Fairless Stampin' Flair: Season of Chic Stamp Set

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Friday, November 3, 2023

BO THE BUNNY

I have really had a lot of fun sharing my Fluffiest Friends cards with you this week. It's hard not to smile when creating with these stamps and dies.

Today we are visited by Bo the Bunny and he has a cupcake he wants to share with you!

Bo thought that since he is kind of small he needed a really WOW card to send his birthday wishes. So, I have tried to comply with his request.

Yesterday on Learning with Friends I shared the Bokeh Technique and this card uses an alternative of that Technique. I'm not even sure my alternative technically qualifies as Bokeh. Bokeh is defined as the visual quality of the out-of-focus areas of a photographic image. It comes from the Japanese word boke which means blur or haze.

It's probably more accurate to say that my alternative technique was inspired by Bokeh. I liked the idea of the somewhat hazy dots, so I used that inspiration and applied it to heat embossing.

If you missed the Learning with Friends Bokeh Technique Video on November 2, 2023, you can watch the replay by using the video link below.

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My alternative uses similar steps but rather than using White Craft Ink for my "blurry dots" I used semitransparent heat embossing.

Bo's card is also a Buckle Fun Fold. Bo is the "buckle". He was watercolored with Stampin' Write Markers. This is watercoloring technique that I shared on Monday's post. If you missed that post you can see it here. It just may be my new favorite way to watercolor images.

As I indicated above, Bo is on the "Buckle" of this card. The "Belt" that slides under the buckle is a cardstock strap that is attached between the back of the card base and the "inside" of the card.

For the inside of the card I used another section of my Bokeh Technique Sheet and added a sentiment from Season of Chic.

If you would like a detailed tutorial with all cutting and scoring dimensions, you can use this link to download a copy. You can add a decoration on your "buckle" like I did, or just use buckle strip which you can see peeking out at the top and bottom of my circle as your buckle. Bo just wanted to be front and center, so I let him decorate my buckle.

I hope you have enjoyed the Fluffiest Friends this week as much as I have. There are a couple more Fluffy friends that are still waiting to meet you, so I will introduce you to them in the future.

Fluffiest Friends Bundle Item # 162850 (available 11/7/23)

See the list below for currently available products used on today's card.

Product List

Season Of Chic Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)

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Deckled Circles Dies

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Lost Lagoon 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

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Berry Burst 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

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Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper

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Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

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Jet Black Stāzon Ink Pad

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Versamark Pad

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Berry Burst Classic Stampin' Pad

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Lost Lagoon Classic Stampin' Pad

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Pretty Peacock Classic Stampin’ Pad

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Brights Stampin' Write Markers

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Neutrals Stampin' Write Markers

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Subtles Stampin' Write Markers

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Blending Brushes

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Sponge Daubers

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Basics 3 D Embossing Folders

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Rustic Metallic Adhesive Backed Dots

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Water Painters

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Simply Elegant Trim

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Metallics Embossing Powders

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Heat Tool (Us And Canada)

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Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine

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Friday, August 18, 2023

AUTUMN TARNISHED FOIL

We have visited two seasons already this week, Summer, and Winter, and today we are celebrating Autumn.

Autumn seems to be the favorite season of many of my friends. I'm a spring and summer gal, but I do love the colors of Fall. I used the Impressions of Tarnished Foil Technique to create the background for today's card. I love experimenting with different techniques and particularly those that make beautiful backgrounds for our cards.

If you have a beautiful background, you don't really need much else!

And the backgrounds made with this technique are gorgeous -- particularly if you love the shimmer and shine that foil cardstock provide. This technique starts with foil cardstock and then you layer different colors of metallic embossing powder on dry embossed foil.

I shared this technique in my Learning with Friends video yesterday, so if you want to see how it is done, and missed the LIVE, you can watch the replay here.

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To be very honest, photographing this card was a bit of a challenge. Between the foil and the metallic embossing powder, there is tons of shine and sparkle, and it confuses the camera -- or maybe it just confuses the photographer!

The front of this card started with Rose Gold Foil. Thee a light layer of Black Stazon is added. After dry embossing the foil with the Quatrefoil Tile Embossing Folder, next comes the metallic embossing powder. I added copper, gold, and silver embossing powder layering one color at a time diagonally on the embossed foil. The last step is to rub a little additional black Stazon Ink on the raised surfaces.

I used an outline leaf stamp from Season of Chic to create a Rose Gold embossed and die cut leaf on Blackberry Bliss cardstock, and the other two leaves were die cut from Rose Gold Foil and More Dazzle Specialty Paper.

The sentiment is from Season of Chic and heat embossed with Gold Metallic embossing power on Basic Black cardstock. The sentiment was die cut with a Nested Essentials Die.

The inside sentiment is also from Season of Chic. To carry a little shimmer and shine to the inside of the card I added a border of Basic Black behind a strip of Rose Gold Foil then added it on the edge of the Basic White and matted it with Black cardstock.

Use this link to download a copy of the detailed tutorial with all the cutting dimensions and step-by-step assembly directions.

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Wednesday, August 16, 2023

CHRISTMAS SNOW

On Monday, we were hunting for Seashells along the beach. Today we are walking through a gentle snowfall. It kind of sounds like Michigan weather!

I belong to a Coffee Club and each month we have a card making challenge. This month our challenge was to use Vellum on our card.

Vellum is something I often forget about using, so I really enjoyed this challenge as it reminded me how versatile Vellum can be. You can stamp images on it and color them in various ways. You can use it as an accent piece to soften the appearance of a card. You can dry emboss it, and the embossed areas turn white. Or you can do what I did today, and heat emboss on it.

Several weeks ago, my Demonstrator Development Manager, Shannon West, filled in for Sara, our CEO, on her Tuesday Facebook LIVE. She was demonstrating the Enchanted Butterfly Reversible stamp set, but what I really found so eye-opening was the tip she gave about how to create evenly spaced stamped backgrounds. She was making a background with polka dots and explained how to evenly space the dots. She said to start in the center and work outward. Stamp your first image in the center, and then stamp two more images to create a triangle. Once you have your first triangle, use two of the stamped images from your triangle and stamp another image to create a 3rd triangle! It was a lightbulb moment for me! No one had ever told me this, and it works! I used to start at the top or one side of my card and work one way or another just trying to eye-ball it. But I never ended up with equally spaced images. I always ended up having some too close together and some too far apart.

This was my first attempt at using her triangle tip, and it works! I am actually really happy how my first attempt worked on the top half of the card. My spacing on the bottom isn't as good, but there is still a huge improvement from what I normally have!

My snowflakes are heat embossed on Vellum Cardstock with White Embossing Powder. The vellum was then layered over Boho Blue. I love how Vellum "softens" the appearance of whatever you layer it over. The Boho Blue actually looks darker in the photograph than it does in real life.

Boho Blue is not an intense blue, but with the Vellum layered over it, it is even softer in color.

The sentiment is from the Brightest Glow Stamp Set. It was embossed with Silver Embossing Powder and die cut with a Nested Essentials Die. The Boho Blue die cut behind the sentiment was made with a Chic Die. Three different size snowflakes were also cut from Basic White cardstock using Chic dies. After die cutting, I used a sponge dauber to add a little Boho Blue ink to the center of each snowflake. Then they were layered together with dimensionals and added to the card front.

A Balmy Blue In-Color dot was added to the center snowflake assembly and then a couple more were added on the card front.

See the Product List below to see all the products used on this card.

Since this card was made for a Vellum Challenge, I was originally going to make the snowflake on the front of the card with Vellum, but when I laid it in place it got sort of over-powered by the background. So, set it aside -- just in case...

After I heat embossed my silver sentiment on the inside, I decided to lay my vellum snowflake in the corner. It looked so much better on the inside than on the front -- so it had a new home and avoided the trash!

Use this link to download a free tutorial of today's card.

Product List

Season Of Chic Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)

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