Special Guest - Jenny Colacicco

Hi, everyone! It's Jenny back today with my second guest post. In case you missed it, you can find my first post here. Today I'm featuring the gorgeous Flower Puffs Background stamp, and I will show you how to use it two different ways.

For my first card, I decided to go monochromatic. This is such a gorgeously detailed background stamp, with shading clearly marked, I decided to stamp it in black and then add shading with Tombow Dual Brush markers. I used Versafine Onyx Black Ink to stamp the image onto Solar White cardstock. The ink is great for detailed stamps like this. When dry, I came in with the darkest grey Tombow marker and added some depth in the areas with the shading already marked.

I then came in with a lighter gray and added some scribbled grey over the rest of each petal, leaving some white towards the edge. I wanted this to be slightly whimsical and roughly colored.

To create my sentiment, I used the Whimsy Thanks Word and Shadow die set. I used the larger shadow to die cut a window out of my colored panel, before adhering it to a white notecard. I then die cut the Thanks word itself four times from black cardstock, adhering them together, and aligning into the window on the notecard.

You can see in this side-by-side comparison that I tried a similar design with my second card. This time though, I heat embossed the background stamp by stamping in embossing ink onto watercolor cardstock, then heat embossing with WOW! White Pearl embossing powder. This powder has a beautiful pearly sheen to it in real life.

I spritzed my heat embossed panel with clear water, then proceeded to drop different paint colors into the panel - mostly blues and aquas, with a touch of pink. When they blended together, they created a gorgeous purple shade. When dry, I did this one more time (without the initial water spritz) then dried again. As a final touch, I used a pearly white translucent metallic watercolor paint and went over some of the flowers before drying one more time. The heat embossing resists the paint and you are left with these gorgeous flower outlines against the paint.

To finish the card, I once again die cut the Thanks shadow, and this time I popped the panel up using foam tape onto a white note card. The Thanks word was die cut four times from purple textured shimmer cardstock and adhered to the centre as before. A very different look using the same stamp and die!

I want to thank Whimsy Stamps for having me guest this month! I've had a fab time playing with the goodies they sent me, and I hope I've managed to inspire you.

Jenny

Supplies

Happy Hello

Hello Whimsy Friends, Iris here! Welcome to the Whimsy blog and Happy TGIF!

On my card today I used several different Whimsy products. Everything from the Whimsy store I used on my card will be linked below.

First I created an alcohol ink background on YUPO paper with red, orange and yellow colors and applied red foil marbles. (How to do this can be found here). Then I stamped the Flower Puffs Background with Versamark ink and embossed with white super fine detail embossing powder. Heat embossing on YUPO paper is a bit tricky because YUPO is a synthetic paper and is very heat sensitive like vellum or acetate. Make sure your heat tool is very hot before you start melting the EP. Move your heat tool constantly do not stay in one spot too long or the YUPO will warp. Only apply heat in short intervals.
The word HAPPY was die cut from white heavy weight cardstock three times using the Bold ABC die set. I layered the letters to get a 3D effect. I die cut the foliage branch once from the same alcohol ink background and twice from red cardstock - layered in the same way as the letters. 

The word hello is a chipboard element also available from Whimsy stamps. I heat embossed the backing layer white and colored the main word with a red Copic marker.

I cut a piece of red cardstock and die cut one side using one of the Envelope Edger dies and on the opposite site I used the Straight Edger die set.

After assembling my card I added enamel dots and sequins to embellish. On the bold letters I added dots with a glue pen and after they dried I added red foil. I got this idea with the glue pen and foil from Jennifer McGuire. Love it and works great.

Whimsy products used:

                                         

Thanks for visiting us here today on the Whimsy blog!

Hugs,

Flower Puffs and Pennants!

My card today features stamps from the July release (can you believe it's almost AUGUST?!): the Flower Puffs Background (an amazing 5 3/4 x 5 3/4!) and the Shaker Maker Pennant Dies. I made a two color background using Seedless Preserves and Wild Honey Distress Oxide Inks, and then embossed the Flower Puffs Background with VersaMark Ink and Black Embossing Powder.

I stamped my sentiment from the You Are stamp set, and then cut it out using the smallest Pennant Die. I cut it out five more times, and stacked only the border around the main little pennant, and then adhered it to my card using Wonder Tape. The inside is stamped with YOU from the You Are stamp set. I added a little bit of gold thread for accent to follow the line of the pennant.

Thanks for taking a peek! 

Flower Puffs Background Stamp ….. watercoloured this time

Hello!  My card today features the uberlicious Flower Puffs background stamp from Whimsy Stamps which I’ve watercoloured.

I heat embossed the stamp with white embossing powder after stamping onto hot press watercolour paper.  I then used the wet on wet technique to colour the flowers.  So, so quick and easy to do as opposed to the hours I spent colouring this card.  I finished this simple but elegant card off with a silk ribbon bow and a sentiment from the Beaucoup Bouquet Sentiments stamp set, some pearls and a couple die cut butterflies.

I die cut a circle from the coloured piece and popped the circle up on some craft foam before gluing back into place.  This gives the illusion of a separate piece cut and coloured.  I think you can see the general idea of the dimension in the photo below

I LOVE that one stamp can give so many different looks!

Products from Whimsy Stamps

 

Flower Puffs Shaker Card and a 'How-To'

Hello Whimsy Friends, it's Iris here today. On my card today I am using the fabulous and super versatile NEW Flower Puffs Background stamp. Aren't these blossoms just so lush? 

How-to:

I created the background by starting with some masking. I used Post-it tape to create a wonky rectangle shape on a panel of cold press watercolor paper. I then put down several layers with Distress Crayons (mustard seed and picked raspberry) and blended it with my fingers and just a little bit of water. After it had dried thoroughly I stamped the NEW Flower Puffs Background with VersaMark ink on top of the Distress Crayon background and heat embossed with white embossing powder.

I stamped the NEW Flower Puffs Background again onto cold press watercolor paper (smooth side) with VersaMark ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder. I colored one of the large flowers with distress inks (mustard seed and picked raspberry) and fussy cut it. I adhered the flower on top of the same flower image on the background using foam tape to create a 3D effect.

I added a small shaker element which I created with one of the NEW Shaker Maker Pennant Flag dies. I cut a small strip of white paper, stamped a birthday sentiment from the  Scripted Everyday Sentiments set and adhered one end to a small wooden decorative spool. I added the sentiment between the shaker element and the large cut out flower. Some white and clear sequins finish off my card.

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Thanks for stopping by today!

Hugs,