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Hand Coloured Designer Series Paper

October 9, 2018 2 Comments

When you’ve set yourself a personal challenge to design and make 24 different cards in 24 hours, you’ll do anything.  For the fourth card in the series I fell back on a technique I tried some months ago.  This time I decided to create hand coloured Designer Series Paper in autumn colours.

Thankful for you card created using the Painted Harvest Stamp Set and hand coloured Designer Series Paper from the Natures Poem DSP pack from Stampin' Up!

HAND COLOURED DESIGNER SERIES PAPER

In the past, Stampin’ Up! have sold paper that was designed to be coloured, but that’s not what I used.  My Designer Series Paper (DSP) actually comes from the Nature’s Poem DSP pack.

The leaves on this paper are a pale brown. almost like an old photograph and I’ve previously coloured them with a single Stampin’ Blends alcohol marker.  This time though I decided to try using several Stampin’ Blends to give the paper a more autumnal feel.

For today’s hand coloured Designer Series Paper I chose Stampin’ Blends in light and dark Pumpkin Pie, light Soft Suede, light Shaded Spruce and light Real Red.  My technique was simple, start by colouring the whole leaf with the light Pumpkin Pie and then add some of the other colours.  Finally I went over the whole leaf again with the light Pumpkin Pie to blend everything together.

I worked in stages, completing one cluster of leaves on the 4″ x 5-1/4″ piece before then moving on to the next one.

Once the whole piece was coloured I trimmed off two 3/4″ x 5-1/4″ strips and set the three pieces aside.

A SIMPLE CARD BASE

Using my Stampin’ Trimmer I cut and scored a piece of Thick Very Vanilla Card for the card base.  Then I folded it along the scored line and sharpened the crease with a Bone Folder.

I took the 2-1/2″ x 4″ piece of hand coloured Designer Series Paper and fixed it to the card base with Multipurpose Liquid Glue (Tombow).

Next I fixed one of the 3/4″ strips of DSP to the right-hand edge of a layer of Very Vanilla Card with liquid glue and then added that to the inside of the card base.

Finally the last 3/4″ strip was attached to the side edge on the front of a Very Vanilla Medium Envelope.

THANKFUL FOR YOU

Close up of thankful for you card created using the Painted Harvest Stamp Set and hand coloured Designer Series Paper from the Natures Poem DSP pack from Stampin' Up!

The ‘I am thankful for you’ sentiment comes from the Painted Harvest Stamp Set.

I began by wiping a piece of Thick Very Vanilla Card with an Embossing Buddy to remove any oils and static.  Then I used VersaMark ink to stamp the sentiment.  I sprinkled the sticky ink with Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder and tapped off the excess, then removed some stray specks.  Finally I melted the remaining embossing powder with my Heat Tool set on 2 (high).

With the sentiment done, I decided to use my Big Shot and Magnetic Platform to cut it out.  I chose the #3 oval from the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies (counting from the smallest up).  I then added a few gold sequins from the Metallics Sequin Assortment using Mini Glue Dots.

Before adding the sentiment to the card front I thought it needed something to ‘anchor’ it to the background.  So I used Tear & Tape Adhesive to add two pieces of ribbon.  First some 5/8″ Burlap and then some Daffodil Delight 1/4″ Double-Stitched ribbon.  Attaching the ribbon as a strip this way is a good solution if you’re not confident tying bows.

With the ribbons in place, all that was left was for me to attach the sentiment with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

This is a simple layout and I could perhaps have added a layer of card under the DSP.  Overall though I’m pretty happy with how this project turned out.  Given more time I would not colour right to the edge of the images as I noticed afterwards that there was more bleeding than on regular cardstock.  That said it doesn’t look quite as bad in real life as it appears in the close-up photo.

If you’d like to see the earlier project where I coloured this DSP you’ll find it in my blog post One year on.

PRODUCT LIST

Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock

Very Vanilla 8-1/2″ X 11″ Thick Cardstock

Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

Very Vanilla 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock

Nature's Poem Designer Series Paper

Nature’s Poem Designer Series Paper

Medium Very Vanilla Envelopes

Medium Very Vanilla Envelopes

Pumpkin Pie Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack

Pumpkin Pie Stampin’ Blends Markers Combo Pack

Light Soft Suede Stampin' Blends Marker

Light Soft Suede Stampin’ Blends Marker

Shaded Spruce Light Stampin' Blends

Shaded Spruce Light Stampin’ Blends

Real Red Light Stampin' Blends

Real Red Light Stampin’ Blends

Painted Harvest Photopolymer Stamp Set

Painted Harvest Photopolymer Stamp Set

Embossing Buddy

Embossing Buddy

Versamark Pad

Versamark Pad

Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder

Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder

Heat Tool

Heat Tool

Big Shot

Big Shot

Big Shot Magnetic Platform

Big Shot Magnetic Platform

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

5/8" (1.6 Cm) Burlap Ribbon

5/8″ (1.6 Cm) Burlap Ribbon

Daffodil Delight 1/4" Double-Stitched Ribbon

Daffodil Delight 1/4″ Double-Stitched Ribbon

Metallics Sequin Assortment

Metallics Sequin Assortment

Stampin' Trimmer

Stampin’ Trimmer

Bone Folder

Bone Folder

Tear & Tape Adhesive

Tear & Tape Adhesive

Glue Dots

Glue Dots

Liquid Multipurpose Glue

Liquid Multipurpose Glue

Stampin' Dimensionals

Stampin’ Dimensionals

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Filed Under: Cards, Sentiment Cards (miscellaneous), Thank You Cards Tagged With: emboss, Nature's Poem DSP, Painted Harvest, ribbon, Stampin' Blends, Stitched Shapes Dies

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  1. geraldine says

    October 10, 2018 at 6:46 pm

    HOW did I miss this one?! Must have slept through it somehow! Just glad I didn’t miss out altogether! It’s very pretty! Love the idea of painting the DSP as you have and can’t get over how the addition of the colour just makes that paper suddenly come alive! Gotta love those Stampin’ Blends! Well done, Tracy!!

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    • Tracy Elsom says

      October 11, 2018 at 6:19 am

      Thank you Geraldine

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