One of the fun things about having a new set of In Colors added to the Stampin’ Up! range every year is it encourages me to revisit older (but still available) products. Today I decided it was time to break out the Hand-Penned Petals Stamp Set again. My original plan was simply to stamp one of the larger images and use the two-step stamping technique. However I simply couldn’t resist adding in a little heat embossing, before turning to the coordinating Penned Petals Dies. I’m very pleased with the result.
HAND-PENNED PETALS
Heat embossing was always part of my plan for this project and so started by pulling out my Stamparatus stamp platform. I placed some Thick Basic White Card onto the platform and held it down with the strong magnets. Next from the Hand-Penned Petals Stamp Set I chose the large multi-flowered images and placed it face down on the card. Closing one of the hinged plates meant I could pick up the stamp and gently add Sahara Sand ink to the surface.
Now, before stamping on the card I placed some scrap paper over the top of it. Then I closed the hinged plate onto the paper to remove some of the ink from the stamp. After removing the scrap paper I then stamped the very light image onto the card. Then, still leaving the stamp attached to the hinged plate I cleaned off the ink using a Simply Shammy.
Next without moving the stamped card, I was now ready to begin adding colour to the image using the solid stamps from the set. For this I chose Orchid Oasis and Parakeet Party ink pads, two of the five new 2022-2024 In Colors. I placed each of the stamps onto acrylic blocks and began to stamp. Each time I inked up a stamp I ‘stamped-off’ onto scrap paper to remove a little of the ink before stamping onto the floral image. Even after everything was coloured I wasn’t quite ready to move the card from the Stamparatus. I had one last process to complete…
I went back to the hinged plate where the floral stamp was still in place, and tapped a VersaMark ink pad onto the stamp surface. Then I closed the hinged plate so that the VersaMark was transferred onto my coloured floral image. Now I could finally remove the card and sprinkle it with gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder from the Metallics collection. After tapping off the excess powder I removed some stray specks and then melted the rest with my Heat Tool set on 2 (high).
PENNED PETALS DIES
At last I was ready to progress to the die cutting using the coordinating die from the Penned Flowers Dies set.
It was then that I noticed the scalloped edge die included in the Penned Flowers Dies set. This caused my design to take a completely different direction. From the Heart & Home 12″ x 12″ Designer Series Paper Pack I chose one of the wood effect patterns. After cutting a 2-1/2″ x 5-1/2″ strip I used the die to shape one of the long sides for my background layer.
From there I cut a 5-1/2″ x 8-1/4″ piece of Thick Basic White Card for my card base. With the long side at the top I scored it at 4-1/4″, then flipped it over so the other long side was at the top, This time I scored the card at 2-1/8″ before folding along the two scored lines to create a Z shape.
Using Multipurpose Liquid Glue (Tombow) I attached the wood-effect paper to the folded-back section of the card base. This left the scalloped edge of the paper over-hanging the fold a little. So next I cut a 1/2″ x 5-1/2″ piece of Orchid Oasis Card and tucked it under the overhanging DSP until the edge of the card was snug against the crease. Using liquid glue I fixed the card in place adding some bright contrast to the design.
FINAL TOUCHES
Now it was time for me to add the die-cut floral piece but first I wanted to add a little more shine. So I cut 18″ of gold cord from the Simply Elegant Trim pack. After flipping over the floral piece I added a few Mini Glue dots to the back to hold loops of the cord in place. Once I was happy with the arrangement I added Stampin’ Dimensionals over everything apart from the right-hand edge of the piece. With that done I fixed the image to the front of the card so the right-hand edge was able to move freely when the card was opened.
It was only then I realised I hadn’t done a sentiment. So I went back to the Hand-Penned Petals Stamp Set and chose “congratulations”. Then I heat-embossed it onto a 3/8″ x 2-1/8″ strip of Thick Basic White Card. To give the sentiment a little more strength I mounted it onto a 1/2″ x 2-1/4″ piece of Orchid Oasis Card using liquid glue. Then I fixed it onto the floral piece with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
That just left the front of the Basic White Medium Envelope to decorate, and I did this using the big floral image again. This time however I stamped it with Sahara Sand ink at full strength before adding the colour as before. With that my project was finally complete.
I have to say I love how this turned out. The new colours were such fun to play with, and it was nice to have an excuse to pull out the Hand-Penned Petals Stamp Set and coordinating dies again.
For another project using this stamp set and dies see my previous blog post Hand-Penned Petals called to me again.
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