February Flutters!

The Dreamweaver challenge for the month of February  is in full swing. It will be a short month of posts for the Dream Team, but we're pretty excited to share with you our versions of"February Flutters", meaning anything that flutters. Heart flutters, wings that flutter, breezes, sails, etc. So, come along for the ride and link your own "flutterings" to the Dream It Up! blog for a chance to win the stencil of your choice. 

Meanwhile, here's my "fluttering" for the week featuring the new Zen Butterfly (LL3037) stencil.

LL3037 - Zen Butterfly

Close up of Green and Blue Embossing Paste with Crystal glitter

To create this project, just follow these simple steps:

• Tape the stencil to white cardstock with removable tape
• Use a palette knife to apply two dollops of Glossy Blue Embossing Paste to a paste spreader and one of Glossy Green Embossing Paste
• Use the palette knife to gently swirl the two pastes together, be careful not to mix them too much
• Apply the blended paste across the stencil
• Save left over paste in a small container
• Remove the stencil and place in water for cleaning
• Sprinkle the wet paste with Crystal glitter, tap off extra and let paste dry
• While the paste dries, use a 3/4" stencil brush and the clean, dry butterfly stencil to stencil some butterflies in the background of a piece of light blue-green cardstock
• Layer into a beautiful card, embellish with a small bow

Fly on over to the other team member blogs for their fluttering creations!

Dream It Up! 

Lea Kimmel 

Louise Healy 

Stacey Rumsby 

Terrece Siddoway 

Wendy Jordan 

Pam Hornschu 

Cherylynn Moser

Happy Creating,

Louise

Clean and Simple (CAS)

It seems like everyone always pledges at the New Year to simplify life and lose weight. Well we decided we would make that our Dreamweaver Stencils challenge for the month of January - create Clean and Simple (CAS) cards with not too much froo froo (you know, all those extras we always think a card needs). It is also CHA weekend this weekend, so we are sharing some of the latest designs from Dreamweaver too! CLICK HERE TO SEE THE 10 NEW STENCILS!!
Each week this month I will be posting with the new release stencils, and by the end of the month with the new DIE CUTS! Yes, that's right Dreamweaver has added more die cuts. CLICK HERE TO SEE THEM!
This week I used two of the new stencils to create a modified Zentangle card, we call them "sten-tangled" because we use another stencil to make our design. Confused yet?  It's obvious once you see it:

LL3037 - Zen Butterfly with overlay
LX7025 - Crusade

Isn't the new Zen Butterfly (LL3037) gorgeous!! It is especially striking with the new Crusade background (LX7025) as an overlay to create that Zentangled look! It was like they were made for each other.

This is very easy.

• Dry emboss the butterfly stencil on white cardstock that is slightly larger than the stencil (so you get the outside border when you emboss it)
• Carefully turn the embossed image over to the front leaving the butterfly stencil in place
• Overlay the Crusade stencil so the design is symetrical, tape in place with removable tape
• Use a Black Micron pen (01) to trace the openings of the Crusade stencil
• Remove the overlay and outline the butterfly openings
• Remove the butterfly stencil and use a Black Micron 005 to add little lines to each opening and to fill in the body and antennae
• Lay the crusade  stencil on white cardstock and use a Micron 01 to trace a strip of the design
• Trim all the piece to fit your card, layering the butterfly and strip on black mats
• Place the strip down the far left side of the card, use foam tape to apply the butterfly
• Embellish with some small black gems

Be sure to go to the other team blogs to see how they have used the new designs!

Dream It Up!
Jennifer Dove
Louise Healy
Stacey Rumsby
Terrece Siddoway
Wendy Jordan 
Pam Hornschu
Cherylynn Moser 

Heidi Erickson

Happy Creating,

Louise