Showing posts with label MTC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MTC. Show all posts

May 18, 2015

Stained glass look

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I used the same stencil pattern as I did here. Instead of using a blade, I used a sharpie marker to draw with my Zing on acetate cardstock. Then colored on the back of the acetate with various sharpie/bic markers. I die cut the window using Nestabilities. The panel is adhered on foam tape to the base cardstock.

  • Stamps: Stampendous Birthday sentiments
  • Papertrey Ink cardstock, sharpie/bic markers, Swiss dots embossing folder, knk zing

April 27, 2015

Glittered stencil

KNK Zing, MTC, Stencil

Ooh I love what I did here Smile. I used the stained glass pattern here and traced it in MTC. Then I used the technique described here to do the glitter part. The “Mother’s” is also cut out using Zing. White embossed “happy” and “day”. Rounded the corner using the We r memory’' keeper’s corner chomper.

November 12, 2014

Using gel pen in KNK Zing

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I made these cards by using a Sakura gel pen in the KNK zing. Since the gel pen is quite thin, I created a shim using fun foam. Taped it using scotch tape. And voila! I had a pen holder. For the first card I used silver gel pen and then added some rhinestones. The flourishes as well as the “thank you” – both are drawn using KNK Zing.

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For the above card I used white gel pen with some adhesive pearls. I really like how they turned out!

  • KNK Zing, MTC, gel pen, rhinestones, adhesive pearls

June 23, 2014

Another version…

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Here’s another card using the same technique as I used in the previous card. In this case, the edges of the oval were a little rough due to some “accidents” and so I added a oval outline using black cardstock. Like they say “every mistake is an opportunity to embellish” Smile

  • Stamps: Stampendous greetings
  • Papertrey ink cardstock

June 16, 2014

Background die cut and scraps

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I was inspired by one of Kristina Werner’s cards. I realized that it gave me an opportunity to not only use my scraps but also cut a background using my Zing.

I got the background from Bird’s Cards; adjusted it to an A2 card size and cut it on white cardstock. Cut copy paper to A2 size and cut strips of cardstock. Glue these strips to the copy paper. Adhere the die cut background on top of the strips. Cut out an oval using nestabilities. Stamped the sentiment on the base and popped up the panel on dimensionals.

  • Stamps: Stampendous greetings
  • Papertrey Ink cardstock, distress ink concord grape ink, embellishment, liquid pearls

May 26, 2014

Inlaid die cuts

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Inlaid die cuts seem to be all the fad these days so I wanted to try it out. This card uses the same SVG that I used for  my previous card. Instead of using dies, I used electronic die cuts made with my Zing. I cut the negative die cut on white cardstock, the rose in pink and leaves in green. Adhered a piece of copy paper to the back of the white cardstock. Then glued the rose and leaves in their respective positions.  Stamped the greeting in black. Very pleased with my card and my Zing Smile

  • Stamps: Stampendous greeting
  • Papertrey Ink cardstock, Memento black.

May 19, 2014

Watercoloring using stencil

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I created a stencil using my Zing and cardstock. Put the stencil on a watercolor paper and taped it (so it doesn’t move). Then colored inside the stencil using distress inks. Stamped some birthday stamps using second generation stamping in Weathered wood. Doodled a frame using black pen.

  • Stamps: Hero Arts and Stampendous greetings
  • Watercolor paper, distress inks

May 11, 2014

Mother’s day card

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I used my Zing all the way to make this card. The doily are some SVG files I downloaded from MTCSCAL efiles quite some time back. It was a single doily and with some editing, I created two doily layers out of it. I love how the Zing could cut such an intricate design in PTI 110lb cardstock! Then used Sharpies in Zing to write the greeting and then cut it out too! This was the first time I tried that out and the more I use my Zing the more I love it (and MTC). It did take some trial and errors to get the placement right, but that’s expected. I use the WYSIWIG feature in MTC to write and then cut out the circle. Some pearls and glitter, and the perfect mother’s day card is ready Smile

April 2, 2014

Congrats on your new home

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One of our close friends recently purchased a new home and I made this card for them. I’d been looking at all the pop up cards popping up (no pun!) made with the Pop up card studio and I wanted to make something on my own. This was also a good time to get familiar with my new electronic cutter – KNK Zing. When I thought of making a card for the new home owners, I thought to myself how nice it would be if I could do a 3D picture of a cute little house, with a big shady tree, a white fence… and that’s how the vision for this card was setup.

Then I started looking around for the perfect house and I found this at Miss Kate’s Cuttables and at 50 cents it was quite a steal! The fence and the tree are cut files from the MTC gallery.

Here’s the front of the card

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The letters are cut using Zing.

A few words about the zing – it is absolutely amazing! It took me some time to ramp up but I totally love it now! What I like best is that it cuts the PTI cardstock like butter in just one pass! All the CS above is PTI CS. Look at how well the Zing cut the teeny tiny details in the window! I’ll try to do a full review some time later.

  • Stamps: Impression Obsession Quatrefoil
  • Others: Papertrey Ink CS, Walnut Stain distress ink, KNK Zing.