This week we’re going to celebrate with the awesome Woodware Design Team and the Dreamweaver Stencils Dream Team all of the the great Stampendous and Dreamweaver Stencils products that Woodware makes available to the UK market. This is good news for our crafty friends in the UK because we’ll be offering prizes and our UK friends are eligible to win!! We’ll be offering three prizes in the UK and three in the US. Each prize package will consist ofNathalie Kalbach’s terrific Grunge Mixed Media Cling Rubber Stamp Sets and the beautiful Zen Butterfly Dreamweaver Stencil! Both products are ideal for adding texture and backgrounds to your projects!
Deadline to comment is Sunday, March 29th, Pacific Time. Winners will be picked using random.org and announced Tuesday, March 31st, in the afternoon.
And that’s our theme!! Making Texture. We hope you’ll enjoy the wonderful inspiration that three talented teams will bring you this week! Be sure to visit all the blog links listed and leave your comments! Each comment will count as an entry towards one of the terrific prize packages.
Here's my texture card for today:
Deadline to comment is Sunday, March 29th, Pacific Time. Winners will be picked using random.org and announced Tuesday, March 31st, in the afternoon.
And that’s our theme!! Making Texture. We hope you’ll enjoy the wonderful inspiration that three talented teams will bring you this week! Be sure to visit all the blog links listed and leave your comments! Each comment will count as an entry towards one of the terrific prize packages.
Here's my texture card for today:
As you look closely, you'll see that the card was first dry embossed, but not on cardstock! I used tissue paper and the Flower Lace Stencil (LJ820). In order to emboss tissue paper without it tearing, I laid
several layers of tissue over the stencil. Here's the stacking recipe to dry emboss tissue:
Platform with no extra tabs (I used Sizzix Big Kick)
Dreamweaver Flower Lace Stencil
6 Layers of Tissue
Rubber Mat
2 Embossing Plates
The next step was to tape one of the six sheets of embossed tissue onto a scrap cardstock with a small section of removable tape. I placed the Tulip Stencil (LL377) onto the tissue and taped it just at the top of the stencil with removable tape so I could easily lift the stencil up to check my coloring without it shifting. The tulip was colored with Splendor inks using 1/8" stencil brushes and the Picasso Tool (LL332). I brushed on color lightly (very much like a strie technique) so as not to disturb the embossed areas. The stencil Spring (LM293) was laid over the finished tulip and also colored with Splendor ink. Again, I gently stroked on color rather than pounced or rouged to maintain the texture of the embossing.
Make sure the ink is perfectly dry before affixing the tissue onto a cardstock panel. I used glue stick and fully covered the cardstock (not the tissue!) and made sure all areas were covered with glue. The tissue was carefully laid over the glued cardstock and then gently tapped in place with my fingers. If you burnish the tissue too much, you'll lose the raised areas. I got a mix of more raised areas than others but I was pleased with the result. Trim off any overhanging tissue.
To soften the card, I decided to edge the tissue gently with Antique Linen and Vintage Photo and mounted it to Core'dinations paper. A length of crotchet thread was wrapped 3 times. Pearls from my stash were added to finish the card.
Hope you enjoyed my card today and I'd love your comment before hopping to the next designer's blog!
Stampendous Blog
Pam Hornschu
Kristine Reynolds
Lea Kimmel
Woodware Craft Collection Blog
Debs Frost
Dreamweaver Stencils Blog
Lyn Bernatovich (that's me!)
Gill Wilson
Laura Drahozal
Louise Healy
Lynn Mercurio
several layers of tissue over the stencil. Here's the stacking recipe to dry emboss tissue:
Platform with no extra tabs (I used Sizzix Big Kick)
Dreamweaver Flower Lace Stencil
6 Layers of Tissue
Rubber Mat
2 Embossing Plates
The next step was to tape one of the six sheets of embossed tissue onto a scrap cardstock with a small section of removable tape. I placed the Tulip Stencil (LL377) onto the tissue and taped it just at the top of the stencil with removable tape so I could easily lift the stencil up to check my coloring without it shifting. The tulip was colored with Splendor inks using 1/8" stencil brushes and the Picasso Tool (LL332). I brushed on color lightly (very much like a strie technique) so as not to disturb the embossed areas. The stencil Spring (LM293) was laid over the finished tulip and also colored with Splendor ink. Again, I gently stroked on color rather than pounced or rouged to maintain the texture of the embossing.
Make sure the ink is perfectly dry before affixing the tissue onto a cardstock panel. I used glue stick and fully covered the cardstock (not the tissue!) and made sure all areas were covered with glue. The tissue was carefully laid over the glued cardstock and then gently tapped in place with my fingers. If you burnish the tissue too much, you'll lose the raised areas. I got a mix of more raised areas than others but I was pleased with the result. Trim off any overhanging tissue.
To soften the card, I decided to edge the tissue gently with Antique Linen and Vintage Photo and mounted it to Core'dinations paper. A length of crotchet thread was wrapped 3 times. Pearls from my stash were added to finish the card.
Hope you enjoyed my card today and I'd love your comment before hopping to the next designer's blog!
Stampendous Blog
Pam Hornschu
Kristine Reynolds
Lea Kimmel
Woodware Craft Collection Blog
Debs Frost
Dreamweaver Stencils Blog
Lyn Bernatovich (that's me!)
Gill Wilson
Laura Drahozal
Louise Healy
Lynn Mercurio
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