Hello Stamplings!
Happy Canada Day yesterday to all my Canadian friends! And Happy 4th of July Wednesday to all my American friends! And happy birthday today to me! I enjoyed a long weekend of celebrating because we had the twins from Thursday to Sunday. Yippie!
While they were off hiking with Papa, I made this Onefaux:
I did a rare flat screen photo cuz the shinorama on the glossified flowers made my outdoor photos over-exposed and you know what that means: Fuzzy focus, no tan lines, and neighbors calling the police. Wait. What?
I have seen some beautiful faux stained glass works of card art around Blogland, most recently by my talented friend Lisa, so I'm CASEing her today after she brilliantly CASEd Jennifer. I don't have a die cut flower that worked as well as Lisa's, so I chose this pretty "Glorious Gerber Daisies" die from Memory Box. Hopefully, when you click to enlarge the image you can see the stained glass effect I was going for. The petals and leaves are ombre-colored IRL.
It takes a bit of time to execute this technique which Lisa explains very nicely, but it was fun and I love the result, so I will definitively do again. And, I say, isn't Hammy getting good at the paint schplatters?!
Challenges
- Just Us Girls: Wildcard week: anything goes.
- Moving Along With the Times: June blooms.
- Seize the Birthday: Anything goes.
- Sunday Stamps: Sketch week.
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Twofaux
For America's birthday card, I used fireworks ... but, of course!
You can respritz and do it again if you have leftover ink on your embossing folder. My firework was depleted after one pressing, so I reinked that bit with just red, spritzed, and pressed again for this second "stamping."
This fabulous fireworks embossing folder was a birthday gift from my talented friend Ang, known on both sides of the pond as Mrs. Duck. Thank you, Ang! The Celebrate die cut is from Avery Elle and the decorative tape is from Washi.
Twofaux
For America's birthday card, I used fireworks ... but, of course!
This is called "Embossed Folder Stamping" and it's an EZPZ way to make a QACAS card with faux watercoloring. You just ink the inside raised bits of your embossing folder, spritz liberally with water, place a piece of watercolor paper over it and press it with your hands, a hamster, or a brayer.
You can respritz and do it again if you have leftover ink on your embossing folder. My firework was depleted after one pressing, so I reinked that bit with just red, spritzed, and pressed again for this second "stamping."
Challenges
- CAS-ual Fridays: Inspiration photo.
- Shopping Our Stash: Red, white, and blue.
- The Paper Players: Celebrate! Congratulations and thank you for 400 challenges!!
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Enjoy your day! No, seriously, enjoy! LITS!* Thank you for the wonderful birthday cards that have been pouring through my happy mail slot for days now and I know there will be more to come. You're the best friends and card pen pals a girl could have! Mwah! I've been so becited and now I'm off to open them!As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse and special thanks to you if you take the time to join as a follower! Please let me know you came by so I can be sure and return the flavor!
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