Artfully Articulate: 3" embellishment pin

Monday, June 5, 2017

Elephant Greetings!

What a fun week it's going to be for the Stampendous Design Team with our theme of "Where the Wild Things Are"!!! Stampendous has sooooo many great images that work perfectly for this fun theme! Lucky for me, because I'm part of the team, Stampendous has provided me several of these to create lots of samples!

Today I'm sharing the Dreamweaver Open Elephant stencil (DWLG756) paired with the Pop Rectangles stencil (DWLJ929) in the background to create a Welcome Baby card. Just by changing the base card color, you can make it girlish, boyish, don't knowish (pale yellow or green). Plus, it's pretty quick and easy.

Stampendous:

SSC1242 Animal Mobile PCS
Acrylic Handle
MPW811 Mixed Media White Paper
DCP1006 Fitted Frames B Die Cut - R (elephant), K (words)
MEM01 Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®

Dreamweaver:

DWLG756 Open Elephant Stencil
DWLJ929 Pop Rectangles Stencil
DWDEP Regular Embossing Paste
DWDSP Silver Embossing Paste
DWDGWP Glossy White Embossing Paste
DWDPK Palette Knife
DWLM2010 Paste Spreader

Plus:
My Colors Cardstock - Spearmint, Caribbean Sea
Brilliance Inks- Pearlescent Orange, Pearlescent Coral,Pearlescent Thyme
Foam tape
Die Cut Machine
Removable tape
Zutter 1/2" corner rounder

Instructions:

Step 1: Fold a 6" x 9 1/2" piece of Spearmint cardstock in half to form an A6 card
Step 2: Die cut a white and dark teal layer from the Fitted Frames set B size R for the elephant, and size K for the saying

Step 3: Tape the Elephant stencil to the white die cut frame with removable tape
Step 4: Use the palette knife to mix a small dollop of Regular and an equal amount of Silver embossing pastes together on a piece of freezer paper until well mixed, this will create a matte silver paste, use the paste spreader to apply a coat across the elephant stencil, remove the stencil and place in water for cleaning, let image dry
Step 5: Tape the Pop Rectangles stencil to the front left side of the card with removable tape

Step 6: Use a palette knife and paste spreader to apply a coat of Glossy White Embossing Paste over the rectangles, remove stencil and place in water for cleaning, let paste dry well
Step 7: Stamp the Welcome Baby on the small white frame using Tuxedo Black ink, then adhere to the matching Spearmint mat

Step 8: Round the corners of the card
Step 9: Adhere the elephant to it's matching frame, then use foam tape to attach it to the card front
Step 10: Adhere the saying to the elephant layer

Check out more wild designs at the

Stampendous Blog

Happy Creating,
Louise

Friday, August 2, 2013

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!)

Tobi Crawford
Asia King

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