Hello Sin City Stampers!
My name is Robin Redd and I’m part of the new design team at Sin City Stamps!
I decided to make a minialbum of the first card my boyfriend made.
He made a lovely, detailed, layered Valentine’s Day Card. The cover shows the Vintage Valentine’s Backgroundstamp which I white embossed portions of in the corners of the cover,
over Pan Pastels and chalkboard
paint. I, then, decoupaged the heart ephemera off-centered onto the
front of the book.
Once the book was complete I added a junque-bow ribbon tied
with one of the Prima Wood Buttons
included in the kit and stuck a metal PrimaStick Pin through the knot. I tied
more ribbons and fibers to the binderrings of the book and attached one of the Prima Love Domino charms so it will dangle.
The first page was covered with Pan Pastels. I layered the white and black Gelatos through a stencil and stamped the RomanticBackground Stamp in black ink. I
adhered a piece of the ephemera and
topped it with a Prima Wood Button tied
with the Antique Spooled thread.
I used the Pan Pastels to cover the back of the next two
pages. On page 3, I layered a heart
stencil with Permanent Green Pan Pastel, outlined it with the Black Gelato and
highlighted the heart with the white Gelato.
Again, I layered another piece of the ephemera, outlining it with the
White Gelato and spreading the gelato out with my finger.
On page 4, I outlined a picture of the front of the Valentine’s
Day card my boyfriend made me with the black Gelato, spreading the Gelato with
my finger.
After adhering a picture of the inside of the card to pages
5 & 6, I made a mosaic with the black Gelato and colored each space in with
the Magenta and Permanent Green Pan Pastel.
On page 7, my favorite part of the entire book, was ‘making
a rock walkway”.
I free-hand cut rock shapes from white cardstock.
I dabbed black, white and silver Gelato on
each ‘rock’.
Next, I smeared the gelatos with my fingers, giving it the
look of rocks.
After gluing the ‘rocks’ onto my page, I covered the rocks
with Liquid Glass (Close To My Heart).
With a brown water-color pencil I filled the ‘rocks’ in with
‘dirt’, completing the walkway.
Page 8 shows a SinCity Label die-cut painted white. I
stamped the Friends stamp with the VersaMark stamp pad, which is
clear. When I sponge Permanent Green PanPastel over the stamped image, the stamp image pops out! I doodled over the words on the stamp, “Friends
are Forever”.
I really enjoyed making the next two pages in my
mini-book.
I simply spread the PanPastels over each page using the soft tools.
To show how you can make more colors with the product that
comes with the kit, I’m sharing how to tint and shade the Permanent Green PanPastel with the Black and White Gelato.
Color one end of the page with the Black Gelato and the other end of the
page with White Gelato. Using a flat
paint brush and water, spread the Gelato, lightening as you move the Gelato
toward the center.
This is how each color looks showing the varied colors.
Now, it’s time to watercolor with your Pan Pastels!
With a mixture
of 50% water and 50% rubbing alcohol,
spray over page then water color your
page with a paint brush.
After water coloring with the Magenta Pan Pastel on part of
the page, I let it dry. Then I repeated
the process with the Permanent Green Pan Pastel on the other part of the
page. If you spray extra of the
water/alcohol mixture onto your page, you can make your Pan Pastel colors drip,
for yet another look on your page!
**It’s important to let each layer dry before adding a
different color.
If you add a new color
before the first is dry,
they will mix and possibly make a muddy color on your
page
rather than the distinct colors you intended to show.
I hope you learned at least one thing new, here, for you to
change up with product you already have with Sin City Stamps at Frog Dog Studiokit! I enjoyed sharing with you!
