Hello everyone… Today is the last day of January! Can’t you believe that? That means Valentine’s day is 14 days away… And I have another Valentine’s Day card that I want to share with you.
I created this Clean-and-Simple Valentine’s Day card using the A Jillian Vance Design – Valentine’s Day Stamp Set. Today, I am sharing a simple tutorial how to create this card at A Jillian Vance Design Blog. I hope you all will visit me there.
THANKS A BUNCH for stopping by. Have a fabulous day!
Hello everyone… Today I am here to share a clean-and-simple card I made for a swap friend.
I am inspired by the color challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs blog – ODBDSLC282:
and the Friendship Theme and color palette from January 2017 Card Chain Challenge. The February CCC swap sign up is until Feb 6th! Check out details and sign up here.
I created this card with the ODBD – A Happy Hello stamp set, ODBD Custom Bitty Blossoms Dies, ODBD Stitched Ovals Dies, ODBD Whimsical Wildflowers Collection, ODBD Plum Pizzazz Paper Pad, and ODBD Boho Bolds Paper Pad. You can check all of them at ODBD Store for more info.
Aren’t they gorgeous colors for welcoming Spring? 🙂
That’s my card for today and I hope you like it. THANKS a bunch for visiting and have a fabulous day!
Hello everyone! I have been wanting to use my newest addition to my coffee stamps and dies stash… And today I have a CAS, Mixed Media coffee card that I would like to share with you 🙂
I use my new coffee stamp set and die, Anywhere There’s Coffee Stamps & Die Set that I got back in December. For the coffee cup, firts I cut out the cup with white cardstock and then stamped the cup and sentiment with black archival ink. The clear stamp makes it easier to stamp on a die cut becuase we can see through it. For the sentiment, I use the CUTplorations – Coffee Word Die that I cut out the kraft cardstock 3 times and stacked them together to create a coffee sentiment chipboard.
The background I created with mixed medium. First, I added some Vintage Photo distress ink on Tim Holtz – On The Go Cup and sprayed it with some water, then I added a piece of watercolor paper, and run it through my die cutting machine to emboss it. Then I added some thin layers of homemade white gesso on it.
I added some of the green and yellow Caribbean Color Bursts on it, and then sprayed it with Perfect Pearl mixture. That gives the pearly and sparkly look on the background. Using my craft heater, I dried that background and once it dried, I added some of the Vintage Photo distress ink all around the edges.
I added a cream cardstock on a black card base as a mat, then I added the watercolored, embossed panel on it. Using 3D foam tape, I added the cup and the sentiment chipboard.
Today’s card is a CASE card. I CASE Kathy’s Card, one of the Coffee Loving Cardmakers DT 🙂 Here’s her card:
THANKS A LATTE for visiting me today and I hope you all have a fabulous and caffeinated weekend! 🙂
I am playing along at:
CASEing DT Link Up Party #9 – CASE DT Kathy’s Card
CUTplorations January Challenge
STAMPlorations – Never Ending Anything Goes
HLS Mixed Media January Challenge
HLS Anything Goes With Dies Challenge January
Hello everyone… Valentine’s is next month and you can see hearts and shades of red and pick are everywhere you go hearts. For sure you can feel the love is in the air 🙂
I use Joy Clair stamp sets: Candy Hearts and Dino Love, that released early this month. And I finally got a chance to create with them.
My card today is clean and simple using heat-embossing and coloring on vellum technique. I also share this tutorial how to create this Valentine’s Day card on Joy Clair blog.
Let’s get started 🙂
First, cut out the vellum paper into 4.25″ x 5.5″ (the size of regular A2 card). Then use the embossing buddy to cover your vellum paper with anti-static powder, stamp the hearts from Candy Hearts randomly on the vellum paper with embossing ink pad and add some of the white embossing powder.
I put the vellum on a show box lid and heat set the embossed images with my craft heater. Pre-heat your craft heater about 10-15 seconds before run it over the vellum paper. This way to avoid over-heating the vellum paper that can wrinkle or shrink the vellum paper.
Repeat the same steps for the cute sentiment inside the hearts.
Next is coloring the hearts with alcohol markers on the back of the vellum. You can use any coloring medium other than alcohol markers on vellum. On my card today I use my ShinHan markers.
Then using a ruler, rip the edges of the vellum for some texture. It is approximately about 1/5″ – 3/4″ on each side. If like, you can rip the edges without ruler. I used ruler because I would like it to be straight ripped edges 🙂
Add the vellum paper on the card base with vellum adhesive runner or with any dry-clear adhesive so it won’t show up on the paper.
I then decided to add a pennant banner for the sentiment. I cut out the pennant with pennant flag die, but you can start it with a rectangle and cut the dove tail to create the pennant.
On this pennant, I use the heat-embossing resist technique with distress ink and water. Stamp and and heat-emboss the sentiment from Dino Love, then add some of the distress inks on it using spongers (I used make up sponges). Then add some splatter of water, let it sit about 10-15 seconds, and dab it off with paper towel To reveal the texture on the background.
It is time to embellishe your card. On my card, I use matchin color twine. To hold the twine on the side-fold card, cut out tiny hole on the folded side of the card with non-stick micro-tip scissors. Then wrap around the twine 3 times through that hole and tied up a bow. I used a small dot glue under the bow.
I also embellished the card with some pink shades of sequins from my stash. You can use any embellishments to add extra sparkle on your Valentine’s card.
That’s my card for today with this heat-embossing and coloring on vellum technique. Thanks a lot for visiting me today and have a fabulous day!
I am playing along at:
Anything Goes Challenge week 266 -267
Hello everyone… I hope you all have a great week so far 🙂 I thought that Spring arrived early this year but I was wrong. We still have more cold days… But today, I have a card and a basket to share with you and I hope they will give you some inspirations for your Spring projects.
First is a basket that I created using the new ODBD Custom Bountiful Dies. This basket die set is perfect for any-occasion projects as a gift box or a treat box. These dies are not only for die-cutting, but you also can embossed the die cuts with the same dies for extra textures.
I decorated the basket with ODBD Custom Mini Label Dies with stamped sentiment from A Happy Hello stamp set, and also with some flowers and leaves from ODBD Custom Bitty Blossoms Dies. I added some clear gems on the flowers for extra bling 🙂
My second project is a clean-and-simple card with stamping and embossing on vellum technique. So, I stamped the Find Refuge Bible Journaling stamp on a piece of vellum with Versafine Onyx Black and added some clear embossing powder. I pre-heated my craft heater for about 10 seconds and then heat the embossing powder, this way so the the vellum would not curl or shrink.
This Bible Journaling stamp set is fit perfectly on the single column margin (2″) Journaling Bible. If you like to see the page I created with this stamp set, you can read the post here 🙂
I also decorated my card with the flowers and leaves from ODBD Custom Bitty Blossoms Dies and some clear gems.
On both the basket and the card, I use the Whimsical Wildflowers Paper Collection, Plum Pizzazz Paper Pad and Boho Bolds Paper Pad. They are just give the Spring – feeling when you see the patterns and color combo from these paper collection and pads.
Here are the previews of products I used on my projects today:
I hope today you all are inspired with these projects and if you would like to know more about Our Daily Bread Designs, see more inspirations and their special Bundles, you can visit their blog.
THANKS A BUNCH for visiting me today and have a blessed fabulous day!
Today I am playing along at:
ODBD January Shine The Light Challenge (ODBDSL282)
WAW Anything Goes Challenge Week 266 – 267