LPS preview of {Flower Frenzy} & FABRIC (embossed, stamped, & with gesso & Copics)

The ol' mojo needed a colour challenge in a BIG way; know what I mean? (Look Ma! no turquoise!) hehehe ;o) New colours for a new stamp set, oh joy of joys...

Can't wait for you all to see this lovely set from Little Paper Shop that releases tomorrow (!!!) It's called {Flower Frenzy} Turns out it's also a frenzy of my faves: flowers, sassy flourishes, & flexible sentiments.

The flowers in the set are really flexible technique wise too. They cut up nicely (this card has the same flower cut three ways), but most excipating of all, there are both solid & outline blooms, so you can do all your faves 2 step, paper piece, do the wet into wet reinker painting technique that's so hot right now.

Well, why am I listing techniques to YOU? You all know a million things to do with two varieties of stamps at once, LOL. BUT... hopefully today's post has something you might not have tried yet: embossing & faux watercolour on fabric with Copics. Yup, it's Mod Podge & Gesso to the rescue again! ;o)

1-Little Paper Shop Colour Challenge
2-Emboss fabric (Cuttlebug folders or other method)
3-Stamp on fabric & Copics on Gesso
4-Cheap tricks: Create a custom chunky Scallop
5-Jazz up black & white patterned papers
6-New curvy tab with SU's round tab punch

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LPS Colour challenge



Inspired by these soft spring colours? Come play along with us!
You can read all about the challenge
& enter to win {Flower Frenzy} (!) on the LPS Blog here.

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...emboss fabric
(with Cuttlebug folders or other methods)

• fabric
• mod podge or other adhesive
• cardstock
• embossing folder (and rolling pin/machine)
• Optional: template & scissors or die cut
• Brayer & pigment or metallic ink (heat gun to set)
  

Step 1) Make fabric piece

A) Glue fabric to cardstock. I used Mod Podge.
B) Leave as is or coat in matte medium (reduces shine) ink it or paint it...
C) Trace template onto cardstock backing (or try Nestabilities)
D) Cut the shape out out



Step 2) Emboss Fabric piece



Step 3) Directly ink or brayer fabric piece & I would add a step & heat set it (I forgot & the white ink all rubbed off)

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...stamp on fabric
& Copic faux watercolour on Gesso

• Scrap of fabric (i like fine weave thinner fabric)
• Gesso (or other primer)
• Paint brush (clean well after use) :O)
  
• Stazon ink, clear embossing powder; white pigment ink & white e.p.
• Heat gun
• Copic markers (B13 Hydrangea Blue, and RV11 Pink, shade with bit of R-29 Lipstick Red)
• Scissors, paper piercer, needle & thread
• Zigpainty pen for dots
• Perfect Plum & Pink Pirouette SU cardstock
  
• Glass brad from Creative Imaginations
  

Step 1) Paint fabric with gesso



Step 2) Stamp colour & cut flowers, then repeat process for leaves

The {Flower Frenzy} blooms are stamped in Stazon & embossed in clear. The leaves are stamped & embossed in white.)

Colouring with copics on Gesso: Copics are really great over gesso; it keeps the fabric from sucking up all your ink. The gesso lets you get a faux watercolour effect with Copics (and it's easy to blend other water-based markers without any of that pilling you can get on Copic papers.) Letting the Gesso cure very well (over night or more) means less transfer of gesso onto your Copic markers.



Step 3) Adhere flowers & leaves to embossed fabric shape



Step 4) Pierce to create lines for stems



Step 5) Stitch stems, mat image & embellish

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...create a custom chunky Scallop
& jazz it up...

Use anything round (in whatever size you like) to make big chunky scallops. me love free!

• Anything round in the size you like
• Patterned paper (or not) This was a gift from the lovely sweet talented Maria.
  
• Pencil
• Tim Holtz Design ruler (or your fave)
• Scissors
  
• Optional: Paper piercer, needle & thread
• Gems
  
• Markers (SU: Perfect Plum, Pale Plum, Pretty in Pink) & a water brush.

Drawing the Scallop shape:

Step 1) Mark the center at the base of your paper using a ruler

Step 2) Trace one circle centered in the middle

Step 3) Draw a straight line across at the depth you want your scallop to stop curving at (to guage where to put side circles.

Step 4) Draw the remaining circles (however many you like) on either side of your middle circle

Step 5) Cut along your lines to create the scallop shape. Stopping at the line.

An Nifty Option? If you're really liking your custom scallop, you can make it into your own template: After you cut it out, trace it onto a scrap of cardstock before you add it to your card--to save for future use. If you're like me & things get lost on you, consider scanning it and filing it on your computer. (i lurve u my leetle compuker!)



Embellishing the Scallop shape:

Step 1) If you like to paper pierce, you can create a guide line on the back of your paper:

If you created a template in step one up there, just trace it. If not just trace the same circular object again higher up. :O)



Step 2) Pierce along guide line through the your scallop paper (flatten the raised piercing holes on the front, with a bone-folder or your finger nail, if you want them to show less.)



Step 3) Stitch along scallop (beads are neato too) :O)



Step 4) Add some jazzy colour! To paint papers using markers: rub colour from markers onto an acrylic block or glass plate, or whatnot, and then pick up colour with a water brush.

I love black & white papers since you can add colour to just sections:
(no duh huh?) ;o)



Step 5) Paint the edge at bottom of the stitching.

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...jazz up black & white patterned papers

It's fun to use whole coloured sections of Black & White pattered paper for matching originality-ness (really, so people can see the differnce and know how hard you worked for them. MUahahaha.) ;o)

Coloured with Stampin' Up! water-based markers: Perfect Plum, Pale Plum, Pretty in Pink)



I love your ruler Tim!
(Tim Holtz Design ruler for lining bits up)

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create a new curvy tab
(with SU "round tab" punch)

Well this may be old hat to you guys n galz, but it's new to me...so I thought I'd share it with Ya. I like the curvy little shape that this Round Tab punch has for a nifty little shape for a tag:



It's just a strip of cardstock punched from the side:

The word love is from that loverly {Flower Frenzy} set. :O)

If you'd like to see loads of ways to use the Round Tab punch
please see this post:

Ironically enough, it's the one card that uses this same image layout (flourishes as plant leaves) & the same stem technique. I'm repeating myself, LOL.

And there you have it...

meaningful

My friend Allison has always been an inspiration on so many levels.
Please read her moving & purposeful post HERE
and help Eric de la Cruz in his battle with CHD and red tape.
(Isn't it amazing that we can try and make a difference,
no matter how powerless we may feel sometimes?)

And you can check out the gorgeous creations made by
the LPS design team by clicking icons in the side bar -->

Love,

P.S. On the silly side of blogging. There was a hair in my candy! ;o) For those of you who actually read my incessant rambling, did you notice the weird line in yesterday's email update, where it said hair a couple of times with Copic colours? I mistakenly left it there when I was pasting the links for the Copics I'd used (saves a smidgen of time.) Had to laugh at myself for that one. Ick, hair in a candy post! Snort!

(today the ol' blog should be called:
LPS also stands for Lovely Perfect Stamps)

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