Stampendous and Spellbinders By the Sea!

The Stampendous Design Team is having fun this week partnering up with the team at Spellbinders and we hope you'll like what we've created for you!

Our theme this week is By the Sea, so I've used a Spellbinder Nestabilities from the Labels Eight set to create my beach scene.

This was actually pretty easy to make, just follow these easy steps:

• Fold a white A2 top fold card in half and stamp the front with the swirl from the Mixed Media Cling Rubber Brush Strokes (CRS7001) set 
• Cut a label out of white cardstock with the second largest die from the Labels Eight set and stamp it with the swirl too
•  Paste emboss the Dreamweaver Scallop (LM106), Seahorse (LM181), and Starfish (LM209) with Regular Embossing Paste using a palette knife and paste spreader
• Remove the stencil and sprinkle with Golden Sand Embossing Powder, tap off excess and heat set, when cool, cut out the images 
• Sprinkle the bottom area of the die cut label with a combination of Golden Sand, Taupe fragments, and Bronze glass glitter, heat from underneath
• Tear two pieces of kraft cardstock for the "sand" area of the card 
• Edge everything with brown ink using an ink blusher
• Stamp the saying from the Life Words set, SSC1213, using Memento Tuxedo Black ink on kraft cardstock, tear edges and ink with brown
• Layer torn kraft cardstock along the bottom, front edge of the card then add the label, and more embossing elements along the bottom edge, heat
• Layer on the shells and saying, and add a knotted cord

Be sure to keep checking back with the team this week to see what else we have in "shore" for you!
Here's today's links:

Stampendous Blog

Louise Healy

Jamie Martin

Lyn Bernatovich

Kristine Reynolds

Happy Creating,
Louise

Flowers and Fairies Finale!

Flowers and Fairies have been the theme this week for our Stampendous Design Team, and there are so many wonderful stamps over at the Stampendous website!

I recently picked up this wonderful set at one of my local stores. I love flowers of all kinds and had to create something with it right away!

SSC1112 - Daisy Thanks 

Here's what I came up with today:

I stamped the flowers on Mixed Media White paper with Memento Tuxedo Black ink , then colored them with Chameleon Color Tones pens. I used the Labels Eight Spellbinders Nestabilities dies to cut the flowers out, and used the largest one to cut out a black mat. The Stampendous team will be joining the Spellbinders team next Wednesday, July 1st, to share ideas using products from both great companies. Plan on stopping by!

Here are the team members playing today:

Stampendous Blog

Jamie Martin

Laura Drahozal

Lyn Bernatovich

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Pam Bray

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Kimmel

Happy Creating,

Louise

Dreamweaver Thursday

It's Dreamweaver Thursday for the Stampendous Design Team, and we're excited to share some ideas with you! Our weekly theme is Flowers and Fairies, so, of course, I wanted to show you the perfect example using Dreamweaver Stencils. Well, it might not be perfect, but I really like how this turned out and hope you do too.

"Hidden gem"

I wasn't quite sure the idea in my head would work the way I thought it should, but I think it did! Do you see the Fairy hiding in the Wisteria?  She looks like she's hiding under a canopy of vines doesn't she?  Here's how to do it:

• Tape the Wisteria stencil (LG725) on white cardstock and use 1/4" stencil brushes to color the image, I used Brilliance Thyme and Lavender, use the Picasso (LL332) to help keep your colors where you want them
• Move the stencil over and add more Wisteria 
• Remove and clean the stencil
• Tape the Fairy stencil (LG762) along the bottom of the Wisteria
• Use a palette knife and paste spreader to apply Translucent Embossing Paste over the Fairy, remove the stencil and place in water for cleaning
• Carefully sprinkle the wings with UltraFine Crystal glitter, the "skin" areas with Micro Fine Crystal glitter, and the dress and hair with Micro Fine Lavender glitter, tap off extra, let paste dry
• The paste looks white when you put it on, but it dries clear, so the Fairy ends up looking like she is behind the flowers, it is very cool!
• Use 1/2" stencil brushes to add color around the edges 
• Stamp the friendship saying from the Friendship Assortment set (SSC1116) on white paper with Memento Tuxedo Black, and rouge color around that too
• Put it all together and you have a great card to send to a wonderful friend!

Fairy-ly certain you'll like these too!

Stampendous Blog

Jamie Martin

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Hornschu

Lyn Bernatovich

Laura Drahozal

Louise Healy

Happy Creating,
Louise

Flowers and Fairies!

Flowers and Fairies is the theme this week for our Stampendous Design Team, and the new flower fairy stamps released in April are a perfect fit. See all of them over at the Stampendous website!

I just love this Fairy Dance (CRW148) stamp, and had so much fun coloring her. You can change the colors to suit the person you are sending it to. Blue could say "heard you're feeling blue",  Yellow for "Sending sunny thoughts your way!". Well, you get the idea. I was in a pinky-lime mood, so that's how I colored mine. The wonderful saying is CRH319 Cling Timeless Fairytales.

"Tickled Pink!"

The fairy and saying were stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black then colored with COPIC markers. I added a little glitter for "pollen" on the stamen, and in the centers of the little flowers. Oh, in case you didn't notice, I stamped her twice, colored one whole image and just the tutu of the second image to cut out and overlay with foam tape on the petals, but flat at the waist. I thought it gave her a lot of dimension.

I want to wish my very talented, dear friend, Pam Hornschu, a Happy Birthday! Hope you're having a Fairy Tale day!

Our design team has more great ideas to share with you too!

Stampendous Blog

Jamie Martin

Louise Healy

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Asia King

Happy Creating,
Louise

Dreamweaver Gone Wild!

Today is Dreamweaver Thursday for the Stampendous Design Team, and we are still going wild this week! We're all excited to share some fun designs with you for our weekly challenge of "Let's Go Wild!" Stop by the Stampendous Blog each day this week for lots of wild ideas!

Several team members are featuring the new Pen Pattern stamps from the April Stampendous catalog. They are wildly adorable and perfect for adding a few tangles to the design.  Well, not to be outshined, and in keeping with the weekly theme, I'm featuring two of the great elephant stencils from Dreamweaver. These are perfect for adding a little, or a lot of wonderful patterns to the design!

LG756 Open Elephant Stencil and a saying from
SSC1226 Wild Sayings Perfectly Clear Stamps set
FRCK04 Hot Fragments Kit - Hot Pink, Hot Lime

LL3042 Small Elephant Stencil and another saying from
SSC1226 Wild Sayings Perfectly Clear Stamps set

Sten-tangled LL3042 Small Elephant Stencil with a saying from
SSC1115 Birthday Assortment Perfectly Clear Stamps set

For all three cards, I used a Faber-Castell PITT artist pen, in black (S), to outline the image on white cardstock. I colored them with Chameleon Color Tones pens,  YG3, PK3, CG8, and CB (the sten-tangled one also had BG4).  Mounted them on fun colorful cardstock from Bazzill, and added the perfect little sayings that were stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black.
The great thing is you can keep it simple, like the first two, or add several tangles for a more patterned look.  The Fragments from Stampendous are fun to add to anything using a little glue where you want to add them. Of course, a beautiful ribbon from May Arts always makes a card look better too!

Here's who else has gone wild today!

Stampendous Blog

Alison Heikkila 

Lea Kimmel

Lyn Bernatovich

Pam Hornschu 

Laura Drahozal

Louise Healy

Kristine Reynolds

Happy Creating,
Louise

Let's Go Wild!

The Stampendous Design Team is going wild this week! We're all excited to share some fun designs with you for our weekly challenge of "Let's Go Wild!" Stop by the Stampendous Blog each day this week for lots of wild ideas!
With Father's Day coming up this Sunday, I thought I'd create a card that any Father would be wild about.

Who doesn't love a good bear hug from someone they love! This was super easy to make:

• Fold a 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" piece of cardstock in half to form an A2 size card, I used Almond Dot from BoBunny
• Add a 4" x 5 1/4" piece of patterned paper to the front of the card, this is Pioneer from Authentique, edged with a brown COPIC marker
• Tape the Grizzly Bear stencil (LL593) to a small piece of Almond Dot, and paste emboss with Matte Black Embossing Paste, take a piece of paper towel and lay over the wet paste, press it down lightly to add a little pattern to the bear, slowly peel it off
• Remove and clean the stencil, let the paste dry about 10 minutes
• Use a soft paint brush to carefully brush Metallic F/X Cocoa over the drying paste, leaving the nose black, set aside to dry completely
• Stamp the Bear Hugs saying from Stampendous' Beary Mice set (SSC1216) in Archival Coffee Ink on a small piece of Almond Dot
• When the bear is dry, dust off any extra powders with a Swiffer cloth
• Mount the bear and the saying on brown mats and attach to the front of the card

Like I said, super easy and fun. Great for Father's Day, or someone's birthday. Now stop by these designers blogs for more wild ideas!

Stampendous Blog
Louise Healy (that's me)
Janelle Stollfus

Happy Creating,
Louise

Stampendous and Faber-Castell Blog Hop Finale!

This week our team has been showcasing the Art Grip Aquarelles Watercolor Pencils, the PITT Pastel Pencils, and our very special guest Nathalie Kalbach will be featuring the Gelatos! There will be guest-starring roles by the PITT Artist Pens for doodling and drawing!
Wait until you see the colorful inspiration we have for you this week! We are Blogging in Color!

3 Lucky Winners this week will get three sets of the PITT Pastel Pencils (red/yellow, blue/green, neutrals), a jar of Faber-Castell Chalkboard Paint, and $20 Stampendous reward card to choose their favorite images to color! WOW… these winners must have a U.S. mailing address (official rules here!)… BUT WAIT- Aussie Fans – The Stencil Specialist has you covered again this time!! One Australian Fan will win a Stampendous Stamp, a Dreamweaver Stencil (LJ size customer choice), and one Dreamweaver Stencils Regular Embossing Paste. Wow!!

My creation today was inspired by a wonderful tutorial by Jill Foster that I found on the Faber-Castell website.  See it here. I have never done a Mixed Media project quite like this before, so I decided it was about time I tried!. Wow, what fun! The best part is, you just find things you have that work together, mix and match, and before you know it you have layers upon wonderful layers of color and texture. I followed along the video step by step this first time to get the feel for how it works. Here's how mine turned out:

"Just be you!"

This is a combination of Stampendous stamps,  Dreamweaver stencils, and Faber-Castell products. I'll try to describe it layer, by layer.

• Start with a gesso primed 5" x 7" canvas
• Dry emboss LJ912, LJ914, and LJ915 stencils on white cardstock through a die cut machine
• Swipe Archival Ink over each (LJ912 - Manganese Blue, LJ914 - Olive, LJ915 Chrome Yellow)
• Cut each pattern into various width strips
• Attach to the canvas with Faber-Castell Gel Medium (applied with a brush), put another coat over the top of the paper too, and make sure to put some on the sides
• Dry with a heat tool
• Stamp a light colored mulberry or tissue paper with the Wired stamps from Stampendous (NKCRS02) in Archival Jet Black (I used the dots and the netting looking stamps)
• Cut into 3/4" strips and attach randomly around the edged with Gel Medium
• Dry well
• Randomly spread some Faber-Castell Gesso over the design and sides, dry well
• Color each area with similiar colored Gelatos and blend with your fingers
• Spray with a fixative so the Gelatos won't reactivate
• The Rooster (LG732) is from my stash of Dreamweaver images that haven't yet made it onto a card. This was done with the Faux Cloisonne technique (matte paste, ink applied with stencil brushes, clear embossing powder). I cut out the Rooster, leaving him attched to the fence, and the sun and applied them to the background with Gel Medium
• The definitions are stamped from the Musical Motif set (CRS7003) using Jet Black ink on light blue mulberry paper, torn, and attached around the design with Gel Medium, dry well
• Use PITT Artist Pens in Walnut Brown, Cold Grey and Black to add some shadows around different parts of the design and between the original strips
• I used the dot stencil that comes with the Wired set, and a foam brush to add some dots around the canvas, dried them, then colored lightly with Gelatos to soften them a little
• The words are from a saying in the Life Words set (SSC1213), stamped in Jet Black, cut apart, attach with Gel Medium, dried, then colored with a yellow PITT Pastel Pencil from the yellow/red set
• Use the PITT Artist Pens to continue shading where you want  (like around the words, rooster, sun)
• I thought the lower right corner needed a little something, so I added a clump of  black grass-like strips, then layered an Olive-colored ric-rak  and brown netting from May Arts across the bottom
• The flower was made by cutting two cream colored daisies off a piece of May Arts flower ribbon, misting them with water and dragging them thru a scribble of ArtGRIP Aquarelle red pencil on my craft mat to color them, dry, punch a little hole and hold together with a brad

The fun part about projects like this is you never know how they will turn out! I had so much fun making this, and definitely will be doing others!

Let’s check out today’s inspiration from our designers:

Stampendous Impressions Blog

Nathalie Kalbach

Louise Healy

Janelle Stollfus

Lyn Bernatovich

Pam Bray

Asia King

Pam Hornschu

Tenia Nelson

Laura Drahozal

Lea Kimmel

Alison Keikkila

Wendy Price

Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft Blog*

*Please note, if there is difficulty commenting on any blog, please let us know at submissions@stampendous.com. If the Blog Hop Post isn’t visible when you get to the link, try clicking on the blog header or home button to be taken to the latest post. If you still don’t see it, you may need to scroll down a few posts, sometimes bloggers have more than one event in a day. It’s also possible that the post isn’t live yet, please try back in a bit if you don’t find it. Due to time zone differences, we’re not all always on the same page. Thanks for your patience and your participation and kind comments.

Happy Creating,
Louise

Dreamweaver Thursday

It's Dreamweaver Thursday for the Stampdendous Design Team, and we're excited to bring you more projects to inspire you to try these great Dreamweaver products. It's Perfect Pets week for our team challenge this week, so I've combined Dreamweaver and the Perfect Pets theme along with some wonderful products from Faber-Castell.

We are also having a collaboration this week with the team from Faber-Castell - Design Memory Craft division, so be sure to check that out too over at the Stampendous Impressions Blog! There are prizes to be had!

Here's what I created for you today:

Due to severe allergies, there are no four legged pets in our house. But, we've had fish several times (you know why I have to say several times!), and used to put some big goldfish in our pond each summer. Used to...until the heron stopped by one day for lunch and punched a hole in our liner! We decided water lilies are pretty too.

To create the Koi and background, I used the Dreamweaver Koi stencil, LG613, the I Beams stencil, LX7028, with Regular Embossing Paste. After the paste was dry, I put the clean, dry stencil back over the design and colored with Faber-Castells beautiful PITT Pastel Pencils from the red/yellow set, blending the colors with a 1/4" stencil brush. I used the black from the neutrals set to add a little shading on the fish.

Be inspired by these team members too!

Stampendous Blog

Louise Healy

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Kimmel

Alison Heikkila 

Lyn Bernatovich 

Pam Hornschu

Laura Drahozal

Happy Creating,
Louise

Perfect Pets!

Welcome to the Stampendous  Design Team weekly challenge of  "Perfect Pets!".  All the team members are excited to share some of the great pet images that Stampendous and Dreamweaver offer, plus the purr-fect sayings!

We are also having a collaboration this week with the team from Faber-Castell - Design Memory Craft division, so be sure to check that out too over at the Stampendous Impressions Blog! There are prizes to be had!

Today I combined the adorable Feline Curious (P243) stamp from Stampendous, with a saying from the Dreamweaver Kitty Words stencil (LG741), and the wonderful Aquarelle Watercolor Pencils from Faber-Castell, to create this cute notecard:

What's Mew?

Isn't he just the purr-fect card to send to someone you know who loves cats?! And...he was very easy to do (bonus points!).

• Stamp the cat image on white cardstock or watercolor paper with Memento Tuxedo Black
• Use the Aquarelle Watercolor Pencils to add some colors you like (you don't have to be exact, you'll blend it with water afterwards), using the markings on the stamp to show you where the darker spots should be (I used colors from the Yellow and Green sets). The nice thing about the sets is that all the colors blend beautifully, and you get a paint brush in each set. Use the paintbrush and water to smooth out and blend the colors. If you are working on a good cardstock, you still have to be a little careful how much water you use at a time. I would blend a layer of color, heat it to dry it, then add more. 
• After the watercolors were nice and dry, I used an Essential PITT Artist Pen in Walnut Brown to do a little more shading on the face, and a Black Superfine Pen to go back over some of the black lines that I wanted to stand out a little more (like around the eyes, nose and whiskers).
• I place the Kitty Words stencil on white cardstock and outlined the saying I wanted with an Essential PITT Artist Pen in Black with an Extra Superfine nib, took off the stencil, and finished coloring in the letters.
• Cut out the Cat, leaving about a 1/2" of cardstock on the right side, so he looks like he's peeking around a corner 
• Mat a piece of yellow cardstock on black, then attach the Cat flat along the right edge, but with a piece of foam tape under his head for more dimension, don't forget to finish off his whiskers on the cut side. I used the PITT Black Superfine Artist Pen to add the whiskers on the yellow paper.
• Mat the saying on black too
• I thought the green background paper really brought out the eyes.

See what other Perfect Pets the team members have for you today:

Stampendous Blog
Jamie Martin
Louise Healy (that's me)
Janelle Stollfus

Happy Creating,
Louise

Who Loves to Color!

I know I love to color! Whether its with inks and stencil brushes, COPICs, Pastel Pencils, Gelatos, Watercolor pencils, Chameleons, you name it, I can find a way to use those colors!  This week the Stampendous Design team has the privilege of working with various products from Faber-Castell - Design Memory Craft division!

Our team will be showcasing the Art Grip Aquarelles Watercolor Pencils, the PITT Pastel Pencils, and our very special guest Nathalie Kalbach will be featuring the Gelatos! There will be guest-starring roles by the PITT Artist Pens for doodling and drawing!
Wait until you see the colorful inspiration we have for you this week! We’ll be Blogging in Color!

PRIZES

3 Lucky Winners this week will get three sets of the PITT Pastel Pencils (red/yellow, blue/green, neutrals), a jar of Faber-Castell Chalkboard Paint, and $20 Stampendous reward card to choose their favorite images to color! WOW… these winners must have a U.S. mailing address (official rules here!)… BUT WAIT- Aussie Fans – The Stencil Specialist has you covered again this time!! One Australian Fan will win a Stampendous Stamp, a Dreamweaver Stencil (LJ size customer choice), and one Dreamweaver Stencils Regular Embossing Paste. Wow!!

Here's what I created for you today:

This was done using the Stampendous Cling Jumbo Lovely Garden (CRS5066) and Die Cut set (DCS5066). I stamped the flowers and leaves on watercolor paper with Archival Jet Black ink. If your stamping isn't perfect, that's ok, use a Black brush nib Essential PITT Artist Pen from Faber-Castell to correct any lines. Next I used the wonderful Aquarelle Watercolor Pencils from Faber-Castell to color my flowers and leaves. It's hard to notice in the picture, but on the leaves I did a little shading around the edges with a gray PITT Artist Pen. Cut everything out with the matching dies, finish off the edges and create a beautiful card for a friend with all the pieces! The saying is from the Thoughtful Wishes set (SSC1158) from Stampendous.

Be sure to stop over at these team member blogs for an even more "colorful" day:

Stampendous Impressions Blog
Louise Healy (that's me!)
Asia King
Wendy Price
  Amy Hurley-Purdie
Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft Blog

*Please note, if there is difficulty commenting on any blog, please let us know at submissions@stampendous.com. If the Blog Hop Post isn’t visible when you get to the link, try clicking on the blog header or home button to be taken to the latest post. If you still don’t see it, you may need to scroll down a few posts, sometimes bloggers have more than one event in a day. It’s also possible that the post isn’t live yet, please try back in a bit if you don’t find it. Due to time zone differences, we’re not all always on the same page. Thanks for your patience.

Happy Creating,
Louise

Doodlie Doo Finale!

Our week of Doodlie Doo is wrapping up today. We have a great line up of ideas for you,
Today I'm sharing a multi-layered piece I created from the Rolling Hills stencil (LJ910):

The Rolling Hills stencil was outlined 3 times on white cardstock. with a Sakura Black Micron pen. On the first layer, I created a sunrise and "sky area, along with a couple of rolling hills. One the second layer I just did a couple more hills, and on the third, just the bottom few hills.

I used Prismacolor pencils to color the image and a black marker and filled in between the hills. The first layer was left whole, the second lay was cut off four rows up from the bottom, and the third layer was cut two rows up and the "clouds" were cut from this also. Each layer was popped up with foam tape.

Here's our list of participants today:

Stampendous Blog

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Pam Hornschu

Kristine Reynolds

Kristine Reynolds (Thursday Post)

Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy (Thursday Post)

Louise Healy

Tenia Nelson

Wendy Price (Thursday Post)

Wendy Price

Pam Bray

Exciting news! Next week we will be hopping with the team from Faber-Castell.

Faber-Castell is one of the oldest corporations in the world. They created the very first lead pencil with wood around the lead in the 1600's. We are thrilled to be working with this amazing company and using their fun products. Different team members will be posting throughout the week, with the main Blog Hop being on Friday, June 12th. You won't want to miss a day of it!

Happy Creating,

Louise

Dreamweaver Thursday Sten-tangle

It's Dreamweaver Thursday at Stampendous and our team is excited to share our ideas with you today. We've been working all week with a Doodlie Doo theme, and I'm incorporating that today with more Sten-tangling.

LG751 Owl with Black Matte Paste, Metallic FX powders, let dry, then tangled on the paste

LG751 Owl

Here's who's playing today:

Stampendous Blog

Kristine Reynolds

Louise Healy

Pam Hornschu 

Alison Heikkila

Laura Drahozal

Lyn Bernatovich

Lea Kimmel
Tenia Nelson

Happy Creating,
Louise

More Sten-tangling Fun!

Our Doodlie Doo fun continues today. Do you like to doodle or Zentangle? The Stampendous Dreamweaver Design Team is having a great time creating wonderful projects for you.
Here are mine for today:

LG740 Open Butterfly

LL3037 Zen Butterfly with LX7025 Crusade bkgd overlay

The Open Butterfly was done on yellow cardstock and filled with various Zentangle patterns. If you love the look of patterned designs but don't know any patterns yet, no problem, on the second card I took a background stencil, placed it over the first stencil and outlined the design of the background stencil. Both were done with Sakura Black Micron pens 01 and 005.

Stop over at the other team members to see what they've come up with today.

Stampendous Blog

Pam Hornschu

Kristine Reynolds

Louise Healy

Happy Creating,
Louise

Doodlie Doo!

Welcome to the Stampendous Dreamweaver Design Team weekly challenge. This week our theme is "Doodlie Doo!". That can mean official Zentangle patterns, or just your own doodling (you know, when you're in a meeting or talking on the phone, and you start drawing little patterns all along the edges of the agenda or list in front of you!), yeah, that kind of doodling

I have always been a doodler, but  I really got into it a couple of years ago when the Dreamweaver Design Team was invited to create some Zentangle images using stencils as our jumping off point. It was so much fun! Be sure to see Zentangle 6 for our creations (I have two cards in there!). I took a class from a ZCT and the rest is history, I have been combining Tangles and stencils ever since. Stencils and open stamps are perfect for adding beautiful patterns.

Today I'm sharing a card I created a while back using stencils and Tangles as the focal point and some of Dreamweaver's great background patters behind it.

Zen Balloon

The Balloon stencil (LG669) was layed on white cardstock and traced with a Sakura Micron 01 black pen. After removing the stencil, I created my "string" with a pencil to give me several areas for patterns. Because this is such a large open stencil, I was able to use that same 01 pen for my tangles. Normally I would switch to an 005 pen which is a much finer tip and easier to use in small openings.

The great background pieces are, from the upper left going clockwise, LJ913 Houndstooth, LJ915 Opto Checkerboard, LJ912 Triangle weave, and LJ914 Herringbone.  Those were dry embossed through a machine using white cardstock and a rubber embossing mat. The stencils are the perfect size for a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" piece of paper, so I always do a whole piece, brush color on using an ink pad  (I used Distress inks on these) and 1/2" stencil brush, then cut it to the size I need, then touch up the edges again. That way I can use the scraps for another project!

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to doodle so I had to (yes, HAD TO, I couldn't help myself!) create a piece using a stamp from Stampdendous too.

Jumbo Leaves CRS5052 - used the Maple leaf from the set

Here's a close up!

Here's the set I used:

For this, I inked the stamp with Memento Tuxedo Black, stamped it on cream cardstock, and did my Tangles using a Micron 005 black pen.  

To finish it off, I colored the leaf with PITT Pastel Pencils from Faber-Castell, and used a paper blending stump to blend the colors. I used the red/yellow set for the leaf and corners, and the gray from the neutrals set to shade a little on the edges of the leaf. Just using my finger, I could move a little of the color off to the background to soften the look. If you haven't tried these pencils yet, they are awesome!  The three Candis were originally white, so I colored them with a Journaling PITT Artist Pen in Sanguine (a gorgeous color), also from Faber-Castell.

After matting the leaf on black, then a rust cardstock, I sprinkled one corner with Fran-tage aged copper embossing enamel and Bronze glass glitter (both from Stampendous), and heated it from below. Attached the leaf to a black card base. The saying is from the Life Words set (SSC1213).

Even if you aren't a doodler, but like to color, we have the solution for you! Our great Cling Pen Pattern Leaves already have the patterns and you just have to color! And even better, there's a matching die set.

Well, that's it for today. I'll be posting more Doodlie Doos on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

Stop over at the Stampendous blog for some Doodlie Doo goodness, and check back all week from more fun creations from our team!

Stampendous Blog

Happy Creating,

Louise