Hey there, stampers! It's time for another Around the World on Wednesday blog hop.
Our dear leader, Angie has organized this years Case A Team Member month with a Bananagram or letter tile theme. Here are the tiles for those of us on the hop:
If you are following the blog hop you have likely come from Angie's blog and have read that we are casing/working with each other. We chatted a bit a few weeks ago and decided to use flowers (especially the Country Flowers Bundle) and the brights. I think we both might have been looking at the Full of Life 6x6 DSP.
While I fully thought I would totally stay on that path, there were a couple of Angie's cards that really seemed to call to me to mix our styles together. First is a Blackberry Bliss Monochromatic card she did for an Instahop:
I love anything with these masks but I was especially impressed with the monochromatic approach and the tile technique.(Hint: she has a lot of amazing monochromatic cards on her blog and Instagram!) Then as I was browsing further into her body of work I came upon this beautiful Delft look:
I just loved the blue flowers with the eyelet like embossing. While I did think of trying to get all of these concepts together I did have to narrow it down. I kept the monochromatic Layers of Beauty and mixed it up with the Delft/eyelet look. For now my tiles only come into play with the Bananagram letters but I'll be trying that technique soon!
Here's a closer look:
- As you can see I did use the teapot dies from Country Flowers, though I depended on Layers of Beauty to actually bring in the flowers. Those masks are amazing. Using the blending brushes I was able to get all of those shades just using the Blueberry Bushel ink pad. What? You say Blueberry Bushel isn't in the Brights. You would be correct. But I think the color IS bright. It's one of my all time favorites and is kind of a fun twist on the Delft look.
- I stamped a 1/2 sheet of cardstock with the Layers of Beauty bouquet turned several ways to mostly fill the sheet. Then I blended the colors using the masks. I was able to die cut several pots cups etc in addition to getting my border.
- After trying the greeting with white embossing on Blueberry Bushel cardstock, I decided I wanted a softer look and embossing the greeting on white and used a blending brush to apply the color. (hint: I use a sharpie to put color or abbreviations for them on the back of my blending brushes. I use a fine point because some of my brushes are used for more than one color.)
- The embossing is done with the Eyelet 3D folder, part of the Country Woods/Country Flower suite. A hint with this folder is to add up to a half inch to the dimensions you will need as the design does "shrink" the paper a bit.
I had originally wanted to show this teapot from Country Flowers with the little cups from the Latte Love dies. The scale of the cups works really well with the teapot. Unfortunately, the card just seemed too busy with them but I did put together a little tag:
This tag was made with the new Online Exclusive Greetings of the Season dies
Finally, just to add at least a few of the brights colors, I tried another version using the teapot as a plant pot.
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- The leaves were die cut from white and both Lemon Lime Twist and Granny Apple Green were applied with a blending brush.
Now it's time to continue on the blog hop: Next up is the talented Bree Renwick.
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