My own swap was a punched lily which uses the oval punch, inks, and cardstock and is quite simple if not time consuming to make 50 swaps!
The recipe is:
Yellow Lily: Daffodil Delight and Wild Wasabi cardstock, certainly celery ink Stargazer Lily: Whisper White and Rose Red cardstock, Rose Red ink
Tiger Lily: Tangerine Tango cardstock, Melon Mambo ink
Score your cardstock approx every half inch, then using oval punch, punch just less than a half oval across the folded edge to form an elongated petal. You will need 7 petals per lily.
Using a sponge run ink along the crease down the centre of each petal and at one of the pointed ends of each petal. To get the speckles I used diferent techniques, some use the side of a pokey tool pressed against my chocolate chip inkpad to apply the speckles, on others I used a black journaling marker.
Next run a bone folder along each petal to get some shape to the petal and then glue the petals by overlapping them. I'll post some more pictures tomorrow of the different stages which might make this a bit clearer. For the stamen I used a 3" strip of So Saffron cardstock folded in half, with the open edges inked in soft suede and then think strips cut not quite to the fold line. I used a small section of the strip and rolled the folded end between my fingers to get a nice round end and with a blob of Tombow in the centre I set the stamen in and left to dry.
Will share some of the beautiful swaps I received soon. xx
2 comments:
Hi Chris - I am from Augusta, Maine and I see that you have Maine coon cats! They must be pretty good size. Anyway, my reason for contacting you is that I tried to download the instructions/template for the diamond fold card and it wouldn't work. Could you send it to me please? I am a SU Demonstrator.
My email is: ibstampin2@gmail.com. My name is Georgette Valliere.
Thank you!
Hi Chris - I have to say that I was one of the lucky one to get one of your gorgeous lily swaps which completely bowled my ladies over..... hope it is OK with you but I would like them to have a go at making one at my next class in a fortnights time.... so I am so glad that I have strayed upon your blog - and found your instructions.
Thanks for the inspiration!! For the swap!! And of course your talent!!
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