Embossed Bamboo Beauty and Blended Alcohol Technique

 I'm having a lot of fun with the Bamboo Beauty stamp set also with the Blended Alcohol technique on vellum and decided to combine the two for my Monday Morning Live video tutorial and also for my June Newsletter Photo Tutorial. You can see the Monday Morning Facebook Live on my Playing With Papercrafting Facebook page at 11 am PDT or I will post the YouTube replay here some time later.

             

I will not be giving detailed instructions today because I will include those in the free step-by-step photo tutorial in my June newsletter. You can access that if you subscribe to my free monthly newsletter by getting on my email list. To do that scroll to the bottom of this page and enter your name and email in the correct field and click on Sign Up. You will be able to unsubscribe easily and I will not fill up your inbox with emails. I usually send only one, or at the most two emails a month.

Here are the features of today's card:

• I've layered the card colours on the Evening Evergreen Base.
• The blended alcohol technique is seen in the background of the gold embossed bamboo stalks. It is done on vellum cardstock with Stampin' Blends and 90%+ rubbing alcohol.
• The stamping is done in two steps using the Stamparatus and Versamark ink.
• The images are embossed in Gold.

All materials and measurements are included in the free photo tutorial in my June Newsletter.

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If you live in Canada, and don't have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, I'd love to be yours. I can help you with ideas, get you catalogues and provide you with Stampin' Up products. You can leave a message in the comments or contact me using any of the methods listed in the right side bar at the top of the page. You can shop with me from anywhere in Canada by clicking on the SHOP NOW button in the top menu or clicking on any of products below from my Online Store.

Product List

Bamboo Beauty Cling Stamp Set [155478] $29.00	Vellum 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [101856] $13.50	Evening Evergreen 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [155574] $12.00	Pale Papaya 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [155668] $12.00	Soft Succulent 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [155776] $12.00
Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276] $13.25	Versamark Pad [102283] $13.00	Evening Evergreen Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [155517] $12.00	Soft Succulent Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [155521] $12.00	Pale Papaya Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [155519] $12.00
Metallics Embossing Powders [155555] $24.00	Genial Gems [155500] $11.00	Embossing Buddy [103083] $8.25	Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053] $41.00	Stamparatus [146276] $67.00
Stampin' Seal [152813] $11.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $5.50

More Layering Diorama Dies for As You See It Recipe Challenge

 It's TGIF everyone and one of the good things about every other Friday is that we get to play a brand new As You See It Challenge. This week it's a Recipe for a Happy Birthday and here is the challenge banner as cooked up by fellow Design Team member Joanne!

This week I've been playing with the Layering Diorama Dies, so I thought I'd continue using them for this challenge....that, and all my Design Team Members aced me on the gorgeous florals this time, so I did a 180 degees and designed a masculine birthday card.

• This time I only had 3 layers and the bottom was a Basic White panel that I blended with ink. I used a taped off horizon line to get it really straight and a piece of Post It Note die cut in a circle to mask where the setting sun should be, then sponged both the ocean and the sky before I realized that I was going to need some patterned paper somewhere on the card. So I had to replace my beautifully blended ocean with some Expressions in Ink Specialty Designer Series Paper. The greens blended with gold veins really actually works well for the ocean as the gold works as the reflected sunlight!
• The blended sky is a mix of Bumble Bee, Flirty Flamingo, Highland Heather and Night of Navy, applied with Blending Brushes. The sun, after the mask is removed, was filled in with a bit of Daffodil Delight.
• I used Night of Navy and Sahara Sand as the layers die cut with the Layering Diorama dies. I added die cuts of seaweed on the Sahara Sand using the Smooth Sailing dies and more Expressions in Ink DSP.
• On the Night of Navy I added a Lighthouse, stamped in Night of Navy then embossed with Clear Embossing Powder to fulfill the Heat Embossing element of the challenge. The sailboat on the back layer is also heat embossed with Clear Embossing Powder along with the sentiment from Timeless Tropical.

• The die cuts are the lighthouse, the sailboat, the sentiment label, the seaweed and the ship's wheel. The lighthouse and sailboat were also coloured in using Light Poppy Parade Stampin' Blends, Gray Granite Stampin' Blends and So Saffron Stampin' Blends.
• The ribbon or twine is a sailor's knot at the bottom, tied using White Baker's Twine and Linen Thread.

I hope you'll play along with us!

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If you live in Canada, and don't have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, I'd love to be yours. I can help you with ideas, get you catalogues and provide you with Stampin' Up products. You can leave a message in the comments or contact me using any of the methods listed in the right side bar at the top of the page. You can shop with me from anywhere in Canada by clicking on the SHOP NOW button in the top menu or clicking on any of products below from my Online Store.

Product List

Sailing Home Cling Stamp Set [149457] $33.00	Timeless Tropical Cling Stamp Set (English) [151497] $31.00	Expressions In Ink 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [155464] $20.00	Night Of Navy 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100867] $12.00	Sahara Sand 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [121043] $12.00
Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276] $13.25	Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad [147110] $10.25	Basics Embossing Powders [155554] $24.00	Bumblebee Classic Stampin' Pad [153116] $10.25	Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad [147052] $10.25
Highland Heather Classic Stampin' Pad [147103] $10.25	Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad [147094] $10.25	Poppy Parade Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154958] $12.00	Gray Granite Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154886] $12.00	So Saffron Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154905] $12.00
Linen Thread [104199] $6.75	Baker's Twine Essentials Pack [155475] $15.00	Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053] $41.00	Blending Brushes [153611] $16.25	Smooth Sailing Dies [149576] $44.00
Layering Diorama Dies [155565] $39.00	Layering Circles Dies [151770] $48.00	Stampin' Seal [152813] $11.00	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $7.25	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50