When my husband and I were dating, I would borrow a friend’s bike and we would bike along the coast. This card reminds of that time.
Lawn Fawn’s Bicycle Built for You has one bike image. To get the reverse image, I stamped the image with Versa Fine Black to Waffle Flower’s mini mulit-media mat. Then I pressed paper to the stamped image. I seem to have trouble cutting along the image. It never looked polished. This time I decided to create a die cut and trace along the colored stamped reverse image. By tracing the image, I now had a guide and to follow. It matched the spacing from the yellow bike. I was happy with the results.
After cutting the reversed imaged, I erased any lines.
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Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. I wanted to give a Valentine’s card a mix media look. I first stamped the Kraft paper with two backgrounds then mixed modeling past with Distress Oxide’s Speckled Egg and then smeared the modeling paste once. As soon as it was dried, I repeated the process of mixing color and modeling paste and used Tim Holtz’s stencil called Tracks THSO44 so the tracks would look like they were on top of the layers.
Simon Says Stamp has a stamp set called, You Have My Heart. Besides the sentiments on the stamps, I liked the flowers. At first, I watercolored the flowers to give it a background look, then came in with colors pencils to give it more definition, afterwards, I used Stampers Anonymous Gamsol to mix the pencil wax into the watercolor paper. Afterwards, I used Wink of Stella to give it a shimmery look.
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Twiddlersnook tray-this is a magnetic tray that Katy from Hook, Line and Inker on Instagram recommended and I have been using since. This is highly recommended because I tend to lose small die cuts and so the magnetic helps a lot.
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Today’s card features Lawn Fawn’s Special Delivery Stamp set and Magic Iris Birdhouse Add-on. I used the Large Slimline set but extended it so the length of the owl and box of bird plus the bird house would look portional. The bird house needed to be anchored and not floating in the school so I took the liberty and added grass and mushrooms.
The birdhouse itself is embossed with Hero Arts Gratitude Background. The focus the owl so the birdhouse did not need to be a distraction, yet the added background gave the birdhouse texture.
The card is for a really special person who just had their first child. We are sending this person lots of love. The hearts are from Simon Says Stamp Heart Breeze die cut. Using Wink of Stella, to add sparkle to each of the hearts. In addition, to add shine I used Glossy Accents on each of the hearts.
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Recently my middle sister asked what set of watercolors should she buy her daughter for Christmas. I have a couple of suggestions. Before I make a recommendation, I would like my niece to understand the science behind watercolor because it will make using them a lot easier. According to Britannica, watercolors are a combination of pigment and ground gum arabic. Gum arabic is used as a binding agent. If not enough binder is used your watercolor will be difficult to rewet and pick up color. Too much binder used they will be soft and delicate. Some watercolors are translucent while others are opaque.
When using watercolor, start with the light colors first, then use dark colors. The clerk at Blicks art supply store, likened watercolors to an onion, layers on layers of watercolors make a watercolor painting, like the layers of an onion make an onion. Waiting for your colors to dry is essential.
Depending on the project, most people start out with a basic set. I like Schmincke because the colors are rich. But as a student, I used anything from Crayola watercolors to Daniel Smith watercolors. The cardmaking industry promotes different brands depending on the card marker’s level of watercolor experience. One cardmaker likes Mission Gold Watercolors while another Cardmaker may use Kuretake. I have both sets , Mission and Kuretake, and use them for different reasons. Depending on the subject I will pick a brand. The card that I am show casing was made with a 12 colors set from Schmincke. Schmincke, is my favorite, and expensive. However in previous posts I have recommended handmade watercolor, like Hydra Colour or Case For Making. As you begin to work with watercolors sometimes you begin to look for certain hues that only handmade watercolors can give you. Artists that make handmade watercolors put along of time in creating a formula that gives watercolors certain hues. I like adding handmade watercolors to my Schmincke set.
I took a class with Alexa from Case For Making to further my understanding of watercolors. I also ordered from Kremer a watercolor set for producing watercolors paint to make my own watercolor. In the Kremer kit you had to ground the arbic gum well to mix with the pigment and water. Jane Davenport sells a watercolor kit too which you make half pans of watercolor. Jane adds distilled water and mixes the pigment. However, Jane suggests adding vegetable glycerin and clove essential oil mostly for rewetting reasons and mold reasons. Jane has dubbed her watercolor pigments, as ‘fairy dust’ which is illustrative of who Jane is and her brand. I enjoy using Jane Davenports brand because her line is geared toward the liking of women’s makeup.
There are artists who specialize in one medium. I have a general understanding for watercolor and can use it well. There are website you should look into to get more information regarding watercolors. I am writing this post mainly to help my middle sister out. If you have any questions, please feel free to write using the comment section below.
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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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This card was inspired by Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. The general theme of Wednesday challenge is Thanks/Thanksgiving. The challenge is to feature any of Pink Fresh Studio products. Today’s card features Unicorn Dreams . The link that is attached is to Pink Fresh Studio home page. Unicorn Dreams is from the year 2017, since then it has been discontinued. It is still my favorite stamp because there are endless possibilities of making cards. I did not feature the unicorn itself but the flowers instead to show how beautiful the flowers are drawn. Less is more when you are making a statement.
To stamp the flowers I used Tsukineko Inks. I got them from the website called Cute Things From Japan. One of these days I would like to visit Japan. In the meantime, my internet browser takes me there instead. 🙂
The word, ‘Thanks’ is from Simon Says Stamp called Big Thanks. The small sentiment is also from Simon Says Stamp called Big Thanks Words. I have three daughters and I am eternally grateful for all the teachers, coaches, family and friends that are apart of our lives. Needless to say this stamp set has been used again and again.
Last but not least, the watercolors used to splatter the card are from Hydra Color. Half pan watercolors handmade! I love how vibrant the colors are. Link is included.
This is my entry for Monday’s challenge on Simon Says Stamp. The theme ‘s challenge is Remembrance/Thinking of You. I had recently purchased a Stampers Anonymous stamp set called Dearly Departed. The flower portion of the stamp set caught my attention and I wanted to incorporate it into a card.
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I am participating an exchange where you create and send a Christmas card, an ornament and a gift tag. Here are the two gift tags that I will be sending. Super easy to make.
One tag is colored with Copic markers and the other tag is colored in pencils. I just wanted to see what the colored images looked like on camera. I used a Uni-ball white pen to give the sky more stars. The Uni-ball white pen is my go to pen when I want to give an image a high accent. The glitter that I used is from Martha Stewart, called Sugar Cube Stars. I could not find it at Amazon. But any embellishment that you have can be added to a shaker.
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Feeling thankful for my family and friends to today. Today I featured a stamp set called S’more the Merrier. Lawn Fawn and Ellen Huston joined together to create this stamp set. In addition, I also used Jump for Joy by Lawn Fawn to create the leafs and the sentiment.
The background was created with distress ink using Picket Fences blender brushes. I am enjoyed how smooth the distress oxide ink feels on Neenah paper Solar White paper. Its important to remember to use a heavy weight paper like 110lb because it can support ink and it will not tear.
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October birthdays are super fun to celebrate because you can incorporate a Halloween or autumn theme. Today’s card was made with a lot of love because the recipient of this card turns 12 today:)
It’s a shaker card using Lawn Fawn’s Stitched Mug dies. Lawn Fawn has several Halloween stamp sets and die cuts. I used what I had in my stash. You Tube is a fabulous resource. Over the years, I have tied to learn to sew. I found an iridescent floss at Joann’s Fabric. I attempted to try to stitch the side using my sewing machine however the floss was too delicate kept breaking so I ended up sewing the side by hand. It’s not a straight line but my attempt to make this card special.
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