Stamping the Cape

Crafty Collaborations Challenge - July 2021 Colors

The Crafty Collaborations team is comprised of Stampin’ Up! demonstrators from around the world. Each month, we participate in several collaborative projects including blog hops, like this one, to inspire all of us in our passion for crafting. Our goal is to create, share, and inspire every crafter to keep our creative energy flowing.

Today’s creative challenge is this using a color palette of Granny Apple Green, Bermuda Bay, and Melon Mambo. What will you come up with using these colors?

It was a very hot day in the craft room when I came up with this gift card holder. I guess I'm going to have to take a trip to my favorite ice cream parlor! (Is it cheating since I just had to make the cone Cinnamon Cider?)

 

 

 

I wanted to play with watercoloring, sketching, and stenciling for this project.

I used a Water Painter and a Clear Block I had dabbed into an ink pad to color the stamp. I colored my stamp with the Water Painter and stamped on a wet piece of watercolor paper. I didn't care that the ink had spread. It was giving me the look I wanted. Rather than use the punch, I made a template of the ice cream image on a piece of cardstock. Once the watercolor paper had dried, I drew the outline on the stamped image and cut around it with Paper Snips. I freehanded the drips on the leftover edges of the watercolored paper and cut them out as well.  I'm not artist but I was shooting for a watercolored sketch look.

When using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink or the Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker, make sure your watercolor paper has dried. Otherwise, your black inks will bleed. Typically when watercoloring, you would stamp first with StazOn Black Ink.

The background was made using the dots from the Basic Pattern Decorative Masks and Blending Brushes. The inside was stenciled directly on the flap before I glued it down. I added some additional "sketch lines" around the perimeter to bring it all together.

MEASUREMENTS

4-1/4" x 11" Thick Basic White cardstock (scored@2-1/4" & 5-1/2")

3-5/8" x 4-7/8" Melon Mambo cardstock(1st layer)

3-3/4" x 5" Basic White (dotted stencil front)

1 pcs. Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper

(ice cream & cone and sentiments)

 

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Miss Tiger's (Cougar's?) Birthday

Recently the daughter of one of my stamping friends, who passed away recently, turned 50. She lives on the other side of the US. I wanted to send her a very specially card since especially this will be her first birthday that she won't be receiving a card from her beloved mother!

Know her mother's and her sense of humor I decided to kind of go with the cougar theme. I know the In the Wild Designer Series Paper (DSP) is more tigers and leopards but I thought I could run with it. This image is supposed to be me, although I've never worn an animal print in my life! LOL

And this was the big WOW moment with a pop out center cake with 50 candles on it!

I used some Wink of Stella to emphasize to size of the "heat" coming from those candles! I did use the retired Piece of Cake stamp set to create the elongated cake.

Before scoring the folds in the pop out piece, place the cardstock in the Stamparatus and position the cake stamp in the center. Use Post It notes on either side before stamping, to prevent the rounded corners from being stamped.

Move the cardstock over a bit, reposition the Post It notes, leaving just a scant of the previous stamped image visible and stamp the cake again. Do this across the desired number of times on the left and on the right. I did have to flip the plate to do the right side.

I should have stamped my cake stand before scoring the folds but fortunately when I did stamp it, there were no creases. There was only one place where you can see the line where I overstepped too much at the very left side but by that time, I wasn't going to worry about it and I knew Carol and Danielle wouldn't either!

You can download this PDF instruction sheet for the Twist Pop Up card from a previous tutorial and apply it to this card or any other card you'd like to make.

Download PDF for Twist Pop-Up Card

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New at SU Blog Hop - Designer Series Paper

Thank you for joining me on the New at SU Blog Hop! We are a group of Stampin’ Up! demonstrators from around the Globe who share paper crafting ideas with you. This month’s theme features our Designer Series Paper (DSP) and right now most of our DSP is on sale at 15% off through August 2.

I’m featuring the In Good Taste DSP, which includes wood and other textural images. Several years ago I was inspired by a driftwood wall plaque that was in the shape of a fish and created a card based on the plaque. You can see that post HERE. I decided to take that same concept and create my own wall decoration. 

I began with 3/4” strips of the wood papers. The size was based on my 9” x 9” frame. However, I did end up narrowing many of the pieces so they’d fit horizontally. The widths and lengths would depend on the size of frame you decided to use. I began with a 4" length in the center then reduced each strip about 1/2"-3/4" on either side to create the fish outline. I drew a template for the tail and a rough circle was cut from one of the ‘stone tile’ papers from the pack. I thought the piece with the knot made the perfect fish eye.

Each piece was trimmed to make it look like a scrap of wood then given a rough edge using my Paper Snips. I sponged the edges with a Sponge Dauber using Soft Suede Classic Ink. Each segment was mounted onto another piece of the DSP using Stampin’ Dimensionals starting at the center and working my way to the ends. I would definitely recommend laying out your pieces first before attaching anything. There was a bit of shifting and recutting to get it the way I wanted.

I recently showed my finished project to a friend and she thought it was actually wood. She didn’t realize it was just paper until I told her. I bet on a wall, your family and friends will think the same!

Keep on hoping over to Annette's blog to see her inspiration using Stampin’ Up! DSP!

 

July 2021 New at SU!: Featuring Designer Series Paper ROLL CALL

Tricia’s Stamping Creations: Tidings of Christmas DSP

Stamping the Cape: In Good Taste DSP - YOU ARE HERE

De Kijkkast: Hand-Penned DSP

Creative Juice by Loni: Expressions in Ink DSP

Moore Fun Stamping: Hand-Penned DSP

The Flying Stamper: Bloom Where You’re Planted DSP

Gifted Hands, Ink!: Simply Elegant Specialty DSP

Joni in the Spotlight Stamping: Expressions in Ink Specialty DSP

Stamping Flair: Sweet Symmetry DSP

Mamie & Papyrus: You’re a Peach DSP

Playing with Papercrafting: Hand-Penned DSP

Scraphexe: In Color DSP

Stamping with the Copper Cropper: Bloom Where You’re Planted DSP

24/7 Inkspiration: Bloom Where You're Planted DSP

 

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