Category: Vellum

Doodle Ideas from Our Customers

6/17/2019

A few months ago, Wendy taught a demo teaching her take on Doodling. She showed how she would create a page of doodles (like 4 doodles on a page) and then make copies of her doodle creations on both card stock and vellum... giving her a RANGE of possibilities.

Below is pictured her Doodles, the same image is copied onto a piece of card stock AND a piece of vellum

At demo, Wendy challenged the attendees to do something else with her doodle.. she passed out full card stock sheet of her doodle and asked each attendee to bring back ONE of their ideas!!

Well... you can see that our customers are CREATIVE to say the least!!

Check out all these amazing ideas!!!

First Design has a circle theme.. and I LOVE what these gals created!!

I love the texture on this one!! The Beads and Acrylic Paint dots are SO FUN here!! Great use of shape!!

Here, one of our customers used Acrylic and Glitter Paints to emphasize the shape!!

Or look here how this customer used shaped sequins, gems, and Acrylic Paint to embellish the doodle.. I LOVE the colors here!!

These 2 ideas came from Wendy and Elli..

Wendy colored part of her image with a red Tombow Marker and then used the Scribble Circles die-cut from Impression Obsession.

Elli used an X-acto knife to cut out some of the circles and then backed the image with Glitter Paper

The next design that Wendy created was inspiring on a variety of different levels!

I love how here a customer used BUTTONS to add dimension!!

Awhile back Wendy created this one where she copied her doodle onto Vellum, colored it, and sandwiched it between 2 pieces of card stock (that each had an oval cut out of it) so that the light shines through!!

The details and fine dots on this one make it so you can see new detail each time you look at it.

This was one that Elli created using this Fishing Boat die-cut from Taylored Expressions.. the doodle looked a little like an ocean scene.. so this die-cut fit PERFECTLY with it!

This doodle had great movement... check out what some of the gals did with this one!!

Look how one customer made a MINI BOOK!!!! I love this SO MUCH

Check out this AMAZING shadowbox that one of the gals made!!!! The black base and the colors are SO VIBRANT in this creation!!

Check out the AMAZING colors in this one!! I loved how she added the bold pops of black as the focal point in the middle of the art piece!!

Look at this one that Wendy created using her Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Pen and Tombow Markers

This idea was created by coping the doodle onto vellum, then cutting it apart, gluing it down with Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive, and then adding light tones with a White Uniball gel pen

The geometric shapes in this next one lend for some AMAZING ideas!!

I LOVE this one where she cut it apart to make it look like buildings!!

Wendy used the doodle as the background for this fun Laurel Burch stamp from Stampendous.. the geometric shapes work together PERFECTLY

Elli created this one, again cutting it apart to make it look like shelving!! We added the mini-cats from Impression Obsession to add a FUN flare!

It's SO AMAZING what you can create with a doodle!!!

If you need help getting started on doodling, stop by the store to get inspired!!

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Tuesday with Wendy, June 4th

6/7/2019

I love how fun the cards are from this last week of Tuesday with Wendy card making class!!!

This first card was inspired by the Nesting Circles and Nesting Rounded Rectangles die-cuts from Hero Arts!!

To make the card:

Start out with a piece of thick Vellum. WEAR GLOVES while you colorize your piece of Vellum with Alcohol inks. To do this, pick up a small piece of wool (for Alcohol Inks) and apply a little bit of Alcohol Blending Solution to the wool. THEN apply a couple drops of 2 colors of Alcohol Ink onto the wool (Wendy chose 2 colors from Ranger, Turquoise and Limeade). Smoosh the piece of wool onto the surface of the vellum until the vellum is covered in color!
Now use your home die-cut machine to cut a piece of black card stock with one of the larger Rounded Rectangle die cuts
Now, take the piece of black card stock that you just cut with the die-cut machine and cut out a series of circles. Wendy used the Nesting Circle Infinity Dies because you can get SO MANY SIZES of circles!! When you overlay the piece of card stock (that has the circles cut out of it) on top of the Alcohol Inked Vellum, you get the color peeking through.
On each of the circles, press them into on of 2 Distress Oxide ink pads (the Distress Oxide inks show up on black paper). Wendy chose the Distress Oxide ink colors Twisted Citrone and Peacock Feathers
Now, it's time to put the card together!! Start with a teal-colored card base. Next, adhere the BLACK CARD STOCK TO THE VELLUM (yes the piece of black card stock with the circles cut out of it). That way you can apply the adhesive onto the vellum in the areas that are covered up by the black card stock. Wendy used the Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive to adhere the Vellum to a piece of white card stock. Wendy used a pair of scissors to trim the piece of white card stock to be the same size as the vellum. Then Wendy used double-sided tape to adhere the layered pieces to the front of her card base.
Finally, layer the circles on the front of the card arranging them in a fun way! Wendy used pop dots for dimension and added in gems for an extra *bling* element!!

I love how fun and funky this card is!! Of course, the added Gems are always fun for adding focal points!

The next card that Wendy created was inspired from this *Wonderful* stamp set from Altenew, Everlasting Happiness

To make the card:

Start out with a piece of black card stock. Using your Tim Holtz stamp platform, stamp the largest floral circle onto the front of the card base using Versafine Clair, Nocturne
Then, use Prismacolor Pencils to color the florals, leaves and sprigs
Next, put your piece of black card stock back into the Tim Holtz stamp platform and stamp down the largest floral circle AGAIN and it should land in the same spot. Then use Detail Black embossing powder across the entire image. Heat set the image
Then, stamp the the sentiment, Celebrate Life, onto a strip of white card stock. Using a fine line black pen (such as a Le Pen) and a ruler, add a thin line above and below the sentiment to add a focal point.
Wrap the strip of white paper around the front of the black paper and use double-sided tape to adhere it to the back of the card stock. Mount this onto a piece of aqua-colored card stock and adhere it all to the front of a purple card stock base

Just LOOK HOW STUNNING this card is!!! I love the pop of color!!

The last card that Wendy created was ALSO inspired by the Altenew stamp set, Everlasting Happiness

To make the card:

Start out with a half-sheet of yellow card stock. Score the paper at 2 1/8" from the left AND 2 1/8" from the right to create a gate-fold card.
Use your home die-cut machine to cut out 2 ivory circle shapes. Also cut out a pink polka dot circle and a purple polka dot circle of the same size. Stamp the small floral circle onto each of the ivory card stock circles. Inside the circles, stamp a sentiment. Wendy stamped "Love Grows Here" and "Dream" inside each of the circles with the same color of stamp ink, Versafine Clair ink, Medieval Blue
On the LEFT gate fold, AT THE TOP, adhere the purple polka dot circle and one of the floral circles, making sure to make them off-set
On the RIGHT gate fold, AT THE BOTTOM, adhere the pink polka dot circle and the other floral circle, again making sure they are off-set.
On another piece of ivory card stock, stamp JUST THE FLOWERS part of one of the small floral circles. Wendy did this by using an acrylic block and lining up the flowers on the top, left, and right side. Then, Wendy pasted the card stock with the florals on the INSIDE of the gate fold.
To finish off the card, Wendy took a piece of decorative floral paper and scored it at the top so that it folds over the top to the back just slightly (about a 1/4" overlap). The piece will fold over the front.
The last thing she did was fold the card closed and made a 12" strip with yellow card stock, about an inch wide, and adhered it with double-sided tape. Wendy tied a sheer coral-colored ribbon around the yellow strip and tied a knot on the front.

I love how bright and summery this card is!!

I love how fun it is to interact with all the flaps and openings!

Join us for the NEXT Tuesday with Wendy card making class!! It will be offered on June 18th.

PLEASE CALL to sign up!! 360-647-9663

See you soon!!

The Art of Doodling

4/5/2019

What is doodling? Doodling is drawing lines, swirls, dots, and zig-zags in a fun way with little fore-thought or plan to create designs that you are intrigued by in the moment

So many people get overwhelmed when it comes to putting a pen onto a blank piece of paper.. but I like to think of it as a Project WAITING TO HAPPEN!!!

When it comes to doodling, many of us having been doing it for YEARS! Maybe you used to draw swirls on the side of school papers, maybe you like to add a row of dots and scallops along the edge of your paper... you may be a Doodler and not even know it!!

Wendy was the demonstrator for Demo this week, and she taught us about the "Art of Doodling" .. check out some of these great ideas!!

First, Wendy started out by doodling on a piece of white card stock using her FAVORITE doodling pen... the Black Glaze Pen. She sectioned it out so she had 4 doodles on one piece of paper

Then, Wendy just copied her doodles onto a piece of white card stock AND onto a piece of Vellum

I like that the SAME DOODLE looks different depending on which paper it is copied onto...

Then, Wendy and I HAD SOME FUN!!!!

Wendy took half a sheet and I took half a sheet... and we played around with concepts and ideas on how to USE the doodles to create cards!!

Just LOOK AT THESE IDEAS!!!!

This one was really fun... We started out with this design (Wendy had the one printed on Vellum and I had the one printed on white card stock)

Wendy's Idea:

Wendy colored with Tombow Markers on the Vellum on the BACK SIDE of the doodle design. Then she found this fun stamp from Laurel Burch and colored the image with Prismacolor colored pencils making sure to use the SAME COLOR PALETTE as she colored the background.

When you color on Vellum with markers on the BACK SIDE of the Vellum you get this beautiful, muted effect that I JUST LOVE.

Elli's Idea:

Now, when I saw this image... I thought of ... SHELVES!!!

I used my home-die-cut-machine to cut out the Mini Cats from Impression Obsession so I could have them WALKING ON THE SHELVES

I used an X-acto knife to cut out some of the shapes and spread them apart so I could adhere some Mini Cats on the "shelves" that I created.

Then we played with the next design... Wendy took the one that was printed on Vellum and I took the one that was printed on white card stock

Wendy's Idea:

Wendy took hers (that was printed on Vellum) and watercolored her image using Tombow Markers and her Aqua Shimmer Pen. THEN she backed the piece of Vellum with a piece of Acetate (so the piece of Vellum is more sturdy). She cut out an oval in the front of her card base and the same size oval out of a piece of black card stock. Wendy tucked her image between the card base and the black piece of card stock so that the middle is translucent when you look at it in front of a window. Wendy added MORE DOODLES on the black card stock with a Purple Gel Pen.

Wendy added in the Hello die-cut from Hero Arts on the very front and I JUST LOVE how it turned out!!!

Elli's Idea:

At first glance at the doodle, it looked a little bit like a beach scene! I took Tombow Markers and a Waterbrush and added in some color for the sun, sky, and beach. Then, I took an X-acto Knife and cut just part of the line between the water and sand and added in a couple pop-dots to add dimension. Then I die-cut this Fishing Boat from Taylored Expressions and tucked it in the slit I created to make it look like a boat on water.

I used the same colors to color the boat and to add a little bit of color here and there... I didn't want the image to be too busy so I just added a pop of color rather than coloring the ENTIRE image.

The next design was A LOT OF FUN. Wendy had the one printed on white card stock and I had the one printed on Vellum

Wendy's Idea:

Wendy took Tombow Markers and the Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Pen and watercolored this image. It was such a quick and easy card to put together.. and the Aqua Shimmer Pen is SO IRIDESCENT and beautiful!! It really brings this image to life...

Elli's Idea:

I thought it would be fun to mount mine onto a piece of black card stock. I started out by cutting my image (printed on Vellum) into sections... I just followed the lines Wendy had drawn.. and then used the Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive to adhere my Vellum in place (THIS GLUE IS GREAT FOR VELLUM!!).

When I laid down my sections, I separated them a bit so the black card stock was visible between the images. Then, I went back in with a Uniball White Gel Pen and added some highlights here and there.

I LOVE how this turned out!!!

This was the last design that Wendy and I played with... Wendy had the image printed on white card stock and I had the image that was printed on Vellum...

Wendy's Idea:

Wendy started out by coloring SOME of the image red with a Tombow Marker. THEN she used the Scribble Circles die-cut from Impression Obsession to cut into her image. I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!!!!

The circle pattern on the doodle COMBINED with this Scribble Circles die-cut leads to an AMAZING CARD.

I love the colors, the movement, and just the FUN that this card has... Great design!!!

Elli's Idea:

This image to me had a lot of negative and positive space... and I wanted to make those areas POP!!!

I just used an X-acto Knife and a cutting mat to cut out some of the little circles and sections in the doodle and then used The Ultimate Glue to adhere the Vellum to a piece of Light Purple Glitter Paper.

I LOVE how the pop of glitter draws your eye to focal points without it being too overwhelming.. Of course I LOVE glitter so I wanted that to be my focal point!

Really, Doodling is just the BEGINNING of what you can do!!!

If you want to start doodling, but are not sure where to begin, I suggest you take a piece of nice, white card stock and a black pen that feels comfortable to write with (like a Uniball Pen or a Gel Pen) and just draw. Just draw a line, then draw swirls at the end of the line, add some dots, add some circles, create a zig-zag... don't think, JUST HAVE FUN.

You never know what you can create when you just let the creativity flow!!

If you need more inspiration, or ideas on HOW to use your doodles to make a card, stop by the store!! We would LOVE to help!!

See you soon!
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Tuesday with Wendy, March 19th

3/22/2019

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the cards from this week's card making class!!! THEY ARE ALL SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

Perfect cards for Spring Time!!

The first card that Wendy created was made using this BRAND NEW stamp set from Creative Expressions, Pink Ink Designs called Dragonfly Wings Series. Wendy also used paper from this new paper collection from BoBunny, Harmony

To make the card:

Start out with a half-sheet of light yellow card stock, score your paper in the middle and fold the card in half.
Next, open the card flat and stamp your Dragonfly Body image on the INSIDE OF THE CARD on the right side using Versafine Clair Ink, Medieval Blue. Use Crystal Embossing Powder and heat-set it. Then place a piece of decorative paper on the INSIDE OF THE CARD on the left side.
Now, with the card open, score your paper AGAIN this time coming from the right side of the card, score it it at 2 1/8" making sure NOT TO SCORE over the dragonfly body!
Use an X-acto Knife to cut out the Dragonfly Body on the LEFT SIDE OF THE SCORE LINE ONLY. Once you have trimmed the body of the dragonfly, you can fold the flap of the right side of the dragonfly body so it creates a tri-fold card.
Next, stamp the Dragonfly Wings on a piece of thick vellum using the Hero Arts Unicorn White Ink pad and use White Diamond Embossing Powder. Then heat-set your image. Also stamp little dragonflies on the decorative paper we placed on the left side of the card
Fussy-cut the 2 sets of Dragonfly Wings. We suggest you keep the top and bottom wings connected so you can easily adhere them in place with a little bit of Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive. Make sure to just adhere the wings at the Dragonfly Body base and leave the rest of the Wings free-floating
Then, use 2 of your Hero Arts Nesting Oval dies to die-cut a thin oval out of light pink card stock. Use Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive to adhere the oval on the decorative paper.. it's ok if you cover up your little dragonflies just slightly.
When you close the tri-fold card, your Dragonfly should look like it is resting in the middle of the thin pink oval.. kind of giving the impression of a dragonfly landing on a lake!!

This card is so delicate and STUNNING in design and beauty... we all LOVE this card so much!!

The next card that Wendy designed was inspired from the ALL NEW Lavinia Stamps, Seeing is Believing and the Zen Rose

To make the card:

Start with a piece of white card stock and use the Versafine ink, Onyx. Wendy used this ink to stamp the fairy image in the middle of her card stock THEN went back in with the Zen Rose stamp and stamped around the fairy image
Then, Wendy sprinkled on Embossing Powder. She put Crystal Embossing Powder on the fairy (then shook off the excess) and then covered the rest of the image with Detail Clear Embossing Powder. Then she heat-set the entire image.
Wendy used a coral-colored piece of card stock as her card base. She used the Hero-Arts nesting Rectangles to cut out an oval in a piece of pink card stock
Adhere the stamped fairy image/zen roses to the coral-colored card base and finish off the card by adhering the oval cut-out on top of the image.

I LOVE THIS CARD!!!!

It is *so magical* and brings me so much joy!!

The last card that Wendy designed was inspired from this die-cut from Creative Expressions, Happy Birthday Edger

To make the card:

Start with die-cutting the Happy Birthday Edger paper out of white felt-weave card stock
Use the Picket Fence Blending Brushes and 3 colors of Distress Ink: Seedless Preserves, Shabby Shutters, and Peeled Paint to create a beautiful ombre color on the Happy Birthday die-cut.
Now use the Aqua Shimmer Pen to color across the entire die-cut so the colors of ink now look *iridescent* and magical
Use a card base that is a darker shade of purple. Wendy used a small strip of paper from the Graphic 45 Bloom Collection above and below the sentiment.
Use pop-dots to add dimension to a few of the letters of the Happy Birthday die-cut... this adds interest and makes it MORE FUN!!

This card is WONDERFUL and is so fun and brilliant... and looks dramatic and exciting (even though it's an easy card to create!!)

If you would like to join us for the NEXT Tuesday with Wendy card making class, you can sign up by calling us here at the store!

It will be offered on Tuesday, April 2nd

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Make your Own Stencils

3/1/2019

Last week for Demo, Bekah taught us about making your own stencils!!

Bekah loves to use powerful female figures in her art... and she is SO TALENTED!!

You can make stencils from pretty much any image....

Bekah always starts with an image she is inspired by..

Here, Bekah started with the cover of a book... She took a piece of tracing paper and traced over the portrait to create a stencil.. (you can also use a piece of vellum for tracing)

Then, Bekah took ANOTHER piece of tracing paper and made a positive and negative of each section so she could create her stencil.

Bekah used the THIN ACETATE for creating her stencil image of Malala. She laid down the acetate on her final drawing and used a ball point pen (or a sharpie) to transfer the final image.

Finally, she used an X-acto Knife to cut out the sections of acetate.

Just look at the level of detail she was able to get!!

For this next image, Bekah found a great image of Helen Keller. For this design, she just made a sketch (instead of tracing) of Helen Keller. Then, just like before, she created positive and negative areas to create her stencil.

For this one, Bekah used the THICK ACETATE and used a Hot Knife to cut into it.

**The Hot Knife only works with the Thick Acetate.... the Thin Acetate has a higher melting point**

**When using the Hot Knife, you must use a Glass Media Mat!! Bekah uses the Tim Holtz Glass Media Mat**

Next, Bekah wanted to create a fun Bear image... but wanted to use different colors for the ears, the mouth, and the eyes and nose.

To do this, Bekah drew with a Sharpie on the Thin Acetate and used an X-acto Knife to cut out the different masks.

Bekah then used the Large Picket Fence Blending Brushes to apply layers of Distress Ink to reveal her Bear

Bekah used 3 shades of Distress ink for the Rainbow Background. Then she removed the the mask for the ears
Next, she laid down the face (eyes and mouth) and applied Black Soot Distress Ink
Lastly, she laid down the circle for the mouth and used Vintage Photo Distress Ink to reveal the snout

Using MASKS is different than using a STENCIL only in that a mask covers some of the work you've already done so you can cover other areas with ink without messing up the other images.

LOOK HOW CUTE!!!!

There are SO MANY VARIATIONS for making your own stencils.... Have you played with any ideas??! We would LOVE to hear about it!!

Give us a call if you have any questions!
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