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Stopping by for a quick post -- I designed this card for an a•muse | studio workshop earlier this month, and I must admit that I love how it turned out. I used the "Itty Bitty Birthday" and "Snail & Co." sets and stamped the images in Memento Tuxedo Black ink. My trusty Copic markers added some color, and a touch of Diamond glitter added some bling. I paper-pieced the hat, too -- I just love how the turtle looks with that party hat perched jauntily atop its head. :)
Just popping by to share another design from my April workshops, this one highlighting the "Vintage Labels" stamp set and its coordinating Vintage Label Custom Die set! I created this design so that workshop guests would be able to see and play with the awesome new custom dies (and their coordinating images) -- always fun to break out the Big Shot, although I certainly need a new set of cutting pads, I've realized...
This card is elegant, versatile, and really rather simple to create! The sentiment is from the "Graceful Greetings" set. The papers are grass shimmer damask, french roast shimmer, and vanilla. Inks are grass and french roast. Ribbon is french roast organdy. And I used a corner rounder on the piece of french roast paper. All products are, of course, from the awesome line of products by a•muse | studio!
Just stopping by to share another of the designs from my April a•muse | studio workshops. In this design I highlighted some of the great new products, including the 5/8" satin ribbon, the flock, and of course the awesome and adorable "Foiled Again!" stamp set.
No matter how hard I tried, this was the best photo I could get of this design (and I tried multiple times, multiple settings, multiple days... and concluded it's just time to invest in a better camera!). You can see the layout, but can't see the fuzzy, flockiness of the 'stache. Oh well. You can see it a bit better in the close-up below, but my slightly frustrated man-handling of the card resulted in the dislodging of some flock, so the card is sporting a little five o'clock shadow of its own. ;)
I stamped the images (both the sentiment and the 'stache) with Memento Tuxedo Black. I then carefully filled in the entire mustache image with the Quickie Glue Pen, then dumped a substantial amount of flock on the glue. I let the clump of flock sit there for maybe 30 seconds, while the glue dried a little bit, so that the flock really stuck to the image. I then tapped off the excess, and used an air can (like those you'd use to blow the dust from between your computer's keyboard keys) to blow off the excess flock fibers. (I sometimes use my air can to dust off unwanted stray glitter, too.)
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Two of my favorite things about the new a•muse | studio product line are the beautiful new water-based pigment ink pads and the awesome embossing powders. I decided to highlight both in this card design, which I made for my April workshops.
Possibly my favorite color combination is pink and green, and so I just love how sage and blush look together. I find myself pairing them often. For this design, I used sage, blush and vanilla cardstocks, and sage ink. I edged the vanilla paper with the sage ink.
I stamped the sentiment (from the "Thank You Mix" set) in sage, and then dipped the freshly-stamped image in the (seriously beautiful and elegant) satin pearl embossing powder -- you need to try this stuff to believe how absolutely gorgeous it is. It's a finer grain than your typical powder, and you'll want to heat-set it just a *smidge* longer -- the powder first melts, and then with a little more heat, it magically turns to get this beautiful, slightly shimmery, pearlescent finish (happens quick, so keep an eye out). You have to see it to believe it, but it is STUNNING. I think that all those who made this card with me in an April workshop will agree -- I sure took a lot of orders for satin pearl embossing powder! :)
Just to reiterate one more point about the new water-based pigment inks: you can emboss with them, and they emboss beautifully. Always remember that they are not nearly as tacky as a ColorBox pigment ink or a Versamark (a•muse | studio inks are not glycerine-based), so when you tap or flick off the excess powder before embossing... do it gently. Overly aggressive tapping will cause most of the powder to fall off, resulting in a less-than-satisfactory finished embossed product. Don't say I didn't warn you. ;)
Oh, and the final finishing touch on this card was a strip of the new tiny flowers ribbon (LOVE) in blush. It's fairly substantial in weight, so I like to use a glue dot (or two) to hold it firmly in place on the card front, as well as in the back (of course).
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This card is for all the moms out there! I hope that each of you has a very Happy Mother's Day and that you are properly celebrated by those who love you. (For me, "celebrated by" is code for "pampered by" so I hope you're getting the royal treatment!)
Of course, everything used to make this card is from the fabulous line of a•muse | studio products. I used blush, sage, and sugar papers, and blush and grass inks. The flower image is from the "Beautiful Botanicals" set; the sentiment is from "Essential Sentiments." I used the middle scallop border (from the scallop border custom die set). Some diamond glitter (applied with my trusty quickie glue pen) added a bit of dimension and bling to the blossom.
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