'Beautiful Friendship' with Faux Silk technqiue!

Check out this pretty Hydrangea card!!  It is one of the cards that everyone joining me for my July monthly classes will be making!  I used the cool new stamp set called- 'Beautiful Friendship'.  Look at page 123 to check it out!

If you look closely at this card, you can see that I did a Faux Silk technique over the flower/leaf images.  It is really hard to see in the photo, but in person it is really pretty!

How did I do the Faux Silk technique?

1. Stamp flowers/leaves onto the Whisper White card stock.
2. Take a piece of tissue paper & wad it up.
3. Carefully open up the tissue paper, but do not flatten out- leave as many wrinkles & creases in it as possible.
4.  Use a glue stick & rub it all over the entire piece of card stock with the flowers/leaves stamped onto it.
5. Lightly press the tissue paper over the flowers/leaves images, so that it sticks to the glue.
6. NOTE:  BE sure you leave the crinkles in the tissue paper.......that is what makes it look cool.
7. NOTE:  BE sure that the tissue paper is a little bigger than the size of your card stock.
8. Take your Paper Snips & cut around the edges of the card stock, cutting off any excess tissue paper.  (OR you can tuck it under & onto the back side of the cardstock.)
9. I added some Basic Pearls over the tops of a few of the flowers.  

So what do you think?  Do you like it?  Don't you too think it is pretty?  

This NEW In Color called Sea Side Spray is a new favorite color of mine!!
 
stamp set:
‘Beautiful Friendship’ (photopolymer)- #149252= $22.00- pg. 123 
card stock:  

• Seaside Spray (24)- #150883= $8.75- pg. 164-   5 1/2 x 8 1/2”; 2 1/2 x 2" 
• Soft Sea Foam (24)- #146988= $8.75- pg, 163-   5 x 3 3/4”; 1 x 3 3/4”;  
• Whisper White (40)- #100730= $9.75- pg. 163-    4 3/4 x 3 1/2”; 4 3/4 x 3 1/2”; 2 3/4” strip

Ink: 

• Seaside Spray-# 150085= 7.50- pg. 164 
• Soft Sea Foam- #147102= $7.50- pg. 163

Other:  Leaf Punch- #144667= $16.00- pg. 187
Delightful Tag Topper Punch- #149518= $23.00- pg. 186
Basic Pearls- #144219= 5.00- pg. 178
5/8” Whisper White Tulle Ribbon- #146912= $7.50
2” Circle Punch- #133782= $18.00- pg. 187
Misc:  Glue Stick & Tissue Paper

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Yesterday was a busy day with the kids.  It was super hot & humid & we ended up getting rain.  So the races were cancelled.  Deke worked late & I worked on bookwork.  Manda, Steve & the boys stopped out to see us for a few minutes too.  We are still so tired & not adjusting well to the time change & jet lag.  We ended up going to bed about 10:30- which is early for us.

 

This morning Deke is up early to move pigs & hopefully get alot done before it gets super hot.  I'll be working on stamping stuff until the kids get here & then spend the day with them.  Tonight I'll be burning the midnight oil cutting card stock, when the kids go home.

 

I hope you have a great Thursday!!

Happy Stamping!
Hugs-

SUSIE