In The Spotlight – Tutorial #250

I am currently vacationing on Put-in-Bay Island getting some much needed R & R, but before I left I put together this tutorial for you.  I set it to post while I was gone so hopefully it posted when I wanted it to.  🙂  Woohoo, this is my 250th tutorial by the way.

Anyway, enjoy and I will be back on Monday.

Supplies:

Stamps:  Stampin’ Up Animal Stories and Circle Circus

Ink:  Stampin’ Up Tempting Turquoise, Going Gray, Chocolate Chip, Really Rust, Night of Navy, Bashful Blue

Card stock:  Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Bashful Blue, Night of Navy and Cameo Coral

Accessories:  Versamark marker and pad, Brayer, clear embossing powder, heat gun, Stampin’ Up Piercing tools, post it notes, Bashful Blue Brads, Sponge, White Gel pen and Cameo Coral marker

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On a 2.5″ x 4″ piece of Whisper White stamped the Elephant by first loading my stamp with Versamark and then with Going Gray ink before stamping it.  Heat embossed the image using clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

Colored over the image with a Versamark marker to protect the white parts showing through the image and heat embossed the image again with clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

Stamped the Circle design by first loading the stamp with Versamark and then loading it with Tempting Turquoise before stamping it.  Heat embossed the image using clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

Colored the flowers in the circle in with a Cameo Coral marker.

Colored over the entire ball with a Versamark marker to protect the flowers on it.  Heat embossed the image again with clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

Masked the bottom of the card stock with a post it note.

Brayered Bashful Blue at an angle on the right and left side of the card stock.

Brayered a little bit of Night of Navy ink at the same angles as in the last step, but not covering all of the Bashful Blue ink.

Removed the inky mask and added a fresh one, this time masking the top of the card stock.

Brayered Really Rust ink in the unmasked area.

Wiped the ink off of the embossed images with a cotton cloth.

Added a shadow underneath the ball using a sponge and Chocolate chip ink.

Assembled the card and added strips of Cameo Coral card stock.  Put Bashful Blue brads on each end of the strips and used my Stamping up piercing tools to added pierced lines on each strip.

Used my white gel pen to go from pierced hole to pierced hole creating some faux stitching.  Also added a bit of white gel pen to the top of the elephant as a highlight.

Here is the finished card measuring 5″ x 6.5″. 

I hope you get a bit of R &R yourself this weekend.

Until my next post. . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

Huge Hugs,

Michelle Get ready for Brayer Workshops!  I am coming to:Greenwood, Indiana