What you need
Stacy Stamps – Baby Bear 2106JJ
Stacy Stamps – Moon/Sun 1073CC
Kaisercraft – Live life CS930 sentiment Stamp
Die'sire Embossalicious A4 Embossing Folder - Tumbling
Leaves : EF4-TMBL
Martha Stewart deep edge border punch (Floral Vine Eyelet)
OR Spellbinders
Scalloped Borders two –S5-202
1 x A5 sheet white Vellum
1 xA5 sheet bright green card
2 x A4 sheets white card
Black die based ink pad (Memento or Versafine recommended)
White Distress marker OR
White Sakura Souffle Pen
Stencil brush
Twine
Post-it-notes
Distress Inks used Promarkers
Squeezed lemon Warm
Grey 2 Pastel Pink
Peeled Paint Umber Sandstone
Tumbled Glass Pine Caramel
Adirondak – Bottle Carmine Cocoa Walnut
HOW TO:
1. Take the A5 sheet of green card and cut down slightly to approx. 14cm x 20cm.
2. Emboss using Die'sire Tumbling leaves embossing folder then distress the edges using the Adirondack Bottle ink.
3. Take the sheet of A5 vellum and cut down to approx. 12.5cm x 18.5cm.
4. In portrait aspect punch or die cut the left hand edge.
5. Stamp the bear using a black dye based ink in one bottom corner of an A4 sheet white card. Trim the sides to match the edges of the stamp.
6. Stamp onto a post-it-note with the bear, stones and the butterfly and cut out to create a mask and place it over the main images.
7. Using a piece of copy paper randomly tear in a wave across the paper. Place horizontally across the image you are working on around the bears neck area. This is where your first hill is going to be.
8. Using the peeled Paint distress ink and the stencil brush, stipple to create the grass. If you want to add some definition to the hill at this stage use a very light stippling of Adirondack Bottle across the edge of the paper mask line.
9. Move your hill mask up to just above the bears ears and repeat the last step. do not add as much ink, you want to create the idea of distance.
10. Move the mask up slightly again and repeat this last time.
11. Trim the image to about 15cm in height and then stamp the sun in the top right hand corner.
12. Using the tumbled glass and the squeezed lemon distress the sky and the sun.
13. Colour the bears snout in Sandstone and around the eyes in Caramel Promarkers. The main body of the bear is coloured using Cocoa and lowlighted (shadowed areas) with the Walnut.
14. The stones are coloured with Warm grey 2 and Umber. The grass fronds with Pine.
15. The butterfly uses Pastel pink and Carmine.
16. Finish the image by using the white distress marker on the cotton tips of the grass which may have been stained green by the stippling.
17. cut two matts one 2mm bigger all round than the coloured bear image and one 4mm bigger.
18. With the chisel end of the cocoa Promarker edge around the smaller matt.
19. Stick the bear image centrally to the brown edged card and then stick that centrally to the remaining white matt.
20. Stick the bear matts to the upper right hand side of the vellum leaving a border.
21. turn to the reverse of the vellum and where the bear matts have been glued, apply another layer of glue and stick to the embossed green card. Be careful not to extend the glue beyond the edge of the main image otherwise it will show through the vellum and give an untidy appearance.
22. Tie the twine around the green embossed card and main image before securing to the white base card.
This card is a little simpler. The colouring is mainly done using blending chalks however if you don't have these use Pan Pastels. Only the grass and stones have been coloured using Promarkers. I have embossed a piece of white vellum for the background and used floral Spellbinders D-lites dies to embellish.
Sorry ladies I forgot to photograph the 'Duck Dreams' samples before leaving the shop yesterday so please bear (excuse the pun) with me for those and I will try to get round to putting them on in the future.
Once again I would appreciate your support by purchasing your supplies from Samuel Taylor Crafts, Brighouse. If you mention that you are purchasing as a result of my online tutorial or the in store class/demonstration I can't promise discounts but it may ensure the continuance of these projects/classes.
Happy crafting.
Yve
