Friday, May 23, 2025

GALLERY BLOOMS ART

Cards like this make me feel like an artist -- or at least like someone pretending to be one!


I wanted to make a card that showcased all of the new In-Colors.  When I made the card I had only received the 2025-2027 In-Color Stampin' Write Markers and a couple of the ink pads, but the markers worked perfectly for this Aluminum Foil Painting Technique.

Lately, I've been a bit hooked on watching Paint & Pour Videos.  As I was surfing Facebook looking at Paint & Pour videos, I saw a video showing how to make a painting using acrylic paint, aluminum foil and a canvas.  I watched it a couple of times and thought, "Maybe I could do something similar with ink and cardstock!"

Today's card was the result of that experiment using Stampin' Write Markers!  Once I get all of the Re-inkers I have even more ideas for this technique!

If you want to watch a video where I demonstrate how to do my version of "Aluminum Foil Painting" you can use the link to watch my Learning with Friends video on YouTube.

 

Each time you do this technique it turns out differently which is my favorite type of technique.

For my Aluminum Foil Painting Technique background I used all 5 of the 2025-2027 In-Colors.  From top to bottom they are Strawberry Slush, Timid Tiger, Darling Duckling, Cloud Cover and Secret Sea.  Don't they work beautifully together?

After completing the technique and letting it dry, I stamped one of the flowers from Gallery Blooms with Black Memento ink.  I chose a tall skinny flower because I wanted as much of my pretty background to show as possible!

Just be sure that your background is completely dry before stamping because if it still damp, the Tuxedo Black Memento ink will bleed, and you don't want that to happen.

My card base is Cloud Cover and the dark mats and accents are Secret Sea.  The accent strips on the front and inside of the card were created with a die from Sentimental Framing Dies.  

Since the Gallery Blooms stamp set does not include greeting stamps, the sentiment on the card front is also from Sentimental Framing.

Use this link to download a Free Tutorial.  I hope you will try the technique.  It is so much fun, and it will make you feel like an artist, too!

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Wednesday, May 21, 2025

FRAME THE GALLERY BLOOMS

This flower from Gallery Blooms deserves to be framed!  I'm trying to show you more of the flower stamps this week that are included in this stamp set, but it is difficult because I want to use this one EVERY time.  

This flower is very versatile.  You can color the image with various mediums: water color, Stampin' Blends, Watercolor Pencil or whatever your favorite coloring products are.  It is also beautiful as a simple stamped outline image.  Or you can do what I did and heat emboss it on glimmer paper.  


I heat embossed with white embossing powder on Peach Pie Glimmer Paper.  I tried, but the photo doesn't adequately capture the sparkle and shine!

If you have never heat embossed on Glimmer Paper and are wondering how that works watch my Learning with Friends video to see just how simple it is.

After embossing, I die cut with the coordinating die and then adhered the flower to an embossed background with dimensionals.

As I indicated at the beginning of this post, this flower is definitely frame worthy.   The Gallery Blooms Bundle includes dies that cut each of the floral stamped images as well as several additional dies that cut various leaves and stems.  But it also includes one large die that cuts two frames at once.  The frame on this card is the larger of the two frames.   Of course, we can make frames using two rectangle dies, but sometimes it is tedious getting all four sides of the frame to be equal width.  This die makes it so simple to get a quick frame where all four sides are equal. 

For the inside of the card I again used my "go-to" solution.  It's simple, but at least it doesn't look like the inside has been forgotten.

The colors for today's card were selected based on the florals in Florals in Bloom Designer Series Paper.  Sentiments are from the Unbounded Love Bundle.

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Monday, May 19, 2025

GALLERY BLOOMS

 Happy Monday!  It's a new week, and my featured product this week is the Beautiful Gallery Suite of Products.

Today's card uses Sketch # 6.


I demonstrated this sketch and showed additional ideas earlier this month during my Learning With Friends Template Time Video.  If you missed the video, you can watch the replay here.


The Designer Series Paper used on this card is from the Florals in Bloom Collection.  This paper uses several of the 2025 - 2027 In-Colors, and on this card I used one of those, Strawberry Slush, for the card base.  Strawberry Slush such a pretty color!  


The "yellow" flowers from Gallery Blooms were first stamped with Black Stazon ink on Water Color Paper.  Then I used my Water Painters to color them with Darling Duckling, Timid Tiger and Granny Apple Green ink.  When watercoloring, be sure to use a permanent ink like Stazon.  If you use a water based ink like Tuxedo Black Memento, the ink will run and smudge.

The coordinating Gallery Blooms die made quick work of cutting out the flowers.

For the inside of the card I kept is simple.  A strip of the DSP and a Darling Duckling Mat adds just a pop of color but leaves plenty of room to write my Thank You note.


Use this link to download a FREE tutorial for today's card.  The tutorial also includes the sketch image.

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