A beautiful World
The challenge at Crafty Individuals is at full swing and I have produced a bright little card and process steps for you today. This mini tutorial has already been shown on the Crafty Individuals blog.
1. Place doily stencil on tag and apply distress paints (festive berries, spun sugar, picket fence) using blending foam and dry.
2. With tumbled glass, spun sugar and milled lavender distress inks blend colours over the whole piece and then mist with water and dry again.
3. Apply tumbled glass through the latticework stencil using an ink blending tool.
4. Lay the schoolhouse stencil on the card and spray with a glimmer mist or re-inker mist that you have made up yourself. (I used one I had already made up a while ago - sorry don’t know the colour).
5. I then cut the decorated piece to fit a C6 card and stamped the birdcage and roses image (CI-320) centrally using black archival ink.
6. Stamp it once more on plain white card and cut out the cage and bird, ink them both with distress inks and edge with walnut stain.
8. Find a scrap of patterned paper that fits the colouring of your design and die-cut ‘Victoria Corner’ twice.
I knew I wanted the little bird and flourishes but it didn’t fit my corners as I wanted it to so I cut both down to find the bits I could piece together to balance my design. Then inked the pieces with walnut stain distress ink.
10. Distress and ink the edges of your card and assemble the pieces together.
12. Embellish with whatever else you may have in your supplies that would fit the design and the theme. I used remnant rubs and chit-chat stickers.
Spring has sprung and I am getting excited as next week we are off to sunny California and onto Hawaii for 16 days. It’s a special treat to ourselves for our ruby wedding anniversary. Do you think I might run into Steve McGarrett?
Take care.
Take care.
hugs Brenda xx
Wow Brenda what a beautiful , Spring page , I love it, it makes me happy when I look at it!!! Great ART!!!
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Maria
Oh I love the beautiful colours and fab details.
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Debby
What a great card, I love how you've cut the corner flourish to fit in :-)
ReplyDeleteGood luck with finding Steve - I watched him on tv for years! Not our ruby one for another 3 years must decide what to do...gave stepson a heads up the other day as he made our 25th & stepdaughter made our 30th.
Sally
Gorgeous card! Hugs, Valerie
ReplyDeleteLove how you built up the background. A really pretty card.
ReplyDeleteSuch a beautiful creation Brenda, the colours work so well. You always compose such balanced little works of art. I can't wait for Thursday's workshop...a whole day of creativity. Your anniversary trip sound awesome. Hugs xx
ReplyDeleteOMGoodness, I cannot think of a more appropriate word to use than - stunning! It is breathtakingly beautiful Brenda..... Hugs, Anne x
ReplyDeleteSuch beautiful stamps Brenda...and what a stunning background! It was great to see the step x step on how you created it.
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Like the card. Have a wonderful holiday. We are off to Llandudno tomorrow - not quite California and Hawaii!
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Gorgeous bright card Brenda! Totally love that stenciled background, just yummy! Loved the sentiment too, it made me smile looking at that bird and the cage!
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry I've not swung by your blog for a while but you've probably worked out why! This is another beautiful project and you have used these paints perfectly, Brenda.
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Kathyk
Beautiful piece, Brenda. Great detail and wonderful instructions. We are having English weather today...rain. That's ok, it gives me a break from yard work.
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Beautiful colours and details as always. Hope you had a lovely Easter time.
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Beautiful colours,you are such a lovely person Brenda taking time to visit people's blogs and leaving such sweet comments on them.
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Donna. X
Such a beautiful card Brenda, love the background and the lovely stamp(mine is unused but might just get inked now!)Thanks for the info on how you made the background.
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ReplyDeleteBeautifully made card Brenda, Annette x
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Beautiful piece of work Brenda. Love the background. And the lovely little birds are so sweet. Thanks for your explanation Anneke.
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Yummie colors and fabulous design dear Brenda.. I love the piece as always when I visit... masterly!
ReplyDeleteStunningly beautiful!! Hugs Juls
ReplyDeleteFabulous Brenda and I just love the background! Thanks for sharing the how to - the doily mask is now on my wish list! x
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely card, Brenda! The colours and texture are just beautiful. So much depth in the stenciled layers - love it! xxx
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ReplyDeleteGreat Bg, you have mixed the stencils, sprays, inks and paints to create a depth that is subtle, the Birdcage Pops beautifully, you could have stopped there and it would look finished, but by adding the bird and flourish elements you have created an added interest to the onlooker.
Great card.
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Sue
It's so pretty, Brenda - gorgeous when the Tumbled Glass joins those pinks, and the little bird is an absolute delight. Lovely stuff!
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The colours are gorgeous and could not be a better selection for Springtime and for that pretty CI stamp.
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Lynne
Such a balanced and beautiful design, Brenda!! Love love to see
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Beautiful card Brenda, the background looks amazing, love those colours together.
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This is such a pretty,layered card. I love your use of the stencils with the Distress Paints: a really lovely colour combo. Julie Ann xxx
ReplyDeleteFabulous colors, and love the stenciling! What a gorgeous piece!
ReplyDeletegreat step by step---love how you created your background for the birdcage.
ReplyDeleteOoooo! Gorgeous colours, fab stamp design and love the elements you've brought together for this one. Quite delicious, lol. Chris xxx
ReplyDeleteTotally stunning Brenda and I love the background you have created with the stencil's. Thank You so much for sharing the How To
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I used the doily stencil one time and then covered it all up!!! Next time I will let some of the beauty show through as you did! Brenda, this is an absolute stunner! Love the hanging birdcage and pretty background! Hope you are all packed and ready to go. Hugs!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful Brenda, I love the colors you chose for this too. ~Diane
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely fantastic work for CI Brenda, I really love your background and your stamping of this gorgeous stamp.. Wonderful!!! Hugs Coco xxx
ReplyDeleteA gorgeous creation in great color scheme.
ReplyDeletegorgeous...loving that background.
ReplyDeleteLove, love, love the colours and texture!
ReplyDeleteLove everything about this Brenda,
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It's always a more beautiful world when your creations are in it. That stencilled background is perfect. Jenny x
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