Playing With Paste and Oak Leaves

This week, the Stampendous Team is using the theme "Playing With Paste".  Now, as a former Dreamweaver Team member, I use paste a lot, so many projects could work with the theme.  But then, I got to thinking--how often do I PLAY with paste?  And what does that mean to me?  This "Molten Magic" Technique is a real blast.  You get to use glitter and embossing powder on paste, and when you heat it, it all bubbles up and makes a one-of-a-kind image in front of your eyes.  What could be more playful than that? 

Stampendous:
DWLG754 Large Oak Leaves Stencil
Gold Embossing Paste
Palette Knife
Paste Spreader
Jade Pearl Embossing Powder
Micro Copper Glitter
Micro Red Glitter
Bronzed Mica Fragments

Plus:
Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®
Scotch Removable Tape
Scotch 1/2" Adhesive Tape
Raffia
Heat Embossing Tool
Distress Blending Tool
Distress Ink in Tea Dye

Instructions:

1. Cut the card stock to 9 1/4" by 5 1/2"and create a fold on the top.
2. Cut brown paper to 4 5/8" by 5 1/2" and adhere to the front of the card.
3. Use removable tape to adhere the Oak Leaves Stencil face up on top of a piece of ivory card stock.  Make sure to put the initial strip of tape all the way across the top of the stencil, creating a hinge.
4. Use the palette knife to place a strip of Gold Embossing Paste across the bottom edge of the paste spreader.  Make sure you have a long enough strip of paste to cover the entirety of the Oak Leaves image from side to side.
5. Place the bottom edge of the paste spreader directly on the top edge of the stencil with the paste facing you.
6. Pull the paste spreader towards you across the stencil.  (Think of a squeegee).  The embossing paste should completely fill all the wells in the stencil.
7. Use the palette knife to remove the excess paste from the spreader and place back in the container.
8. Carefully remove the tape from the sides and bottom of the stencil, leaving the hinge on top.
9. Lift the stencil from a bottom corner, like a door and then remove it entirely from the area.
10. While the paste is still wet, quickly sprinkle the embossing paste, glitters and mica powders over the leaves and acorns that you want to add color to.  If you are careful and only use a small pinch at a time, you can somewhat control where the different colors go.
11. Use your heat tool above and below the pasted card stock to dry and bubble the paste.  The areas you focus the heat on will bubble the most.  I chose to add a little more texture to the leaves than the acorns.  Be careful not to get too close to the glitter, as you can scorch it, changing the colors.
12. Trim the ivory card stock close to the leaves image.
13. Distress the card stock with the Distress Ink and Blending Tool.
14. Cut brown card stock about 1/2" larger than the ivory card stock in each direction and adhere the leaves image onto it.
15. Cut rust paper to 4 3/8" x 5 1/4" and adhere the leaves image to it, leaving room for the raffia.
16. Tie the raffia around the rust card stock.
17. Adhere the rust card stock to the background.
    
    
    Now that I have shown you my card, please go look at the rest of the Stampendous Team that are posting with paste today:
    Alison Heikkila (DW)Louise Healy (DW)Lyn Bernatovich (DW)Pam Hornschu (DW)Kristine Reynolds (DW)Lea Kimmel Fritts (DW)Laura Drahozal (DW)

Chameleon Collaboration

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US or UK winners will receive a Cling Create Christmas Stamp Set and Perfectly Clear™Stamp Handle from us or our UK distributor, Woodware Craft Collection.

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Deadline to comment is Sunday, July 19th, 11:59 pm PDT.  Chameleon will be offering a fantastic prize as well, so be sure to visit their blog for more details.

There is more! Our Australian Distributor, The Stencil Specialists, are sponsoring a prize for one friend “down under” to win a Stampendous Stamp, a Dreamweaver Stencil and a surprise goodie from their terrific stock of Stampendous merchandise!  Tell us where you live when you comment to be in the drawing!

Today, I am participating in the Chameleon Hop, the Stampendous Christmas in July Theme AND Dreamweaver Thursday:

Although tomorrow, I promise much more coloring with these fantastic markers, I just wanted to point out one thing:  Chameleon Pens COLOR ON EMBOSSING PASTE (and when they color on metallic paste, they make a beautiful, shiny effect).

Materials:

R103 Music Score
FREG024 Aged Gold Embossing Powder
FRM04 Tea Stained Mica
MG011 Red Micro Glitter
MEM01 Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®
VP001 Versamarker™ Watermark Pen by Tsukineko®
MPW811 Mixed Media Paper
FX71 Sticky Panels

DWLG676 French Horn Stencil
DWDGP Gold Embossing Paste
DWDEPT Translucent Paste
DWDPK Palette Knife
DWLM2010 Paste Spreader
Gold Handled Stencil Brush

Plus:Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®
Scotch® Removable Tape by 3M®
Scotch® 1/2" Adhesive Tape by 3M®
"X" Adhesive by Xyron®
Chameleon™ Markers (Grass Green)
Time Holtz® Tea Dye Distress Ink by Ranger®
Distress Inking Tool
Foam Tape
Craft Knife

Instructions:

1. Cut the card stock to 9 1/2" by 6"and create a fold on the top.
2. Cut green card stock to 4 3/4" by 6" and adhere to the front of the card.
3. Use removable tape to adhere the French Horn Stencil face up on top of a piece of multi media paper.  Make sure to put the initial strip of tape all the way across the top of the stencil, creating a hinge.
4. Use the palette knife to place a strip of Gold Embossing Paste across the bottom edge of the paste spreader.  Make sure you have a long enough strip of paste to cover the entirety of the image from side to side.
5. Place the bottom edge of the paste spreader directly on the top edge of the stencil with the paste facing you.
6. Pull the paste spreader towards you across the stencil.  (Think of a squeegee).  The embossing paste should completely fill all the wells in the stencil.
7. Carefully remove the tape from the sides and bottom of the stencil, leaving the hinge on top.
8. Lift the stencil from a bottom corner, like a door and then remove it entirely from the area.
9. Clean and thoroughly dry the stencil.
10. Repeat steps 3-9, but use the Translucent Embossing Paste.  Focus only on the ribbon in the image, so you can cut the paper smaller, use less paste, and start the "pull" just above the bow.
11. While the Translucent Paste is still wet, generously cover with Red Micro Glitter and let the glitter stay in place.
12. When the Translucent Paste is completely dry, brush off the excess glitter with a stencil brush and cut around the ribbon and bow with a craft knife.
13. Use the Chameleon Pen in Grass Green to color the holly leaves directly on the dry gold paste.
14. Stamp the music image on ivory card stock and rip in half.
15. Distress the edge of the music sheets with the Distress Blender and Ink.
16. Run Sticky Panels around the edges of a rectangle about 1/4" inside the green card stock.
17. Place music sheets on the Sticky Panels, adhering the inside of the sheets with another adhesive.
18. Fill in the additional Sticky Panel edges with Mica Fragments.
19. Use the Versa Marker to cover any additional areas that you would like gilded.
20. Cover the Sticky Panel and Versa Marker areas with Aged Gold Embossing Powder and shake off the excess.
21. Heat with the Embossing Tool to melt the powder.
22. Trim closely to the French Horn image and distress with Distress Tool and Ink.
23. Cut red card stock about 1/2" larger than the horn image on both sides.
24. Mount the French Horn to the red card stock.
25. Run the cut out ribbon image through the Xyron "X" machine and adhere directly to the corresponding places on the French Horn image.
26. Use the foam tape to adhere the horn image onto the background.

Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope to see you tomorrow for more Stampendous and Chameleon Fun!

So, here are all the participants in the Chameleon Hop today:

Stampendous Blog

Lea Kimmel

Lyn Bernatovich

Kristine Reynolds

Tenia Nelson

Pam Hornschu

Alison Heikkila

Louise Healy

Laura Drahozal

Chameleon Pens Blog

Dreamweaver Stencil (only) posts:

Jamie Martin

Dreamweaver and Stampendous Blog Hop

Get ready to be inked, pasted, encrusted, stenciled and stamped! All of this week the Dreamweaver Stencils' Dream Team and the Stampendous Design Teams will be providing some "Dream-pendous" inspiration for you, with multiple opportunities to win some fabulous prizes from both companies. Each day this week, you will be directed from both the Stampendous Impressions' blog or the Dream It Up! blog to the players du jour for your oohing and aaahing pleasure. Everyone will be playing on Saturday, the 14th with our final hop for the week. This is your opportunity to see how to mix and mingle your creativity...if you are a stenciler, you will be fascinated at combining stamps with your first love. If you are a stamper, you will be wowed at how stencils can add to your impressions.

Here is my creation.  I started by pasting Dreamweaver Stencils Branch and Berries LJ900 with Dreamweaver Embossing Paste.  While it was still wet, I sprinkled on Stampendous Aged Copper Embossing Enamel.  Then, I heat embossed it.  Next, I stamped the new Stampendous Cling Bird Manor Stamp CRW073 on the cereal bag that I used on Monday's post.  I used black Stayzon ink.  I let it dry for a little while I created the flowers using the double glitter technique.  With the stencil LG 644 Cherry Blossoms attached to the double sided adhesive paper, I placed pinches of three colors of Stampendous Fun Flock:  Think Pink FL816, Pixie Pink FL803 and Raspberry Tart FL 817 around the flowers.  I pushed the flock down hard and in towards the flower centers to blend the colors.  I then brushed it off well and removed the adhesive paper from the stencil.  I covered the exposed adhesive with Stampendous Multi Ultra Fine Crystal Glitter.  I cut around the flowers and set them aside.  When the stamped image was dry, I flipped it over and put a very small amount of Art Glitter Designer Dries Clear on all the parts of the stamp that I wanted to be opaque silver.  I covered these areas with Stampendous Pearlized Mica Fragments.  I also covered the backs of the birds with glue and added Stampendous Neon Yellow Glitter.  As this dried, I used gold covered aluminum and my Mercart Metal Tools with Dreamweaver Stencil LG 646 Bird & Blossoms to deboss the bird.  I did this by placing the metal face up on top of the stencil, rubbing it down with a fine art blending tool, and pushing it into the stencil with the Mercart Teflon Tool.  When I had the bird, branches, some leaves and a flower debossed, I sanded the top of the metal.  I then used the Designer Dries Clear in the wells that I created to add Aged Copper Embossing Enamel in the branches and heat emboss it.  I also used the glue in the wells to color the eye with Plain Ol' Black Flock, the leaves with Sour Apple Green Flock and the flower with the remaining flock from the double glitter flowers.  I then assembled the card, placed the cage on it with a mix of Glue Dots and Designer Dries Clear, and peeled the backs off of the flowers, placing them on some of the "berries" in the background.  Finally, I put some double sided adhesive on the back of the bird, trimmed it close with an ordinary pair of scissors, and attached it to the card.

Be sure to leave comments as you tour the blogs (with your email addy!) for a chance to win* one of three combined sets of these Dreamweaver and Stampendous goodies:

Leave me some love before you "gear up" for the next player:

Dream It Up!
Stampendous Impressions!
Kristine Reynolds
Cherylynn Moser
Susie Moore
Lynn Mercurio
Laura Drahozal
Pam Hornschu
Terrece Siddoway
Wendy Price
Liz Martin
Taylor Usry
Jessie Hurley
Krissy Fossmeyer

Cyndi Bundy

Jennifer Ingle

Georgia Sommers

Melinda Gleissner

Kristi Van Doren

Stephanie Lee

Wendy Jordan

Suzanne Czosek

Lee Kellogg
Janelle Stollfus

Louise Healy

Jennifer Dove

*For shipping and handling purposes, USA/APO/FPO/Canada winners only.

Dreamweaver and Stampendous Blog Hop Day One!

Get ready to be inked, pasted, encrusted, stenciled and stamped! All of this week the Dreamweaver Stencils' Dream Team and the Stampendous Design Teams will be providing some "Dream-pendous" inspiration for you, with multiple opportunities to win some fabulous prizes from both companies. Each day this week, you will be directed from both the Stampendous Impressions' blog or the Dream It Up! blog to the players du jour for your oohing and aaahing pleasure. Everyone will be playing on Saturday, the 14th with our final hop for the week. This is your opportunity to see how to mix and mingle your creativity...if you are a stenciler, you will be fascinated at combining stamps with your first love. If you are a stamper, you will be wowed at how stencils can add to your impressions.

Here is my creation.  It is an unusual style for me to be using.  It reminds me a bit more of my friend, Linda's style. I really enjoyed the stretch for this one.  Although I didn't realize it at the time, this card would probably qualify for the Stampendous Challenge on recylcing that is going on right now.  Let me explain.
I started this card with an encyclopedia that I found at the Salvation Army.  I knew that I had this lovely Stampendous Vintage Birdcage Stamp CRV266, so I found the page on Sound and ripped it out, ripped it up and distressed it with Tim Holtz Distress Brushed Corduroy Ink. I had two pieces when I was done, so I put them both on Double Sided Adhesive Paper to make my new "paper".  Then, I used that lovely stamp to stamp a couple of images in the background with the Distress Ink.  I also used that ink and stencilled just the musical staff portion of stencil LM 149 Music.  Using Versamark, I stamped the center birdcage and embossed it with Aged Gold Embossing Enamel.  This embossing powder is a little chunkier and creates a vintagey look, but don't expect it to show all the beautiful fine lines of a stamp like this.  This is why I stamped the black image.  I wanted to use something transparent for both this birdcage and the pasted bird's nest, but I did NOT want that overly shiney look of acetate.  That seemed too modern for my theme.  Fortunately for me, I had just finished a box of cereal that morning.  Well, I washed out the lining and used it here.  Clear, but not too modern looking.  I needed to use the Stayzon on the birdcage.  The Pearlescent Dreamweaver Embossing Paste was perfect on it with the LL 587 Nest Flourish Stencil.  I felt that both of these items could use a little extra "oomph", so I glued Mica Fragments on the reverse side with Art Glitter Dries Clear Designer Glue. The birdcage stamp was enhanced with FRM01-Pearlized Mica Fragments behind the bottom and top screw of the cage.  The bird was enhanced with FRM04-R Tea Stained, and the stencilled nest got FRM03-R Tarnished Mica Fragments.  I pasted the "Sing Your Song" off of the LG 734 Bird Words stencil with Dreamweaver Matte Black Paste. Finally, I used a modified Double Glitter Technique with stencil LS 94 Bird on Branch, Stampee Foil, Stampendous Plain Ol' Black Fun Flock and Stampendous Multi Fine Crystal Glitter.  The papers were edged with Versamark and Aged Copper Embossing Enamel.
Whew!  There was a LOT going on here.  (Quite the contrast with last month).  If you like these assemblages, definitely check back with me on Saturday this week (no, not Thursday this week) for another Stampendous Blog Hop Day.  Better yet, check in with the team daily--we will be hopping all week with Stampendous!

Be sure to leave comments as you tour the blogs (with your email addy!) for a chance to win* one of three combined sets of these Dreamweaver and Stampendous goodies:

Leave me some love before you "gear up" for the next player:


Stampendous Impressions!
Dream It Up!
Cherylynn Moser
Lynn Mercurio
Laura Drahozal
Kristine Reynolds
Pam Hornschu
Taylor Usry

*For shipping and handling purposes, USA/APO/FPO/Canada winners only.