Crowing About Chuck
Stampin’ Up!’s Hey Chuck Bundle

BASIC WHITE MAT INK BLENDING

To create the sky background I used blending brushes with Tahitian Tide, Lemon Lolly, and Calypso Coral ink.

Begin by rubbing a clean blending brush onto the Lemon Lolly ink pad. Starting of the paper, gently rub the blending brush along the bottom of the Basic White mat. Continue to add ink until you are happy with the color depth. Remember this blending doesn’t have to be applied straight across and the color depth does not have to be the same intensity since we are creating a sky background.  

Add Calypso Coral to a clean blending brush and blend a small amount of Calypso coral along the edge of the Lemon Lolly ink. I only added it in the center of the and toward the left edge of the Basic White mat. Be sure to blend the edges of the Calypso Coral into the Lemon Lolly. You  can even blend it into the Lemon Lolly.

Finally, blend Tahitian Tide onto the remaining white space on the mat. I blended the Tahitian Tide right up to the Lemon Lolly and Calypso Coral but did not blend into them because I didn’t want to muddy my sky with green and brown colors.

STAMPED IMAGES BLENDING

I stamped the crowing rooster, upright rooster, and the fence with Cajun Craze ink.  Then colored them with Stampin’ Blends.

The roosters’ cox combs are colored with light Poppy Parade. Their necks are colored with light Pumpkin Pie. I added small lines of light Pumpkin Pie along the bottom of the eye lids, to the tip of the wings, along the bottom of his belly, and in his tail feathers. I then colored his eyes, chest and tail with dark Lemon Lolly making sure to blend in the Pumpkin Pie scribbles. I colored his toung, outer beak, and legs with dark Lemon Lolly.

The fence is colored with light Copper Clay Stampin’ Blends. I gave it a weathered look by coloring over areas of the fence with the Stampin’ Blends ink remover.

PUNCH & DIE CUT PREP

1. Stamp the sentiment in Cajun Craze ink on Basic White strip 2 1/2″ x 1/2″. Punch the left edge with the pointed side of the Banners Pick A Punch.
2. Punch 2 clouds out of Basic White scrap using the Cloud Punch.
3. Die cut the Tahitian Tide mat with the largest Scalloped Contours Die.
4. Use the Bag of Bones grass die to die cut 2 strips of grass out of Granny Apple Green scrap. If you have a different grass die you would prefer then use it, or just use a plain strip of green.
5. The next 4 dies are found in the Hey Chuck Die set. Die cut the sun out of Lemon Lolly. Then die cut the 2 roosters and the fence.

BUILD THE CARD

1. Position the clouds along the left and upper edges of the mat. Note that I trimmed my cloud at the top so only a sliver was left.
2. Add dimensionals to the sun and adhere it over the clouds, toward the left edge and slightly over the mats edge.
3. Adhere the grass along the bottom of the mat with liquid glue. Add liquid glue to the back of the fence and tuck it under the grass near the left edge. Embossing the strip of grass with the Time Worn Type 3D EF will give the card more texture.
4. Add dimensionals to the back of the rooster. Then adhere him to the mat over lapping the left end of the fence.
5. Using liquid glue pointing at an angle toward the sun.
6. Embellish with 3 Brass Butterflies.