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Showing posts with label Metallic F/X. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Metallic F/X. Show all posts
Monday, December 23, 2013
Monday, September 23, 2013
Autumn Birthdays
Our family celebrates a lot of birthdays in September and October and I sometimes run short of cards (you know . . . like the shoemaker's kids not having any shoes). Here's an easy way to stay ahead of the game.
Using the power pasting technique, paste as many cards as you think you might need then add the finishing touches and assemble them as time permits. For example, paste 12 card panels using the Spider Mums (LJ892) stencil and glossy black paste. Let them dry and then put them aside with a sheet of wax paper between each panel until needed. To finish the card, reposition the stencil over the image and tape the corners to hold in place. With a dauber, apply Versamark watermark ink to the exposed paste. Using a clean paint brush, dust a layer of Metallic F/X powder (I used Peach, Plum Royal, Pink Blaze, Forestry and Kiwi) over the watermark ink in colors that will coordinate with your background paper. Remove the stencil and dust off any remaining powder with a soft cloth or brush. (A Swiffer Dry Sweeper also works well for this.) Stamp the appropriate sentiment and you're done!
We'll be using this stencil and the Molten Magic technique in Saturday's class at Memories Live On. Register on-line or call the store at 408-446-9910 to save a space in the craft room.
Happy crafting,
Liz
We'll be using this stencil and the Molten Magic technique in Saturday's class at Memories Live On. Register on-line or call the store at 408-446-9910 to save a space in the craft room.
Happy crafting,
Liz
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Hearts, Hearts and More Hearts
Happy Valentine's Day to all my friends and readers! This month's challenge, CAS Love and Friendship, is perfect for the newly released ruffled hearts and Molten Magic technique.
Here's what you'll need:
LG747 Ruffled Hearts
LS1004, You & Me
DPP Pearlescent Paste
Metallic F/X colors of your choice
DCP Metallic Gold Paste
DPK Palette Knife
LM2010 Paste Spreader
Removable tape
Small paint brush or Q-tip
Here's what to do:
Tape top of stencil to craft mat. Lift stencil and slip card stock underneath. Apply paste with paste spreader. Remove card stock and set aside. Repeat for second heart. Set stencil, palette knife and paste spreader in a pan of water. Sprinkle Metallic F/X over hearts by dipping paint brush or Q-tip into mica powder and gentle tapping over pasted image. You may have to do this several times to get the coverage you want. Heat the paste with a heat tool until bubbly. Set aside to cool.
Tape You & Me stencil to card stock and apply Metallic Gold paste. Remove stencil and set pasted image aside to dry. Wash and dry stencils, palette knife and paste spreader.
Cut out hearts and trim sentiment to desired size. Assemble on patterned paper and coordinating mat and you're done! Ready to give to that special someone.
There's still plenty of time to submit your project for this month's CAS (clean and simple) Love and Friendship challenge, so get busy! Link your crafty goodness using Mr. Linky on the Dream it Up! blog or send a photo of your project to Lynell at lynell@dreamweaverstencils.com or, if after February 13, to Louise Healy at louisehealy@sbcglobal.net). If you need a few more ideas or a bit more inspiration, check out out the rest of the Dream Team blogs, starting with Dreamweaver's blog, DREAM it UP!
LG747 Ruffled Hearts
LS1004, You & Me
DPP Pearlescent Paste
Metallic F/X colors of your choice
DCP Metallic Gold Paste
DPK Palette Knife
LM2010 Paste Spreader
Removable tape
Small paint brush or Q-tip
Here's what to do:
Tape top of stencil to craft mat. Lift stencil and slip card stock underneath. Apply paste with paste spreader. Remove card stock and set aside. Repeat for second heart. Set stencil, palette knife and paste spreader in a pan of water. Sprinkle Metallic F/X over hearts by dipping paint brush or Q-tip into mica powder and gentle tapping over pasted image. You may have to do this several times to get the coverage you want. Heat the paste with a heat tool until bubbly. Set aside to cool.
Tape You & Me stencil to card stock and apply Metallic Gold paste. Remove stencil and set pasted image aside to dry. Wash and dry stencils, palette knife and paste spreader.
Cut out hearts and trim sentiment to desired size. Assemble on patterned paper and coordinating mat and you're done! Ready to give to that special someone.
There's still plenty of time to submit your project for this month's CAS (clean and simple) Love and Friendship challenge, so get busy! Link your crafty goodness using Mr. Linky on the Dream it Up! blog or send a photo of your project to Lynell at lynell@dreamweaverstencils.com or, if after February 13, to Louise Healy at louisehealy@sbcglobal.net). If you need a few more ideas or a bit more inspiration, check out out the rest of the Dream Team blogs, starting with Dreamweaver's blog, DREAM it UP!
Liz Martin (you're here)
But wait! There's more! If you're as passionate about Dreamweaver Stencils as we are, please consider joining the team. There's a Design Team call going on this month, so check it out. You can find out more about that here (clink on the link under the banner).
See you next week,
Liz
Thursday, January 24, 2013
The Fresh Start Theme Continues
There's more! There's more! Continuing with last week's Fresh Start theme and the new stencils released this month is this lovely LJ924 Bride, and it's very easy to do using the Molten Magic technique.
Begin by paste embossing the stencil with Pearlescent paste using the paste spreader (LM2010). Remove the stencil and sprinkle Metallic F/X over the dress. I find this easiest to do by dipping a Qtip or paint brush into the Metallic F/X and then tapping it over the pasted portion of the image where you want to add color. Heat the colored portion with a heat tool until the paste begins to bubble. The results will be different each time and that's the fun of it! This one reminds me of the beading found on many wedding dresses. I also added a bit of color to the veil and heated that, too, with the heat gun. Set the stencil aside for the rest of the paste to dry.
Reposition the clean stencil over the image and color to bouquet with ink using a small stencil brush and the Picasso tool. I also added a touch of pink for the blush on the bride's face. Here's another fun touch: if you know the bride has a favorite color, or the colors chosen for the wedding, you can customize the card for her special day.
Now, there's still time to enter this month's Fresh Start challenge, so don't delay – you just might be a winner! Check the Dreamweaver blog, DREAM it UP! for all the details and then stop by the rest of the Design Team blogs for more fun and crafty inspiration.
Reposition the clean stencil over the image and color to bouquet with ink using a small stencil brush and the Picasso tool. I also added a touch of pink for the blush on the bride's face. Here's another fun touch: if you know the bride has a favorite color, or the colors chosen for the wedding, you can customize the card for her special day.
Now, there's still time to enter this month's Fresh Start challenge, so don't delay – you just might be a winner! Check the Dreamweaver blog, DREAM it UP! for all the details and then stop by the rest of the Design Team blogs for more fun and crafty inspiration.
Liz Martin (you're here)
See you next week,
Liz
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Fall is in the air . . .
. . . and leaves are falling faster than we can get them to the compost pile. Summer's flowers are making room for the more intensely colored sunflowers and dahlias, and I immediately thought of the Stylized Dahlia (LG743) for today's card.
And it couldn't be easier to do. Rub in Ranger's Distress Ink in Wild Honey around the edge of the card stock, the paste emboss the stencil using matte black embossing paste. When that has dried, reposition the clean stencil over the image and apply Palette Stamp and Stick Glue with a dauber. Using the colors of your choice, apply Metallic F/X with a fine paint brush. Mat on coordinating card stock, add the embellishment of your choice and there you have it! This is a great card for making multiples, too.
There's still time to submit your project for October's Festively Fall challenge, using Mr. Linky on the Dream it Up blog or if you don't have a way of linking, email your design to Lynell (lynell@dreamweaverstencils.com) and she will link it for you. The two lucky winners (one for the best interpretation of the challenge; the other for the best use of Dreamweaver products) will get to pick their own stencil.
For more ideas and inspiration, check out the rest of the Dream Team blogs, but not before leaving me a note letting me know you stopped by.
Happy crafting,
Liz
There's still time to submit your project for October's Festively Fall challenge, using Mr. Linky on the Dream it Up blog or if you don't have a way of linking, email your design to Lynell (lynell@dreamweaverstencils.com) and she will link it for you. The two lucky winners (one for the best interpretation of the challenge; the other for the best use of Dreamweaver products) will get to pick their own stencil.
For more ideas and inspiration, check out the rest of the Dream Team blogs, but not before leaving me a note letting me know you stopped by.
Happy crafting,
Liz
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Christmas in August
When the weather's too hot to go outside, think cool thoughts and start working on Christmas cards!
Here's the first of many you'll be seeing during the coming weeks.
There's not a lot of steps involved for this quick and easy card. I'm using the Star Dream Christmas Tree (LG746) was released last month and I'm so excited to be able to post it. Tape the stencil to card stock and apply matte black embossing paste (DMBP). Set aside to dry. Reposition the clean stencil over the pasted image and with a dauber, apply Palette Stamp and Stick (GSP) glue to the image. Here comes the fun part: apply Metallic FX in the colors of your choice. For this card, I used Kimono Red for the circles, Gold Dust for the stars and Kiwi and Ivy Garden for the swirls.
For different look, use regular embossing paste (DEP) instead of black.
And if you really want to get into the Christmas spirit early, link your own Christmas in August creations to the Dream It Up! blog mr. linky, or email pics of your creations to lynell@dreamweaverstencils.com, for an opportunity to win this wonderful newly released Heart Ornaments:
Don't you just love this new design? There are several newly released stencils and products from CHA last month, which you can view for yourself HERE. During the week of August 20th - 25th, the Dream Team will be posting all week with a hop on Saturday to top it all...featuring all of these new fabulous designs...in collaboration with the Woodware UK team. Just a little hint...you may want to buy all of these new designs now, so you are ready and waiting for the inspiration that will come your way that week! Meanwhile, check out what the rest of the team has been working on:
Thursday, April 26, 2012
April Showers Bring May Flowers . . .
. . . I hope that's true, since the San Francisco Bay Area received half of this year's total rainfall in the last six weeks! It's been a very wet spring, but the flowers (and pollens) are loving it. For the last post of the April challenge I've made an April showers and flowers card.
I positioned the Long Sunflower stencil (LL429) so that only the top part of the flower was on the paper. And by flipping the stencil over, I was able to change the orientation of the flowers. I also found it was easier to stencil the flowers on each side of the card, let them dry briefly, and then stencil the middle flower. If you're making several cards, do all the same colored flowers at once so you'll only need to wash your stencil when you reposition it to color the next flower. Choose bright colors for the flowers as pastels will fade away under the "rain."
For the rain drops, I used the Rain stencil (LJ905), and embossed it with Translucent Embossing Paste mixed with a touch of Metallic F/X, Navajo Sky.
I have a friend who is not feeling well and this might be a "sorry to hear you're under the weather" card for her. Some of the others might become note cards with a "thinking of you" stamped inside. I love choices!
Don't forget to visit the other Design Team blogs for more ideas and inspiration, and be sure to link your project using Mr. Linky on the Dreamweaver Stencils' blog, Dream it Up!
Happy Crafting,
Liz
For the rain drops, I used the Rain stencil (LJ905), and embossed it with Translucent Embossing Paste mixed with a touch of Metallic F/X, Navajo Sky.
I have a friend who is not feeling well and this might be a "sorry to hear you're under the weather" card for her. Some of the others might become note cards with a "thinking of you" stamped inside. I love choices!
Don't forget to visit the other Design Team blogs for more ideas and inspiration, and be sure to link your project using Mr. Linky on the Dreamweaver Stencils' blog, Dream it Up!
Liz
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Dream Scheme Color Challenge
Some days are better than others in the crafting world, and this week was heavenly. First of all, it was a color challenge week and the colors were pink and black – two of my favorites. And since I'm having a lot of fun with the background stencils right now, I couldn't pick just one, so you get the benefit of two cards.
For all cards, I used Glossy Black Embossing Paste (DGKP). For the card on the left, I pasted the Houndstooth (LJ913) and the large Hope (LL3018) stencils with glossy black embossing paste. To give the Hope image a softer touch, I replaced the clean stencil over the pasted image, applied glue from the Palette Stamp & Stick Gluepad (GSP) with a large dauber, and lightly dusted Metallic F/X Pink Blaze and Pixie Blush over the pasted image with a stencil brush. You can see some of the detail here, though the pinks are harder to see.
For the card on the right, I paste embossed the small Damask (LJ907) and Thanks (LS106) stencils with Glossy Black Embossing Paste. When the paste was dry, I trimmed the images, added ribbon, matted them on card stock and adhered them to a card base. Couldn't be easier.
Why not play along with us this week? First, stop by the Dreamweaver blog, DREAM it UP! and then check out the great projects the other design team members have made for you. Then, get out your stencils and whip up a card or two and post it on the Dreamweaver blog using the Mr. Linky tool. We'd love to see what you're working on.
And don't forget to leave us a note. We love reading your comments.
Happy crafting,
Liz
For all cards, I used Glossy Black Embossing Paste (DGKP). For the card on the left, I pasted the Houndstooth (LJ913) and the large Hope (LL3018) stencils with glossy black embossing paste. To give the Hope image a softer touch, I replaced the clean stencil over the pasted image, applied glue from the Palette Stamp & Stick Gluepad (GSP) with a large dauber, and lightly dusted Metallic F/X Pink Blaze and Pixie Blush over the pasted image with a stencil brush. You can see some of the detail here, though the pinks are harder to see.
Why not play along with us this week? First, stop by the Dreamweaver blog, DREAM it UP! and then check out the great projects the other design team members have made for you. Then, get out your stencils and whip up a card or two and post it on the Dreamweaver blog using the Mr. Linky tool. We'd love to see what you're working on.
And don't forget to leave us a note. We love reading your comments.
Happy crafting,
Liz
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