WIW #4 Winner..... s
Congrats to Vivi, you can have your choice of 2 images from The Cafe and we'll be contacting you a little later today with details, but we'd love it if you would consider being part of our Feature Friday next week (Aug 7) as a Guest Designer. Tracy, we'll also be contacting you regarding a prize! Thanks for playing along and be sure to check out this weeks WIW #5 below for more fun.
Tutorial - Creating a Scene with your Cards
Okay, so we haven't been having all that much participation in the challenges and well, I figure that the 2 who took the plunge last week both deserve a prize for coming out! We appreciate your efforts ladies and so we'll be offering you both a prize from The Cafe. However, for purposes of the Guest Designer Spot, and the challenge, we've done the draw...
Okay, I'm not totally sure how this is supposed to be, but when I first did this, it came up with #2, however, it doesn't seem to stay generated (sorry for my ignorance in such matters!)Congrats to Vivi, you can have your choice of 2 images from The Cafe and we'll be contacting you a little later today with details, but we'd love it if you would consider being part of our Feature Friday next week (Aug 7) as a Guest Designer. Tracy, we'll also be contacting you regarding a prize! Thanks for playing along and be sure to check out this weeks WIW #5 below for more fun.
Tutorial - Creating a Scene with your Cards
Well today is my scheduled post to give a tutorial we call Work It Wednesday over at The Character Cafe Design Team Blog and also on my own.
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Each week one of us DT girls is giving you a tutorial on some fun exciting technique to help expand on your current stamping abilities (Hopefully LOL!!!)
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I decided to teach just how I create many of my Scenes on my Cards. Once you get the Hang of it, it really is not very hard to do and then you can have lots of fun doing it!!!
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For my first type of scene we are going to start with Sponging on your background. You will need 1 piece of White Card stock. Since Scenes take up more room than most cards I some times make my Scene cards up to 5 x7" or 6x6" depending on what I am doing but some are the regular 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" too. You will Begin to learn what size you want as you practice making scenes on your cards.
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O.K. start off with a 5 x 7 piece of SU Whisper White Card Stock. You will also need some craft or even make up sponges will do. Then I usually have 3 colors of Blue Ink, 3 colors of Green ink, 2 colors of Brown ink, and Whisper White SU craft ink for the clouds.
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Start by sponging your main blue (here it is bashful blue) across your page in long swipes or short swipes whatever you prefer.
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See below I just keep swiping it in sections until I get it across the whole page.
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So now you can finish off the two other shades of green or move onto the Brown on a new sponge depending on what you prefer as you learn your Technique. I usually use one side of the sponge for my blue the other side for my green and a different shade for my browns so my browns do not take over my other colors later.
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For my Browns I use SU inks in Close To Cocoa, and Chocolate Chip Close to Cocoa being the main color on my paper, and Chocolate Chip to add the accents and defining shaded places of my scene.
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Now onto another type of Scene Use of Sponges and Copics mixed together to get the Sky and Grass of the Scene.
This tutorial will teach you how to make the Scene above with The Character Cafe Fairy Belle image.
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On the first part of the grass I take my lightest bright green and make grass marks in a V shape patches all the way across the card.
Now I take the mid tone green that is still in a bright shade and fill in the open bottoms of the V shape patches you see above.
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So then I just went to my stamps and picked out some whimsical looking flowers and stamped them up and cut them out and added them to my Fairy Scene popped up with SU Stampin Dimensional's. You can see they were also partly cut out when I did the labels 4 Nesties Pop up part of the Scene.
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Last Scene Tutorial - Creating Scenes with a solid color Card Stock backing.
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Now onto our last type of Scene. This type starts off with Blue Card Stock as your background. You can take Whisper White Ink again and swipe it accross the card for the clouds, and you can leave it at that or if you want more dimension to your sky you can bring in some swipes of the darker shades of Blue also. In the card below I only added the Whisper White swipes for the clouds.
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In this picture you can see how I added onto the Tree that our Sweet Character Cafe image is climbing in to make it big enough for the Tree house to fit onto the Tree over the image.
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You can also see how I made the hanging Wood slat ladder hanging from the Tree House, and the rest of the tree house. When all your coloring is done just cut out your images they can be jagged as you are working with wood.
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One last variation of this type of Scene is to create the Dirt and the grass with solid colored Green and Brown Card Stock intead of doing any coloring or sponging you just do tearing as seen below.
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So I hope now you can feel more comfortable making scenes with your cards they really are pretty simple and fun to do and you can come up with a ton of variations on how to create Scenes of all types.
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Below you can see some of the different types of Scenes I have created over the last year in blog world!!! LOL!!!!
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I hope you enjoyed my Tutorial and if you have any questions let me know I would be glad to help you in anyway I can!!!!
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Do not forget if you play along in our challenge this week then you can earn a Guest Designer Spot on the Character Cafe Team with us and a chance at some great Free Character Cafe Images too!!!!! What could be better than that??? So go on and go make a Scene for us!!!
If you would like to upload your card to SCS Gallery (or others for that matter!) note TCCWIW5 please so we can find you. Oh, and let us know!
If you would like to upload your card to SCS Gallery (or others for that matter!) note TCCWIW5 please so we can find you. Oh, and let us know!
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One thing I love about The Character Cafe images is that they are perfectly drawn for creating Scenes which you will find not all stamps are but many can be.
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Here are some of my Past Scenes:
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Heather
Heather, it was definately worth waiting for! You have done a wonderful job of your tutorial with so much clear info in it. I will say it is well worth all the time and efort you put it. I am sure all the bloggers will appreciate it and have fun with scenes. hugs Shelley
ReplyDeleteGreat Tutorial Heather!! Very detailed and informative...Love the background for Blossom,
ReplyDeletelike how you incorporated the "Keep Out" image
as part of your tree house...that's exactly what it was meant for.
Well done!!
Kelly
WOW!!!! Your scene cards are fantastic! Thanks for sharing!
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