Distress Paint Background and Honey Bee Stamp's Springtime Birds

I diecut the Honey Bee Springtime Birds from Distress Watercolor Paper and painted them with Finetec Pearlescent watercolors. 

I received the most questions about the background, I painted it with Distress Paints in Mustard Seed, Picked Raspberry, Carved Pumpkin, Twisted Citron and Peacock Feathers. 

I made a YouTube video showing my process. 

 The branch is from Altenew’s Itty Bitty Flowers, the sentiment is from Altenew’s One Go Birthday Greetings.

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Honey Bee Stamps Springtime Birds die set

This glue is excellent, I have used it on all my projects. It comes with the tips shown. 


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Beach Scene Gnome

 

This week’s Simon Says Stamp’s Monday Challenge is Summer Mood Board!

Here’s my Brutus Monroe summer beach scene, it was chosen for the Designer Spotlight! Such an honor!

#96 Susan B– Lols loves the whole beach scene! The surfing penguin is just so groovy in his shades and hat and the flamingos are gorgeous! I love the background too, the sand and sea are fabulous.

Simon Says Stamp Sunrise Stem and Your Paper Insider Box 3

I received Box 3 from Your Paper Insider, a paper subscription. Included in the box was 25 pieces of 22 different papers. They are top quality papers and at $29.95 (shipping already included!). The subscription is 4x a year, you can cancel at any time. You can also buy single boxes for $5 more, if available. I think it's quite the deal. I have a clickable link below where you can read all the faqs. it's an interesting idea. Paper is really important to a good card. I'll show some other examples of cards I made using papers from this box.

I just got the Spellbinders Glimmer hot foil machine for my birthday! So I don't have many foilable dies, I experimented with a few. I found that the Spellbinders sentiments from the Sentimental Ampersand (small die of the month for Jan 2023) works! I thought it might because the die embosses the sentiment into the paper. This set is available as a freestanding set on the Spellbinders site.

The foiling worked great. No problems at all, it must be the smoothness of the paper. I saw a Yana Smakula YT video where she partially embossed a panel after foiling the sentiment. I decided to try it. I lined up the folder (March 2023 3D folder of the month) on the portion of the panel I wanted to emboss. And like partial diecutting, I put the top plate of my Big Shot over the embossing folder, but stopping it at the edge of the folder. If you go over this edge it will leave a harsh line on the paper. It looked great when I was done.

I had a scrap of gold metallic paper in my stash, so I cut a strip to fit the card and attached it. I matted the panel onto another piece from the Your Paper Insider Box, the chartreuse cardstock. I wish you could feel how nice these papers are, so heavy! 100 lb cover.

I diecut the Simon Says Stamp "Sunrise Stem" flower from Distress Watercolor Paper and painted it with Altenew's Artists Watercolors. This set is my favorite, intensly pigmented, a little bit goes a long way. The good thing about this set is that the colors included work great for florals. I put the flower together and before putting it on my card base, I splattered it with Crystal Gold Finetec paint. Any gold metallic paint will do, I just bought this at Blick because you can buy just one square. It's expensive but again, highly pigmented and mesmerizing.

 Here are 3 more cards I made using My Paper Insider paper from Box 3

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Susan

Your Paper Insider

Great glue includes these tips! Just as good as Bearly Arts Glue at a lower price.