CAS your Bloom Girls tutorial by DT Stephanie

Good morning everyone!

Stephanie with you today to show you how you can create two Clean & Simple cards with the Bloom Girls, perfect and ready for every occasion!

Here's what you'll need:

Two Bloom Girls images stamped and coloured (I used Joy and Paige)

Neutral flowers

3 sheets of cardstocks

2 sheets of patterned papers

Some twine

3D foam adhesive

First step is to cut your coloured image to a decent size for mail. Standard cards are 4"x6", however I usually do 5.5" square, but the idea remains the same ; cut it at 3/8" from the measurements of your base.

With the tip of a black marker, carefully trace the edges as a finishing touch.

Now, cut your patterned paper at 3/16" from the measurements of your base, fitting right under your image.

Adhere everything together with double-sided tape.

You could also pop up your image with 3D foam dots, for more dimension.

Add a row  (or two, or three!) of twine and stick it behind your image before adding the whole layer to the cardbase.

That's it, we're done! Add one or two flowers in a corner and you can do the same process with your second image.

And here's the final look!

Please note that I jazzed things up a little bit on the second one by adding a red cardstock between the base and the pattern paper. I couldn't resist, but it's still very CAS!!

Thanks for coming by :-) xx

Watercoloring Paige

Hi Bloom Girl fans! Carisa here with you today and I'm sharing a simple one layer watercolor card using Paige from the Prima Bloom Girl collection! I have had this stamp in my stash for quite awhile and this my first time stamping and coloring her.

I am using the Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens to do all of my watercoloring and I have a video for you sharing my process and thoughts on these markers. I love creating simple cards using the stamps from the Bloom Girl collection, in fact, I stamped all my girls onto the same Strathemore watercolor cards to create a few different cards to have on hand. These stamps are so beautiful and you can add as much color or as little and they still look beautiful on your cards. A simple sentiment to let someone know you are thinking of them and you are good to go.

I hope you enjoy the video and I will see you next month with another Bloom Girl project!

Supplies:

Prima Bloom Girl (Paige) Item #980054

Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens: (skin) 071 Flesh Color, 028 Pale Pink, 072 Beige, 021 Light Carmine / (hair) 038 Peacock Blue, 010 Black / Teacup 092 Blue Grey, 063 Ochre, 065 Mid Brown, 066 Oatmeal, 062 Dark Brown / Flowers 003 Fl. Pink, 051 Lemon Yellow, 052 Bright Yellow, 083 Lilac, 045 Pale Green, 091 Light Grey / Background 036 Light Blue

Strathmore 5x7 Watercolor Cards

Tsukineko Versafine Ink (Onyx Black)

Zig Wink of Stella (clear) 

WPlus9 Sentiment (Doodle Buds stamp set)

Ranger Watercolor Brush