blossom Bunch Punch.  All the flowers and leaves were watercoloured with either Lost Lagoon or Blackberry Bliss ink.

The birthday greeting is from the Teeny Tiny Sentiments stamp set.

Side step cards are so easy to make and wonderfully versatile!

DIMENSIONS:

Cardstock 14cm x 21cm

4cm in from the long edge cut from 2.5cm to 16.5cm (ie a 14cm cut)

Working along the long side, score between the cut and the closest edge - starting at the beginning of the cut at 2.5cm, then at 5cm, 8cm, 11cm and 16cm.

Layers:

Focal Panel: 1st layer; 9.8cm x 7.8cm    2nd layer; 9.4cm x 7.4cm

Tall Side Panel: 1st layer; 9cm x 3.8cm   2nd layer; 8.8cm x 3.6cm

Middle Side Panel: 1st layer; 4.5cm x 3.8cm  2nd layer; 4.3cm x 3.6cm

Horizontal Panel: 1st layer; 13.8cm x 2.3cm   2nd layer; 13.6cm x 2.1cm

Thanks for looking.

'Til next time.

Stephanie

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Occasions Catalogue Preview - Grateful Bunch & Number of Years Bundle

The first family birthday of the year is just around the corner!  I wanted to make her something feminine and fitting to celebrate her 16th birthday but not too "twee".

This is what I came up with.

It's hard to see in the photo but the flowers, numbers and butterfly shimmer with Wink of Stella

What I used from the Occasions Catalogue:
Number of Years Bundle: 140811
Grateful Bunch Bundle - 140801
Wink of Stella Clear - 141897
Wink of Stella Gold - 141898

The numbers and some of the flowers are popped up on Dimensionals - a good way to use the edge pieces of the dimensionals!

I painted the gold flowers with Gold Wink of Stella - adding a little extra in places for depth.  I then decided that I'd like a bit of Bermuda Bay in the petals but didn't want to reduce the shimmer.  So I picked up some Bermuda Bay ink with the tip of the Clear Wink of Stella brush.  When I'd finished I simply squiggled the brush on some scrap paper until it was clean again.

I hope you like this card - I welcome any comments you have.

'Til next time
Stephanie

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