Thursday, January 28, 2016

Welcome to the Hop!

Welcome to the Stampendous and May Arts blog hop for Thursday!  Both teams have been sharing some wonderful creations this week with the products from these two great companies.


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The new Fitted Frames sets A and B from Stampendous work perfectly with the stencils too!


Stampendous:
SSC1242 Animal Mobile Perfectly Clear Set
MPW811 Mixed Media White Paper
Acrylic Handle
MEM01 Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®
DCP1006 Fitted Frames B - P, K

Dreamweaver:
DWLL482 Pineapple Stencil
DWDEPT Translucent Embossing Paste
DWNHB-12 1/2" Brush #12 Natural Handle
DWGHB-6 1/4" Brush #6 Gold Handle
DWDPK Dreamweaver Palette Knife
DWLM2010 Paste Spreader

Plus:
My Colors Cardstock - Herb Garden
Canvas Corp Cardstock - Green and Ivory Lattice
Memento Marker - Rich Cocoa
Brilliance Inks - Sunflower Yellow, Pearlescent Orange, Pearlescent Rust, Rocket Red, Pearlescent Olive, Pearlescent Thyme
May Arts Ribbon
Mini Glue Dots
Micro glitter Gold
Foam tape
Removable tape
Paper towel

Instructions:
Step 1:  Fold a 4 5/8" x 12" piece of Green & Ivory Lattice cardstock in half to form an A6 card
Step 2:  Die cut a white and green layer from the nesting frames set
Step 3: Tape the stencil to the white die cut frame with removable tape
Step 4:  Use a 1/2" stencil brush to rouge a coat of yellow ink over the whole design, use 1/4" brushes to add more colors, remove and clean the stencil
Step 5:  Place the clean, dry stencil back over the colored image and use a palette knife and paste spreader to apply Translucent Embossing Paste over the stencil, remove the stencil and place in water for cleaning, let the paste dry very thoroughly, it will dry with a clear, glossy finish
Step 6: Die cut a small white and green mat using the nesting frames set
Step 7:  Place the Welcome Baby stamp from the Animal Mobile set on an acrylic handle, mask the word Baby and ink only the Welcome with black ink, stamp on the small white frame
Step 8: Adhere the Welcome to the matching green mat, add a Mini Glue Dot at each end and sprinkle with Gold Micro Glitter
Step 9: Wrap  a yellow May Arts ribbon around the card front and tie a bow near the left edge
Step 10:  Adhere the Pineapple layer to the matching green mat and use foam tape to attach the pineapple and welcome to the card front

Keep on hopping:




Laura Drahozal (DW and May Arts)



Pam Bray (DW and May Arts)

Louise Healy (DW and May Arts)



Happy Creating,
Louise

19 comments:

Sabrina said...

Very pretty card!!

P Beatty said...

I love the welcoming pineapple! Very pretty card.

Helen Gullett said...

What a fun card with that pineapple! :)

barbara macaskill said...

Simple yet beautiful!!! LOVE the pineapple and that background ROCKS!! TFS!

Sue D said...

Great framing and I like the realistic colors for the pineapple.

Viki Banaszak said...

This is gorgeous!!! I love the coloring on the pineapple. It is just perfect and has such depth.

Shari said...

Very pretty. I love the colors. ♥♥♥

Mary Holshouser said...

the pineapple looks so realistic. the shading is great.
Just came home from Hawaii - saw some just like this one while I was there.
thanks for sharing.

Stampendous said...

Such beautiful color and shading on this ink-stenciled pineapple. The May Arts bow is the perfect pop to bring it all together! Thanks for sharing with us this week.

McStamper said...

Nice card.

D.Ann C said...

Terrific coloring on that pineapple!

cghundley said...

Lovely coloring on
your card! Cute
design.
Carla from Utah

jordanbev5@yahoo.com said...

I am in amazed at your perfect stencil coloring!! Your card is beautiful!

Unknown said...

This is so pretty and your stencil work is amazing!

Late Blooming said...

really nice coloring. Thanks for sharing

Lea said...

Wowzers, Louise! I love this card! Such beautiful shading on the pineapple! Very well done!

Jean said...

So pretty!

Kate Pape said...

I've heard that presenting a pineapple is a traditional welcoming gift, so this is such a great stencil to use.

Linsey R said...

What a sweet card! Your pineapple is colored marvelously! Love it! Thanks so much for your great inspiration! :)