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Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Daffodil Afternoon

Did you get some of this great paper during Sale-a-bration? Pull it out and get creating with it! There are so many ways to create cards fast. You need to let the designer series paper sing!

The Daffodil Afternoon designer series paper needed to get cut at my house. I know I struggled to use this paper at first because it is fairly dark and spring shouldn't be dark colors in my mind. Once I started cutting it up, though, I was able to get several cards made.

Driving By

This set is so stinking cute! I think these older looking vehicles are so much fun and create some adorable cards. I added the Sunshine & Rainbows paper and I have several fantastic cards just waiting to be addressed and sent out to some happy people.

This card was the subject to a recent Facebook Live that I did. I started with Pool Party cardstock. The layers are Magenta Madness (This color will be retiring you! Stock up while you can!) To create the background for the van, I used watercolor pencils and scribbled them on a piece of watercolor paper. I then used a water brush to blend the pencil colors out and into each other. I stamped the van over the top and colored the tires with watercolor pencils too. The windows I used a white gel pen to color. I didn't like the way the black was balance so I added the three black matte dots and that made all the difference.

Tailor Tag Punch

I had some more fabulous fun with the tailor tag punch! I'm telling you, if you don't own this punch, get it! It's so fantastic! I can't believe how long I waited to get it and how many different things I have been able to create with this punch.

I punched a piece of vellum with the punch. I used vellum because I wanted to be able to see where I was lining up the shapes. I then laid the vellum on my cardstock and used the water color pencils to trace around the image to create the beginnings of the background. I then used my water painter to pull the color from the tracing into the image. I did have to add some color as I didn't have enough on the edge.

I love the way this one turned out. I cut the tailor tag punch in half and adhered them to a piece of cardstock so that they would create a circle looking shape. I then die cut them so that they did make a circle. There is a space in the center that doesn't have anything. I covered that with the greeting that I die cut too.

This card was also created with halves of the tailor tag punch. I punched them and then cut them in half. I alternated between the wider part being up and down as well as the patterns on the paper. I adhered these pieces to a strip of Night of Navy.

I've said it before, YOU NEED THIS PUNCH! It's amazing what can be done. I have more ideas that I haven't had time to put together. Maybe soon I can do that but time is not something I have a lot of extra of, neither do you, I'm sure!

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Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Textures & Frames

The recently retired Sale-a-bration set called Textures & Frames was fun to play with. I do wish I would have had more time with this set before it retired. There is so much you can do with this set! I am sharing three samples that I was able to complete not long ago.

The Flirty Flamingo base definitely makes this card feminine but you could change the colors and have a great masculine card too. I used the three stripe stamp to create the candle sticks and the splotches as the flames to give the appearance of birthday candles. Happy birthday is from the set called Biggest Wish. This is a true staple in any collection! It has several fantastic greetings in two different fonts to use together. There is Wink of Stella on the flames.

Here I used the rectangle and circle frames as well as the splotches to make the background. I stamped the three shapes randomly, overlapping a bit. The greeting is from Biggest Wish again.

To make this background I used a technique called ink smooching. I placed a couple of drops of re-inker on a plastic report cover. You can use parchment paper or wax paper if you don't have a report cover. Mist the ink on the plastic so that it starts to run a bit. Close the plastic and smooch the ink together. Open and added cardstock. Close the plastic again and rub on the cardstock to pick up the ink in the plastic folder. Let dry. Decorate as desired. You can watch the replay of my Facebook Live HERE.

There is a stamp set in the main catalog that is called Watercolor Shapes that could make cards similar to these. I hope I was able to inspire you on some level!

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