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January 10, 2024

Garden Party card using Wendy Vecchi designs

By Yvonne

I was so happy to get these new supplies for the new year! Wendy Vecchi has joined forces with Spellbinders Paper Arts and designed a beautiful release! I’ve used some of the items from her new release to create this clean and simple card. First, here are the supplies I used:

  • Stamps and Dies – Spellbinders Garden Party
  • Stencils – Spellbinders Layered Garden Party
  • 3-D Embossing Folder – Spellbinders Flowers and Foliage
  • Background Stamp – Stampers Anonymous Ticking
  • Inks – Ranger Archival Inks: Fern Green, Mulberry, Peachy Keen, Periwinkle, Prickly Pear, Rosey Posey, and Sunflower
  • Ranger Detail Blending Tools
  • Ranger Make Art Staytion
  • Memento ink pad – Tuxedo Black
  • Ink Blending Brushes

I began by stamping the floral image with a black Memento ink pad. I colored the stamped image with Ranger Archival inks using the layering stencil set. There are five stencils altogether in the set, so you can incorporate a lot of detail and many colors! I used blending brushes for laying down large areas of color, but to add some more shading and detail, I used the Detail Blending Tools (it is easiest to see on the leaves). The Archival inks The stencils line up like a dream and are very heavyweight. I used Wendy’s Make Art Staytion and magnets to hold my stencils in place and it worked beautifully as always. I never use layering stencils without it!

Once all of the coloring was done, I cut the image out with the accompanying die. I selected a sentiment from the set and stamped and die cut it as well. I decided to use the 3-D embossing folder from the new release and kept it white to show off the gorgeous image. To add another layer of color though, I created a striped background using Fern Green Archival ink blended onto white cardstock, and then I stamped it with Wendy’s Ticking background stamp from Stampers Anonymous. After I applied ink to the stamp, I spritzed it with a bit of rubbing alcohol to add a little interest and stamped it onto the green inked paper.

To assemble the card, I adhered the striped background to the card base, added the embossed layer on top of that and then I popped up both the image and the sentiment with dimensional foam tape. Very simple and elegant.

There are more die sets in the new Spellbinders release, so I am excited to create some more with those and to use these supplies some more as well.

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February 1, 2023

Everything’s coming up roses

By Yvonne

Happy February! I’m enjoying all things Valentine at the moment and pulled out a delightful rose image from Wendy Vecchi and Stampers Anonymous to work with for a Valentine tag. I’ll share a few of my steps here, and you will see that this came together quite simply.

I began by stamping the rose image from the Stampers Anonymous SCS175, “Rosy Art” set by Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 onto plain white cardstock. This set has a really cute picnic basket and nice sentiments as well, but I decided to use just the flowers for the real estate I had to work with on the tag I’d chosen.

The really cool thing about this stamp set (and a number of others designed by Wendy) is that it comes with stencils! So you can add color to areas of your image easily while blocking out other areas. This set also has a mask that can be used to cover the roses, which means you can add color to the leaves without giving your flowers an inadvertent green cast!

I used Ranger Archival inks in Rosey Posey (appropriate!) and Red Geranium to blend color onto the roses with blender brushes. Post-it Notes are kind of requirement for me, which covered the open areas of the stencil if I got overly zealous with my blending. I didn’t photograph it, but I moved onto the leaves after this and used Fern Green and Prickly Pear Archival inks to color all of the leaves, also using the stencil. I filled in the area between flowers with Copic markers (E01 and E02) so it wasn’t stark white.

I had a tag in my stash that had a background already done using Red Geranium Archival ink and alcohol. I try to do a number of backgrounds at once, so I can just grab one when I’m ready to make a card or tag. If you’d like to know more about this background technique, Wendy Vecchi has a number of tutorials and wonderful classes that cover it and I highly recommend you check them out if you haven’t. With the color down, I stamped the Stampers Anonymous Vintage Tapestry background stamp onto it, also with Red Geranium for a bit of tone-on-tone. I then blended Acorn Archival onto the edges to give a more aged, vintage look.

I placed the trimmed out, colored rose image onto a chipboard wreath (Ranger Ink Chippies: Wreathes) for some dimension. Here you can see that I applied Acorn archival ink to the wreath to pick up on the aged look of the tag. To finish the tag, I doodled a white border onto the tag with a white gel pen, hoping to visually pull it together since the flowers have a white border. I popped up the roses and wreath on the tag with foam tape and also popped up sentiment (from Everyday Sentiment Strips by Hero Arts).

And there you have the finished tag. Please let me know if you have any questions. As you most likely know, you can also find me on Instagram and Facebook @penguiinpapers

To learn more techniques by Wendy Vecchi, join her Facebook group: INK…STAMP & MAKE ART with Wendy Vecchi and follow her on Instagram @wendyvecchi . She adds new content frequently.

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