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Sunday, March 4, 2018

The Stamp Review Crew - High Tide

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Welcome to the latest Stamp Review Crew blog hop! The "Crew" consists of Stampin' Up! demonstrators from around the world who love to spark creativity and inspiration in others. Today we are featuring the High Tide stamp set which, I am ashamed to admit, I have only used once just for the birds. Did you arrive here from Nikki's AWESOME blog? If you follow the links, you will see all ten blogs on this tour.

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I have two projects to share today. Up first is a reverse-masked card using seven of the stamps in High Tide! Can you spot them all? One of them (the sun rays) is kind of subtle.

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A piece of copy paper was cut with the largest circle die to use as a mask. I placed a sticky note to mask off the sky while I stamped the water, then turned it around and covered the water while I sponged and stamped the sky. It really is such a simple technique, but it looks so cool!

For the next project, I used the circle die again to cut an opening in the Wood Textures DSP. I stamped the water and sandy cliff, then cut some cloud shapes from a sticky note and sponged the cumulus clouds.

The lighthouse was stamped on a scrap of Whisper White and fussy cut, then popped up on dimensionals.

That's all I have for this go-round - now hop on over to see what Bronwyn has for you!

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Saturday, March 3, 2018

Bold Birthday

Heart's Delight Cards, Bird Banter, Happy Birthday, Stampin' Up!, Occasions 2018, Sale-A-Bration 2018,

Want to make a card that makes a bold statement? Try this one! All it takes is a piece of Whisper White cardstock, a few Stampin' Blends markers in your choice of colors, and a few minutes of your time. It's very easy to get the ombre effect with the Blends, just make sure your cardstock is well saturated with your first color (I always start with the lightest color), then begin the second color overlapping the first one. You may need to blend a little more with the first color to eliminate the line between the two.

Continue adding new colors, overlapping each one and blending to make the transition between each color as smooth as possible. Once it's finished, let it dry (this only takes a few minutes), and the use the Happy Birthday Thinlits die to cut it out. I added a fussy cut hat and balloon from Bird Banter and adhered it all on a Tutti-Frutti card front that was cut down to leave a border. Simple, yet it certainly gets the message across!

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Friday, March 2, 2018

I Did It - No Line Watercolor!

Heart's Delight Cards, Altenew Garden Treasure, Altenew Peony Bouquet,No Line Watercolor, Zig Brush Pens

While I had my Altenew stamps out the other day, I worked up my nerve to try "no line watercoloring." It's kind of a misnomer, really, because there are lines, but they are stamped in a light colored ink, so they don't show as much as black ink. Aaand, I figured as long as I was on the contra-bandwagon, I might as well try the Zig Clean Color brush pens I've had for a while and never used. All I can say is....... HOLY COW!

Heart's Delight Cards, Altenew Garden Treasure, Altenew Peony Bouquet, No Line Watercolor

This was my first attempt, and I couldn't be happier with the result! I cut masks for the flowers and large leaves so that they could be layered without the lines overlapping. That little bit of fussy cutting sure paid off with the final arrangement.

The images were stamped in Sahara Sand on watercolor paper, then I started coloring at the base of the petals with the Zig pens. I'd do the base of one petal at a time, then use the (yellow) detailer tip water brush in this set to pull the color out over the petal. The ink naturally gets lighter toward the petal tips.

Helpful Hint: If you want to try this technique, let each petal dry before doing the one next to it. I did one petal, then skipped to the opposite side while the one I just did was drying.

Colored outer edge of blue flowers and pulled color toward center.

One of the things I absolutely loved about these brush pens is the brush tips are very fine, so I had lots of control and could add little details, like on the blue flowers above. The control freak in me was ecstatic!

Altenew stamps used: Garden Treasure (flowers) and Peony Bouquet (leaves).

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