Congratulations to...

Hip hip hooray! Hip hip hooray! The 2013 Dreamweaver Dream Team is being announced today on the Dreamweaver blog! Congratulations and welcome to all the new team members!

For today's Dreamweaver Bloomin' Spring Challenge, I used the Faux Cloisonne Technique with the CA Popplies stencil (LL521):

Like what you see? Then head on over to my blog post at PaperCraftPlanet for a complete tutorial.

Remember, you only have one week left to get your challenge card submitted to be eligible to win this month's challenge. There are always two winners and all the details can be found on the Dreamweaver blog.

I'm off to play some more. I'm having such a fun time creating spring floral cards!

Welcome to Spring and welcome to the new Dream Team members!

Hugs and happy thoughts,
Cherylynn

A Cloisonne Rose

Good morning,

Disclaimer: This is not the post I intended to put up today however life has a way to always override best intentions. Next week, when I come up for air, I'll post a really fun autumn-themed and inky card.

For today, I'm sharing a quick and easy inky faux cloisonne card that I created with one of the newer Dreamweaver stencils from the May 2012 release, LG744 Rose Tree.

I have to keep this post really quick today but if you would like more info on how to do the faux cloisonne technique, please email me and I'll be glad to send all the details on this card to you.

Hugs, its back to the land of insanity for me!

Its Summertime, sum, sum, Summertime!!!!

Sing along with me:

 "It's summertime summertime sum sum summertime Summertime summertime sum sum summertime Summertime summertime sum sum summertime Summertime summertime sum sum summertime summertime..."

Now if that didn't get you in the mood for summer, hopefully this month's Dreamweaver challenge will because it's "SUMMERTIME FUN"! How fun and easy is that?!

This week I have been quite busy working on projects for next week's CHA Summer trade show so I had to keep my card today quite clean and simple.

Keeping with hot summer colors, I dry embossed the LL358 Heliconia stencil in my Big Shot and then colored it with pigment inks. Pretty simple, but rather bright and sunny, which works for me!

If you would like to join the challenge just create something that shouts "SUMMERTIME" and link up to "Mr. Linky" on the Dreamweaver blog OR email your design to Lynell@DreamweaverStencils.com.

There will be TWO winners and the prize is pretty awesome. Each winner will receive one of the brand new stencils just being introduced at CHA. You could actually own it before stores have it in stock. How cool is that? Here's a sneak peak of a portion of the stencil.

 

One prize will be awarded to the person who best interprets the challenge and a second prize for the best use of Dreamweaver products. So see?....you don't even have to use Dreamweaver products (of course we are thrilled when you do.)

And don't forget to visit the other team member's blogs listed on the side bar for more summertime inspiration.

Queen of Stencils: Lynell Harlow

Team Leader: Pam Hornschu

Wendy Jordan

Laura Drahozal

Liz Martin

Georgia Sommers

Lee Kellogg

Cyndi Bundy

Kristi Van Doren

Jessie Hurley

Louise Healy

Terrece Siddoway

A Faux Cloisonne Rose

Welcome back! I have to admit I've msised blogging the past few days. I hate it when life gets in the way of my creating!

For the next few weeks I will be working with a limited amount of supplies. Suffice it to say, things are again in transition for me. This time though its all really good.

So bear with me while I stay in CAS (clean and simple) mode.

Today I want to share with you a card I made using the "Faux Cloisonne" technique and a beautiful Dreamweaver stencil, LG625 Flower and Leaves. This stencil is a great example of how timeless Dreamweaver stencils are. It is one of the "older" stencils, introduced around 2000-2001, yet it still is quite impressive over a decade later. I definitely have gotten my money's worth from this stencil.

I began by first embossing the stencil with original white matte paste. Once that was dry, I added color using my Shiva Paintstiks. I love the creaminess of these stiks. Again, another huge value since I probably bought them the same time I bought the stencil and I still have several years of use left with them!

Since the Paintstiks are oil-based, they take a bit longer to dry so after adding color, all I did was dip my project into my "vat" of ultra thick embossing powder and heated from behind. Because several layers of embossing powder work best for this technique, I then repositioned my stencil and tapped by Versamark pad over the embossed image and again applied UTEE. I repeated this a third time and ended up with this thick, glossy rich faux cloisonne look. I absolutely loved it.

I originally designed this card to have a beautiful designer paper for the background. However after the rose was finished and I went to assemble, the papers just distracted from the rose so I kept it very clean and simple and let the rose speak for itself. Why ruin a good think just because you can?

Please leave me so love and then go check out with the other Dreamweaver Designers have created for your viewing pleasure. And don't forget you only have a couple of weeks to create your own piece of floral love and link it up to the DW blog site in hopes of winning the great prizes for April.

Lynell Harlow
Pam Hornschu
Wendy Jordan
Laura Drahozal
Liz Martin
Georgia Sommers
Lee Kellogg
Cyndi Bundy
Kristi Van Doren
Jessie Hurley
Louise Healy
Terrece Siddoway

Thanks so much for stopping by. I'll be back on Monday, April 23 with something else I created out of the remaining unpacked items!

Until Monday, take time to stop and smell the roses!

Cherylynn