In today’s post I’d like to share not only a Studio J Sunday video, but also a little sneak peek at Chantilly, one of our new paper packs for Spring/Summer 2013 (available Feb.1st) Chantilly is featured on the coveer of the new Idea Book.
Pretty and whimsical, Chantilliy has a soft and fun color pallette of Buttercup, Champagne, Cotton Candy, Pear, Ruby, Sunset and Twilight. It’s perfect for scrapbook layouts and cards for so many occasions. I plan to use it for Easter, but it will be great for birthdays, weddings, mother’s day, garden photos, anniversarys…..well, you get the picture! The card that I made for today uses this week’s Mojo Monday sketch. Yes, I know that it’s almost Monday again 
I cut the doily from the Cricut Artiste cartridge, and used the zip strip from the paper as a border along with the Color Ready Seam Binding ribbon. I sponged the ribbon with cotton candy ink and tied the bow using a fork! I’ve heard of this method and decided to “google” it and give it a try. Here’s the tutorial that I used. My serving fork only has 3 tines, so I used a dinner fork instead. It worked great for this project since I wanted a tiny bow, but I need to hit the thrift stores in search of a larger fork to use. The hearts on the doily are also cut from Artiste and stamped with the stamp set from the ”Whooo’s Your Valentine” kit which is available for only $10 with a $35 order through the end of January. Click here or on the shopping cart at the right to place your order and get this great kit today! The small hearts are also from the kit and stamped in Smoothie and Outdoor Denim ink. A few Pearl Opaques finish it off. I haven’t added a sentiment yet, I originally planned this as a valentine, but I may send it to my Sister who has a birthday this week.
And now for this week’s Studio J video on personalizing your layout……
) to combine the two for this challenge.
. To achieve the watercolor look on the flowers I used a stamping technique called tissue stamping. Basically, you scrunch up a tissue and use it to randomly apply different colored inks to the stamp. For the stems, I selectively inked just the stems and leaves then lightly stamped off some of the ink on a scratch paper so that the color would be softer and more fitting with the watercolor look of the flowers. I stamped the sentiment with chocolate ink, then stamped it again with versamark ink and heat embossed with clear detail embossing powder. The beauty of CTMH’s clear acrylic stamps and blocks…you can see through them to perfectly line up where you want to stamp your image!