Hi
Friends!!
Woohoo!! I am the Guest Designer for the Power Poppy "Hues to Use"Challenge for the week of November 21st!!
In addition to the monthly Power & Spark Challenge at Power Poppy, the "Hues to Use" Challenge is a weekly color challenge which does not have a link up expiration date, so you can play anytime!! One of the benefits of playing along is that you may be asked to be a Guest Designer in the future- which is such an honor and very exciting!!
I am so excited since I absolutely love Power Poppy by Marcella Hawley images and own several of her clear stamp
sets as well as quite a few digital sets.
I
know, many of you may cringe at the thought of digital stamps and feel that digital images are too intimidating, but trust
me, they are so easy to use!! You can import them into photo editing software
(I generally use the retired Stampin’ Up! My Digital Studio™ program or Word) or you can use another word processing program.
Also, what
I love about digital images is that you can enlarge or reduce the image, flip
it and/or crop it, then print it out on cardstock, watercolor paper or other paper. Then you just color as you would a stamped
image. It is so easy to create different looks with just one image plus another major benefit for me is that they do not take up space in my stamping studio :-)
This
week’s "Hues to Use" neutral palette is perfect for so many different types of cards and with the celebration of Thanksgiving this week here in the States, I decided to use the main image from
the Olive and Oak digital stamp set and the sentiment from the Bittersweet Wreath digital stamp set.
I
will also be participating with the Word Art Wednesday #308-#309 “Anything Goes” Challenge, the Curtain Call "Acorns" Inspiration Challenge and the CAS-Fridays #187 "Gratitude with Attitude" Challenge.
If
you have not had a chance to do so, I hope you will find the time to check out the
rest of the challenge gallery at Power Poppy (as well as their other challenge sand blog posts). Their Design Team is amazing and gorgeous inspiration from all!
To
create this card:
1).
Open an 8 ½” x 11” document in your word processing/photo software program,
import or insert the Olive & Oak image into the blank document (I enlarged
it a bit) and import the sentiment from Bittersweet Wreath into another area of
the document. I positioned them both on
the same page but made sure I had enough room to cut out the main image panel
and that the sentiment would be the correct size for the 4 ¼” card (again, this
is what I love about digital images!!).
Print the images using black printer ink onto white cardstock. FYI- you
can use watercolor paper or other colored cardstock as well – just as long as
your printer will handle the weight. I
tend to use an 80lb weight white cardstock that has a very smooth surface.
2).
Use a water brush with antique linen distress ink, watercolor the entire
image. Use a heat tool to speed up the
drying and continue to color the image using watercolor pencils, distress ink
and markers and shadows with a water soluble graphite pencil until you are
satisfied with the results. I also used
an alcohol marker for the background (to try to achieve an antique paper
look). Use a stencil with antique linen
distress ink to lightly stencil in the background.
3).
Die cut the image with a rectangle stitched die, mount onto rust cardstock,
trim close to the die cut edge and mount onto espresso cardstock. Create the
photo corners using a square punch from rust cardstock and trim the edges for
the photo corner. Add the chocolate brads in the corners and mount the entire
panel onto a piece of rust cardstock.
4).
Using a tutorial from Splitcoaststampers for an easel card (see tutorial here),
I cut a piece of espresso cardstock to 4 ¼” x 11” and scored at 5 ½” and 8 ¼”. I folded on the score lines to create the
easel.
5).
Hand trim the sentiment to approx. 3 ¾” wide, watercolor with the antique linen
distress ink and watercolor pencils for a wash over the sentiment panel and
stencil around the edges with the same stencil as used above for the main image
panel. Mount the sentiment onto rust
cardstock, trim and mount onto espresso cardstock, trim and mount onto rust
cardstock again for the layers.
6).
On a separate piece of espresso cardstock (approx. 4 ¼” wide by 5” tall), add
the crochet lace and chocolate ribbon. Wrap the ribbon ends behind this panel
and adhere the panel to the lower portion of the easel card. Mount the sentiment with dimensional foam
(this is the part of the card that will help keep the easel portion open).
7).
Adhere the front panel onto the small flap of the easel card, test out the
easel movement to make sure that it will work smoothly.
8).To
finish off the card, add shimmer to the main oak leaf with a clear shimmer pen.
Stamp
Sets: Olive and Oak, Bittersweet Wreath (both digital stamps from PowerPoppy)
Ink/Mediums:
Inkjet Printer- Black Ink, Tim Holtz® (TH)
Antique Linen Distress Ink, TH Gathered Twigs Distress Marker, Stampin’ Up!
(SU!) Markers- Cajun Craze, Early Espresso, Rexel Derwent® Watercolor Pencils-#53
Sepia, #57 Brown Ochre, #62 Burnt Sienna, #64 Terra Cotta; Derwent® Water
Soluble Graphite Pencil- HB Light Wash; Spectrum Noir™ GV1 Alcohol Marker &
Clear Glitter Pen
Cardstock/Paper:
Whisper White, Cajun Craze, Early Espresso (all Stampin’ Up!)
Accessories:
Big Shot™, MFT Stitched Rectangle STAX Dies, AquaPainter™, Ivory Crochet Lace,
Chocolate brads, 1” Satin Ribbon from my stash
Thanks
again for taking the time to stop by! I
hope I have inspired you today and that you will be able to join us for the Power Poppy “Hues to Use” Challenge!
