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Guest-designing for CAS-ual Fridays Stamps – Day 1!

21 Jun

Good morning!  I am SO excited to be guest-designing for CAS-ual Fridays Stamps for the next three days!  Michele, the lovely owner of CAS-ual Fridays Stamps contacted me a few weeks ago and asked if I would be interested in creating some cards with her stamps.  I had been checking out her website after seeing some of the music stamps in a challenge blog but hadn’t gotten around to placing an order yet.  So when I read her email I did a quick Snoopy dance around my living room and then replied with a super enthusiastic, YES! 🙂


So, here I am:  day 1!  I definitely erred on the side of bold and bright today!

www.allthesparkle.com Color Burst Powder CAS-ual Fridays Stamps

All of today’s cards use the new Ken Oliver Color Burst Powders.  I love the vibrancy of the colors and they create really fun patterns!  For the first card I started off by taping a piece of watercolor paper to my work surface.  I prepped the paper with my powder tool and stamped the music staff from CAS-ual Fridays Stamps Love Notes onto the paper with versamark before heat-embossing it with white superfine embossing powder.  Then I uncapped the Violet and Alizarin Crimson powders and puffed a tiny bit of powder onto the watercolor paper:

And then added a few spritzes of water to end up with this:

Yep that tiny bit of powder produced THAT much color!  I knew I wanted vibrant colors to help make the white embossing pop and that certainly did the trick!  As I’ve been experimenting with the powders I’ve found that I really prefer putting them on dry and adding water as it gives me a little more control over where the color goes and how much it blends.  I really like using them with this particular stamp as I knew the embossed lines of the staff and the stems of the notes would help to control some of the color.

Oh and sidenote, I have no idea where the pops of blue came from…there must be some rogue powder somewhere!

So, I let that panel dry completely and then trimmed it down using the lines of the staff as my guide.  After the watercoloring was dry I added the sentiment by stamping it with versamark and heat-embossing it with white superfine embossing powder.  To finish the card I took a piece of red cardstock and cut two strips to frame my watercolor panel.  I adhered the strips to the panel and then adhered the panel to a top-folding A2 black cardstock base.  And just for a little extra sparkle I added a few 4mm and 6mm red sequins!

For my next card I followed a similar plan but used Pthalo Green, Ultramarine Blue, and Violet instead:

I deliberately tried to keep the water heaviest at the top of the panel and lightest at the bottom to get that interesting splatter effect at the bottom.  I really like the way that looked on the first card and wanted to try to focus more on that splatter for this card.  I used the same Love Notes stamp for this card but trimmed off only the top, added a strip of purple, and added a sprinkling of purple sequins to change it up a bit.

My last card for today uses the same powders but just to change things up I spritzed the paper with water first and then puffed on the Alizarin Red and Ultramarine Blue powders.  Once the watercoloring was dry I prepped the paper with my powder tool and then stamped the treble clef and sentiment from Big Treble with versamark before heat-embossing it with superfine white embossing powder.  I added a few glass slippers sequins but thought the card was missing something.  I loved the big white embossed treble clef but thought it needed a little more sparkle.  So I used the coordinating Treble Clef Fri-dies to cut the treble clef from silver glitter paper.  I mounted it to the card with foam mounting tape and deliberately offset it so that the white embossed treble clef would give the die-cut a little extra dimension!

Anyway, that’s it for today!  Please head over to the CAS-ual Fridays Stamps blog and leave some love and stop by tomorrow for a music-themed shaker and a floral-inspired card!  Thanks so much for visiting!  If it’s your first time, hello, and I hope you’ll come back again! 🙂

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  1. Mateja P says

    June 21, 2015 at 6:40 am

    These are beautiful 🙂 You did such a great job!

    Reply
  2. Kristie G. says

    June 21, 2015 at 7:46 am

    WOW! These are awesome, Jess! Congratulations on your GD spot!

    Reply
  3. Marianne says

    June 21, 2015 at 8:17 am

    WOW! Amazing cards!

    Reply
  4. Elaine says

    June 21, 2015 at 9:58 am

    Love these designs & the powders!!

    Reply
  5. Greta H says

    June 21, 2015 at 11:01 am

    Wow–had to come see how you made these cards when I got my CFS e-mail–gorgeous! Love your colors & designs! The second one is my favorite–the splatter look is wonderful–could stare at this all day! I’ve never heard of these powders–probably a good thing–LOL! Congrats on GD!

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  6. Rubeena says

    June 21, 2015 at 11:03 am

    Congrats on guest-designing! Your cards are gorgeous and vibrant!

    Reply
  7. conil says

    June 21, 2015 at 11:54 am

    “Just a Note” to say I popped over from CASual-Fridays because I was blown away by your cards. Wowza, girl, they are awesome. All three just bounce off the page with energy and movement. Yay for you. I’ll be back, to quote another Californian.

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  8. Kim Ross says

    June 21, 2015 at 5:24 pm

    Wow!! I saw these on CAS-ual Fridays, but I had to come over and get more information about how you did it. These cards are spectacular — and I’ve got to add some of that powder to my wish-list. You just won rubber-stamping. All of it. Awesome.

    Reply
  9. Deepti says

    June 21, 2015 at 5:51 pm

    Wow beautiful creations Jessica! I can’t pick a favorite, love them all. Congrats on ur GD 🙂

    Reply
  10. Shona Chambers says

    June 23, 2015 at 12:44 am

    So incredible and love all those swirly colours. Gorgeous designs too!!

    Reply
  11. Clare Nemeth says

    June 25, 2015 at 9:31 am

    Love your cards! This stamp set is wonderful! We are SN sistahs.

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