Pootles Design Team – Brightly Lit Christmas – Week 2

I really enjoy taking part in Pootles Design Team challenge – gets my brain engaged a bit! I hope you enjoy seeing what myself and my fellow demonstrators have all come up with using the same stamp set.

Week 1 didn’t publish on time and its very short. I unexpectedly ended up in hospital for a few days so I was unable to sort it out. I have published it now if you want to have a wee look.

Look at this wee cat gazing out at the winter sky – Christmas magic is happening. I really enjoy making these build a scene cards. I have only used 2 colours in total but I think I got a good effect. I hope this inspires you to have a go at masking and sponging, you don’t have to have the sets that I have used. Just mask of a moon and get sponging and build up your own scene, let your imagination take over.

Method

The card base is night of Navy – 14.8cm x 10.5cm

whisper white – 10.1cm x 14.4cm

I used my 2.25 inch circle punch to cut out a mask from a post it note. Stick to circle mask where you want the moon to be then using night of navy ink sponge over the whole piece of card until you have the look you want. Remember you can add more ink but you can’t take it away easily so build up lightly.

Remove the mask and gently sponge moon with daffodil yellow unevenly to give an impression of craters.

With Night of Navy Stamp the lamppost where you want it, add a greeting and Santa. Add a punched out night of navy cat with dimensionals. I used card fron builder dies to make a tree stencil to create the wee group of trees in the foreground. Use daffodil yellow watercolour pencil and wink of stella to illuminate the street light. Stick this onto the card base with snail and its done. Great fun!

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Pootles Design Team – Week 1 – Brightly Lit

Wow – I’m so excited to have been picked for Pootles Design team for this month October. For four weeks myself and my fellow demonstrators will showcase the stamp set – Brightly Lit.

Method:

To make the card I cut a card blank from an A4 sheet of real red – cut in half lengthwise and then folded in half.

Basic black cut to 10.1cm x 14.4

Designer series paper cut to 9.7cm x 14cm

Stick the DSP onto the black then wrap the beautiful ribbon around this just how you want it using some snail on the back to hold it in position. Layer this onto the card blank with snail.

On a half sheet of Whisper White I randomly stamped with Garden Green and Real Red ink and stamps from the Brightly Lit Christmas set. It is 2 part stamping for the wreath and the parcel.

Confession: I didn’t make a great job of lining up the lights on a couple of the wreaths which led me to put bling on the wreaths. All the best ideas come from happy accidents!

from the stamped sheet cut a piece 14cm x 4.5cm and layer that onto a piece of basic black 14.4cm x 14.9cm stick this onto the card where you want it.

Stamp the greeting onto a scrap of whisper white, cut it out and layer onto a scrap of basic black to make a banner then pop this onto the card using dimensionals.

Using a small piece of the ribbon tie the wee embellishment to the ribbon on the card. Embellish the wreaths with Black Rhinestone Jewels .

I really hope you like this card as much as I enjoyed making it.

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Real Red Classic Stampin’ Pad

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Garden Green Classic Stampin’ Pad

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Black Rhinestone Jewels

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Oranges and Limes

Lemon Zest Bundle

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Planner

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Love Today Planner Kit

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Birthday Blog Hop Card

I am so excited to be taking part in The Pootles Birthday Club during the week of my 60th Birthday. I made this card for my old school chum – we have now been friends for 47 years! I was inspired by a fellow Stampin’ Up! colleague who made a similar card. I have used 2 stamp sets, a punch and 2 die sets and a piece of Designer Series Paper! I know – I’m sorry but these are sets that everyone would want in their collection. If you don’t have these sets I’m sure you can use this technique with something else. If you want to buy any of these items I would be delighted if you choose me to be your demonstrator by buying from my site by clicking on any of the items listed below the picture.

Technique/recipe!

I did use a card blank 17.2 cm square which is available in any craft shop as I wanted this card to be a statement! The first layer is Fresh Florals Berry Burst Designer Series Paper 16.8 cm squared. Next a layer of Whisper White 16.4 squared is stamped and embossed as described below.

First I used Garden in Bloom to stamp the flower outline with versamark and heat embossed that with Stampin Emboss Powder in Gold. I water coloured the flowers with Wink of Stella and Daffodil Delight, Berry Burst and Powder Pink inks. Next I stamped the dragonflies with lemon lime twist and squeezed in a few bees in Basic Black and water coloured in with Daffodil Delight and jazzledazzled the insects up with Wink of Stella on their wings.

The sentiment is stamped with Label Me Pretty on whisper white and punched with Pretty Label. It is accented with a Berry Burst also punched with Pretty Label. (Ask me and I will show you how).

I cut circles in Berry Burst and Whisper White with Layering Circles Framelits. The numbers are cut with Berry Burst and Large Number Framelits.

The card is assembled with SNAIL adhesive and Stampin’ Dimensionals. I hope you like it

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Stampin’ Trimmer

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