Showing posts with label Around the Bend. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Around the Bend. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Another Baby Wipe Card

If you've been following my posts, you know that I've been playing with the Baby Wipe Technique (drip some liquid ink on a folded baby wipe and swipe across your cardstock).  Here are two that I did:


 So then I used dies to cut out some shapes, and look what I got:


The variegated colors of the flowers and leaves add so much texture to my card!  


I used Around the Bend dies, first to cut the panel with the leaves in the corner.  Once cut, I swiped my baby wipe over the leaves to give them some color.  

Then I cut another panel using the same die, trimmed off the leaves, embossed it with the Brick embossing folder, and pasted it over the leaves.  

And then those flowers:


Cut with more dies from Around the Bend, I layered the flowers and leaves over a greeting panel.


And speaking of the greeting panel:


I used my Stamparatus to stamp first with Granny Apple Green, and then again with Versamark.  This allowed me to heat emboss the greeting with clear embossing powder, giving my words a shiny effect.


Here are the two cards I made using these two panels...such fun!


Give this slightly-messy-but-oh-so-pretty technique a try!  I think you'll love the results.


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Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Shimmer Corner

I held my in-person Sunday Crafternoon the other day, and here is one of the cards we created:

Isn't it purdy?  

This card was made with nearly all-new products:  Around the Bend dies, Fine Shimmer paper, and Beautifully Happy stamps.  Let's take a closer look.

 


The card colors are Soft Succulent and Evening Evergreen.  But look at that Fine Shimmer paper - that beautiful glow when the light hits it!  I took a 4" x 4-1/4" piece of the Shimmer paper and used one of the dies from Around the Bend to create that lovely, leafy edge.  This was adhered to the card base (with a layer of 2021-23 In Color DSP) using Dimensionals.  


The little flower from Beautifully Happy (a FREE Sale-a-Bration stamp set with a qualifying purchase) was stamped on a Basic White Stylish Shapes circle.  It's actually stamped 4 times!  Yes, that petite flower has an outline, and then there are three (3!) stamps to color it in - the Mango Melody petals, the Soft Succulent pods, and the Poppy Parade center.  But everything lines up so pretty!


The greeting was stamped in two sections - in Evening Evergreen on the circle, and then we heat-embossed the rest in the lower right corner with White Embossing Powder.  

Such a lovely card!  

These products are available now, and you won't want to miss them!  Shop now here.  


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Monday, December 26, 2022

Around the Bend

 I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas holiday with friends and family.  And now we count down to a New Year!

 We've been having extremely cold weather so I've been hunkering down in my craft room, listening to Christmas tunes and drinking hot cocoa while I play with new products.  Today I have a card that was not what I planned.  I was playing with Country Bouquet (see a sample here) but somehow it morphed into this:


I really don't know how that happened!  But I love it!  Even my husband commented on it (positively 😄).

I started stamping the heart images from Country Bouquet using Fresh Freesia ink, as I had pulled out the fantastic Sale-a-Bration pack of papers, Dandy Designs.  I also had the new Fine Shimmer paper on my desk.  And somehow inspiration hit!


I pulled out Around the Bend, a new set of dies that cuts leaves, flowers and curvy borders.  And I thought "why not cut some of these images with the Shimmer Paper?"  And then things kinda just came together.


I covered the entire front of the card base with Dandy Designs DSP, and added a strip of a coordinating piece layered over some of the Soft Succulent Shimmer Paper (it comes in three colors - Soft Succulent, Fresh Freesia and gold).  

The flowers and leaves are all cut from the Shimmer Paper with the Around the Bend dies and adhered to a Basic White square cut with the Stylish Shapes dies.  But I needed a layer to pull it all together - the Country Gingham paper did the trick!


Look at that shimmer!  So pretty!!



Around the Bend, Beautifully Happy (the greeting) and these beautiful patterned papers will all be available on January 5th!  Be sure to add them to your Wish List!  


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