Floral exotica paper wonders

Hi everyone,
Hope you all are doing great. I am back with a new post today where you can find some beautiful and soft colors used to blend with Floral exotica papers to make a three in one card.
Well, nowadays everyone is aware of distress oxides and that's something hitting the market today. But my today's post is based on Floral exotica papers, DMC sparkling dust and distress inks (Old is gold). Believe me guys, these papers are way too awesome to blend with distress inks, sprays and water. How beautifully this paper absorbs inks and gives such a stunning effect. If you see the peeled paint effect on the very first layer, you will be able to notice how nicely the ink has taken the torn edges of the paper giving you proper shade on your background.
There are some images at the end of this post where you will be able to find that all the pages inside are glossy since I have used clear texture paste on every page. You can also find some crackles here and there on the pages which looks and feels really beautiful when you have it in your hand. I really couldn't resist myself from using these papers. These papers are perfect for making any kind of mixed media projects, cards layouts and scrapbooks.
This card has given me so many ideas to use this paper in so many different projects in future. And you gotta stay tuned for many more inspirations coming from our talented DMC team.

Hope you liked my three in one card!

Stay tuned for more!

Hugs,

Meher

Mixed media tags using Dress My Craft Floral Exotica & Floral Oriental Collection Paper

Hello my dear crafty friends,

Hope you all are doing good and enjoying and getting inspiration from Dress My Craft Design Team projects.. So here we are in July and this month we are focusing on Papers only. Yes!!
We all will be working with Floral Exotica & Floral Oriental Collection Paper.
This paper pack contains 10 sheets of 12x12 inch Premium White Card stock which are acid and lignin free. It is 280 gsm so it's quite think and can be used for various purpose.

                                

Well I have tried these for flower making, stamping, color blending and this is perfect paper for any kind of Card making, scrapbook, decoupage base, album making, backgrounds and Mixed media etc.

Today I am going to use them in mixed media. Yes I have a picture tutorial and you can find the video tutorial on Dress My Craft YouTube channel, I will only be showing how i used gesso and modelling paste on these papers and you will be amazed that due to the thickness both the papers are quite sturdy and you don't need to use and chipboard base for your tags. Well this is totally optional if you want to use or not. In my previous post of Mixed media Tags, I have used chipboard base for my paper, as that was a pattern paper having less gsm. But today I wanted to try without base as this will also let you know the quality of these papers.

It was totally a trial for me but I was amazed to see the effect of colors on these papers. It was amazing..
Do you want to see??
Yess!!!
So let's see what I have created.

First we will start with Floral Exotica Collection. I am using the brush with rough tip so it creates beautiful stripes background with gesso. Then I used different stencils by Tim Holtz & Dusty Attic to make backgrounds on both the papers.

Similarly I did for Floral Oriental Paper. Due to it's thickness and good quality it will lie flat after heating it.

I used Heidi Swapp color shine spritz Hot Pink & Butter. Can you see how beautifully the colors have came out?

You can see the background effect of the brushed gesso and stencils...both are looking 

Now I am taking Leaf chipboard from Dusty Attic and I brushed that with Distress Crackle paint (Shabby Shutters). After heating up, it gives nice crackle effect on the chipboard.

Now I tied white thread on the tag and assembled it. After this I took some nice beautiful flowers that goes well with the theme and color and arranged the flower cluster.

This is Floral Oriental Collection and see the background effect.

I have used distress ink on the Leaf chipboard. I used Gathered Twigs distress ink as it was going very well with whole color theme of this tag.

And now you believe that we can use these papers for mixed media. The paper will not tear or fall apart despite of spraying water on to it for color blending. Well after making this, I must say that if you are a mixed media person then do try it and share your projects tagging me. 

I hope you get some inspiration from my projects. I would love to hear from you all.

Hop on to YouTube channel for video tutorials. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs

Sampada

Video Tutorial : Altered Hoop (DMC's Cardstock + Groove Golf tool set)

Hello wonderful people, this is Bipasha with a video tutorial (link at the post end) demonstrating some cool uses of the products of the month, DMC paperpack and groove golf tool set.

I have designed my own version of the very popular altered embroidery hoop; it's one of the project that always fascinated me and I thought that it's high time now that I design one of my own.

You might have seen many inspirations of these cardstocks have been specifically used in flower making worldwide, so I tried to use it in making a canvas hoop. I absolutely love the thickness (250gsm) which is apt for any artform, cardmaking, flowermaking, scrapbooking, mini-folio albums, journaling and mixed media, 3D paper crafts.

I selected the Floral Exotic cardstock for my canvas mainly because of its more water absorbent quality compared to the Oriental, as I was going to create some marble watercolour technique fof my background with the distress inks and water! However, Oriental cardstocks are stiffer than Exotic, but as I had a matt board to support my canvas, I was fine with not having a sturdier art base specifically for this purpose. Both these papers have excellent and similar smooth texture, crisp stamping properties, die cutting and blending with distress ink properties. They are a must have for card making, scrapbooking, journaling and any 3D paper art projects.

Groove Golf Tool is generally used for making Clay Flowers and Clay Modelling or for embossing the paper flower cut outs to create realistic customised paper flowers. But in my project I used its other function, like creating textures with the teeth of the biggest groove tool and using the piercing end of the mini golf tools to make tags.

Here is the video tutorial link

Products used from DMC:

1. Groove Golf Tool 

2. Paper collection

I hope you enjoyed the inspiration and thanks for staying with me till the end of the post.

Happy crafting xx

BK

Floral Paper Cardstocks & Groove Tool : July product focus

Hello wonderful people,

How have you been? It's the first of July and we are back with a new product focus post for you from Dress My Craft. We have some amazing news to share with you along with the product focus inspirations for this month - July. Did you have a chance to go through our newly launched website? It's brimming with new super glam products. No, I don't want to break the suspense...so why don't you simply browse them here :) !

Product focus of this month:
1. Groove Golf Tool 
2. Paper collection

• Floral Exotica
• Floral Oriental

In today's post I will be demonstrating a project I created using the Premium Cardstocks "Floral Oriental". I will demonstrate the use of Groove Golf Tool in a later post of the week.

These premium white cardstocks have been specifically used in flower making worldwide, so I tried to use it in making a journal page. I absolutely loved the thickness (250gsm) which is apt for art journaling. I wanted to add stamping, stenciling, spraying, staining, doodling and loads of journaling in my page.

FLORAL EXOTICA

FLORAL ORIENTAL

I selected the Floral Oriental cardstock for my journal page mainly because of its higher stiffness & less water absorbent quality compared to the Exotica, as I was pretty sure I wouldn't be playing much with water but I definitely needed a sturdier base. Both these papers have excellent and similar smooth texture, crisp stamping properties, die cutting and blending with distress ink properties. They are a must have for card making, scrapbooking, journaling and any 3D paper art projects.

I added some diecut paper embellishments to my layout, with tons of stamping and incorporated some details with inks, sprays and doodling.

They are of excellent quality and I didn't face any ink bleeding(during stamping) or any shrinking (during spraying and distress blending). I created the background with Distress Oxide, Dylusion Spray and random stamping. I added some stencilling use texture paste from Anna Griffin and stencil from The Crafters' Workshop. I added few more stamped images  from AallandCreate, diecuts and loads of doodling .

Hope you are inspired to create some amazing art journaling with these excellent papers and do share your creations with us. Happy crafting xx

BK