April Inspirations

We're already into April, and no foolin', the Dream Team has a spectacular month planned for you.  The month is filled with news and inspiration for all your crafting dreams.  The exciting news will be announced in the Dream It Up! blog on April 17th, but the "April Inspirations" challenge will continue through the entire month.  Each team member will post what inspires them in their creative life...maybe a Pinterest pic, a magazine, a quote, a book, a place, an artist, a crafter friend...along with their inspiration.  We are hoping that you will feel inspired as well, and link your projects (and inspiration) to the inlinz tool on the Dream It Up! blog.

Here is my inspiration:

Here is what I made:

First I cut out a rectangle from a piece of 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" text weight paper.  Then I placed it over the white card stock.  I used the Copic Airbrush to create my colored block using YR04, YR18, E25.  Then I removed the mask and pasted the sentiment over the card with Black Matte Paste.  Then on a separate piece of card stock, I used black paste over the Cattails.  Once the paste was dry, I then used the Cocoa and Ivy Garden F/X powders on the cattails.  Finally, I cut out the cattails and popped them up over the card and stamped the flying birds from Northwoods Rubber Stamps.
 
Check out what our Guest Designer and the "A" team has been inspired by for this week:

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Janelle Stollfus (Guest Designer)

Laura Drahozal

Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy

Pam Hornschu

An InLinkz Link-up

March Madness

This month is the month to make things that are outside our comfort zone.  I have been having fun creating Artsy backgrounds with Stencils and different Distress Products from Ranger.  Here I used the Crusade background stencil with the Picked Raspberry Distress Paint in the upper right corner.  Then I used the Mosaic Swirls with the Broken China Distress Stain in the lower left corner.  Then in the middle of the paper I used the Pop Rectangle Stencil which I sprayed with a purple Glitz spray.  Next, I used the Picked Raspberry, Wild Honey, Broken China and Chipped Sapphire Distress Inks to color the entire paper.  Once the paper is covered with a rainbow of color and textures, then I sprayed it with water to add the water spots.  I stenciled the Shasta flower with purple 3-D Paste by Viva Decor.  The hummingbird was pasted with the White Matte paste and when it was dry, I added some of the 3-D Glitz Paste for color and sparkle.  I used the Glossy Black paste to emboss the Birthday sentiment.  Be sure to see more "mad" designs...

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Laura Drahozal

Lyn Bernatovich

Pam Hornschu

Louise Healy

Cyndi Bundy

Georgia Sommers

A little of this...A little of that!

Today I am mixing some different techniques using the Dreamweaver Stencils on one card.  First of all I made the background with the Stone wall.  I used pigment ink to color the bricks in grays and brown.  Then I used the Strie Techniques in a dark brown ink over the stones with the stencil in place.  Then I removed the stencil and add some of the Walnut Ink Distress Embossing powder which I sprinkled sparingly over the wet ink.  Once it was heat set, I trimmed it down and mounted it onto a piece of mauve card stock.  For the Shasta Flower, I embossed it with the rubber embossing pad.  With the stencil still on the paper, I used some of the dark ink and Strie over the flowers.  Then I removed the stencil and colored over the embossed image with Copic Markers.  I used Copic colors RV91, RV95, YG93, YG95, YG97, E23, and E25.  Once it was colored to my liking, I fussy cut around the flower.  I added a "Thank You" tag to the card.  After I colored the sentiment, I used a fine line black ink to trace around the words.  Finally I used the Butterfly stencil and embossed the black metal with the Rubber Embossing pad.  Then I sanded the raised portion of the butterfly to remove the black paint from the metal sheet.  I cut around the butterfly and bent the wings to make it more 3-D.  Then I added it to the card.

This is the month that we challenge you to get out those Dreamweaver Stencils and Products that you have never used before and make something!  Don't forget to link your creations to linkytool on the Dream It Up! blog for one of THREE chances to win a Dreamweaver Stencil of your choice!

Check out more incredible samples for the talented Design Team:

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Laura Drahozal

Lyn Bernatovich

Pam Hornschu

Louise Healy

Cyndi Bundy
Georgia Sommers

Things that Flutter!

Today I am again following the Dreamweaver February challenge.  What are things that flutter?  Birds, Hearts, Leaves...so I decided to use some of each!  First I used the Ruffled Heart stencil.  I embossed the heart with my cuttlebug and the Rubber Mat.  I left my stencil over the paper and used a large stencil brush and pink pigment ink to color the heart.  I removed the stencil and placed the birds and blossoms stencil over the heart.  I got out my old Light Box and a styllis to dry emboss the bird and the flowering branches.  I then left the stencil over the  image and colored the bird, flowers and leaves with pigment ink.  I also used the Picasso stencil shield to color only what I wanted colored.  I cut out the leafy branch with the new Dreamweaver die used only the part of the cut out to decorate my card.  See more beautiful creations the will be sure to set your heart a flutter!

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Laura Drahozal

Lyn Bernatovich

Pam Hornschu

Louise Healy

Cyndi Bundy

February Flutters

Are you ready for the new Dreamweaver challenge for the month of February?  It will be a short month of post for the Design Team, but we're pretty excited to share with you our versions of "February Flutters", meaning anything that flutters.  Hearts that flutter, wings that flutter, breezes, sails, etc. So come along for the ride and link your own "flutterings" to the Dream It Up! blog for a chance to win the stencil of your choice.  Meanwhile here is my "fluttering" for this week:

Who doesn't love the flutter of butterflies?  Today I am using the Butterfly stencil that I first dry embossed.  Then I used Purple VersaMark Pigment Ink over the design with the stencil still over the paper.  Then I removed the stencil and pinched UTEE clear powder over some of the inked image.  Once the UTEE is heated, apply a second layer over the image with the stencil back in place.  This second application was done with a Navy Blue Pigment ink.  Apply the entire image with regular clear embossing powder.  For the background I used the new Floral with Dots stencil.  I lightly spritzed the cream card stock with alcohol then I embossed it through the Cuttlebug machine with the Rubber Embossing Mat.  Finally, I used the vertical Friend stencils which I just colored with the matching pigment ink and created a banner!

Be sure to leave me some encouragement before flitting over to see the rest of the "A" teams blogs:

Dream It Up!

Laura Drahozal

Lyn Bernatovich

Pam Hornschu

Louise Healy

Cyndi Bundy

Letterpress Technique

Today I am using the Letterpress technique for the background of this card.  I used the new tile background.  I love this stencil because has so many fun uses.  First of all I sprayed the stencil with Merlot Memories Mists spray.  Then I placed a thin paper towel on my A plate of my Cuttlebug.  I laid the sprayed stencil onto the towel, then white card stock over the stencil.  Place a embossing rubber mat over the paper, then lay the two B plates over the top.  Once you run this through the Cuttlebug, you can remove the paper and you will have an embossed background with the ink in the grooves.  Next I placed another piece of white card stock into a box and laid the clean stencil over the paper.  Then I sprayed the mist over the paper, keeping the spray about 12 inches away from the paper and sprayed 3 - 4 times.  Remove the stencil and you now have a negative image.  I lined up the images, then I trimmed down the pieces to size.  I used the black matte paste to emboss the Thank You sentiment.  Once the paste was dry, I used the Plum Royale F/X powder to add the metallic color.

See more Clean and Simple creations using Dreamweaver Stencils and Accessories:

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Laura Drahozal

Lyn Bernatovich

Pam Hornschu

Louise Healy

Cyndi Bundy

Dreamweaver CAS Cards

 This technique is the Molten Image with F/X powders and Pearlescent Paste.

 Above I am using the Double Stencil Technique.  Below, I am using the Letterpress Technique.

Here are three cards, with three different Clean and Simple techniques.  I love this new butterfly stencil from Dreamweavers.  The possibilities are endless.  This butterfly was designed for Zentangle, but I love all the techniques that work with this.  We will be making these three cards in my new CAS Dreamweaver class starting Tuesday, January 21, 2014 at 5:30.  If you are interested, give us a call or email us!  We will be getting some of this new release in the store soon!

New Designs by Dreamweaver Stencils

Dreamweaver Stencils has done it again with beautiful new designs!  

 

Today I am using two of the new images using this month's theme of Keeping it Simple.

 This first card I made is using the Sailboat, which I used the Matte white stencil paste.  For the waves, I added a bit more paste to the waves to give them some added dimension.  Then once the paste was dry, I add some color with the Splendor Ink Pad.  Now you have it a CAS masculine card!

Here I used the new Swirly Heart Stencil.  I pasted it with Pearlescent Paste on white card stock.  Then I used the Thank you stencil with the Pearlescent paste too.  When I popped up the sentiment, I placed it so the Y matched up with the swirl of the hearts.  Finally I added some score lines around the white paper, then layered onto a light pink card stock.  This makes beautiful, yet quick Thank You cards for the Bride and Groom.

There are many great stencils in this release and the possibilities are endless!  Be sure to check out the other beautiful creations and various techniques used by the Design Team!

Dream It Up!

Lea Kimmel

Louise Healy

Stacey Rumsby

Terrece Siddoway
Wendy Jordan

Pam Hornschu
Cherylynn Moser

Also...check out the new Dies!