cardmarker, artist, mother of three, crafty
Happy Holidays! My youngest daughter made me a card for me and I thought I would share it. I love the simplicity of it. (The thoughtfulness and creativity that was applied.) Yes I am one of those moms that saves everything that my kids make. 🙂 I hope you have a wonderful holiday. Stay safe and healthy. See you in the New Year!
Lawn Fawn’s color inspiration challenge as been on my mind and I keep thinking how can I meet this challenge. The design team from Lawn Fawn have chosen a set of colors and your challenge is to use those colors in a card. As I was going through my stamp sets from Lawn Fawn and the Beary Happy Holidays stood out because the bear is iceskating.
The bear figure illustrated on the front and the back which lends itself to a ‘twirly’ card. I used white thread and taped it to the front side of the bear. After glueing the back, I used medical take to secure the thread to the card. The card can sit by itself.
I used small blue balls in the window to make it look like water. They are from a company called Queen & Co. Link is included to make it easier to find. Thats it- I enjoyed making cards as well as painting.
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I was watching Nichole Sphor’s YouTube channel while I was jogging. (a mom’s life is all about multi-tasking) Long story short, Nichole was featuring cards about inlay die cuts but what I liked most about her cards were the layers that she applied to make the card interesting.
Here is my take on layering cards: Using Simon Says Stamp Holiday Background with their Audrey Blue ink I began the first layer with stamping the background image. To add some texture, I embossed Lawn Fawn’s Snowflake Trio Stencil and added white embossing powder. Typically you see cardmakers cut out a circle right in the middle but I thought “Why not place the circle die cut to the left a little so you can see more of the snowflake stencil?” I glued on the acetate to the back of the first layer to cover the circle cut out . This gave me a window, in which I glued on the Picture Book Deer. The words, ‘Season’s Greetings’ are from Simon Says Stamp, to give the words dimension I glued white foam. To make the the words look like they had snow on top of it, I brushed on SS White Pigment Ink using Picket Fence Studio brushes. The snowflake sequins are from Pretty Pink Posh.
One last thing: to get a matching paper to surround the shaker card, I used a Copic Marker (BG 49 Duck Blue)to match Simon Says Stamp Audrey Blue ink. By doing that, it gave a more unifying look to the card.
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Stopping by with a Christmas tag that you can use as an ornament too. I am having fun with my color pencils. I created a scene using stamp from Lawn Fawn called Snow Globe Scenes.
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Happy Wednesday! Today I am featuring Lawn Fawn’s Magic Iris Snow Globe, as well as Christmas Fishes. To make this card unique, I made it into a shaker card by using Little Things from Lucy’s Cards Splash embellishment.
Inspired by Lawn Fawn card challenge. This week’s theme is color inspiration, Lawn Fawn gives you a set of colors and you try to make a card using those colors.
Some products have been difficult to link. For example, Splash embellishment from Little Things from Lucy’s Cards, has been discontinued but you can find a ton of cute embellishments at her website. To make it easier I have included the link for you. Also, Heidi Swapp glittered and foil paper, I purchased Heidi’s paper back in 2015. I can not find a proper link, I can’t even find something similar to show you. However, I have included Heidi Swapp link to her website anyway. The paper is beautiful and deserves a proper credit when using.
Furthermore, the iridescent speckles that you see on the globe is from Hydra Colour. Elena is the owner of Hydra Colour and has been making handmade watercolors since 2017. Her handmade watercolors are creamy and vibrant. I used the watercolor called Neptune. Fair warning, if you are interested in purchasing this color, now would be the time to get it because her watercolors sell fast.
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I started this project on Tuesday and I kept trying different ideas until one idea came together exactly how I imagined it. The garland came out cute and I am super happy with it. Its simple but made a nice statement on my fireplace mantel.
After cutting several snowflakes, I decided to use Ranger’s Medium Matte to glue on white foam to add a thickness to the snowflake, as well as shimmery paper. In addition, I used Stickles Distress Dry Clear Dry Glitter by Ranger to make it look like crystals. There are two links, one link will take you to Ranger’s website. However, I also found a link on Amazon selling multiple products from Tim Holtz which I have. Worth checking out both if you are interested Tim Holtz’s products. Last but not least, I used DMC metallic thread to string them.
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Simon Says Stamp has created a stamp kit in a limited edition for the holiday season. The kit includes two die cuts, one stencil, two brushes from Gina K Designs, stickers from Doodle Bug Design, card stock, envelops, and We Believe stamp. I have created two cards, three tags and one banner with it. My only regret was not ordering the die cut to go with the stamp, We Believe.
Once the images were stamped on the card, I masked the image with it with Post It Note . Be sure to cut right on the line. Reason being, once you color the the back ground its extremely difficult to go back and color close to the image. I find that cutting right on the line or slightly inside the line works best for masking. You can also use stamping mask paper from Inkadinkado. Unfortunately, I ran out of Inkadindado masking paper so I used a Post It Note instead. I also used Tombow Dot Adhesive to make the rest of the Post It Note stick. This was tricky because when I pulled off the Post It Note, I could see some of the adhesive dots. I have a rubber cement eraser and used that to remove the adhesive dot.
The background is a blend of several Distress Oxide colors, Salty Ocean, Chipped Sapphire, Faded Jeans and Shabby Shutters. I used brushes from Taylor Expressions and blending brushes from Amazon. Taylor Expressions brushes are color coded while the brushes from Amazon are a generic black. Blending brushes from Amazon come in different sizes so I like to have a variety of sizes depending on the area I want to cover. To maintain my blending brushes, I wash them with soap and water after making a card to keep them clean.
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Peace. Joy. Love. -A Shaker Card
My second card is made with Tim Holtz’s Fanciful Snowflakes and Simon Says Stamp Neighorhood Wafer. Its more of a mix media card, with texture, and jewels! I got a different look using the same kit. Even if the kit is sold out, Simon Says Stamp sells these products individually.
There are a couple of items that need to be mention, besides selling stamps, Honey Bee Stamps also sells embellishments. The colors in Spring Fling Mint Julep matched Rustic Wilderness Oxide and Shabby Shutters Oxide perfectly. You can get them here as I have linked it for you. These embellishments are not apart of the SSS Kit. Rather than color the neighborhood, I thought of what it is like inside each home. During the holidays you see merriment, and color. The embellishment has small white butterflies, and beautiful green seed beads. Its that spark that reminded me of joy.
In case you are wondering how I got the light green dots, I mixed Rustic Wilderness and modeling paste together. Using a pallet knife, and SSS Large Dots Stencil from the kit, smear the paste over the stencil. Remove the stencil as gently as possible and wash your stencil before the modeling paste hardens.
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Gina K. Design Sparkle and Shine Card Kit is pretty impressive. It not only comes with paper, stencil, die cuts but three stamp sets. Sometimes, you get a kit and think, “oh no- what do I do with it”. But Gina’s kit was well designed, it flowed.
At Gina K. Design Blog, they have a monthly challenge. November’s theme is to use a tag and a card. The challenge is to use two colors red and white. This is my entry. Wish me luck.
I do not have a lot of products from Gina K. Design. Hence the need to use a border from a different company. To create a shaker card with an interesting border, I used the Lawn Fawn’s Outside In Stitched Scalloped Square Stackables, and Stitched Scalloped Square Frames. I liked the shape of the border.
One more thing, the snow flakes and dots in the shaker card are from Joann’s. But I am guessing, they were in my drawer and I have had them for years.
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I made this card on Monday but I was not happy with details that make a card special. After thinking it over, I decided to do redo the card by giving it more layers. Using Over the Mountain stamps has three meadows in it, so I created three meadows. In addition, I added the car and the house from Snow Globe Scenes stamp set to create. It reminded me of time we took the family skiing in Denver, Colorado.
Winter Dragon has just one dragon. I was able to get the opposite version of the dragon by stamping it on Mini Media Mat by Waffle Flower and then pressing paper to it. I outlined the dragon with Pigma Micron black in and cut it out by hand. Some card makers call this process ‘fussy cut’ because it is easier to use a die cut. But since there is no opposite dragon and matching die cut , I did it by hand.
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