A Card a Day in May--Day 10!!

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Hello everyone! Welcome back or thanks for stopping by if this is your first time! My card today featuring the Bokeh Technique that I recently shared as an Artisan Design Tip & Technique on the Stampin’ Up! Facebook page! If this technique inspires you I will take a look over there as I shared stamp by step instructions. Don’t be intimidated though! It is easier than it looks!

To create this fun technique you can use the Picture This Dies, Blending Brushes, a finger dauber, white craft ink and any other ink colors you choose. Alternately you can create a stencil using a window sheet and the Layering Circle dies.

For this sample I used Fresh Freesia as my card base and then I used the dies to add circles in the same ink color and Flirty Flamingo. I added smaller circles using the finger dauber. You just keep moving the die around to overlap circles and can fill in the empty spaces with the finger dauber. It is really easy to create the blur effect.

The sentiment is from the In Bloom stamp set and underneath is layered some White Frayed Ribbon and a couple of strips of DSP from the Sunshine & Rainbows paper (a recent Sale a bration item).

Remember to check out my full post of instructions on the Stampin’ Up! Facebook page!

 

You can find step by step instructions and photos to make this Bokeh Technique project over the Stampin’ Up! Facebook page at the start of March 2022!

Happy New Year 2022!

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Hello everyone! Welcome to another amazing fantastic year! Yes, 2021 was a challenge. It was hard. I cried a lot, I worried about my kids and felt sad for what I thought they were missing out on but I have given up trying to make sense of things. I am however so blessed to have a fun supportive group of friends and a job/hobby that I truly love that helped give me purpose and direction!

I look forward to new creative direction and opportunity in 2022. I promise to always try something once! And maybe again if I find out I like it! You never know until you try (I am hearing my moms voice in my head at the moment, hahaha!).

So HAPPY NEW YEAR FRIENDS, let’s have some fun together this year!

Happy New Year friends! Blessing abound for you in 2022!

I created this card to mail out to some special friends and I thought it was a fun one to share! I have been loving my Blending Brushes lately and this is a fun technique that you can try with them—its known as the Bokeh Technique. In photography, Bokeh, is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in ‘out of focus’ parts of an image. So we can imagine these ‘dots' or ‘circles’ as being out of focus on this card project. Fun right?

Here are the supplies you will need to create this card but keep in mind you can reproduce this Bokeh look with any colors! I just went for a color palette that felt like night time, when the clocks would turn over into a new year!

I used my trusty finger Daubers for the smaller circles and the Blending Brushes for the larger circles. You could always make yourself a stencil, but I didn’t feel the need because the Picture This Dies were so perfect! The die is easy to wipe off and move around the front of your card stock.

I started with Misty Moonlight card stock and use the die and Whisper White Craft Ink for the first layer. It is important to start with white dots and then build from there. I like to layer white over white too and have lots of overlap with the colors and dots. The other colors used were Misty Moonlight and Gorgeous Grape. It also looks more natural if you have a few dots off of the edge of the card stock too.

This is a really fun technique that gets you messy fingers and each card front will be unique!

Happy is die cut from the Christmas Cheer Dies and is from the Mother of Pearl 12 x 12 Specialty Paper. It is AMAZING! You can’t see the awesomeness of it in this photo, but trust me! It has a really solid texture and is so beautiful when it catches the light. I paired it up with ‘New Years’ which is from a set called A Wish for Everything, I tend to hang onto these sets that have more unique sentiments that we don’t see as often. I added a few random sequins from the Subtle Shimmer Sequins collection. They were the perfect touch!

I hope you will give this fun Bokeh technique a try and I wish you all the blessings of a year new. Lets go forward with the spirit of positivity and keep ourselves open to experiences new things!

Happy New Year!

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