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by Andrea Shell on Nov 26 2024
Hi there! It's Andrea back to share a fun card combining new and previously-released products from Picket Fence Studios.
These adorable critters are from the new Peach and Piper: Bad Weather Friends set. That little racoon in the top was the inspiration for this card because to me he looks like he's celebrating (I can just hear him squealing "Hooray!").
After stamping those sweet characters, I colored them with Copics and cut them out with the coordinating dies. I added highlights with a white gel pen.
How fun is the new On a Cloudy Day 6x8 Stencil? After placing it over a panel of blue cardstock, I applied Arctic Fox Paper Glaze Luxe with a palette knife. I love the soft sheen and fun texture of this glaze!
To fill out my scene, I diecut white cardstock with the Scene Building: Grass Tufts Dies and Slim Line Short Tall Grass Die (retired). I applied two shades of green ink to the grass pieces with the Life Changing Blender Brushes. Once my background was dry, I adhered it to a cardbase and glued the grass border on top.
I diecut the Hooray Word Die from metallic and white cardstocks and stacked them together on my card. I popped up my critters with foam adhesive, tucking the tufts of grass underneath the racoons. I added a sentiment from the Hot Air Balloon Sightings stamp and finished with some blue sequins from the Taking Off sequin mix.
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Life is Short: Pattern Making & Inlaid Diecutting
by Andrea Shell on Jul 09 2024
Hi there! It's Andrea with you, and today I'm sharing a fun card combining a couple of my favorite techniques: pattern making and inlaid diecutting.
This card might look time-consuming, but it came together pretty quickly! I started by creating my pattern with the Wreath Building Ice Cream You Scream stamp set. To make it easy for myself, I arranged several of the images onto the lid of my MISTI and just moved and rotated my cardstock when stamping. To fill the panel completely, I eventually removed some of the stamps and stamped one or two here and there.
Once my panel was filled, I colored the images with Copics. To speed up the coloring, I kept the colors to a minimum (for me anyway - ha!) and used no more than three markers for each color. After coloring, I highlighted the images with a white gel pen.
Now for the scary part. I diecut my colored panel with the Hooray Word Die, retaining both the positive and negative diecuts. I also cut black cardstock four times with the word die. I adhered the outer negative diecut of my colored panel to a white cardbase and inlaid one of the black "hooray" diecuts. Next, I glued the smaller negative diecuts inside the word and then stacked the rest of the "hooray" diecuts, ending with my Copic-colored one.
My supporting sentiment is from the Lick the Bowl stamp set. I white heat-embossed it onto a strip of black cardstock, "bannered" both ends with my scissors, and popped it up with foam tape. For a bit of sparkle, I finished with some Iridescent Moonshine sequins.
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by Andrea Shell on Jan 31 2024
Join Andrea as she shares a colorful card that is perfect for any celebration!
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by Silvana Chambon on Jan 30 2024
Hello and welcome to the Picket Fence Studios blog! It´s Silvana here with another inspiration card. This time I´m showing you some of the new products from the latest release, specially the new Birthday Dance Confetti Stamp. It´s a 6" x 6" seamless stamp from the Building backgrounds collection.
I started by stamping 6x6" stamp with Versamark ink and applying white embossing powder. After I heat embossed it I started to apply the different inks with the help of the Pint sized Paper Pouncers and the Paper Inking palette to hold the paper. I trimmed the background in a A2 size and cut the new Hooray Die from it. It´s a big die that fits perfectly in an A2 card.
To make the shadow effect I cut the Hooray die from 80 lb cardstock four times. Then I glued the background on a card base, glued every Hooray in the place, stacking them, and on top I glued the first Hooray from the background.
For the stamped sentiment I used one of the phrases in the The Bakery stamp set, stamped with Versamark ink and embossing powder too.
I hope you enjoyed this colorful card and I wish that the process were useful.
Thank you for stopping by.
Have a wonderful week.
Silvana.
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by Justin Adkins on Jan 16 2024
Get ready to shake things up with our new Creative Team Member, Justin Adkins, in his debut Picket Fence Studios Blog Post! Discover how to craft an exciting shaker card using elements from our January Release.