Last weekend I had my fundraiser for Team in Training. We made five cards and learned a lot of techniques. Even though I was the "teacher" I learned so much from everyone! Here are samples of what we learned. And yep, it's all Stampin' Up! materials.
This is the card we made demonstrating masking and paper piecing. We used the stamp set unfrogettable (which is retiring at the end of this month, so if you want it let me know ASAP). If you have to make multiple cards or don't have a lot of time it is helpful to use stamps that have simple shapes to cut out. Here we used the toadstool from the stamp set. Masking is the technique that allows the toadstools to be in the foreground and the flowers in the background. First we stamped the toadstools on the white paper, and also stamped them on post-it notes. We then cut the toadstools out of the post-it note and stuck them over the toadstools on the white paper. This allowed us to stamp the flowers directly over the toadstools. Then remove the post-it notes and the flowers look like they are in the background. Paper piecing is very easy also. Here we just stamped the snail in white on the black card and also stamped him on orange. We cut out the shell in orange and adhered it to the card. Hence an orange shell. This technique is really great with floral stamps too.
This is just a sample of a technique using pastels. Pastels are like chalks. In the above card we stamped the flower images with Versamark and then used Qtips rubbed in pastels to make the flower pop! The Pastels stick to the Versamark lines. Click on the picture to see it close up. It is the easiest pastel technique ever! This was my sample, but the other participants really went to town with the technique! The saying at the bottom of the card is stamped in regular ink.
In this card we learned about embossing. The bottom of the card is dry embossed using a brass plate from Stampin' Up!, a light table and stylus. Something interesting that I learned is that cardstock is difficult to see through to the pattern on the brass plate. Some tips others shared were to rub wax paper against the card stock and it helps you see the light through. I also learned that it is easier to emboss on papers that have color on one side and white on the other. The top part of the card was made using white paper and stamping butterflies in Versamark. Then we sprinkled with white embossing powder and heated with a heat gun. Then to add some "wow!" we took sponge dobbers and rubbed lovely lilac, certainly celery, and cool caribean ink in the background. The heat embossed images resist the ink perfectly. I really love this technique.
If you haven't guessed yet, I used all of my favorite stamp sets. This one is no exception. It is called "silly sea" life and is perfect for the watercolor technique. I have found that the easiest way to water color is with the Stampin' Up! blender pens and the water color crayons. We just barely colored the turtle and then used the blender pens to pull the color over the entire turtle image. And like the other cards...the women did wonders with this design! Next time I am taking close up pictures of their work and posting it too!
Hooray for kissing! This is technique is called kissing and allows a solid stamp to have pattern. It works great on solid alphabet letters too! We used the "wild about you" stamp set and the paisley background stamp. First we inked the elephant with marigold morning ink and then we inked the paisley stamp with positively pink. Then you press the stamps together and stamp the elephant on white paper. Tah dah, a paisley elephant!
Hope you can make it to the next event! Also I wanted to thank again the Scrapbook Depot who opened their store to us and let us have our event in air conditioning! You can learn more about them at www.myscrapbookdepot.com
