It's the last day of the month, and time for some Catch Up cards. A few of us dedicated the last day of the month as our Catch Up day. We pick any unfinished kit, event, class, etc from the past and complete it, posting our project on the last day of the month. I decided to dive into the most recent Let's Stamp Together kit. The live class was held back in July, and the featured company was Spellbinders.
Here are the cards from the class:
These cards are designed by Spellbinders.
The Stencils, stamps and dies are by Spellbinders and are called Jump for Joy.
The instructions were to use modeling paste and glitter for the flower, Lily pad and swirls on the pond.
I opted for 2 colors of Astro Paste by Simon Hurley: Frostbite and Tropical Tango. I applied with a spatula over the stencil. After cleaning up the stencil and spatula, a heat gun was used to speed up drying time.
Blending brushes were used to color the leaves and flowers. The second stencil was used to add the background leaves and cat tails.
I painted on some light blue stickles for the pond water.
This card has a blended cloud background created by using one of the dies in the kit and making a mask.
The gold cardstock on the bottom was free hand cut. Each sunflower, leaves and the frog have light ink blending for some added shade.
There's a stamp in the kit for clouds, but since my mask from the second card already had blue on it I decided to cut it into cloud shapes and use that.
The grassy hill is ink blended, again using a piece cut with the die to create a mask.
I really like the mushrooms, cone flowers and frogs in this kit. I admit, when I saw all of the die cutting and piecing together, I almost quit. For me, that is intimidating. But now I'm glad that I stuck with it.
Here are the links for my friends in the Catch Up Club. Please visit their blogs and admire their work from some past project or class.
