Wednesday Wow- Brusho with Beautiful Day

What makes this card stunning and a WOW card?

1. The colors of the Painted with Love Specialty Designer paper.

2. The copper embossed butterfly.

3. The double Celebrate

4. The Brusho used to color the inside of the butterfly.

Here is how I created the butterfly.

1. First, I embossed the butterfly image from the Beautiful Day stamp set found in the Occasions catalog.

2. Then, I used my aqua painter to put water in the inside of the butterfly.  The embossing will help keep the water in place if you do not overdo it. (Voice of experience speaking here.)

3. I then sprinkled the Brusho over the water.  I did not worry about any Brusho that got outside the embossing.  There was not water there and Brusho only works with water.

4. I dried the butterfly, cut it out, and mounted it on my card with some tear and tape adhesive.

 I wonder what a card using the flower image in this stamp set would look like?  Hmm a future project with Brusho.

Tomorrow I will share a card made with Lots of Lavender one of my favorite Sale a Bration stamp sets.


Product List

Beautiful Day Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[145915]

$21.00

Brusho Crystal Colour

[144101]

$30.00

Painted With Love Specialty Designer Series Paper

[145580]

$13.00

Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder

[141636]

$5.00

Scrapbook Week-From a Paper Pumpkin kit

  Once a month I have a scrapbook class I call Scrapbook Your Life.  Each scrapbooker makes 2 two-page spreads. If they bring their pages back the next month with pictures on them, I give them a little something extra.

The layout was inspired by the May Paper Pumpkin Kit.  I traced the donut shape on the card and made stencils for the stampers to trace around.

Here's how I made the chocolate donut.

1. Trace around the stencil onto Early Espresso card stock.
2. Press a VersaMark pad all over the card stock.
3. Emboss with clear embossing powder to give the donut a shiny look.
 I called this my chocolate glazed donut.

I used the now retired sprinkles punch to make the swirls on the confetti donut.

The white frosting on the lower donut was made similar to the chocolate donut except I used white embossing powder on the VersaMark.  

This layout just happened to be created right before National Donut Day.  What a coincidence.

Scrapbooking is a great way to use up small pieces of designer paper.  The next two layouts I will show tomorrow did just that.

Dragonfly Dreams-Template Thursday

  Today I will be using on each card sample

    Inside the Lines designer paper
    Dragonfly Dreams bundle

This first card also uses
    Tags and Labels framelits 
    The saying from the stamp set called Bunch of Blossoms

Even though this designer paper can be colored in, it also looks great uncolored as the background for a bold thinlit, like the dragonfly.

For this card I added
 Stitched Shapes framelits 
 Layered Circles framelits 
 The saying is from the Dragonfly Dreams stamp set.

I love how the stitched shapes framelits and the layered circles framelits work so well together.

For this card I added

New watercolor pencils from the Occasions catalog

Aqua Painter

Vellum

Black embossing powder 

Saying from Watercolor Words

For the final card I colored in parts of the designer paper using our new colored pencils.  You do not have to color a solid image when you use them.  Just color and then use an Aqua Painter to blend the coloring marks.

After I finished my coloring I cut the paper into thirds and attached it to the card base.

Since my dragonfly was so big and bold, I needed a simple bold saying to complete the card.  Watercolor Words fit the bill.

Don't forget you too can have this great designer paper by spending $50 on any items you wish.  Then the designer paper is yours for free.  Can't make it to one of my classes.  Feel free to order online any time.  Just go to www.sushi.stampinup.net to my website.  There is a direct link to my store at the top of this page.

Come back tomorrow to see anothe Fab Friday card.