Anna’ Stampin’ Cave – Work Of Art For World Autism Awareness Day Blog Hop
Hello everyone and welcome to my ‘stampin’ cave’!
Today, 2nd April is World Autism Awareness Day, and I am joining together with over 40 of talented Stampin’ Up! demonstrators across the world in honour of raising awareness for Autism. This fantastic blog hop has been put together by truly amazing Jenny Hall.
We hope you find great inspiration from our projects. You are currently visiting me – Anna Krol from the United Kingdom.
Y’all probably know already that the symbol for Autism Awareness is the puzzle piece in bright colours, but do you know why? To be honest I didn’t know the answer to that question. So I’ve made some research and here’s what I’ve found:
The puzzle piece logo was first created in 1963 by the National Autistic Society. They explain “that the symbol of the Society should be the puzzle as this did not look like any other commercial or charitable one as far as they could discover. The puzzle piece is so effective because it tells us something about autism: our children are handicapped by a puzzling condition; this isolates them from normal human contact and therefore they do not ‘fit in’. The bright colours are said to represent hope.
And so for my project, I decided to go with my favourite watercolour wash in bright, rainbow colours.
Work of Art card dimensions:
- Basic Black cardstock: 11-6/8″ x 4-1/8″ scored in half at 5-7/8″ (29.7 x 10.5 cm scored in half at 14.8 cm)
- Shimmery White cardstock: 4″ x 5-5/8″ (10.1 cm x 14.4 cm)
- Whisper White cardstock (for inside): 3-7/8″ x 5-1/2″ (9.7 cm x 14 cm)
- a piece of Basic Black cardstock for the sentiment
First I created my rainbow, watercolour wash. I wet my Shimmery White piece generously, creating sort of diagonal spotlight area. and started adding my colours. I chose Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive and Pacific Point. I spread colours around using aqua painter.
To speed up my process, once I was happy with the effect I dried my panel with a heat tool.
Next, using aqua painter and Basick Black Archival ink, I flicked tiny black plotches all over my panel.
For the sentiment, I chose ‘You are a fabulous work of art’ from Work of Art Stamp Set. I think it suits well the cause.
First I stamped it straight onto the panel in Basic Black Archival ink, but I didn’t like it. So I took a piece of Basic Black cardstock and die cut a circle using Stitched Shapes Thinlits Dies (2nd smallest). I stamped my sentiment in Versamark. Next to it I stamped a little butterfly image from Hold on to Hope stamp set. I heat embossed both in white.
I wanted to bring that ‘rainbow effect’ to the inside of my card too but without watercolouring. So I stamped ‘the rainbow’ in the bottom right corner on the inside panel using long narrow strip stamp from Work of Art stamp set. I’ve used same colours like on the front.
Few black sequins from Metallics Sequins Assortment finish off the card.
And that’s it from me for today. I truly hope you liked my project. Now I want to encourage you to join in and hope along.
The diversity of the projects today is absolutely wonderful, so make sure you take some time to visit the other artists. Your next stop is amazingly talented Peggy Noe frpm Pretty Paper Cards. Simply click the button below or use a list to hop along.
If you wish to purchase any of products I have used, simply click the images below to go directly to my online store and don’t forget to enter the hostess code 77BSGU7H to receive a gift from me.
Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day
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Let’s Celebrate card dimensions:
First, I stamped my flower on a piece of watercolour paper in Versamark, heat embossed it in gold, and fussy cut it (without leaves).
I took a Whisper White panel, decided where my flower will be placed, and using Stamp-a-ma-jig I stamped leaves in Lemon Lime Twist. Next, I stamped over them with Pear Pizzazz to darken them a bit and also stamped more leaves in Pear Pizzaz.
Hello everyone! Welcome to the monthly Stampin’ Dreams Blog Hop. This month’s theme is Easter/Spring. You are currently visiting Anna Krol from the United Kingdom.
To add some more interest to a rather simple card, I stamped ‘Isaiah 46:4″ in Cherry Cobbler ink on a strip of Whisper White cardstock, snip the ends diagonally and adhered it at an angle to the sentiment. Little pearls in the centres of the flowers finish off the card.
I die-cut it using a 2nd largest circle die from Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies. Next, I die-cut slightly larger scalloped circle from a piece of Powder Pink cardstock and adhered DSP on top using liquid Tombow glue.
