A fun card making blog
I finally played with a new stamp of quirky birds! I stamped the birds and coloured them with my Copics. The clouds were stencilled behind and I adhered the front to a teal mat and then an orange card base. The sentiment was stamped at the bottom.
Enjoy,
Alyson
Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian friends!
Although July is typically warm here, I am thinking abut Christmas cards. I found a sweet stamp and die set called Feeling Frosty (Sunny Studio) and I stamped, coloured and die cut a pile of snowman images. These two cards are the same style but in different colour schemes.
I cut a piece of masking paper like a small hill and placed it on the back of a circle stencil. I inked the background to make it appear like a hill at the bottom. The sentiment was stamped and I used a score board to score lines along the edges. The snowmen were added along with some white gems. Easy - and I may choose to mass produce these as making individual Christmas cards each year is a HUGE job!
Enjoy,
Alyson
At a recent crop, I used some layering washi tape and created 72 images - yes - 72! I die cut them in squares and circles and layered each on a white mat. The front card panels were all embossed and I added a gold hot foiled sentiment at the bottom.
I give these to my church for their Christmas market - people are always asking for Chrimstas cards and these were quick and easy to make!
Enjoy,
Alyson
I like to play along withe the Sketchy Saturday challenges although I am definitely behind!
This sketch lent itself to an ink blended panel in yellow, orange and red. I splattered that with water and added it to a 3D embossed piece of black cardstock. The leaves were die cut from gold paper and patterned vellum and assembled under the circle. I stamped the sentiment in black in the centre and then stamped a yellow/orange mix at the top and an orange/red mix at the bottom. Some gold gems were added around the card.
Enjoy,
Alyson
Welcome to Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge 690!
The sketch is shown below.
Come and join us at Atlantic Hearts and show us how you interpret this sketch.
You have until Sunday evening to link up your project.
We can't wait to see what you create!
Enjoy,
Alyson
Nelly the Elephant is a set of dies from Studio Light. I placed Nelly in two different backgrounds.
The first has Nelly sitting up. The background was inked with Distress Oxide inks and covered with a clear glitter paste. I die cut two ovals and adhered Nelly to the centre. The sentiment "tons of love" fit so perfectly.
The second card has Nelly fully sprawled out within the sunflowers. I die cut a cloud background and used a white gel pen to outline the clouds. Nelly was arranged on the left side and I placed the sunflowers around her - tying as much as possible to avoid it looking like she was farting flowers :) I used markers to add some interest to the flowers and leaves.
Enjoy,
Alyson
This was a new technique for me - one taught by Mindy Eggen.
The background was watercolored - totally not my strength. Once it was dry, I embossed that panel with a 3D folder. Using the coordinating stencils, I coloured the image, pulling colours from the watercolored background. That took a long time... I splattered the piece with black, white and gold paint and adhered it to a black mat and then a white card base. The sentiment was placed at the side and I added some clear dew drops around the card. I am so happy with how this turned out!
Enjoy,
Alyson
These two cards were made withe the same products but in different colours.
I embossed the image and stencilled the flowers and leaves. Each piece was cut down to an A2 size and added to a coloured mat. I placed a hot foiled sentiment at the bottom and used Liquid Pearls to add some dots around the images.
Enjoy,
Alyson
This card was inspired by one made by Mindy Eggen for the Let's Stamp Together program.
The floral image was stamped, stencilled and die cut. I also cut two blanks of that image. The front blue panel was ink blended, adhered to a back panel and then adhered to an acetate card base. The back panel was covered with white cardstock on both sides. The flowers were attached to the front, trimmed along the edges and a blank piece was attached to the back to cover up the adhesive. I added a silver glitter paper piece on the back of the front panel so the edges would show through to the front. The sentiment and some gems were placed on the front.
Enjoy,
Alyson
Welcome to Cut It Up Challenge 360!
The theme for this challenge is to make your own background.
I love using vellum on my cards so I chose to create a vellum background.
I used three Copic marks to scribble on a piece of vellum and then touched the "joining" areas with rubbing alcohol which helped the colours to spread. Once that piece was dry, I stamped and embossed floral images in white along the side. That was adhered to the white card base and I added a foam taped die cut frame with acetate and placed pink, purple and teal sequins inside the shaker. A sentiment was placed on top of the shaker.
Come and join us at Cut It Up and show us how you interpret this challenge.
You have until Monday, July 20 to link up your project.
We can't wait to see what you create!
Enjoy,
Alyson
