I made this card for my post at A blog named heros facebook page this week. I have a paper from WRMK that I just think is so pretty. It's just black wide painted stripes on white and it's just so perfect. Except for the fact that its 12x12 and the stripes are really wide and it's not really great for cardmaking. I made my own background using one of the Brush Strokes stamps and it turned out really great! I just added a tag and some paint splatter and called it a day. I'm super happy with the background, I will try this again for other cards.
Thanks for stopping by, hope to see you tomorrow for my post for Design in Papers.
This is my card for the ABNH facebook team today. I used some rubber cement to mask the typewriter before making the background, I really like that I don't have to be careful when making the background and just go nuts. I'm really a messy crafter and keeping white space and inside the lines are very hard to me. Anyways, I think the card looks vintage-y and pretty with warm soft pink and brown tones. Also the keys covered in glossy accents so that is also kind of cool.
Thanks for stopping by today, I hope you got inspired!
I really really needed to do some housekeeping and clean up all my Copic Markers and finally I got some cleaning solution (because it's not really fun to spend money on CLEANING solution, boring stuff. Not pretty stuff) because one of the lids wouldn't close properly anymore. I kept the bottle out and thought I could do something fun with it too. I remember seeing Julie Ebersole doing some lovely backgrounds with Archival ink and some kind of alcohol and thought I could try to replicate it with Copic markers. I just scribbled a couple of colors on an acrylic block. dropped some of the alcohol solution on top and smooshed it to some glossy cardstock and voila! Pretty pretty backgrounds! I just stamped some Hero Arts sentiments with Archival Ink on them and added some WRMK papers that I just got (and adore).
Easy peasy and something fun to do with boring stuff. I'll try to come up with some more ways to use it because cleaning is so not fun. And procrastination is my middle name. Btw, the markers are still dirty. And they probably will be for a while more.
Soooo, you know last week when I was having fun at the birthday challenges over at Winnie & Walter? Well I had a crazy creative afternoon this saturday, making cards for the rest of the challenges. AND some DT assignments. Mr Mojo was in the house so to speak. I had a ton of fun and apparently I was in the mood for CAS and neon colors. So, less talking and more pictures. Right?
Here is my card for the Freestyle collage CAS challange. I had some tags that I got my last visit at IKEA laying on my table and they caught my eye. I stamped some of the patterns from a couple of the W&W sets and text from a third. I think it came out really fun in the end. I used a neon ink pad from Hero Arts and paired it with Bazzill electric cardstock. Odd enough they don't look the same color on the picture but they are up close. I have some trouble taking good pictures at this time of the year, even if I take them daytime it is to cloudy to get good natural light. Today there was a ton of snow making it look really bright even though it was cloudy but all the colors was really odd instead. I can't wait for spring!
Today I wanted to share a card I made using a background stamp from Hero Arts that I recently got on sale. I'm happy about this bargain because the stamp is so pretty and even if it's not all brand new it is new to me. It's called Snowflake Border. I made this card using an embossing resist (sort of my go-to technique if you haven't noticed).
I used watercolors for this card, I tried out some new colors to see if they would match and I like the results. The pops of green made it much more interesting. The dies are from Simon Says Stamp (hello) and Technique Tuesday (fabulous) and the twigs are my own cutfiles from Pretty Crafty Stuff Tthe Peace on Earth file). I hope you like it :)
I'll be back tomorrow with another watercolor card that went from a pinterest fail to a kind of cool card. Hope to see you then :)
Here is a couple of cards I made last week, I sort of discovered a new (to me) technique. I got a tube of Impasto Gel, thinking it was gel medium (I guess it's the same thing but thicker?) and was playing around with it trying to figure out what to do with it. I grabbed a new stencil from Hero Arts that I haven't had the chance to try. The consistency of this stuff is really fun, thick and gel-ish, so I used it with my stencil and it turned out sooooo cooooool! It's like those resist papers that you can buy. Not too thick, really smooth, translucent and it resists ink really well. I found an image on pinterest with a lovely color scheme that I used for inspiration for a gradient for the Gradient challenge at Winnie & Walter. I cut it apard and made two cards at the same time, can't decide which I like better.
I used a white background, stamping a bold thanks across it with shome chevron. I love the bold sentiment on the airy card.
For the other card I used a black background, stamping the same greeting in silver. I also used some wooden stars that I colored silver to match and drew a dashed line around since I was too lazy to switch thread in the sewing machine. This card I like because of the contrast...
A fun, fun challange fro me who love the ombré trend and gradients.
This month we all got to pick our favourite of all the A Blog Named Hero posts from this year. Let me tell you it was not easy, those girls are so good! I ended up picking a post by Michelle and made my own card inspired by that one. I wanted it to be a christmas card because here we are one hour away from the 24th when we celebrate Christmas here in Sweden. So you should pop on over to ABNH and check out Michelles three pretty cards. I hope you like my vesion of her cards, I love love love this christmas set from Hero Arts. So pretty!
I'll be back in a few hours with a new post. Until then, take care!
I made some Christmas ornaments using some of my Hero Arts sets. I only own one HA Christmas set and I wanted to try to improvise to stretch my stamps. I used a brush stroke circle for the ornaments, stamped it twice to make the colors pop more on the kraft background. Then I embossed a cicle and some leaves on top of it. Lastly I used another brushstroke stamp to make a reflection in the ornaments. I also used the Stepping Stone alpha to spell out the word joy. Lots of stamps on this cards. And a small alpha of unknown brand. Pretty happy with the card concidering nothing is really ment for Christmas. Gotta love the stretch your stamps classes from onlinecardclasses.com. I guess something stuck ;)
I hope you got some ideas how to make something out of something else. There is probably better ways to make ornaments but this is what I came up with. Thanks for stopping by!
I hope you haven't missed out on all the inspiration over at A blog named Hero this month. There is new inspiration each day, sometimes even two posts a day and we are all sharing what we like most about Christmas.
Today is my turn to inspire and I made a card using one of my own cut files and one of my favourite Hero Arts background stamps.
I embossed the black background using silver pearl embossing powder from WOW and colored my die cut with Distress ink. Lots of shimmer using mist on top of the triangles that now looks like trees. I did stretch out the file first to make the triangles longer. I think it looks great.
There is two prizes from Simon Says Stamp to win by commenting on one of the post at A blog named Hero (you are very welcome to comment my post here too but you won't win anything, you'll just make my day).
I was in the zone the other night, making Christmas cards and listening to a good audio book. I was going to make one card for a DT post later this week but I ended up making three. For this I used a couple of Hero Arts stamps and the deer head cut file I created for Pretty Crafty Stuff. When I made it I saw it in my head all gold embossed and 3d mounted with threads behind. I love the deer head trend. I also made a raindeer, a fox and a bunny to keep him company.
Anyways, I wanted to frame him så I stamped a background from Hero Arts and just masked the middle of the card using a PostIt. It's very pretty this card, don't you think? I never get my gold thread as perfectly nested as other people do, mine looks all messy and uneven. But I keep trying. One day I'll learn.
Thanks for stopping by! There will be more Christmas in the blog soon. Promise! And I don't even send out Christmas cards, more than to the closest family. But I'm in a Cristmas-y mood lately.
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