Tuesday Tutorial with Dawn Pauley

Hello Crafty Friends, Dawn here from D Pauley Designs. I'm visiting from the Whimsy Stamps Video Team to share a slimline card with Distress Texture Paste.  I used the Whimsy Stamps Butterflies Stamps set and matching die along with the Revealers 1 die set and some other products!

So let's get started. 

First, I make a cloud background with some distress oxide ink. You can use the Whimsy Stamps Grass and Cloud Edger die set or you can create your own cloud stencil by cutting different size humps in a piece of card stock. 

Then, I cut a rectangle from a piece of white card stock using the largest Whimsy Stamps Slimline Cornered Rectangle Die. Then, I took the Revealer Die and cut it in the center of the rectangle and using a craft knife I cut off the straight edge.

Next, I used the same rectangle to cut out the clouds. At this point is when you should put your distress texture paste on with your stencil. It makes it much easier that way.  However, when I made this card, I didn't decide to use the distress texture paste until after I put the card together. So, the next picture shows me putting it on after the card is some what assembled. 

To make my stencil, I used the Whimsy Stamps A2 Lattice Die and die cut it from a piece of white card stock. I used this as my stencil. 

Once I cover the whole paper with my paste, I let it dry for a little while. Then, I take some foam tape and  put it on the back of the white background and adhere it over the cloud paper.

I colored in all of my butterflies with copic markers. 

I used the following colors:

Small Butterfly - Y13, YR00

Medium Butterfly - Y13, V04, V09, RV66

Large Butterfly - YR07, RV09, RV63

I heat embossed the sentiment "With Heartfelt Thanks" with white embossing powder onto a piece of black card stock. Then, I put foam tape on the back of it and adhered it to the card.

I put foam tape on the back of the butterflies and adhered them to the card. 

To finish off the card, I scattered some gems randomly onto the card. 

That completes my card for today. Thanks for stopping by!

Here is a list of the Whimsy Stamps supplies I used.

Tuesday Tutorial with Tricia Barber

 Hello!  Tricia here with you today to share with you a few tips for adding interest to your cards.   I created this Slimline design card with the Slimline Clouds Die set.  I die cut a panel from white cardstock.   I layered this onto a panel of light yellow cardstock.  I add more dimension to yellow panel, I stamped it with the Buffalo Plaid Background stamp.   Since this is a 6x6 stamp, I used some post it tape to tape the panel before stamping and made sure that one of the clouds was positioned to cover the line between stamping it a second time. 

I love this Happy Hamster stamp set!   I create the look of transparency in the blue balloon, I colored it as I normally would using E35, E34, E30, R27, R22, B49, B13 and B10.   I let it dry completely.  Once dry, I then went over the brown with BG0000, BG000 and BG01.   I used very little of the BG01, just enough to provide more of a shadow.   

Here are the rest of the Copic Markers I used: 

Hamsters: E30, E31, E33, E34, E35, E50, E51, E53, R20

Balloons:  R22, R24, R27, R29, Y11, Y13, Y15

Cupcake: E29, E27, E25, R81, R83, E85, Y11, Y15, C0, C1 

For my sentiments, I used the Simple Sentiments Strips Die set along with the Simple Sentiments stamp set.  I love how this make it super easy to create your sentiment banners.   I finished off the card by adding some Nuvo drops and I always make sure to add them into odd numbers and in the form of a triangle. 

Thank you for stopping by!