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Friday, 15 June 2018

Animal Expedition Suite Makes a Great Pair (Blog Hop)

It's time for another Stamping Symphony Blog Hop--already! Luckily our theme this month is to feature items from the new annual catalogue, and I have spent a lot of time over the last two weeks making samples for my Open House tomorrow. The hard part is picking which one to show you all!

My favourite suite (so far!) is definitely Animal Expedition. What's a suite you ask? Well let me tell you. :) A suite is a grouping of products that all coordinate perfectly together. We're talking ink, cardstock, Designer Series Paper, stamp set, framelits, and embellishments--everything you could possibly want to make some incredible projects!

Stampin' Up has always been known for their incredible coordination, but they have stepped it up a further notch with this suite--THE FRAMELITS CUT OUT THE ANIMALS IN THE DSP PAPER!!! Sorry, did I yell that? It is just sooo cool. I'll have an example of a card I made using this technique for you later, but in the meantime, on to my blog hop card!

This card was inspired by Kylie Bertucci, a demonstrator down under in Australia. I went to my go-to place and watercoloured this little guy while I waited for my coordinating products to arrive (I won him at On Stage in April). Isn't he too cute?!

I started by embossing my image in Basic Black Embossing Powder, which has been brought out of retirement this year. I coloured him with Gray Granite and some Powder Pink on his horn, with a Pineapple Punch bird friend and Call Me Clover Grass.

What a cutie!

That strip of DSP just pops off the card front, doesn't it? But what really takes it over the top is that gorgeous leaf ribbon.

Seriously, I love it all.

Want to see it in person? Or even better, get the suite for free?? Stop by my Open House tomorrow (June 16) between 10 am-2 pm! Check out my Events page for more details.

To balance the card I added a white-embossed sentiment on black cardstock in the bottom corner. I could not be happier with this card--totes adorbs!

That's it for me folks, but keep on hopping! My teammates have some great projects to show you too.

A La Cards (Leena)

LollyandSand (Sandy)

JustBStamping (Barb--you're here!)

Stampingjen.BlogSpot.com (Jennifer)

Hofkissed (Stephanie)

See you tomorrow!
Barb

Sunday, 6 May 2018

Animal Outing No Line Watercolouring

No line watercolouring is quickly becoming one of my favourite techniques--I love the soft look you get. The new Animal Outing set from Stampin' Up! was just begging for this treatment, and I absolutely adore how my cards turned out!

Animal Outing No Line Watercolouring

Aren't those little critters just precious?! I actually hadn't intended to make a set of these, but I loved the rhino and his little birdie friend so much, I had to give the kangaroo and koala bear some ink as well. :)

I started out just playing with the rhino, stamped in Smoky Slate on watercolour paper for fun. I very carefully played with the ink with my aqua painter, trying not to "erase" the definition lines. I added a little bit of Basic Grey ink for shading, and some Flirty Flamingo blush to his cheek and the birdie.

I then added just the softest touch around him, with some Pool Party shading around the top, and some Mint Macaron across his feet to ground him.

Isn't he too cute??

I was working on a scrap of watercolour paper, so I reached for my stitched circle framelits and was very pleased that one of the larger circles fit! Kismet.

I used the very delicate Quilt Top Embossing Folder to give some baby-sweet texture to the white square I mounted on top of a 4" x 8" Mint Macaron card base. Soooo happy this colour has been brought back!

I added some matching Mint twine and tied a tiny bow. I mounted my rhino circle on top with dimensionals, and stamped my sentiment in black on tiny strips of Whisper White, and then layered them on top with dimensionals too.

On the inside I embossed just the edge of a square of whisper white with the same quilt folder, and added "celebrate" from the Happy Birthday Gorgeous set.

Then I tackled the kangaroo! I followed all of the same steps, stamping and colouring with Crumb Cake ink, and adding some Smoky Slate for the koala bear.

The twine comes in a combo pack, so I used the matching crumb cake version here, and mounted everything on a pool party base. Here is a closer look of the focal point.

I could not be happier with how these cards turned out.

Next time I'm going to make some "kid" cards, with the brights collection of colour. I'm sure they are going to be just as much fun in vibrant colours!