Victorian Spray

WOODWARE - VICTORIAN SPRAY CARD FRONT WITH ENVY

All I can say is it's a mixed bag!!  It started when I ran my hand across the stamen of the flower, while it was wet with glitter glue.  Yuk!!!  I almost always paint with Twinks and since most everyone else uses Copic, Shinhan, etc., I haven't listed the H2O colors.  If you ever want them, feel free to email me.  I also started out with something totally different in my head and here is how I got the above:

IMAGE:

1. Stamped image on white cardstock twice with Golden Glitz ink and used heat gun to dry ink; painted all of one with Twinks. Painted all but the flower on the second.  Fussy cut around the outside of the completely painted image.  Fussy cut around one corner, the leaves and the berries of the second image.

CARD FRONT:

1. Used largest die cut, from Spellbinders A2 Curved Matting Basics - B, as a stencil for a piece of dark purple card stock.
2. Used an old 4.25"X5.5" Lavender striped piece of DP with the largest die cut; daubed the smallest cirles corner of Circle Explosion stencil on upper left and lower right of die cut and mounted on the dark purple piece.
3. Mounted the image in the middle of that.
4. Embellished with Stickles orange and yellow glitter glue - rubbed my hand across it before it was dry. :-(
5. Applied Stickles Golden Rod to spots and berries on image; applied here and there on the Circle Explosion area.  Brushed just a touch of Wink of Stella Clear along the darkest purple lines of the flower.  The ribbon for bow was a gift for a purchase somewhere.  I secured the heart bead with GA to diamante stick pin.

INSIDE CARD

 INSIDE CARD and ENVY:

1. Cut two pieces of dark purple cardstock .75"X5.5"; taped to each side.  
2. Used the IO Circles Cut Out on a piece of the striped paper ( NOTE - There are no borders on the circle die.  You can place it anywhere on any piece of paper, (i.e. in the middle if you want) and you just get holes.  Saved the negative holes.  Cut it in two pieces with 2 rows on one and one row on the other.  Taped to purple as shown.
3. Taped to right and left as shown.
4. Mounted fussy cut leaves and added Golden Rod glitter glue as shown.
5. Applied the "leftover dots" from the Circles Cut Out here and there using Glossy Accents applied with needle-nosed bottle and a QuickStik for the dots, embellished with Golden Rod glitter glue.
6. Used GA and needle-nosed bottle to apply corner of image to envy and berries with leaves; embellished with glitter glues.

That's it for now.  Almost have a Christmas card done!!  Thanks for stopping by to look and share!

 Shirley

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Well, It's About Time

Honestly, I had another card I was going to have ready for today, but my daughter asked if I had a sympathy card she could send and I didn't.  I don't send very many, so above is what I created.  As you can see I used Flourishes Winter Blossoms.  Not only did the floral images make it wonderful for this, but it even had one of the sentiments to use as you can see.

CARD BASE:

1. Used Fancy Ribbon Threader dies to create the white laid die cuts for front and inside.
2. Cut Base from white cardstock of 8.25"X5.25 and folded.
3. Blue cardstock for front is 4 1/8"X 4 7/8".  Mounted on front panel and trimmed extra with below off.  Threaded the ribbon.
4. Mounted the larger white laid die cut to the front panel (leaving the bottom loose to thread the ribbon).  Threaded ribbon.  Made bow and mounted in middle.
5. Used die for left-hand panel as template and 1/8" magic matter for the blue mat for the white die cut.  Mounted the white die cut leaving the bottom loose to thread the ribbon.  Threaded and tied a flat knot.

IMAGES FOR CARD:

1. Stamped the images for front and inside twice with Memento Rich Cocoa.  Water colored them, trimmed around them, embossed from the back with stylus on soft mat, mounted images to die cuts.  Trimmed about flowers and mounted using 3D pop-dots.  Used Spica Glitter pens Yellow and Orange for the centers of the flowers.
2. Stamped sentiment for front on white card stock with the same ink and placed the smaller die over it to trace around it.  Trimmed and placed on blue die cut.  Mounted.
3. Added 2mm pearls around the outside front and on the sentiment.  Placed a 3mm heart in the center of the front sentiment.  Placed a 5mm heart in the center of the inside left die cuts.
4. Stamped the images on the envelope and right-hand bottom inside also with the Memento Rich Cocoa.  Painted with twinks as shown.

I still have to add a final sentiment on the inside right and my daughter will let me know about that.

Hope your holidays were great and the weather kinder that it looked from here.  We had in the ones temps and power outage for about 5 hours, which was nothing compared to some of you out there.  Stay warm and safe my stamping friends. Thanks for stopping by to look and share.

 Shirley

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Twisted Peppermint Moon

I was inspired to use this stamp by Ellen Taylor, who used it in her post HERE.  The colors on my cardfront match the bottom of the card in real life, but somehow when I took the picture it looks like different colors were used on the bottom.  Go figure!

I really like twisted easels and so do my friends.  I used to think they limited my ability to write extra if I wanted, so I started using the back side of the card for my note.  Some said they liked that so they could stand it up for others to see without sharing the personal writing.

CARD FRONT AND IMAGES:

1. Stamped Peppermint Moon with Espresso Truffle on white cardstock twice, painted with Twinkling H2O's, cut out, embossed with stylus from the back, and mounted on Lacey Circles largest die cut from white cardstock.  Cut out extra sash and tree, painted with H2O's, embossed from the back with stylus, and mounted with 3D pop-dots on main image.
2. Stamped two more trees from the main image, painted and trimmed (one for the easel bottom and one for the envelope).
3. Created card front and bottom bases using the outised of  the Curved Matting Basics largest die as a stencil on white cardstock. Used as a die to get 2 red die cuts.  Stamped CAC Thick Stripes on white 8.5"X11" cardstock with SU Real Red twice along the length. 
4. The bottom was built just like the top, only Lacey Ovals was used for the sentiment.  The sentiment from Round Ornaments was stamped with Real Red too.  The extra tree was mounted on the smallest Lacey Circles die cut.
5. 2mm round and 5mm heart pearls, Glossy Accents for the stars, Glitter, a bow, and heart pen were added to embellish.
6. *I've had the glue bottles you see in Supplies for nearly 6 years.  I use them for Glossy Accents and other adhesives.  They're great for small places.  **At first I thought the QuikStik would be awkward, but after using it I love it!! Thanks to you, Kitty Caracciolo. It doesn't grip it as hard as the AIG Sticky Sticks and means the Glossy Accents doesn't have to have started drying for the item to release.  Also, that green stuff you see on the tip lasts forever.

TWISTED EASEL BASE:

1. I did the easel base the same as my tutorial HERE.  As an extra step on this card I trimmed around the rounded corners on the front so they lined up after mounting the cardfront.

Thanks for stopping by to look and share everyone!!

 Shirley

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