Stampin' Up! Sponging

The technique of sponging is a wonderful way of creating backgrounds and coupled with Jar of Love and Butterfly Basics, one can have a whole lot of fun creating....

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Jar of Love 

Butterflies to fire flies...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Jar of Love

 The velum makes the jar look real and off set the images to make them look like they are fluttering...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Jar of Love

CN created this lovely card...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Jar of Love

 The ribbon add to the effect of the jar

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Jar of Love

Sponging a background to go with your project is easy - just ink up a sponge off your ink pad or marker, run it in circular motions on a piece of plastic to get the ink evenly distributed and then circular motion, starting off the page an onto your paper - starting with your lightest colour first...

So much fun in what you can create! But practice is the key and stamping after your have sponged adds to the crisp images in the forefront.

Yours in paper craft,

Stampin' Up! Jar of Love & Papillion Potpourri

Heather is a very talented at creating stunning cards using Stampin' Up! products.  Her creations often inspire me to CASE ;-) and today's post showcases a beautiful card Heather has created and our cased examples.  The Jar (from Jar of Love) releasing butterflies (from the Papillion Potpourri set, now retired) and that wonderful Bokeh Designer Series Paper from a retired DSP stack Serene Scenery, gave rise to this beautiful card... 

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Papillion Potpourri, Jar of Love x Heather Payne

Perfect Plum sponging with a little Old Olive and Marina Mist was a popular colour choice to mimic the technique and instead of butterflied, the A Crafty Cat team chose the fire flies...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Bokeh technique with Jar of Love

The bokeh techniques was achieved by placing a mask of different sized circles over the sponged background and dabbing White Craft Ink over the circular openings of the mask...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Bokeh technique with Jar of Love

The Jar was cut out of velum to give the appearance of a real jar...love that effect! and the fire flies were die cut using the coordinating thinlits...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Bokeh technique with Jar of Love

I love the creations my team shares and how it inspires not only me but the rest of class participants to try something new.  I hope you have a purrrfectly crafty week.

Yours in paper craft,