Thursday 29 January 2015

Birthday Wishes week 5


Welcome to the birth of a new year...2015 to be precise! In honor of that, we've decided that our monthly challenge for January will be Birthday Wishes. We'd love for you to play along with us, and link your creations to the Inlinkz tool at the bottom of this post, or on the Dream It Up! blog, for a chance to win the stencil of your choice...and remember, using Dreamweaver products gets you bonus points towards an extra stencil!

Where has January gone.  Here we are with the fifth week of celebrating Birthday wishes cards that we all send.  This post I have used both Dreamweaver and Stampendous products.  I have used different techniques and products so this time I've got Stamping, Embossing, Frantage and basic pasting.

Here's my birthday wish for this week:


This is what I used:-
Stampendous Stamp set Lovely Garden CRS5066
Frantage Encrusted Jewel Kit Gold
Black card
Dreamweaver Stencil Happy Birthday LS1010
Versamark Ink Pad
VersaFine Vintage Sepia Ink PadSpellbinder die
Heat Gun
Palette knife
Gold embossing paste
Low tack tape
3D foam squares
Double sided adhesive
3 coordinating pieces of patterned paper/card
Blending tool

and this is how I created the card:-

1 Fold an A4 piece of black card in half for the blank card.

2 Cut a black matt about 1/2 inch smaller than the front of card.

3 To get the gold edge around this panel take the versamark ink pad and tap the edge into the pad and then pour some of the Champagne Pearl embossing powder from the Frantage Encrusted Jewel kit onto some scrap paper and tap the versamark edge of the card onto the powder.  Heat this with the Heat Gun. Do the same on all four sides.  The result is a very fine gold edge to your card.

4 Take the 3 patterned pieces of paper/card and stamp the large bloom from the Lovely Garden Stamp set using the Versamark Inl Pad. Cover the image with the Aged gold embossing powder,  tap off the excess and heat from underneath with the heat gun until the powder is melted.  Do this with all 3 pieces of paper.  Once this is done cut the images out but on each layer cut more of the petals away.  These layers will eventually be decoupaged on to the card.  the edges of the cut flowers are distressed using the blending tool and the Versafine Vintage Sepia.  (I did this to make sure that any odd edges of the paper that hadn't been cut away would blend into the design.)  Put the layers together using 3D foam.

5 Take the back panel and randomly scatter the embossing powders and elements from the Frantage Encrusted Jewel Set. Mine were in the top right and bottom left corners and using the heat gun heat from underneath and heat until the embossing powders melt and hold the glitters, etc.


6 The final piece is the sentiment panel, I cut my lace matt out first and again distressed with the Vintage sepia ink and blending tool. I then cut the back panel to go behind the lace panel.  The edges of the black piece was completed as in Step 3.

7 Take another piece of black card and attach the Happy Birthday Stencil to this with low tack tape on all 4 sides.  Apply the gold paste using a palette knife. Remove stencil and put in water for cleaning.  Put the sentiment panel to one side and allow to dry.  Once the panel is dry cut down to size and edge with gold as in Step 3.


8 The last thing I did was to tie a bow and place it on the top left hand corner of the sentiment panel



Of course, more birthday inspirations coming your way from the rest of the team:-


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

Thanks for stopping by.

Gill

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Thursday 22 January 2015

Birthday wishes week 4

Welcome to the birth of a new year...2015 to be precise! In honor of that, we've decided that our monthly challenge for January will be Birthday Wishes. We'd love for you to play along with us, and link your creations to the Inlinkz tool at the bottom of this post, or on the Dream It Up! blog, for a chance to win the stencil of your choice...and remember, using Dreamweaver products gets you bonus points towards an extra stencil!

First of all let me apologise for not posting on 8th January but I had a problem with my camera.  So this week I'm posting 2 cards I want to wish everyone a happy new year and all the best for 2015.  I don't know about you but making cards for the men in our lives can be difficult, and cause many long times thinking of what to do.  So I thought the first card I would go for a kind of elegant look which could be used for either male or female. Also I have taken it back to basics by just using paste and the stencils.  The second is again one for the men using three techniques:- Molten magic, creating a shadow and basic pasting.  I hope you like them.

Here's my birthday wish for this week:

CARD 1
Things you will need:-

Dreamweaver Stencils LS1010 Happy Birthday
                                 LJ919 Art Nouveau Flourish
Gold embossing paste
Black card
Gold Mirri card
Palette knife or spreader
Low Tack Tape
Cleaning things for stencils.



and this is how I created the card:-

1 Take a piece of Black card and apply the stencil (do this with both the flourish and the Happy Birthday) to it using the low tack tape and apply the embossing paste over the stencil with the palette knife/spreader.

2 Remove the stencils and place in water ready for cleaning.

3 While waiting for the paste to dry cut the matte and layers for the completed card.

4 Once the stencil design is dry trim to the correct size and attach to the backing card.

This is an easy card to do especially a beginner with paste.

Card 2
Here is the second card



and this is what you will need

Dreamweaver stencil LJ911
Dreamweaver stencil LS1010
Gold Embossing paste
Stencil brush
Versafine inkpad Sepia
A selection of the Dreamweaver Metallic FX powders
Heat Gun
Cream and black card stock
Gold Mirri Card
Palette knife/ Spreader
and this is how I created the card:-

1 Take 1 piece of cream card and attach the flourish stencil to it using low tack tape and tape around all 4 sides.  Apply the Gold paste over the Gear stencil first of all and when this is done remove the stencil and put it in water ready for cleaning.

2 Take your gear panel and using a stencil brush apply the Metallic FX powders by collecting powder and then tapping the powder over the design. You can put as much of the powder on as you like and apply as many colours as you want.

3 Once you have the powder over the design gently tap any excess powder of and use a heat gun to heat the panel.  I start by heating from underneath and after a short time I then heat from the top.  As it is heated the paste will start to bubble and get a texture to it.  Try not to over heat the panel and if it looks like it is getting over heated remove the heat gun and allow the panel to cool a little.


4 To create the shadow effect on the sentiment panel first attach the stencil to a piece of cream card on one side only, using a stencil brush and ink pad apply the colour you want your shadow to be using the rouging technique.  I make sure that the colour is quite deep so that I have a clear shadow.

5 Next clean your stencil to remove all the ink and replace the stencil back over the top of the design and carefully move the stencil down and to the right so that the plain card becomes just visible and attach the stencil back to the card around all 4 sides with the low tack tape.  Apply the gold paste, remove stencil and place in water.  This panel needs putting to the side to dry.

4 When the two panels are completely dry trim the 2 panels and cut matts and layers and complete your card.   

Of course, more birthday inspirations coming your way from our "B" team:




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

These are my 2 cards, I hope you like them and please the team  comments, as we love to hear what you've got to say.

Thanks for stopping by

Regards

Gill 

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