Queen Bee Faux Silk Technique

Queen Bee is a lovely stamp set which lends itself beautifully to the collage stamping technique. It is still available in the online shop, although the dies are finished. You could substitute any small flower for these though.

The Faux Silk technique softens the stamped images and adds some lovely texture. 

Faux Silk Technique

1. After stamping your art piece, you cover it quite generously with a normal glue stick.
2. Take a piece of white tissue paper, larger than the image you need to cover and screw it into a tiny ball.
3. Smooth it out, but not too much as you require wrinkles to give it character.
4.  Press down firmly to the front of work, then either trim excess tissue or fold it neatly behind.
5. Mount it onto a piece of card 0.5cm larger and add to your card.
6. Decorate as you wish.

This card was an option for classes in my home studio - South Morang VIC - during May.

 

CTC #416

CASE-ing The Catty Crew are a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators from Australia & New Zealand who take inspiration weekly from the catalogues. The catalogues are a fantastic resource, and we love to inspire you to seek inspiration there too. 

I'm sharing a CASE of Queen Bee which is sort of leaving. My understanding is the dies will not be available, and the stamps will be in the online store for a while. 

A change of orientation for my card, but I kept the idea of the catalogue sample using 3 similar shades in the background.

Tearing the ends of the strips probably wouldn't have occurred to me if I hadn't noticed it in the sample. I couldn't resist adding some of the pretty die cut flowers and used up some pastel pearls in the centres.

Just look at the bee wearing a flower!

There was a bit more time to spend in the craft room this week, so I CASEd a second card from the same page.

Nature's Prints is in the new annual catalogue and that was the wreath I used. I've actually misplaced the half-wreath from Queen Bee. I'm sure it will turn up where I least expect it!

I was attempting shabby chic for this card after noticing the roughed up edges in the catalogue. The mauve colour scheme continued over to this card also.

I hope you are inspired to try CASE-ing too!

We love for you to share your projects using the challenges. We do request that the projects you submit have been created especially for this challenge. You can CASE directly or be inspired by a sketch/layout, colour combo or embellishment. Ask to join our Facebook group, and then add a picture of your CASE.

The fabulous Julia Quinn follows me this week.

 

CTC #408 CASE Mini Catalogue Bundles

 

This week I received a new suite of products from Stampin' Up! and I could hardly wait to play with these gorgeous papers - Hello Irresistable DSP.  The suite consists of Irresistable Blooms stamps & Dies, the Hello Irresistable DSP and some cute little gems, Loose Frosted Dots. If you want all 4 items you can use the code for the suite instead of ordering each part individually. Available 1st March, online only.

I was so excited in fact that I CASE-d two different bundles!!! This one was the Something Fancy bundle on page 83 at the back of the mini catalogue. Just like the art department at Stampin' Up! did, I've let the pattern paper do the major lifting. However, the Hello Irresistable DSP has paper which you can die cut flowers out of!!!

That advantage meant I was able to add to my project without even inking up stamps from the bundle and isn't that circle just so.... irresistible?

The birthday stamp from Something Fancy still filled that space nicely, and I do seem to need a few of these ‘belated’ birthday cards.

Two different sheets of paper have the flowers, so they come in two shades. There may be even more choices for the leaves.

The other bundle I CASE-d was Queen Bee, using the same bundle with the Hello Irresistable DSP.

The bee was heat embossed onto Petal Pink and all the die cuts were cut from the Hello Irresistable DSP.

When I checked my Flirty Flamingo card, I discovered the strip with a little fancy die cutting. I can't remember which project it came from but it's been added to the inside of this card.

We love for you to share your projects using the challenges. We do request that the projects you submit have been created especially for this challenge. You can CASE directly or be inspired by a sketch/layout, colour combo or embellishment. Ask to join our Facebook group, and then add a picture of your CASE letting us know which card or project you've CASE-d.

The very talented  Julia Quinn is next on this blog hop.

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CTC406– Case a Love/Valentine project

The CASE-ing The Catty Crew are a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators from Australia & New Zealand who take inspiration weekly from the catalogues. The catalogues are a fantastic resource, and we love to inspire you to seek inspiration there too. I have been missing from CASE-ing the Catty since before Christmas and feel so happy to finally be back crafting again.

Favored Flowers DSP is on page 10/11 of the SAB catty with big, bold flowers on one side and slightly more muted patterns on the reverse. It's ideal for fussy-cutting the flowers as a focal point and laying them onto the muted patterns.

Designer series paper was substituted for the Crumb Cake layer and just like the sample, a little background stamping was added. There was an oval from the Framed Florets bundle ready on my craft desk which was a good base to ground the flowers.

The Crumb Cake card at the bottom left is the one I chose to CASE this week. Since I have lots of lovely SALE-A-Bration DSP on hand, I have been on a mission to use it in different ways. There is no point in hanging onto it, because the next lot of pretty papers will be upon us before too long. #loveitchopit.

The layout is very much the same as the catalogue sample but what a difference it makes by making a few changes.

The stamps for the background and the inside of the card are from a mini catalogue bundle, Queen Bee which received its first inking for this project.

Queen Bee Bundle $87.25

We love for you to share your projects using the challenges. We do request that the projects you submit have been created especially for this challenge. You can CASE directly or be inspired by a sketch/layout, colour combo or embellishment. Ask to join our Facebook group, and then add a picture of your CASE letting us know which card or project you've CASE-d.

The very talented Julia Quinn is next on this blog hop.

SHOP

Your orders are very much appreciated, no matter how small or big, every little bit helps me to meet my minimums, and keep on creating. Hopefully you are inspired by some of the projects I share and want to make your own. My online shop is open anytime and delivery by tracked Australia Post takes 5-10 days. Don't forget to add your SALE-A-Bration pick for every $90 you order. You'll need to add $2.75 to the Queen Bee bundle to earn the Favored Flowers DSP, do you need some dimensionals or Tombow multi-purpose liquid glue?

SAB finishes February 28th.

Tombow $7.00

 
Dimensionals $7.50

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