Shaving Cream & Watercolor techniques with tips for success

March 20, 2023

This week I'm sharing the swap cards my Flowerbug's Team made for our March card swap. The theme was to use a technique featuring ink refills.

Each one is fabulous!

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This first card was created by Paula who used the shaving cream technique. It looks a little bit like tie dye!

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Tips on the Shaving Cream technique. It's fun but a bit messy.

Fill a container with about an inch of shaving cream. Your container should be large enough to fit the card stock you're coloring. *tip; cheap shaving cream works just fine!
Smooth out the cream. Add drops of your ink colors onto the cream. Take a knife and swirl the ink into the cream. Don't do this too much or you'll make 'muddy' colors.
Lay your card stock onto the swirled cream and press lightly. Use gloves if you don't want inky fingers.
Remover your card stock and wipe off the excess cream. Set aside to dry.
You can use regular card stock or glossy if you have it.

She used Orchid Oasis, Parakeet Party & Tahitian Tide inks and regular Basic White card stock.

She even die-cut a few corner elements for the inside of her card. These dies are from the Fabulous Frames dies seen here

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Next is a pretty card made by Ginny using the Best Day stamp set seen here. She cased a card from the Jan-June catalog. Check out the sample on page 67. This is a great reminder that there are wonderful ideas in our catalogs!

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She stamped the image on watercolor paper and colored it using our Water painters. I believe her colors include Calypso Coral, Pool Party & Daffodil Delight.

Here are a few helpful tips for successful water-coloring.

Wet your paper before you add color. Watercolor paper is THE BEST for smooth blending.
First wet only the area you want colored; blue for example. Then dip your brush in ink you've added to a block or other slick surface.
I either press my ink pad onto a clear block or add ink drops to the block or a paper plate.
Saturate your wet brush in the ink and paint color onto the previously wet area.
Let dry before adding another color that touches it or they'll bleed together.

More techniques coming tomorrow! Stop back in.

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Witty-Cisms Fun-Fold card

January 29, 2020
The Witty-Cisms stamp set is a great all occasions set with fun images and cute greetings to match. See it here. I created this cute card for a recent online card swap.

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It's a fun fold card with a double opening. The Real Red flap is scored and the scored edge is adhered under the inside White layer. The Granny Apple Green main card is standard size but 1" is cut off the right edge to reveal the White inside. The new Coastal Weave embossing folder was used on the front. This embossing folder is the one I'm giving to all online orders over $65 in January.

Sometimes with this type of fold I add the designer paper to the inside right edge so it shows from the front. This time I added it to the very front along with a stitched scalloped edge piece die-cut with the Stitched Be Mine dies seen here.

Here are the measurements:
- Granny Apple Green main card 7 1/2" X 5 1/2" scored at 4 1/4".
- White inside 4" X 5 1/4"
- Real Red 4" X 2 1/2"
- Black 2 1/4" X 3 1/4"
- 1" X 5 1/2" Granny Apple Green gingham DSP; *from the Brights 6 X 6" DSP pack seen here.
And more details:
- I added a butterfly die-cut from the upcoming Nature's Thoughts dies. They'll be available in February in the Coordination Product Release.
- I stamped the main image three times; once on the White punch and again on Real Red for the strawberry and again on scraps of Green. These are cut out and popped up on the main image.
- White label is the new Label Me Lovely punch seen here. I love this new punch! A 1 3/4" circle punch fits inside it for layering. And oval shapes do as well!
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Honey Bee with Golden Honey Designer Paper

January 28, 2020
I know some people do not like yellow but I always have. When I was young I chose to a yellow and orange them for my bedroom! (The walls were yellow and the only orange were in accents so it wasn't too garish!)

When yellow is paired with Black and White it's a happy and striking color combination in my opinion!

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Here I used Daffodil Delight with the pretty Golden Honey Designer series paper. It's one of the free choices during our Sale-a-Bration promotion. I was thrilled to see another black and white designer paper in the offering this year! You can pair it with just about any color! It also has gold foil accents on many of the sheets. click here to see it.

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My gals made this card at my New Catalog Stamp a Stack this last Saturday. The new Honey Bee bundle coordinates with this paper beautifully.

Measurements:
- Daffodil Delight main card – 5 ½” X 8 ½” scored at 4 ¼”
- Black 3 5/8” X 4 ¾”
- White scrap for hive and for ‘thank you’ greeting
- Golden Honey left is 2 ½”X 3 ¼”, right is 2” X 3 ¼”
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Below are some projects made for display by Stampin' Up!

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Did you know you can get multiple products with just one ordering number? Yup; they're called collections or suites. You can get everything you need to create the above projects all at once. Here are the details on this one:

Honey Bee Project Collection – $103.50. Item #154225

The Honey Bee Project Collection gives you a coordinating selection of products to make the Honey Bee Cards. When you buy the project collection, you’ll qualify for the FREE Sale-A-Bration product you also need for these cards: Golden Honey Specialty Designer Series Paper. After you add the project collection to your basket, click here to redeem the Sale-A-Bration product you need to complete the Honey Bee Cards.

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* Honey Bee Bundle (10% off): Honey Bee Cling Stamp Set + Detailed Bee Dies
* Whisper White 8-1/2" x 11" Cardstock
* Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin’ Pad
* Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin’ Pad
* Jet Black StazOn Pad
* Daffodil Delight 1/4" (6.4 mm) Ruched Ribbon
* Stampin’ Dimensionals
* Multipurpose Liquid Glue
* Blender Pens

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Fun Latch Fold card with Music From the Heart

January 27, 2020
I had to use my friend Dawn Olchefske's new stamp set for January club. It's the set she designed for her million dollars in sales achievement! It's a fabulous music themed set called Music From the Heart. Look!

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Look at this fun latch fold card!

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The Classic Label punch is perfect to create the 'latch' for this card closure. We did have to widen the opening a bit by punching off to the side an extra 1/4" on each side as I wanted a larger front layer than the punch allows for. If you watch the video below you'll see what I am referring to.

I decided to offer a choice of card themes for my gals; Valentines, Anniversary and Birthday. I used the Heart to Heart set for the Valentine's greeting. This pretty foiled paper is called From the Heart specialty designer paper. You can see it here.

Did you know that you can 'play or stamp' Happy Birthday with the individual notes in this set? Isn't that the best idea ever?! Although creating a 'guitar' from two stamps in this set is even more clever! If you have a musical person in your life you need this set!

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Be sure to watch my video to see how to make this fun fold card. It's amazingly easy!

Measurements:
- Real Red 4 1/4" X 8 3/4" scored at 5 1/2"
  White inside 4" X 5 1/4", front and inside flaps 2" X 3 3/4"
  Black 2 1/4" X 8" scored at 4"
  From My Heart Specialty DSP 3" X 4"
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