Dreamweaver and Imagine Crafts Day 4!

 The fun continues in our first ever collaboration week with Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko! We've shared all of our toys on both sides, so be prepared for Endless Possibilities! Three prize packages are available, each containing one set of each of these inks and stencils/dies. Just leave comments on each post of each day this week (June 9th - June 13th) for a chance to win! Winners will be announced on Tuesday, June 17th!

Imagine Crafts New StazOn Pads from Tsukineko

Stencils and Dies Prize Package

Thursdays are the Dream Teams normal day for posting ideas based on our monthly challenge, so today I chose to incorporate the hop and our challenge of "Old, New, Borrowed, Blue" in my creation. Here it is:

Fairy flower circle - Glossy Blue Embossing Paste with Crystal glitter
Fan pattern and Petals background - VersaFine Majestic Blue Letterpress Technique

This card fits all the themes. Old = LJ813 Fan Pattern is from 2001, New = LM2012 Fairy flower circle was released in 2012 (newish counts), Borrowed = the card layout is from some cards I saw on Pinterest, and Blue = well, I think the card speaks for itself on this one! The background stencil is LJ899 Petals background. The ink is VersaFine Majestic Blue from IMAGINE Crafts, and the flower is done with Glossy Blue Embossing Paste. The ribbon is from May Arts, it wasn't quite the color I wanted, so I swiped the Majestic Blue ink pad over it to darken it so it would match better.

Letterpress technique used on Petals and Fan pattern:

• Tap the VersaFine Majestic Blue ink pad all over the back of the stencil
• Carefully place it on a clean paper towel on the large platform of a die cut machine
• Place white cardstock over the ink and hold in place while covering it with the rubber embossing mat
• Add two cutting plates (I use ones with no cuts when I emboss) and run through your machine
• Remove the embossed image and place it face up on the table
• Use a 3/4" stencil brush to brush a light coat of the Majestic Blue over the embossed areas
• Trim to fit, mount on white cardstock that has been edged with the blue ink

Paste embossing:

• Tape the Fairy flower stencil to white cardstock with removable tape
• Use a palette knife and paste spreader to apply a coat of Glossy Blue Embossing Paste over the stencil
• Remove the stencil and place in water for cleaning
• Immediately sprinkle the wet paste with Crystal glitter, let dry
• Edge a slightly larger square of white cardstock with the blue ink
• Mount the Fairy flower to the edged square and then onto the card

Just Imagine the possibilities of what everyone else has created!

Dream It Up!

Pam Hornschu

Darsie Bruno

Kristi Parker Van Doren 

Isha Gupta 

Louise Healy

Sylvia Blum 

Gill Wilson

Kristine Reynolds 

Baerbel Born

Laura Drahozal 

Lea Kimmel 
 Alison Heikkila

Happy Creating,
Louise

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Dreamweaver-Stampendous Blog Hop Day 3!

Welcome to Day 3 of the Dreamweaver Stencils and Stampendous Faces of Art blog hop! The Dream Team always loves incorporating the great products from Stampendous into our creations.

We were challenged to create using Dreamweaver and Stampendous products, and based on the name of the hop, "Faces of Art".   Here's what I created for you today:

 Today's creation has a more modern feel, I think so anyway. It's almost minimalist in that there are only three images used (plus the ric rak), but I really like how it turned out. From a distance, when it's hanging on a wall, it looks like a vase of flowers on a ledge and a couple of flowers have fallen. 

Up close, you see the detail of the Stampendous Blossom Beauty stamp shine through the acetate flowers.  I was going to add a flourish on the edges, but the more I looked at her, the more I liked her just like this!
Here's how I did it:

• Stamp the Blossom Beauty face with black ink on white cardstock
• Color her lips and eyes
• Place the open plastic template the comes with the stamp set over the stamped face and tape down with removable tape
• Use a 3/4" stencil brush and light green ink to stencil a little color over the whole face
• Lay the Fan pattern stencil (LJ813) over the face and tape in place with removable tape
• Use a 3/4" stencil brush to add more of the same color through the Fan stencil, repeat with a slightly darker shade of green
• Remove the fan stencil and wipe off the ink with a soft cloth
• Return the fan stencil over the green then shift it up so the openings are now between the first openings
• Use a clean 3/4" stencil brush to add a pink ink through the stencil
• Remove and clean the stencil and the plastic mask
• Stamp the Blossom image on acetate with Black StazOn ink six times
• Use the three different size dies to cut two flowers of each size
• Use Dreamweaver Color Solutions inks on the back of the acetate ( I used Lemoncello, Paprika Red, and Cosmo Pink), you can use an applicator to apply the ink or I just dropped some color around and let it spread, let them dry well
• Coat a 10" x 10" canvas with white Gesso, let dry
• Ink edges with stencil brush and the same light green ink from the face
• Draw a black line 2" up from the bottom edge of the canvas
• Stencil the fan pattern below the line with the light green color, you will have to move your stencil over, but this is an easy design to line back up
• Add a little of the pink color above the line
• Stencil the fan pattern on a piece of white cardstock that is slightly larger than the face, edge with a black marker
• Layer the face on a black mat, then on the larger stenciled piece and glue to the center of the canvas, lining it up along the black line
• Glue down the flowers (I use a liquid glue that dries clear and brush it all over the acetate, it does not show that way
• Add black ric rak around the edge

NOTE: when cutting the acetate flowers, I put the acetate flower on a piece of cardstock and die cut it, otherwise the acetate is too thin and doesn't cut cleanly. (but that could be my acetate, so you should experiment with yours first)

Be sure to hop over to the other designer's Faces of Art postings:

Stampendous Blog

Dream It Up! 

Jamie Martin

Louise Healy

Lyn Bernatovich 

Tenia Nelson 

Kristi Parker Van Doren

Pam Hornschu

Happy Creating,
Louise

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