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Time flies by and I’ve not posted some cards that I made. So today I want to quickly share those few cards with limited information. Enjoy! STAMPING WITH GUNEAUX DESIGNS BY BEVERLY POLEN “What good is it for you to … Continue reading
My art project today is an Easter Basket with Blown Eggs that were decorated.
The Easter Basket was made with the retired Bigz Scallop Envelope Die. I cut out four of the envelopes from Stampin’ Up! Daffodill Delight Card Stock. Using Stampin’ Up! Sticky Strip, I adhered one envelope to another until all four sides were formed.
The sides of the Easter Basket with Blown Eggs were decorated with flowers made with the Stampin’ Up! Mixed Bunch Stamp Set, Blossom Punch, Designer Builder Brads, Bashful Blue Card Stock, and Melon Mambo Card Stock.
Have you ever blown eggs? If not and you want to learn, follow these instruction. You will need raw eggs (not boiled) that are not cracked or boiled.
Wash your eggs well. Carefully poke a small hole in each pointed end of the raw egg. (The Stampin’ Up! Paper-Piercing Tool worked great for poking the holes.) Hold the egg over a bowl and blow into one of the holes. The egg liquid should slowly come out the other hole. (Sometimes this is a big job, and kids should get an adult’s help and permission before trying this.) Once the egg shell is empty, rinse it off (inside and outside) and set it aside to dry. I set mine upright so any liquid would drain from the inside.
Now the fun begins!!
Because an egg shell is non-porous and, thus, won’t absorb ink and certain paints well, I used Folk Art Acrylic Paint and a sponge to paint the eggs. You can find this paint at any craft store. I found that acrylic paint with glitter or metallic paint, as well as the Stampin’ Up! Reinkers, would not cover the shells. Believe it or not, the reinkers left a very pale color but didn’t cover well at all. I tried the reinkers as I was curious about using them. Anyway, you may want to consider this when selecting your form of color for the eggs.
Next, decorate the eggs to your heart’s desire. As you can see, I created a bunny, chicken, and decorated egg with flowers and some tangling (Zentangle). I used Stampin’ Up! Card Stock to create elements (e.g., eyes, ears, wings, feet) of both the bunny and chicken. If you look closely in the above picture, you can see the feet of both of them.
Stamps: Mixed Bunch Stamp Set (125537)
Paper: Bashful Blue Card Stock (195120), and Melon Mambo Card Stock (115320)
Ink: Bashful Blue Classic Ink (126961) and Melon Mambo Classic Ink (126948)
Accessories: Stampin’ Up Bigz Scalloped Envelope Die (retired), Blossom Punch (125603),1-3/4″ x 7/8″ Large Oval Punch (119855), 1-3/8″ x 5/8″ Oval Punch (119863), Designer Builder Brads (129329), Bird Builder Punch (117191), Sticky Strip (104294), and Paper-Piercing Tool (126189).
Other: Acrylic Paint for the Egg Shells
I have a quick card for you today that features the Stampin Up Easter Blessings and Stampin Up Secret Garden Stamp Sets.
If you read my post on Wednesday, I shared a beautiful card featuring a technique that uses Stampin’ Up!’s White Craft Ink. In that post, I shared that I wanted to try the technique on a dark card stock. So today I did.
I covered the flower image with VersaMark Ink, white embossed it, and heat set the image. Then using an Aqua Painter, I covered the flower with the White Craft Ink. After allowing the image to dry, I used markers to color the flower shades of yellow. It is a very simple and easy technique. However, using the craft ink on a dark card stock certainly will show all mistakes!
I encourage you to try this technique as I believe you’ll enjoy the results. I have to admit that I think I like the technique on the Crumb Cake card stock better than on a darker piece of card stock.
Look at the card I posted Wednesday and tell me if you like the technique better on Crumb Cake or a darker card stock.
Stamp Sets: Stampin Up Easter Blessings (129183) and Secret Garden (129144) Stamp Sets
Card Stock: Daffodil Delight (119683) and the retired Concord Crush Card Stock
Ink: Stampin Up White Craft Ink (101780), VersaMark (102283), and non-SU Markers
Accessories: White Embossing Powder (109132) and Aqua Painter (103954)
SALE-A-BRATION ENDS!
Well, my friends, at the end of today, Stampin’ Up! closes out another wonderful Sale-a-bration! You still have a few hours left to get more items if you desire! I hope you enjoyed the Sale-a-bration products as much as I did!
I had so much fun developing this very simply MDS Happy Easter Scrapbook Page! So you ask, “How can you have such fun developing a simple MDS Happy Easter Scrapbook Page?” The reason is I was able to change the color of images into multiple colors!
Recall on March 19th I shared that there were changes made by Stampin’ Up! to its “My Digital Studio”? One of the changes was related to updating the original MDS. If one had purchased the original MDS but had not upgraded to MDS 2 or MDS 2+, he/she could get the complete and latest version of MDS FREE beginning March 20! I fell into that category. Now I have the most updated version of MDS, and one of the major features of it is the ability to change colors of the images! That is why I had such fun. Notice the multiple colors of images on the scrapbook page, especially the flowers.
Seriously, I could not believe just how easy it was to use the tool within My Digital Studio to change images into multiple colors. Don’t laugh at me, but I am so excited about the updated software. If you purchased the original MDS software and had not updated it, open up your MDS software and you will be prompted to update the software. Click on the check for updates button and, like magic, the latest version of MDS will be downloaded for FREE. Don’t you just love it when Stampin’ Up! gives you FREE product!
This is a matching page:
My Digital Studio (130646) and the following digital downloads:
Easter Blossoms Stamp Brush Set (124436) and Everything Easter Ensemble Digital Download (129363)
Hello, my friends, I have for you a Faberge-Styled Easter Egg! But first I want to share why I have been absent from my blog for several days. I have been out of town taking care of my brother, Bill, who was in a grave health situation. With powerful prayers and the grace of God, a miracle occurred with him and I praise God for His healing blessings. My brother has a long journey to a complete recovery, so if you have an inclination to pray for him, your prayers would be greatly appreciated. I plan to get back to daily postings.
For today, I am sharing a cute Faberge-Styled Easter Egg that I made with a 6″ x 4″ egg-shaped piece of Styrofoam.
Isn’t she cute! I cut an opening in the front of the Styrofoam egg and then removed most of the inside. I used a craft paint to paint the inside pink and the outside yellow. I placed some carefully-cut Lucky Limeade card stock just inside the opening for grass. I stamped two flowers and glued them on small pieces of floral wire and placed them inside behind the grass. At the back of the inside I placed the primary element of the egg – the cute bunny. To decorate the opening of the egg, I glued on some retired Stampin’ Up! ribbon.
Workshop hostesses are very special people to me, and I greatly appreciate them. I wanted to let my last workshop hostess know how much I appreciate her preparation efforts; therefore, I created this card for her using the black magic technique.
The black magic technique involves Black Card Stock (couldn’t there be a better name?). I had not used this technique before but plan to use it again. The card stock was cut using the Oval Scallop Frame Bigz Die.
The card features Stampin’ Up! Easter Blossoms Stamp Set in the 2011 Occasions Mini Catalog. I stamped the blossoms onto the card stock with Whisper White Craft Ink. After allowing the ink to dry, I used the Stampin’ Up! Watercolor Pencils to color the blossoms. The blossoms are matted with a Petals-A-Plenty embossed piece of Pixie Pink Card Stock (retired). The Wild Wasabi Card Stock is also enbossed with the same Textured Impressions Embossing Folder.
The card front is embellished with the wonderful Subtles Glimmer Brads. If you haven’t purchased any of the Glimmer Brads, you should. You won’t regret having such beautiful embellishments.
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