Sunday, March 31, 2019

Feather Fun

Welcome back to my blog! I finished up my next level 2 Altenew Educator Certification Program class.  This one was called In the Mood for Color.  This class goes into detail about the meanings and feelings evoked when you use certain colors.  I thought it was pretty cool!

I decided I wanted to try my hand at making a card that evokes happiness and good feelings.  Orange is the color for the job!

I started with a piece of Bristol smooth cardstock cut to 4 1/4" x 5 1/2".  I also pulled out my mini ink blending tools, sponges and the new Golden Sunset mini ink cubes from Altenew.  I love the Altenew ink families when you want to make sure your colors all go together.  I don't find myself using yellow and orange inks very often but these are SO pretty!  I started with the lightest color, Sunray.  I loaded up my blending sponge and started blended in a diagonal line across the cardstock.  I then moved on to Chamomile, Snapdragon and finally Marigold.  Now, this doesn't look so great...not yet anyways.


The trick is layers!  I worked my way back and forth a few times in order to get vibrant and smooth colors.  Once I was happy with the results, I squirted it lightly with water.  I let it sit for 30 seconds or so and then blotted it up.  I dried it with the heat gun.  Next I gave it a quick spray with an iridescent shimmer spray.  I dried this as well with the heat gun.


I'm so in love with this panel!  On to the next steps.  I treated the panel liberally with anti-static powder.  Next I stamped the feather image from Altenew's Happy Dreams stamp set randomly on the panel with Versafine black ink.  Then I sprinkled it with clear embossing powder and melted it with the heat gun.  Next I grabbed the spots cluster from the same stamp set.  I stamped it several times over the panel and melted the embossing powder.  At this point I felt like I needed the spots to fill in more of the spaces but the feather were in the way.  I could have gone ahead and created some masks to cover the feathers but I felt a bit lazy.  I just tore some scrap pieces of paper and held them in place as I stamped the rest of the dots.


I went ahead and trimmed the panel down to 4" x 5 1/4".  Now I needed a few more pieces for my card.  I used a stitched circle die to cut out a 2 3/4" circle out of heavy vellum.  I treated it with anti-static powder.  I stamped the "Follow Your Dreams" sentiment, also from the Happy Dreams set, in VersaMark ink.  I didn't want the wand that is included as part of the sentiment so I simply covered it with a small scrap before inking it up.  Then I pulled it off the scrap before stamping down on the vellum.  I sprinkled white embossing powder over it, tapped off the excess and melted it with the heating tool.  



Next I cut a piece of black cardstock into a strip 1 1/2" x 4".  Then I used the largest edge dies from the Lawn Fawn Lacy Borders die set to cut both long sides of the strip. 


 I then glued it about an inch from the left side of the yellow panel.  I flipped the vellum circle over and used a glue pen to carefully apply the liquid glue behind the letters.  This is my trick to keep the adhesive from showing through the vellum.  Then I put it in place over the black strip.  

I found that I hadn't been quite as careful as I thought and you could see some of the glue.  To solve that I went around the left sides of the sentiment with an N3 gray Copic marker.  This added a nice little shadow AND hid the glue.  Problem solved!

I stamped one of the arrows onto white cardstock using the black VersaFine ink.  I sprinkled clear embossing powder over it and melted it with the heat tool.  I then used the matching Happy Dreams die set to cut out the arrow.  I used a little liquid glue on the back and glued it down.  I then glued the entire panel onto a black A2 sized card base.  All done!

This card makes me happy so I guess it did the job!




I had so much fun making the first card I had to make a second one!  This one is almost an exact opposite of the first card.  Where I used black on the first card, I used white.  Where I used white on the first card, I used black on the second.  You get the idea.  

Here it is!


Here they are side-by-side.


And close up so you can see the shadowing around the sentiment on the black card.


Which version is your favorite?

Thanks for stopping by!
~Kristina

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Zig 2-Way Glue Pen - Squeeze & Roll
Zig 2-Way Glue Pen - Squeeze & Roll
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Neenah Solar White
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VersaMark Watermark ink pad
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Ranger Super Fine White embossing powder
Ranger Super Fine White embossing powder
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Tonic Studios-Retractable Craft Pick
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Lawn Fawn Black Licorice Cardstock
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Mini Ink Blending Tool
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VersaFine Onyx Black ink pad
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Altenew Happy Dreams stamps
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Altenew Happy Dreams dies
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Ranger Clear embossing powder
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Altenew Golden Sunset mink ink cubes
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Masculine birthday

Hi guys!  Popping on today with a quick post to share the birthday card I made for my dear hubby!


I didn't create a photo tutorial for this card because I was in a bit of a time crunch.  I'll try to give you as many details as I can.

I used the Concord & 9th Plaid background stamp to create the background.  I first stamped it in navy ink.  Then I went back with the thin lines and stamped those with Versamark ink.  I sprinkled on gold embossing powder and melted it with my heat tool.  I then cut it down to 4" x 5 1/4"  I used a sponge tool and Faded Jeans Distress Oxide ink to go around all of the edges of the plaid piece.   I set it aside to dry.

To create the background for the diecut shape I started by cutting it out of watercolor paper using the die from Concord & 9th's Blooms fill-ins dies.  I then pressed Distress Oxide ink pads onto my glass craft mat.  I used Vintage Photo and Faded Jeans.  I added a bit of water and then just started smooshing the paper into the ink.  I did a layer, dried it with my heat tool and repeated the process.  I probably did that 3 or 4 times until I was happy.  I heated it one more time until it was completely dry.

Next I stamped the beer mug stamp from Stamper's Anonymous Beer stamp set onto the smooshed watercolor paper.  I used a black hybrid ink.  I did place it in my Misti to stamp as I knew I would need to stamp it a few times to get a good image over the Distress Oxides.  I stamped the beer mug 2 more times onto plain water color paper.  Then I started to color the beer mug using Fossilized Amber, a touch of Vintage Photo and Hickory Smoke.  I just squished my ink pads on my craft mat again and added water.  Then I used a small paint brush to apply the ink.  I did use my heat tool to dry in between layers.

Once it was all dry, I fussy cut out the entire beer mug and then just the foam.  I glued the beer mug down flat to the smooshed watercolor piece.  Right on top of the stamped image.  Then I put foam tape on the back of the foam piece and glued this on top of the beer mug.  I love the added dimension this gives.


Now I just needed a few more pieces for the card.  I cut a brown piece of cardstock down to 3" x 3".  I took my navy ink pad directly to the edges to create sort of a messy edge.  I put foam tape on the back of the smooshed ink piece and stuck it down onto the brown square.  I then glued these pieces onto the navy plaid piece.  I put a little bit of navy reinker onto my mat, added a bit of water and loaded up a paint brush to make navy splatters. 

While the splatters were drying, I cut another piece of the brown cardstock down to create a side fold, A2 card base.  I used the sponge tool to add Faded Jeans Distress Oxide ink to all of the edges.  Then I went ahead and glued the entire plaid panel down to the card base.  Only one more thing needed, a sentiment!  I stamped Happy Birthday with black ink using a stamp from Altenew's Faux Veneer stamp set.  The sentiment is actually all in one line but I needed it to be shorter so I just cut the stamp in half.  You could just mask it if you prefer not to cut your stamps.  I then trimmed the white cardstock down to  2 1/2" x 1".  Again, took my navy ink pad direct to the edges of the paper.  Then I glued it in place.  There you have it!

I think my husband is going to love it!

Have an awesome day!
~Kristina

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue
Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue
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VersaMark Watermark ink pad
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Mini Ink Blending Tool
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Altenew Faux Veneer stamp set
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Stampers Anonymous-Tim Holtz Wine stamps
Stampers Anonymous-Tim Holtz Wine stamps
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Therm O Web Foam Tape
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Concord & 9th Plaid Background stamp
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Concord & 9th Blooms Fill-ins dies
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Ranger Princess Gold embossing powder
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Distress Oxide-Faded Jeans
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Distress Oxide-Vintage Photo
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Distress Oxide-Fossilized Amber
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Mini MISTI
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Hybrid black ink pad
Hybrid black ink pad
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Distress Oxide-Hickory Smoke
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Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Wine Not

It's wonderful Wednesday!  That means it's my turn for a post over on the Dies R Us blog.  Head on over here --->Dies R Us to find out all of the fun details and supplies used.


Hope to see you there!
~Kristina

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Dies R Us - Bodacious Florals

Happy Wednesday everyone!  Come on over to the Dies R Us blog and check out the project I'm sharing today.  It features just 3 dies and alcohol pearl inks!

Find the blog post right here: Dies R Us blog


Happy crafting!
~Kristina



Stick It Adhesive sheets
Stick It Adhesive sheets
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Penny Black Bodacious die
Penny Black Bodacious die
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Frantic Stamper Just Because die
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Frantic Stamper Diamonds Galore
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Neenah Solar White
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Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue
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Ranger Alcohol ink - Deception
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Ranger Alcohol ink - Enchanted
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Ranger Alcohol ink - Smolder
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Ranger Alcohol ink - Mineral
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Ranger Alcohol Blending Solution
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