Modern Baby Card.

This card is very Julie Ebersole inspired. I love her style! It's so unique and fresh and different!

To start I inked a piece of cardstock with various distress ink colours and then used a Heidi Swapp stencil and some gold spray. I then stamped the elephant in black archival ink.

For the background I used that same stencil with Brilliance Gold ink and also splattered some of that same gold mist on the background. I white heat embossed the sentiment and popped up the elephant piece and that was it!

 A very quick and simple card. I love the softness of the inked piece against the boldness of the background!

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Christmas Already? Oh Dear.

I was really kicking myself because I didn't post on Monday. But I was in Edmonton at the time and then I have been extremely busy since I got back and had no time to make a card. 

I did sneak some time in yesterday and made this one. The fact that I made a Christmas card worries me a little bit. But I just got Lawn Fawn's Making Frosty Friends and a snowglobe die and I couldn't wait to use them!

I stamped and cut then snowman and his accessories on various patterned papers. I stamped the snowflakes in the background using a white pigment ink. I layered everything together and put a piece of acetate over top. I found that the American crafts solid tape runner was basically completely invisible underneath the acetate! So I used a little bit of it around the edges. I cut a few strips of patterned paper to layer underneath and tied some bakers twine around. 

 This stamp set has been on my wishlist forever and I'm so glad I finally got my  hands on it! Look how darn cute this snowman is! Lawn Fawn is my weakness. They get me everytime. Ugh. I just want all their stamp sets!

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Oh Heck. .

So, I know I'm not the only one who has trouble with masculine cards and when I make them they always tend to be very, very distressed and with trucks. haha. This card was a step out of that rut haha. I didn't have a fish stamp so I found some in a patterned paper from this paper pad. I used watercolour cardstock and a few distress inks to create my background. Then I cut a piece of patterned paper from a Simple Stories pad to get the sandy bottom. I then heat embossing the sentiment with gold embossing powder. (The sentiment is from a Studio G stamp which I unfortunately can't link)

 I added the fish next. One flat one popped up and my favourite part is how the bottom fish is tucked behind the sentiment. I took my craft knife and cut around the letter so I was able to tuck it behind. Then I popped up his head so it looks like he's coming from behind it. To finish it off, I matted it with a piece of patterned paper.

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Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Make It Sparkle

I had no idea where I was going with this card when I started. haha. I stamped the main image onto watercolor cardstock. I started colouring the image in with distress inks, but wasn't liking how it was looking, So I switched to just doing an entire wash of color over the entire thing. Then I went back and darkened up the image with more saturated colour.  Then I took a piece of black cardstock and inked around with white pigment ink and stamped two different sentiments repeatedly from the Fiskars Round of Applause stamp set in white pigment ink too. 

 I then adhered the water coloured piece to the black cardstock using pop dots and put a piece of washi tape on the top. Then I stamped and cut out the part hat. To finish it off I used various colours of stickles on the main image.

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Fiskars Round of Applause Stamp Set

Simon Says Stamp Summer Vacation Kids Challenge!

For this card I started out by pressing a piece of watercolour cardstock from Tim Holtz into Wild Honey, Iced Spruce and Tumbled Glass distress ink; repeatedly pouncing into the colour until I was happy with it. I inked around the edges with Iced Spruce and Vintage Photo. I stamped the man from the Paris Memoir stamp set and inked him up with various distress ink colours. I stamped a gear (which ended up being kinda hidden) with a hand made stamp using a gear die and craft foam. I adhered the piece of tissue tape with modpodge. 

 I tied around some twine and threaded a word  band through it. I stamped the sentiment in Timber Brown ink and popped up the little french man. haha.

This card has a lot more steps than I would usually put into a card. I would usually save something like this for an art journal or canvas, but I really think it all works well together! 

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Schedule + Shower Cards

So, I decided I am going to try and be more regular. I know I've said that before, but in order to try and actually achieve this, I'm going to set a schedule. I'm going to start off by trying to post every Monday. That way I have the whole weekend to make something I'm proud of and write up a blog post. If this goes well I might try and bump it up to twice a week. (But lets not get ahead of ourselves haha)

So for today I have a set of four shower cards. They could be very easily mass produced as I made these in a very short amount of time. No colouring or any fancy techniques, just very simple and cute. These are 3 1/2 inch square cards.

For the first two I used Memento Bahama Blue ink for the background and bows because the patterns were more bold and bright. On the card on the right I used this stamp set from Fiskars to get the word 'wedding.' I edged around the edges using the same Bahama Blue ink. 

 For these two I used Memento Summer Sky ink because the patterns I chose were more muted and soft. I did the same thing for these ones just switched out the sentiments.  To finish of the cards I stamped and cut out bows from Lawn Fawn's Winter in the Park set. I really think that finished it off. I was going to add glitter or sparkle but I really like the simplicity of these cards.

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Fiskars Round of Applause

Hello Baby

For some reason Lawn Fawn's Hello Baby won't come up on InLinkz, does anyone know why?

Lots of Dots

This is my entry for this weeks Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge. The theme was 'Spots and Dots'

This challenge really got my creative thoughts spinning. As soon as I seen it I knew I had to enter, so I raced down and made this card. 

I love how it turned out! I think the rainbow order was definitely a good choice. hahaa. 

I punched a bunch of circles using an EK success 1/2 inch circle punch and a standard hole punch out of a variety of cardstock colours. I adhered them all down with liquid glue. I stamped and embossed the sentiment on black cardstock with gold embossing powder and cut a banner edge on the end. 

 I popped the sentiment up with pop dots. To finish it off I used stardust stickles on all the small dots. I really think that finished it off! (I was going to round the corners, but the cheap corner rounder I have wouldn't cut through the stickle-covered dots. This must be a sign I need to invest in the We r Memory keepers one, eh? hahaa)

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(Since I used recollections cardstock, I linked to another alternative, which in my opinion would be the better option anyway. haha)