Art Gallery Thinking of You - Class to Go card plus video

 A colleague of mine and myself organized a Class to Go in time for Mother's Day and focused on celebrating all women. The class offered kits for 4 cards and one 3D project, a PDF and a video for each card.

Over the next little while I will be posting a picture and the video for each card of the Class to Go, Celebrating Women.  

The first card features 2 Step stamping using both the stamp set and coordinating dies.  An introduction is made to the new blender brushes.

Here are the products used to make this card:

Stamp:  Art Gallery

Inks:  Blushing Bride, Melon Mambo, Mint Macaron

Papers:  Blushing Bride, Mint Macaron, Very Vanilla, Basic White

Accessories:  Floral Gallery dies, Blending brush, Gilded Gems, Dimensionals, Very Vanilla envelope, Gilded Gems

View the video on this blog post or on You Tube here

Z Fold Card Using Art Gallery Bundle with Video

 Today I am working with 2 of my loves - working with the Art Gallery bundle and making a video (although I have a long way to go there).  I thought I would make a video tutorial on how to make a Z-fold card aimed at the not so experienced crafter

Stamp:  Art Gallery

Inks:  Flower 1:  Poppy Parade and Merry Merlot with Night of Navy in center

          Flower 2:  Bumblebee and Pumpkin Pie with Night of Navy inside

          Flower 3 (in video) Daffodil Delight and Pumpkin Pie & Night of Navy 

          Stem and leaves:  Pool Party

          Sentiment: Pool Party

The link to the video below is here

Here are the dimensions:

Thick Whisper White 4 1/4 by 11 - scored at 5 1/2 & 2 3/4"  - card base

Pool Party 4 by 5 1/4" - inside

Pool Party 2 1/2 by 4" (2 pieces) - one for each of front panels - mat for DSP

Pool Party  3 3/4  by 2 1/4  "    (2 pieces) - one as mat for art piece on front of card, and the other as mat for sentiment on inside of card

Whisper White  3 1/2 by 2"  (2 pieces) - one for art piece and one for sentiment inside

Whisper White 4 by 5 1/4 " - stamp flowers and leaves

Whisper White - scrap for sentiment

Designer Series Paper (DSP): 3 3/4 by 5" for inside

DSP  2 1/4 by 3 3/4" (2 pieces) on front panels

Gold Foil  3 by 3 to punch stems

Whisper White A2 envwlope

Picture above shows the various papers used in this card.

To decorate the envelope a piece of the reverse side of the DSP was adhere to the flap of the envelope.  Cut a piece that extends beyond the sides of the envelope flap by at least 1/2", and extends beyond the end of the flap by about 1/2".  The other end, is lined up with the fold line of the envelope flap.

Conversely the flap could be stamped.

Accessories:

Floral Gallery dies

Sprig punch

Dimensionals

Gilded Leafing embellishment

Gilded Gems

Art Gallery Slim Line Card - Try Stampin' on Tuesday #491

 I love making Slim Line card, and I adore the new Art Gallery bundle and its coordinating DSP. So I couldn't resist using the DSP on a Slim Line card for the sketch challenge with Try Stampin on Tuesday #491 As well I added the butterfly from "A Touch of Ink", giving it the water colour treatment. I used a different technique with the butterfly and the humming bird to give them a water colour look (see end of post)

Stamps:  Art Gallery, A Touch of Ink

Inks:  Night of Navy

Butterfly:  Night of Navy, Poppy Parade, Balmy Blue

Dimensions;

• Thick Whisper White 7 by 9" scored at 3 1/2"
• Night of Navy Card Stock 8 3/4 by 3 1/4"
• Fine Art Floral Designer Series Paper 8 1/2 by 3"
• Night of Navy 3 by 3" adhered to an Adhesive Sheet to die cut sentiment
• Whisper White 4 by 4" for Butterfly and Hummingbird (on inside)
• Night of Navy card stock 1/4 by 3" - strip near bottom

Accessories:

• Floral Gallery Dies
• Gilded Leafing
• Gilded Gems
• Dimensionals

Inside:

Techniques:

Both the butterfly and humming bird were stamped using the stamparatus.  The detailed image was first stamped with Black Memento ink on Whisper White (although watercolor paper could be used). Various colours of ink were applied directly to the solid counter part image using finger daubers, spritzed with water,  and then stamped directly over the detailed image. This gives a water colour look.

The colours did go outside the stamped lines, but when the butterfly and hummingbird were fussy cut this was not an issue.

Gild Leafing was applied to some of the butterfly.  Some glue was applied with the fine tipped glue pen, allowed to get tacky, and then the gild leafing was applied

An Art Gallery Project (Mini Catalogue sneak peak)

 I am in love!

No, I didn't meet a special someone, but a special something-The Art Gallery Bundle. And the DSP that coordinates with this bundle - WOW!!

As if the DSP wasn't gorgeous enough, add gold to certain areas and you hav a master piece.  If you have never worked with Gilded Flakes, I have plenty of tips and tricks. As I work through this project I will give you tips and tricks on how to apply gold to your project.

I must admit I was reluctant to cut into this paper, but the lure of the project won out.

Here's my project- a decorated mini pizza box containing 4 (3 by 3") note cards and envelopes.

Dimensions of the Lid:

Top:

.Merry Merlot    3 1/4 by 3 1/4"

.Fine Arts DSP    3 by 3"  Adhere the two layers together and add to lid of now assembled Mini Pizza box.

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.Die Cut a 2 1/4" circle using the Stitched Circle Die.  Die cut a smaller circle in Whisper White (2").  Adhere the 2 together and add to the center of the lid.

Using a dauber, apply Blushing Bride ink to the flowers of the single floral cluster.  Then with a second dauber, apply Merry Merlot around the edges of the small buds and the centers of the larger flowers.  Apply Old Olive to the leaves and stems. Spritz lightly with water and stamp onto a piece of Whisper White card stock.  When dry, die cut and adhere to the circles using dimensionals.  To make the flowers look more like the flowers in the DSP, I applied some Blackberry Bliss to the flower centers using a Stampin' Write  marker

A bow made with gold twine was added to the base of the flowers and some Gilded Gems added randomly on the DSP.

Sides:

.Merry Merlot 3 1/4 by 3/4"

.DSP 3 by 1/2"

Cut 4 of each piece, adhere together and add to each of the four sides of the box.

Note Cards:

Make 4 Thank you notes to fit in the box.  For each card I cut a 3 by 6" piece of Whisper White card stock and scored it at 3" to make a 3 by 3" card. These would fit into the 3 1/4" by 3 1/4" envelopes. 

Each card was decorated using the Fine Arts DSP.  The sentiment was gold embossed and die cut before adding to the card front. Each note card had 3 Gilded Gems added to the upper right side.

Gilded flakes were added to the Tear and Tape adhesive which had been added along the edge of the DSP.

Supplies Used:

Stamp:  Art Gallery

Inks:  Versa Mark, Blushing Bride, Old Olive, Blackberry Bliss

Papers;  Whisper White, Merry Merlot, Fine Art Floral DSP, Gold Foil

Accessories:  Mini Pizza Box, Floral Gallery Dies, Gilded Leafing Embellishments, Gilded Gems, 3 1/4 by 3 1/4 Whisper White envelopes, Stitched Circle Dies, Gold twine