The Crafty Thinker: Stephanie Fischer - Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrator: Monster

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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Sunday, 12 March 2017

Slimey Hugs Monster

This was one of the cards resulting from my batch of inky backgrounds production the other day - it will be a birthday card for one of my little great nephews.

Yummy in my Tummy, Slimey Monster, water colour background, Stampin Up Australia Demonstrator, Stephanie Fischer, Sydney NSW,, #thecraftythinker, Ink Smooshing

I don't really love the colour green but it does seem suitable for this cute little monster

Having cut my piece of Shimmery White cardstock to size, I silver heat embossed the cute little monster from the Yummy in My Tummy stamp set.

I then used the plastic bag smoosh method of creating an inky background (wet cardstock, pat ink onto a plastic bag, smoosh plastic bag onto wet cardstock) using Crushed Curry and Basic Gray with a final light dab of Basic Gray. Embossing the monster first helped me to avoid adding too much colour to his body area.

The monster inside is stamped with Basic Gray ink and coloured with watercolour pencils and aqua painter

Once the background was dry, I used an aquapainter and green ink (Cucumber Crush and Emerald Envy) to colour the monster. I was happy for the yellow background to show through to add a bit more interest to his body. I used some Whisper White Craft ink for his eyes.

When the ink was completely dry, I carefully added glue from the Fine Tip Glue pen all over the monster to make him shiny and slimey looking. My inspiration for this came from Sara Douglass who added colour to the glue in the Fine Tip Glue applicator - I just didn't want to contaminate my glue for one card. I left it overnight to dry.

Despite my best endeavours, some of the green from the monster had seeped beyond his outline, so I gave him a shadow of Basic Gray, using the aqua painter and some ink.

Having layered up the card, I added the Hugs button which I made with layers of Whisper White, Basic Gray and Crushed Curry cardstock and the Layering Circles and Stitched Shapes framelits.

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

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Yummy In My Tummy Clear-Mount Stamp Set

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