After a bit of a stressful week, I made it into my craft room today to make a couple of cards. This card uses the fab colors from Color Throwdown and the cue word "Paint" from CASology. I'm also linking this up to Stampin' Royalty as it's a CAS card.
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life" I love this saying. This stamp is very old and made by Hampton Art Stamps. I stamped it in Memento Tuxedo Black onto Whisper White and then over-stamped the paint splatter images from Grunge Me in both Tangerine Tango and So Saffron. I layered that panel onto a piece of Tangerine Tango after rounding the top left corner.
The inside mimics the front:
Thanks for looking.
Products used:
Stamps: Art Soul (Hampton Art Stamps), Grunge Me (PTI)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tangerine Tango, So Saffron
Cardstock: Whisper White, Tangerine Tango
Accessories: Corner Chomper
Edited to Add: This card got a shout out at Color Throwdown.
Cheers
Karren
Welcome back to another Freshly Made Sketch Challenge! This week, the lovely Narelle has given us a wonderful sketch that allows so much freedom. Check this out:
I need a birthday card for my mother and as my mother introduced me to stamping all those years ago, I'm sure you can appreciate I feel some pressure to make a pretty special card for her!
This is what I come up with after an inordinately long time! My mum loves butterfly and dragonfly stamps.
The background panel is a piece of glossy white which was colored using the Fossil Stone technique. I used Pool Party, Marina Mist, Wisteria Wonder and Elegant Eggplant inks for this technique. Once that dried, I stamped over it with Hampton Art Stamps 'Mariposa' stamp. A dry-embossed piece of vellum was laid over top and stuck down under the pearls. The butterfly comes from Best of Butterflies and was colored using blue and purple Copic markers before being cut out.
The sentiment is from Birthday Bash Sentiments and at the last hurdle, I put a tiny smudge of black ink in the bottom right corner, hence the random pearls!
Here's a shot of the inside so you can see the Fossil Stone without the vellum layer.
Happy Birthday, Mum! Love ya!
I hope you have a chance to make a card using Narelle's sketch. In the meantime, check out the rest of the Design Team inspiration.
Products used:
Stamps: Hampton Art Stamps, Best of Butterflies (SU), Happiest of Birthdays (SU)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Pool Party, Wisteria Wonder, Marina Mist, Elegant Eggplant
Cardstock: Glossy White, Whisper White, Xpress-it, Basic Black, Vellum Cardstock
Accessories: Plastic Folder, Elegant Lines EF, Basic Pearls, Copic Markers
Cheers
Karren
Hi and welcome to another Merry Monday challenge. This week's challenge is a very trendy color challenge - aqua, silver and white.
And here's my card:
I've admired this gorgeous Penny Black image for months and he finally came to live with me about a month ago. This is his first outing.
I silver-embossed the snowman image onto Whisper White cardstock, then lightly outlined the snowbanks and snowman with copic markers. I then laid down some Dazzling Details glitter over the color on the snowbanks. I stamped the sentiment right into the image. The image panel is popped up on dimensionals.
The layout is very simple to allow the main image to shine - some die cut and paper-pierced Coastal Cabana cardstock with a very thin layer of silver cardstock underneath. To finish off the card, I used some silver taffeta ribbon.
Thanks for looking. Check out the rest of the DT cards and have a go with this trendy color combo.
Products used:
Stamps: White Christmas (Penny Black)
Ink: Versamark, Memento Tuxedo Black
Cardstock: Whisper White, Silver, Coastal Cabana
Accessories: Silver EP, Essentials Paper Piercing Kit, Silver Taffeta Ribbon, Large Scallops Edgelits
Cheers
Karren
(This is my second post today so if you get this via email, please scroll down for my CTMH card.)
I'm back with a card that uses the sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch and the colors from Stampin' Royalty.
This is a very simple card although it took two attempts because the first time I smudged the red ink! This card is fairly self-explanatory so I won't go into any detail.
Thanks for looking.
Products used:
Stamps: Tiny Triangles (PTI), Slang Gang (Paper Smooches)
Ink: Real Red, Crushed Curry, Island Indigo
Cardstock: Whisper White, Vellum
Accessories: Regals Candy Dots
Cheers
Karren
We're in the middle of a summer storm here - thunder, lightning and hail - I love it! Of course, I only love it because I'm inside and listening to the rain/hail on the roof is something I find quite soothing. Anyway, onto today's card. This is a card using the colors at Color Throwdown and the sketch at Seize the Sketch. I love these masculine colors and the sketch is one I'm sure to use again.
The Night of Navy panels on this card were created using a Tim Holtz stencil and translucent embossing paste. I love the effect - it's like clear embossing but even more textured.
I used a new-to-me CTMH stamp set called Maximum Power and stamped the tyre track and sentiment onto a Soft Sky panel and one of the car images onto Very Vanilla before cutting it out.
This inside was kept simple with another tyre track and the other car from the set stamped in Soft Sky.
I might end up giving this card to my 16 year old son, Matthew, who today got his first car. It's certainly not a muscle car like this one, but he's so excited to have his own car to learn in. And so am I, because for the last 3 weeks he's been learning in my car - a 3.0l BMW - and I've learned he's got a heavy foot LOL.
Thanks for looking.
Products used:
Stamps: Maximum Power (CTMH)
Ink: Night of Navy, Old Olive, Soft Sky
Cardstock: Night of Navy, Old Olive, Soft Sky, Very Vanilla
Accessories: Tim Holtz Stripes stencil, Wendy Vecchi Translucent Embossing Paste, circle nesties, American Crafts twine
Edited to Add: This card was a Runner Up at Seize the Sketch.
Cheers
Karren
Hi everyone and welcome. Today's card is a combination of challenges as well as a technique I've wanted to try for some time and finally manage to fit it in today. The challenges I'm entering are: Friday Mashup to use triangles or hexagons, ColourQ's color challenge and the sketch from Pals Paper Arts.
The technique I wanted to try is stacked die-cuts (or whatever it's called!). I colored a scrap of Xpress-it with three Copic markers as close to Apricot Appeal, Peach Parfait and Summer Starfruit, then I cut the piece with the Birthday die cut from PTI. I then stacked 5 other plain white die cuts to build up the thickness of the layer. The "happy" was cut with my Cameo and the loops at the bottom were cut and hooked around the "birthday". Both words were covered with Wink of Stella for a subtle glimmer.
I randomly stamped some triangles from Geometrical onto a Whisper White panel using Apricot Appeal, Peach Parfait and Summer Starfuit ink.
The white panels were layered onto Always Artichoke and some candy dots finished the card.
Here's a peek of the inside:
Thanks for looking.
Products used:
Stamps: Geometrical (SU)
Ink: Peach Parfait, Apricot Appeal, Summer Starfruit
Cardstock: Whisper White, Always Artichoke
Accessories: Birthday die (PTI), Wink of Stella pen, copic markers, Silhouette Cameo, Regals Candy Dots
Edited to Add: This card was a pick at Friday Mashup and at ColourQ.
Cheers
Karren
Welcome to a new Freshly Made Sketch challenge. This week it's my turn to design the sketch and I've decided to go square!
For my card, I went with stark black and white to come up with this:
The chevron panels were made using a stencil and some embossing paste I dyed with Basic Black reinker. I then cut the piece into panels and layered them onto Basic Black.
A very simple card suitable for a masculine birthday card.
Here are a couple of close-ups of the stenciling panels so you can see the dimension and texture.
Thanks for looking. I hope you give my sketch a go - and don't feel obligated to make a square card. This sketch would work just as well on a rectangle card.
Thanks for looking.
Products used:
Stamps: A Little Birthday Cheer
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Cardstock: Basic Black, Whisper White
Accessories: Kaisercraft Chevron Stencil, Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste, Basic Black Reinker, American Crafts Twine
Cheers
Karren
