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Today’s card uses the Have Courage stamp set from Neat and Tangled. Continue reading “Have Courage”
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Wishing You A Happy Birthday And Many More To Come
Hi there, I hope you’re having a great week!
Sometimes, when my mojo is lacking and I just want to play with color, I fall back on a big sentiment that can stand on its own. Today’s card uses the Wishing You stamp set from Mama Elephant which has a beautiful scripty sentiment and a number of supporting smaller sentiment stamps. Continue reading “Wishing You A Happy Birthday And Many More To Come”
A Day Without Coffee Is Like…
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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You Are One of a Kind
Hi there! I hope you’re having a wonderful weekend!
Today’s card uses the Kind Flowers stamp set from Simon Says stamp and Mission Mijello Gold watercolors.
I started by heat embossing the large group of flowers onto Canson XL watercolor paper using VersaMark ink and Ranger Liquid Platinum embossing powder. Then I used a round 4 brush to paint the flowers and leaves (Red Violet and Bright Clear Violet for the flowers and Sap Green for the leaves). I also added splatter using the same green.
I heat embossed the Kind sentiment using the same embossing powder and painted the letters with Bright Clear Violet. I let it dry and then die cut it and set it aside.
The “You are one of a” sentiment is heat embossed with the same powder onto Recollections Kraft cardstock.
When the card front was dry, I used the largest die from the My Favorite Thinks Wonky Stitched Rectangles die set. I adhered the two sentiment pieces using foam tape, and then adhered the card front to an A2-sized piece of kraft cardstock. Finally, I adhered the card front to an A2-sized card base.
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You Make Me Ridiculously Happy
Hello and happy Saturday!
Today I’m sharing a card using the Mondo Hydrangea stamp from Ellen Hutson and the Ridiculously Happy stamp from Honey Bee Stamps.
I started by stamping the hydrangea twice using VersaMark ink onto Canson XL watercolor paper. I poured Hero Arts white embossing powder over the top, tapped off the excess, and hit it with my heat gun. I then used Carbazole Violet and Quinacridone Violet watercolors from Daniel Smith to paint the petals. I added just a touch Hooker’s Green to the stem, used Rose of Ultramarine (loosely mixed with the leftover violets from the petals) for the background and then set the card front aside to dry.
The sentiment was stamped in VersaMark ink on vellum and heat embossed using Ranger Gold Superfine embossing powder. I trimmed the strip and wrapped it around the dry card front, using a Tombow Mono Dots Adhesive tape runner to adhere the ends of the strip to the back of the card front.
At the last minute I decided to add a few more gold accents by painting the centers of the blooms with Gansai Tambi Blue Gold watercolor.
To finish, I adhered the card front to an A2-sized card base.
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