Happy Fourth of July Everyone!

This morning I decided to make my Granddaughter’s Birthday card.  She is a girlie, girl for sure.  Loves, loves, loves pink!   So what do you put on a Girlie Girl’s card, pink dresses, of course. 

These images are from Rupa Shevde’s set “Retro Boutique” that can be purchased from Gina K. Design’s online store found here:  http://www.ginakdesigns.com/

Let’s get started on the tutorial. 

Supplies:

Stamped the dresses on a 6″x 6″ piece of Whisper White Card stock with Palette Noir Black ink.

Stamped the four purses using Palette Noir Black ink.

Used my Curvy Cutter and cut it out into a 5″ circle.

Colored the dresses on at a time using these 3 colors of Prismacolor Markers in this order, Light Peach, Deco Peach, Blush Pink.  With solvent based markers, you want to work fast to try to avoid hard lines.  If you do get a hard line, try going over the hard line with the lightest color to blend it some.

I blended my hard lines between the Blush Pink & Deco Peach by going over it with Deco Peach again.

Colored the purses with Light Peach.

Added Blush pink to the purse flowers.

Colored the leaves on the purse with Light Olive Green.

Colored all the images with Versamark marker and heat embossed the using clear embossing powder and a heat gun.  I found it is easiest to work one image at a time, coloring with Versamark and then heat embossing before going to the next image.

Now that your images are heat embossed they will resist ink.

Sponged in a circular motion, Lettuce ink in the center of the card stock.

Sponged in a circular motion, Old Olive ink, not covering the Lettuce ink entirely. 

Sponged in a circular motion, Always Artichoke ink at the edge of the card stock.

Wanted the edge to be very dark, so I sponged Black ink at the edge.  Be careful when you are using black ink over embossed images, it will turn your light colors gray, yuck!  If you do get it on the light colors, wipe it off immediately.

Now my image looks flat and I want to give it some life.  Using the brush point of a Stampin’ Up Going Grey marker, I traced a thick line at both sides of the dresses and under the purses creating a shadow.

To bring the images forward more, I traced a line down the sides of the dresses and under the purses.  Now that added some more life.

Can’t forget the bling, assembled the card and added some Brenda Walton Adhesive olive colored Rhinestones that I got from GinaKDesigns.com.

Put dotes in the corners of the card with a white gel pen.

Here is the card all finished measuring 5.25″ x 5.25″

Hope you will try this emboss resist tutorial.

May your day be filled with fireworks and party dresses.

Until my next post. . . . . .

Michelle

Here it is Thursday already!  Wow, the older I get the faster time flies.  Am I the only one that feels this way?

Anyway, today I got back to nature with the Stampin’ Up’s Set “Touch of Nature”.  I love this little Chickadee.  Isn’t he the cutest little bird?  I have Chickadees all over my yard.  They are such happy little souls.  I can’t help but smile when I see and hear them.

Also, today I’m giving BLOG CANDY!  Anyone miss out on the Studio G Series 8 stamps?  I have 12 packs here just waiting for some lucky stamper.

Well here is your chance to get them.  All you need to do to enter is leave me a comment here on this post.  If you are getting this blog update by e-mail and you wish to comment, please click this link that will take you to my blog so you can comment for a chance to win these stamps:  http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/07/03/chickadee-in-the-woods-tutorial/

I’ll use a random number generator to pick a number on Saturday morning, July 5th.

Ready for the tutorial?  Let’s get started

Supplies:

Stamped the bird with Palette Noir Black ink on a piece of 3.5″ x 5″ Whisper White card stock.  I’m using the Palette ink because it doesn’t smear with the Solvent based Prismacolor markers.

Colored the bottom of the birds belly with a Buff marker.

Extended the limb to the edge of the card stock with a Fabe Castell black marker.

Colored the birds head, very bottom of the belly and back with a Cool Grey 30% marker.

Colored the dark parts of the leaves with a Light Olive Green marker.

Colored the Branch with a Buff colored marker.

Added some Cool Grey 80% colored marker to the dark parts of the birds head and back.

Added a bit more Buff marker to the birds belly.

Colored over the bird with a Versamark marker, being very careful to stay within the lines.

Heat embossed using clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

Sponged Bordering Blue ink in a pouncing motion all over the card stock.  I want it to look splotchy.

Stamped leaves by first loading my stamp with Old Olive ink and then misting the stamp a tiny bit so it would look a bit out of focus when I stamp it.  Note:  I tried this out on scrap paper first to see how much misting to do for the effect I wanted.

Stamped some Bordering Blue Leaves, some I misted, some I didn’t.

Sponged Bordering Blue ink at the right side of the card stock using a circular motion for good coverage.

Stamped a few leaves using Blue Bayou ink at the right side of the card stock.

Sponged Blue Bayou ink at the right side of the card stock, not covering all of the Bordering Blue ink. 

Traced the underside of the Bird and the branch with a Black marker.

Added White Gel pen highlights to the leaves on the branch and a dot on the birds eye.

Assembled card and here it is finished measuring 5″ x 6.5″.

Don’t forget to comment to enter to win the blog candy for today. 

Hope your day is filled with the sights and sounds of birds singing their happy little tunes.

Until my next post. . . . . . .

Michelle

I love the western style stamp sets from Stampin’ Up and I have them all, but I don’t use them nearly enough.  Drug this one out today, dusted it off and got down to business.  Fussed around with this card to long to post it this morning before work, hence the late post. 

Ready for the tutorial?  Let’s get started. 

Supplies:

Stamps:  Stampin’ Up “Wanted”

Paper:  Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Basic Black & More Mustard

Ink:  Stampin’ Up More Mustard, Craft White, Basic Black, Chocolate Chip, Really Rust, Apricot Appeal

Accessories:  Brads, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Black marker, Versamark marker, White Gel pen, Piercing Tools, 1 1/4 circle punch, post it note, Brayer, clear embossing powder & heat gun, sponges

Punched a circle from the sticky part of a post it note and put in on a piece of Whisper White Card stock as a mask for the sun.

Brayered Apricot Appeal ink over the entire card stock.

Removed sun mask.   Using my Stamp-a-ma-jig for placement, stamped the horse using Basic Black ink.

Colored the horse in with a black Faber Castell marker.

Be sure that your background ink is very dry before moving on to this step. :)  Otherwise the embossing powder will stick to the entire card stock.

Colored over the horse with a Versamark maker and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

Sponged More Mustard on ink, using a left to right motion, streaking the ink across the card stock.

Put a fresh post it note sun mask on.

Sponged on Really Rust ink using a streaking motion across the card stock.

Added some Chocolate Chip ink by sponging it on using the same streaking motion.

Covered the sky area with post it note masks.

Sponged Basic Black ink all over the un-masked area of the card stock.

Removed the masks and added some More Mustard streaks acoss the sun with a sponge.

Added some Really Rust ink streaks across the sun.

Sponged on just a little black ink around the horses legs in a pouncing motion to simulate dust being kicked up.

Assembled the card front and used my piercing tools to make holes for my brads so they would be in a straight line and well spaced.

Using a stamp-a-ma-jig for placement, stamped the “wanted” stamp with White Craft ink.

Added White dots behind the stamped “wanted” with a white gel pen.

Here you have it the completed card measuring 5″ x 6.5″.

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial.  Take a few moments and create a dramatic sky with some warm colors of ink.

May your day end with a fabulous sunset!

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

Michelle