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Welcome to July! Comin’ in hot lol. I had so much fun putting this project together as my interpretation of the inspiration photo. I loved the play of light in the water and tried to re-create that with paper, rather than trying mixed media or paint or some other medium. Let me know what you think! (Below is this month’s inspiration photo)
To play up the light and water effects, I started with a blue marbled 5 x 7″ card base. I did this project landscaped to get more real estate for my water look.
Next, I used designer series papers from the Stampin’ Up! Bright and Beautiful 6 x6″ paper pack for the water-colored frame layer.
I used the Color Layer Goldfish stamp set from Hero Arts to add the bubbles, plants and fish which I stamped with Altenew Crisp Dye Inks in Starlight and Hunter Green-I wanted to keep the water scene of this card low-key to offset the colorful kitties, so stamping in these colors on the layered blue paper from the Bright and Beautiful pack worked perfectly.
Next (and to cover an inky boo-boo, lol) I stamped the sentiment from the same fishy set, in the Starlight blue ink on a scrap of the marbled blue paper. (Pro-tip: incorporate you scraps and use the same inks for as much of your project as possible to keep the flow and feel of the whole look consistent and easy on the eye.) The sentiment was edged with the Starlight blue and raised up on Altenew dimensional foam tape.
Next, using another fabulous piece from the Bright and Beautiful pack that had the feel of those beach ball colors, I die-cut some curious cats from the Tim Holtz Thinlits Sizzix “Mischievous” die set.
I adhered the kitties with the adhesive foam tape as well to finish the card.
I hope this card inspired you. Remember, even if you are not a great artist, you can still re-create a look you want like I did with the paper here, to replicate the water look. You can do it!!
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Woot woot! The first post on the new blog! I love being on the design team for The Inspiration Station. I love getting inspired and challenging myself and I hope you get inspired by the hop as well. It’s been so hot and dry here, this month’s inspiration photo was perfect!
Most of the time, I don’t really copy the inspiration photo. However, I really saw this photo in scraps, and I had to go with it. My project replicates the background of this photo, but was constructed with scraps of paper.
I literally began this project by taking my sleeves of orange, yellow and white scrap cardstock and laying some down on a piece of copy paper, to replicate the colors of the inspiration picture.
When I got the scraps layed out how I wanted, I had to carefully glue them down without moving them, so I set some boxed on one side while I glued down the scraps, then swapped the boxes over to the other side and glued the rest of the scraps down. I did set a heavy book over the whole thing and let it set up overnight.
The next day I layed out where I wanted to cut out an oval die-cut to represent the sun in the inspiration photo, and also layed out the Cross Weaves embossing folder by Altenew on the scrapped paper.
I cut out an area for the embossing folder and ran that through my manual crank machine (Pro tip: manual crank machines are best for 3D embossing folders because you can control how much pressure you put on them with shims. Then I cut ut the oval for the sun. I glued the embossed panel to a black cardstock frame and then glued that onto a red 6 x6″ top folding card base.
Next, I took the cut-out oval “sun” and ran that through the Decorative Florals embossing folder from Altenew. with all the warmth from the inspiration photo, I felt like it needed some tropical flowers. I also inked around the edge to smooth out the rough edges from die cutting.
I then glued the oval onto the embossed panel card base.
To mimic the silhouetted foreground of the inspiration photo, I die-cut the flowers from the Altenew Winter Rose stamp and die set, out of black cardstock. I then used the detail layer of the corresponding stamp set to emboss with black embossing powder.
I attached these to the base with adhesive foam tape. To finish this project off with a sentiment, I used my versa mark embossing ink pad to smoosh over black cardstock. I then poured black embossing powder over the spot and heat set it.
I used the Fancy Hello die from Altenew for the sentiment, cutting it out of this embossed area.
I hope you like this project and are also inspired by the inspiration photo.
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