Showing posts with label card. Show all posts
Showing posts with label card. Show all posts

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Poinsettia, Are they leaves or flower petals?

Do you know the answer?



They are leaves not petals.


I'm looking at all my rubber stamps and have many favorites.
There are few that can no longer be bought as the business is closed.  Sad.

I decided to decorate the envelope too.


This Poinsettia stamp is one of my favorites.
It's easy to stamp, color and cut out.


The Mini Woven stencil was used in white and green.
With such a large stamp the background doesn't need to be to busy. 




Stamp: Poinsettia H180 - Me and Carrie Lou Stamps (no longer in business)


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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

She Watches - Love this Stamp

For some reason I love this Skeleton Lady stamp by Stampendous.
The scene behind her is the whole stamp on deli paper.
I cut her out to add some dimension to the card.



Just a quick post today!

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Sunday, October 11, 2015

A Quick and Easy Birthday Card with DecoArt Misters

I had to create a quick birthday card last month and used what was on my table.
 
A found mini round tag already stamped
 
This Joyful Sunflower stencil is the perfect stencil for making quick cards.
Just moving it around on the paper and spraying creates a great background.
 
I bet it would make a great background for a scrapbook page too!
 
 
 
 
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Monday, September 21, 2015

It's a Spoooky City

I bought these two stamp sets recently.
I love them.
They are both from Tim Holtz.

I love old black and white photographs of buildings and like to use them in collage projects.
This one I decided to use as one big city.


 

Here is the card I created.
I love the cityscape in the background.




All the colors in the background is Ken Oliver's Color Burst including the Cityscrape.
I added some Color Burst Indigo to gesso and spread it on the card with a palette knife.


Close up of the new city.


Love the spiders although I'm hate them alive. 


I used a white pen for his teeth and added it to the city too.


More of the background.





I love using the cityscape to build new cities.
I will be using this stamp set a lot.


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Thursday, August 27, 2015

Creating Dual Color Flowers for a Card with TCW Stencils

Well, I'm not fond of the card but it's the technique I love.
I used the Mini Impression Stencil to create the flowers.

I know you're saying, I don't see flowers.
Oh but you will!
 
 

On this card I used DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics and American Multi-Surface Satin paint in these colors.


I put both shades of each color on my craft mat and dabbed it on and off with a cosmetic sponge.
You don't want to fill the sponge with too much paint or it will go under the stencil, unless you like that look.
Below you can see the sponge has two colors on it.

 
Put the stencil on the paper and dab the sponge in a circular motion.
As you can see below I had the darker color on the inside and the lighter on the outside.
Looking at the stencil design it doesn't look like a flower but repeating this process and turning the stencil design around you achieve the look of a flower.

 
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Here is the purple flower finished.
 
 
This next stencil design reminds me of a rose.
I repeated the same process above.
This was the first layer of paint.
 

 
Look roses!
 


For the vase I used deli paper and some of the other designs from this stencil.
 

 
It's not my usual style.
Something on my list to try.
I may try it again but for now I can cross it off my list.
 
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Saturday, August 1, 2015

Faux Marbling Technique on The Crafter's Workshop Blog

Hi Everyone.
I have a post up on The Crafter's Workshop Blog showing you how to do a faux marbling technique.

You can the technique HERE.


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