Heart & Soul Burlap Panel
Hi friends! Happy Sunday! Please welcome special guest blogger Emma Williams! See MORE of her gorgeous work on her blog called Stickydots.Blogspot.com and also weekly on our Monday Challenge! Read on to get all the details on how Emma made this stunning project and enjoy!
Happy Sunday everyone, it’s Emma here and I’m thrilled to be back on the Simon Says Stamp blog sharing my latest project with you all.
With love in the air and Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I thought it would be the perfect time of year to create this vintage style panel, using products by Tim Holtz and Sizzix, telling the love story of this beautiful couple in this photo I’m using from the Tim Holtz Found Relatives set. Of course, if you want to personalize your project, then you can use a photo of your choice on this layout and create a home decor piece that is going to unique to you…
So, let’s get started and here’s how I created this project packed full of dimension and technique….
1. To begin, I cut a panel of paper from the Wallflower Paper Stash measuring 13.5 x 18cm and machine stitched a border around the outside of the paper.
2. To create some texture, I applied Grit Paste through the Crossed Layering Stencil, adding the paste to each of the corners.
3. Once the paste is dry, I used a Blending Tool to add Frayed Burlap Distress Ink over the raised surface of the embossed areas.
4. Matt the decorative panel onto a piece of pink, and then a black card from the Classic Kraft Stash, leaving a border around the edge of each layer.
5. Place two Hex Fasteners in the two top corners and add a small Remnant Rub to the top left-hand corner.
6. Attach the panels to the front of a 6 x 8” Burlap Panel, using Tim Holtz Distress Matte Collage Medium to secure it in place.
7. To create the layers of this piece, I began by using the green book cover from the Christmas Baseboard set. I sanded the edges of the board to create a more worn appearance and once again, used the Collage Medium to attach the board to my burlap panel, placing it on the left-hand side, together with some torn Design Tape and Snippets Ephemera.
8. Using one of the photos from the Found Relatives set, sand the edges of the photo and then bend the card to add a few creases. I very lightly color tinted the image of the couple using Distress Marker Pens, applying the color directly to the photo, allowing the color to dry slightly before wiping away any excess with a soft tissue or a cotton bud. This technique creates a very soft color tint to the black and white image.
9. Apply a small amount of Vintage Collage Medium around the edges of the photo and then protecting the main image, flick Black Soot Distress Paint across the surface. Allow the paint to dry before inking the edges with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.
10. Attach the photo to the right-hand side of the panel, placing it so that it’s slightly offset to the baseboard.
11. I then tool a hinge clip, painted with Antiqued Bronze Distress Paint and added a small strip of pink ribbon before clipping this to the top of the photo.
12. I used the Scrolls Bigz die to die cut a piece of chipboard. Prime the two scrolls with gesso and heat dry before applying Bundled Sage Distress Paint over the surface. Allow drying time before inking the edges with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.
13. To create some shimmer and shine to the die cut pieces, I used gold Vintage Foil Transfer Sheets. Randomly apply the Collage Glue Stick to the edges of each die cut and allow the glue to go slightly tacky. Take the gold sheet and with the shiny side uppermost, press the sheet over the top of the tacky glue, gently rub with your finger or back of a nail and then pull back to reveal the foil.
14. To create the hearts, begin by taking a piece of Mixed Meheavy cardstock card and to color the card, apply Worn Lipstick and Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide Inks to a craft sheet. Spritz the ink with a light misting of water and then pick up the color by applying your card to the inks. You can keep dipping in and out of the inks to create more depth and then once you’re happy, heat dry the card.
15. Using the Heartfelt die, cut three hearts, (two of the same size and one slightly smaller) from the inked card panel, and again from a piece of chipboard. Adhere the inked hearts over the top of the plain chipboard hearts, which creates a more substantial die cut.
16. Ink up the Ledger stamp and stamp the script over each of the hearts. Seal the hearts with a coat of Matte Collage Medium, allow to dry and then run the Ground Espresso Distress Crayon around the edges, blending out the color with your fingertip. Apply a Clippings Sticker to the smallest heart.
17. Attach the scrolls onto the burlap panel, placing them in the bottom left-hand corner of the baseboard and photo and using foam pads to secure them in place.
18. Taking the three die cut hearts, attach them to the bottom left of the burlap panel, placing them over a bed of cheesecloth, stained with Antique Linen Distress Spray Stain and a small broken section of a Ruler Finding.
19. Using a Key Adornment, alter the appearance of the metal by applying Antique Linen Distress Paint over the surface. Once dry, I then applied some Mushroom Alcohol Ink over random areas of the painted key. Wrap some twine around the middle of the key and attach to your arrangement on the panel.
20. Finally, I attached the “Yes, my darling” clippings sticker to the baseboard and using the “heart & soul” Quote Chip, I applied a small amount of Vintage Collage Medium over the surface, allowed it to dry and then attached the chip directly onto the photo of the couple to complete my project, which as you can see from the image below, is full of dimension and layer.
Thank you so much for stopping by today, it’s been fun to take you through the creative process of this piece and I hope you love this project as much as I’ve loved creating it!
See you again soon and have a great week,
Emma
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Amore Laura Fadora: Repeating Circles
Hi friends! Welcome to the latest edition of Amore Laura Fadora with the always fabulous, Laura Bassen! She is showcasing our brand new Repeating Circles die from our Love Collection and also the super sweet Breakfast Buddies stamps and coordinating dies in one card, and our adorable Picture Book Monkey die in the other card with a sentiment from our Best Friends stamp set. Be sure to check out the video for more details and enjoy!
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Doodling with Debby: Adding Finishing Touches
Hi friends! TGIF! Welcome to the latest edition of “Doodling with Debby” with the always fabulous Debby Hughes! She’s giving some helpful tips and tricks on how to add finishing touches to a card. Be sure to watch the video and enjoy!
Hi, it’s Debby here today with my monthly video feature for Simon Says Stamp, Doodling With Debby. For this month’s card, I wanted to look at adding all those little finishing touches which together give a polished result and add extra interest too. My card uses the new, oh so cute, Picture Book Love Bear and the beautiful Folk Dance Stencil.
Firstly, to create the bear I cut the Picture Book Love Bear from Neenah Desert Storm, Ivory, Cotton Candy, twice from Lipstick Red and finally from Black card. You could start compiling the pieces together straight away, but I want to add those extra details, and so I gently sponged Simon Says Stamp Khaki ink around the edges of the bear’s body. This gives the impression of dimension and also deepens the color of the card slightly to a more bear-like shade! Using Craft Tacky Glue, I jigsawed the pieces together on a piece of white card and then trimmed out. You could add the bear directly to your background. But I wanted to foam mount him for extra dimension.
Moving on and I wanted to add more of those finishing touches to the bear to add interest. I used a Spectrum Noir sparkle pen to add a glittery finish to the red heart and pink heart ears. I used a Sakura glossy black pen to add a realistic gloss to his nose. Then to create more dimension and draw your eye to the red heart, I added the second red heart I’d die cut, with foam adhesive, again coated with Spectrum Noir sparkle pen and then a coat of Nuvo Crystal Glaze. Finally, for his eyes, I added a pair of wiggle eyes.
I blended Lake Shores and Scuba inks into a panel of the white card. You could mount the bear straight on to this background, but with a view to adding more interest I wanted to take the background up a notch by adding a subtle sparkly pattern using the new Folk Dance stencil and Nuvo Glimmer paste in the Moonstone colorway. Using a Ranger spatula, I spread the paste from one side to another as if spreading butter. This glimmer paste is my new love, and I’m going to need to buy a new pot soon as all I want to do is add sparkle to everything!
Although I like white space both regarding space and the color, for today I broke out the patterned paper from a recent card kit – Pebbles Inc. from their Forever My Always 6×6 paper pad. I trimmed the paper to be just slightly smaller than an A2 card base and then ran it through the die cutter with a Nested Circle die offset to the lower right corner. While I had my die cutter out, I also ran the Pine Needle Trio though with some Green Leaf card.
I trimmed the ink blended piece so that it was just slightly smaller than my patterned paper panel. Then I added foam adhesive to the back of the patterned paper and added the ink blended piece behind the open circle. I added foam adhesive to the back of the bear and then mounted him slightly to one side at the base of the open circle. I trimmed the pine needle trio pieces to fit around the bear as if they were trees and the bear was standing in a forest. I then adhered each of the pine needles with Craft Tacky Glue to keep them in place. I only added glue to the base of the trunk so that the branches could be loose from the background and add extra dimension.
I added Craft Tacky Glue to the back of the panel and adhered it to the Ivory card base. I stamped the Happy Valentine’s Day sentiment from the Breakfast Buddies stamp set in clear embossing ink on the Black card and white heat embossed. I then trimmed the sentiment to a skinny banner and added it with foam adhesive along the base of the circle opening. One final touch was to add a pair of Little Things From Lucy’s Card sequins, again held in place with Craft Tacky Glue.
Thanks for joining me today. I hope you enjoyed this look at how to add more details and interest to a card to take it up a notch. I’ll see you next month for Doodling With Debby!
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