Tombow products are my go-to art medium and I'm thrilled we are collaborating with them!  They generously sent us their Recycled Colored Pencils and I'm over the moon with the creaminess and beautiful color of this product!

For today's card, however, I went back to my favorite Tombow product, Dual Brush Tip Markers because I had an idea stuck in my head for this collaboration and I just had to see it through!

There are yummy prizes involved!  Read all the details on the Stampendous blog HERE.  Leaving a comment on each designer's blog (including the pre-Tombow posts), liking Stampendous and Tombow on Facebook and follow @tombowusa, @stampendous on Instagram and Twitter, gets you into the drawing!  Woo hoo!

Okay, ready for my card?

I'm so excited about this Tombow colored card because it was born of an idea and one of those "I wonder if" creative moments.  It began by laying the Fall Borders stencil onto watercolor paper and 'painting' through the stencil with a paint brush and Tombow markers scribbled onto palette paper.  The paint brush was wet, but not loaded with water, and color was picked up with the brush from the scribbled marker on the palette paper.  Less water is better than too much for this process as you want to avoid seepage underneath the stencil.  I had a wadded up paper towel handy just in case I saw too much water and blotted away the excess.

Lots of layers of color were added as I painted the border, but basically, I chose one color at a time and painted all the leaves with one color.  Then I went back with a second color over all the leaves until I eventually ended up with a lovely variety of fall foliage colors!  Once the painted leaves were thoroughly dry, I pasted Translucent paste over the stencil to add some visual dimension.  

This is the stencil laying over the watercolor paper and how it looked while I was painting.

Here's the result with the stencil removed!  There is virtually no seepage or bleeding!  The next step was to lay the stencil back over the colored image, paste it with translucent paste, and then allow it to dry.  I'm making assumptions you already know how to paste emboss with Dreamweaver Stencils!

Now that I the border was colored and pasted, it was ready for the background using a resist coloring method.  Knowing that I had pretty much one shot at getting the background color right, I played a bit with my Tombow markers separately by pressing panels of watercolor paper into various color combinations.  I decided that the lighter brown tones would work the best.  After scribbling 2-3 Tombow markers onto palette paper, I generously spritzed the scribbles with water and then pressed my watercolor panel into the watery puddles!  Voila!  TIP:  Use a paint brush to spread color around any missed nooks and crannies as in between the leaves.

I allowed the paper to air dry and then pasted the Dreamweaver Autumn word stencil with Metallic Gold paste to complete the card front.  I loved the result!  The finished card front was hand torn on the right side and mounted to the card base.  May Arts ribbon was tied in a bow as a finishing touch.

One more close-up photo of the dimension on the leaf border and gold metallic shine of the Autumn stencil.

Hope you enjoyed my card today!  I'd love your comment before hopping to the next designer's blog.  Thanks for stopping by!

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Pam Bray

Lyn Bernatovich (That's me!)

Jennifer Priest

Janelle Stollfus

Pam Hornschu

Daniella Hayes

Alison Heikkila

Wendy Price

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Disclaimer:  I'm so happy to be a Stampendous Design Team Member and to help promote their wonderful products.  They generously supply us with many free goodies like the Dreamweaver Stencils, May Arts Ribbon and Tombow Markers I'm using today.

I adore this Pumpkin Kisses image and it fits right in with my love of fall.  The mosaic swirl background was pasted a few weeks ago with the intention of using it here today.  I really like Dreamweaver's Orange Paste as it's more of a rust color.  I also combined Dreamweaver Metallic Copper Paste in between the orange paste on my paste spreader just to see what would happen when I pulled it down over the stencil.  

In order to show you the copper and orange paste result, the pumpkin image was full of glare, but it's worth it to see how cool this looks.  I'm sure I can play some more with combining the pastes and getting even more copper highlights.

Here's a close up of the image that is basically paper pieced after everything was colored, cut out and edged with Vintage Sepia and a finger dauber.  The panel behind the image was a handy dandy piece from my Dreamweaver scrap drawer!  It's so fun to create seasonal backgrounds and then they're ready whenever you need it.  The image was stamped with Versafine Toffee on watercolor paper and stamped a second time with Versafine Vintage Sepia on the background paper.  I used my new favorite Zig Clean Brush markers to color the stamped areas.  Every piece was fussy cut out.  The scarecrow has foam tape behind it and then the acetate frame is glued to the bottom of the scarecrow.  Narrow little strips of foam mounting tape were cut and laid along the remaining edge of the frame.  The bird body was cut out and foam taped onto the background.  Pumpkin Kisses was adhered flat onto the background.

The frame was then ready to mount onto the stenciled background.  Ribbon was wrapped around the stenciled panel and tied in a double bow.  The framed pumpkin was affixed to the stenciled panel with Beacon 3-1 glue.  A piece of Core'dinations was cut 5-1/2 x 4-1/4 and sanded and edge distressed to reveal the orange core and then was mounted to the stenciled panel.  Buttons were affixed with Glue Dots for added interest.

Thank you for stopping by today!  Before you hop to the next designer's blog, I'd love you to leave me a comment.

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Lyn Bernatovich
Pam Hornschu
Louise Healy
Kristine Reynolds
Pam Bray
Alison Heikkila
Wendy Price
Laura Drahozal
Lea Fritts


Disclaimer:  I'm so happy to be a Stampendous Design Team Member and to help promote their wonderful products.  They generously supply us with many free goodies like these Dreamweaver Stencils and Embossing Pastes, Stampendous All-in-One stamp, Mixed Media Paper, and Buttons that I'm using today.

Okay, you already know what's going on this week at Stampendous featuring the Build-A-Snowman stamp set with a cuteness factor of 10!!!!  LOVE this set and you will too.  

Here's today's easel card with these little cuties.

This easel card is so easy because its base is the same as a regular A2 card base.  The only difference is to score at 2-1/8 on the 'card front' and fold toward the inside of the card.  Keep in mind this fold needs a bumper to keep it in place; hence, the Snow Buddies sentiment button!

Look closely at the light blue panel insets and you'll see they are dry embossed with the featured Dreamweaver Snowflakes background stencil.  White Encrusted Embossing Enamel covers the upper right and lower right corners.

The snowmen were stamped with permanent black ink and colored with Zig Clean Color Real Brushes.  Crystal Glitter was added to the hat brims with Glue Pen.  Snowmen were fussy cut out.  The heads were stamped separate from the bodies.  The heads were attached to the bodies with foam mounting tape.  Individual pom poms were dipped in a glue pad and Crystal Glitter was adhered to each hat.  Each snowman was adhered together and Crystal Glitter was added to the top of the snow mounds.  The snowman trio was affixed to the easel with foam mounting tape.  Ribbon was tied around the card and tied in a double bow.

A scrap of colored paper from Thursday's card was used for the sentiment that was stamped with Versafine Onyx Black.  Each end was fishtail cut and the piece was affixed to the button with foam mounting tape.

I sure hope you enjoyed my card today and I would love a comment before you hop to the next designer's blog.  Thank you for stopping by!

Stampendous Blog

Lyn Bernatovich

Kristine Reynolds

Wendy Price

Pam Bray

Janelle Stollfus


Disclaimer:  I'm so happy to be a Stampendous Design Team Member and to help promote their wonderful products.  They generously supply us with many free goodies like these Dreamweaver Stencils, Stampendous Perfectly Clear stamp, Mixed Media Paper, Micro Glitter and Versafine inkpad that I'm using today.

I'll start with the background that was one of the Creative Palette pieces from last week's project.  Here's a photo of the printed panel:

Just play with the Creative Palette, acrylic paints and brayer and layer it up and stamp the Grunge cling images right into the paint!  You literally never know what you'll get, which is why I love this palette so much.  

Once paper was dry, I cut down the half sheet panel to 5-1/2 x 4-1/4 and pasted the Snowflakes stencil with Glossy White paste.  While still wet, I sprinkled Crystal Glitter over the pasted areas and set it aside to dry.  This was a perfect background for my snowman family!

I stamped the snowmen with VersaMark ink and detail black embossing powder.  I heat embossed the images and fussy cut them out.  The left and right snowmen were mounted onto the center snowman with foam mounting tape and then the little trio was adhered to the card front panel.

Snow Buddies sentiment was stamped with VersaMark ink onto acetate and sprinkled with detail white embossing powder and then heat set.  A snowflake brad held it onto the card front.

The ribbon ruffle and pom pom trim finished the bottom section of the card.  I ran a basting stitch down the center of the ribbon and loosely gathered it and affixed it to the card front.  Pom poms were adhered at the center of the gathered stitching with Beacon Fabri-Tac.

I sure hope you enjoyed my card today and I would love a comment before you hop to the next designer's blog.  Thank you for stopping by!

Lyn Bernatovich

Kristine Reynolds

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Louise Healy

Alison Heikkila

Wendy Price

Pam Hornschu

Laura Drahozal


Disclaimer:  I'm so happy to be a Stampendous Design Team Member and to help promote their wonderful products.  They generously supply us with many free goodies like these Dreamweaver Stencils, Embossing Paste, and Mixed Media Paper, Stampendous Perfectly Clear stamp, Versafine inkpad that I'm using today.

1.  Cut mixed media paper 5-1/4 x 4-1/8.  Stamp the Cling Leaf Plunge image with Versafine onyx black in the lower right area of the card front.  Stamp image a second time on a scrap piece of mixed media paper as you'll be cutting out the pile of leaves once they are colored.  Proceed to color the image with your favorite medium.  Today I used Zig Clean Color Real Brushes.  Fussy cut out the second pile of leaves.
2.  Cut a scrap of mixed media paper and place it on a work surface.  Lay the great pumpkin stencil over the paper and tape down on all four sides.  Paste the pumpkin with matte black paste.  Remove the tape from three sides and gently lift the lower bottom corner of the stencil up and off the paper taking the tape with it.  Set aside to dry.  Once dry.  Prepare the pumpkin to be pasted with the crackle paste in the same manner as the first pasting step.  Once pasted, remove the tape from all three sides again and carefully lift the stencil up and off the paper.  Set the pumpkin aside to dry.  This will take awhile but it is worth the wait!  Once it is perfectly dry, you'll see all those wonderful crackles.  Lay the clean stencil over the pumpkin and add color with stencil brushes and Splendor inkpads (or any pigment inkpad).  Fussy cut out.
3.  I decided I wanted to paste a tree behind my little pumpkin scene and I used another favorite technique, Molten Magic using the tree of life stencil.  It was pasted with metallic copper and sprinkled with bits of FX Mica Powders.  The tree was heated with a heat tool enough so the paste formed bubbles. There is a trick to this technique and moving the heat tool quickly is key to not scorching the paper. Another trick is to immediately lift the heat tool away from the bubbles when they start to form and into another section.
4.  For the background, create a color wash and spread the Zig brush color for the green area and then the sky blue area.  Use lots of water!
5.  Once dry, cut a slit using an X-acto knife along the mouse and leaves long enough to insert the pumpkin.  The pumpkin is held in place with Beacon 3-1 glue.  Ribbon is threaded through the slit and tied in a bow around to the left side of the pumpkin.  The second cut out of leaves are foam taped and placed in front of the pumpkin.
6.  Stamp sentiment on a scrap and trim close.  Staple to upper right corner.  Mount onto card base.

Stampendous Products:
HMCV23      Cling Leaf Plunge
HMCC01      Joy Birthday
DWLL3036  The Great Pumpkin Stencil
DWDMBP    Matte Black Paste
DWDPK        Palette Knife
DWLM2010 Paste Spreader
MPW811     Mixed Media White Paper
STF082        Versafine Onyx Black
DWBHB-3   1/8" Stencil Brush

Products:
Core'dinations Paper
Tsukineko Splendor Inkpad:  Circus, Magic
3M Removable Tape 1/2"
3M Foam Mounting Tape
Beacon 3-1 Adhesive
May Arts Ribbon
Zig Clean Color Real Brush
FX Mica Powders:  07 Plum Royale, 08 Rose Berry, 10 Kiwi

I appreciate you stopping by today and leaving me a comment before hopping to the next designer's blog.

Stampendous Blog

Pam Hornschu

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy

Kristine Reynolds

Tenia Nelson

Alison Heikkila



Disclaimer:  I'm so happy to be a Stampendous Design Team Member and to help promote their wonderful products, they generously supply us with many free goodies like these Dreamweaver Stencils, Embossing Paste, Mixed Media Paper, Perfectly Clear stamp, Versafine Ony Black Inkpad and May Arts Ribbon that I'm using today.

Welcome to the Stampendous Design Team weekly challenge. This week our theme is Mousey Mischief! You'll see lots of great creations with our wonderful House-Mouse Designs stamps all week long!  These little mice are sure to make you smile. 

 I get the feeling that my lazy little mouse from the Mice Wishes clear set ought to be doing something else, but instead is taking a break from life's hectic pace to enjoy herself!  When I was a little girl, a family member always called me Lynnie Mouse, so this card, ironically, could be a self portrait!

1.  Cut card base 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 and score at 4-1/4.  
2.  Here's how to create the pink panel using Color Bursts:  Spritz water liberally over the mixed media sheet (8-1/2 x 11) and puff Crimson Color Burst randomly over the water.  With a wide brush, blend the water and powder to create a beautiful background color.  Let it be uneven rather than a perfectly colored panel.  Once dry, cut a piece 5-1/2 x 4-1/4.
3.  To create the background design, dry emboss the pink panel using the Graduated Dot Stencil.  Lay the embossed design on a work surface.  Lay the stencil back over the embossed panel.  With a Jumbo Dauber, ink it liberally into a Palette Glue Pad and press/twist the dauber over the raised areas.  Once glue is applied, remove the stencil and sprinkle          glitter over the panel.  Flick off the excess and return to the jar.  Allow to dry.  Diecut the curved/stitched edge and mount to the card front.
4.  Heat emboss the mouse image with VersaMark and Detail Black embossing powder.  Color with watercolor pencils.  Using a glue pen, glue areas of the water where glitter will be added.  Glue the flower center and add glitter.  Refer to the photo below for closeup details.
5.  Diecut the image using a stitched square diecut.  Create the black dotted frame using two square diecuts.  Add foam mounting tape to the back of the frame and affix to the image.  Diecut a narrower frame out of a scrap piece of Color Burst paper and affix to the dotted frame.
6.  Wrap ribbon around the right side of the card front and tie in a bow.  Affix the mouse framed piece to the card front.
7.  On a scrap piece of cardstock, heat emboss the sentiment using VersaMark ink and Detail Black.  Diecut using the smallest stitched square.  Punch a hole in the left corner and tie onto the ribbon with jute.  Embellish the sentiment tag with Class-A-Peel Pink stickers.

Close up of the added bits of glitter on the flower center and on the water.  Use a Quickie Glue Pen to add the glitter.

I hope you enjoyed my card today and will leave me a comment before hopping to the next designer's blog.  Thanks for stopping by!

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Pam Hornschu

Kristine Reynolds

Lyn Bernatovich

Alison Heikkila

Tenia Nelson

Pam Bray

Louise Healy

Laura Drahozal

Leadonna Quick Fritts


Disclaimer:  I'm so happy to be a Stampendous Design Team Member and to help promote their wonderful products. They generously supply us with many free goodies like these Dreamweaver Stencils and Embossing Powders, Class A Peel Stickers, cling stamps, Faber Castell Aquarell Pencils and May Arts Ribbon that I'm using today.

Where I live here in Upstate New York, we distinctly experience all four seasons, but it is fall that I love the best.  I love the colors changing and watching the trees lose their leaves.  I love crisp sweater weather, fresh picked apples, apple pie (my husband loves my apple crumb crust pie!), pumpkins, corn stalks, homemade soups, and comfort foods.  It's a wonderfully colorful time of year!

My card is inspired by my love of fall.

1.  Paste The Great Pumpkins with Dreamweaver Matte Orange paste and set aside to dry.  Once dry, lay the clean stencil over the pasted pumpkin and tape along one edge.  The tape acts as a hinge so the stencil can easily lift up and down without shifting during the coloring process.  Distress with Splendor inks and a stencil brush.  Fussy cut out. 

2.  Cut Core’dinations (2 each) cardstock 5-1/2 x 4-1/4.  Dry emboss one cardstock panel using Dreamweaver Basic RGB stencil onto the smooth side of the paper.  Corner round top right corner with a ½” Crop-A-Dile Corner Chomper Tool. 

3.  Dry emboss the second cardstock panel on the textured side using the Dreamweaver Fall Borders stencil.  To create a diagonal pocket effect, cut from the left top corner down to about 1-1/2” from the lower right hand corner.  Edge distress the diagonal and affix to the main panel.

 4.  Affix ribbon along the lower edge approximately 1-1/2” up from the lower edge with double sided tape.  Affix ric rac over the ribbon with double sided tape.

Stampendous Products:
DWLL3036  The Great Pumpkin Stencil
DWLJ915     Opto Checkerboard Stencil
DWLJ874     Fall Borders Stencil
DMOP         Matte Orange Embossing Paste
EJS05           Spoonful Rust
DWDPK       Palette Knife
DWL2010   Paste Spreader
DWGHB-6  1/4" Stencil #6 Brush

Products:
Core'dinations Card Stock
Splendor Inkpad
3M Foam Mounting Tape
May Arts Ribbon, Jute, Ric Rac
Scor-Pal Score-Tape 1/8"
Beacon 3-1 Glue
Distressing Tool
We R Memory Keepers Crop-A-Dial Corner Chomper Tool
Misc. Buttons

Hope you enjoyed my card today!  Thanks for stopping by and I'd love you to leave me a comment before you hop to the next designer's blog.

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Louise Healy

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Hornschu

Lyn Bernatovich

Laura Drahozal

Lea Kimmel

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Tenia Nelson

Alison Heikkila




Disclaimer:  I'm so happy to be a Stampendous Design Team Member and to help promote their wonderful products. They generously supply us with many free goodies like these Dreamweaver Stencils and Embossing Pastes, and May Arts Ribbon that I'm using today.

I just couldn't leave yesterday's scrap piece without doing something with it, so as I was rummaging through my Dreamweaver drawer, I found a previously letter pressed stencil using the Dreamweaver Corner Flowers Stencil colored with Memories Mists.  I thought the purple matched the mixed media piece quite well and proceeded to create a card!

 The mixed media piece was only about 2-1/4 x 6 so I added a torn and discarded piece from yesterday's card.  It was literally 1/4" wide but worked well to create an interesting edge.  Refer to yesterday's post for details on the mixed media piece.

Letterpress Technique:  (To create the raised and colored floral panel.)  Place the stencil over a paper towel in your spray box or some contained area.  Spritz Plum Sake 2-3 times.  It doesn't need to be too wet, just well moistened.  Spritz on top with a metallic spray (Iridescent).  Gently pick up the stencil by the sides and place on the diecut platform with the sprayed side facing up.  Lay the mixed media white panel over the stencil.  Lay the rubber mat carefully over the paper.  Carefully lay two cutting plates over that and crank through the diecut machine.

Affix the mixed media scrap over the floral panel and corner round the lower right corner.  Wrap a double strand of May Arts silk ribbon around the piece and double bow.

Stamp the sentiment from Hoppy Moments Cherish Clear Set with Versafine Onyx Black and cut apart to fit the McGill punched tag from a scrap stash.  Add a punched heart from a previously embossed scrap with foam mounting tape.

Stampendous Products:
Corner Flower Stencil
Flourish Stencil
Hoppy Moments Clear Stamp Set
Mixed Media White Paper
Versafine Onyx Black

Products:
Stewart Superior Memories Mist
McGill Heart Punch
May Arts Ribbon
3M ATG Tape Runner
3M Foam Mounting Tape

Thanks for stopping by today!  I'd love you to leave me a comment before you hop to the next designer's blog.

Stampendous Blog

Alison Heikkila

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Bray

Lyn Bernatovich

Lea Kimmel Fritts

Pam Hornschu

Wendy Price

Today is all about getting out of the traditional 'paste' box.  My interpretation of  'Playing with Paste' is to use it as a mixed medium to create a card base.  I approached this project as though I were creating a journal page full of texture, color, and stamped images.  I had no pre-planned ideas other than I was using Dreamweaver pastes, Stampendous sentiment and Ken Oliver's Color Bursts.  To my delight, a little puff of Color Burst goes a long way to add beautiful color to paste!  It blends beautifully with a palette knife.  Not only did I use Dreamweaver's Regular White Paste, I also used Glossy Blue Paste for very interesting results!

Here's my finished card:

The process of how I got to the finished card  follows and I'm hoping you'll see the fun my journey!

The final layer added more dimension with the filigree flourishes.  I mixed a tiny blob of Metallic Gold paste with some FX Powder and swiped it in the lower right corner.  The long flourish cling stamp was inked with WaterMark ink and pressed vertically making sure one end was firmly pressed into the gold paste.  Gold embossing powder was sprinkled over the image and heat set.  I also sprinkled some FX into a few other areas that were still wet and heat set it in place.

The greenish colored flourishes were a combination of gold paste, Pthalo Green and Gold FX.  It was a cool green patina result.  The stencil was laid over an area and quicky pasted with a palette knife, again, not worrying about perfectly pasted designs here.  I decided to heat the flourishes with a heat tool and because it was glossy paste, it reacted with the heat giving a puffy dimension.  The piece was set aside to dry.

The tough part was to decide how to cut down my piece for the card front!  I chose to tear along the vertical flourished edge and cut it down to 5-1/2 x 4-1/4 from there.  You can visualize just where the sentiment needed to be placed, right?  TIP:  Once you have a background, ignore it in order to free your mind to create the foreground.  Sometimes we get visually confused between the two, so just ignore one or the other!  It works, so try it!

Part of the discard piece was used for the sentiment and the rest saved for a future purpose (check back tomorrow)!  The sentiment was inked with VersaMark and gold embossing powder.  It was hand torn on one edge and trimmed to the desired size.  After ribbon was tied on, the sentiment was mounted with foam mounting tape.  One of the leftover leaves was fussy cut and gold metallic thread (my stash) was affixed to the back.  The leaf was mounted with foam mounting tape to the sentiment.

Products Used:
Stampendous:
CRV273   Beautiful Life Cling
CRS5073 Filigree Cling Set
CRV273   Damask Cling
DWLJ896 Large Flourish
DP102     Detail Gold Embossing Powder
VM001    VersaMark Watermark Inkpad

Dreamweaver FX (Mica) Powders:  Glacier Lake, Purple Satin, Ivy Lake
Faber Castell Gelatos:  Black Cherry, Teal, Mint
Ken Oliver's Color Bursts:  Pthalo Green, Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine Blue
Bazzill Cardstock
Neenah Solar White 110# Cardstock
May Arts Ribbon
Metallic Gold String (my stash)
3M Foam Mounting Tape

Thanks for stopping by today!  I'd love you to leave me a comment before hopping to the next designer's blog.

Stampendous Blog
Alison Heikkila
Louise Healy
Lyn Bernatovich
Pam Hornschu
Kristine Reynolds
Lea Kimmel Fritts
Laura Drahozal
Wendy Price




Disclaimer:  I'm so happy to be a Stampendous Design Team Member and to help promote their wonderful products. They generously supply us with many free goodies like these Stampendous Stamps and Embossing Powders, Dreamweaver Stencils, FX Powders and Embossing Pastes, Bazill Papers, and May Arts Ribbon that I'm using today.

It's the last day of this week's weekly theme of Pretty Poinsettias.  I've had tons of fun playing with the Cling Create A Poinsettia and Coordinating Die Set.  I'm in my vintage place so indulge me one more day as I create in my favorite design style!

Here's my card creation for today:

The card began on watercolor paper (Strathmore Bristol Smooth Surface) and was stamped with Versamark ink and heat embossed with Stampendous Shabby Pink Embossing Enamel.  The photo really captures the metallic shimmer of this enamel.   My watercolor choice was Peerless Watercolor Sheets.  I used Jackqueminot Red (which is a beautiful vibrant pink), Chrome Green and Grass Green for the holly leaves, Daffodil Yellow for the leafy fronds and Alizarine Red for the berries.  I like having my Palette Paper nearby to add water and be able to play with the color intensity.  I mostly used the wet-on-wet watercolor technique as I love how the color blooms as it spreads into the wet areas.

The background pink panel was color washed with the Peerless Jackqueminot Red.  I really wet my brush and swiped a bit of the Peerless color and painted back and forth down the length of the panel.  Easy peasey!  I set that aside to dry or it could be heat set.

Because I'm a stencil kind-a-gal, I wanted to include a Dreamweaver Stencil.  You might be asking what stencil I used and it is actually a partial section of the Christmas Borders stencil!  It has that one tiny row of poinsettias that I thought were perfect for this card.  All I did was tape with 3M Removable tape above and below the rows I didn't want and proceeded to paste using Translucent Paste.  I used Translucent because I knew I was going to add pink glitter over the wet paste.  That was set aside to dry.

Meanwhile, I wanted to match my ribbon to the card and spritzed a length of May Arts white ribbon and added the Peerless watercolor onto the ribbon with a paint brush.  I may have added more spritz to blend to my liking.  The ribbon was dried with a heat tool.

All that was left was assembling the card.  The poinsettia image was cut down 4-1/2 x 4 in order to fit onto the 5-1/2 x 4-1/4 pink panel.  The ribbon was tied into a double bow first and then the poinsettia was affixed to the pink panel with 3M ATG Tape Runner.

Taking a piece of leftover scrap, Happy Holidays tag was gold embossed and punched with a McGill punch.  The tag was edged with Tsukineko Delegato Golden Glitz ink.  A tiny 1/8" hole was punched at the top of the tag and threaded with gold thread (my stash) and tied around the ribbon bow.

I hope you enjoyed my card today and will leave me a comment before you go!  Thanks for stopping by.

Stampendous Blog

Pam Bray

Kristine Reynolds

Lyn Bernatovich



Disclaimer:  I'm so happy to be a Stampendous Design Team Member and to help promote their wonderful products. They generously supply us with many free goodies like these Chameleon Pens, Stampendous Stamps, Glitters, Stickers, Dreamweaver Stencils, Bazill Papers, and May Arts Ribbon that I'm using today.