Technique Class – Shimmer Paint Direct to Rubber

As an ongoing series of classes, we make 6×6 pages each featuring a different technique in my classes… last weekend I taught a class with 4 techniques and here is one of them. Shimmer Paint Direct to Rubber and Direct to Presto Pattern Paper I know people say this a lot.. but in this case …

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Technique Class – Water Splash technique

One of the techniques I shared with my students on the weekend was the Water Splash Technique.. I heard about this at the Regional Seminar in Phoenix last January… very cool idea for your BOLD STAMPS. WATER SPLASH TECHNIQUE We've just added over 20 new products to the Clearance Rack in the Online Store! You …

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Technique Class – Double Embossing

This is a real WOW technique… again, one of the 6×6 technique pages we made in class last weekend…  I learned this from my friend Donna.. it's a great way to alter your Designer Paper!! DOUBLE EMBOSSING TECHNIQUE   We've just added over 20 new products to the Clearance Rack in the Online Store! You …

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Technique Class – Watercolor Pansies

This technique was a part of the class I taught on the weekend… we add a series of 4 new 6×6 technique pages to our album in these Technique Classes. I know you've probably seen, heard, read, all about these neat watercolor pansies….. I just had to try them…  I took Dawn O's advise and …

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Technique Class sample Oct. 09 – #4

This is the last sample from my 6×6 Technique Book Class last week… we did several things with Shimmer Paint.. it is just the COOLEST product !!!! Shimmer Paint Direct to Rubber Stamp in shimmery shades of champagne, white and platinum!   Shimmer Paint Direct to Rubber Stamp in shimmery shades of champagne, white and …

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Technique Class sample Oct. 09 – #3

Here is the 3rd sample we made last week in my 6×6 Technique Book Class: Brayered Specialty Paper Create custom elegant background papers  More info in this post.   Brayered Specialty Paper Create custom elegant background papers  Supplies:  · Specialty Papers from Stampin’ Up! – Bride paper recommended · Ink pad · Brayer · kleenex …

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Technique Class sample Oct. 09 – #2

Here is the 2nd 6×6 Technique Book Sample we made in class last week… this is by far my favorite one and is what inspired me to make the FRAME HERE.  🙂 Shimmer Paint Shimmer Spray & Shimmer Stencils The background is spritzed with shimmer paint.. instructions are at the bottom of this post. The …

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Technique Class sample Oct. 09 – #1

Last week I had another edition of the very popular 6×6 Technique Book Class series…. we've been doing this class since before Stampin' Up! even had 6×6 books… back then it was a 5×7 Technique Book class! :)   Each class features 4 new techniques on a 6×6 sheet, with a 6×6 instruction sheet to go …

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Brayered “Bride” Specialty Paper

I will be back tomorrow with more photos from Founder's Circle this year, but I wanted to show you something I shared with my friends at founder's…. this is a total WOW Technique!!!… grab a brayer, any color classic ink pad and the BRIDE specialty paper (pg 158), ink your brayer and just brayer over tthe Bride paper!!  …

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Using up my Left-Overs

No… not left-overs from the fridge… left-over stamped pieces sitting on my desk 🙂 The bleached background piece was leftover from this technique class and I added the stamped flower from "Friends 24-7" (watercolored with ink and blender pens) and the greeting from "Great Friend" framed in some Vanilla Hodgepodge Hardware… I think it came together well.. …

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Embossed Reinker Spread Technique by Crystal French

I am sure you will remember my post and video of the Watercolor Roses technique HERE… this technique was originated by Crystal French and shared at a Stampin' Up! Regional seminar this spring.  She calls it Embossed Reinker Spread Technique.  After Crystal saw my Rose cards, she sent me these TO DIE FOR SAMPLES!!!   How …

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Watercolor Rose Cards

Here are close ups of the cards I posted in yesterday's blog post.. enjoy!  (more info on the watercolor rose technique can be found HERE)              Below… this one uses the Bella Birds DSP from Stampin' Up! (pg 160) die cut with the Top Note Die and sponged around the edges as …

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