Adding details to solid stamped images- Video tutorial

Hi everyone!

Sindhura here. Today, I have a video Tutorial to share with you. It is all about adding details to solid stamped images.

There are many ways to add more interest to solid images. I saw a video by Jennifer Mcguire where she shows one of the the techniques I used here. She used dye inks for the technique. I extended it to distress inks using the same technique. :)

You can watch the video at the end of the post or can watch on YouTube HERE.

I made cards with the flowers I stamped and coloured. I also wanted to use patterned papers on my cards. Will link the supplies at the end of the post. 

This is my first ever video, so it is far from perfect but I tried my best to show you the techniques. Please feel free to ask any questions regarding the techniques used or the products.

I hope you enjoy the video. Thanks for watching! 

Supplies used

Altenew Lacy Scrolls stamp set

Altenew inks

Heidi Swapp photo frames

Fancy Pants 'Life is Beautiful' 6x6 paper pad

Distress inks- Abandoned Coral, Fired brick

Coloured pencils.

Have a great day!
Sindhura.

Mod Podge Photo Transfer on Canvas | Video

Hey, friends!

This is Jasleen here, back with a new project, unrelated to this month's challenge theme.

First of all, I would like to remind you all that it's Lulupu's 4th birthday this year and we are celebrating it throughout the month of March. There's an amazing giveaway and super fun games with exciting  prizes. Are you playing along? If you haven't started yet, you can still catch up and read all the details HERE.

For our current birthday themed challenge, please click HERE.

Today, I'm sharing a canvas wall art that I made using Mod Podge Picture Transfer Medium . I decided to use a Laser printout of one of my favorite pictures of my daughter.

Mod Podge picture transfer medium, as the name suggests, is used for transferring any photo over canvas, wood, ceramic or fabric. But the photo needs to be a Laser printout or a photocopy. It gives amazing and predictable results/ The only thing you need to keep in mind is the time- it needs to be kept undisturbed for 24 hours after it's application to get desired results.

I made a short and quick start-to-end video for the same. I hope you find the video helpful.

You can also view this video on our YouTube channel HERE.

I hope you liked it. Let me know if you have any doubts.

Supplies from Lulupu store :

• Mod Podge Picture Transfer Medium
• Altenew Hennah elements stamp set

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day. :)

-- Jasleen

Altenew Hennah Elements | One Stamp Set, Many Ways

Hey, Friends !

Hope you all are doing great.

This is Jasleen here and today I'm going to share a few cards and other stuff I made using the gorgeous Altenew Hennah Elements stamp set I received in my DT kit. This stamp set is undoubtedly one of my favorite stamp sets of all time. Very versatile and such beautiful images.

Here's the first card:-

For making this one, I stamped the floral images all over the card base to make the background. Stamped the same floral images on a piece of watercolour paper, coloured those flowers using the Faber Castel connector pens that were gifted to me by my friend Vijaylaxmi Siyal. I loved the results. Then those floral images were fuzzy cut to be later embellished over the vellum-covered card base. I love the how vellum gives a softening effect to the background, so that the main floral images pop beautfully. :)  Finally, stamped the sentiment and added the Sequins. Lulupu has a beautiful collection of sequins. You can find them HERE.

Now, onto my second card:-

I started off by sticking a patterned paper from the gorgeous Papercicious 6 by 6 paper pad- Often collection, over the card base. Then cut out a piece of black cardstock at an angle, as shown. Stamped the beautiful lace border and the 'congrats' sentiment from the Altenew stamp set in versamark ink and white embossed it using white Ranger's Embossing powder and heat tool. Stamped the floral images from the Altenew- Hennah elements stamp set on a piece of scratch card stock, coloured it using distress inks , fuzzy cut them and mounted them over the card using 3d foam tape. I love how lovely they look against the polka dots patterned paper.

Here's my third card :-

For this one,I stamped the flowers in the corners of the card base using Altenew ink in coral pink colour and sponged the corners lightly in the same colour of the ink after masking off the flowers. Then I stamped and silver embossed the flowers over a piece of vellum and coloured them using Faber Castel connector pens. I used the Lindy's silver embossing powder here. Then, I fuzzy cut the vellum flowers and mounted them over the card base using Ranger's glossy accents(it acts as a perfect adhesive for sticking transparent/translucent elements) Stamped the sentiment and finally finished off with a few pearls and sequins.


Also, made these simple tags using this versatile stamp set :-

And last but not the least--

A pillow box made using patterned paper from the Papericious -Often collection and embellished with flowers from the Altenew set and washi tapes from the Lulupu store.

I hope I've inspired you to try out different ways to stretch your stamps. And when the stamps are as gorgeous as Altenew hennah elements, the ideas come quick and easy. :)

Looking forward to seeing your creations for this month's challenge. Link them up HERE.



Supplies from the store :

Altenew Hennah Elements stamp set

 Papercicious 6 by 6 paper pad- Often


Fiskars Paper Trimmer

Martha Stewart Score Board

Adhesive

Distress inks

washi tapes

Altenew ink -Red cosmos


Thanks for visiting. See you all soon..

Love,
Jasleen.

Chalkboard washi tape and sad goodbye

Hello friends!!!!

Neha here! December is my last moth at Lulupu and this is the last post. Its been a great and the most memorable journey here at Lulupu , It made me learn so much and have definitely grown as a better crafter, but sadly it has to end. 

 You can find details about our current challenge here

Challenge # 56: Deck up your home

I have made two cards and the main focus of my cards this time is chalkboard style washi tape which I had received in my DT kit. I just loved this washi tape, using it you can create cool chalkboard effect with such an ease. You can find them in Lulupu store here

I haven’t tried chalkboard style before, so I was a bit unsure but now all my doubts are clear. I just put chalkboard washi tape on a CS and trimmed it according to the need. Then I have used pigment inks for stamping the sentiments. I stamped sentiment 2-3 times with pigment ink so there visibility is better and clear. For this I used my MISTI tool as I had to stamp 2-3 times. It makes your work so easy. I just love it! One thing you have to keep in mind while stamping with pigment ink on tape is that it takes time in drying. So leave it without disturbing till it dries completely otherwise it will smudge.

For first card I created the chalkboard panel and matted it with a blue CS.  Also, wrapped some twine around it. Next I matted it over ivory CS which was stenciled with DI (broken china) and stencil and lastly matted it over a black card base.

Closeup of chalkboard panel

Here comes the second card. For this card I have used the same above technique for chalkboard effect. Did some stamping with black archival ink on ivory CS using altenew wild hibiscus stamp. Also heat embossed few flowers using golden EP. Then fussy cut them and colored with DIs mild lavender and Victorian velvet. Added some liquid pearls gold in the center. Also added a strip of golden glitter sheet beneath the chalkboard panel and arranged embossed flowers and my card was ready.

Close up

I hope you like these cards and will try your hands on this chalkboard washi tape.

 And now is the time to say the final goodbye. I will be active on my  Facebook page. Will love if you connect with me there. Lulupu was the first blog whose challenges I use to enter last year and first one to take me as DT this year in January I am really thankful to Karuna Chauhan for believing in me and giving me a chance to design for Lulupu. This blog gave me the wonderful opportunity to work with some really awesome and talented team of designers, Manu, Tanvi, Kripa and Dolly. 

Lastly, I would like to share few of my most favorite projects for this year. I really enjoyed making these projects for Lulupu.

Here is a card which I had made for my very first DT post. It’s a Circle shaped side step card. This one is my favorite

Next one is a Luminary. I was very happy the way it turned out finally.

A lighthouse made from scratch. It was very much appreciated by everyone.

My favorite Mixed media canvas with gelatos.

 I also tried my hands on CAS cards for the very first time.

A wall art

And lastly this Z flap mini album done using my favorite altenew vintage roses

I hope you guys also liked these projects. Thanks you very much for always visiting and appreciating my work. I hope the coming year brings with it a lot of happiness and prosperity in your life.

Wishing you a very happy new year in advance.

Hugs!!!

Neha

                                         Supplies from the store:Chalkboard Tape Large 

Chalkboard Tape Large

Brights Seasonal Cardstock Pack 

                                                         WRMK  trim & score-board

                                                                         Big shot

                                                 Ranger Essentials Wonder Tape Roll 1/8

Embossing on Vellum

Good Morning!

Tanvi, here with another post in which I am sharing a card along with a pictorial. 

This month's challenge is all about using embossing powders. 

You can find all details about the challenge here Challenge#54 - Embossing Magic

For this card I started by stamping on vellum with versamark ink to create a pattern.

I then heat embossed the pattern with EP & later fussy cut the pattern as seen in the picture below.

In my DT kit was a very bright apricot EP from Zing & initially I was hesitant to use it!

The vellum was then laid over black cardstock. This trick worked to tone down the bright color of the powder, do you agree?  To hide the adhesive I added enamel dots. 

 The die cut sentiment is also heat embossed.

You still have a few days to join the current challenge. Link your entries here.

Supplies from LULUPU.COM -

Heat It Craft Tool Europeon Version

EK Powder Tool Adhesive Deactivator

We R Memory Tool Trim & Score Board

Mini Glossy Accents .5 Fluid Ounces/Pkg

Embossing Powder Apricot 1oz

VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad

Squash Fold Card

Hello and Welcome to all the dear readers. I hope you all are still in the New year mode :)

This is Dolly here and today I will be sharing my take on the first challenge for 2015 - "Challenge 44: Fancy Fold Cards".

I have a made a "Squash Fold Card". This card looks really different from the usual two folds and opens up to surprise the receiver. To make this card, I used 3 pieces of card stock (15x15 cm), which were scored 4 times (horizontally and vertically) to create the folds. To add interest, I overlapped the pieces so that there were 3 hidden folds in the card. Once the card base was ready, I used some pattern paper from Prima and some butterfly punches from Martha Stewart to finish the card. The top and base for the card was a 9 x 9 cm pattern paper with rounded edges. I also went ahead and added a snowflake die cut to the top of the card. The sentiment used inside is from Altenew stamps.

For more details, you can refer to Crafting Geek video tutorial.

Here are some more pictures to show how the folds look like:

So, hope you all are inspired to try a unique fancy fold card and don't forget to link it for the Challenge 44: Fancy Fold Cards:)

Thank you for stopping by and I will see you soon with an interesting project next time!

Loads of love,

Dolly