Gears & Textures for As You See It Challenge #381

Our Teamie, Jan, came up with a stunning colour palette for our latest colour challenge! It's unusual, but really grabs your attention! We've allowed an exception for this one colour challenge in that you can feel free to use as much black, white, or metallics along with the challenge colours as you like. Here's the Challenge Banner:

Now, here's how mine turned out, using the Gears & Textures Bundle!

• I started with a Basic Gray card base, cut at 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", and scored at 4 1/4" on the long side.
  
• I cut a 4" x 5 1/4" piece of Silver Foil from an old Silver Foil Specialty Pack, and ran it through the Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine with the retired Metal Plate 3D Embossing Folder. It seemed to give the right vibe for this project.
• I cut a 3 1/2" square piece of Basic White cardstock and backed it with a 3 3/4" square piece of Smoky Slate cardstock. I stamped several of the texture stamps from the Gears & Texture stamp set, using Azure Afternoon, Basic Gray and Smoky Slate ink. Then I adhere the two pieces of cardstock together and onto the card front as shown.
• I die cut several of the gears from the 3 colours of cardstock and arranged them as shown in the photo. I used either glue or black mini dimensionals to adhere them to the card.
• For the light bulbs, I die cut the bulbs from Smoky Slate and stamped the elements on them with Basic Gray. I die cut the larger size bulbs from Basic Gray, the glued the smaller bulbs onto them. The wires hanging them were drawn using a ruler and a Stampin' Write marker in Basic Gray.
• I used a silver Adhesive Backed Metallic Gem on the center of the smallest gear in the middle of the lower stack of gears.
• The sentiment is from Nature's Symphony. I stamped it in Azure Afternoon ink on Basic White and trimmed around it, so as to take up as little space as possible, then mounted it with mini dimensionals as well as a strip from the side of the mini dimensionals.
• Enjoy!!

  

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Gears & Textures Photopolymer Stamp Set [166851]	Gears & Textures Bundle (English) [166854]	Nature's Symphony Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [166919]	Nature's Symphony Bundle (English) [166926]	Silver Foil 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Pack [163096]
Basic Gray 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [121044]	Smoky Slate 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [131202]	Azure Afternoon 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [161719]	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [166780]	Basic Gray Classic Stampin' Pad [149165]
Azure Afternoon Classic Stampin' Pad [161663]	Smoky Slate Classic Stampin' Pad [147113]	Smoky Slate Classic Stampin' Pad [147113]	Detail Scissors [170902]	Adhesive Backed Metallic Gems [163780]
Adhesive Backed Metallic Gems [163780]	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653]	Gears & Textures Dies [166853]	Black Stampin' Dimensionals Combo Pack [150893]	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755]
Stampin' Seal+ [149699]

Butterfly Flight for As You See It Challenge #380 - Quadrants

With our latest As You See It Challenge being a sketch challenge, it gives me a chance to experiment with some of Stampin' Up's newest technology: the Stampin' Hot Foil System©! I'm not kidding when I say that this was the first time I've ever used it, so the learning curve is not too steep, but the results were very satisfying! Let me show you the lovely sketch I was working off of designed by the other Heather, Heather H.:

I kept the sketch pretty much as the challenge indicates although you're allowed to change shapes a bit and turn or flip the sketch. I was more focussed on using the new technology than changing up the sketch. Here's how it turned out again:

• I started with a normal card base of Crumb Cake cardstock, measuring 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", scored on the long side at 4 1/4". I chose Crumb Cake because it tends to look really great with a pale pink, but I wasn't happy with how raw and unfinished it ended up looking. I think I would have added more layers under each quadrant if I had  had the time.
• Then I cut a small piece of Crumb Cake, 1 1/4" x 4 1/4", which is big enough to hold the sentiment from the Classic Greetings Hot Foil Dies set. It will form the horizontal center piece of the sketch.
• Then I used some of the Heirloom Boutique 12" x 12" Two Tone Cardstock in Barely Blush. I used a 6" x  5" piece to create a background quadrant using the Swiss Dots Hot Foil Dies. The Two Tone Cardstock is recommended for the Hot Foil technique because it is smoother than our regular cardstock, and takes up the foil more smoothly and completely.
• To use the Stampin' Hot Foil System, you first heat up the Stampin' Hot Foil Platform, using the electrical cord specialized for the country you live in. When it beeps and the light is steady, place the die you will be using face up (flat side down) on the platform surface. (Make sure the platform is sitting in the silicone platform station so it doesn't injure your furniture.)
• On top of the die, add a good sized piece of the foil of your choice with the shiny side down, away from you. On top of that, add a piece of smooth cardstock, with the side you want to have the hot foil added to, facing down.
• Add the green shift plate, and the clear plate over that, then press the power button, and wait for a short time until it beeps again.
• Then unplug the cord from the side of the platform and transfer the whole thing to your Cut N' Emboss Machine.
• Run it through you machine, very slowly, giving the foil time to transfer to the cardstock. When the platform is well-through, remove the silicone platform station and carefully remove the plates.
• Slowly separate the foil from the paper and you should now have the polka dots in gold on the Barely Blush Two Tone cardstock.
• Take that 6" x 5" piece and cut into two 1 5/8" x 5" pieces and glue them at two even centering on your card front.
• Place the horizontal crosspiece across the center, and use the above technique to add gold foil to the sentiment of your choice from the Classic Greetings Hot Foil Dies. Make sure the sentiment fits the cardstock piece.
• To make the butterflies use the Butterfly Flight Hot Foil Die on the Barely Blush Two Tone Cardstock, but instead of gold foil, use the pink foil. Before die cutting all the butterflies, with the coordinating die, use the Butterfly Flight Decorative Masks to colour them in with ink and blending brushes. I used Bubble Bath, Lemon Lolly and Pool Party inks.
• After die cutting them, I added them to the front and the inside, using mini Stampin' Dimensionals and Tombo glue.
• I finished off with some Array of Dots. It was a lot of fun and not too difficult at all.    

                       
     

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Product List

Heirloom Boutique 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Two Tone Cardstock [167735]	Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [120953]	Stampin' Hot Foil System Na & Craft Class [170009]	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653]	Gold Stampin' Hot Foil Rolls [170066]
Light Pink Stampin' Hot Foil Rolls [170068]	Swiss Dots Hot Foil Die [170075]	Classic Greetings Hot Foil Dies [170042]	Butterfly Flight Hot Foil Dies [170045]	Butterfly Flight Bundle [170065]
Butterfly Flight Decorative Masks [170076]	Blending Brushes [153611]	Bubble Bath Classic Stampin' Pad [161664]	Lemon Lolly Classic Stampin' Pad [161666]	Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad [147107]
Array Of Dots [167559]

Scenic Coast for As You See It Challenge #379 - Hastened Handicrafts

 

Oh oh! Time for another Speed Challenge, where you are tasked with making a card with a certain theme in under 10 min.! And, yes, you have to time yourself!! You can plan your card ahead of time, gather your materials, mount your stamps, open your ink pads, but the second you start cutting paper, inking stamps, or die cutting, you have to start the timer! This time, the theme is Crafting, thanks to yours truly! I think you probably have a little knowledge about that, am I right?? Take a look at my Challenge Banner:

I thought I had some DSP for crafting, but then, when I couldn't find it, I remembered giving it away as a prize at my last crop! So I had to pivot! I still had an old bundle called Crafting with You that had a variety of crafts represented, including painting. It had an easel stamp and die cut, and using that allows you to fussy cut the canvas from some DSP to attach to the easel. I chose the amazing Scenic Coast DSP, with all it's contrasts and brush strokes and metallic accents to use for that. Here's how it turned out:

• I started with the card base of Strawberry Slush, cut at 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", and scored on the long side at 4 1/4". I added two panels, one of Crushed Curry, measuring 5 1/4" x 4". and one of Basic White, measuring 5" x 3 3/4".
• I die cut an easel using the Crafting with You dies from Early Espresso cardstock.
• I stamped an easel on the design you see of the Scenic Coast 6" x 6" Scenic Coast DSP, centering the canvas part of the easel on the sunrise of that particular design. I used Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp it.
• I die cut it using the Crafting with You easel die again, but this time I trimmed around the canvas with my Detail Scissors and glued it to the easel, adding it all to the card front using Mini-Dimensionals.
• I stamped, coloured with Blends, and die cut the paint brush images from the set, then mounted it on the left side of the easel, using a combo of Mini Glue Dots and Mini Dimensionals. 
• Finally, I stamped the sentiment on Basic White cardstock with Tuxedo Black ink and used the Detail Scissors to trim around it, then adhered to the top of the card front.
• The whole project left me with 3 minutes and 47 seconds left on the timer from 10 minutes, which means it took me 7 minutes and 13 seconds to make.

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Product List

*Crafting With You Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [161219]	*Crafting With You Bundle (English) [161226]	Scenic Coast 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [167773]	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [166780]	Early Espresso 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [119686]
Strawberry Slush 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [165625]	Crushed Curry 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [131199]	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708]	Highland Heather Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154887]	Balmy Blue Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154830]
Strawberry Slush Stampin’ Blends Combo Pack [165290]	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653]	*Crafting With You Dies [161225]	Detail Scissors [170902]	Paper Trimmer [152392]
Stampin' Seal [152813]	Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108]	Mini Glue Dots [103683]

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