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  • Gilded Rainbow Tutorial

    Posted on by Julie 13 Comments

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    Click on any picture to enlarge.

    Supplies Needed:

     

    Step One:

    Brayer the entire piece of paper using the rainbow ink pad.

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    Step Two:

    Crumple the piece of brayered paper into a ball.

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    Step Three:

    Flatten out the paper and ink the creases using the direct to paper (DTP) technique. I’m using Tea Dye Distress ink.

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    Step Four:

    Crumple the paper once again, flatten out and ink the creases with a darker ink. I’m using Ancient Page Sienna ink. Repeat steps 3 & 4 with a different ink color. I’m using the Distress Fired Brick ink.

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    Step Five: (Optional)

    I wanted to tone the color down a little, so I used the Soft Wheat ink all over the paper.

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    Step Six:

    Crumple the paper a final time, smooth out and ink the creases with the metallic gold pigment ink. I‘m using the Encore Ultimate Metallic Gold ink.

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    Step Seven:

    Sprinkle on the embossing powder. Do not cover the entire paper. I used a little measuring spoon to drop the powder here and there. Tap off the excess and return to the jar. Heat the powder until melted and until any non coated areas are dry.

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    Step Eight:

    Enjoy your finished background! Here’s a card example using a piece of this finished background. I used it for a backing layer for some color behind the leaves on the marigold panel.

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  • ISC August Release Day 2

    Posted on by Julie 19 Comments

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    Background Series: Ledger/Nature Silhouette III

    Lately, have you noticed all the lovely Ledger design paper at your local stamp store? Well, now you can create a ton of lovely backgrounds on your cards and even in a mini book with this lovely Ledger image!

    The Creative Architects were challenged to incorporate some of the images from both of these lines on our card. Moreover, Nature Silhouette III bodes well with Nature Silhouette I/II.

    A little tip from Betsy: Use caution, but you can cut apart each of the images on the Hollyhock Shadow stamp and place them on your acrylic mount and arrange to your liking, then stamp away!

    For my card, I white embossed the Hollyhock Shadow onto a large shipping tag then sponged on three colors of distress inks.  I tore the side and bottom of the tag and used scissors and ink to further distress them. A portion of a punched fence was also sponged and added to the bottom. The white layer was embossed with a grid pattern embossing folder (Tim Holtz/Sizzix line). I distressed the edges all around.  I used a ticket corner punch and some sheer tissue ticket tape to create the small ticket in the upper right and tucked it into a tiny white envelope. You can see more of this tape across the center of the card.

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    For the background, I white embossed the ledger then sponged on the distress inks as before. The little sentiment was also white embossed onto inked c/s and cut out.  The little butterfly was cut out and popped up with a little foam tape. Finished card measures 4.25 x 5.50 (A2).

    Thanks so much for stopping by! Please be sure to visit the entire Architect team. I know they’ll have wonders to behold!

    1. Kathy Tucker
    2. Joanne Grzelak
    3. Julie Warner (you are here!)
    4. Karen Dunbrook
    5. Judi Rose

    6. ISC Blog

     

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    I’m also including this in Today’s Moxie Fab challenge.

    Supplies:
    stamps: ISC – Nature Silhouette III, Ledger
    paper: white, lg shipping tag
    ink: Distress Inks  in broken china, worn lipstick, spiced marmalade,  shabby shutters & peeled paint, white pigment ink
    accessories: white embossing powder, Martha Stewart iron fence punch,  tiny envelope, sheer tissue ticket tape, grid embossing folder (Sizzix/Tim Holtz)


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  • View of the Lake FS183

    Posted on by Julie 11 Comments

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    Congrats to Vicki, today’s Featured Stamper at SCS! I chose her Beach Vacation to case. I kept the same colors and water scene theme but chose a different stamp set and different layout.

    I just love this beautiful lake view scene! The first idea that came to me was sort of a window/frame looking in to the center of the picture and this is pretty much as I pictured it. On water color paper, I black embossed the scene twice and used a paint brush, water and dye reinkers to paint both scenes. I added more color details with markers. I placed a template of  one of the Spellbinders Labels 8 in the center of one scene and traced it with a pencil. I determined which elements to cut around with a craft knife so they would be on the top frame. It was a bit of a challenge and took my out of the box Nestie technique to a new level, lol.

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    I cut the 5.5 x 4.25 white card with the largest of the Labels 8 dies and used the in between size to cut the brown mat. I used the end of the die to cut the embossed sentiment. (You can actually see the entire sentiment when viewed from straight on, but this angle cuts some of it off.)

     

    Thanks so much for stopping by! Your comments are always read and much appreciated.

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    Supplies:

    • stamps: Innovative Stamp Creations
    • paper: white, dk brown, water color
    • ink: VersaFine onyx, black pigment, , various dye reinkers
    • accessories:  black Permapaque marker, Spellbinders labels 8, black detail embossing powder,  Tombow markers

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