Four seasons of Stampendous by Asia King – part 2

Hello Stampendous Friends, your favourite Foreign Correspondent Asia King here. Are you ready for part 2 of my Four Seasons concerto? If you missed part 1 with the close up pictures of my project, you can check it out here.

Well then, let’s begin. All my pages were made in the same way, I just used different stamps and embossing powders. For the purpose of this tutorial I will show you the steps for one of the pages – and it only seems right to feature my Spring page here .

Step 1 – here’s what you need:

- Fresh Bloom and Ruffled Bloom cling rubber stamps

- White and Black detail embossing powders – these can be found in the Detail Embossing Kit

- DCWV 8″x8″ Luxury Paper Stack – or any other pearlised papers

- clear embossing ink, water brush, Inktense pencils (Crimson & Cherry)/water colour pencils, Tim Holtz Vintage Cabinet Card die, heat gun

Step 2:

- die cut a Vintage Cabinet Card panel from the pearlised patterned paper, choosing the colour theme accordingly to the season

- using clear embossing ink stamp 3 flowers onto the die cut panel and 3 flowers onto scrap pieces of the same colour theme paper

- heat emboss with white and black detail powders

Step 3:

- using a waterbrush pick up some pigment directly from the pencil and colour in the black embossed flowers

Pearlised paper works great when colouring with Inktense pencils – the colour with ‘travel’ and blend beautifully without losing the ‘shine’ from the pearlised paper. It dries quite quickly but it will stay wet for long enough to blend it more if needed. And if you go over the line – no worries. Just use your waterbrush to lift off the excess colour.

Step 4:

- repeat the process to build layers of colour as desired.

Step 5:

- fussy cut the flowers

- add a blob of Beacon’s 3 in 1 craft glue in the centres of the flowers

- embellish the centres with pearls, Champagne Glass Glitter and Pearlised Mica Fragments (these can be found in the Pink Encrusted Jewel kit)

Step 6:

- swipe the edges of the card panel with clear embossing ink

- heat emboss with Aged Rose Embossing Enamel

- add accents with Pearlised Mica and Rose Fragments - you can use 3 in 1 glue as adhesive

Step 7:

- I like to seal my encrusted jewels with a drop of Beacon’s Fast Finish – it dries clear and it smells lovely, too!

Step 8:

- die cut 4 Cabinet Card panels from black cardstock and 4 panels from chipboard (or cereal box)

- glue black panels and chipboard ones using and old glue brush and Claudine Hellmuth’s Multimedium Matte. Make sure to immediately put your brush in water to avoid hardening – unless you don’t mind it becoming an embellishment .

Step 9:

- cut a length of white strong ribbon. Use mists, ink sprays and distress stains to colour the ribbon. Add water with a mini mister so the colours blend in easily.

Step 10:

- layer your base chipboard panels about an inch apart. Decide which way your book should fold, depending on any dimensional elements

- using Matte Multimedium adhere the coloured ribbon across the chipboard panels about 1/3 down from the top.

- adhere your Fran-taged pearlised panels to the chipboard panels using Multimedium. Use large paper clips to hold the panels over the ribbon until the glue sets

- add some calendar rub-ons (Prima) in the bottom right corners of the panels. You can easily add rub-ons over the enamelled areas

- layer your embellishments and sentiment panels over your seasons pages. Complete your project with additional trinkets as desired.

I hope you enjoyed the second part of my Seasonal Concerto and I can’t wait to see your seasonal beauties! If you have any questions – let me know in the comment below .

Big hugs

Asia

Four seasons of Stampendous by Asia King – Part 1

Hello Friends! Your Foreign Correspondent Asia here. Last week I finally felt that Spring was on its way to the UK. Blankets of snowdrops and first shy daffodils were trying very hard to send Winter home . And whilst talking about seasons, I thought I would share this little beauty with you today. Just like the famous composer Antonio Vivaldi, I wanted to compose a concerto of the four seasons – in my own way .

I didn’t want this post to be too picture heavy, so I am going to break it down into two parts. Today I will share the individual pages of my Four Seasons accordion book and next week I will show you the ‘technical’ steps.

So let’s start with… Winter!

I started by waving my baton, errr… the heat gun that is, got the orchestra of Fran-tage powders to tune their instruments, and before I knew it, the music was filling in my craft room…

For my frosty season I used the cling Old World Map and the Suitcase World sentiment stamp. The map was first heat embossed with Silver Detail embossing powder and coloured with Inktense pencils. The sentiment was heat embossed with Black Detail embossing powder. The snowflakes were adorned with Teal Mica fragments and Sky Blue embossing powder. Then I ‘framed’ the sentiment panel with Detail Capri embossing powder and the background panel was Fran-taged with the Aged Teal Embossing Enamel. All these beauties can be found in one magical place – Fran-tage Encrusted Jewel Kit in Teal. (available soon in the US)

Now… let’s cheer for Spring!

And with Spring I bring you a handful of Fresh and Ruffled Blooms, heat embossed with Black (for the foreground) and White Detail (for the background) embossing powders.

The flower centres are all bathed in Champagne Glass glitter and Pearlized Mica Fragments. The background panel has been embellished with the same Mica Fragments and a generous sprinkle of Aged Rose Embossing Enamel. These gorgeous jewels can be found in the Pink Encrusted Jewel Kit.

Now, let’s get ready for…Summer!

Oh, I so love Summer evenings in a garden full of wonderful flowers. Sadly my garden is not very inspiring, so perhaps this gorgeous Seed Catalogue stamp will inspire me to fill my garden with beautiful blooms. Just so I can see the world that will be Beautiful . With the Summer season in mind, I ‘seasoned’ my page with Aged Hunter and Aged Rose embossing enamels and added Champagne glass glitter and Rose Colour Fragments.

And now, Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you… Autumn! Or Fall, depending on your point of view .

My Autumnal page is swept with a gentle brush of the Ruffled Butterfly‘s wings and the leaves falling off the trees, dancing in the wind. Can you see all those golds, coppers and bronzes sparkling in the Autumnal sun? That’s the sparkle of the Vintage Mahogany embossing tinsel, Bronze Glass Glitter, Golden Sand embossing powder and Aged Copper embossing enamel – from the Bronze Encrusted Kit. (also available soon in the US)

I hope you enjoyed my Stampendoulicious seasonal symphony . Stay tuned for the 2nd part with the step by step assembling  instructions for the accordion book.

Until then…

Big hugs

Asia

More Wintry Greetings for All

Yana Smakula’s beautifully clear tutorials, great photography, and adorable, doable cards have made her such a fantastic BlogStar. We’re so grateful for all of the gorgeous cards she’s shared with us during her term.  We sure hope some of you are following her blog, even though she’s in the Ukraine, Google is happy to translate her blog to English for you! And we sure hope Yana is going to stay on as a fan of Stampendous and continue sharing our fun stamps with her followers! Thanks so much, Yana, for your wonderful cards and projects and your valuable tips that made better stampers out of all of us! You are appreciated!

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Hi everyone! BlogStar Yana Smakula here!  I think this card for a chilly Winter makes such a lovely girlie card!

For this project I used one of my favourite SSC1148 Kiddo Snow Globe stamp set along with sentiment from a Snowy Short Stacks.

Sparkly Winter Wishes

Hi everyone! BlogStar Yana Smakula here. Today I though I’d share with you one of my favorite types of card – white snowflakes on kraft cardstock.

Having a few different snowflake stamps in your stash allows you to create wonderful and each time different winter backgrounds.

For this card I used snowflakes as well as the snow globe and the sentiment from the SSC1148 Kiddo Snow Globe stamp set.

To create this card I used:

• Kraft cardstock from Bazzill Basics;
• White cardstock;
• Stamps from SSC1148 Kiddo Snow Globe stamp set;
• Versamark embossing pad;
• Winter Wonderland EP171 embossing powder;
• White embossing power;
• Clear embossing powder;
• Frantage Shaved Ice FRG10C glitter;
• Red twine from My Mind’s Eye.

I stamped snowflakes onto kraft cardstock using embossing ink and covered with winter wonderland embossing powder. Its a truly wonderful embossing powder for winter projects as its not your typical white, but a mixture of white with fine silver.

 

Using white pigment ink I lightly inked the edges of the kraft cardstock:

I than stamped the snow globe on kraft and covered it with white embossing powder, I also stamped snow inside of it:

Using clear embossing powder I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment inside the snow globe:

I adhered Frantage Shaved Ice glitter using Zip Dry Glue from Beacon Adhesives:

Finally I cut out the snow globe, added twine and adhered to card using dimensional adhesive:

Winter Greetings

Hi everyone! BlogStar Yana Smakula here!

I have to admit, I’m in love with Stampendous stamps! The SSC1148 Kiddo Snow Globe in particular – little girl and snowflakes are just so adorable!

Lately I have been playing a lot with this stamp set trying to create a few winter cards. Here’s one of the cards I came up with:

Winter Greetings

BlogStar Yana Smakula has a warm and welcoming Winter card for us today. She’s used the border pattern from her Vintage Jumbo Cling Santa and created a darling background to send loving wishes on a cold winter day.

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Hi everyone! BlogStar Yana Smakula here! Today I have a super easy winter card for you:

Resolution – Scrap those Christmas Photos!

Ok… you know you took a ton of pictures of your family at Christmas! Why not start those New Year’s Resolutions right by starting the scrapbook pages NOW! Just get a couple done and you’ll be on a roll to finish right away. Quick while you have to stay up until midnight anyway! – We’re wishing you and yours the most prosperous of years in 2013 and here’s our BlogStar Yana Smakula to get you started with your scrapping!

Hi everyone! Blogstar Yana Smakula here! And today I’d like to share a Christmas layout using some of my favourite Stampendous stamps.

I often scrabook and I use stamps a lot on my layouts because this isa  great way to create custom embellishments, custom pattern paper and more!

Shrink Plastic Poinsettias

Well, we just couldn’t get all the Christmas cards in before Christmas, but Poinsettias are good for the whole month of December, right? BlogStar Annette Witherspoon made and submitted this fantastic card/ornament to us a while back, and we just had to share it with you. Maybe it’s time to get started stamping for next year? You can find our Cling Jumbo Poinsettia stamp and Shrink Plastic at your local Michaels Stores!

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Hello everyone. This is Annette with another Christmas card. Tis the season, right? This card features the Jumbo Cling Poinsettia, except it’s not so jumbo any more. How did that happen? The answer: Shrink plastic!

I stamped the Poinsettia onto the shrink plastic using Stazon ink. Then lightly colored the image with Prismacolor Pencils. When coloring on shrink paper, keep in mind, the image shrinks to 1/3 the original size, and the color gets more intense, so you don’t want to color too heavily.

I traced a circle around the image, traced a smaller circle at the top, cut it out and shrunk it using my heat gun. Yep, my heat gun. Using a clothespin, I held the paper with one hand while heating it with the other. It shrinks nicely and much more quickly than the oven. When working with shrink paper, I always keep a spatula on hand to flatten it before it cools. I’ve recently read you can use an acrylic block to flatten it, too.

Once the image cooled, I added Crushed Glass Glitter around the edges and in the flower’s center, then sealed it with Fast Finish. I tied it to the cardstock with crinkle ribbon. I stamped JOY onto the cardstock using the Small Typewriter Alphabet Perfectly Clear set, and heat embossed it with Sterling Silver Embossing Powder. Oh, here’s a nice afterthought. This poinsettia can also be used as an ornament. I did not plan it, but I realized it after I created it.

Sparkly Winter Wishes from Barb T

Stampendous BlogStar Barb Turpin here with a super quick and simple card for the season.

I made this quick card for a co-worker and his family who are struggling financially this season and several of us wanted to help him out…I thought this was the perfect sentiment from this Stampendous Clear Stamp set called Kiddo Snow Globe.

 

One Layer Olympics!

Today Mary Dawn Quirindongo shares with us a beautifully simple card. This wonderful creation could easily be sent after the holidays for those of us who don’t always get all the cards done “on time”. The  Cling Jumbo Pine Bough stamp set she used is still available at Michaels Stores and so is the Happy Messages Perfectly Clear Stamp Set she used for the greeting!

Hello! It’s BlogStar Mary Dawn with you today sharing a one-layer card.

One-layer cards are deceptive. They look easy, but it’s like watching Olympic gymnasts…it only LOOKS easy. One-layer cards have to be perfectly executed–a tiny ink smudge, a crooked sentiment, a frayed ribbon end can all have such a negative impact that the card is just a 7 instead of a perfect 10.

In my example, I’ve masked the top edge of my top folding portrait card base and stamped one of the images from the Cling Jumbo Pine Boughs stamp set with VersaMark ink and embossed with Stampendous Detail Gold embossing powder.

I also stamped and embossed the sentiment from Happy Messages Perfectly Clear Stamp Set.

I also added two score lines above my image and below and as a finishing touch I tied some May Arts natural twine into a bow.

The rusticity of the twine goes perfectly with the flecked cream cardstock. I also love the juxtaposition of the fine gold embossing with the rustic cardstock and twine.

All of these small details, when executed flawlessly, make for a perfect 10 in the One Layer Olympics. I won’t tell you how many times I fell off the scoring board during practice, though.