Hello Hello

 Hello PWP fans!  Its Amber here with you today sharing another card featuring one of the Geisha girls from the Geishas Cling Stamp Set and a sentiment stamp from the Vintage Technology Clear Stamp Set. I had lots of fun creating this one. Below I have a step by step tutorial for you to check out.

Step 1. Pick two different coordinating patterned papers. I used a polka dotted paper for the top half and a dark watercolored piece for the bottom half. The top half is larger then the bottom half. 

Step 2. Cut the patterned paper to fit the card base. 

Step 3. Stamp your image and sentiment onto another piece of coordinating patterned paper. I used a pink patterned paper and stamped my images in a blue ink that matched the other patterned papers.

Step 4. Cut out your image and sentiments. I also cut out a little banner to add to the top of my card.

Step 5. Lay out your images, staple your banner to the top left, staple the two hello sentiments to the bottom left, and add some matching ribbon. After you card is assembled add some stitching around the outside edges. You can see a close up below. 

I hope you enjoyed my card today! This will be my last post for Paper Wings Productions. I've had so much fun creating for the blog. Thank you for letting me be apart of your team Carrie.
Supplies:  Cardstock- White / Patterened Paper- Basic Grays Fresh Cuts Collection / Paper Wings Productions Cling Stamp Set- Geisha's / Paper Wings Productions Clear Stamp Set- Vintage Technology / Versa Color Ink Pad- Blue /  Lime Green Ribbon- Fancy Pants / Sulky Thread- White

Featured Friday- Stamping in my December Album

Hey everyone, Katie here! Today is Featured Friday so I wanted to feature this spread I created in my December Album that I used multiple Paper Wings Productions stamps on!

I started the right side of my album spread spray misting over a circle stencil and then stamping over it as well with the Writing stamp and the small heart from the Holiday Tags stamp set.

After that I removed the stencil, added some doodles and more stamping, then added on my photo and embellishments.

For the left side of the page I started by scribbling some blue gelatos around just to add color. Then I did a lot of stamping using the Holiday Tags set, Vintage Technology set and the Top 10 List stamp set.

 Thanks for stopping by! Are you keeping a December Daily type album this month?

If you haven't yet, be sure to enter our December Challenge!

Holiday Tags Clear Stamp Set

Vintage Technology Clear Stamp Set

Writing Cling Stamp

Top 10 List

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Tutorial Tuesday- Copic Coloring

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Hey everyone, Katie here for Tutorial Tuesday! Today I wanted to share these cards I created using the Vintage Technology stamps and my Copic markers.

Before we get started, I want to congratulate the winner of our Blog Hop Giveaway!  

Heather ThompsonOctober 5, 2014 at 9:01 AM

Great hop!!! Love all the projects. I look forward to seeing what the DT comes up this month.

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I love my Copic markers. They're pricey, but worth it! I'm honestly still pretty new at using the alcohol ink markers, but I wanted to show you guys how I use them to add depth to my stamped images by blending the colors.

Start by stamping your image onto cardstock (copic specific paper is even better but not necessary). Memento ink is the best for Copics!

For this technique you need 3 shades of one color.

1. Color your image with your lightest color.

2. In the areas where you think should be shadowed or darker, color with your 2nd (the medium shade) color.

3, Go over the edge of where the 2 colors meet with the light color, coloring in small circles along the edge.

4. Repeat steps 2-3 with your darkest color and in the far shadows.

How to make the dotted background:

1. Starting with your lightest color, place the very tip lightly down onto the paper to create a small dot. Keep adding tiny dots around your stamped image out in a circle.

2. Repeat with your medium color.

3. With your darkest color, keep the dots close around the middle around your stamped image.

So there you have it- a couple of easy Copic coloring techniques to use on fun stamps like the Vintage Technology stamps!

If you haven't joined in on the October challenge yet, all you have to do is create a project using a Halloween theme or the colors orange and black and link it here.

Vintage Technology Clear Stamp Set

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Technique Tuesday: Iron-Off Embossing with Watercolor

Hello! It's Kristie Larsen here... I'm excited to be joining you for my first blog post as a guest designer for Paper Wings Productions! 

Today I wanted to show you a fun technique that I love to use: Iron-Off Embossing with water-colour. I used this technique for my CAS card above, but I will show you step by step how to make it work for you whether you like scrapbooking, ATC, journal art or card making. This technique is fun regardless!

You want to start with a few supplies right at your fingertips. You will need some Versamark ink, clear embossing powder, an embossing gun and your regular ol' clothes iron (without water) and of course water-colour paper! You also need your Paper Wings Productions stamp of choice.  I chose to use the gorgeous Tile  Pattern clear stamp.  Mmmmm, how I love it ; )

Now let me tell you why I love this stamp.... one word: Versatile, with a capital V! I  love its size because you can use it perfectly on an A2 size panel and it creates a perfect frame around it. Or you can cover small spaces or continuously stamp big spaces. There's not a place where you can't use it. It's just perfect!

Step 1:  Trim a piece of water-colour paper to standard A2 size. Stamp image with Versamark ink and heat emboss with clear embossing powder.

Step 2: Secure your embossed paper onto your table (I used washi tape... it's so pretty!). Be sure to secure the edges so the water doesn't warp it too much. Because of the nature of the stamp I chose, I also masked off the edges of the images so no colour would get into my 'white frame' around the stamp.

Step3. Now watercolor to your hearts content! Here I used 3 shades of Peerless Watercolor to create an ombre effect.  I'm impatient so I dry it quick with a heat gun.

Step 4:  Cover your dried stamped image with a scratch piece of type paper. Using your iron set on med-high, iron over the scratch paper. It will melt the embossing powder underneath and lift off the stamped image leaving only the water-colour.

You can tell you have it all off if you bend it in the light and all the shiny embossing is gone. What is revealed is a gorgeous watercolored image and no glossy powder.  I love the effect! It's so stunning but not too shiny.

Step 5: Finish off your project! I trimmed my panel down a bit more and popped it up on a card base. I love the look of white on white! I then used some die cuts to create my sentiment and adhered it over the top of my ironed-off image. And my new card was born!

You can also use your favourite Paper Wings Productions stamps to make an amazing background on any size piece of paper. Below I made another card, but since I used single images, it would be easy to adapt it to a bigger scrap page or even custom stamped paper for an altered item! I used more of my favourite stamps (can you have too many favourites?!) These are all images from  Vintage Technology.

After stamping and embossing my images I made a pretty mess with three different water colours. I ironed off my powder and then used the panel as a starting off point for a more elaborate look. I used the Solid Whimsical Alphabet set to stamp in grey ink along the centre diagonal of the panel and then used the Sacred Geometry  set for some circular designs along the top right corner.  If you look really really closely you can see I used the Tile Pattern stamp again in a pale blue along the bottom lefthand corner. I wanted to do the exact opposite of my first card and get some real layering going!

I used some stencils and some water spritz to lay over another ink layer on top. I fussy cut and watercolored another camera image from Vintage Technology and added a sentiment from it on the bottom right of my card. I trimmed my panel and justified it down to the bottom right hand corner leaving a trim of white card base peeking out on the left/top side.

See how great?! One technique that can be used in so many ways that the possibilities are endless! It is so much fun to do this technique because you get really inky and can spend an entire evening in stamping bliss! Ironing has never been so much fun. Trust me!

Thanks so much for joining me. I hope today brings you a breeze of inspiration from an unexpected place. Keep you're eyes open!

xoxo
k

Sacred Geometry Clear Stamp Set

Vintage Technology Clear Stamp Set

Solid Whimsical Alphabet Clear Stamp Set

Tile Pattern Clear Stamp

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Scrapbook Saturday

Happy Saturday Paper Wings fans!  Erica with you today for Scrapbook Saturday and I am so excited to be sharing a layout I created!  Today is all about stamps and creating a fun background for my layout!

I am using a handful of stamps from the Paper Wings Productions shop to create my fun background.  I started with a white piece of 12x12 cardstock and then started stamping out different images all over the paper.  I already had my photo matted with its layers so I knew where I wanted that to go on my paper so I just added a few pencil lines so I had an idea where to stamp around.

The photo I am scrapbooking is of my son Gavin.  He loves bath time so much and he will be in the tub for sometimes an hour or more!  When he hears the word bath time he gets so excited you would think it was his birthday!!  I wanted to create a fun, festive, party time back ground because bath time to Gavin is just as exciting as a party!

Once I had my images stamped out I pulled out my  and my watercolors from the Paper Wings Productions shop and began to color in some of the images to bring a little bit more color into the layout.
Once the color was dry I added my journaling and some embellishments to the layout and it was complete.

I think it turned out just the way I had planned it out in my head and I love the look!  Reminds me of doodling I would do in my notebook!  I hope you will give this a try and link up your completed project to our May Challenge "Anything Goes".  Thanks so much for stopping today and spending a little time with me!  If you missed yesterdays post please CLICK HERE for Throwback Thursday where Carrie shows off past PWP projects using this months featured stamps that are 40% off for the month of May!!  No coupon is needed for these stamps just click here to begin shopping!   I hope you all have a wonderful rest of your weekend and a Happy Mother's Day!