Stamping Mette: August 2023

Saturday, August 26, 2023

Explosion card - Fancy Fold blog hop

And here is post 2 for today.

The Fancy Fold this month is an explosion card. There are many different types and versions of explosion cards and this is one I haven't tried before.

We used this tutorial from Tami White, and it is easy to follow with a downloadable pdf with measurements and instructions.

I decided to use the Cheerful Daisies bundle and the Fresh as a Daisy Designer Series Paper.

For my base card I chose the Pebbled Path. I am really liking this colour and it pairs so well with the Fresh as a Daisy paper. It is so far my favourite of the new In-Colours. I often don't even start using the new In-Colours until half way through their second year, when they are getting close to retiring, so I am glad I discovered it already now.

I used the Boho Blue piece with the white daisies on it for the front and inside panels. It was probably a bit wasted on the inside panels, as you hardly see it when you add in the folding/explosion mechanism, but that is how it goes sometimes. I used another Boho Blue piece for the folding/explosion part. For the center panel I matted with Pebbled Path under my Basic White square.

For my square I first stamped the medium daisy in second generation Boho Blue ink. And then I did second generation Copper Clay for the center which is the same daisy center colour on the dsp.

I stamped the greeting in Versamark and heat embossed with silver embossing powder. Finally, I added some Pebbled Path splatter with my Stampin' Write marker.

I did the bellyband in Pebbled Path and added a Basic White label from the Cheerful Daisies dies. I cut a couple of the bigger daisies from Basic White card stock and added some Boho Blue ink with a sponge dauber and daubed some Copper Clay ink in the center and layered them. I finished it off with some Wink of Stella on the top layer petals and the center.

I adhered a couple of the leaves to the back and adhered it all to the label with a dimensional.

I am really liking this card and the fold is fun and easy. Depending on the amount of stamping and die cutting for the inside center and the belly band decorations this card can be put together in 30 mins - love quick cards.

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Are you interested in a DSP and/or Ribbon share? Let me know and I will explain it all.

Hope you hop along and check out the rest of the creations 😄

Gina is next, you can find here creation here

Happy stamping

Floating Elements - Totally Techniques Blog Hop

It's already almost the end of August and I have 2 posts for you today, this is the first one.

For this month's Totally Techniques' Blog Hop we are doing the floating elements. This is a technique that has been around for a long time, but I have never tried it, and I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

The floating element technique is really easy, and you can choose how elaborate you want it depending on your strips, colours and shapes.

First you cut strips in either the same or varying width. I cut all my strips at 1/4' as my final shape was relatively small. I chose 3 colours, but you can do it all in the same colour or choose a rainbow, you can do whatevere you like.

I chose Blueberry Bushel, Lemon Lime Twist and Berry Burst. It is a fun and bright colour combination, just want I wanted to go with my Basic Black card base, embossing and twine.

You then add your strips to a piece of Acetate. I adhered them with a little bit of Tombow Multipurpose Liquid glue. Make sure you don't use too much as it will smear on the Acetate and can be difficult to get off without scratching the Acetate. I adhered my strips relatively close together to get as many on as possible.

I then cut my shape from the Acetate with the adhered strips. I used the triple Balloon die from the Beautiful Balloons dies. This is a die that some people find a bit difficult to use as it doesn't have a matching stamp, but it is great for this technique.

I stamped a piece of Basic White with one of the little stamps and used the same 3 colours of ink as I had used for the card stock strips.

At the bottom of the piece of white I stamped the 'Celebration' in Versamark and heat embossed it in black. To do this I covered the 'I think it's time for a' with a piece of tape before inking up and then removed the tape before stamping to only get the bottom half of the stamp.

I added strips of dimensionals on the back under the strips and doubled them up to raise the cut shape up higher and give a real floating effect. I stamped the top half of the greeting on a strip of Lemon Lime Twist with Versamark and heat embossed black embossing powder. I then added dimensionals and adhered to the balloon shape. I tied some black twine to the bottom of the 3 balloons in the die cut and tied them together in a knot at the bottom.

I added a strip of Lemon Lime Twist and a strip of Berry Burst to the edge of the white piece before adhering it to the black card base.

I am quite happy with how this turned out and hope you give it a go, it is a great, easy and very effectful technique that you can do in all sorts of colour combinations and shapes.