Category: Techniques & Tutorials

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Week 15 – Cajun Craze

Today I am using a newly purchased stamp set, Sea Turtle, and using the Babywipe Technique and some water colouring. After being inspired by Andrea Sargent at our recent 35yr event, she demonstrated her water colouring technique, I was really keen to have another go!

I started with the Fluid 100 Watercolor paper and applied a layer of water using my wider Water Painter. Picking up some Coastal Cabana ink I dabbed it onto the water and let it spread. I repeated this process with the Pretty Peacock and Blueberry Bushel inks. As the colours blended together beautifully, I used the Heat Tool to dry it and move some of colours in the process. I took the Water Painter again, picked up some Pretty Peacock ink and tapped it on my fingers to add some splotches, then set it aside to dry.

The next step was to fold two babywipes and place them on a paper plate. Adding some ink refill drops in the four colours to create my own ‘inkpad’. Press the tutle stamps onto the babywipes then onto some Basic White card. Just look at the gorgeous colours you get!

These were fussy cut using Paper Snips. Once I had 3 little tutrles, I placed them onto my Versamark inkpad to cover them entirely, then into some Clear Emboss Powder and melt it with the Heat Tool.

The starfish are stamped in Cajun Craze ink onto Basic White card. I took a Blending Brush and lightly added some extra colour before using Paper Snips to cut them out. The Gorgeously Made dies were used for the plant life. One I left white and the other added some light  watercolouring.

To assemble, I have a Thick Basic White card base and the watercolour piece is added to the centre using Tear & Tape. I find this nice and strong to keep the paper flat. The frame is slightly smaller than the card base and cut the centre with the Deckled Rectangle die, before running it through my Cut & Emboss Machine in the Timeworn Type 3D TIEF. I glued the plants onto the card first then the frame added with Tear & Tape. The linen thread bow was added on a glue dot and the starfish on a dimensional. The smaller starfish is glued down. Each of the turtles are added on a dimensional. The sentiment is from the Waves of Inspiration stamp set and some Tinsel Gems dotted around.

On the inside, I added an insert with some fish stamped across the bottom, a large turtle and  some more starfish!

My next card has a little more Cajun Craze on it than the above card. I recently purchased the Little Dreamers Bundle and thought the lion would be perfect in Cajun Craze!

I stamped the Rays of Light stamp in Crushed Curry ink onto Basic White card. The Regals 6″x6″ DSP was cut to size I wanted to allow for a narrow border on the card base. I used the Deckled Circles dies (new in upcoming Mini catalogue) to cut out a circle. I added Dimensionals to the back of the DSP and cut the Rays of Light down to fit underneath. This raised the top layer as you can see below. I stamped the lion and used the dies to cut it out. I inked the star only in Crushed Curry ink and cut it out too and added it with a dimensional for added height.

These images were coloured gently with my Water Painter and inkpads. I also added Wink of Stella to the lions mane & tip of the tail and the star. It’s hard to see in the photo.  The lion is added on dimensionals and I added some extra little stars from the same die set. The White Herringbone Ribbon was added and some Linen Thread tied is a bow.

On the inside a sentiment is stamped and fussy cut to partially sit over a strip of DSP (this is the reverside side of the DSP on the front of the card).

Product List
Stamps: Sea Turtle, Waves of Inspiration, Little Dreamers, Ray of Light
Dies: Gorgeously Made, Deckled Rectangles, Little Dreamers
Card/Paper: Basic White, Thick Basic White, Fluid 100 Watercolor, Regals 6″x6″
Inks/Refills: Cajun Craze, Blueberry Bushel, Coastal Cabana, Pretty Peacock, Versamark, Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry
Other: Tinsel Gems Four Pack, Linen Thread, Timeworn Type 3D Textured Impressions Embossing Powder, Blending Brushes, Water Painters, Clear Emboss Powder, Heat Tool, Paper Snips, Glue Dots, Multipurpose Glue, Mini Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine, Paper Trimmer, Simply Shammy, Bone Folder, Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals, Wink of Stella, Herringbone Ribbon

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