SC186 Grapes – Tutorial

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Hello Everyone!  I’m just trying to make it through this week.  Next week I am on vacation from my real job and my husband and I have rented a cabin in the Hocking Hills Region of Ohio for a few days at the beginning of the week and then on July 31st I’m off to sunny California for my first ever workshops.  Let me tell you, I’M EXCITED!!!!

But in the mean time, I checked out the Sketch Challenge SC186 this morning on Split Coast Stampers and decided to play along.  🙂  Here is the link to the challenge if you want to play too:  http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=366251

Let’s get started with tutorial 94!  🙂

Supplies:

Stamps: Stampin’ Up Sun Ripened II & Baroque Motifis
Paper: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Basic Black & Mellow Moss, Basic Grey Design paper
Ink: Stampin’ Up Really Rust, Mellow Moss, More Mustard & Apricot Appeal, Palette Noir Black
Accessories: Black Ribbon, Copper Brads, Clear embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Versamark Marker, Prismacolor Markers, Faber Castell Black fine point maker, Going Gray marker, Sponge, Cuttlebug Corner Die

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Stamped grapes with Palette Noir Black ink on a 3″ x 4″ piece of Whisper White card stock.  Note:  I use Palette ink because it tends not to smear when using solvent based markers.

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Colored the grapes with a Prismacolor Violet Mist Marker.

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Colored the shadow parts of the graps with a Parma Violet marker.

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Colored the leaf with a Mint Cream marker.

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Colored the shadow parts of the leaf with a Light Olive Green marker.

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Went over the entire leaf again with the Mint Cream marker to blend it some.

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Colored the stem with an Eggshell marker and extended the stem some too.

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Added some French Grey 30% marker to the stem.

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Colored over the entire image with a Versamark Marker and then heat embossed the image with clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

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Sponged on Apricot Appeal ink.

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Sponged on More Mustard ink being more heavy with it on the right side.

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Sponged on Really Rust ink being heavy with it on the right side.

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Added a layer of Basic Black card stock and Cuttlebug Corners.

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Added a thick line of Going Gray to the right side of the grapes and leaf to create a shadow.  Then added a very fine line along the right side of the grapes, leaf and under the branch.

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Added highlights to the grapes and leaf with a white gel pen.  (Love white gel pens!)  Now that makes those grapes pop!

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Sponge a bit of Really Rust ink on the left side of my two panels.  Also dragged the card stock across the Really Rust ink pad at the left edge.

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Stamped the flourish with Mellow Moss ink on the left side of the panels.

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Assembled card and added two copper brads.  Here it is finished measuring 5″ x 6.5″.

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May your day be filled with wonderful highlights and sweet fruit!

Until my next post. . . . . . . . . .

Hugs, 

Michelle

36 thoughts on “SC186 Grapes – Tutorial”

  1. Phyllis Gunn's avatar Phyllis Gunn

    Yet another stamp I looked past but I bet I go back and get it now. Beautiful piece and the cuttled corners are perfect here. Enjoy your get away with your hubby and you don’t know how I wish I could be in your work shop!!! Good luck and have fun and of course, thanks for the tutorials.

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  2. Gidget-Trish's avatar Gidget-Trish

    Beautiful card! I must get some cuttlebug corners. They look great! Enjoy your time away and I too wish I could be in your workshop….lucky girls who get to be there! I’ll sure miss you here. Have fun! 🙂
    Trish

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  7. Tonniece's avatar Tonniece

    Awesom Michelle. Hope you and hubby have a wonderful time away, but you will be missed so much.. As for your workshop, I wish I was among all the very LUCKY ladies that will be there.

    Happy Wednesday

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  8. Evelyn----Ks.stamper's avatar Evelyn----Ks.stamper

    Michelle, I think all of your followers who can’t be at your workshop are totally bummed out, I know I sure am. Hope you and you hubby have a great time at the cabin. Best of luck on your workshop. And I love, love, this card.
    Evelynn~~~

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  9. Dawn Frost's avatar Dawn Frost

    Hi I love this card like all of the rest! I’m glad you’re going on holidays but I’m sad too because I’m on holidays and now I have time to do your cards! LOL I hope your workshop is fantastic so you’ll be encouraged to do more of them and maybe I’ll be able to come to one. Everytime I do one of your cards and read your tutorials I learn something new!! Thank you for being so generous and sharing your skills.

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  11. Debi Pippin's avatar Debi Pippin

    Love it! Again another masterpiece… Vacation from Real job ? What is your real Job? It’s nice to excape and a cabin sounds dreamy. My mom and I rent one in the mountains when the leaves are changing in the fall and it is so relaxing. Hope you and your hubby have a great time.
    Debi Pippin

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  12. Sharon in NE's avatar Sharon in NE

    Tutorial 94? Oh bless your heart. I’ve loved everyone of them and I thank you for spending so much time, thought and energy on making them. You are so generous.

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  13. Nicole Steele's avatar Nicole Steele

    Beautiful card! Hocking Hills…my husband’s sister and her family asked us to go camping at Hocking Hills. We’ve never been there but they told us it is so much fun. We’re in Pittsburgh and they are in Dover so I assume it’s not too far. Have a grand time there and in California!

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  14. zindorfstamps's avatar zindorf

    Debi asked “What is your real Job?”
    Debi, I’m the full time Finance Assistance for a wonderful non-profit organization, AIDS Resource Center Ohio, which assists people who are infected and affected by AIDS/HIV. 🙂

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  16. Karen's avatar Karen

    Have fun in Hocking Hills! My husband was in that area earlier this year for work and said it’s a place we’ve got to check out.
    I’m sure you’ll get lots of inspiration while you’re there! ; )

    And good luck on your workshop. You’ll do fine. = )

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  17. Hélène Gagnon's avatar Hélène Gagnon

    WOW !!!! it’s really beautiful, I like it this card.
    Tu fais un travail remarquable, BRAVO (you make a work fantastik) sorry for english, I’m verry bad.

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  21. Sandra Douma's avatar Sandra Douma

    I love your creations ! I was thinking that I was starting to get good in my card till I saw your blog, you take card making to another level !
    would be great to have more “candys” in the blog but just to receive one of your cards
    you make art !

    Sandra Douma
    Netherlands

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  22. Darlene Gabriel's avatar Darlene Gabriel

    Again, I’m struck by the beauty of your creations. I love this card – the colours, the corners, the whole thing together. Thanks so much for your tutorial.

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  24. Kathy Fogle's avatar Kathy Fogle

    I have both of the Sun Ripened sets and have yet to make anything with them. This is beautiful! I will have to dig out this set. Please make more using the Sun Ripened I and II sets! I can finally justify the money I spent getting these but had no idea what to do with them before. Thank you for the tutorials. Since I found your blog, I can’t wait to get home from work to see what set you are going to use next. Your ideas are so original. You are a true artist.

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  25. Sandy K's avatar Sandy K

    Beautiful card, Michelle. I love the corners you added. It really added to the whole scene. Hang in there, next week or two will be wonderful.

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  26. Billie's avatar Billie

    Wow Michelle, just stunning, ultimately stunning.

    Have a wonderful time on your vacation it sounds wonderful. I also hope the workshop runs perfectly smooth (just like your work..:)) take care

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  27. Janet's avatar Janet

    Michelle, You will love Hocking Hills! My husband and i went there camping for 10 days on our honeymoon. There are 6 parks in 1 area, great hiking trails. I wish i could attend your workshop you will knock their socks off and will love you. The card for today is beautiful i like all your elemants and layout.

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  28. Vicki - Michigan's avatar Vicki - Michigan

    Your cards always amaze me, I think they’re just beautiful. My sister-in-law is a stamper and she tried to get me involved because I was a scrapbooker but I didn’t want to take the leap. 3 years ago I went to a CTMH party and have been hooked on stamping ever since. I LOVE it! Thanks for sharing your talents.

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  29. Susan West's avatar Susan West

    First of all your card is stunning, as usual! As a teacher, I have stamped forever, but the serious stamper came out when my youngest sister showed me her Stampin’UP! catalog.
    I fell in love with the images and the philosophy of the time. A month later I signed up under her demo having never met her nor attending a workshop. I have had a wonderful time ever since!

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  31. Debi Pippin's avatar Debi Pippin

    Michelle that is a great job to have, Glad that they help people. We are delighted that you get to share with us your talents but also others are getting to benefit from your other work.
    Debi

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  32. Laura's avatar Laura

    THis is a stamp that I always have to challenge myself to use. Grapes just aren’t my thing, but you make me want to go get them out. Wonderful card! Thanks for sharing. Have a wonderful vacation!

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  33. Weezie's avatar Weezie

    My son and his wife were deployed to Iraq at the beginning of the conflict. They were MPs and were assigned to escort civilian fuel convoys going into Bagdad. They were gone for 15 months. While we could contact each other via email, I wanted to send something as often as possible truly from my heart. I actually started making digital cards and making envelopes with embellishments to add some pop. While I was creating items to send to my son and his wife, the level of stress from worry was greatly diminished. A long time friend invited me to go to her monthly Stampin Up group. I was hooked from minute one. No more totally digital cards. Now I make all sizes of scrap book pages, cards and sooooo many other things. There just is no end to what can be created when inspiration comes from bloggers like you Michelle. Thanks for your great tutorials.

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  34. Laurie's avatar Laurie

    I love this one Michelle. I have everything — except the prismacolor markers, but I have a different brand that will work — to give this one a try. Hmm, if only my back would cooperate and let me stamp for a while. At any rate I love these grapes. In fact this is one of my favorite stamp sets, and I have never used it! how sad is that? Thanks for another dose of inspiration!

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