Today I’m sharing the Born to Shine wiper card. Wishing you a happy Sunday! With the start of both my six weeks Countdown to Halloween and twelve week Countdown to Christmas during the week, I thought I’d devote Sundays to something that’s not “festive”!
As a child I remember Mum taking me to ballet classes, and as an adult, I took my daughter to hers. It was an extra-curricular activity which was good for the soul. Quite by accident, the piano accompanist at my daughter’s ballet school broke her wrist from a fall and they had no-one to play the piano. I was a bit rusty, but rather than no music for the classes, I volunteered on the understanding it would only be temporary. Years passed, my daughter left, and I was still “filling” in many years later until I moved away. So this stamp set has a special meaning!
Wiper card
Do you want to know how I made this wiper card?…..then read on! Wiper cards have a hidden element. When you pull it, an image pops up!
Smooshing technique
I’m a lazy “artist”! Instead of applying paint with a brush, I simply applied two thirds of ink on a clean clear block the same size as my water colour paper card front in Blushing Bride, and a third with Crumb Cake ink. The block was spritzed with water. Then the block was smooshed on top of the water colour paper to create this background. I did something similar in a previous post which you can see HERE if you missed it.
The paper was dried with a heat tool. Once dry, the surface was dusted with an embossing buddy to prevent static. I inked the stamp with versamark before inking it with Calypso Coral. You then sprinkle the stamped image with clear embossing powder. This helps prevent any bleeding from the image. Incidentally, by using this two step method, you can emboss in any colour ink.
For the skin tones, I simply used an aqua painter to lift the paint from her legs, arms, face and neck. Her dress was coloured with the Calypso Coral Stampin’ Blends combo.
Generation stamping
As I wanted to stamp the sentiment several times to create a darker Crumb Cake tone, the Stamparatus, a stamp postioning tool was used. The stars were stamped free hand. You’ll notice that some clusters of stars are lighter than others. To achieve this, simply stamp without re-inking the stamp. Each subsequent time you stamp, the intensity of colour will become lighter and lighter. This is called generation stamping.
The first generation is ink to paper directly. Without re-inking your stamp, you stamp a second time – second generation. If you stamp a third time without re-inking your stamp, this is called third generation and so on.
Pop up ballerina
I adhered two pieces of scrap Very Vanilla large enough to hold the second ballerina and clear embossed the outline before colouring her in with Stampin’ Blends in Calypso Coral combo, Ivory, and light Daffodil Delight, then fussy cut the top half of the figure which would pop up. The double stack was to give added strength to the figure. As an afterthought, you could used water colour paper instead to achieve the same effect.
I made a little video below to show how it moves.
Here are the supplies I used.
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