Welcome to the Around the World on Wednesday Blog Hop for December – our last for this year where we have had the opportunity to share creativity together. Each month our team share inspiration with different themes curated by the one who keeps it all together – Angie McKenzie – who not only does all the organising but also keeps us inspired.
Today is a technique challenge where we could choose to try a new-to-us technique or re-visit one we hadn’t tried in a while. My biggest struggle was picking the technique! I listed a bunch of techniques that I had wanted to try over many years. There was a separate list of techniques that I hadn’t done in yonks!
Finally, I decided on the Ink Drip technique which I never tried and the Googling and Pinteresting started. Now, this ain’t no clean technique – as the name suggests. Get ready to get inky fingers.
I used Fluid 100 for ink dripping and experimented with some colour palettes and variations in sizes of the drips. The one I used for this card is actually the first one I tried and includes Melon Mambo and Granny Apple Green. Odd combination, yes, because I thought I had Real Red ink refill but it was actually Melon Mambo. LOL! Not to worry, it worked fine.
I added some ink refill which was diluted with a Water Painter at the top of the piece of Cardstock then tipped the Cardstock up so the ink dripped down. I wanted a bit more on my background panel so I added some ink blending in the white space with Granny Apple Green and then some splatters with a Water Painter. The panel I created was cut in half to use on this card.
I dripped down some plain water and poured Gold embossing powder onto the water. Then I heat embossed it for the pockets of Gold that’s inbetween. It is a little bit tricky when heat embossing on theFluid 100 because the Cardstock is porous and the gold didn’t show up as much as I would have liked. So I added some other gold elements to add some extra sparkle.
A fussy cut deer from the Reindeer Days Designer Series Paper and a range of Ephemera were layered to complete this fun card.
Have you tried this technique? I’d love to know. If you haven’t, definitely give it a try. It’s easy and lots of fun and might be addictive so have lots of Watercolour Paper on hand.
Next on our hop is the wonderfully talended Cheryll Miller. I wonder what technique she is trying today? Take a look by clicking on the ‘Next Blog’ button below.
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The Crafty Collaborations Monochromatic challenge featured colour this week is Calypso Coral. An old favourite and part of our Subtles range, Calypso Coral is a good all-rounder colour that blends really well with other colours whether it be same tones or some brighter colours for fun looks. I surprised myself by ending up with the Trusty Tools stamp set in front of me for this particular colour.
Why? you may ask. My go to for Calypso Coral would probably have been flowers but in these challenges I try to use different stamp sets and I as far as I could remember, Trusty Tools had yet to be used. So, we were painting the town, Calypso Coral!
I went for a clean look with lots of white space, choosing patterns and texture to add depth to my card.
The stamp set is a two-step set however I chose to colour my paint brush in Stampin’ Blends, even adding some paint stains down the brush.
Industrial Trinkets (the masculine bling!) completes this rather quick card which is perfect for the handyman in your life.
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Hello Friends, Welcome to Stamping Flair. I hope you have had an enjoyable Mother’s Day. It’s our weekly CASEing the Catty Challenge blog hop and for CTC469 we are CASEing the Mix & Match pages from the Stampin’ Up! 2024-2025 Annual Catalogue.
CASE – Copy and Share Everything or Copy and Selectively Edit.
The Mix & Match section includes Ephemera Packs and Cards & Envelope Packs. These are designed to provide you with simplified options for customising your projects.
I’ve CASEd the this project from Page 21 of the catalogue. The arrangement of the sentiment is in a triangular shape and my design took it’s inspiration from that.
I started off by die cutting a triangle using the 2 largesr Deckled Rectangles. This was embossed with the Fun Patterns Embossing Folder.
This is the first card I’ve created with the Zinnias bundle and the images are lovely to colour in. I used Stampin’ Blends for this image.
I added some elements from the Spotlight In Nature bundle including the circle and butterfly. I inked up the texture image in Petunia Pop and then spritzed it with water before to stamping. I love the watercolour effect that this gives. The butterfly was blended with Pretty in Pink ink, with some details added with the Daffodil Delight Watercolour Pencil.
The card base is a tent fold as a felt the design lent itself to that and on the bottom of it I blended Petunia Pop ink. This added some depth under my focal image. I couldn’t resist adding the butterfly from this stamp set for a sweet touch.
Thank you for stopping by today. A full list of products used can be found at the end of this post. Next on our hop is Rebecca Scurr. Follow our hop through for lots of fun ideas.
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