Holiday Sneak Peek and a Mashup, too!

Wow!  What a busy week…..I'm so glad the weekend is here.  I woke up this morning to find that my Back-to-School Project Life card (see it here) was being featured on the TAMS Facebook page as their pick of the week AND that I Rocked the Friday Mashup.  How cool is that?!  I can't think of a better way to kick off the weekend.

The Friday Mashup posts a new challenge every Friday and I am so excited about this week's challenge featuring a technique called Bokeh.  I had never heard of it, but it looked beautiful and I couldn't wait to try it.

I followed all of the steps in Dawn's video tutorial, but substituted with Stampin' Up! products.  I used an aquapainter to get the watercolor paper very wet before adding colors.  My "paint" was classic reinkers.  I just grabbed the following colors:  Pool Party, Wisteria Wonder, Island Indigo, and Tempting Turquoise.

When my paper was completely dry, I added Whisper White craft ink with a sponge dauber and a stencil that I had created with a window sheet and the Circles Framelits.  As a final step, I used the splatter stamp from Gorgeous Grunge and the Silver Encore ink pad to add some silver speckles.

Since part of the challenge was to use die-cuts, I cut the "Joy" with the Wonderful Wreath Framelits die and the Big Shot.  I cut one from Silver Foil paper and another from Basic Black cardstock, then layered them together to give it some dimension.

The Frosted Sequins are another new product that will be available in the Holiday catalog.  You'll be able to start ordering Holiday catalog products on Thursday, August 28th.   It won't be long before you can get your hands on some of these amazing new stamps, paper & accessories.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Print Recipe

Product List

Frosted Sequins	Gorgeous Grunge Clear-mount Stamp Set	Medium Window Sheets	Sponge Daubers	Wonderful Wreath Framelits Dies
Island Indigo Classic Stampin Ink Refill	Island Indigo Classic Stampin Ink Refill	Pool Party Classic Stampin Ink Refill	Silver Metallic Encore Pad	Tempting Turquoise Classic Ink Refill
Whisper White Craft Stampin' Pad	Wisteria Wonder Classic Stampin Ink Refill	6 X 9 Watercolor Paper	Basic Black 8-1/2X11 Card Stock	Silver Foil Sheets
Whisper White 8-1/2X11 Card Stock	Aqua Painter	Big Shot Die-Cut Machine	Circles Collection Framelits Dies