For my post at Design in Papers today I was playing with a set of Lawn Fawn stamps that I really like. I just wanted some no hassle, relaxing, coloring after taking the Copic certification exam this Saturday. I used Spectrum Noir markers and distress inks for these cute cards.
I made this little bird look a bit grey and geeky but he is so cute :)
This calculator is very reliable, you can count on that ;)
Some great chemistry is going on here...
I really had fun making these, they did not take long and they are very cute. I can imagine making a bunch more of them in different colors just for fun. Maybe I should use pearlised water for the splatters next time, that would be fun!
Thank you for stopping by today, I'll be back soon!
This is my creation fro ABNH facebook page today. I had this great idea for a card and I tried five times and it just looked horrible. I finally admitted that I was defeated and stored the idea for future use. Instead I reached for an old favourite of mine, the circle from an older Hero Arts sed and made a focal point by white embossing it and make a colourful circle using some colors of distress ink I never combined before. It actually turned out very pretty, I just love it when new color combos work out. I added a diecut from Winnie & Walter that I covered with embossing powder to match the circle. I used some of my fav black and white paper and was so happy with the card I did a little dance in my chair.
I colored this poppy image from Crafter's Companion when I was doing the 30 days coloring challenge and I was kind of happy with how they turned out so I used them for a card for Design in Papers today. It's really nothing fancy, the poppies makes the whole card I think. It's such a lovely stamp.
So, what's with the puppies then? Well we got a new family member, meet Jax the Saluki puppy <3
Isn't he cute? He's a real sweet dog, he's our second Saluki and I really think they are such great dogs.
I made this card for Design in Papers this week. I actually bought this whole stamp set (Blissful Botanical by Lawn Fawn) just to get this leaf. I think it's super pretty. I decided to base my whole card around it and it turned out really good. I colored using Spectrum Noir markers and used the Stitched Rectangles dies to make the rectangles. Easy and pretty quick. I didn't even feel the need to add decorations, just some Wink of Stella on the leaves and the heart. And how cute is that paper?!
Here's another card made with something I colored up for the 30 days of coloring challenge. I used Dylusion mists as watercolor, I just wanted to try how it would work. I think they blended pretty nicely. I like the bright colors with the gold embossing and this set by Winnie and Walter is so lovely. I like the mix of scripted font and straight upright letters.
A close up of the colors. They are very intense! I might do this again some time, it just shows that you can color with pretty much everything.
Here's a card I made for this weeks post at Design in Papers. I made this card using the eBrush and Spectrum Noir markers, so much fun! Those butterflies are just lovely popping up from the page and flying away.
Here's a close up of the butterflies. Bright and colorful and with no effort. I think the coloring of the butterflies took me like 30 seconds tops, including the time it took me to switch markers. Then I cut them out but that was also very quick since I just cut the wings and stamped the rest on the card. I must admit I kind of love this card <3 The Flutterin by set by Lawn Fawn is so versatile, I'll come back for it many times I'm sure.
Bonus, a card I made for the 30 days of coloring challenge 2. Also using the Flutter by set.
Design in Papers arranged this really amazing event the last weeks. They invited Becky Higgins to Sweden to have classes in Stockholm and Gothenburg and I helped out a bit and took the classes myself. I got really inspired, she is really really nice. Just very sweet and attentive and so interesting to talk to and listen to. I really enjoyed it and feel very fortunate to have had the chance to do this, she does not travel much anymore and if you get the chance sometime I recommend it. She made me think about why I scrapbook, I really never thought about it before. It's just something I love to do. Anyways, I'm not scrapbooking much and I will stick to my cards because I love making them. But Project Life is really fun and I don't feel the need to blog my pages which I like. I do show almost everything I create here with you and it takes time editing and blogging so I like that I don't have to think about that and it really doesn't need to be perfect. It just needs to be done and that is what I need some days. Well, here is a picture of me and Becky, she was so nice taking pictures with everyone and signing everything you wanted. I got my scrap bag signed and it's kind of cool :)
I'm very lucky to get to meet all these awesome creative people. Everyone is so inspiring and it is a treat to get to know a bit of the person behind the name.
I'll be back in a few hours with a post for WOW, showing the new stamps I designed for them. I'm so very proud and happy about them! Don't miss it :)
I got asked if I could make a card for my daughters teacher to give with the end of the year gift. Of course I could! Since she loves flowers I got the task to make a card with flowers. Not really my strong side ;) But I did have some flower stamps at least and these poppies I never used. They begged to be turned into a graphical styled card and I wanted to try to make it a bit artsy. I've seen some of my favourite card makers making cards with messy coloring, so pretty! Here's the thing. I'm a control freak. I really need to keep things neat. I hate coloring outside the lines. It can drive me crazy if I do. Well, I took a deep breath and just... painted a big blob of red on each flower. It looked terrible! I continued painting the stems, making sure to go over the lines again (insert cringe here). It still looked awful. I had to add some shadowing, it helped. Then I went crazy splattering with paint over the whole thing and then it suddenly stopped looking awful and started looking... interesting. After pairing it with some black and white patterned paper (my new addiction) I was quite pleased with myself. But it still bothers me a bit. What if someone thinks I ment to paint inside the lines and failed! Did I say I'm a neat control freak when it comes to colouring?
The thing is that the whole flowery theme made me nervous. So the first card was actually my third (ok fourth) card. So, while I watercolored my first card (that I later tossed) I also made this, trying to foil a more intricate stamp, using FabFoil and Bonding powder. Just to see how it would look. Let me tell you, it looks so great you have no idea! Like my son said when seeing the glow in the dark embossing powder. That's probably why they are called WOW! The pink foil looks great on the flower stamp. I stamped with VersaMark and heated it before layering the foil, pretty side up, and a copy paper on top. The copy paper is just because I know my laminator pulls the foil crooked and it gets crinkly if I don't use it. After running it through the laminator it looked a bit blobby but fear not. I used a stiff brush, one used to stipple paint through stencils, and rubbed over the foil. Since the stamp is so intricate the foil sort of sticks together and if you just rub it of all the loose foil comes out and leaves this detailed image. Great, right?!
Look at that pretty shine! I topped it with some glitter stickers and gem stones to make it perfect. While doing this I started on my third card, watercolored it, did not like it, tried to save it by attaching vellum on top to soften it. Still didn't like it. Tossed it. Started on the fourth card that is the one that was picked to be given. Phew. Flowers...
Well, lots of words today. The top card is also my post at Design in Papers today. All the material is listed there. And for my Swedish friends, there is still a few spots left for Becky Higgins classes in Stockholm and Gothenburg. I'll be there helping out and taking the classes Saturday June 6 in Gothenburg, hope to see you there! I'm super excited, I ordered a million photos and got them yesterday. Can't wait to see what I can learn!
Be back this Saturday, I'll be showing a lot of Art Journaling. It's my day at CiLi in Papers and I saved some of my other pages to show you then too.
Today is my first regular post for the Pretty Crafty Stuff DT, I wanted to use the new flower silhouette cut file. I love magnolias, they are so pretty! I had one cut out of white cardstock and I tried to colour it using the SpectrumAquas and it was sort of ok. I grabbed some watercolour pencils and added some shading and it turned out pretty great! I used Winnie & Walter stamps and dies. I've been wanting to use that pretty xoxoxoxo die border to do embossing since I first saw it and it was just as perfect as I Imagined. I love the black and white against the soft pink. I hope you do too! For more inspiration I would love you to like the Pretty Crafty Stuff facebook page, the team are very inspiring.
Here's a very shimmery card I made for Design in Papers, using two sets of Lawn Fawn stamps. I think the sentiment isn't really grammatically correct but everyone gets the meaning, right? Well, i loved the pretty butterfly from the Flutter by set and needed a narrow kind of sentiment so I grabbed the chemistry of love set and made this. I used AquaTints for colouring, they are very vibrant and the metallic gold and silver are amazing. It's just packed with metallic goodness.
I added a layer of glossy accent on the butterfly (last thing before leaving the scrap room, I have learned the hard way) and it is so pretty and shimmery and fun! And the mat made by a scrap piece of my favourite paper made it even better. I love it when a vague idea turns out lovely!
Hey, you want some fun news? I designed a couple of stamp sets for WOW and they will be released in the June release together with two of Marion emberson's stamps (that are equally amazing). I got them in the mail the other day and they are so wonderful! I can't get over the fact that I made them. I feel like a proud mother showing her new baby ;) I so hope everyone will love them as much as I do. They are called Big Words and Flight of Fancy. Here's a sneak...
I'm back again as a guest at Winnie & Walter and today I made a card using In Bloom: Addie’s Garden. It's a gorgeous set containing lots of pretty flowers but I immediately fell in love with this little flower branch. I used it for my condolence card a couple of days back but here I made it the focal point of this clean and simple card.
I made a background by scribbling with some markers on my glass cutting mat and spritzing it with Copic Cleaning solution and than smooching glossy cardstock in the puddle, letting it dry and repeating. After that I just stamped the flower and the sentiment using Archival ink. I added some wink of stella to the flowers and filled them in with an embossing pen, clear embossing them two times to give them some shine.
I'll be back tomorrow with my last day of inspiration. Make sure to go to the Winnie & Walter blog to have the chance to win great prizes and see what the amazing DT and my fellow guest designer Maria has created.
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