Faux Tearing Technique

And finally, the last card from my class, four in total then there's just one more thing to share, a gift box, but more on that later!

For this card we used the

Faux Tearing Technique

I love how easy this technique is, simply tear a piece of copy paper, tape it down onto your base layer of vanilla or white, leaving a gap between the tears.  Daub with your chosen colour between the torn paper being careful not to move them or ink underneath the torn edges.  Once your'e happy you have enough colour, stamp your image then remove the torn copy paper and voila!!

I pulled my Bow Punch from my shelf and used crumb cake cardstock to create my little bow.

I do love texture, this corrugated card from Stampin' Up! is a great addition to our standard card, I love it, ha ha, I do make myself laugh when I type that, I just love it all don't I!!!!!

If you've not tried this technique before, give it a go, it's really easy and very effective!

I hope you've enjoyed the cards I've created with the In The Meadow stamp set, I think it's a great versatile set that you will use for lots of different occasions

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Product List

In The Meadow Clear-Mount Stamp Set [140754] £18.00	Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad [126975] £6.00	Crumb Cake A4 Card Stock [121685] £6.50	Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock [106550] £7.25	Early Espresso A4 Card Stock [121686] £6.50
Elegant Dots Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [138287] £7.00	Bow Builder Punch [137414] £16.00	Rose Wonder Photopolymer Stamp Set [140697] £24.00	Kraft And White Corrugated Paper [138317] £6.50	Elegant Dots Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [138287] £7.00
Extra-Large Oval Punch [119859] £16.00	Very Vanilla Thick Baker’S Twine [138411] £3.25

In The Meadow class projects

Following on from my previous post, here's another card from my recent

In The Meadow Class

I love how pretty these images are in this stamp set

Watercolouring is so relaxing, you don't need any skills to achieve this beautiful finish, just take an aqua painter, squeeze your ink pad before opening and take ink from the lid to paint with, you will need to continually re-applying ink to colour with.  It doesn't matter if you go over the edges of the stamped image, it just adds to the finished look!

I get so much use from my little flower punch, it really is a must have and comes with two other cute little punches, a heart and a star, the set is called "Itty Bitty Accent Punches", click on the picture below and you will be directed to my online shop for more information.

I still have spaces for my repeat of this class on

Thursday 24th March

at my house

9.30am - 1.00pm

and

6.30pm - 9.00pm

£15 for the card kits or £28 to include the stamp set aswell

For Kits in The Mail, just get in touch, you will need to already own the stamps or purchase them as part of the kit as I am not permitted to supply you with stamped images.

Product List

In The Meadow Clear-Mount Stamp Set [140754] £18.00	Aqua Painters [103954] £15.50	Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad [140931] £6.50	Soft Sky Classic Stampin' Pad [131181] £6.00	Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad [131180] £6.00
Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad [126975] £6.00	Watercolor Paper [122959] £4.50	Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack [133787] £15.50	Crumb Cake A4 Card Stock [121685] £6.50	Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock [106550] £7.25
Early Espresso A4 Card Stock [121686] £6.50	Ovals Collection Framelits Die [129381] £24.00	Elegant Dots Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [138287] £7.00	Very Vanilla Thick Baker’S Twine [138411] £3.25

Gift Pouch

Enjoyed a weekend at home for a change, due to the weather our local Motorcross meeting was cancelled although we didn't seem to have the rain here that was predicted.    We could have travelled to another venue but much further away and with the outlook there not so good we decided to stay at home.

 

We didn't get a lie in though as there was the F1 Qualifying Saturday and race on Sunday so we were awake nice and early!

 

I wanted to share the second part of my card class this month, something I had done, but in a different design at my recent Big Shot Class.

 

It uses the Scallop Envelope Die for the Big Shot and I had seen one but there were no instructions on how to create it so I had to figure that out for myself.

 

Now I put in a Hot Chocolate pouch for display but you could make a bookmark and put inside, use it as a sliding card or even a gift voucher wallet.

 

 

I have used the same design as the card in my previous post so that both could be given together.

 

The Marina Mist border at the bottom of the Newsprint paper was cut with the "Tasteful Trim" Bigz XL die and I use this one so much.

 

Used the oh so cute 7/8" Scallop Circle Punch to surround the Antique Brad.

 

If you'd like to learn how to get the most out of your dies, why not join me at a Big Shot Class, I run two every month, one daytime one evening at Whitminster Village Hall, just off J13 of the M5.

Faux Silk Butterflies

Our first card for June's classes involved a technique called "Faux Silk".  For this technique you need to stamp your main image/images onto tissue paper, screw it up into a ball, undo it carefully and then attach it to a piece of Whisper White Cardstock which you have covered with Tombow or similar wet glue, smoothing down with a Paper Folding tool then trimming off the excess.

We used the Butterfly image from "Strength & Hope" and the large foliage stamp from "Just Believe" to stamp onto the tissue paper.  The greeting is from "Sincere Salutations".

Our colour combination is Concorde Crush (In Colour), Peach Parfait (In Colour) and Old Olive teamed with Whisper White.  The ribbon is the Stitched Poly in co-ordinating Concorde Crush.  The patterned paper is from the In Colour Paper Stack.

We punched out our greeting using the XL Oval Punch and then layered it onto one of the Sizzlits Labels cut using the Big Shot Machine.

The 3D Flower was created using the Boho Blossom Punch, spritzing and scrunching them to give a distressed look and adding a flower centre using one of the Bitty Punches and some Crystal Effects.

Inspiring Inkin' Challenge #18

Well I dediced to have a go at the Inspiring Inkin' Challenge which can be found here http://www.inspiringinkinchallenges.blogspot.com/ and this fortnightly's challenge was the Chalkboard Technique.

I stamped my image from "One of A Kind" stamp set onto basic black cardstock with White Kraft ink, then using my pastels and a dauber I added colour to the inked image.  I used Rose Red and Regal Rose Pastels.  My greeting is from the Sale-a-bration set "Vintage Labels" stamped with White Kraft ink.  I punched a 1/2" circle from Rose Red Designer Series Paper and added this with a Dimensional to the centre of the flower image.  I attached a piece of Silver Elastic Cord with a bow to the lower section of my card, added Silver Eyelets using my Cropadile to the top to balance it and used the Corner Rounder on the top two corners.  I inked the edges of my card with Rose Red ink using a dauber.

Recipe:

Stamps: One of a Kind, Vintage Labels

Ink: White Kraft, Rose Red

Cardstock: Rose Red, Regal Rose, Basic Black, Rose Red Designer Series Paper

Accessories: Silver Elastic Cord, Silver Eyelets

Tools: Corner Rounder, Square Scallop Punch, Scallop Border Punch, Cropadile, 1/2" Circle Punch

Adhesives: SNAIL, Dimensionals, Sticky Strip