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Forever Ferns


It's been Forever...Ferns!


I've been getting my Stampin mojo back in shape lately. I've had lots of time due to the COVID Crisis. We have been home enjoying quality time since Spring Break in April. It has been a huge blessing to have this time with my kids. I have been reminded what it was like to be a stay at home mom. 

My classes are going strong, in spite of the social glitches. We meet on the 3rd and 4th Saturday of each month. This month we will be playing with the new  Forever Ferns stamp set and matching die. I have seen so many fantastic samples with this set! Here are the cards we will be making this month...most likely. I'm still playing so, they may change!

This first card was inspired by one I saw on Pinterest. The background rectangle is actually a clear block inked up with celery, old olive, garden green, and Bermuda bay ins. I spritzed the inked block with water and let the color run together. Then, I just 'stamped' the block onto my whisper white cardstock. The leaves are from the Forever Fern set, stamped with Versamark and embossed with gold. I layered the white front panel on top of a white card base to give it more depth. 










This next card is similar to the first one. The only difference is the clear block I used to 'stamp 'with. I layered the front panel on a slightly larger piece of old olive cardstock before adhering to my card base.

I really love how these stamps are detailed enough to not need coloring in. I think they really work well with this next technique. I used some washi tape from my stash to mask off the center of my card. I stamped the different images in blueberry bliss, rich razzleberry, mint macaron, and crushed curry. I carefully peeled the washi tape off when I was done and used my Stamparatus to stamp the sentiment in the blank space made by the mask. By this time I had a lot of in on my hands so I ended up getting som unwanted smudges. To fix this, I cut three pieces of white cardstock the same size as the blank space and layered them to cover my smudge. I really like how this turned out! I added some rhinestones to give it a bit of bling here and there.
 Because I wanted to build on the water coloring in the first card, I decided to do another watercolor technique.  For this card, I stamped one of the images with Versamark on watercolor paper and embossed it with white powder. After that, I stamped the other images in old olive, garden green, and celery randomly all over the paper. When I was done stamping, I spritzed the paper with water until it started to bleed and let it sit to dry. After it was dry, I wiped off the excess ink from the embossed images and layered it up on garden green and celery paper. I added an image from the coordinating dies I cut out with the gold foil paper. I love how the embossed images pop on the watercolored background! 
If you'd like to attend a class or order, please contact me. I am listing the supplies I used below. You can click on them to go to my Stampin' Up! site to order. Happy stamping!

olive ink padgreen ink padgold sheetswhite embossing powder

gold emboss powderblack inkclear rhinestone jewelspurple ink padHeat Tool (Us And Canada)FOREVER FLOURISHING DIES


fine tip liquid glueFLUID 100 WATERCOLOR PAPERGREENERY EMBOSSING FOLDERSwhite paperdeep green cardstock paperStamparatus











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