Floating Elements / Floating Frame Cards

 Happy Wednesday!

We interrupt our regularly scheduled program to bring you a random blog post lol.  Yes, there are 47 things on me "yay-list" that I really should be working on, but I['m just so stinkin' excited about these cards I HAD to do a quick post to share them with you!

Last night, on my CIOT (Check It Out Tuesday) Facebook Live, I decided to try making my very first "Floating Elements" card.  What is a Floating Element card?  It's a card whereby the focal point is a shape (element) that appears to be floating.  You attach 1/4" strips of paper to a piece of acetate/window sheet and then cut a shape out of it.  You pop the shape up on dimensionals and embellish for a quick "WOW!" card.  Check these out!

LOVE LOVE LOVE!

For the first card, I used the Boughs of Holly Designer Paper and matching Beautiful Boughs dies.  For the second, the Sweetest Christmas and Sweet Candy Canes Bundle.  The sentiment is from Brightest Glow.

*Tamara's Tips:  You can use our Window Sheets to tape your strips onto ... OR you can use the acetate sheets that our Photopolymer Stamps come on!  Waste not, want not!

You can bet your bottom dollar I will be making for of THESE cards!  Here is my YouTube replay from my CIOT Live. 

If you're interested in catching me LIVE, every Tuesday night at 7:00 pm MT, you can find me on my Facebook Page "Tamara's Paper Trail" - click here to head there!

I hope you give this technique a try!  REALLY fun (and easy!).  Thanks for popping in.  Have a stampy day!

Tamara

Need the products I used to make your own?  Click the items you need to go to my online store :)

Product List

Boughs Of Holly 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[159600]

$16.50

Sweetest Christmas 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[159559]

$16.50

Gold Foil Sheets

[132622]

$7.00

Window Sheets

[142314]

$7.00

Beautiful Boughs Dies

[150661]

$48.00

Candy Canes Dies

[159569]

$48.00

Brightest Glow Cling Stamp Set (English)

[159542]

$34.00

Evening Evergreen Classic Stampin' Pad

[155576]

$11.00

Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad

[147089]

$11.00

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[159276]

$14.00

Real Red & White 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Glimmer Paper

[159578]

$7.00

Scottie Dog Punch

[159743]

$26.00

Festive Pearls

[159963]

$9.75

Foam Adhesive Strips

[141825]

$11.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$6.00

Multipurpose Liquid Glue

[110755]

$5.50

Stampin' Seal

[152813]

$11.00

Bone Folder

[102300]

$9.75

Take Your Pick

[144107]

$13.75

Paper Trimmer

[152392]

$34.00

Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine

[149653]

$170.00

Colouring Cards Flashback - Kylie's Trip Achievers Blog Hop

 Happy Blog Hop Day!

Every month, my friends from around the globe and I bring you projects made with current Stampin' Up! products.  We hope to inspire you with what we share.  Like it?  Leave a comment!

This month I took a total BLAST FROM THE PAST!  Who remembers when we had Stampin' Wheels?  Hands up for those who still HAVE them and can't part with some of the adorable animal wheels we had?  Remember the barnyard animal one??  My personal fave!  There was a craze back then, for kids cards, and the Peekaboo Farm set inspired me to bring that craze back.  Check out my cards!

Ska-WHEEEEELLLL!  I love them so much! lol!  They take approximately 6 minutes to make!  Oh sure, they're not great for mailing (broken crayons make me sad!) ... but they are a FUN card to attach to a present for in-person giving!  Of course you can jazz them up with more stamping and/or embellishments but you certainly don't have to for an adorable card.

FUN FACT:  Did you know that you can go to Staples and buy SINGLE CRAYONS????  WHAAAAAATTTT?  TRUE STORY!  They sell crayons in packs but they ALSO sell them by the crayon!  You could go buy 20 brown and 20 grey crayons, if that's what you want.  WHO KNEW???  (I can't tell you how many PACKS of crayons I have purchased over the years just to get the WHITE crayon for crayon/wax resist techniques!)

You attach the crayons with glue dots - poke holes in the white layer with your Take Your Pick tool and feed ribbon through the holes to tie in a bow.  BAM!  6 minute card.

I'm listing the primary products used below, but not the inks, papers, or ribbons - use what you like for the critters and colour combinations you choose!

Would you like a full PDF Tutorial for these cards, as well as 9 MORE quick and easy Children's Card for Beginner Stampers?  You can purchase the tutorial from me for $20 ... or it is yours FREE with an online order of ANY amount through my store.  Click the link over in the right hand side bar for that.  Order that use the Host Code XET2YWV4 at the checkout will get and extra gift from me!

I hope you like my cards as much as I do!  It's nice to have a super quick, easy layout for kid's cards at your fingertips!

Thanks for popping in - now hop along and see what my friends have in store for you! ... and have a stampy day!

Tam

Product List

Peekaboo Farm Photopolymer Stamp Set

[155683]

$24.00

One Happy Family Cling Stamp Set (English)

[155474]

$29.00

Mini Glue Dots

[103683]

$7.25

Stampin' Seal

[152813]

$11.00

Bone Folder

[102300]

$9.75

Take Your Pick

[144107]

$13.75

Paper Trimmer

[152392]

$34.00

Creative Colouring - Stampin' Creative Global Blog Hop

Happy Blog Hop Day!  Every month my friends from around the world and I create projects surrounding a common theme.  This month the theme is "Creative Colouring".  We hope we inspire and delight you!

If you follow me on FaceBook you will know that I LOVE colouring so it was VERY hard for me to decide what to do! I went from one idea to another to another to another.  In the end I decided I would move WAY outside my comfort zone ... and usual style and try my hand at Emboss Resist using watercolour paper and my Water Painter.  This is what I came up with ...

This is NOT my usual style ... AT ALL!  ... and I must say ... I STRONGLY dislike this card lol.  So why am I sharing it, I hear you cry.  Well ... cause what some people hate others love ... and as proof that we don't always love what we make.  Oh sure, it's OKAY .... just not my style ... at all.  Having said that, I DID love the process ... cause I love colouring.  Here's is what I did ...

I stamped the Butterfly Brilliance image on our Watercolour Paper using my Stamp-a-ratus and versamark ink ...

I covered the image with White Embossing Powder ...

*** Tamara's Tip:  If you don't "yet" have one of our great embossing trays, fold a piece of copy paper (or grid paper) in half and then, once your embossing paper is all tipped off your card layer you just pick up the copy paper, fold it so the loose powder pools in the middle and then you easily (and without mess) dump the excess back in the container! (which works REALLY well unless you drop your phone on the paper whilst trying to take a picture of it  ... so don't do THAT lol)

I then used my Water Painter and inks and coloured my butterflies ...

Naturally I forgot to take a picture of the finished piece before I cut it all up (*sigh - it HAS been a day!)

ANYWAY ... I cut my finished layer into 1" strips, attached them to a Basic white layer and mounted it on a Balmy Blue base.  I added a sentiment from Happiness Abounds in Starry Sky and some Glossy Dots to finish it off.  

Ta-Da!  A card I strongly dislike! *snort

Now .... because it's VERY hard for me to do a blog post with a card I strongly dislike, I thought I'd share a card I VERY MUCH LIKE!  This one fits the theme of "Creative Colouring" as well.  Why didn't I go with this one to begin with?  Well ... full disclosure, this is a card I made back in April and wasn't sure it was "right" to recycle a card.  Yet here we are ....

Check THIS card out ....

THIS one I love!

It uses the Fresh Cut Flowers stamp set.  What is "creative" about it is how I coloured the top layer!  It is actually white tissue paper that I coloured with my Dark Starry Sky Blend Marker and 99% Isopropyl Alcohol!  I was going for the Faux Silk Technique that was popular many years ago.

To colour the tissue paper I just scribbled on my silicone mat with my Dark Starry Sky Blend, added a bunch of alcohol to it and then "mopped" up the mess with a piece of crinkled up tissue paper!  HECK ya, you get VERY ink fingers ... and slightly high from the fumes - FUN! lol.

Given that the alcohol evaporates quickly, you can stamp on it fairly soon after colouring it.

I used liquid glue to cover a piece of card stock, stuck the (now) blue tissue paper onto the card layer, trimmed the edges and then stamped the flower image right on the tissue paper.  I love that the image came out crisp and clear!  I wasn't sure it would!

I used my watercolour pencil (or your now retired chalk marker ... or retired gel pen) to colour the leaves.  I added the sentiment from Happiness Abounds, added a million pearls and BAM!  Done! lol.  Not a quick card but a VERY Creative Colouring one!

Did ANY of that make sense??  If not you can check out my video from back in April showing you how.  There are actually SEVERAL Faux Silk Techniques I tried in this 1 hour video.   Don't watch it now, hop through the other blog hops and then come back to it.  Here is the video ...

So there you have it!  Two projects for the price of one lol.  I hope like at least ONE of them ... and let this be a lesson in trying new things ... and sharing them even if you don't love them.

Now hop along and see what my friends came up with for you.  

Thanks for popping in.  Have a stampy day!

(ps - not product list like I usually have.  It's WAY past my bedtime and I've mentioned most of the products used above.  If you have any questions on things just send me a message)

Tamara