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Tuscan Vineyard Watercolor Continued

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Here’s the final card of the ones that I made at the crop using the Tuscan Vineyard set. On this one, I decided to watercolour the entire image and to use last year’s in colours.

Stampin' Up! Tuscan Vineyard and Endless Birthday Wishes

So I started off with delightful dijon for the basket and decided that the other bottle was terracotta and thus I could use watermelon wonder. For the ground and shadow, I used tip top taupe and I also used that for the stoppers. I trimmed down my watercolor paper until it felt “right” and then cut a piece of tip top taupe 1/8 inch larger for the mat. Before committing my watercolouring to the card, I stamped the sentiment (which is from Endless Birthday Wishes) in more tip top taupe on a delightful dijon base. Once that was safely executed, I glued on the watercolouring.

For the envelope, I used the Festive TIEF to dry emboss the flap – and this time I remembered to take a photo to show you! It’s a really fun pattern.

Stampin' Up! Tuscan Vineyard and Endless Birthday Wishes and Festive TIEF

I really enjoyed playing with Tuscan Vineyard and since I have a day of stamping planned for tomorrow, there may well be some more examples of its use in the upcoming week! I hope that you have something fun planned for the weekend and that you have a great Friday too.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Tuscan Vineyard Masculine Birthday Card

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Yesterday I shared a watercoloured image from the set Tuscan Vineyard as the focal point for my card. Today I’m sharing a card showcasing one of the smaller, more overlooked images.

Stampin' Up! Tuscan Vineyard and Endless Birthday Wishes

I stamped the corks in early espresso on very vanilla and then trimmed to scrap paper to what felt like the “right” size. Then I cut a piece of early espresso 1/8 inch larger to give me my little border. I then took a “card front” which is 1/4 inch smaller than my card base – it’s adds some interest even though it’s the same colour as the card base – and heat embossed the sentiment using versamark and gold embossing powder.  The sentiment is from the must have set, Endless Birthday Wishes. This is one of my most oft used birthday sentiments – not only is it a good birthday greeting, the size and shape of it makes it frequently fit right on the card.

Once I’d heat embossed the sentiment without mishap, it was time to add the image and layer to my card front and then add that to my very vanilla card base. Since very vanilla is a little thin, I always add an insert to the inside aswell to make it more sturdy. This is especially necessary if you have a number of layers on the front so that the card itself is a little balanced. For the envelope, I got out my Festive TIEF and dry embossed the envelope. Adds a really birthday feel, don’t you think?

Yesterday I placed a rather large order from the upcoming Holiday catalog. As a demonstrator, I get to order a month early which is a great perk. Don’t worry, I won’t go completely Christmassy quite yet! The exciting part for non-demonstrators is that now the limited time bundle is available for purchase – it’s available until the end of the month or until supplies last. So if you want it, get it soon!

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Otherwise, sit back and relax and get ready for a really fun holiday catalog.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Tuscan Vineyard Watercolor

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Apparently when I don’t have a card design in my head, I start watercolouring and then a card will appear. This is what happened with this card – what do you do when you want to make a card and you don’t have any inspiration? Tuscan Vineyard created a number of cards for me this way!

Stampin' Up! Tuscan Vineyard and Watercolor Wishes

I stamped the image in black stazon, grabbed some inks and my aquapainter and started colouring away. I started with the tall trees in always artichoke, a colour that was completely replaced for me by mossy meadow. Now that mossy meadow has retired, I’ve started using always artichoke! Next the vineyards and bushes, round trees and fields were in differing strengths of garden green. I used crumb cake for the mountains and sahara sand for the house. I wanted to make the house stand out, hence the cherry cobbler roof. Finally I coloured the sky with marina mist. Once I’d completed this, I decided to use a cherry cobbler base to pull the house out even more but decided to have double layers of cherry cobbler. Before committing my watercolouring to the card, I made sure that my sentiment was good – it’s embossed in black and from my favourite Watercolor Wishes set.

I made this at the crop and thus didn’t have my dies with me (I’m never forgetting them again!) and had to borrow what was available. I cropped my watercolouring using one of the ovals collection but I didn’t want a really thick border. I actually trimmed down the black oval to the indentation that occurred when cutting it out giving me a smaller border. If you look carefully you can see that the oval isn’t perfect, but until I started writing this, I’d forgotten that I did it by hand, so the imperfections are not jumping out.

I hope that you have some time to play with Tuscan Vineyard, it’s a lot of fun. I have a few more cards made with this set to share in the coming days.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Bunch of Blossoms for CAS on Sunday

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No, it’s not Sunday, the challenge blog is called CAS on Sunday and the current challenge is a Clean and Simple Thank You.

Stampin' Up! Tuscan Vineyard and Bunch of Blossoms

I recently bought Tuscan Vineyard and have really been enjoying playing with it. It was perfect for this challenge – I stamped the image in memento black ink and used some delightful dijon and an aquapainter to pull some of the black ink and merge with the yellow. I imagine I could’ve used one of the brown inks that we have, but I was having fun with this. I just wanted to add a touch of colour to the image and leave the rest as it was stamped. I then added the sentiment from Bunch of Blossoms in delightful dijon – what a great typeface, I can see that I’m going to use the sentiments from this set a lot. I think this was the first inking of the set and I’m surprised I waited this long. Oh yes, it was a large order, can’t use everything at once, right?

Since the basket-covered bottle looks quite brown, I used a mat of early espresso before mounting that onto my delightful dijon card base. It’s taken me a while to warm up to delightful dijon, but it really is a great colour.

Now I just have to decide whether to spend the afternoon crafting or trying to make my first video. I’ll finish my coffee first and then decide.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Tuscan Vineyard for CAS Colours & Sketches

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Happy Thursday which means that it’s time for a new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches, this time a sketch.

Stampin' Up! Tuscan Vineyard and Watercolor Wishes

Here’s the sketch which inspired my card:

At the weekend I broke out one of my new sets, Tuscan Vineyard and started watercolouring. I really miss the retired mossy meadow, but if it hadn’t have retired, I wouldn’t have pulled out Always Artichoke which worked really well here. Silver linings right? After watercolouring the leaves in always artichoke and adding more colour to the parts of the leaves which were more shaded (the designers of the stamps make life easier for those of us who really weren’t stars in art class!) I pulled out rich razzleberry and did the same to the grapes. I then carefully added the sentiment realising that I should have stamped it before I’d spent the time watercolouring but it was perfect.

I trimmed my watercolour paper to be smaller than the card front at the sides to be true to the sketch. Unusually I made the card with the fold at the top which I feel works well with the side panels.

The photo shows that the card is sitting on something bumpy but not much detail – it’s the new Petal Burst TIEF and I used it to emboss the envelope flap.

I hope that you’ll pop over to the challenge site to see what the rest of the Design Team have created and to have a go at the challenge yourself. You don’t need a blog to enter.

See you tomorrow,

Liz