Hi everyone!!
Ready for the weekend?? I have a bit of a crazy weekend coming up, so I don't think I will get a lot of time for crafting, but I still have a couple of cards to share with you.
First of all, I should tell you that last month it was my birthday, and I got lots of new crafty things, that I am using on the new cards. You will see them all at some point ( I hope!).
On today's card, I used tons of stuff.
As you can see, I used another one of the robots, from the Robot trio set from Hero Arts. In the background I stamped with Weathered wood distress ink the Envelope Pattern (loooooove it), and as you can see I masked off the edges of the card. I scored some lines on the card using my brand new Martha Stewart scoring board (another.... loooove it). The sentiment is from Hero Arts, from the set Find Joy, but I cut it in half, so I could use it in 2 lines instead of just one. I rounded the corners of the front panels using the corner chomper (another present from my lovely hubby). Am I spoiled or what?? haha.
I coloured the robot using my promarkers, and then cut it and put it on the card on dimensionals. Added some glossy accents and some faux stitching in white and it was done!
Hope you liked it, have an awesome weekend and I will be here on Monday with another card!!!
Hiya!
I have another card to share with you today.
Although this card seems simple, it took me a long time because of the flower. I painted it with promarkers, and it took me a couple of tries to get it right. Soooo frustrating!!! Anyway, I got to use my new stamp from Hero Arts, the Large Fabric Design, and I looooove it!!!!
Hope you liked it!!!!!
Hi everyone!!
If there is anyone still out there!! Im sorry it took me soooo long to get back to blogging, but life just got in the way... I guess I will have to make it up to you with more cards.
Anyway, last week it was my hubby's birthday and I made him this card:
It is a zigzag card, inspired by Jennifer McGuire. She showed how to make this type of cards on the online class summer card camp. I signed up for the class, but didnt have time to participate. It was a shame! But now I have lots of color combos and sketches to try!!!
The stamps I used on this card are from Hero Arts and Lawn Fawn. The robot was stamped with Memento Ink and colored with Promarkers. I got my first small set of promarkers for my birthday, so I am just learning, but they are a lot of fun! The white pannels were cut using my silhouette.
Ok, I hope you liked it and see you tomorrow with another card!!
Hi everyone!
It's me again! It has been ages since I blogged last, but I was ill last week, and really didnt feel like doing anything. So I haven't done much crafting and I don't have a lot to share. Hopefully this week will be a bit more productive!
Hi everyone!!!
I have to say, that this was such a great week! I got to do lots of crafting, that is always good, Hero Arts twitted about me, as I mention before, and today, the Silhouette blog featured my card. I'm soooo happy!!! I just couldn't believe it when I saw it in my Google reader! So a great week!
Today I am sharing another summer card made with Lawn Fawn stamps. Here it is:
The background clouds, from Hero Arts, are engraved with my silhouette and colored around them with chalks ( seriously looooove this technique). The waves were cut with my silhouette too, then colored with distress inks and I stamped the Magical Background, from Hero Arts, over them.
The whale and part of the sentiment are from Critters in the sea from Lawn Fawn. I used distress inks to color the whale and mount it on the card with dimensionals. Then I added a googly eye with Glossy Accents. The rest of the sentiment was done with Harold's ABCs. I decided to add a sun, for a touch of color, so I used twine from The twinery (Lemondrop).
Here is a closer look at the engraved sky:
OK, hope you have a great weekend, and thanks for stopping by!
Hiya!!!
Today I am sharing with you a card that my hubby requested. He is a teacher, and it was his last class with a couple of private students, so he asked me to make some cards wishing them a nice summer.
It was the perfect opportunity to use my new Lawn Fawn stamps. Here it is:
I used Critters in the sea to make the card.
So much fun. I colored the little critters with color pencils and paperpieced some of them giving them some dimension. The sentiment was done using the same stamp set and Harold's ABCs, and I added chipboard letters that were colored with a marker and I covered with Diamond Stickles. I added some Glossy Accents here and there to make them shine.
Thanks for stopping by!!
Hi everyone!!
Today I have a quick post for you, but first of all, I'm super excited cause Hero Arts tweeted about my card the other day!!! How awesome is that!!! I couldn't believe it!
Now, sorry about that ; ), I am sharing a card I made a couple of weeks ago, and completely forgot about. In this card, I got to use my new wood grain embossing folder, and I love it! I always wanted one, and I finally got it, yay!!! Here is the card:
The Large Blossom was clear embossed on a pieces of white cardstock, and then colored using distress inks as watercolor paints. When I was finished, I stamped the Old Writing over it with Vintage Photo. Added the sentiment and some twine, and it was done! Here is a closer look at the flowers:
Thanks for stopping by!!
Hi everyone!
The other day, they posted this great card in the silhouette blog, and I thought that technique would be perfect to use with backgrounds. I decided to give it a go! Engraving! Sooooo much fun, and the possibilities...endless.
Later they showed a tutorial about this technique and although I didn't use the same speed or thickness as the tutorial, it worked perfectly.
Here is the card:
I LOVE this background from Hero Arts, and when I saw the cutting file I was soooo excited, but I thought it would be too intricate for a card ( I was thinking, better for a scrapbook LO).
Well, this technique, perfect for this kind of images. In the silhouette blog they used chalk to ink it, and I have to say that I tried both, and I will share the other card another day, but I love the results with distress inks.
I just inked the paper with different colors of distress inks. Then I stamped the sentiment on vellum that I glued over a piece of white cardstock and then on the card. I used a small circle punch for the panel corners (idea stolen from Jennifer McGuire).
I used some liquid pearls on the center of each flower and added some pearls each side of the sentiment.
Here is a closer look at the engraving:
Thank you for stopping by and if you have a silhouette, give it a go!!!!!
Hi everyone!
How was your weekend? Mine was perfect! Great weather, lunch out with my hubby and lots of crafting done, I told you, perfect!
Anyway, the card I am sharing today is not in my comfort zone, because it has no distressing, but I had soooo much fun making it!
I did some masking, always love the results with this technique! And I tried the colored pencil technique showed by the amazing Shari Carroll in this video. So much fun!
Here it is:
I love that flower! The card is very simple, but the coloring took me a long time with the shading and layering... But it was worth it! I stamped the sentiment in a banner to give the card a bit of dimension ( I couldn't help it ;) )
I added some Glossy Accents to the center of each flower and cover the edges of the banner with Diamond Stickles.
Thanks for stopping by!!!!
