Camping Father Card

Our challenge this week at Crazy 4 Challenges is to make a masculine card! I found this fun image on Graphics Fairy and went to work!

The image was just black and white, printed on coated photo paper. I wasn’t sure if Copics would be ok with the coating so I decided to airbrush it. I used a variety of sized and shapes of Post It tape and washi for the masking. If you look closely, it is far from perfect but I like the way it turned out. In the end, I took a risk with using the Copics direct to paper on the sky and mountains and while they won’t blend, they seemed none the worse for wear, Whew! I thought this sentiment from PTI was perfect for an outdoorsy card. The hardware is very old from SU! and the papers are also old from Basic Grey.

I hope you take the plunge and try a masculine card! A lot of people are nervous to make manly cards because so many wonderful things we love like flowers and bling are off the table! Think about stripes, diamond or argyle patterns and natural colours. It doesn’t have to be for a man, a boy card or even a baby boy card would also work!

Enjoy, Rebecca

Watercolour Bouquet Kindness Card

I am branching out from card making and stepping into watercolour and calligraphy. I’m certainly not giving up card making but I think these other two skills will enhance my cards!

This bouquet comes after quite a few failed attempts since I took the Online Card Classes Intermediate Watercolour. I’ve been following some great videos on Instagram by quite a few artists who are so amazing. I am so grateful to them for the time they take to make these videos! It’s a much better painting than any other one I’ve attempted. I’ve learned to work in layers which really helps. And that I have to work looser and less structured because every time I fall back to that, my work looks like an 8 yo painted it!

This card is for the Crazy 4 Challenges for this week to make a floral card. Yesterday was a PA Day and set me behind posting this last night. Sorry for that! The stamp set it by Altenew, stamped in Versamark and very carefully embossed with black powder. I have to get a good black pigment pad so I can emboss with clear powder instead. I think I’m the only person left in the crafting world who doesn’t have a black Versafine ink pad!

Enjoy, Rebecca

Ink Blended Inlay Congratulations

Guess what? One of my friends is pregnant with TWINS! Scary but exciting at the same time. You probably don’t know this but I spent quite a bit of my career taking care of babies and kids and that included taking care of multiples at night so their parents could sleep!

I figured my friend is going to be inundated with baby-themed things so for this one I kept it baby free. Sure the colours are a bit baby suggestive but no bottles, soothers or booties! I’ll be sure to send her a baby themed card later and probably one for her shower too!

I masked my panel with masking tape and inked it with Aqua mist, hawaiian shores, hibiscust burst (all PTI) and angel pink (Memento). Then I die cut the word from the panel making sure to keep all the tiny pieces from the insides of the letters. I inlaid the empty space with a black die cut, replacing all of the little bits I’d saved. I added my white panel to an aqua mist card base (Cardstock by PTI).

Enjoy, Rebecca

Entered in: PTI Make it Monday: Masked Backgrounds

Life Is Better in the Summer Canvas

I am quite honestly addicted to summer. It improves my mood, makes my skin nicer and most of my aches and pains disappear (though it’s taking a while this year so far). Yeah for SUMMER!!

To honour summer, I was inspired to make this canvas. I have a wall at the front of my house near the door where I put seasonal décor, changing it each new season. This will go up on my wall soon or maybe now since I love it so much! I started with a basic dollar store canvas, nothing fancy, it was stapled on the edges and not the back but that was ok for this project. I covered it in heavy acrylic paint in titan buff. Then I dry brushed on some metallic gold paint on the sides and edges of the front.

Next I added some light modeling paste using a coral stencil. I allowed it to dry then replaced the stencil and air brushed some peach Copic marker. Then I decided I needed some more texture so I randomly and messily applied some glass bead gel. If you want to use this, be warned that it takes a long time to dry if you apply it too thickly. I pieced some Kaisercraft papers adding some coloured modeling paste using a gorgeous ocean-themed poem stencil (both by Red Lead Paperworks).

The papers were both sponged on the edges with matching Distress inks and I popped them up with a foam layer. I usually adhere my papers with gel medium so this was a new things for me. Next it was time to add some fabulous embellies!

The tag and oval pieces were from the back of the Kaisercraft paper pad. Dreams was die cut using a SSS die. The sea grass is a Frantic Stamper die cut from Kraft cardstock.  Some assorted shell chips, beach glass and sand was added across the bottom. A few other embellies and some real fish net rounded out the canvas!

I think I’ll add a knotted string of beads to hang this from. I have a TON of ocean themed charms and beads that will match the colours in this canvas! Fabulous right?

Enjoy, Rebecca

Entered in: Simon Says Stamp Monday – Make a Wish. I wish I could live at the beach, liKe so bad! Global Design Project #37 MFT Colour Challenge

Watercolour Butterflies

Today I am playing in the PTI blog hop! I just loved the inspiration photo they picked this month!

Here is my take on the photo. I decided to use butterflies; I had thought about using ice cream cones but the die is too large to use in this pattern on a card. In the future it might make a nice canvas though! I used my professional watercolours from various companies and some Arches watercolour paper. I’d normally save such nice paper for larger paintings but I flubbed the other side so at least it got used right? The white panel was splattered with some grey watercolour and I added a vellum strip with a white embossed sentiment across the panel. The card base is made from aqua mist cardstock! Last but not least, I added a few sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.

Enjoy, Rebecca

PTI Supplies: white and aqua mist cardstock, butterfly die, vellum, thanks sentiment