What a glorious summer week we are having in Montana! All of you people who live a little further south got to enjoy spring and the end of winter a while ago. We just go from winter to summer here, no messing around with a leisurely springtime. When the warm weather hits, everyone is happy! I'm out on my bike more, out with my dog more and just plain outside more. It's wonderful!
I'm going back to some previous sneak peeks this week to go over the new products in more depth and include some helpful tips in using them. It's one thing to look at pictures here or on Pinterest, but when it comes to using the product, you often have questions. Hopefully my tips will help!
Today I want to feature the "Painted Glass" suite. This is a stained glass style that is really classic and gorgeous. There are three main elements to this suite that I've tried to capture in my card ideas below. There are stamps, framelits and stained glass vellum paper.
First, I'll focus on the framelits. There are VERY detailed! You will have to pull out every trick you know to be successful with these framelits. I first tried the precision base cutting plate and while it cut okay, I had a difficult time getting the cut piece out of the framelit without ripping the paper. You can see how narrow the design is below. I ended up going back to a homespun technique of layering wax paper between my cardstock and framelit. That helped the paper slid out easier and I managed to get all the pieces I wanted for my card, intact. The card below has 6 framelit cut pieces, the four corners, the square window and the window topper.
I used a combination of Stampin'Up! watercolor pencils (window topper) and Stampin' Blends (bird, butterfly and flower) for coloring. There was not a specific reason for this, just wanted to try some different looks. The butterfly, bird and flower are all cut out with framelits and as these are just outline dies, they were simple cuts. I should mention the topic of adhering these stained glass pieces on a project. The best idea is to use Stampin'Up! adhesive sheets at the time of cutting, then pull off the backing and stick them on your project. Otherwise, you can use a fine tip glue pen or dabs of Snail adhesive here and there.
For my next card, I used the long "ladder like" framelit, again using wax paper between the card stock and the framelit die. I intended to adhere these to a white or lighter colored cardstock, but they quit looking like shutters, which is what I was trying to create. I decided to adhere them to the same color card stock as the shutters themselves, Cherry Cobbler.
I was sorry to see our window framelit retire so I wanted to use it one more time! I love these shutters! In fact, I think I should put some on my house for real some day!
My next topic is the "Graceful Glass" Vellum paper. This paper is designed with a smooth side and a slightly raised, embossed side. You can fussy cut the paper and use just a portion of it without doing anything else, like I did below:
This also used the "Painted Glass" stamp set, which I'll talk about as we go! I used mini glue dots here and there to adhere my vellum paper and mounted it on a Designer Series Paper from the "Tranquil Tides" set.
The next technique is to actually color the backside of the vellum with our Stampin'Blends alcohol markers. If you color the backside, you don't run into the embossing raised lines and it's a little more forgiving if you color outside the lines. The color shows through great, although the vividness is a little more subtle than if you were coloring on white card stock alone.
In the card above, I colored all of the vellum, every section for a full stained glass look. In the next card, I left some white spaces to emphasize the colored spots. I saw this recently in some actual church stained glass windows up in Big Sky and thought it was lovely.
As you can see, there are some classic stamps to go with this set as well. Here are the products so you can get a better look and all my supplies are listed in the supply list at the end of the post. Click on any item and it will take you straight to my online store!
I hope you've enjoyed this product suite! It's truly unique and very versatile in how you can use it. I'm sure I'll be grabbing it again soon to play some more!
Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!
Sarah
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