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Today’s card uses the Sweet Sprinkles from Concord and 9th, made especially for Essentials by Ellen. I love the large cupcake image and the set also includes an ice cream cone for versatility. Continue reading “Hope Your Day Is Sprinkled With Every Happy Thing!”
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Today’s card is a quick and easy card using Concord and 9th’s Lovely stamp set and three Distress Ink colors: Picked Raspberry, Abandoned Coral, and Carved Pumpkin. Continue reading “You’re A Whole Lot Of Lovely”
Happy Monday! I hope your week is getting off to a great start!
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that I seem to post coffee-themed cards on Mondays. I’m always sluggish in the mornings, but Mondays always present a special challenge! Here’s another coffee card one using the Let’s Chat stamp set from Concord and 9th and the Coffee by One Little Bird stamp set from Studio Calico.
I started by heat embossing the cup and spoon images using Versafine Black Onyx ink and Hero Arts Ultra Fine embossing powder, which is clear, onto Ranger Distress Watercolor cardstock. The heat embossing creates ridges that contain watercolor and I knew I would find it challenging to watercolor the narrow areas of the cup and spoon.
I did some very quick watercoloring using three Mijello Mission Gold colors: Burnt Umber for the coffee, Prussian Blue for the cup, and Ivory Black for the spoon. I helped speed up the drying process with a heat gun and then used my anti-static powder tool to make sure that the coffee image was ready for heat embossing.
The heart was stamped in VersaMark ink and this time I heat embossed with Hero Arts White Puff embossing powder which has a great texture that I know will come in handy around the holidays.
I cut out the cup and spoon using a Brother ScanNCut2 and set them aside.
For the card front, I trimmed a piece of Neenah Solar White 80# Classic Crest cardstock with the largest die from the Lawn Fawn Outside In Stitched Rectangles die set. Then I stamped the saucer and sentiment in Versafine Black Onyx ink.
To assemble the card, I used liquid adhesive to adhere the spoon flat to the card and then I popped up the coffee cup with foam tape. Finally, I adhered the card front to an A2-sized piece of gray Recollections Kraft cardstock and then in turn adhered that to an A2-sized card base.
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On Wednesdays I celebrate the fact that I’m halfway through my work week and so “Chin up buttercup” seemed like the perfect sentiment for today’s card.
This sentiment, as well as the flowers, come from The Ink Road’s Chin Up Buttercup stamp set.
The A2-sized card front is a piece of Canson XL watercolor paper. I used Daniel Smith’s New Gamboge to create this warm yellow background. There’s no special technique here, I just used an 8 round brush to add color to dry paper and created a yellow area large enough to contain the sentiment.
When the card front was dry, I stamped the sentiment in Versafine Black Onyx ink using a Misti stamping tool. Since watercolor paper is usually textured, I knew that I’d probably have to stamp the sentiment multiple times to get a crisp image so having a stamp positioning tool like the Misti came in handy.
The flowers were leftovers from a previous project, What a Lovely Face, and I thought the red/pink went well with the yellow background. I adhered the larger flowers flush to the card front, and popped up the smaller flowers using foam tape.
Finally, I adhered the card front to an A2-sized card base to finish the card.
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Hello! I hope your week is getting off to a great start!
I just love this bunny from Honey Bee Stamps’ Blah Humbunny stamp set. Today I’ve paired it with the Coffee by One Little Bird stamp set from Studio Calico to create this card that perfectly captures how I usually feel on Monday mornings.
I started by stamping the bunny and coffee cup onto Neenah Solar White #80 Classic Crest cardstock using Copic-friendly Hero Arts Intense Black ink. I did some basic coloring using E31 and E35 for the bunny’s fur, E30 for the bunny’s foot pads and inner ears, and E50, E53, B32, and B34 for the coffee cup. I filled in the bunny’s eyes with a black Saruka Glaze pen and then added little white dots with a white Sakura Gelly Roll pen. Then I cut out the images using a Brother ScanNCut2 and set them aside.
For the card front I trimmed another piece of Neenah Solar White to 4″ x 5.25″ and stamped the sentiment in Versafine Black Onyx ink. I adhered the bunny and then popped up the coffee cup using foam tape. Finally, I adhered the card front to an A2-sized card base to finish up today’s card.
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