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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Friday, May 16, 2025

PAINTED SAIL

Today's card uses the "Painting with Enamel Effects" Technique to create highlights on the water and the sails and also some puffy clouds.


This card was made using the Hybrid Embossing Folder from the Sunrise Sailing Bundle.  The Hybrid Embossing Folder is certainly a way to make a beautiful quick and easy card.  The embossing folder embosses the water the boat and the clouds.  After embossing I used a Blending Brush to color the sky and water.  Because of the embossing it "automatically" creates color variation to highlight the raised areas.


There is also this large sailboat die that works in the hybrid folder to die cut the sailboat as it embosses it.  I stamped, embossed and die cut a separate boat to pop it up on top of the sailboat that was embossed in the background layer.  

I decided to make the boat red to honor my neighbor and her red sailboat which she named "OH NO", which only reads "OH NO" when the boat is upside down!  She has a great sense of humor!  


White Pearlized Enamel Effects was brushed on the sails to give them a nice sheen.  The Pearlized Effects was also brushed randomly on the water to give it some highlights. Then I "puddled" the Pearlized Effects on the clouds to give them a puffy texture and appearance.


For the inside of the card I used the Hybrid Embossing folder to emboss some "water" and then tore the top edge to make it look more like waves.

This card is totally sentiment free!  Why?  Partially because I didn't want to cover up any of the pretty clouds or water, but also because I couldn't decide what type of sentiment to put on this card.  What kind of sentiment would you choose?

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