Mother's Day

Hello there!  I'm happy to welcome you to my blog today.  Today's post is going to be short but sweet.  Sometimes I'm a procrastinator when it comes to making a card.  Let's say Mother's Day is coming up.  You keep meaning to sit down and make that card and well, you just don't.  Thankfully Polka Dot Orchard has come to the rescue with a super fabulous digital stamps set for Mother's Day.  The best thing is you can order it and get instant delivery since it is a digital stamp!  That's what I call instant gratification.  To make it even better, it's on SALE right now!  The set is called A Mother's Love.

Purchase HERE

Isn't it lovely!  So, like I said, I was in a bit of a hurry to get a card made.  This set is so beautiful on it's own that you really can make a card lickety split!  Let's look at the card and then I'll fill in some details.

I layered the image and the sentiment together in my editing program.  I lightened the mother image so that the sentiment would be more prominent.  I then printed it out onto watercolor paper.  Next I got out my lovely set of Prima Vintage Pastels watercolors and my Silver Black Velvet size 6 round brush.  I carefully went around the outside of the entire image with clean water. Then I came back and started dropping in the color called Breezy.  I deepened the shadows in a few places and called it done.  That's it.  That is all the coloring I'm doing for this image.  

Once it was dry, I cut it down to 4 1/2" x 6 1/2".  I wanted this to end up being a 5" x 7" card.  I cut a frame slightly larger out of a dark pink cardstock.  Then a floral piece of paper cut at 5" x 7".  I adhered all of the pieces to a Neenah Solar White card base using liquid glue.  I went over the word "mom" with a Spectrum Noir sparkle pen.  For a final bit of decoration, I added a few drops of Cloud 9 Nuve Dream drops.  A new favorite of mine!

I love when a stamp image is just so pretty that you don't have to do alot to end up with a gorgeous card.  Like I said, this was super quick to put together and I think it looks fabulous!  No one even has to know I made it last minute...

Thanks so much for stopping by!

~Kristina    

Supplies used:

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Silver Black Velvet brush, 6 Round Shop at: EH	Neenah Solar White Shop at: SBC | EH	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue Shop at: SBC | EH	Spectrum Noir Sparkle Marker - Crystal Clear Shop at: EH
Cloud 9, Nuvo Dream Drops Shop at: SBC | EH	8.5 inch Tonic Guillotine Cutter Shop at: EH	Prima Vintage Pastels Watercolors Shop at: SBC

A happy hello

I sure do love an extra day in the weekend.  I hope you are doing something fun and relaxing today!  An extra day for me means more time to play in my craft room.  I finally felt like I was caught up on my chores etc. to take a little time to hide away.

Have you ever gone to the store and saw something that you thought would make a great card?  A pattern, clothing, rugs and so on?  Every time I wear a certain dress that I own I tell myself I'm going to make a card inspired by it.  Today was the day and I wasn't even wearing the dress.  I actually ended up taking a picture of the dress to use as inspiration whenever I had the chance.

Here is a picture of the skirt portion of the dress causing all this inspiration.

Look at that gorgeous dark green and navy flower!  Beautiful swirls on the background!  This is one of my favorite dresses for so many reasons!

I tried to think about which medium to use to recreate something similar to the design.  I think there are many different ones I can play with but I decided to go with alcohol inks.  I felt I could get some nice, bold color.  I played around with bottle green, denim blue and snow cap mixative.  I applied the colors to a felt dauber, squirted on some blending solution and swiped it diagonally across the Yupo paper.  I did it several times but never really got the stripe look I was going for.  In fact, my background ended up way more muted than I intended.  That aside, here is the finished card.

And I can't let you miss out on all the silver foil accents!

Oh that lovely shine!

Here are the supplies I used:

Tim Holtz Alcohol inks-Bottle, denim and snow cap.  Plus blending solution.

Silver deco foil applied while areas of the back ground were still slightly tacky in spots.

White splatters added using Copic Opaque white mixed with water.

The flower and leaves are from the Altenew set Beautiful day.

The flower and leaves were stamped on Bristol cardstock and colored with Zig Clean Color real brush markers. Deep green & Peacock blue for the flower, Natural gray for the leaves.  I added glitter marker to the leaves and some white gel pen accents to the flowers.

Leaves are adhered directly to the Yupo but I added foam behind the flower.

Yupo paper was cut out with one of my favorite dies from Mama Elephant All Prettied up set.

Hello sentiment is from MFT Stamps.  I cut it four times and layered them up.  The top layer I went over with a Spectrum Noir glitter marker.

I adhered the entire piece to a white, top fold cardstock base.  For the finishing touch I added Nuvo crystal drops in Liquid Mercury.

I do love how it turned out but I'm thinking I'm going to have another go at this down the road.  I really want those colors to be vivid and bright!  

Enjoy the day!

~Kristina

Shine

Hello one and all!  Mother's Day is drawing to a close and I had an opportunity to go play in my craft room.  What a treat!  I decided this was the day I was going to create something to participate in the Color Throwdown Challenge.  I always want to join in every week but I forget about it until it's to late to enter.  Here are this weeks colors.

And here is my card!

I am delighted with the way it turned out.  Especially since I completed it in less than a half hour!  I stamped the floral images from MFT Stamps Sketched Blooms with a waterproof ink on to Bristol Smooth paper.  I then pulled out three zig clean color real brush markers in a shade of red, yellow and gray.  Some of the stamps I colored with the markers and spritzed with water before sramping.  Some of the others I colored directly on the paper and spread it out with a water brush.  I used gray for all of the leaves and stems.

To add a little more detail, I splattered on more color with the same three colors.  I cut it out with a stitched rectangle die from MFT Stamps and mounted it on a dark gray card base.  I cut the Shine sentiment out with a die from Winnie & Walter.  I did cut out two of them so that I could add a little extra dimension.  Before I glued it onto the card front I went over it with a Spectrum Noir glitter marker.  And I call it done!

You too can join in this weeks challenge or maybe another week.  Go HERE for details and this weeks link up. CTD#492 #colorthrowdown

Thanks for stopping by!

~Kristina