Remembering Life's Moments: Crative Impressions Blog Hop--A Pumpkin Card

Friday, August 5, 2016

Crative Impressions Blog Hop--A Pumpkin Card

Welcome to another wonderful day with a Blog Hop from Stampendous and Creative Impressions. It wouldn't be a complete, of course, without PRIZES!

Comment for a chance to win one of these great prize packages! US winners only. See Official Rules for details. Deadline to comment is Sunday, August 7th, midnight PDT. Winners will be announced early next week.

Three prize packages that include:

An assortment of ribbons and hardware
PLUS winner’s choice of Create Winter, Create A Poinsettia or Create Fall Stamp Set

So now that you know about the prizes, let me share a card--and a new technique--with you. While I was trying to spray the back of a stencil to add some color, I became frustrated with the coverage of the color. That is when I came up with a new technique! Read about it in steps 8-11.

MATERIALS:

Birthday Assortment Perfectly Clear Stamp Set SSC1115

Long Pumpkins Stencil DWLL514

Wood Background Rubber Stamp RS-R249

Perfectly Clear Acrylic Stamp Handle

Champagne Pearlustre Embossing Powder

White Mixed Media Paper

Versamark Embossing Ink Pad

Embossing Heat Tool

Creative Impressions Pumpkin with Olive Stitched Ribbon

Creative Impressions Brads from the Antique Copper Embellishment Kit

Creative Impressions Antique Copper Frames Set 84502

Memento Ink in Rich Cocoa

Manual Die Cut Machine

Rubber Embossing Mat

Versafine in Vintage Sepia

Tattered Angels in Burlap

My Colors Card Stock in Brown Eyes, Parrot and White

Prismacolor Pencils in Olive Green, Apple Green, Dark Green, Yellowed Orange, Burnt Ochre, Pumpkin Orange, Spanish Orange, Orange, Sepia

Adhesive--I used Zip Dry

Big Bite Tool

INSTRUCTIONS:

1) Place the wood stamp on the clear acrylic stamp handle.

2) Stamp on the brown card stock with the Momento Ink.

3) Place the sentiment on the stamp handle.

4) Stamp on green card stock with Versamark Ink.

5) Cover with the Champagne Pearlustre Embossing Powder.

6) Emboss with the Heat Tool

7) Cut to fit inside the metal piece.

8) Ink the back of the pumpkin stencil with the Versafine.

9) Spray over the Versafine on the back of the stencil with the Tattered Angels.

10) Place the stencil face down on the bed of the manual die cut machine and cover with the mixed media paper and then the rubber embossing mat and the top mat.

11) Run the project through the machine. This technique will give you a mottled background and an embossed image. Let it dry a little.

12) Color the embossed image using the Prismacolors. I used the Sepia pencil to color some shadows under the pumpkins.

13) Adhere the pumpkin and wood stamped elements to a 4 1/4" by 5 1/2" piece of green card stock.

14) Use the Big Bite to create holes for the brads on your card. I (somewhat awkwardly) held the metal piece in place as I used the holes as a guide.

15) Glue the sentiment into the metal bracket. (You can see the excess glue in this photo, but I promise it is not this evident in real life).

16) Use the brads to adhere the bracket to the card.

17) Glue one piece of ribbon over the seam (leaving a small section in the center free of adhesive) and around the back of the green card stock.

18) Slip a piece of the ribbon under the middle section and make a bow. When you have it right, you can glue the edges down a little to prevent slipping.

19) Adhere the card front to white 8 1/2" by 5 1/2" card stock folded in half.

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