Stampin’ Up! Festive No-Coloring Pleasant Pheasants!

Good Monday, y’all.

I’ll just go ahead and apologize for the early oxy-moron, okay?

If you were able to join me last night for my Facebook Live Video, I appreciate you giving me a part of your weekend!  If not, but would like to take a gander at the video via the sorta-but-not-really instant replay, here ’tis!

I love the Pleasant Pheasant set, but…the prospect of coloring the large pheasant image always sort of made me pause, so…when I saw another technique, I was intrigued – and tried it right away.  I put my not-colored image on some Festive Farmhouse DSP and framed it with a Wood Textures frame.  Take a look-see:

The layout is from the current Sunday Stamps sketch challenge – although I flipped it on it’s side.

And seeing as how Thanksgiving is definitely a Holiday – I played along with the Watercolor Wednesday Challenge!

I started by matting a piece of Festive Farmhouse on Mossy Meadow card stock for the card front – then I added a different design – also matted on Mossy Meadow – over the top with Liquid Glue.

The art piece, from the Pleasant Pheasant stamp set, is a piece of Cherry Cobbler card stock.  I used my Stamparatus to stamp the image in Versamark Ink, then I sprinkled it with Clear Stampin’ Emboss Powder and heat set it with my Heat Tool.

Then the magic started!  Linda Heller – a very talented SU! demonstrator – did a card using this bleaching technique and the Pleasant Pheasants stamp set.  You can check hers out right here!

I used an old Blender Pen and dipped the tip in a teensy amount of Bleach and “colored” the Pheasants!  Wherever the tip touches – the bleach lightens it right up!  I painted – let it dry to see what I had – painted – let it dry…etc.  Until I was happy with the “shading”!

I used my Cherry Cobbler Stampin’ Write Marker to add faux stitches.

With the berry die (one of my very favorite dies EVER!) from the Frosted Bouquet Framelits, I cut two branches from Copper Foil.  I adhered one with Liquid Glue, then popped my art over the top with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

I angled a frame cut from Wood Textures DSP over the pheasants, adhering it with Liquid Glue (and a Mini Stampin’ Dimensional under the bottom right corner).

My sentiment, from Pleasant Pheasants, is heat embossed in White on a bannerized strip of Wood Textures DSP and adhered with Liquid Glue.  Another Frosted Bouquet Berry, a Galvanized Button and a double-length bow from Very Vanilla Solid Baker’s Twine finished off the card front.

On the inside, I added a stamped-off-once Crumb Cake Pleasant Pheasant on a Very Vanilla panel, then stamped a second sentiment over top in Mossy Meadow.

I used Liquid Glue to adhere the panel to a Mossy Meadow mat and into my Very Vanilla card base, popped the card front on with Stampin’ Dimensionals and the card was done!

I added the Pleasant Pheasants image in full-strength Crumb Cake to the front of my Very Vanilla Medium Envelope…

…and gave the envelope flap a little more Festive Farmhouse DSP plaid.

Et Voila!  No-color colored Pleasant Pheasants!  Try this technique on Cajun Craze – or Mossy Meadow – or Crushed Curry!  Just be sure to use card stock that’s colored all the way thru (hint: I TOTALLY mean you should use Stampin’ Up! card stock!!)!  Have fun with it.  Hope you like!

TTFN

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