Wonderful Moments in Living Colour (and White)!

For our Technique Nights this month, our theme is techniques with ribbon and one of the techniques we're going to explore is dying ribbon. The card we're making using this technique is one that uses the Wonderful Moments Stamp Set because it has the stamp with the image of the Bride in it. What if you could create a wedding card for the bride that would incorporate her wedding colours in it and have elegant ribbon to go along with it.

Well, as long as Stampin' Up! has a Stampin' Blends alcohol marker that approximates that colour, you are in luck. Let's say that the bride had coral as her wedding colour. All you would need to do is to get out your Calypso Coral Stampin' Blends Combo and you could not only colour around the image of the bride, but you could also take some white ribbon and use the Stampin' Blends to dye the ribbon as well! So easy! Here's how it turned out:

• I used the Subtle 3D Embossing Folder for the background. The Heirloom Frames Dies and 3D Embossing Folders were used to create that elegant frame around the image of the bride.
• The ribbon used is the Silver Metallic Edged Ribbon, which was coloured with the Calypso Coral Light Stampin' Blends Marker, using the brush tip. It dries so fast, due to the alcohol base.
• The bride image is stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and I used the So Saffron Stampin' Blends Combo and the Calypso Coral Stampin' Blends Combo to colour it in.
• The sentiment is from the same stamp set and is stamped in Calypso Coral ink.

• The same design in Mint Macaron, only this time the Scripty 3D Embossing Folder was used for the background panel, and the Mint Macaron Stampin' Blends Combo instead of the Calypso Coral Combo.

• And the same card, only using the Highland Heather Stampin' Blends Combos.

This way you could totally coordinate the wedding card with the wedding colours of the bride!!

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Product List

Wonderful Moments Photopolymer Stamp Set [147529] $33.00	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock [140272] $11.25	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100730] $13.25	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $8.25	Highland Heather Classic Stampin' Pad [147103] $10.25
Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad [147101] $10.25	Mint Macaron Classic Stampin' Pad [147106] $10.25	Highland Heather Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [147276] $12.00	Calypso Coral Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [144045] $12.00	Mint Macaron Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [147283] $12.00
So Saffron Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [149557] $12.00	Silver 3/8" Metallic-Edge Ribbon [144213] $9.50	Scripty 3D Embossing Folder [149634] $14.00	Subtle 3D Embossing Folder [151775] $14.00	Heirloom Frames Dies And 3D Embossing Folder [152325] $39.00
Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $5.50	Snail Adhesive [104332] $9.50	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $7.25	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50

Rooted in Nature for an EcoBirthday Card

Do you know a nature lover? Most of us have that someone in our life who needs to get into the forest to renew himself or herself. I don't get out of my Craft Cave often enough, but just looking at the Rooted in Nature bundle gives me a sense of tranquility. I'm just wrapping up a week spent in one of the world's most beautiful National Parks, and one of the four oldest in the world - Banff National Park. Not many know this, but I was actually born in Banff, Alberta! So I have some kind of natural affinity for the Rockies. And this card is a tribute to my camping week spent in the woods!

• The Nature's Poem Designer Series Paper used in the background actually reminds me of Westcoast forest trails with the lush fern covered forest floors. I lived on the coast of British Columbia for many years, and we got so we took our ferny woods for granted. After living in the dry interior now for over twenty years, I realize how special it was!
• I got the forest effect on the image panel by stamping the double fir tree image from Rooted in Nature full strength and then repeatedly restamping without reinking higher and higher up the page, overlapping the last images, giving the illusion of depth. I started with Tranquil Tide and then went to full strength Mint Macaron, restamping it without reinking as well. If there were gaps, I filled them in using the single fir tree stamp at a similar level of ink intensity for that area.
• I stamped the main tree image on a separate piece of Whisper White. I used Shaded Spruce, then used a Q-tip to take the ink off the tree trunk and used a Soft Suede Stampin' Write Marker to recolour the trunk. I "huffed" on the stamp to remoisten the ink and stamped, then die cut the image using the coordinating die from Nature's Roots Framelits. It has a bit of an awkward base to the shape which I nipped off and added a base on the panel with my Soft Suede marker.
• Don't you love that sentiment from the Enjoy Life stamp set. I thought it would be perfect with this theme for my card. My hubby recognized the quote as one from a Roman Emperor, Marcus Aurelius, to be exact after we looked it up! I stamped it on vellum with Tranquil Tide and dried the ink with the Heat Tool so it wouldn't smear off. The background was too busy to just leave the vellum on it's own though so I added another flag of Sahara Sand behind.

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Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today.

Product List

Rooted In Nature Clear-Mount Stamp Set [146482] $57.00	Rooted In Nature Wood-Mount Stamp Set [146479] $75.00	Rooted In Nature Clear-Mount Bundle [148353] $99.00	Rooted In Nature Wood-Mount Bundle [148352] $115.00	Enjoy Life Photopolymer Stamp Set [148190] $32.00
Wonderful Moments Photopolymer Stamp Set [147529] $33.00	Nature's Poem Designer Series Paper [146338] $15.00	Vellum 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101856] $12.25	Shaded Spruce 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146981] $11.50	Sahara Sand 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121043] $11.50
Soft Suede 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [115318] $11.50	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $13.25	Tranquil Tide Classic Stampin' Pad [147146] $10.25	Mint Macaron Classic Stampin' Pad [147106] $10.25	Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad [147115] $10.25
Shaded Spruce Classic Stampin' Pad [147088] $10.25	Neutrals Stampin' Write Markers [147158] $40.00	Nature's Twine [146342] $12.25	Banner Triple Punch [138292] $31.00	Classic Label Punch [141491] $24.00
Nature's Roots Framelits Dies [146341] $53.00	Big Shot [143263] $150.00	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.25	SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332] $9.00	Glue Dots [103683] $7.00
Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.25	Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108] $5.50