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Faux Snow Tree

Here's another card using the faux snow technique. You can find the tutorial here.

I used the Jolliest Time of the Year stamp set and Sincere Salutations. The snowflakes are from the Delightful Decorations stamp set and embossed with clear.  

Shimmer Cartridges

I love the new shimmer paint SU sells. I put some Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint in an uninked cartridge so I could use it with my wheels. To ink up the cartridge I poured a small amount of paint on the wheel and spread it out with the tip of my bone folder. I kept turning the wheel and repeating the process until the whole cartridge was inked.

I inked another cartridge with frost white to use with my snowflake wheel. That one is very pretty as well.

Since this is paint and not ink as soon as I'm finished stamping I store the cartridge in a plastic ziploc bag to keep it from drying out. If I get tired of my shimmer cartridges I plan to wash them out and reuse them.

Reinker Medallion

I've seen so many beautiful cards made with this stamp, I couldn't resist. I stamped the medallion with versamark and embossed with white embossing powder. I used the reinker technique to get the verigated colours around the outside. The centre of the medalion was coloured with markers then buffed off with a dry tissue. The colours I used were lavender lace, bashful blue and lovely lilac.  

Faux Snow

Here's a card I made using faux snow. You can make your own with scraps of white cardstock and a cheese grater. Here's a short tutorial. 

Frosted Window

 This is one of those cards that looks better in real life. To make the frosted window. Stamp the child on glossy white cardstock and colour with Stampin' Write markers. Color the whole background bashful blue. After giving it a couple of minutes to dry apply white craft ink around the outter edges of the window.

Embossed Wreath

WhoHoo! My card made it to Stamper's Showcase. I've had many requests for instructions so here they are:

1.To make this card Stamp the small flowers from the Embrace Life stamp set in Artichoke classic ink.

2. Colour the white flowers with a versamarker and emboss with clear.

3. I used the leaves from Flower Fancy, stamping the large leaves in Mellow Moss and the small leaves in Artichoke classic ink.

4. Get your Iredescent Ice embossing powder ready. Sponge Mellow Moss classic ink over the whole wreath. Wipe quickly with a tissue to clean off the white flowers then pour the embossing powder over your wreath while the ink is still wet.

5. The pink flowers were stamped on whisper white and coloured with Regal Rose ink and a blender pen. Cut the flowers out and adhere them to your card with pop dots.

Reinker Technique

I had to try Crystal French's reinker technique.

Stamp an outline image on shimmery white cardstock using white craft ink (or other embossing ink) and emboss with white embossing powder.

I wanted to use my embossing folder so after running the shimmery white through my big shot I brayered ink lightly on top then embossed with white embossing powder. With the brayer I was able to apply ink only to the raised lines.

Spritz with water so you have puddles between the lines. Pick up some reinker on the tip of an aqua painter and touch it to one of the puddles and watch it spread. Keep doing this until you get the look you want.  Make sure you let your paper dry good before you mount it on a card as it will warp your card stock if you get impatient (ask me how I know that).

Watercolouring Class

This was a watercolouring class we did that uses a variety of the watercolouring mediums that Stampin' Up offers. There are four 3x3 cards and a little pizza box to put them in. Here are the instructions.  

Textured Watercolor Card

 This is one of the swaps I made for Regionals. The background is made by inking up a texture plate with Bashful Blue classic ink. I'm not sure who to give credit to for this idea but what an awsome technique. The stamp set is Wonderful Watercolors.

You can ink either side of your texture plate with classic or craft ink depending on the look you want. If you use craft ink or versamark you can emboss it.

Faux Flocking with SU products

 

You can make faux flocking quickly and easily using Stampin’ Up products.

You'll need a bold image stamp and a versa mark stamp pad or a line image stamp and a versamarker, heat & stick, a sharp pair of scissors and some scraps of grograin ribbon.

 

Click here for the free tutorial

Download FauxFlocking.pdf