Vibrant Vases Video

Hello, Crafters.

I hope you’ve had a really super Christmas Day.  I made today’s video on Christmas Eve, and my camcorder ran out of memory right towards the end. Fortunately I had finished the actual tutorial, so I didn’t remake the video! I apologise for the very abrupt ending!

Today’s video shows how I made the Vibrant Vase card I shared the other day. I’ve now made three cards, each one with a different vase from the stamp set but with them all upside down! Two out of three look great whichever way up they’re used, but I can’t say the same for the Grapefruit Grove card!

Apart from the upside-down vase there are a couple of other areas I’m not happy with! One of them was that I made a mistake when I stamped the sentiment. I corrected it by stamping it again but on to a piece of Whisper White Cardstock. I die cut it and glue it to the top layer of the card. To adhere the frames on the other two cards I used Dimensionals, but on this card I decided to see what it’d be like if I used our thicker Foam Adhesive Strips. It works well, but I prefer the slimmer Dimensionals. Despite being very critical of this card, I still think it looks nice……………….and this “orange” colour is definitely growing on me!

                                                                       

As I was working on the Balmy Blue card in the video, I was somewhat disappointed that the blue of the flowers was very close to the blue of the vase. Given that I used the same ink for both it’s not surprising really! But I had used the same colours for the other two cards without this problem! I remedied it by painting the leaves on the vase with my Balmy Blue Marker Pen. If you watch the video you’ll see what an amazing difference it made! I painted over them again after the video and made them even darker! I think it looks great now.

                                              

I’m loving this Gingham Gala DSP, it’s so spring-like. I thought I preferred the smaller squares but now I’ve used the larger squares, I like them both!

That’s about it from me today. I hope you have a lovely day, and I’ll be back tomorrow. Happy crafting.

JanB. xx

Products used: please click on any image to be taken to my 24/7 Online Stampin’ Up! Shop

Balmy Blue A4 Cardstock [147007] £8.00	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] £9.00	Gingham Gala 6″ X 6″ (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper [148554] £10.25	Botanical Butterfly Designer Series Paper [149622] £0.00	Varied Vases Photopolymer Bundle [148381] £36.75
Jet Black Stazon Ink Pad [101406] £8.25	Jet Black Stazon Ink Refill [102566] £6.50	Balmy Blue Classic Stampin’ Pad [147105] £7.00	Balmy Blue Classic Stampin’ Ink Refill [147168] £3.50	Call Me Clover Stampin’ Pad [147139] £7.00
Call Me Clover Classic Stampin’ Ink Refill [147178] £3.50	Basic Black Stampin’ Write Marker [100082] £3.25	In Color 2018–2020 Stampin’ Write Markers [147159] £13.75	Subtles Stampin’ Write Markers [147156] £27.50	Pearl Basic Jewels [144219] £4.75
Paper-Piercing Tool [126189] £3.75	Paper Snips Scissors [103579] £9.25	Big Shot [143263] £102.00	Big Shot Magnetic Platform [130658] £37.00	Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies [145372] £28.00
Layering Ovals Framelits Dies [141706] £33.00	Silicone Craft Sheet [127853] £5.50	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] £3.75	Tear & Tape Adhesive [138995] £6.25	SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332] £6.25
SNAIL Permanent Adhesive Refill [104331] £4.00