Our next challenge was to use black and white with just one color. I picked yellow as my other color. We would get extra point if we used splattering. A friend got some bad health news, hoping this will cheer her up.
I had colored this image after my surgery and forgot about it, when going through my things yesterday I found it and thought that would make a good Christmas image. All I did was add a bit of glitter to the center of it, cut out a die from glitter paper along with the sentiment and I was done, that was a quick one.
The next challenge was to use something new. I have recently bought a few new things from 49and Market, so I went with these pretty rub ons. The image in the middle with the butterfly and words is the rub on and I placed it onto some of their papers, I had a slim piece left so I made a little banner and sewed it on with a button.
The bits in the corner were from another die cut that I had cut and I saved all the inner parts and found they were a neat touch for the corners here.
My cardmaking group is having a week of challenges since we are celebrating 7 years of the group being together.
Today's challenge was to make a watercolor background. I did the water and sand/dirt with Daniel Smith watercolors and used watered down distress inks on the sky and sun. My brother always goes camping around his birthday so I went with that for this years card.
The stamps are from a cardmaking magazine, there are so many in the set that you can make all kinds of scenes with many different critters. I colored those all out with markers, the camper and sign had dies for them the rest I had to fussy cut.
We did a few projects in our zoom meeting that I had with my stamp group just before we went on our trip, and I am finally getting around to making them into cards.
She had us stamp on a piece of cardstock using waterproof ink. Then she had us mist both sides of the card stock and then crunch up the paper, open it up and then crunch up the other way open up. Then we were to take watercolors or sprays that we had and spray the stamp image. I used some sparkle sprays that I had that I haven't used in some time, thank goodness they still worked. Then we set them aside to dry, I fussy cut them out after I came home from the trip and boy do they have some great dimension.
I used the left over pieces to die cut some smaller snowflakes and stamped my sentiment.
There are quite a few challenges out there right now for embossing, and one of them asked for sparkle. I hadn't played with my Twinkling H2o's for ever, they have a lot of sparkle in them and they needed to come out and play again :) I found this Video on you tube for those of you that have not heard of them.
When I saw this die in a craft magazine I thought it would make a beautiful Christmas card. I had recently purchased the stencil so that it could be a nice backdrop for the window.
I actually remembered to take pictures along the way with my phone while I was creating this, the first picture shows how I cut out the die but left it all inside the die cut so that I could more easily color all the pieces. Before cutting out the die I applied double sided tape to the back so that I could easily move the pieces to my black Mirri card base.
The next picture shows how I moved the pieces one by one to the other card base.
As you can imagine this whole process took a very long time, it didn't all happen in one sitting, so for my next card I tried a very simple approach that didn't take nearly as long. I used Glitter cardstock on this one.
As some of you may know the Tim Holtz stencils are smaller than an A2 size card but he made them so that you can line them up and continue on with your stenciling and I like that since I don't do many tags, as you can see it lined up very well.
I have been seeing a few Topiary's used and I remembered that I had bought a set at a garage sale a few years back I hadn't tried yet. They came in a plastic container that said Close to my heart, but there is nothing on the actual stamps so I am not sure. If you happen to recognize it could you let me know. I couldn't find it on their site but I think it may be too old.
Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today, Hope your week is off to a great start,
Connie
I have shared cards from this set of acetate frames a few times, I think the set came with 3 or 4 different patterns and 2 of each, I think I use one each year. This is another 5 x 6 1/2 inch card.
I know this has a bit of a dark tone for the background but I tried it up against different colors and everything just seemed to pop nicely against this darker background, reminds me of some of the old brick buildings in England. I love those little round epoxy tags that came in a different set but match these acetates so well.
Connie
My brother and sister in law are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary and I was stuck on what to do, I sat there in my room thinking and finally I came up with using the pattern on her bridesmaids dresses 50 years ago. The dresses were covered in Sunflowers, so I covered the bottom of the card with stamped sunflowers and to tie it in with the top I colored an extra one and fussy cut it out and put it onto my Gingham background.
My stamp groups Christmas challenge for June was to use a candle on our card. I first thought of this pretty lantern die cut Esther had sent me when I had my foot surgery. I thought it would work perfect for this challenge, I just needed to make a candle to go inside. I just cut a rectangle shape, inked the edges to give it more of a cylinder look and then punched a leaf for the flame and did some inking on it. Of course we needed a little embellishing to give it a Christmas look and I just loved how it turned out. Esther if you stop by maybe in the comments you can say who makes the lantern :)
I am trying really hard not to buy anymore papers, I have plenty but oh my when I saw this set I just had to get it and a few goodies to go with them. I stitched the sentiment that I stamped onto a piece of die cut that came in one of the packs onto the card base, added the plastic leaf die cut and the pretty butterfly, I love how you can see the papers through these. A few bead rub ons were place above a strip of scrap from the paper pack.
Today's card was a bigger size, 5 x 6 1/2 inches. My great nephew is into a lot of sports and so I thought this all star tag would be perfect for him, but it couldn't fit on a smaller card base. I broke out some stamps that Connie from Crafty home cottage sent me when she was cleaning out her stash of stamps, luckily there was one of every sport he is into and they worked perfect. I stamped them onto kraft cardstock to go with the look of the papers and colored them with markers and then cut them out with circle dies.
One of the ladies in my cardmaking group husband has passed away. I decided to just do a simple wildflower bouquet for this sympathy card. Colored the die cuts with ink blending.
The Christmas challenge in my stamp group for May was to use watercolor on your card. That reminded me that I had these watercolor panels that I haven't used in awhile.
I love this paper, it has so much going on already you don't need much to add to it but I did think it needed a vintage bird, I first stamped it with inks and just didn't think it stood out enough so I broke out my Spectrum sparkle markers and colored in the bird and the berries, that was much better :)
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I was lucky enough to win a gift certificate from Simon Says stamps recently and I knew just what I wanted, they had recently had a new release of this big stamp set and there were so many gorgeous cards made with it I just wanted to give it a try :)
I heat embossed with white embossing powder onto watercolor paper, then using a mix of Daniel Smith watercolor and my Spectrum Aqua pens I water colored the image, I forgot to take a picture to show what the whole panel looked like but I did take a picture of the two cards together to give you an idea of what it looked like before I cut them in two to make two cards.
I don't have any slim line dies so I used my regular dies and just cut them twice making sure not to cut the ends so that I could flip the card around and cut the opposite ends, if you want to see how that is done I think you can google extending size of dies, I am sorry I can't remember where I saw the the technique just remembered seeing it somewhere. As you see I had to cut a little off the panel on the right in order for it to work with that die.
