When I saw the Musical Jamboree stamp set in the latest Stampin’ Up!® Annual Catalogue, I just had to have it because that wolf looks so much like my own dog.
So far I have made three cards using this fun stamp set, all of which you can see here.
Musical Jamboree is featured in the Masterful Masking section on pages 124-125. These technique pages are one of my favourite things about the 2024-2025 latest Stampin’ Up!® Annual Catalogue, and I even ran a class based on the techniques shown on those two pages.
As part of the class I recreated the Musical Jamboree card shown on page 124, putting my own intense spin on it using a Blending Brush to achieve full colour saturation.
To create a scene with a night sky background, begin by stamping the images in position on white cardstock. Note that this is not my card – I forgot to take photos of my card in progress so took some of the day of the class. For this reason, there are different variations of animals in these photos.
Next stamp the Musical Jamboree images again on masking paper or a sticky note, and carefully cut them out. In this instance, you'll want to cut them close to the outline of the image, instead of leaving a white border as we usually do. Place these cut-out images on top of the first ones, as shown on the badger and wolf, here.
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Next up, cut a wavy line from masking paper and lay this on top of everything to represent the ground. Now you are ready to start adding ink using a blending brush.
I like to create a really intense colour when I use blending brushes, which means blending for way longer than you’d expect.
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Once you are happy with the colour intensity, you can remove the masks.
I coloured my Musical Jamboree images using Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers. This, too, gives a really intense colour which is just what I love.
If you plan to colour with alcohol markers, make sure you stamp your outline images using a water-based ink to avoid the colours running into each other.
If you want to create a starry sky, you can do this with an old Stampin’ Up!® Chalk Marker, adding dots freehand. Or you could do what I did and reapply the masks before splashing the background with slightly diluted white craft ink. This does take a long time to dry, so you will need to be patient.
To finish, off, I mounted the stamped panel onto some Blueberry Bushel cardstock and then onto a white card blank.
My second masking technique is also taken from the Stampin’ Up!® Annual Catalogue. This time I masked a border around some white cardstock and brayered using Daffodil Delight ink in the centre. I found with the brayer that the colour didn't create a true rectangle, but I quite like the effect.
On top of this I stamped the musical notes and “just a note” greeting from Musical Jamboree, keeping the card really simple. By stamping these in black and mounting on black cardstock, it meant the ladies at my class could use any ink colour they liked.
My third and final Musical Jamboree project is a remake of a card from September 2019. My original card uses a realistic fox image from the now retired Stampin’ Up!® Nature’s Beauty stamp set.
Read more about this throwback project here.
My remake uses the wolf from Musical Jamboree, coloured using Cajun Craze Stampin’ Blends. I used Grassy Grove to create a woodland background, and some die-cut pine boughs from the upcoming Winterly Tree Tops dies from the Nests of Winter Suite in the September-December Mini Catalogue from Stampin’ Up!®
The white background panel is embossed using the Birch Wood 3D embossing folder, and the thread is Natural Tones Linen Thread, both from the same Nests of Winter Suite.
The greeting is stamped in Simply Said, a must-have Stampin’ Up!® sentiment set for anyone who likes to keep things simple.
I hope you like my Musical Jamboree projects are are tempted to add this to your craft stash. If you are in the UK or Ireland, I would love it if you shopped at my online store. Please use the link at the bottom of this blog post to shop
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