Doodling with Debby: Watercolored Echoing Mountains
Hi friends! Happy Wednesday! Welcome to the 1st edition of Doodling with Debby for 2018! I love the long skinny card design with the pretty watercolored mountain. Be sure to scroll on and watch the video for more information and enjoy!
Hi, it’s Debby here today with my monthly video feature for Simon Says Stamp, Doodling With Debby. I wanted to create a card inspired by two artists. Sha’an d’Anthes is on Instagram as furrylittlepeach. I love Sh’an’s style, and not long ago she created four watercolor pieces which were almost the same size as she is. The four pieces represented City, Forest, Desert and Sea and each had a pattern repeated from top to bottom. I combined inspiration from Sh’an’s beautiful watercolors with the tall skinny cards I always enjoy seeing Kristina Werner create.
The From The Rooftops stamp set from Simon Says Stamp is ingenious and I wanted to use the mountain trio and repeatedly stamp and white heat emboss it over a tall skinny panel. Firstly, I stamped the mountains three times in a pale ink on masking paper and trimmed them out. I knew I’d need a few masks to be able to repeatedly stamp the image without overlapping each other. I choose the hot pressed watercolour card as it’s smooth surface will give the optimum stamped impression.
I lined up the mountains along the bottom of the watercolor piece and stamped them in clear embossing ink. I stamped them twice to make sure I got a good impression, and then I sprinkled them with white embossing powder, tapped off any excess and melted the powder with a preheated heat tool. With the help of the masks, I repeatedly stamped and heat embossed the mountains from the base to almost the top of the panel. I did think about extending the stamping all the way to the top in line with my inspiration from Sh’an, but in the end, decided to include a small area of sky at the top.
I adhered the watercolor panel to a board to help prevent it warping while I watercolored. I mixed up a lovely bright green and starting at the base of the panel, I painted the full strength green mixture at the bottom of the mountains. I then rinsed my brush slightly and using the water on my brush blended out the color towards the top of the mountains and the more dilute the intensity was, the lighter the green. While the paint was still wet, I added Undersea Green directly into the base of the mountains. Being a deeper green, this added more of a contrast between the lightest and darkest areas. As the paint was still wet the new addition spread and blended with the base layer so there weren’t any harsh lines. To finish the watercolored panel, I splattered white gouache to represent snow.
For the sentiment, I stamped the speech bubble from the From The Rooftops set three times in clear embossing ink on black card and white heat embossed. I added three matching sentiments from the set, and again white heat embossed them before trimming the speech bubbles out. However, this set does come with matching dies.
I trimmed the watercolor panel to be three and a quarter wide by eight and three-quarters tall. I then foam mounted the panel on a three and a half by nine-inch card base cut from Neenah Desert Storm card in the 100lb weight. This card will then fit nicely in a business-sized envelope. I added the speech bubbles to the card with more foam adhesive and then accented with Neat & Tangled snowfall sequins which I adhered with Ranger Multi Medium Matte.
Thank you for joining me today, and I’ll see you next time for Doodling With Debby!
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Brand NEW CZ Design + Inspiration to LOVE!?
Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! Welcome to a BRAND-SPANKIN’ NEW release from the always fun and funny Cathy Zielske! We love the essential Archie Solid Letters, Archie Solid Numbers, and All Numbers wafer-thin dies that are fabulous to add to your daily collection. Are you a planner? Pick your planning route with two brand new stamp sets full of icons to match your actions in Making Plans and Fitness. In the market for some fun and unique sentiment dies? Look no further than Hey and Mehs (<—personal favorite!)
Last, but certainly, not least is the brand new Heartthrob clear stamp and coordinating dies that is perfect for crafting a crafting a little something special for your sweetheart on Valentine’s Day or ANY day! Shop the whole new collection below and continue scrolling for some special NEW inspiration by the one and only Cathy Zielske using the new collection! Enjoy!
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Happy new year, everyone! Cathy Z here, and I’m so happy to be sharing a card with you today featuring my newest release called Heartthrob. I’ve got a simple and sweet little card for Valentine’s Day or for any day when you’re in the mood to predict a forecast for love.
This shaped card uses a simple partial die cut technique to get a heart that opens and you could create either a top or side fold, whichever suits your style.
One of the things I love about this particular card is that it let me try a bunch of different techniques, but none of them were too tricky. Just some simple stamping, and coloring (only three markers needed!) and a touch of shine and dimension added at the end.
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Studio Monday with Nina-Marie: 5 Ways to Use Freezer Paper
Hello everyone, welcome back to the latest tutorial in my Studio Monday series! Have you ever utilized freezer paper in your crafting projects? Originally meant for storing food in the freezer (hence the name!), this versatile tool has since become a staple tool within the crafting industry. If you are a quilter, odds are you’ve used it for transferring patterns onto fabric. :) Additionally, freezer paper can be helpful to papercrafters too! I have used it in the past for various techniques and today we are going to look at 5 of my favorite ways to use freezer paper.
Favorite Freezer Paper Tip #1: Protecting Your Work Surface
If you are a crafter that loves to get messy with like me, the benefits of having your surface covered with freezer paper are endless. Freezer paper has both a coated and uncoated surface, depending on which side you have it flipped to. When you have the freezer paper with the coated-side up, you instantly have a non-stick surface covering your work table (similar to a craft sheet). Any medium can be applied onto the freezer paper and most easily wipe off; this means you can reuse the sheet over and over and over… you get the idea! ;) Even liquid adhesives can be easily wiped off.
Favorite Freezer Paper Tip #2: Perfect with Alcohol Inks
I’m sure most of you have seen that alcohol inks are all the rage at the moment; freezer paper is a great surface to work with alcohol inks on. It is especially fun to do alcohol ink smooshing on too! The slick surface of the paper allows the alcohol inks to be reactivated and re-smooshed almost limitlessly. They also clean up easily on the freezer paper; or you can simply throw the sheet of freezer paper out when you are done with the inks, making clean up a breeze.
Favorite Freezer Paper Tip #3: Distress Ink Smooshing
Speaking of smooshing, Distress Ink smooshing is equally as fun and easy with freezer paper! In the same way that alcohol inks can be reactivated, the coated surface allows Distress Inks to be reactivated also. You can make stunning backgrounds and textures with the ink smooshing! And because the Distress Inks are a water-based medium, they wipe away effortlessly, again letting you reuse the freezer paper over again!
Favorite Freezer Paper Tip #4: Using as a Watercolor Palette
If watercolor is your thing, freezer paper could be a very useful tool for you, especially if you like to place your watercolors on a palette. Watercoloring on freezer paper not only protects your work surface underneath, but you also have a “palette” to work from too! One of my favorite reasons for using freezer paper as a palette is the fact that it is white, allowing me to see the colors in their true form.
Favorite Freezer Paper Tip #5: Perfect for Masking and Stenciling
Do you like to create stencils with your dies, but find that your “stencils” wear out quickly? Freezer paper is a perfect remedy to that situation! Again, we’ve got that awesome, slick surface to use to our advantage. I adhere the uncoated side of the freezer paper to a sheet of printer paper (making the paper a bit more sturdy) and then cut the entire piece with my die of choice. Once cut, I am left with a non-stick “stencil” that has multiple benefits to a paper version: 1. it will resist the ink applied over it, 2. you can wipe it clean with a damp cloth when finished, and 3. it can be used over and over again! 
I encourage you to check out the video below to see all these ideas demonstrated. I think you will find that freezer paper could be a very versatile tool in your crafty projects too! As a side note: all of the designs and techniques you’ll see during the video will be featured in upcoming videos on my personal blog for Simon, along with finished cards! Today’s tutorial was about the freezer paper itself; so stay tuned! You’ll see those tutorials coming up later this month! Thank you so much for visiting with me today; don’t forget to subscribe to our blog and YouTube channel, as we post crafty inspiration for you daily! See you soon!
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