Dreamweaver Thursday at Stampendous

Continuing our tradition of posting Dreamweaver Stencil ideas every Thursday, I 'm sharing a card we did recently in a class I taught. It uses the beautiful Bearded Iris stencil (LL516) from Dreamweaver at Stampendous, and the Letterpress technique.

Bearded Iris stencil (LL516) and the Cling Filigree stamp set (CRS5073)

Letterpress Technique:

• Place the stencil face down on a clean paper towel
• Pat an ink pad all over the stencil (I used Brilliance Orchid on this) until you have a nice coat of ink
• Carefully place the stencil ink side up on the large platform of your die cut machine
• Place your cardstock over the inked stencil, then a Rubber Embossing Mat, and two cutting plates
• Run through the machine to press the ink off the stencil and onto the cardstock and emboss your image at the same time
• Stamp the filigree design on the edges of the card and place the Iris in the center
• You can do this with ink sprays too, just be sure to use a spray box to contain the mist

It just so happens that the beautiful Cling Filigree Stamp Set I used on the edges is part of the prize package for this week's Stampendous - Clear Scraps Blog Hop. 

This week we are playing with some fantastic products from our friends at Clear Scraps and excited to share our finished projects. You can image how much fun it is to have a clean canvas to start with but when you use Clear Scraps it’s a see-through canvas!

Our friends at Clear Scraps take pride in new product inventions with the best interactive albums and the best innovative designs.  In addition to their own fantastic and innovative products, Clear Scraps sells a huge selection of Stampendous products as they travel the nation visiting various consumer shows like Scrapbook Expos and others.

Clearly we have prizes!!! We have three prize packages up for grabs each will include our Cling Jumbo Filigree Stamp Set, a Jumbo Perfectly Clear Acrylic Handle, PLUS a Clear Scraps Mixable Album and some extra acrylic accents! Comment on our blog and each designer’s blog of the day throughout this week of our hop and the winners will be announced Monday, May 18th. Official Rules apply for Stampendous prizes. Please let us know where you live. As you know, prize winners have to be US residents EXCEPT….

Aussie Fans – Look HERE!An exciting treat for our fans “down under”!!
The Stencil Specialists , one of our Australian Wholesale Distributors, is going to offer a prize to one Australian fan every time we have a giveaway for US fans!!
How completely exciting and generous! Plus, they’re stocking way more than stencils from Stampendous now!

For the Clear Scraps Blog Hop week, The Stencil Specialists are offering:
A Stampendous Stamp, A Dreamweaver Stencil (LL size customer choice), A Silicone Mould,  A Tub of White Ultra Light Paper Clay and 3 packs of Adhesive Gems.  WOW… Now there’s a prize package! Comment each day on the Stampendous and participating designer blogs and be sure to include in your comment which area of Australia you live in! We’ll announce the winner the following week!

Enjoy more great creations over at these team member blogs:

Dreamweaver Thursday:

Stampendous Blog

Louise Healy

Pam Hornschu 

Laura Drahozal

Lyn Bernatovich
Jamie Martin
Alison Heikkila

Kristine Reynolds

Stampendous - Clear Scraps:

Stampendous Blog

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Lea Kimmel

Tenia Nelson

Clear Scraps Blog

Happy Creating,
Louise

JULY...a month to DIE for!

Welcome to week two of our Dreamweaver Stencils July Challenge! Hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July weekend, I know I did!
All of this month the Dream Team are featuring our newest toys...our DIES! You'd be surprised at how many we have, and what fun things you can do with them...especially when used in conjunction with many of their matching stencils. They are such a simple way to create an effective card.
Here's an example of a quick, yet beautiful card for when you just don't have the time to be too "creative"!

LL516 - Bearded Iris and DD004 Long Nesting Ovals

The steps to this are easy:

• Lay a piece of natural colored cardstock in your spray box
• Lay the Bearded Iris stencil (LL516) face up on the cardstock (you can see Lynell's name when it is face up)
• Use Memories Mist  Plum Sake and Lavender Tea in the flower and but areas, you can use a second piece of paper to help shield the leaves if you want
• Use Memories Mist Wheatgrass and Liquid Pine in the leaves and stem
• Carefully remove the stencil and place in water for cleaning
• Spray a light coat of Pale Ale and Iridescent Memories Mist in the background of the iris
• Remove Iris from the spray box and let it dry
• Take the largest oval from the Long Nesting Ovals (DD004) die set and place it cutting edge down over the Iris image
• Tape in place with removable tape and run through your die cut machine
• Edge the oval with Distress Ink vintage photo
• The background is a piece of vellum with Dreamweaver Color Solutions pounced around the whole piece (Citron, Mojito Green, & Gold Star), let dry
• I used a permanent glue stick over the entire piece of vellum and stuck it to the front of an A2 natural, top fold card, tied a piece of May Arts ribbon around the whole front and made a bow off to the right
• Add the oval iris with foam mounting tape for added dimension
• The A2 card was then adhered to a piece of lavender cardstock to really bring out the purple in the iris

The "B" team has more great creations for you on their blogs too! And don't miss our July Guest Designer, Terri Sproul.

Dream It Up!

Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy

Alison Heikkila

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Hornschu
Kristi Parker Van Doren 

and

Terri Sproul (GD)

Happy Creating,

Louise

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