Hope you all have a Happy Easter!
March 29, 2013
Happy Easter!
I made this card a few months back, but I love how it turned out. I started with a piece of green cardstock and found a panel from a Die Cuts for a View paper pad that had a similar colour in it (the leaves). I added a sparkly black ribbon to cover the join and a few punched butterflies at the bottom. The trail and sentiment were done with a black metallic gel marker.
Hope you all have a Happy Easter!
Hope you all have a Happy Easter!
March 28, 2013
Quick, Sticker Easter Card
This was a card I made quickly last year. I used a card base I got from a magazine kit, added some Dollar Store stickers (bunny and butterfly), cut a few ovals and decorated them with glitter glue and made a fringe of grass (which, in retrospect I should have cut somewhat to give dimension).
It was quick, easy and looks pretty good.
It was quick, easy and looks pretty good.
March 27, 2013
Spring Time
I suddenly realized that I got my new Um Wow Studio kit a while ago but haven't used it yet. So I made this card. All the embellishments, including the ribbon, are from the kit. The backing cardstock is kraft, there's a trellis stamped in cream on the green paper, and the stems were done with markers on a Papertry Ink stamp (Daydreamers - I love that set!). And there you have it, a quick, attractive, spring card.
March 26, 2013
Watercolour Stamping Plus Embossing
This card was made for the Papertrey Ink Make It Monday Challenge #109: Watercolour Stamping Plus Embossing. The sample card was just gorgeous for this challenge, so I really wanted to try it. My first attempt used the Hello Sunshine set and turned out great. BUT, as I was heating the embossing powder I realized I'd just stamped the images, and didn't use any watercolour, making it ineligible for this challenge. So I made the card below. :) Look for the other card next week.
For this card I put a few drops of re-inker ink on a piece of acrylic (blue and green for the stems and grass, and then red, purple and blue for the flowers) and used that to ink my stamps instead of a stamp pad. The ink soaks into the paper like watercolours. Then you stamp a little to the side with versamark and add embossing powder. I love that the flowers (from the PTI Day Dreamers set) inked en mass but only embossed the circles. I like seeing the stamped colours underneath. The sentiment is from the same set and inked in black. In retrospect it might have looked better between the stems. Ah well. The panel was tape runnered to a piece of matching green cardstock.
For the butterfly, I die cut it out and then dipped it in the leftover inks.
Here's a close-up of the embossed flower and butterfly.
For this card I put a few drops of re-inker ink on a piece of acrylic (blue and green for the stems and grass, and then red, purple and blue for the flowers) and used that to ink my stamps instead of a stamp pad. The ink soaks into the paper like watercolours. Then you stamp a little to the side with versamark and add embossing powder. I love that the flowers (from the PTI Day Dreamers set) inked en mass but only embossed the circles. I like seeing the stamped colours underneath. The sentiment is from the same set and inked in black. In retrospect it might have looked better between the stems. Ah well. The panel was tape runnered to a piece of matching green cardstock.
For the butterfly, I die cut it out and then dipped it in the leftover inks.
I love how this turned out, so I'll probably do more of it in the future. :D
March 22, 2013
It's Your Party
As soon as I saw the Happy Hour digi stamp at Kenny K's downloads I had the idea for this card. It didn't work perfectly in execution, mainly because it was my first attempt at several things. Despite the mistakes, I'm submitting this to the Kenny K It's One For the Girls challenge.
So, this is the first time I tried making a 'flip-its' card. I don't have the Sizzix dies that would make this easy (and perfect) so I scored the fold lines on my cardstock and used a spellbinders circle die to cut out the circle (carefully placing the edge of the cutting plates along the fold lines so the circle would remain attached to the paper). My two errors here were in making my fold lines too close together (the card is quite wide the way I've done it since it doesn't fold along the center line when 'closed') and not putting the die in the center of the flip (hence the gap between the circle and edge when the card is closed).
Ah well, live and learn.
I printed my digi stamp and cut out the circle, doing the same for the My Favorite Things stamp on the back. I coloured in the images and decided, instead of inking the outside of the circles, I'd try something I've seen on other blogs. I decided to ink close to the imaged. Well, not ink exactly, since I knew that wouldn't go well for me. So I took my purple metallic gelato and drew a line around the images. I then used water to soften the line and spread the colour. Yeah, that didn't work so well. In my defense, I have watercolour crayons that wouldn't have left a line, and I didn't think to check the test flowers I did a while back. Anyway, that line wasn't intentional and I won't do that again. Though, it does look like the woman on the front has a halo, while the one on the back has an emphasized drunk feel to it.
For a bit of extra dimension I used glossy accents on the glasses (both front and back). I tape gunned the circles onto the card and took some time to decide my sentiment. I ended up making one in Apple Chancery font on my computer and printing it on white cardstock. I used a Spellbinders die to cut them out, 'inking' the edges with a watercolour brush and the purple gelato (I ran the wet brush over the gelato to get colour and then painted the outline).
Before gluing the sentiments on, I took purple ink and balloons from a There She Goes stamp set, and added some images to the back panel so it wouldn't look so plain.
Voila:
So, this is the first time I tried making a 'flip-its' card. I don't have the Sizzix dies that would make this easy (and perfect) so I scored the fold lines on my cardstock and used a spellbinders circle die to cut out the circle (carefully placing the edge of the cutting plates along the fold lines so the circle would remain attached to the paper). My two errors here were in making my fold lines too close together (the card is quite wide the way I've done it since it doesn't fold along the center line when 'closed') and not putting the die in the center of the flip (hence the gap between the circle and edge when the card is closed).
Ah well, live and learn.
I printed my digi stamp and cut out the circle, doing the same for the My Favorite Things stamp on the back. I coloured in the images and decided, instead of inking the outside of the circles, I'd try something I've seen on other blogs. I decided to ink close to the imaged. Well, not ink exactly, since I knew that wouldn't go well for me. So I took my purple metallic gelato and drew a line around the images. I then used water to soften the line and spread the colour. Yeah, that didn't work so well. In my defense, I have watercolour crayons that wouldn't have left a line, and I didn't think to check the test flowers I did a while back. Anyway, that line wasn't intentional and I won't do that again. Though, it does look like the woman on the front has a halo, while the one on the back has an emphasized drunk feel to it.
For a bit of extra dimension I used glossy accents on the glasses (both front and back). I tape gunned the circles onto the card and took some time to decide my sentiment. I ended up making one in Apple Chancery font on my computer and printing it on white cardstock. I used a Spellbinders die to cut them out, 'inking' the edges with a watercolour brush and the purple gelato (I ran the wet brush over the gelato to get colour and then painted the outline).
Before gluing the sentiments on, I took purple ink and balloons from a There She Goes stamp set, and added some images to the back panel so it wouldn't look so plain.
Voila:
March 21, 2013
Beach Card
I'm submitting this card to two challenges, Simon Say Stamp & Show's Water challenge and A Blog Named Hero's Freestyle challenge.
I started the card by making the water background. I used a mixture of metallic gelatos, distress reinkers and water. The original mix was too uniform (I just blended all the above together into a mass), so I added some more drops of ink and rubbed them in as smears. I was smart enough to use watercolour paper, so the amount of liquid I added didn't warp the page. I wanted a bit more dimension and so added white streaks to indicate waves. My white gel pen didn't work on the gelato, so I used a white paint marker I got. I don't normally use it as the colour tends to get washed out with whatever clear medium they use for the marker, but the watercolour paper accepted the extra liquid, and I was able to get enough white out to create the effect I wanted.
The shells were also stamped on watercolour paper using Hero Arts stamps. I originally tried stamping them in gold gelato, but the image wasn't dark enough, so I stamped it with black stazon, then inked over top in gold. I also rubbed some more gold on the paper, so it wouldn't have a white background. Interestingly, the stamped gold didn't blend, so I've still got a nice gold outline along the black. I used two small foam pads and a bit of glue to attach the larger shell, then used one foam pad and glue for the smaller shell. This gives them more dimension (as one shell is on the other) without popping the card up too high.
For the bottom, I cut a piece of yellow holographic paper. I tape runnered it to the water page, then decided it needed something more, to show the water getting onto the sand. So I ran a bead of blue glitter glue along the shoreline, and spread it over the sand.
The card is quite shimmery, as even the water and shells (thanks to the metallic gelatos) have a glimmer to them.
I started the card by making the water background. I used a mixture of metallic gelatos, distress reinkers and water. The original mix was too uniform (I just blended all the above together into a mass), so I added some more drops of ink and rubbed them in as smears. I was smart enough to use watercolour paper, so the amount of liquid I added didn't warp the page. I wanted a bit more dimension and so added white streaks to indicate waves. My white gel pen didn't work on the gelato, so I used a white paint marker I got. I don't normally use it as the colour tends to get washed out with whatever clear medium they use for the marker, but the watercolour paper accepted the extra liquid, and I was able to get enough white out to create the effect I wanted.
The shells were also stamped on watercolour paper using Hero Arts stamps. I originally tried stamping them in gold gelato, but the image wasn't dark enough, so I stamped it with black stazon, then inked over top in gold. I also rubbed some more gold on the paper, so it wouldn't have a white background. Interestingly, the stamped gold didn't blend, so I've still got a nice gold outline along the black. I used two small foam pads and a bit of glue to attach the larger shell, then used one foam pad and glue for the smaller shell. This gives them more dimension (as one shell is on the other) without popping the card up too high.
For the bottom, I cut a piece of yellow holographic paper. I tape runnered it to the water page, then decided it needed something more, to show the water getting onto the sand. So I ran a bead of blue glitter glue along the shoreline, and spread it over the sand.
The card is quite shimmery, as even the water and shells (thanks to the metallic gelatos) have a glimmer to them.
March 20, 2013
Leopard Print Card
Life is getting busy again and I seem to be making more time consuming cards recently, so you're getting an older card today.
I embossed the cardstock with a leopard print, then coloured and fussy cut the woman out. The gold trim is a punch with a design I liked, though I'm not sure I like it as a ceiling, though it does have a slight flag look about it. As a last second addition I tied a bow with my martini ribbon and added it. Not sure that works either, but I do think the card is on the elegant side.
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