Cling Film Wrap Technique for cardmaking blog hop

 

Hey Crafty Friends, Welcome to this month's Totally Techniques blog hop.  Our band of international Stampin' Up! demonstrators are sharing the Cling Film Wrap technique.  It's fun and very simple and uses just ink, water spritz and cling film from your kitchen drawer.  

Start by placing a piece of cling film on your table that is bigger than your water colour card piece that you wish to ink.  Stamp your ink water based ink pads onto the cling film then spritz with water. I used a Stampin' Up! spritzer bottle with tap water in it.  It needs to have enough water spritzed on the ink to make it start to move as you can see in the picture above.  I also added some splatters of Wink of Stella to give it some sparkle. 

Place your watercolour card, I used Fluid 100 from Stampin' Up!.  onto the inky surface.  Gather the corners of the cling film and then flip the whole thing over. Just be careful to have caught up the cling edges so as not to flick ink everywhere!

You then need to 'scrunch' the cling film as shown below leaving lots of mini folds across your paper.  Fold the excess cling film over the sides and underneath.  Now the difficult part you need to let it dry completely before you do anything else.  

Once dry you can remove the cling film and decide how you will use your design piece.  You could use as a background, die cut shapes like I have using the leaf die from the Ranunculus  dies, or use strips for borders or anything else you can think of. 

Having die cut lots of leaves I used them to create a wreath on a black card matt and card base.  I added a silver heat embossed 'Sending' and simply stamped Birthday Wishes both from the Sending Smiles bundle, this bundle will soon be available from the new 2022 - 2023 Annual Stampin Up! catalogue.  

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Enjoy the blog hop by clicking on the pictures below.  

Happy stamping and keep safe. 

Hugs Zoe x

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Hey lovely people I hope if you are in the UK you are avoiding damage from the storm today. Keep safe my friends and enjoy the enforced craft time. It's a tough job, but someone has to do it!

Today I have a simple share for you.  The base card is from a  super set of pre cut scalloped edge cards.  You get 20 in a pack with envelopes and they come in 4 colours - Old Olive, BalmyBlue, Light Pink and Terracotta Tile.  They are the perfect size to make a gift card / certificate look so much more exciting.

I've used the Delightful Day stamp set which you can purchase as a bundle with the new Delightful Tag Topper punch.   This is a perfect stamp set for quick and easy cards with a good selection of sentiments to suit various occasions including new baby, wedding and birthdays.  No fluff or frills but fun, simple and straight forward.  I made a tag and stamped the flowers and sentiment in Rococo Rose and Old Olive. Added some background stamping to the card base and a strip of patterned paper   and was done bar stamping the envelope and adding some ribbon.

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Keep those end bits you cut off rolls of ribbon when tying bows to loop through a tag like this and secure with some bakers twine. No waste and you get your monies worth from your ribbon roll.

You could make  a whole set of these cards and box them up as a lovely thank you gift or use them individually to make the packaging of a gift card more exciting.

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Have a great weekend but keep safe.

Hugs Zoe x

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