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.

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Alison Heikkila
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Lyn Bernatovich
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Kristine Reynolds
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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.

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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.

This week's theme continues with Christmas in July and features Pretty Poinsettias.  I love poinsettias and couldn't wait to play with the Create A Poinsettia Cling stamp set and Create A Poinsettia Coordinating Die Set!  The possibilities are endless creating with this beautiful stamp and die.  The poinsettia is large and since I prefer creating A2 size cards (5-1/2 x 4-1/4), I couldn't wait to see how I'd make everything fit. 

Here's my project for today:  

First, I cut Bazzill cardstock 11x4-1/4 and scored at 5-1/2.  I taped the Dreamweaver Christmas Borders stencil over the card front on all 4 sides.  Using a Palette Knife, I scooped out Dreamweaver Metallic Gold paste and spread it onto a Paste Spreader.  Starting at the top of the stencil, I pulled the paste all the way down to the bottom of the stencil.  The tape was pulled off on 3 sides and the stencil was gently lifted from the lower corner all the way up and off the card front taking the tape with it.  The card front was set aside to dry.

I knew I wanted to diecut the poinsettia and create a 3D flower and that meant stamping it 3 times onto watercolor paper (Strathmore Bristol Smooth Surface) with Archival Black.  My coloring medium I chose to work with was Ken Oliver's Color Burst Alizarin Crimson.  This was the first time I had an opportunity to play with these intense pigment powders and I LOVE THEM!!!!  I pretty much utilized the wet on wet watercolor technique and puffed the powder directly onto the wet areas.  Sometimes I puffed a little powder onto my Palette Paper and added water to the powder and picked up color that way.  I loved the fluid nature of the powders and the vibrant color I achieved.

Once the water coloring was completely dry, I diecut the poinsettias with the Create A Poinsettia Coordinating Die Set.  They were glued together using a hot glue tool.  The center of the Poinsettia was glittered with Stampendous Sunflower Ultra Fine Glitter from the Spring Micro Glitter Kit using a Tsukineko Quickie Glue Pen.

I felt the poinsettia needed some leaves for added embellishment.  I diecut the same Bazzill cardstock using the Dreamweaver Holly Die.  TIP:  Layer a piece of wax paper between the die and cardstock to smoothly aid in the release of the paper from the die.  Works like a charm!  For added texture, I embossed them with the Dreamweaver Christmas Borders Embossing Folder.  A little swipe of Versafine Olive across the raised areas was added for better definition.  The edges were hit with Tsukineko Delicata Golden Glitz ink.  The individual leaves were randomly inserted under the poinsettia with dabs of hot glue.

A faux tag was created with a scrap piece and the Christmas Visions Perfectly Clear Stamp was inked with VersaMark ink and heat embossed with Stampendous Detail Gold embossing powder.

Card Assembly:  I love creating vintage-style cards and what's vintage without some tulle and gold thread?  A length of the gold thread (my stash) was looped into a figure 8 and hot glued to the back of the poinsettia.  Tulle (Paper Mart) was tied into a bow and also hot glued to the back of the poinsettia.  The poinsettia was then hot glued to the card front.   Ribbon (Hug Snug Venetian Red) and lace (my stash) were added last.  The faux tag was stuck into the ribbon using a hot glue tool.  

I hope you enjoyed my 'rather lengthy' card process today!  I'd love you to leave a comment before you hop to the next designer's blog.  Thank you for stopping by!

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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 these Stampendous Stamps, Glitters,  Dreamweaver Stencils and Paste, and Bazill Papers that I'm using today.

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Okay, ready for my project today?

Here's another adorable Stampendous image called Furry Friends that is stamped with Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink Pad by Tsukineko® and colored with Chameleon Pens BR5, BR2, OL3, BL3, CG8, PK3, and RD4.  Nothing but coloring fun and a little help from Pinterest to figure out the polar bear coloring.  I sure do like these pens.  They are so user friendly and easy to use!  The longer you hold the blender barrel in the brush tip, the lighter the shading.  It's that simple!

The card base is cut 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 and scored at 4-1/4.  The green panel is 5 x 3-3/8.  The colored Furry Friends panel is cut down to 4-1/2 x 2-7/8.  Both panels are affixed with 3M ATG 1/4" tape runner and mounted slightly to the right to allow room for the May Arts lace trim and gingham ribbon. 

 The heart is cut from an Accucut diecutting machine.   The Stampendous sentiment and holly is from the Perfectly Clear Stamp Set called Holiday Expressions and is stamped with Tsukineko Versafine Onyx Black.  Holly was colored in with Zig Wink of Stella Christmas Green and Red pens.  Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pen Black 199 was used for the faux stitching.  A hole was punched with a McGill 1/8" punch and affixed with a length of crotchet thread (my stash).  It is held in place with a Scrapbook Adhesive Foam Mounting Square.

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

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Lyn Bernatovich

Jamie Martin

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Alison Heikkila

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Louise Healy

Laura Drahozal

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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 these Chameleon Pens, Stampendous Stamps, Stampendous Mixed Media papers, Bazzill papers, Versafine inkpad and May Arts Ribbon that I'm using today.

It’s summer time and we are hopping with some fabulous companies in the Summer Road Trip Partner Hop with Spellbinders.

Stampendous Stamps is hopping all three days with some fabulous summer inspiration from the design team and on Wednesday two of our designers will be featured a tutorial with some new Spellbinders products! How fun is that!

Prizes!  Spellbinders is having a great giveaway during this hop with three daily winners and one grand prize winner! Check out the details here.

I'm having so much fun with the Spellbinders Die D-Lite Shapeabilities!  Today's project is a sweet Christmas tag.  Read on to learn how these little cute dies work.

There are 3 steps to creating a finished Shapeabilities diecut shape.  My directions use the Spellbinders Grand Caliber machine.

1. Diecutting:  Lay the die near the edge of Platform A with the cutting side face up.  Lay a piece of wax paper over the die.  Lay your cardstock over the wax paper.  Place Cutting Plate B over the paper and diecut. 

2.  Emboss:  Remove Cutting Plate B.  Remove the negative portion of the diecut paper and leave the rest in place inside the die.  Place the rubber mat over the die.  Place the Embossing Plate over the rubber mat and crank through the machine.

3. Stencil:  Remove the Embossing Plate and rubber mat.  Pop out the embossed diecut piece and remove the wax paper.  Return the diecut piece to the diecut.  Flip it over and lay it on the work surface.  You will see the raised (embossed) areas only through the 'stencil.'  Now you'll decide how you're going to decorate the raised areas.  For the Christmas trees, I just used my Quickie Glue Pen and Stampendous Sea Green ultra fine glitter.

For the bottom red border, I dry embossed a piece of Bazill cardstock with the Dreamweaver Chevron Stencil.  I used my Sizzix Big Kick and made a 'sandwich' stack as follows:  platform with no tabs, stencil, cardstock, rubber mat, 2 cutting plates and cranked it through.  I simply followed the chevron pattern to cut the bottom border.  Holes were punched with a 1/8" hole punch, tiny jingle bells (A Muse) were inserted onto jump ring and mounted on the tag. 

For the body of the tag, I cut Bazill cardstock  3-1/2" x 5-1/2".  Stampendous Christmas Wishes Perfectly Clear stamp was inked with Versafine Onyx Black and stamped onto tag.  The sweet little holly images that are part of the set were stamped also with Versafine Onyx Black.  The leaves were colored with Copic      Olive and the berries were colored with Copic Crimson then covered with Quickie Glue Pen and Stampendous Ultra Fine Red Glitter.

The bow was diecut on gold (A Muse) cardstock.  I thought it was pretty as is and didn't add any stencil decorating to it.  It is mounted with a foam square (Scrapbook Adhesives).  Red/White cording (May Arts) was hot glued onto the back side of the tag.

The red Dreamweaver Stencil Chevron panel was affixed to the bottom portion of the green tag with a 3M Scotch ATG 1/4"  tape runner.  The ric rak (May Arts) was affixed with Scor-Tape (Scor-Pal).  Finally, the trees were added with foam squares (Scrapbook Adhesives).  For added depth, I distressed the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink and a blending tool (Ranger).

Hope you enjoyed my little Christmas tag today!  Before you go to the next designer's blog, I'd love you to leave me a comment and thanks for stopping by!

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Lyn Bernatovich

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Alison Heikkila

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It’s summer time and we are hopping with some fabulous companies in the Summer Road Trip Partner Hop with Spellbinders.

Stampendous Stamps is hopping all three days with some fabulous summer inspiration from the design team and on Wednesday two of our designers will be featured a tutorial with some new Spellbinders products! How fun is that!

Prizes!  Spellbinders is having a great giveaway during this hop with three daily winners and one grand prize winner! Check out the details here.


For my project today, I was sent two sets of Spellbinders Shapeabilities holiday dies and boy did I have fun playing!  Since I wasn't familiar with this product, I found a great instructional video on YouTube.  I also found in my Dreamweaver stash drawer, a stenciled toilet paper roll that was begging to be used for today's project!

Toilet paper holders are a perfect size to hold gift cards!  Here's my simple pocket tag that is folded up to create the pocket and a paper 'band' is wrapped around to create the pocket!  Two sweet Stampendous Christmas Visions and Christmas Wishes (sneak peeks!) were used to embellish the tag.  Copic Crimson and Willow G24 were used to color the holly.

Imagine my delight with this week's theme at Stampendous 'cuz I could use my absolute favorite Dreamweaver Fairy stencil!  My project today has many layers, elements and parts to it, but It began with stamping the Stampendous flowers several times onto mixed media paper with Versafine Onyx Black ink and coloring them with Faber-Castell Gelatos and water.

Here's the finished project:

The Dreamweaver fairy was pasted with white paste and set aside to dry.  Next, I tackled the inside panel and background.  It's pretty much all covered up by the embellishments, but the gist of it was this:

Starting with a gessoed 8-1/2x11 mixed media cardstock, I cut the panel to the specified size.  TIP:  Spray Krylon Gesso Spray outside (bad fumes!)  'cuz I want that part done fast using my handy-dandy home-made large spray paint box.  I was going for soft and dreamy colors of Gelatos and scribbled one color at a time and blended with my finger.  I touched the piece with a heat tool in between layers.  The next layer was to stamp a Stampendous image that was colored with Gelato and spritzed with water.  I love this technique because one Gelato colored image goes a very long way.  Unfortunately, you can't really see it in the photo below, but it is the specks of darker color.  Finally (my fav part!), I grabbed a baby wipe and a stencil from the Stampendous Filigree set, and wiped into the stencil open areas to remove color!  Voila!

Here's a leftover scrap which gives you an idea of the design.

Working on the fairy was next and all coloring was done before I cut her out.  I gessoed the fairy using my regular formula with a paint brush as I wanted assurance of true colors.  Wings (Peerless Gold), body (Gelatos in a mix of Dreamweaver FX) to get lots of shimmer.

Once the color was dry, then I fussy cut her out and applied an encrusted jewel technique using Stampendous Pink Encrusted Jewels and mounted on the card.  TIP:  Hold the fairy with tweezers rather a clamp to avoid teeth marks!

Notice the sage fragments in front of the fairy?  That is an acrylic piece I cut and hot glued to the fairy.  The Stampendous Build A Bouquet Butterfly and flower (Paper Mart) are also affixed to the acrylic.  A ribbon (Hug Snug) was tied around the bottom panel to help fill in open space.

Before affixing the inner panel to the outer panel, I dry embossed the outer panel with the Dreamweaver Plaid stencil.  To pretty up the bottom edge, I embossed the Stampendous Cling Filigree Stamp with Versafine ink and Stampendous Gold ultra fine embossing powder. Once all the pieces were assembled onto the inner panel including the Stampendous Timeless Fairytales Sentiment, I added Pink Encrusted Jewels to the top and bottom to add more texture and excelsior (my stash) to add more dreamy fantasy.

Next week we are hosting a blog hop with our amazing product partners. The partner hop is a quarterly event where we familiarize you with some of our partner companies, while providing inspiration for how our products work together. It's also an opportunity to win a Sapphire™ machine, Sapphire™ dies AND Partner products! This quarter's 3-day summer event begins on Monday, June 29th and ends on Wednesday, July 1st.

Hope you like my little diorama today!  It is time to hop to the next designer's blog but before you go, I'd love you to comment.  Thank you for stopping by!

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Lyn Bernatovich (that's me!)

Kristine Reynolds 

Laura Drahozal

Louise Healy

No-line watercoloring is the technique I used on the Stampendous Cling PenPattern Giraffe.  I love this technique because it gives you the outline of an image to work from.  The lines literally disappear while watercoloring because the image is stamped in a water-based dye ink.  I used Distress Antique Linen.  

Here's my project for today:

Pretty cool, huh?  This technique is especially beautiful using flower images.  TIP:  For further instruction on this technique, go to YouTube and search 'no-line watercoloring' for some great videos.  The watercoloring technique I used was Tombows scribbled onto Palette Paper with a spritz of water nearby.  I used a slim paint brush rather than an aqua brush as I wanted more control over how much water mixed with the Tombow color. The finished image is blended around the edge with Distress Antique Linen and Vintage Photo.

The stamped image looked like this before I began coloring:

Here's a visual of the Tombows I used for the giraffe, grass and sky background.  I referred to my trusty Pinterest and searched 'watercolor giraffes' and found this image to use as a reference.

Once the giraffe was painted, I began the textured background using Faber-Castel Gelatos.  I used another piece of Gessoed Stampendous Mixed Media Paper and scribbled a color of Gelato one at a time in order to blend each color with my finger.  Once I was satisfied, I dried the panel with a heat tool.  For added texture, I dry embossed it using the Dreamweaver Mosaic Swirls Stencil.  TIP:  When blending out Gelatos with your finger, I found I was leaving fingerprints from holding the paper with my other hand.  To alleviate that I used my Palette Paper to hold the down the panel while I was blending and it worked great!  No more fingerprints!  Try wax paper if you don't have anything else.

Here are the Gelato colors used for the 'jungle' background.  My Gelatos don't have the name of each color printed on them, so a visual will have to suffice.

I knew I'd be embellishing using a variety of Dreamweaver Leaf Dies (Monstera Leaf, Leafy Branch, Petit Fern).  Two of them were cut from Bazil cardstock and one was from my paper stash.  The tag paper is from Authentique Playful and Stampendous Wild Sayings Perfectly Clear Stamp Set was stamped with Versafine Onyx Black.  May Arts jute was tied around the tag.  Tag and Monstera Leaf are mounted with foam squares (Scrapbook Adhesives).

Hope you enjoyed my card today and you'll give this watercolor technique a try if you aren't familiar with it!  It's time to hop on over to the next designer's blog.  I'd love a comment before you go!

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Pam Hornschu

Laura Drahozal

Lyn Bernatovich

Amy Hurley-Purdie

Pam Bray

Lea Kimmel

This week's challenge theme at Stampendous is Let's Go Wild!  Since it's Dreamweaver Thursday, I had the perfect stencil for today's theme.

Here's today's card:

Actually, this is the 'baby elephant' stencil from Dreamweaver called Small Open Elephant.  I like this little guy 'cuz there's more room to add card enhancements.  I've done a lot of designing with the Dreamweaver Large Open Elephant stencil but this is my first time playing with the baby.  I'm still in Zentangle mode and now when I see 'open spaces,' I'm thinking tangles!  I referred to a Design Originals Zentangle Basics book that helped me decide on tangle designs.  

Once again, I went into my trusty pre-colored Dreamweaver scrap drawer and pulled the background piece for the elephant stencil.  The paper is glossy and I (believe) I used the 'smoosh' technique where I sprayed 2-3 colors of Memories Mists in Margarita, Orange Juice and Strawberry Daiquiri onto glossy cardstock.  I 'smooshed' another piece of glossy cardstock over the first piece and peeled it off to reveal the smoosh!

The baby elephant was laid over the dried glossy panel and traced using a Small Sized Black Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pen and then the stencil was removed.  The tangle designs used the Xtra Small Sized Black Faber-Castll Pitt Artist Pen as well as the Small pen.

Once the tangling was done, I wanted to add embellishments (of course!) and I had a previously Gelatoed piece leftover from tomorrow's project consisting of greens which worked beautifully for my Dreamweaver diecut leafy branch and petite ferns.  The sentiment from Stampendous Wild Sayings Perfectly Clear Stamp Set was stamped with Versafine Onyx Black onto a scrap from my Dreamweaver drawer.  It was diecut with (I believe) a Spellbinders, but I've lost the packaging I've had it so long.

Here's a fun discovery, as I was assembling the card and layering the cardstock panels, I had pulled a painted scrap from my Dreamweaver drawer.  It looked a little too plain to me, so I laid the Dreamweaver I-Beams stencil over it wondering if a baby wipe would remove some of the paint.  It worked!  Happy dance!  So now I had my jungle primitive background panel.

One more embellishment to go and that was to grab some rafia and hot glue strands into the corner.  Remember, even if you have thick strands of rafia that you glued in place, take a pin (or even small scissors) and run it up the length of rafia to create skinnier strands.  Works like a charm!  Cut them in various lengths as desired.

Hope you enjoyed my jungle card today!  Before you go to the next designer's blog, I'd love you to leave me a comment!  See you tomorrow!

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Alison Heikkila 
Lea Kimmel
Lyn Bernatovich (that's me!)
Pam Hornschu 
Laura Drahozal
Louise Healy
Kristine Reynolds
 

This week our team will be showcasing the Art Grip Aquarelles Watercolor Pencils, the PITT Pastel Pencils, and our very special guest Nathalie Kalbach will be featuring the Gelatos! There will be guest-starring roles by the PITT Artist Pens for doodling and drawing!

3 Lucky Winners this week will get three sets of the PITT Pastel Pencils (red/yellow, blue/green, neutrals), a jar of Faber-Castell Chalkboard Paint, and $20 http://www.stampendous.com reward card to choose their favorite images to color! WOW… these winners must have a U.S. mailing address (official rules here!).  Click on the Stampendous Blog link for further details.  For more great information about Gelatos, go to Designing with Gelatos found on YouTube.

Here's my project for today:

I knew I would be using the Dreamweaver Corner Flowers stencil and Gelatos for this card!  The Stampendous mixed media paper was prepared with gesso and allowed to dry.  It was then dry embossed using my Sizzix Big Kick and the Corner Flowers stencil.

I  scribbled a summery assortment of Gelatos over the embossed paper.  Next, a little spritz of water was sprayed over the paper.  With my finger, I moved the colors around but not too much as I wanted to still see the individual colors.  More Gelato color was added here and there where needed.

Once dry, the Stampendous Birthday Assortment Perfectly Clear sentiment was colored with a Faber-Castell Artist Pitt Pen Big May Green and stamped onto the card.  TIP:  Here's how to color ribbon to perfectly match a card!  My ribbon (May Arts) was originally white.  I colored it directly with a salmon colored Gelato and then spritzed with water.  I used my fingers to blend the color.  You can make the color blend as even or uneven as you desire.  I added some lace from my stash just to add a bit more femininity.  It was affixed with Beacon Fabri-Tac.

The butterfly is from Stampendous Cling Build a Bouquet Stamp Set and was stamped with Archival Black and colored with Faber-Castell Art Grip Aquarelle pencils.  The colors were blended out with water and a fine tip paint brush that came with the set of pencils.  A little Stampendous Crystal Glitter was added with a Quickie Glue Pen for additional sparkle.  Gold thread from my stash was randomly affixed to the bow with Fabri-Tac.  The butterfly was affixed with hot glue.

Stampendous Chiffon Fragments were glued on with Tombow Mono Aqua Liquid Glue.  Stampendous Pink Dot Sparklers were added to some of the embossed flower centers.

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