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Fabulous Friday Fun ~~ Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

 Hello Fellow Stampers ~~

We're flying through the days and weeks -- oh my!!  Keeping busy up to our eyeballs here at DDS Studios -- how about all of you??  It's time for the Spring Fling class tomorrow!!  And boy do I have some projects for my Stampers!!  On top of which . . . we're going to share St. Patrick's Day lunch together - Corned Beef and all the fixin's !!  I'm so looking forward to time together with the gals.

But before this day (and week) slips by us, I wanted to pop in and share with all of you!!  What would St. Patrick's Day be without a fabulous card to celebrate it with! 

 

The number ONE pick for me when I saw the new Spring Mini Catalog in December, was the Lucky Clover stamp set and coordinating punch.  I was so over the moon that after all this time, we finally had a St. Patrick's stamp set to work with.  We haven't had one in quite some time.  Turns out that it was soooo popular, that the punch sold out before we hit February!!  Yikes!  Guess Stampin' Up! didn't realize just how popular this set was going to be.

But don't let the lack of a punch keep you from this set.  The clovers are a very easy fussy cut; and this set is beyond adorable!!

 

This card uses our Evening Evergreen cardstock (soon to retire), and a combination of Soft Sea Foam, Mint Macaron, and Evening Evergreen inks on the Basic White panel, using the different clover stamp images in the set.

 

The sentiment was stamped with Versamark ink on Evening Evergreen cardstock, and heat embossed with White Emboss Powder.  Then I did a simple "fussy cut" to separate the sentiment and pop it with dimensionals along with the focal clover.  With a pretty bow, this simple card is complete!

 

Finished off similarly to the front with stamping in the background, this sweet sentiment is added to make a perfect gift to a cherished friend!

 

Now you've got a sneak peek of one of the projects for class tomorrow -- heehee.  Snap up this stamp set before it retires in a few weeks!!  

In the meantime, have a great weekend everyone!!

 

I Love to hear from you.  Leave your questions or comments below!!

Hugs, . . .

 

 

Not in the Blog Hop - Birthday Gnomes

Hello Fellow Stampers ~~

The last several weeks have slipped right by me again.  I've had much going on though.  We just held the Annual Birthday Stamp-a-Stack.  And the stampers left with 16 finished Birthday cards, and lots of fun too!!  It was a wonderful day.  And now I'm in the middle of prepping for my Spring Fling Class.  Oh my!!  Do I have some wonderful fun planned for that one!! 

In the meantime, I terribly neglecting the blog and all of YOU.  So it's time to catch up a little bit. This month's Pal's Blog Hop theme was "Party Time."  And what better time to party than for a birthday!!  With all the birthday cards that have been designed in this Studio in the past month, you'd think there would be plenty to choose from to share with you.. But I just couldn't resist, sharing with you the card my Coffee & a Card class will be creating this evening during our weekly class.  

 

Our current Coffee & a Card class is exploring the Friendly Gnomes stamp set and all the fun ways we can use it.  Tonight's card focuses on celebrating a birthday ~~  hopefully a "magical" one!!  😉😉

 

This current class series is focusing on watercoloring techniques, using our Stampin' Up! Watercolor Pencil collections.  Last week we explored coloring with the pencils and using our Blender Pens.  This week, we're using the Water Painters.  The differences in how the color spreads, the intensity levels, and more is very interesting as we explore these coloring techniques.  So much to learn!!  😉😉😉

 

This card is cut from Thick Basic White cardstock, 4-1/4" x 11", scored at 5-1/2".  We are using a piece of Butterfly Kisses designer series paper (4" x 5-1/4") to mat the Fluid 100 Watercolor paper (3-1/2" x 5-1/4").

I "cheated" - LOL - and used a blending brush to add Parakeet Party ink to the lower portion of my panel.  I did, however, use my Water Painter to "flick" specks of Parakeet Party ink across the upper portion of the panel.

Then I stamped all the cute images using Staz-On Ink, which is the ink of choice when using water.

 

I love our watercolor pencils, and all the ways you can use them.  Coloring directly on the watercolor paper and moving the color with the Water Painter is one method.  This can give an intense color, if you wet your watercolor pencil before adding color directly to the paper as well.

 

My little girl has been die cut (unfortunately these dies are backordered right now!), and popped with dimensionals.

And I added some In Color Matte Dots for a little fun!  You could also add some Wink of Stella to add glimmer and shimmer in all the right places if you wanted!!

 

I love our Parakeet Party (AND our Granny Apple Green) colors.  They feel so fresh and bright and Springy to me!!

I think I know just who this cute little birthday card is going to go to . . .  😉😉

I Love to hear from you.  Leave your questions or comments below!!

Hugs, . . .