Photo Inspiration

Happy Sunny Sunday,

It's a very warm 40 degrees here in Gippsland today, the perfect days to stay indoors with the air con going and get stuck into some crafting. Today I have made a card to enter into this weeks Just Add Ink challenge. This is the photo to inspire us and as soon as I saw the crisp colours and beautiful big flower, I knew exactly what I was going to create. The card I have made features a large yellow flower made with the full heart punch from Stampin' Up! Here is the card and a few instructions to help you re-create it for yourself.

The colours I have used are Marina Mist, Daffodil Delight and Pear Pizzazz with a touch of Basic Black stamping. I wanted to keep the colours crisp just like in the photo so opted to sponge all the cardstock and papers in the matching tones. The sentiment and butterfly are from the For Everything stamp set. I have simply stamped the sentiment, using my Stamp-a-ma-jig to line it up straight onto the card in Basic Black and then highlighted the Thanks with Marina Mist ink and a blender pen. The butterfly was stamped onto white card and blended with Daffodil Delight ink, I then cut it out and adhered it to the card.

Here's how you can re-create the flower.............

You will need 7 hearts to make your flower.

Using the Full Hearts Punch, punch out your hearts in your chosen colour, I have used Stampin' Up DSP in Daffodil Delight. Next fold all of your hearts down the center. To make the leaves you want to use the       1 3/4" circle punch. Take a piece of Old Olive cardstock about 4cm wide, the length will depend on how many leaves you want to add, fold in half length ways.  Slip the folded edge of the card into the punch about a quarter to a third of the way in. The size of your leaves will depend on how far into the punch you place your card.

You can vary the size of the leaves depending on how far into the punch you place the card.

 Next ink all your pieces including the center fold of the leaves. I wanted to create a darker center to my flower so I have also sponged the tips of the hearts with Basic Black ink. Now you are ready to assemble.

Sponge the edges of all pieces including the center fold of the leaves.

Using Daffodil Delight cardstock or DSP, punch out a circle using the 1 3/4" punch. Cover the circle with Multipurpose Liquid Glue, leaving a border about 5mm in from the edge.  Allow this to sit for a minute so it starts to go a little tackier, this will be the base for your flower. Start adding the hearts to the circle base, heart tip first, mountain fold up.Work your way around until you have a nice even flower. Add a button or brad to the center to finish. Adhere flower to card front and place leaves where appropriate and there you have a beautiful flower card. I think this would look great in shadow box frames up on the wall too........ maybe a project for another day!


Happy Creating, Dani xoxo


SUPPLIES:
All product are from Stampin' up! unless otherwise stated.
Stamp Set:     For Everything (116686)

Inks:              Marina Mist (119668), Daffodil Delight (119667), Old Olive (102277), Basic Black (101179)

Cardstock:    Marina Mist (121682), Daffodil Delight DSP (117155), Old Olive (106576)

Punches:       Full Heart Extra Large (119883), 1 3/4" Circle Extra Large (119850)

Accessories: Multipurpose Liquid Glue (110755), Blender Pen (102845) Stamp-a-ma-jig (101049)
                    Button from my stash

Blissful freebies!

Hi there,
Today I am going to do a quick share of one of those snippets I showed you from the FREE stamp sets available through the Sale-A-Brations promotion at Stampin' Up! This delightful little card I whipped up using the Bliss set, which you can get for free simply by placing an order over $100 or holding a workshop with $600 in sales.

SUPPLIES

Cardstock; Crumb Cake (121685), Old Olive (106576), Cherry Cobbler (121681)

Inks: Crumb Cake (121030), Old Olive (102277), Cherry Cobbler (119669)

Accessories: Hemp Twine (100982)
Square Lattice Textured Impressions Embossing Folder (119976)
Scallop Trim Border Punch (118402)

Check out the Sale-A-Brations catalogue for more info about how you can get this set and more  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


Art4U Tip........The Square Lattice Texture folder almost makes your paper feel like material, try stamping your card stock before you run it through the texture folder, you can get some great results from doing this. Stumped for ideas, take some inspiration from the clothes and linen you see around you.

Until next time............Happy Creating, Cheers Dani xoxo

Dauber Landscaping

 

Hello, today I am going to share with you a landscape card that I have created. I have seen this style of card done many times on the SU demonstrators sight and just had to have a go at it myself. It is not technically a CASE as i have certainly added my own touches to it that I haven't seen anyone else do before such as the grassy bracks on the waters edge, however there have been cards done with mountains in the background and a deer in the foreground. So now I suppose you would like to know just how to create this card??

Firstly you need to use white glossy paper for your card front. I find that the inks blend much nicer on this card. Next you take a scrap piece of computer paper and you just want to tear it to create mountain shapes. There is no right or wrong to this, creative licence all the way!

 Once you are happy with the shape you then want to take the negative of this shape (so lets say the sky section above the mountain) and place it where you would like you first (green) mountain to go. Then load up your dauber with ink ( I used Old Olive) and starting at the torn paper edge start blending the area  making sure to soften the colour as you go down the mountain. Once happy, you then need to use the positive of your mountain to mask it off, and we are going to repeat the process for the mountain behind ( I used Soft Suede Ink). I actually made a different shape for this mountain because as we know, no two mountains are the same!!

Next, take your Old Olive dauber and along the bottom edge and up the left hand side softly blend some colour, again, darker on the edge and softening as you move into the card. Remember, we are adding a lake so don't get to excited with the colour just yet. Take your Marina Mist Ink and with your dauber nicely loaded start filling in your lake area, now you don't want straight edges on this so be a bit random especially on the far side of the lake. Use your dauber without adding anymore ink to lightly add colour to the sky. OK, so now we want to add some depth to or lake, take your dauber and lightly load with night of navy ink. You want to add this slowly towards the back of the water near the mountains, you can always add more if it isn't dark enough but is hard to remove if you go too dark!! Once you are happy it is time to stamp.

I have used the lovely images from the Pocket Silhouette Set, if you don't have this any leafy stamp will do, or you can order it by contacting me at daniellefrendo@yahoo.com.au . Take your leafy image and stamp in Old Olive ink around the bottom and left hand edge of the card, next take the fairy flower image and ink up in Soft Suede but try not to ink the stems to much, you don't want all the lines at the bottom of you card. Stamp this amongst the leaves and also just above so it adds another layer. Next again with Old Olive just inking the tops of  bracks stamp in the grassy areas and don't be scared to double stamp without re inking in between!

Beautiful, now you have a great setting to add your deer!

Take your Early Espresso ink and Dasher stamp. I didn't want all the antler so I have Masked them off to shorten. Again artistic licence here, you do what you like. Stamp Dasher standing on the bank, next again with the Early Espresso ink stamp a few leafy images in the left corner of your card to give your foliage some depth.

You can add any sentiment you like, I have used the happiness sentiment from the Heard from the Heart set. I have mounted it onto Early Espresso card stock.

I hope you have fun making this card, as I said there is no wrong or right to this method, artistic license all the way!!!!