Day 5 Dreamweaver and Stampendous

Here we are at the final day of the Dreamweaver Stencils and Stampendous Blog Hop. It has been a wonderful week filled with so many creative and beautiful designs from the members of the two design teams! It really helps to keep your creative juices flowing when you see how other people use the same products. I hope you have had the time to visit all the blogs this week, if not, take some time this weekend to go back and be inspired!

It's fun in the sun time again with another collaboration between Stampendous and Dreamweaver Stencils! We played together all of this week, with a fabulous hop today, Friday, August 2nd, featuring a slew of amazing talent from both teams, and of course...prizes!!!

Two prize packages will be given away for the comments left on posts Monday-Thursday, July 29th - August 1st, and one prize will be given away for comments left on the hop day, Friday, August 2nd. Winners will be selected randomly and announced Thursday, August 8th. (Note: USA addresses only, please, due to shipping costs.) Here's what you could win:

Stampendous Surfer and Sandcastle Kiddos • Dreamweaver Hot Air Balloon, Ice Cream Cones, Summer, Mosaic Swirls, Bird Words, and Sandcastle stencils

For my final design, I used Dreamweaver Stencils beautiful LL543 - Sm fuchsia stencil along with the equally beautiful CRR166 Cling Fuchsia from Stampendous, and one of the sayings from SSC1158 Thoughtful Wishes stamp set.

Dreamweaver Stencils LL543 - Sm Fuchsia
Stampendous CRR166 Cling Fuchsia and SSC1158 Thoughtful Wishes

Steps:

• Stamp the Cling Fuchsia two or three times with Archival Jet Black ink on white cardstock
• Use Distress Markers and a water brush to color the flowers and leaves (I used scattered straw and barn door for the flowers, old paper for the leaves and stems)
• Let dry or dry with a heat tool
• Stamp the saying with Archival Jet Black
• Use a foam applicator and Distress Inks old paper to rouge some color around the edges
• Mount onto a small black mat, then onto the front of a card made of Distress cardstock old paper
• For the stencil I did the Molten Magic technique
• Tape the stencil to black cardstock with removable tape
• Use a palette knife and paste spreader to apply a coat of Pearlescent Embossing Paste over the design
• Remove the stencil and place in water for cleaning later
• Use a soft brush to pick up various colors of Dreamweaver's Metallic F/X powders and sprinkle them over the wet paste (Gold Dust-01, Pink Poppy-03, Kimono Red-15 on the flowers, Kiwi-10, Ivy Garden-11 on the leaves and stems)
• Carefully lift the image and tap from underneath to "jump" the powders around a little, it will look quite messy at this point, but don't panic, it will clean up later
• Over a trash can or paper towel, flip the image to the back and tap off excess powders
• Turn back over and heat with a heat tool until you see bubbles form them move the tool to the next area until it is all bubbled
• Let it cool then wipe off any extra powder residue with a Swiffer cloth (you know, the ones you are supposed to be dusting with!)
• Mount on a mat of Distress old paper cardstock, then a small black mat
• Use foam tape to apply the stenciled image over the stamped image
• Add a beautiful bow and embellishment pin (I used a black COPIC marker to make mine black)

I hope you have enjoyed all my creations this week, I know I had a ball making them to share with you!

Now, hop on over to the next in line. Don't forget to leave some love for a chance to win, and just 'cuz it's nice!

Dream It Up!

Stampendous

Louise Healy (you are here!)

Jamie Martin

Janelle Stollfus 

Jennifer Dove Bonner

Lyn Bernatovich  

Krissy Fossmeyer

Terrece Siddoway

Laura Drahozal  

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Hornschu  

Lea Kimmel

Cherylynn Moser

Cyndi Bundi   

Suzanne Czosek

Jessica Griffin

Stacey Rumsby  

Tenia Nelson

Heidi Erickson

Rhea Weigand

Tobi Crawford
Asia King

Thanks for hopping with us this week!
Happy Creating,
Louise