Little Outbursts of Creativity: Cards

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Thursday, 03 November 2016

November challenge at Spectrum Noir

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge over at Spectrum Noir. This month theme is anything goes, but if you use the bonus theme that is Christmas/Winter then you are in the drawing for $30/£30 in Spectrum Noir or Spectrum Aqua products.

I made this shaker card with Lawn Fawns Faery Christmas. I have been playing a lot with the ColourBlend pencils lately and I have discovered that I really enjoy putting down a simple layer of Spectrum Noir markers and then do shading with the ColourBlend pencils. For this card I gave no line coloring a new try, I really like the look but I've had such a hard time to get it to look good. With this technique it was so much easier!

I really loved Jennifer Macguires trick on how to suspend some things in a shaker card and still let them move around a bit, by using thread behind the image. I didn't have any clear thread so I used a gold thread. I don't mind the thread being a bit visible. I had to do some card surgery because after putting it all together one of the fairies looked like she was about to crash land, but I managed to save it using a tweezer and some curses. ;)

Supplies:
SN Markers: CR2, CR10, FS1, HB1, EB2, BT3, IB1, IB2, IG4, IG5, IG7, LY1, EB3, EB8, TN5, GB9
ColourBlend Pencils: Pink Violet, Peach, Raspberry, Seafoam, Verdigris, Mulberry, Cider, Coconut, Bark.
Spectrum Sparkle pen: Clear Overlay
Stamps by: Lawn Fawn.

I would love it if you joined the fun for this month! Have fun and see you soon again. Remember there is still time to comment on any of my five Leading Lady posts for Winnie & Walter to be in the drawing for a gift card in the Winnie & Walter webshop. A winner will be picked on Saturday. I can't give an exact time for the announcement because I'm at an event and will do it when i have a moment but as long as you don't see the announcement post you can still leave comments and have the chance to win. Good luck!

Nov 3, 2016 2:00:00 PM | Cards, Challenge, Christmas, DT, Lawn Fawn, Spectrum Noir

Saturday, 29 October 2016

Leading Lady at Winnie & Walter week 5 + Giveaway

It's time for my last Leading Lady post for Winnie & Walter, I have really enjoyed making my posts, coming up with all the themes and most of all I have loved getting all the sweet comments from all of you. I want to thank the very sweet Shay for inviting me to be Leading Lady, I've looked forward to October for months.

So for my last post I saved my favourite theme, shaker cards. I really love making shaker cards, they always makes the card a bit special and fun and you get the moving element that is always a treat. And the sound, I love shaking them around. I'm such a child!

I knew right away I wanted to use the big jewel cutaway for a shaker. I would have used all of the cutaways for shakers but I think you would have been bored after a while. Anyways, back to the wonderful big diamond. I backed it with glitter paper to make it sparkle a lot. The detailing is also cut from glitter paper. I got a big pack by Crafters Companion containing glitter, shiny foil and matte foil in gold and I really want to use it on everything now. It's so pretty. I'm getting all the colors when they are back in stock. I really hope glitter won't get out of fashion because I will probably have enough for a lifetime soon, because I hoard... um... collect... it.

The background is made using distress inks and I wanted it to match the sequin mix named after adorable Walter (for those of you who don't know this, Winnie and Walter are cute little dogs). I mixes in some mica powder in water and splattered all over to make it shine even more.

For more shakers go to the Winnie & Walter blog and see my Leading Lady post for today. But first remember to leave a comment on this or any of my other Leading Lady post on my blog for a chance to win the gift card I have been given to give to one of you. It's a $30 certificate to the Winnie & Walter shop (not including shipping and handling) so you can get some of your favourite stamps or cutaways. Yay, right? I will select a winner next Saturday, Nov 5. I will be away on a crafting event all weekend so I will pop in and select the winner when I have a chance and announce it here in the blog.

I hope you have enjoyed my posts and will come back again for my regular posts. I haven't been blogging as I normally do this month due to working a lot but I will get back to my normal 2-3 posts per week again soon. Promise! And we are getting faster internet so I might start to make a few videos for my YouTube channel again, it takes so many hours to upload it now so I haven't really bothered to make them for a while now. I have some tutorials at the Spectrum Noir channel and blog though if you are interested.

In November I'll also join the 30 days coloring challenge, hosted by Kathy Racoosin (I hope I spelled that right) of The Daily Marker. So if you follow me on instagram (@miffot) you can see what I do there. I love the challenge, you should really take part if you haven't before.

Have a lovely weekend now and see you soon again I hope!

Oct 29, 2016 2:00:00 PM | Cards, Guest DT, Winnie & Walter

Saturday, 22 October 2016

Leading Lady at Winnie & Walter week 4 + Giveaway

It's finally Saturday again, I hope you all have had a good week. For my post today my theme was patterned papers. I can't be the only one having a big stash of paper that I never remembers to use? On the Winnie & Walter blog you can find 3 more cards that I made for todays post using patterned papers together with Winnie & Walter stamps and cutaways.

I made this card using no stamps at all. And no coloring or inks whatsoever. If you wanted you could mass produce this card in a lot of different patterns to give to someone and it would be super quick, and still it doesn't look plain because of the dimension. I used a cutaway background plate to emboss the pattern in the background, it always looks good. I have used this technique with all kinds of dies, it works perfectly with rectangles for frames but this die is my favourite.

Now hop on over to Winnie & Walter and see my other projects.

So that's it for today. I will be back next week for my last performance as Leading Lady. I hope you will be back then. In the meantime you can take a look at my other Leading Lady posts here in the blog, I will be giving away a gift card to the Winnie & Walter shop to one of the people commenting on any of them during the month. The last post is next Saturday and I will pick a winner the week after on Nov 5. Thank you for all the lovely comments so far, I'm very happy for each and every one.

Oct 22, 2016 2:00:00 PM | Cards, Guest DT, Winnie & Walter

Saturday, 15 October 2016

Leading Lady at Winnie & Walter week 3 + Giveaway

I'm back for another post over at Winnie & Walter, I can't believe it's already my third week as leading lady. I'm so happy October has five Saturdays, so I still have two weeks left to show you all the fun things I came up with using the fab stamps and cutaways.

Today's theme is stripes! I fell in love with the set Scenery: Stripes and the stamps was the inspiration that made me want to do a whole post with stripes.

I started with this card, I found a good color theme on Pinterest and tried it out on a scrap piece of paper before making a card. I don't have all the pretty ink colors in other inks than distress inks, they are better for other techniques than stamping bold images, they tend to get a bit uneven. I solved this by using my Misti stamping tool and stamped three times on top of each other and got a pretty good impression in the end. I turned it into a shaker card with vellum behind the pretty diecut heart so you can sort of see the sequins but they won't distract from the pattern on the card. I was super happy with how it turned out. Stripes are so fun and easy to customise in different colors for different looks.

In the Winnie & Walter blog I have two more striped cards to show you so hop on over there if you want to see them.

I have been given a gift card to giveaway for one of my commenters (a coupon code which does not include shipping & handling). So if you leave a comment on any of my Leading Lady posts here during the month you will have a chance to win it. You can use it in the Winnie & Walter shop and get something you love.

See you again next Saturday, I have some great cards ready to show you so I hope you will come back for that! The theme for next week is patterned papers.

Oct 15, 2016 2:00:00 PM | Cards, Guest DT, Winnie & Walter

Saturday, 08 October 2016

Leading Lady at Winnie & Walter week 2 + Giveaway

I'm back for another week of Winnie & Walter creations. Today I have used book paper for my cards. I have an old book that got damaged in a move so pages was missing and I keep it close to use for mixed media projects and other crafty things. I love the texture the printed text gives to everything. For my projects today I used Gesso to cover the pages first to make sure the water from my watercoloring would not damage the pages, and I also like it when just some of the structure of the text is visible under the color.

For this card I used In Bloom: Renee's Leaves and stamped the images in black and heat embossed the images before coloring them with watercolors. I used the Essentials: Audrey Cutaways to cut out a white piece of cardstock and stamped the text from Wishing You with Evelin T Designs and gold embossed it. I adhered all my colored elements around the text for a clean and simple autumn themed card for a friend.

Please hop on over to the Winnie & Walter blog to see my other two projects for todays post, I had really fun with this technique. You should give it a try, you might like it as much as I did. Book paper should be a staple in every scrapbookers stash. But please don't go around and kill innocent books, use one that is already damaged. The whole books are better to read or give to a friend or donate. (I love books if you can't tell, I have too many even though I mostly listen to audio books or read on my Kindle nowadays. Books are still nice to have around)

Thank you for all the sweet comments and to Shay for inviting me to the Winnie & Walter blog. I have read all of your lovely comments and I will get around to answer every single one but it's been a busy week. They really made me happy so thank you. And keep commenting on any (or all) of my Leading Lady posts here this month, you will be in the drawing of a gift card (a coupon code which does not include shipping & handling) for the Winnie & Walter shop that I will give away after my last post for the month is up. My last post is on October 29 and I will draw a winner one week after that on Nov 5th. I will select a comment from one of the five Leading Lady posts here in the blog and the winner will be announced here in my blog.

Thank you so much for stopping by and make sure to visit Winnie & Walter to see the rest of my cards made for this week. And I'll be back next Saturday for more Winnie & Walter inspiration!

Oct 8, 2016 2:00:00 PM | Cards, Guest DT, Winnie & Walter

Saturday, 01 October 2016

Leading Lady at Winnie & Walter week 1 + Giveaway

I am super excited to have been invited to be Leading Lady for October at the Winnie & Walter blog. I discovered Winnie & Walter right around when they started and has been following the blog and loving the stamps ever since. I was ridiculously happy when Shay asked me to be Leading Lady and waited (not very) patiently for October. The former Leading Ladies have been such an inspiration to me, as well as the Talent. I hope you will visit the blog to see the rest of my creations and also look at all the other posts there. AND as if that isn't enough, it's World Card Making Day and they always have the best inspiration over there.

So let's get on to the fun stuff. The projects. I instantly thought of the idea to do negative coloring. I wanted to try to mask the stamped images and color only the background. I used a few different kinds of coloring and it turned out really fun! I really love to make backgrounds and this technique is perfect for playing with colors.

For my first card I did a fall theme. I love the leaves in In Bloom: Renee's Leaves and they look perfect in all colors. The sentiment is from Happiest of Holidays with Evelin T Designs. The Essentials: Audrey Cutaways is a perfect set of dies, I reach for it all the time, I used it to cut out the tags for the sentiment.

If I were you I would hop on over to the Winnie & Walter blog for two more projecs, more information on how I made them and last but not least all the fun inspirational WCMD events.

W&w_30giftcard

Winnie & Walter has been super generous and given me a $30 gift certificate for their shop to give away to one of you (a coupon code which does not include shipping & handling), so in the end of the month after all my five posts are up I will give it to someone who has commented on one of my Winnie & Walter posts during the month. My last post is on October 29 and I will draw a winner one week after that on Nov 5th. I will select a comment from one of the five Leading Lady posts here in the blog.

So that's it from me for this first week. I can't wait to show you what I made for next week. See you then!

Oct 1, 2016 2:00:00 PM | Blogcandy, Cards, Guest DT, Winnie & Walter

Wednesday, 24 August 2016

Foil and sparkle butterfly

The reactive paint from Heidi Swapp is really fun to play with, I made a bunch of cards using foil for my posts at Design in Papers the last few weeks. This one was made with a stencil, pink foil and watercolors. The lovely stamp is by Sheena Douglass and I double embossed it and colored with Spectrum Sparkle pens. I made a bunch of backgrounds at once when I had the foil and the Minc out, and this was the last of them. I might experiment some more and make a few more. This is super fun.

I will start working on some special projects for October soon. I can't tell you more than that I'm super excited about this. You will definitely want to pencil in a visit to the blog then because you don't want to miss this :) Fun times ahead!

Aug 24, 2016 4:00:00 PM | Cards, Crafter's Companion, Design in Papers, DT, Spectrum Noir

Wednesday, 17 August 2016

Last week I blogged this card for Design in Papers, I made a background using the eBrush and spectrum noir, splattered it with some cleaning solution to make it a bit motley. I added dots of glue that turned to blobs of glue when adding foil on top but I kind of liked it so I saved a corner of the original background and made this mini card featuring a Mermaid by Lawn Fawn. I love those stamps <3

This card is blogged today at Design in Papers. The team got to create from the same sketch and I made a card inspired by the rectangles and circles on the sketch. It was more of a scrapbook sketch so in the end my card looked nothing like it but inspired was the operative word. I used the minc machine with reactive paint and masking tape and created a shaker. I looooooove foiling everything now.

Aug 17, 2016 4:00:00 PM | Cards, Design in Papers, DT, Lawn Fawn, Spectrum Noir

Friday, 12 August 2016

One of a kind

I love this unicorn set by My Favorite Tings. I tried stamping in grey and coloring with colored pencils by Spectrum Noir. I'm trying different papers for my pens, pencils and markers now to see if there is a difference. I wasn't very happy with this choice though. The pencils like a surface with a bit of tooth, but this was a bit too uneven so the pigment didn't reach all the places even though I was blending with blending solution. And I did a ink blended background that was a real struggle but the card is kinda cute. It just took a lot more work to get there.

Supplies:
ColourBlends 118, 53, 45, 9, 44, 47, 94, 92, 85, 15, 65, 17
Stamps by My Favorite Things

Aug 12, 2016 8:00:00 PM | Cards, DT, Spectrum Noir

Friday, 05 August 2016

August challenge at Spectrum Noir

I hope you are having a wonderful summer. Maybe you have some extra time to spend on crafting? If that is the case then I would love it for you to take part in this months challenge at Spectrum Noir. It could not be any easier than this months theme. Anything goes. Easy, right? All you have to do is to use Spectrum Noir products for coloring and post your work here and you have a chance to win some great prizes.

I used Spectrum Noir Aqua Markers for my card. I used shades of red, yellow and pink and let them dry between layers to create this card. I Have done a similar sy before and it's so fun to keep adding layers and see if you like it.

Supplies:
AquaMarkers in Gold, Amber, Crimson, Sunset, Blossom.
Stamp by Crafters Companion, dies by Lawn Fawn and Gummiapan.

Aug 5, 2016 11:40:00 AM | Cards, Challenge, DT, Spectrum Noir

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