Triple Tier Easel Cards dressed with Stampin' Up!

Heather Baker is a creator of beautiful cards and this post features her triple easel card creations using Stampin' Up! framelits.  This post is dedicated to showcasing two of Heather's cards...


A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Labels collection, triple tear easel card x Heather Baker

Colours of blue and yellow always look stunning together...


A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Labels collection, triple tear easel card x Heather Baker

The daffodils were created using Stampin' Up! Boho Punch and Petite Petals punch...


A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Labels collection, triple tear easel card x Heather Baker

The flower centre is the medium sized circle from Stampin' Up! Owl Builder Punch.


A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Labels collection, triple tear easel card x Heather Baker

A change of colour - Rich Razzleberry and coordinating Stampin' Up! Designer Series Paper...


A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Labels collection, triple tear easel card x Heather Baker

Secret Garden is a stunning set that goes well on any female card.  I love the coordinating colours of Pool Party, Rich Razzleberry and Summer Starfruit that Heather has used on this creation...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Labels collection, triple tear easel card x Heather Baker

Thank you for stopping by to look at these gorgeous creations and to Heather for allowing me to share them with you.

I look forward to seeing you at the next post,
Happy crafting

Fussy Cutting a Stampin' Up! featured card edge

Fussy cutting and edge of a row of stamping looks fantastic and is very effective on both male and female cards.  I have held a couple of classes and we made the following cards using Stampin' Up! Rubber stamps Secret Garden, Papillion Potpourri, Flower Shop and By the Tide.

Fussy Cutting is simply cutting a couple of millimetres around the stamped image - in this case we fussy cut around the flowers stamped on contrasting white card and then fussy cut the coloured base card, after adhering the feature card.


Rich Razzleberry and Garden Green

Stampin' Up! Papillion Potpourri in Perfect Plum...


Perfect Plum on Pool Party

Stampin' Up! Flower Shop with a little bling...


Rich Razzleberry on Old Olive

 One for the boys who love fishing...

Marina Mist all the way

Stampin' Up Papillion Potpourri in Perfect Plum...

Perfect Plum all the way

This card was inspired by Dawn Griffith, one of my favourite Stampin' Up! demonstrators.  Check her video out HERE to watch her make a very similar card - I just added a strip of Designer series paper to exaggerate the effect of the fussy cutting.

Melon Mambo on Old Olive

Add a contrasting Designer Series Paper (DSP) on the inside of the card to lift your fussy cutting, layer images and add a little bling and a sentiment and your card is finished.  So simple yet so effective.

If you need fine sizzors to undertake your fussy cutting, e-mail me and I will get for you Stampin' Up! paper snips (103579)

Secret Garden meets Floating Reinker Water Colouring 2

My last post for Secret Garden meets Floating Reinker water colouring was very popular and requested as a class.  These are just some of the creations the girls made....


A Crafty Cat - Stampin' Up! Secret Garden with Floating Re-inker Technique

The technique is simply

• Stamp images on Gloss Cardstock with versamark and powder emboss in white.  
• Liberally spritz embossed images with water.  
• Dip an aqua pen in a drop of re-inker and then dab this over the embossed images. 
• For more detail please click HERE for pictorial instruction (how stunning is that colour combination) and HERE for a You Tube Video.

Here are some more examples...


A Crafty Cat - Stampin' Up! Secret Garden with Floating Re-inker Technique



A Crafty Cat - Stampin' Up! Secret Garden with Floating Re-inker Technique

 The card is stunning in Tempting Turquoise and Pool Party with coordinating use of Yellow and Orange reinkers...


A Crafty Cat - Bev Evans; Stampin' Up! Secret Garden with Floating Re-inker Technique

These are truly stunning cards made by the girls, hope you enjoyed looking at their creations.
Happy crafting,

Secret Garden meets Floating Reinker Water Colouring

Secret Garden is a beautiful set of flowers, purrrfect for crafting the celebration of any female event.
In this card I used an old favourite technique of water colouring. 

The flowers were stamped on Gloss Cardstock and powder embossed in white.  I then liberally spritzed the flowers with water.   I dipped an aqua pen in a drop of Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight and Raspberry Ripple re-inker and then dabbed this over the flowers.  Want more detail?  See HERE for pictorial instruction (how stunning is that colour combination) and HERE for a You Tube Video.

Secret Garden in our beautiful new In-colours with a Vintage Faceted button and Rhinestone centre.  Using the same layout as a previous post, I coloured the flowers in pinks to obtain this beautiful look

For this card I used only the pinks and Daffodil Delight in the flower centres only.

This photo give a better look at the colouring and beautiful rhinestone flower centre feature

The finished card using a brad embellishment and clear resin centre

I used a very different colour combination, inspired by Bev for this one and changed the focus flower to the beautiful rose from Fifth Avenue.

 I coloured the flowers very differently to obtain this stunning colour combination - thanks Bev for the inspiration

The flowers were again stamped on Gloss Cardstock and powder embossed in white.  I liberally spritzed the flowers with water and coloured with the aqua pen dipped in Calypso Coral re-inker and then dabbed this over the rose, the smaller flowers from Secret Garden were coloured with Daffodil Delight reinker.  Once dry I sprayed Vanilla Smooch to give that beautiful flower shimmer.

Love the shimmer that smooch adds to projects, especially flowers.

Pool Party with Island Indigo contrasted with Daffodil Delight and Calypso Coral made for a very lovely and different card.

A close up of the layering and sanded core'dinations card stock and the lovely vintage brads.

This layout would make an excellent scrapbook layout, one I am desperate to try.  I hope these cards inspire you to go to your craft cupboard or crafting area and dust off those line stamps of flowers and create something extra special for a lovely woman in your life.  Click HERE if you want to see this reinker float water colour technique by another SU Demonstrator.
Happy paper crafting,
love

White Craft Ink meets Secret Garden and Papillion Potpourri

Stampin' Up! White Craft Ink is purrrfect for white washing card stock so that you can; if you wish, add your own colour and create beautiful highlights on projects.  This is a very simple technique where one powder embosses repetition images of a line image stamp on coloured card stock.  On a plate place a squeeze of White craft Ink re-inker and with your aqua pen pick up some of the ink and paint the images.  When dry the images are white washed and look absolutely gorgeous.

I used the sets Secret Garden WM131940/CM129144 and Papillion Potpourri WM132058/CM123759 to create this card...

Night of Navy cardstock highlighted with Marina Mist and Whisper White on the matting.

I then thought I'd better colour at least one flower in so then I made this card - the centre, focal flower coloured with Rose Red marker and blender pen.  Loving it, check out this BLOG for pictured instruction  on how to or check below for my basic instructions.  I like to watch videos so HERE is one for you.


Lucky Limade with Rose Red on Pretty in Pink

Then the fun began with Crumb Cake and Soft Suede cardstock - inked and coloured with Raspberry Ripple, Primrose Petals and Summer Starfuit - Stampin' Up! 2012-2014 In Colours.

The finished product - loving white at the moment, the crispness it add to cards is price less.

A little close up so you can see the texture of this card.

For this one I added Pacific Point and Mellon Mambo Cardstock to brighten and highlight the coloured (in the same) flowers and butterflies

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INSTRUCTION

• Stamp image with craft ink or Versamark and emboss with white embossing powder.
• Using your aqua painter and white craft ink paint the insides of the flowers and let dry or speed up with your heat tool.
• You can leave the colouring at this or you can either colour with markers or blender pens or Aqua pen and ink.
• A slant on the technique is to use the marker/blender pen to colour where it would be darkest ie near the shadows of the petals, flower centres etc, and with your aqua painter pull that colour from the marker over the white wash.
• As a final touch you can spray the card lightly with Vanilla Smooch to give that shimmer of flowers.

If this is a little confusing click HERE to watch a You Tube video - got to love You Tube!

Let me know how you go with this technique - as you can see, I LOVE IT,
happy crafting,
love

Secret Garden on pink

Secret Garden is a fabulous stamp with coordinating die set to make cutting them out a breeze.  This is my first card made with the set, the layout cased from our SU Demonstrator website.  I just love this card so much, it might have to stay with me awhile LOL - who else keeps favourite cards?

Lots of layers always makes for a gorgeous card.

 The flowers were stamped on Pink Pirouette and embossed in Melon Mambo, I then coloured the flowers in Raspberry Ripple, Primrose Petals, Melon Mambo and Pink Pirouette.  The background is dry embossed with Lacy Brocade Embossing Folder on Raspberry Ripple core'dinations card stock, then sanded. This is layered on Raspberry Ripple and Very Vanilla. 


Flower centres were highlighted with pearls to match the brad.

Stay posted for another layout using this beautiful set.  Enjoy your stamping,
Love

Secret Garden on Vellum

Secret Garden is a must have for any stamper or scrap booker, simply because it is purrrfect for card making, scrapbooking and off the page projects.  It is a set of gentle, feminine flowers with the coordinating dies - which means, no fiddly cutting out.  Now I LOVE that!  Mothers Day, here I come...

In this post I wanted to share the use of vellum and Secret Garden.  For this project, simply emboss the vellum with white embossing powder and colour the back of the vellum  (the reverse side to the embossing), with markers or blender pen with ink.  Be as messy as you like with your colouring, as the messier the better it looks on the "front" in that, it is not as even as the example below.  I spritzed my flowers with Vanilla Smooch just to give that gorgeous shimmer that flowers have.

Love these new in colours, the Raspberry Ripple and Primrose Petals goes beautifully with the Pink Pirouette. To offset the pinks I added Summer Starfruit, a yellow that is not quite yellow.

I wanted to demonstrate a card fold - in this case a gate fold with an oval highlight.  The Ovals Collection 129381, are Framelits (or wafer thin dies) used with a Big Shot machine.

The flowers are coloured with markers in (starting top LHS) Summer Starfruit, Perfect Plum, Raspberry Ripple and Primrose Petals with a little Raspberry Ripple in the centre.  Depth of colour is achieved by increasing layers of colour.

From the gate fold card to the basic fold card, but this time using the oval framelit to cut out the centre of the card so we can look through vellum at the greeting inside of the card.


A slightly different card format in Whisper White.

 This is a little more tricky in that you have to make your flowers and put them to the side, make the card base ie cut out your highlight (oval, circle, square or other shape), emboss the card, stamp greeting through the front window, then stick the vellum to the riverside of the front of the card. It is then you can add the flowers, foliage and embellishments.

A mosaic of close up images of this beautiful card.

 Several PLR ladies made this card, but used different base card colours and embossing folders.  These beautiful cards are the end result, from blue (Marina Mist, to Pretty in Pink, to Daffodil Delight, Mellon Mambo and Rich Razzleberry, this card looks great.

A rainbow of beautiful Stampin' Up! colours

This is a lovely versatile feminine set, with the next post displaying another technique to colour the flowers.  Enjoy your crafting.