Welcome
to the Crazy Crafters blog hop for June. This month we are excited to
show off our favourite Stampin’ Up! products from the just released 2015
– 2016 Annual Catalogue. We hope you find great inspiration
from the projects. Get your wish list ready!
You may just be starting the blog hop here at my blog - Stephanie Fischer - or may have come from the person before me in the list below. If you get off track at any time, the full line-up below will help you move along from blog to blog so you see all the projects. At the moment you are visiting Stephanie Fischer, The Crafty Thinker.
It's no secret that I have LOTS of favourites in the new Catalogue but perhaps my most favourite is the Watercolour Wings stamp set. Why? Because it's so versatile and that's what I look for in my purchases! It combines beautifully with Butterfly Basics and both of the matching die sets - Butterflies Thinlits and the new Bold Butterfly Framelits. In fact I love this set so much that I made two projects for this blog hop!
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| Bleach technique, sponging. Best Thoughts & Watercolour Wings stamp sets |
The first is a simple latch card - thank you to Dina Kowal
at Splitcoaststampers for the great tutorial. I heat embossed the
flower image from Best Thoughts and "reverse coloured" by painting with
bleach, using more bleach in some areas than others to for shading and highlights. I stamped the Watercolour Wings butterflies twice, cutting one
with the plain die and one with the matching filligree die. I then
glued the two layers together at the centre and adhered them onto the
floral base, popping up the wings on dimensionals.
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| Inside |
The
colours I used are Island Indigo, Bermuda Bay and Pool Party. I
stamped the butterflies in these colours onto Soft Sky cardstock. The
butterfly bodies are Soft Suede. I decorated the latch edge of the card
with the Boho Chic embossing folder - using just the end and carefully
embossing twice in order to cover the entire length of the card (the
only way I could fit it all through the big shot as my card is quite
large).
The second is a card in a box. I made it with the new thick Whisper White card stock (so it's VERY sturdy!) which I decorated with English Garden DSP and filled with a variety of butterflies and foliage. The sentiment from Watercolour Wings is stamped onto Blushing Bride card and cut out with the Tags & Labels Framelits. I stuck that onto a slightly larger Night of Navy layer.
Foliage is from Kinda Eclectic (hand cut) and the Bird Builder Punch.
All the colours are drawn from the English Garden DSP.
I hope you've enjoyed these projects, I would really welcome your comments.
Thanks for taking part in our blog hop, there are so many amazing ideas and inspiration you don't want to miss. Remember that currently you are at my blog - Stephanie Fischer, so check the blog hop line up list to see who is next in the list as you don't want to miss out on seeing any of the blogs and the amazing inspiration they contain.
