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Sunshine & Love

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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Happy Birthday-Axolotl- a shaker card

A friend asked if I could make a card for her husband’s birthday. I had to think what do I know about the family. I know that they vacation a lot in Hawaii or at least they used to before Corvid. The first stamp that came to mind was Lawn Fawn’s, ‘ I like (a lotl).

I made the traditional shaker card but then I ran into trouble. The sequences would get caught behind the axolotl or behind the seaweed. I deconstructed it and started again, this time. I made a double panel. The embellishments are in their own panel which gives depth to the card as if you are viewing in it from a portal. I learned a couple of things. The layers need to dry before you shake the card. If you shake the card while it’s wet the sequence get glued to the side. Given that I need to mail the card ASAP, I moved the card. Just remember to let the glue set before moving the card.

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You Are My Love

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.

I have linked the following products for you in case you are interested in making a similar card- I am not employed by Simon Says Stamp so there are no affiliate links listed. I am sharing what I enjoy, making cards.

You have my heart and matching die

Frames

You Matter Background

Sketchy Lines Backgound

Gina K Connect Glue

Desert Storm Kraft paper

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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Let it Snow- a shaker card and a twirly card- all in one card

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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Let It Snow

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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