Clean and Simple sketch 312

I saw this sketch on the Clean and Simple blog and got motivated to make a card on it. The card is pretty simple:

1. Stamped the music background in Antique linen distress ink.
2. I colored clear rhinestones in three different colors using my spectrum noir markers.
3. Using a scale, I marked the line 1/3rd the distance from the right edge. Then I marked the centers for each rhinestone. I did the same for the next two rows.
4. Using the marked centers, I glued the rhinestones.
5. Cut Happy Birthday using KNK Zing. Adhered it to the card panel using foam tape.
6. Covered the sentiment in glossy accents.

Putting intricate images like the sentiment on foam tape requires a lot of patience! Very happy with the card, especially the rhinestones

• Stamps: Impression Obsession cover a card music
• Rhinestones, Glossy accents, spectrum noir markers, KNK Zing

Glittered sentiment

This card follows the same technique as my last card.

Cover your cardstock with double sided adhesive tape/sheet. Die-cut the sentiment, with the die on top of the side with the liner (for the double sided adhesive tape). In my case I die cut the sentiment using Zing, my electronic die cutter. While die cutting make sure that you don’t cut all the way through. In fact you just need a light enough impression that it cuts through the liner of the double sided adhesive tape.

Remove liner for C, N, R and T.  Alternate letters in “CONGRATS”

Pour purple glitter on it, burnish it with a bone folder and then clear away the excess using a painting brush with soft bristles.

Do the same for gold glitter.

And lastly with the background, silver.

After finishing all colors, pour some glossy accents on your craft sheet. Using your finger spread it over the glitter. This will seal the glitter and you wouldn’t have the recipient having glitter all over them.

Stamped the Damask background using Aged linen.

And finally add the glittered panel to the base using some foam tape.

You rock!

Masked a medium strip on white cardstock using painter’s tape. Sponged white cardstock with distress ink salty ocean. Stamped cover-a-card music sheet in salty ocean. Removed the painter’s tape. Stamped the music symbol and fuzzy cut it. Stamped the sentiment on the card base.

• Stamps: Impression Obsession cover-a-card music, My Favorite Things LLD Document it – Rock on
• Papertrey ink cardstock, distress inks

Congrats on your new home

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

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.

Always and forever

Sponged the card base (watercolor paper) with Distress Ink dusty concord. Then stamped the Wallpaper BG stamp. Die cut a circle in the card front. Stamped the penny black image. Colored with distress inks and water brush. Stamped the sentiment in versamark and embossed with white embossing powder. Created two lines with glossy accents and sprinkled some glitter on them. Fuzzy cut hearts, colored them red and covered with glossy accents. Then popped them with foam dots.

Stamps: Impression obsession cover-a-card Wallpaper, Waltzingmouse stamps Say it loud, Penny Black Good catch.

Chalkboard technique

Stamped the woodgrain background in Forest moss. Stamped various sentiments in white ink and embossed the main sentiment in white EB. Sponged white ink randomly on the black CS. Went over the sentiments with white and green prismacolor pencils.

• Stamps: WMS Back in the Saddle, impression obsession cover-a-card woodgrain
• Paper: PTI
• Ink: Palette white, versamark
• Accessories: prismacolor pencils, white ep

You are fin-tastic

Stamped the woodgrain background in walnut stain distress ink. Masked it using painter's tape. Then sponged it in the masked areas. Cut the fish using cricut. Printed the sentiment on white CS and then sponged using walnut stain DI.

• Stamp: Impression obsession cover-a-card woodgrain
• Paper: PTI and Coredinations
• Ink: Distress ink walnut stain
• Accessories: cricut, create-a-critter cartridge

Make every moment an occasion to smile

Masked and stamped gingham background in Peeled paint. Sponged around the edges. Colored the image in Spectrum noir markers. The little bird is a sticker. Cut a banner from white CS. Painted it with Inka gold platinum using fingers. Stamped the sentiment and then crumpled it.

• Stamps: Hero Arts Cuckoo, Impression obsession cover a card Gingham
• Paper: PTI, Crafter’s companion
• Inka Gold Platinum, sticker, spectrum noir markers

Happy Birthday the wild west way!

Stamped wood grain background in Walnut Stain distress ink on brown CS. Stamped the solid images in various distress inks on white CS squares. Sponged them with walnut stain DI. Same with the sentiment. Also distressed it using a ruler. I rubbed the sharp edge of the ruler against the edge of the CS.

• Paper: PTI
• Stamps: WMS Wild West, Cover-a-card Woodgrain, Hero Arts Birthday
• Supplies: Distress inks, brad.

Sending birthday wishes

Background created by embossing IO Damask cover-a-card in white on an eggplant CS. The sentiment stamps are from WMS Say It Loud. The flower was sponged using distress ink Mustard Seed and Spiced Marmalade. The center was colored using a red spectrum noir marker. Glittered with stickles.

Out on a limb

That’s a PTI set that I recently bought. I’d been drooling over creations made by this set so it’d been on my wishlist for a long time!

Stamped Gingham cover-a-card in Spicy Marmalade on Golden Harvest CS. On white CS, stamped the branch in Walnut stain (one of my favorite distress ink colors!) and the flowers in Spicy marmalade. Sponged the edges with Mustard seed and Spicy marmalade. Popped up a few flowers and added glitter. Tied a black twine and popped up the white panel on the card base. Easy peasy!

• Stamps: Impression Obsession Gingham cover-a-card, PTI out on a limb
• Paper: PTI
• Others: black twine, Stickles, Memento black, Distress inks – Spicy Marmalade, Mustard Seed.