Floating & Fluttering with Distress Ink

 

Hello everyone! I promised you a surprise today and I have two!

Firstly, we have been blessed with the patter of tiny paws! A new fur-baby to love and enjoy!💕💕💕🐶

Meet Gemma! She is 8 weeks old and is a medium Australian Labradoodle (sometimes called a Dood or Doodle). 

Gemma at 8 weeks

Gemma on way home from breeder

Gemma - Exhausted

Gemma with new big brother Ricky (Standard Labradoodle)

You forget how tiring a young one can be - young anything, baby, puppy, kitten etc. - especially when they are inside and you don't want them chewing electric cables etc. It really does mean constant attention while they are awake. 

Anyway, 2 days and we are already totally besotted, although I think it really only needed a few minutes....lol.

I'm sure there will be more Gemma news as she grows!

As a Stampin' Up!® demonstrator, I prefer to use only Stampin' Up!® products, but I belong to a craft group that do all different crafts and each person uses the products they prefer or a mix of all different types. At our Christmas meeting we all took some of our retired products to share (sort of like a Kris Kringle). Then we were challenged to make something with the products we got for our January meeting.

Therefore my second surprise is a card I made using the products I received, which were:

A Couture creations die which was a coral reef background die

Tim Holtz Distress Inks, mustard seed, cracked pistachio and carved pumpkin

I used the Distress Inks with our sponge brayer to make a background and then added the coral reef die as a trellis (mounted on foam adhesive strips). I finished it off with a couple of butterflies from the Floating & Fluttering stamp set and the sentiment was from the Free As A Bird stamp set.

Card Measurements

Card base:    29.7cm x 10.5cm scored at 14.9cm and folded

1st layer:    14.5cm x 10cm

Inner layer:    14.5cm x 10cm

Scrap for trellis, butterflies and sentiment

Instructions

• Using Distress Inks and sponge brayer, brayer each colour over approximately ⅓ of 1st layer making sure to overlap a little with next layer
• Die cut trellis
• Stamp butterflies on scrap
• Die cut butterflies
• Adhere 1st layer to front of card base
• Mount trellis to 1st layer using foam adhesive strips
• Stamp sentiment on scrap of Basic White and punch using the classic label punch
• Cut a scrap to matt sentiment
• Adhere sentiment to matt and adhere to 1st layer using mini dimensionals
• Colour butterflies (I used water colour pencils and a water pen)
• Adhere butterflies using mini dimensionals
• Stamp butterflies on bottom of inner layer
• Adhere inner layer to inside back of card base

Thanks for visiting my page. I hope you enjoyed my surprises! See you again tomorrow for another card.

Cheers

Deb xx

Product List

Calypso Coral A4 Card Stock

[124392]

$15.25

Basic White A4 Cardstock

[159228]

$17.00

Floating & Fluttering Bundle

[156239]

$81.75

Free As A Bird Cling Stamp Set

[149468]

$38.00

Sponge Brayers

[141714]

$14.00

Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad

[147101]

$13.00

Mango Melody Classic Stampin' Pad

[147093]

$13.00

Watercolor Pencils

[141709]

$27.75

Watercolor Pencils Assortment 2

[149014]

$21.75

Classic Label Punch

[141491]

$31.00

Foam Adhesive Strips

[141825]

$14.00

Mini Stampin' Dimensionals

[144108]

$6.00

Multipurpose Liquid Glue

[110755]

$7.00