Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop – August – Mystery Challenge
Welcome to this month’s Blog Hop by Let’s Craft Together and thank you for joining us. We are a group of multi-cultural Stampin’ Up!® demonstrators in Australia who have developed a strong friendship though our love of stamping and our admiration of each other’s style of crafting.
Each month one of us sets a challenge that we use for the blog hop. This month’s challenge is a Mystery Challenge which was created by Tracy Held and is shown below:
Although the Layering Leaves Stamp Set and the Bough Punch have been around a while, I only recently purchased them and I wanted to use them, as well as the new Leaf Collection Background stamp. I found a technique for using the Leaf Collection stamp on Heather Forgen’s website here and I just had to give it a try. I used Blending Brushes to apply colour to the a Very Vanilla card front, then spritzed the stamp with water and used it to stamp on the card front over the colours. The colours bleed as the ink dries and creates what I think is a lovely effect. For my strips, I cut the three strips of Very Vanilla and adhered them to the Pecan Pie cardbase. I cut the nesting pieces of card from Pecan Pie and Very Vanilla and stamped and heat embossed the greeting.
The boughs were also heat embossed in gold and overstamped with colour then punched out.
Here is a close shot:
And here are shots of the whole of the front and the inside:
Supplies
Stamps: – Leaf Collection, Layering Leaves
Inks: – Peach Pie, Calypso Coral, Pecan Pie, Versamark,
Card: – Very Vanilla, Pecan Pie,
Tools: – Bough Punch, Blending Brushes,
Embellishments: – Peach Pie Bordered Ribbon, Adhesive-Backed Metallic Gems, Metallics WOW! Embossing Powder (gold)
I hope you are inspired by my card. I’d love to know what you think. Make sure you hop all the way around and see the inspiration that everyone has shared, and don’t forget to leave a comment. We all love to get comments on our projects.
Thanks for hopping by,
Bye for Now
Till next time,
Netty xx
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