Hallowthanksmas week 5

Can you tell that sometimes Dream Team's "Fearless Leader", Pam Hornschu, has a hard time deciding on monthly challenges? Since the team will be taking turns all month with the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween, and we have done a Christmas collaboration with Stampendous and Core'dinations the 13th - 17th, the confusion should be understandable. Therefore...happy HallowThanksMas! As usual, we'd love for you to play along with the challenge and link your creations to the Inlinkz tool on the Dream It Up! blog. Just in case you are wondering...NO, YOU DO NOT NEED TO POST SOMETHING WITH ALL THREE HOLIDAYS ON IT! However, you get bonus points for actually using Dreamweaver stencils and product on your creations! And bonus points might actually earn you an extra stencil as our monthly winner...just sayin'!

For the last post of October (where has October gone) I decided to use one of the new Dreamweaver embossing folders.  I was very impressed with the depth of the embossed image.  With Christmas only 8 weeks away this is another really quick and easy card which I think is pretty.  The bonus is that it didn't take long to create.  My colouring was deliberately blurred as I wanted the design to look like the lights were shining through the tree.

So here is my project

This is what you will need:-
Dreamweaver Embossing folder FG651
White and black card stock
Deep lavender coloured paper
Different colour and sized self adhesive gems
Colorbox pigment ink pad Gypsy
Stencil brushes
Big Shot die cutting machine (or machine of your choice)Gold ink pad

This is what to do:-

1 Take a piece of white card and place in the embossing folder and put this through your machine.

2 Remove the card from the folder and using stencil brushes apply the colour from the Gypsy ink pad.  Apply the colour gently as you can always add colour but you can't take it away.  I applied the colour using the rouging technique.

3 Once the colour has been applied trim around the embossed design leaving about 1/8th inch border.

4 Take a selection of different coloured and sized self adhesive gems and attach them where the dots are embossed.

5 Put the card together and finish off with 3 pearl self adhesive gems in the top and bottom opposite corners of the card.  Tie a ribbon around the spine of the card.

There is your card, quite pretty.

Remember to visit the entire Dream Team for more inspiration:

Dream It Up!

Leadonna Kimmel

Louise Healy

Laura Drahozal

Lynn Mercurio

Pam Hornschu

Jamie Martin

Gill Wilson

Lyn Bernatovich

Alison Heikkila

Kristine Reynolds

Kristi Parker Van Doren 

If you are in the UK or Europe and would like to purchase any of the products for the above project they are all available from The Stampman or your local Woodware Stockist.

Thanks for stopping by

Gill

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Smeared and Smudged day 30

The Dream Team are dipping their fingers into all things spooky, creepy, and scary, as we play along with the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween. The team will be taking turns to fill the quota of 31 days on the Dream It Up! blog, and posting on their own blogs as well. Be sure to leave them lots of love as this is truly a challenge for many of them! Here is today's post from : Gill Wilson

Here is my project for Day 30 

The products I used:-

Dark Blue card, White co-ordinations card, Dreamweaver Stencil LL3015, Black matt embossing paste, Stampendous stamps CRP166 and CRR131, Black Stazon ink pad.

Here is what I did:-

1 The outer frame was stamped using the Raven stamp and the aperture cut out.

2 The background behind the frame was stamped on to the co-ordinations white card using the black stazon.

3 The Acetate window behind the frame was done with the Stencil and then black matt paste applied over this and it was left to completely dry overnight.

4 The layers were distressed and the card put together

Hope you like it.

Remember to visit the entire Dream Team for more inspiration:

Dream It Up!

Leadonna Kimmel

Louise Healy

Laura Drahozal

Lynn Mercurio

Pam Hornschu

Jamie Martin

Gill Wilson

Lyn Bernatovich

Alison Heikkila

Kristine Reynolds

Kristi Parker Van Doren 

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for stopping by

Gill

Hallowthanksmas week 4

Can you tell that sometimes Dream Team's "Fearless Leader", Pam Hornschu, has a hard time deciding on monthly challenges? Since the team will be taking turns all month with the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween, and we have done a Christmas collaboration with Stampendous and Core'dinations the 13th - 17th, the confusion should be understandable. Therefore...happy HallowThanksMas! As usual, we'd love for you to play along with the challenge and link your creations to the Inlinkz tool on the Dream It Up! blog. Just in case you are wondering...NO, YOU DO NOT NEED TO POST SOMETHING WITH ALL THREE HOLIDAYS ON IT! However, you get bonus points for actually using Dreamweaver stencils and product on your creations! And bonus points might actually earn you an extra stencil as our monthly winner...just sayin'!

Here's my creation for today:

This is what you will need:-

Dreamweaver Stencil LL3005 Holly and Swirls
Colorbox Circus ink pad
Sentiment stamp
Stampendous Crystal Embossing powder
Adhesive gems
White, Red and Green card
Stencil brushes
Heat Gun
Momento Black Onyx ink pad

And this is what I did:-

Step 1 Attach the stencil to the white card and using  stencil brushes apply the colour through the stencil.  Remember start light and add darker shades as you feel necessary.  Remove stencil.

Step 2 Take the Crystal embossing powder and apply over inked design. Make sure that the whole of the image is covered and then return any excess powder to the pot.  Using a heat gun apply heat until the powder becomes shiny, keep the heat moving so that it doesn't over heat and get absorbed into the card.

Step 3  Use a black ink pad and stamp your sentiment in the bottom right hand corner of the panel.

Step 4 Final steps add  your adhesive gems, remember if you only have clear you can colour using alcohol markers.  Put the gems where the berries are on your design.  Matt and layer your card.   A quick card that is bright and cheery.

Remember to visit the rest of the team, as well as our guest designer, as confusion takes rein...could be interesting!

Dream It Up!

Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy

Alison Heikkila

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Hornschu

Gill Wilson that's me

Kristi Parker Van Doren

If you are in the UK or Europe and would like to purchase any of the products for the above project they are all available from The Stampman or your local Woodware Stockist

Thanks for stopping by

Gill

An InLinkz Link-up

Smeared and Smudged day 22

The Dream Team are dipping their fingers into all things spooky, creepy, and scary, as we play along with the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween. The team will be taking turns to fill the quota of 31 days on the Dream It Up! blog, and posting on their own blogs as well. Be sure to leave them lots of love as this is truly a challenge for many of them! Here is today's post from : Gill Wilson

Well its day 22 of the Smeared and Smudges Halloween event and I for this project used the Dreamweaver Stencil Tree Silhouette (LJ849), a haunted house design from Circuit, and the background is made using 2 different Stampendous stamp sets.

I started out by completing the Tree silhouette panel, I embossed some grey co-ordination card stock using my Big Shot machine, which I sanded back and then dragged a silver and then a gold ink pad over the top.

The background was created by simply repeating 2 stamped images covering the entire piece, the edges were distressed with a distress ink pad.

The final piece the haunted house was from Autumn Celebrations Cricut Cartridge and was cut at 5''.

The card was then put together, and I think it picks up the essence of Halloween.

The Smeared and Smudged site is offering prizes each day of the month by a long list of sponsors...Dreamweaver being one of them, but we are also offering one stencil to one lucky commenter on the Dream It Up! blog each day of the month! So, leave your comment below before heading over the Smeared and Smudged blog to view all of the other creepiness!

Thanks for stopping by

Gill

Sandy Claus is coming to town day 5

SANDY Claus is Coming to Town!

Yes...SANDY Claus! All of this week, the Stampendous and Dreamweaver teams have been playing with a mix of their products, along with some wonderful, SAND-ABLE papers from Core'dinations. Join us as we sand our way to the "core" of all things Christmas and the Holiday season. Of course, there will be prizes, and we give away the best...this time with a mix of fun Core'dinations products as well. To be one of three prize package winners, follow the posted link lists from each day, leave a comment, and winners will be selected from these comments at the beginning of next week. Here is what you might win:

Christmas is only a few weeks away------where has this year gone, not only is Halloween with us but the rush to get all those Christmas things is here too.

The collaboration between Dreamweaver, Stampendous and Co-ordinations has definitely given me the chance to combine different techniques.  So the project today has stamping and colouring with Aquarel pencils, dry embossing and sanding back and a basic paste technique.

The card is larger than I would normally do but for someone special it seems perfect.  

Here is what I used:-

Stampendous Cling stamp CRS5055 Penguin Snow

Dreamweaver Stencils LS92 Merry Christmas, LJ819 Snow background

Sakura Aquarel Pencils

Stazon ink pad (Black)

Co-ordinations Card stock Turquoise, Dark Blue, White and pink glitter card stock

Stampendous Crystal Glitter

Quickie glue pen

Micron black pen

Low tack tape

Palette knife

Silver Embossing Paste

Self adhesive pearl gems

and this is how how made the card:-

Step 1 Stamp the image using Stazon Black ink pad on to white card, coloured with the Aquarel pencils, use Quickie glue pen to colour the brims of the hats and cover with Crystal glitter.  Trim the panel. (I ripped the edges to reveal the inner core of the backing card)

Step 2 The top section of the turquoise co-ordinations card was embossed using Dreamweaver Snowflake background stencil and the Big Shot machine The surface was then sanded back to reveal the inner core of the card.  A panel of the same card stock was attached to the bottom of the card.  This was left as the original card.

Step 3  The Merry Christmas stencil was attached to a piece of the dark blue card stock using low tack tape and silver embossing paste applied. The stencil was removed and put into water for cleaning and the paste piece was placed to the side to dry.

  

Step 4 The final stage was putting the card together, wrapping ribbon round the spine of the card and putting the self adhesive pearls in the centre of the snowflakes, randomly on the stamped panel and in the 4 corners of the bottom segment.

Here is what everyone else has been doing  :

Dreamweaver:

Dream It Up!

Kristine Reynolds*

Lyn Bernatovich

Gill Wilson

Louise Healy

Kristi Parker Van Doren

Laura Drahozal

Jamie Martin*

Lea Kimmel*

Alison Heikkila

Lynn Mercurio

Pam Hornschu*

*On Stampendous team as well

Core'dinations:

(will not be posting on their company blog, but individual posts only)

Tami Mayberry

Head on over to the Stampendous blog for links to their posts:

STAMPENDOUS IMPRESSIONS

If you are in the UK or Europe and would like to purchase any of the products for the above project they are all available from The Stampman or your local Woodware Stockist

Hope you enjoy my card. Thanks for stopping by

Gill

Hallowthanksmas week 2

Can you tell that sometimes Dream Team's "Fearless Leader", Pam Hornschu, has a hard time deciding on monthly challenges? Since the team will be taking turns all month with the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween, and we are doing a Christmas collaboration with Stampendous and Core'dinations the 13th - 17th, the confusion should be understandable. Therefore...happy HallowThanksMas! As usual, we'd love for you to play along with the challenge and link your creations to the Inlinkz tool on the Dream It Up! blog. Just in case you are wondering...NO, YOU DO NOT NEED TO POST SOMETHING WITH ALL THREE HOLIDAYS ON IT! However, you get bonus points for actually using Dreamweaver stencils and product on your creations! And bonus points might actually earn you an extra stencil as our monthly winner...just sayin'!

Here is my 'Fall' card or as we say this side of the pond 'Autumn' card.

Here's my creation for today:

I used the Dreamweaver stencil (LL3044 Maple leaf stencil) and drew around the outline with a micron pen and the ink pad I used was the Colourbox Farmhouse. The stencil was kept in place and the ink applied using the stippling and rouging techniques.

The pattern in each of the leaf areas was 'stentangled' using a Gold Metallic jelly roll pen. The final touch was a Stampendous Clear of a cobweb SSC1174 Halloween charm stamp set), and as always the various matts and layers to complete the card. 

  

This is what the rest of the team have been doing:

Dream It Up!

Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy

Alison Heikkila

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Hornschu

Gill Wilson

Kristi Parker Van Doren

Thanks for stopping by

Gill

An InLinkz Link-up

Smeared and smudged 31 Days of halloween Day 7

The Dream Team are dipping their fingers into all things spooky, creepy, and scary, as we play along with the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween. The team will be taking turns to fill the quota of 31 days on the Dream It Up! blog, and posting on their own blogs as well. Be sure to leave them lots of love as this is truly a challenge for many of them! Here is today's post from       : Gill Wilson

I don't really do Halloween but here is my take on it.

I used Dreamweaver Tree Line Die DG745, Dreamweaver Spider Stencil LS28, Stampendous Stamps: CRM315, CRH309 and SSC1174

Co-ordinations card in various colours

The techniques I used were dry embossing for the spider then sanded back, simple stamping for the images. I coloured the Mr Skelton in a soft lead pencil and the colour with Souffle pen and Copic marker. The die was cut from black card, the edges of some panels were distressed.  I thought it was quite 'Halloweeny'.

If you are in the UK or Europe and would like to purchase any of the products for the above project they are all available from The Stampman or your local Woodware Stockist and in the USA www.stencilwithstyle.com 

Thanks for stopping by

Gill

An InLinkz Link-up