Watercolour Floral Inspiration Challenge

Papertrey Ink is having their 9th Anniversary Celebration. They challenged us to make a card based on a piece of clothing.

I chose a skirt I sewed for myself years ago. I’ve always loved the colours and the big, bright pattern. I didn’t have a lily stamp so I used this larkspur stamp (PTI). I stamped in a pale yellow ink then watercoloured it with shell pink paint (Daniel Smith). I only painted two or three petals at a time to make sure the paint didn’t run together making a big blob. When the first petals were dry, I went back in and painted the rest. After that, I added the brighter pink paint shading in each petal (and green paint-Gansai Tambi). Do you think it looks good? I’m really proud of it.

Sorry about all the wrinkles, this skirt doesn’t fit me right now so it’s been jammed in my closet for a few years. The card colours are  bit closer to the skirt IRL. The patterned papers are Pink Paisley, sentiment by Echo Park, the watercolour paper W&N and the base papers are blush and berry sorbet (PTI). Can’t remmeber who made the music stamp.

Enjoy, Rebecca

Kite Hooray Card

I don’t make shaped cards nearly as often as I should or as often as I used to.

But when I was given a kite challenge by Crazy 4 Challenges, what else could I do?? Of COURSE I had to make a kit shaped card!! The fold is on the side with the yellow paper (all paper MME). So it’s an unusual opening but very cool and unexpected! Adding the paper might seem hard but I just drew on lines from opposing corners, added adhesive and lined up the corners of the paper with the pencil lines. Then I trimmed off what was beyond the edges of the card. Easy Peasy!! Even though the sides are angled, the points where the papers meet are still good old 90 degree angles!

And yes, I remembered to only staple the tail to the front panel!! I almost forgot!! The tail is made from string (dollar store!) and some red grosgrain ribbon. I used a heated ribbon cutter to finish the ends of each piece so they won’t fray. You could also use a flame or even better, a heat gun. The hooray die (PTI) was layered on a doily die cut (Spellbinders) and the sentiment (SSS) was embossed in white on black cardstock (PTI). Last I added some gold sewing thread and gold star sequins (Lucy’s Little Things).

Enjoy, Rebecca

Lovey Cards Pt3

Next up is a fun technique-filled chalkboard card.

The sentiment is embossed with white powder then the flourishes are stamped with white ink. Then I added a few enamel dots; I’d normally add sequins but felt they would have as much impact on the black even if they were opaque. I had planned to make this the reverse of the card above but after making the first one, I wasn’t feeling it. So I simply added patterned paper in behind the die cut opening and added the foam outline inside. It has a fun raised effect! You could also get this look by layering multiple white cardstock pieces.

Enjoy, Rebecca

Entered in: Sugar Sketch 39 SPDSS39, Curtain Call Sachet, The Challenge 59, Fusion Challenge, SSS Wednesday Hearts, Paper Players 280

Lovey Cards Pt2

This one is pretty fun. I wish hubby could give me a card like this…

Isn’t this one cool? This is the perfect die for a shaker card even though it doesn’t look like it at first. I die cut the pink card front first and saved the outline portion (shown here in black). Then I cut the same die from a similar sized piece of black cardstock aiming to make two shaker cards in reverse colours. I used the black outline for this card.

Because of the crazy uneven edges of this die, I used die cut foam for the shaker borders. The best part about this die? The outline gives you a buffer between the foam and the paper edge. I hate when the foam shows from under the paper edge, which seems to happen a lot when I make shaker cards with die cut foam. Even if the foam shows a wee bit, after you add the outline in, it covers any imperfect foam edges! After that, it’s just like a normal shaker card! The chipboard heart is covered in Liquid Pearls and the sentiment was cut from a SSS die.

Enjoy, Rebecca

Entered in: SSS Wednesday Have a Heart, , Fusion Challenge
Curtain Call Sachet, The Challenge 59, Memory Box Pink Cards, The Paper Players 280, Sugar Sketch 39 SPDSS39

It’s All About the LOVE!

I’ve been making a few of Lovey Dovey cards lately. Lots of hearts and pink…

Isn’t this so sweet? The stamp and open heart die is from the latest SSS kit and so is the Crate Paper XOXO paper. The grey paper is from an ancient Echo Park paper pad. I cut the white cardstock the same size as a manilla tag and placed a die cut (PTI) heart where the reinforcer and hole would be. Then I added the ribbon and lace (local fabric store). I’ll be adding a couple more in a few minutes as I plan to add them to the same Inklinz. Sorry in advance for the multiple posts.

Enjoy, Rebecca

Entered In: SSS Wednesday Have a Heart, Fusion Challenge, Curtain Call Sachet, Retro Sketches 200