Wow, I was invited to hold a workshop last night in Fairfield, Illinois with some really great ladies. They are so energetic and willing to see all of my new ideas. We stamped late into the evening, but everyone was having such a great time, I don't think any one noticed the time! I want to show you two of the projects we created last evening.
The first project we did was painting pansies with the aquapainter and ink refills. Did you know you can make a pansy (flower) from Stampin' Up's butterfly punch? When you have looked at the butterfly punch in the past, you have seen just a butterfly, haven't you?
These pansies were made by punching two butterflies out of Shimmery White cardstock with the butterfly punch, painting them with an aquapainter and Rich Razzleberry and Crushed Curry refill inks. This example looks a little messy to do, but the end result is amazing.
The painting is very easy to do:
1) Using the aquapainter, wet the butterflies (and work on them) one at a time.
2) You will put 2-3 drops of each color of reinker in a small puddle.
3) Use the aquapainter to first wet your butterfly, then touch the tip into the reinker puddle and put a small amount of ink on the wet butterfly where you want the color. I used Crushed Curry in the center and the Rich Razzleberry around the edges of the "butterfly wings". Let dry completely, using a heat tool to speed up the process.
To assemble the flowers: lay two pieces of painted butterflies on top of one another as shown, using a brad to hold the two pieces together. When completely dry and a brad is holding the pieces together, we used the Rich Razzleberry Stampin' Write Marker to draw accent lines in the center of the flowers (look at the flower on the right to see the best detail of this, kind of like cat whiskers on each section of the flower).
Now just add a few punched leaves from Stampin' Up's Five Petal punch, attach the flowers with Stampin' Dimensionals and you are done! You can not see this at all in the picture above, but the Shimmery White cardstock make the pansies shine and shimmer.
Do you like the Top Note die piece of Very Vanilla that we then ran through our Manhattan Roses embossing folder? I think it's pretty elegant now. And don't forget to add a gorgeous piece of Rich Razzleberry polka dot ribbon (my favorite) to complete the look of your card.
Ok, then we used a stamp set that I think gets forgotten about alot, Hello There, to make our next creation.
We used the Finial Press embossing folder to emboss our Whisper White cardstock before beginning the card. This cute paper is from the Tea Party designer series package (very cute). We just stamped the full flower with leaf and stem in Certainly Celery, stamped the flower part again in Pretty In Pink and Summer Sun, cut those flowers out by hand and popped them right on top of the Certainly Celery images using Stampin' Dimensionals. Cute and easy!
Check back tomorrow and I will be posting our cupcake card we made for our last project.
Thanks Lavon, Lois, Brenda, Joyce, Judy, Connie, Marty, Lew Jean and Sheila for really bosting my spirits last night with your enthusiasm and creativeness. I really needed it!
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