cardmarker, artist, mother of three, crafty
Happy 11th Birthday, Lawn Fawn! This is one of my favorite stamping companies. Not only do they have great customer service but fantastic products as well. Another reason to like Lawn Fawn stamps is because you can incorporate many sets into one card. As an example, I used Christmas stamp sets to make this birthday card. In fact, there were ten stamp sets that I used.
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My youngest cringed when I came home with unicorn keychains for her class. The saga with valentine day cards continues. She is no longer at that stage where she dresses up as princesses, and play with dolls. Those days are bygone. Yet that mom in me still sees that little girl. Hence the princess card!
My Favorite Things Stamp, Pretty Princess, Rainbows &Unicorns, Heart Air Balloon, Loopy Love are included in this card.
I used two pieces of Solar White Neenah paper for the word, LOVE. I colored one piece with Kitsch Flamingo with a blending brush. After gluing the pieces together, I added Spectrum Noir Clear Glitter and Glossy Accents to make the word ,’love’ look shiny.
There are small details that I like about this card. I like the shiny crown made with Nuvo Glitter Drops, Honey Gold. In addition, the wheel on the carriage has two small dots from Nuvo called Bubblegum Blush.
Affiliated links used at no cost to you. I do hope your fairy godmother had or has good taste. Happy Valentine’s Day!
Happy Monday! Today I am featuring Simon Says Stamp Love You Beary Much in the Box Card. S The kit is worth purchasing because it has a heart stencil, glossy accents, colored paper , an additional stamp called Sweet Truffles and envelopes. To see what is in the Valentine’s kit click here.
My goal was to utilize the valentine’s kit’s content. I have only one regret, I did not purchase the matching dies. I wish I had. Here is the list of supplies I used from Simon Says Stamp that were not included in the Valentine’s kit. I have also included the links to make it easier. These are not affiliate links, I am sharing what I enjoy doing and that’s making cards.
There are two sides to box so no matter what angle you are looking at the box, you can see an image. One side is a shaker heart filled with Pastel Hearts Speciality from Micheals. The other side is stamped with the words, ‘I love you’ from the Love You Beary Much stamp set. I used Waffle Flower Craft Tool Mini Media Mat to do a reverse image of the speech bubble. You might be asking yourself what does this mean? It means I stamped the image on the mat. When the image it wet I pressed paper onto it and that’s how I got a reverse image.
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Every two week, Lawn Fawn features a challenge. Each challenge has a theme. For challenge number 92 the theme was, “Happy Occasions”. I originally made this card for a very special teacher. Mrs.B taught my youngest daughter in the first grade. Just to give you an idea of how special Mrs.B is, my youngest daughter is a 6th grader now, and we communicate with one another, five years later. Since then Mrs.B has moved to another state but to my daughter she is still a very special person in her life. Mrs.B recently had a son. The timing coordinated with the theme so I entered the card in Lawn Fawn’s challenge. Below is the picture of my card that was entered.
I want to congratulate all the other winners. Lawn Fawn has a strong following with artists from around the world. The cards that were featured in the challenge were pretty epic. In addition, I also want to thank Lawn Fawn for posting my card.
In the meantime, the card is in the mail in the hopes of making someone feel special!
Happy Wednesday!
Carol
My oldest daughter turned 17 this month. I had colored the card and finished it and was placing the final touches when I moved my hand over an image. The black ink wasn’t completely dried and I ended up smearing the ink over the image. I thought to myself, I can still save this card, so I decided to cut out the images and glue them to blue crafting foam. I added Simon Says Stamp Mini Stars to spruce it up. In addition, I also included Lawn Fawn’s Quinn’s 123’s to show that the card was telling a story of critters celebrating a 17th birthday. Its a cute card trying to convince myself! But in my heart it wasn’t what I had planned.
I love to color so starting over isn’t a big deal. Here is the second card for my oldest daughter’s birthday!
What I learned from this experience is that you can create a different cards with one stamp set. I like both of them so I will give them to my oldest. Happy Birthday B-Girl!
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Simon Says Stamp Kit , We Believe, has a lot of creativity and options. Today I am showing you three simple tags that I made using Prismacolor Premier Color Pencils and Kraft paper. To spruce up the tags I also used Gelly Roll pens.
At the age of ten I was fortunate that Mr Bob Friedman took me in as art student. Mr Friedman was an artist from New York. He showed me how to use oils, pencil, charcoal, pastel, and other mediums. Back then, I used to like to do portraits of people. My major in college however was Polticial Science and I minored in Visual Arts. Faith Ringold was one my instructors at the University California, San Diego. We had this conversation about going to graduate school for art. I remember her saying, you don’t need a masters in art to be successful, you just need to do it. I totally got what she meant , I just needed to do art. Which was, and still is one of the things that I love. I am making cards and enjoying the creativity and especially the community of cardmakers.
This is my second set of 150 color pencils. But you don’t really need that many pencils to start. The basic set of 12 primary color pencils can do the tags. Also you don’t need the whole set of Gelly Roll pens just a few will do. However if art is your passion, like mine is, the whole set provides colors and options to add interest to your cards.
One more thing: I used Zing embossing powder in Rouge to stamp the phrase Just for You. I have looked for a link but I can not find it, as it was something I had for a while. I stamped the images with Ink On 3 Fadeout No line coloring from Simon Says Stamp. The link is included for you to make it easier to find.
Affiliated links used when possible at no cost to you. Happy Thursday! My final project for We Believe Kit will be posted on Friday.
Gift tags with a small charm!
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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I am a huge fan of Jennifer McGuire, a leading card maker in the stamping industry. On Jennifer McGuire Ink website, Jennifer made a video on how to use a laminating pouch as a shaker window. Jennifer demonstrated that you could use pigment inks to stamp inside a the laminating pouch to make a sturdy window for shaker cards. Having learned how to do this, I decided to see if I could use a laminating pouch and emboss it. Then I decided to colored the stamped image, in this case a Christmas tree , with Sharpies. I ran it through the laminating machine. To my surprise it worked well.
Instead of having a one sided shaker ornament, I decided to create a panel on the inside of the ornament and shaker on the front and back of the star. I’m such a visual person that I thought a short video might do more justice than writing about it. Nevertheless, I hope it makes sense.
With three more days till Halloween I thought I would do one more card to celebrate the season. I am wishing everyone a safe and healthy Halloween.
In case you are wondering what water colors I used. I purchased Hand Made Modern water colors from Target. (link provided) The water colors are super affordable. In addition, they come in a wooden box with 24 pans and two brushes. They are not a professional grade but I liked them all the same.
Also I used Martha Stewart Onyx and Sterling glitter as embellishments for the shaker card. Recollections has microbeads set and I used only ebony and silver. You can find these gems at any Michaels.
If you are interested in purchasing any card featured in this blog, let me know. All proceeds will be donated to Ocean Conservancy. My favorite place to be is on the beach and I want to help keep it clean and do all I can to maintain our oceans.
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