Showing posts with label fifth avenue flora. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fifth avenue flora. Show all posts

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Gift card holder in Fifth Avenue florals

We had a fun night on Tuesday night at Alicia's house - Alicia had us make this gorgeous gift card holder.
It opens like a little purse with a concertina double pocket inside.
It is basically a small folded card with a belly band covered in embellished flowers.
I really enjoyed making it. Even though I did end up finishing the belly band and inserts this morning in day light.
What do you think?
Each centre of the flowers has a rhinestone on it and the colours are:
 Kiwi kiss, not quite Navy and Baja Breeze with whisper white.
When you open it you see the tabs for two cards that fit neatly into the envelope "pockets".
One is for your message (mine just says "for you" at this stage) and the second tab is to place a gift card or voucher into. They would be just the right size for a movie ticket, gift card, folded notes, or a gift voucher from Stamping Joy!!!
That's my business card slipped in between the flower and the slit punch holes...
Iit could be anything you like - I am thinking Christmas gift vouchers for my nieces and nephews.
The photo above shows you a side view of the cut envelope,  that creates your two pockets... Alicia recommends you use a good quality envelope instead of a business style one with the blue lining and I tend to agree ... but if that's all you have then they work just fine.
Card recipe:
Stampset: Fifth Avenue Floral.
Cardstock: kiwi kiss, whisper white.
Designer series patterned paper: Stampin up - Urban garden.
Tools: Scallop edge punch, scallop circle punch, boho blossom punch, round tab punch, slit punch ($11.50).
Rhinestone brads.
Enjoy!!!

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Joy fold card for stamping joy

The "joy - fold" card - this should be my signature card!
Have you seen these before? You can see several varieties of this card on the splitcoast forum site.
At first you see the front with the scallop circle and your sentiment on top.
Then lift the sentiment up, it was held shut with the scallop circle.
Open it to reveal - patterned paper and stamping with your message inside.
It is a pretty and clever way to show off your Designer series patterned paper and a coordinating stampset like this combination featuring the Fifth Avenue Floral stampset and Urban Oasis patterned papers.

The cardstock colours are kiwi kiss and baja breeze with Whisper white.
Why do they call it a joy fold card?
... Enjoy!!!

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Stamping on glass and Heat embossed metal

This weeks theme is stamping on non porous surfaces right. Did you guess?
I gave you a peek of what I have been stamping, now I want to show you some projects in their full photographic glory. Half the fun (and frustration of blogging) is getting a photograph of the project. Sometimes the light is just right and the planets are aligned and you figure out exactly the best setting on your camera to get a really great photo ... but mostly time and light is against you and we get what we get ... Here is the little spice, ribbon, button jar with the faux metal lid stamped with white stazon. I have several of these jars now on my dining table ... they are really, really quick to stamp. Everything in my house is going to have stampin' up images on it now.
The tag is white stazon stamped on gloss white cardstock, punched out with the scallop oval punch and layered onto a wide oval in Riding hood red cardstock. That lovely little ribbon is Riding hood Red tafetta.
So when a friend's birthday was coming up I had no choice: she received a glass and metal canister with fifth avenue floral on the glass ... And, clear embossed stamping on the metal lid. It was fiddly to stamp the flowers in the white stazon on the glass, as I have said if the surface is round you have to roll the stamp around the shape of the jar. The heat embossing on the lid was "easy-peasy"... I have Simply:
Stamped the images in Versamark,
covered with clear emossing powder,
shaken off the excess,
and heated it gently with the heat gun.
Note: before embossing check that the lid is actually metal not faux-plastic-metal (which will melt when you heat it - don't try this at home ... try the tap, touch and scratch test first).
The metal gets quite hot so place it on a bread board, and leave it there till it cools down. If it has a plastic inner lid (which this one did), do the embossing gently so that the heat doesnt go through. Preferably in quick short bursts of heat on the powder, just dont keep the heat gun in one place too long, the heat will transfer through to the plastic inside very quickly.
Here is the lid finished - it really looks like the metal has been etched. Like all embossing it is a real wow feeling when you see it melt and rise and shine on the surface. Hence the number of photos...

What you need to make your stamped glass canister and metal lid:
Stampset: Fifth Avenue floral
1 x glass sugar canister or biscuit jar with metal screw on lid.
Cotton white StazOn ink (for the glass)

VersaMark inkpad (for the lid).
Clear embossing Powder.
Heat tool.

Friday, July 10, 2009

Tutorial for White Stazon water colour resist.

What you need:
  • White Stazon opaque Ink pad
  • Glossy white paper
  • Stamp set: Fifth avenue floral
  • Re inker or classic ink pads - Rose red, Tangerine Tango and kiwi kiss
  • Aquapainter or water colour brush
  • spray bottle
  • Perfect plum and whisper white cardstock
  • Wide oval punch.
  • Sharp scissors.

    Step 1. Stamp the Fifth avenue flower onto glossy white cardstock with the white stazon ink. Spray with water. You can just see how the ink resists the water on the paper.

Step 2. Add a drop of rose red ink onto a plastic lid and use your aquapainter or water colour brush to colour the flowers. I did some in rose red and a few I touched the centres with tangerine tango ink for some variation in colour.Step 3. The paper is quite wet and the water runs everywhere so you can tip the paper to one side or blot it with paper towell, or do both, then set it aside to dry. You could speed it up with the heat gun I suppose.Step 4. Next we cut out the individual flower images with sharp scissors. Remember, for a clean neat cut, turn the paper not the scissors.Step 5. Cut half an A4 page of cardstock on the diagonal - I measured 80mm on one short edge of the A4 and 155cm on the other and drew a line between them. Cutting it will give you two cards from the same piece of cardstock. Score and Fold one of the pieces into 3rds - 9.8 and 19.6cm to make up your zig zag card. Step 6. Adhere your flowers to the card. I've used seven flowers. Some are up on dimensionals.Step 7. Stamp some stems for the flowers and the sentiment from fifth avenue floral onto whisper white cardstock and then layer it onto a wide oval punched piece of rose red cardstock.
Here it is showing the zig zag fold of the card.
And open to see where you can write your message ... the only other thing I might add is a ribbon to hold it closed if you have used dimensionals.
Enjoy!

Thursday, July 09, 2009

A sneak New Product peek - shhh!

White stazon ink? I didn't know Stazon came in anything other than black ... shows how much I know. Stampin' Up are going to be selling it in the next new mini catalogue and I just had to try it out to see what you can do with white permanent ink. The instructions say it is designed for use on plastic, metal, glass ceramic, and glossy cardstock. Appropriate for all surfaces. But use on porous surfaces such as leather, wood and fabric may not result in fully opaque impressions.
Warnings over, play begins: Starting with stamping on a cellophane bag - cool! It seems to work OK on cardstock, perhaps not as opaque as white craft ink ...
And it is especially effective on gloss white cardstock ... when sponged with Rose Red Classic ink.
It works beautifully for watercolouring - stazon resist with reinker watercolouring -Verdict: A versatile and fun new product ... you will see it on many of my new projects I think.

Might even hazard another tutorial on watercolouring - what do you think?

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Fifth avenue floral - watercolouring.

This is the fifth avenue rose that I watercoloured at an Inksomniacs meeting held by my upline Linda Higgins. At our get togethers there is always a new technique to learn which I really love to do.
This one combines embossing, watercolouring with reinkers and the aquapainter brush on gloss white paper. This was my first attempt so it is fairly uneven colouring but I think it is supposed to be like that. The colours are barely banana and rose red.
Next I went over to Alisa Tilsner's blog and CASEd this great gift bag.
It is very easy to make with a sheet of 21x30cm Designer series paper. I have used the Bella Rose DSP.
It only takes some scoring, folding and hole punching to make up this great little bag.
I used the Riding hood red taffeta ribbon to tie it at the top.
And made this little tag using my Stampin' Up tag punch.
I punched two tags and overlapped one over the top so that my sentiment would fit. I have stamped the fifth avenue floral "you only live once..." quote in stazon ink on vellum cardstock.
I punched it out with the wide oval punch and attached with a clear rhinestone brad.
The Rose is adhered to the bag with double sided tape.
Here it is from the other side. The top of the bag is turned over before you punch the holes ( I used the crop a dile tool, because it punches through many layers of paper so easily).

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Elite challenges Colour challenge ...

The Elite challenges blog has issued this challenge for June. It is a colour challenge that I would not normally think to put together. That's the beauty of a challenge it takes you out of your comfort zone and makes you try new things.
The colours are: Pink pirouette, baja breeze and going grey and Basic grey. I think this one came together really well. Pretty and soft but, the basic grey gives it depth.
I love the sentiment from fifth avenue floral - here I have stamped it on vellum cardstock with Stazon black ink and punched it out with the wide oval.The ribbon is in pink pirouette wide grosgrain. I punched out the little notch for the bow to sit in with the 1 1/4" circle punch. And threaded it under the brayered piece of cardstock anchoring it down with the silver filigree brad. In the centre of the brad is a clear rhinestone.
The stamping is in versamark on gloss white cardstock, then inks applied with the brayer until the colour is saturated and the white under the versamark ink shows through clearly.

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Sisters scrapbook page in bella bleu

I haven't forgotten my scrapbooking - I have many pictures to scrap, just so little time.
Scrapbooking contains more elements and usually a title to be stamped and cut - so they take a little more time for me.
This is a photo of my beautiful sister at her birthday lunch ... it was a lovely sunny day at a friend of hers home, a simple but wonderful lunch, champagne, chocolate cake and cups of tea. Don't mention that I was having such a relaxing lovely afternoon that I was running late for school pick up... !
It is fairly simple with the heading stamped on vellum, attached with silver brads. Two paper flowers attached with build a brad centres. I have used circles cut from the bella bleu paper. The flowers are punched with sahara sand cardstock, stamped with the en francais background stamp in not quite navy and then the petals cut, ans scored with the bone scorer from behind. The second flower I actually put through the crimper ... either works, I think.
The cardstock is Not Quite navy textured paper, Sahara sand, Bella Bleu Designer series paper.
Vellum for the heading and fifth avenue floral flowers. The title is stamped with Lovely Letters stampset.
I think I might add some hidden journalling about the day, the date, the place, perhaps a photo of the other people there, why this was a special birthday (a milestone one ... )