Thinking of You Card

Happy Friday!  I've been busy playing with the Colour My Flowers stamp set and die set designed by Joset Designs. I love how this card has turned out and by colouring the flowers with sparkle markers, the flowers really sparkle. Read below as I share with you how to recreate my Thinking of You Card at home.

Start by applying Jet Black Archival Ink to one of the leaf stamps and stamp it onto a piece of Watercolour Cardstock. Repeat the previous step for stamping the leaf a second time as well as stamp the other leaf twice. Apply Jet Black Archival Ink to four of the flower stamps and stamp onto the same piece of Watercolour Cardstock. One of the flower stamps, you'll need to stamp twice. Colour the flowers and leaves using the following Spectrum Noir Sparkle Markers: Emerald Green, Holly Leaf, Cosmos, Rose Quartz, Sea Breeze, Moonlight, Pink Garnet, Clear and Moonstone. Die cut the leaves and flowers out using the corresponding dies. Ink the edges of the flowers and leaves using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

Die cut the 4" Dashing Rectangle out of White Soft Finish Cardstock. Ink the edges of the dashing rectangle piece using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.

From the Words 2 - Thinking of You die set, die cut the "Thinking of You" words out of White Soft Finish Cardstock. Blend Jet Black Archival Ink over the entire surface of each word. 

Use adhesive and foam squares to adhere the flowers across the middle of the dashing rectangle piece. Adhere the leaves where desired in amongst the flowers.

Use foam squares to adhere the "Thinking of You" sentiment overtop of the middle flower. 

To finish your card, cut a cardbase that measures 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", score at 4 1/4". Use foam squares to adhere the cardfront to the cardbase.

Here's a closeup of the finished card.

And here's the finished Thinking of You card.

Elizabeth Craft Designs Supplies Used:

- Colour My Flowers Stamp Set

- Colour My Flowers Die Set

- Dashing Rectangles

- Words 2 - Thinking of You

- White Soft Finish Cardstock

- 6mm Clear Double Sided Adhesive

Other Supplies Used:

- Ranger Ink: Jet Black Archival Ink

- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Black Soot Distress Ink and a Blending Tool with Foam

- Crafters Companion: Sparkle Markers - Emerald Green, Holly Leaf, Cosmos, Rose Quartz, Sea Breeze, Moonlight, Pink Garnet, Clear and Moonstruck

- Misc: Watercolour Cardstock

- Katelyn

Sweet Fades Challenge on the Emerald Creek Dares Blog

It's time for a brand new challenge on the Emerald Creek Dares blog, featuring "Sweet Fades", focusing on quick ombre techniques.  For my project I decided that I would create a Happy Birthday card using some of the wonderful scenery stamps and combining them with watercolouring. You'll want to make sure to read through the entire post as there is a bonus card at the bottom of the post. Let's get started so that I can share with you how to create a quick scene card.

Before stamping, the ink you will need to use is either Archival Ink or StazOn. These two inks will make it so that the marker colours and ink won't muddy together. For the stamping on my card I used Ranger Ink - Jet Black Archival Ink.

To start building your scene on the watercolour paper, you'll need to first cut a piece of watercolour paper to 3 3/4" x 5". Once the paper has been cut, apply Jet Black Archival Ink to the Wired stamp and stamp  on the left hand side of the paper, make sure to leave some room for the sky at the top of the paper. 

Once the wired stamp has been stamped, apply Jet Black Archival Ink to the Take 1 stamp and stamp to the right of the wired stamp.

With the trees stamped, apply Jet Black Archival Ink to Stumpy and stamp in between the wired image and the take 1 image.

With stumpy stamped, apply Jet Black Archival Ink to the Grass stamp and stamp at the bottom of the watercolour paper. Continue to apply ink to the grass stamp, until you've created a row of grass at the bottom.

With the stamping done, now it's time to move on to the watercolouring. To start, take your Rusty Hinge Distress Marker and apply some strokes to each mountain. Once the colour has been laid down, use your water brush to move the colour so that you create dark and light areas on the mountain.

After the mountains have been coloured, add some Gathered Twigs Distress Marker strokes to the logs on the fence. After the colour has been laid down, use your water brush to move the colour so that you create dark and light areas on the logs.

Once the fence has been coloured, now it's time to add strokes of Peeled Paint Distress Marker to the grass. Start in one section with the strokes and then use your water brush to move the colour so that you create dark and light areas in the grass. Continue this step until the grass area has been covered with shades of Peeled Paint Distress Marker.

Once the water has dried on the grass, mountains and fence, you can always add in a bit more colour and move it around with your water brush if you want certain areas darker.

For the stump, apply strokes of Gathered Twigs Distress Marker and then use your water brush to move the colour so that you create dark and light areas on the stump. Once the water has dried from colouring the stump the first time, you can always go back in and add more colour and then move the colour out with your water brush. 

For the Trees, you'll need to apply strokes of Gathered Twigs Distress Marker to the base of the bushy tree and to the entire branch looking tree. Once the colour has been laid down, use your water brush to move the colour throughout the tree base and branchy tree so that you create dark and light areas. For the top of the bushy tree, add strokes of Mowed Lawn and Peeled Paint. Use your water brush to move the colour throughout the top of the bushy tree to create light and dark areas.

For the grass, add strokes of Mowed Lawn and Peeled Paint Distress Marker through out the grass. With your water brush, move and combine the colours so that you create dark and light areas throughout the grass.

For the sky, start by adding strokes of Dried Marigold Distress Marker and use your water brush to move the colour so that you create dark and light areas in the sky. With the Dried Marigold laid down, add a few strokes of Tattered Rose Distress marker throughout and use your water brush to move the colour so that you continue to create dark and light areas in the sky. The last colour strokes you'll need to add to the sky is Fossilized Amber. Once the strokes of Fossilized Amber have been laid down, use your water brush to move the colour so that you create dark and light areas in the sky.

Here's what the card looks like finished with all the colours together.

Since I didn't have room on the outside for a sentiment, I applied Jet Black Archival ink to the Happy Birthday stamp and stamped in the middle of the inside of the card.

Products Used From Emerald Creek:

- Happy Birthday

- Stumpy

- Wired

- Grass

- Take 1

- 100lb White Cardstock

Other Products Used:

- Ranger Ink: Jet Black Archival Ink

- Ranger Ink/Tim Holtz: Distress Markers - Fossilized Amber, Tattered Rose, Dried Marigold, Mowed Lawn, Rusty Hinge, Gathered Twigs and Peeled Paint, Distress Ink - Vintage Photo Distress Ink and Water Brush

- Tim Holtz Kraft Core: Nostalgic Collection - #13

- Crafters Companion: Watercolour Paper

Since I had so much fun making the first scene card, I decided that I would play with the Gone Fishin' stamp and use the watercolour technique as I had done with the previous card. The steps are the same for this card as they are for the first card, the only difference is there are a few extra colours added in which you'll find in the supplies used list.

Products Used from Emerald Creek: 

- Gone Fishin' 

- Happy Birthday

- 100lb White Cardstock

Other Products Used:

- Ranger Ink: Jet Black Archival Ink

- Ranger Ink/Tim Holtz: Distress Markers - Fossilized Amber, Tattered Rose, Dried Marigold, Mowed Lawn, Rusty Hinge, Gathered Twigs, Black Soot, Scattered Straw, Tea Dye, Forest Moss, Faded Jeans and Peeled Paint, Distress Ink - Vintage Photo Distress Ink and Water Brush

- Tim Holtz Kraft Core: Nostalgic Collection - #17

- Crafters Companion: Watercolour Paper

Make sure that you go and check out the rest of the Emerald Creek Dares Design Team as they have all created fantastic pieces for this weeks challenge:

Deb

Pam

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my water colour card. Don't forget to enter your project into our Emerald Creek Dares Challenge for your chance to win a $25.00 gift certificate for the Emerald Creek Store!

-Katelyn

Masculine Happy Birthday Card

 I'm back on the Southern Ridge Trading blog today to share with you some inspiration for our current monthly challenge which is "Anything Masculine". 

Head over here to read all about how I created this grungy masculine happy birthday card.

-Katelyn

Anything Goes on the Emerald Creek Dares Blog

It's time for a new challenge on the Emerald Creek Dares blog, featuring "Anything Goes". When we received this challenge I was extremely excited as it mean't we were able to do whatever we wanted and use fantastic products from Emerald Creek. For my project I decided that I would mix mixed media and scrapbooking and combine the two on a layout.

To get the layout started, I randomly painted White Gesso in the middle of the patterned paper with a paint brush. 

Once the White Gesso was dry I used the Typo stencil from Tim Holtz and Texture Paste from Ranger and applied it in the middle bottom and middle top of the patterned paper. Once the Texture Paste was dry, I randomly sprayed Wilted Violet Distress Spray Stain over top of the stencil images and parts of the gesso. After the Wilted Violet was slightly dry, I sprayed Black Soot Distress Spray Stain over top of the stencil images and parts of the gesso that were still white.

Once the sprayed colours were dry, I splattered Black Gesso, White Gesso and Tarnished Brass randomly on the layout.

While the splatters were drying, I cut out two lattice images from the Tim Holtz/Sizzix Mixed Media die. Once the lattice die cuts were cut, I covered both lattice images with Black Soot Distress Ink and then covered the lattice die cuts with Onyx Frost Embossing powder from Emerald Creek. Once the pieces were covered with embossing powder, I took my heat tool and embossed them.

The other thing I did while waiting for the splatters to dry, was embossing the two large purple roses and four black roses. I covered the roses with Distress Embossing Ink and then covered the roses with Iridescent Shimmer Embossing Powder. Once the roses were covered in embossing powder, I used my heat tool to emboss them.

Some of the finishing touches for my layout were adding the Heart Brads and Metal Key Charms from Emerald Creek. As well as the word band, typed token and heirloom roses from Tim Holtz's Ideaology line.  Bunching all of these fantastic elements together created a fantastic bottom right and top left corner of the photo as well as highlighting the embossed lattice die cuts. 

Products Used from Emerald Creek:

- Onyx Frost Embossing Powder

- Iridescent Shimmer Embossing Powder

- Heart Brads

- Metal Key Charms

- Texture Paste

- Black SootDistress Spray Stain

Other Products Used: 

Southern Ridge Trading Company: 35mm Purple Roses & 15mm Black Roses

- Bo Bunny "C'est La Vie": Domino

- Bo Bunny Vintage Double Dot: Coffee

- Crafter's Companion: Ultra Smooth Cardstock

- Tim Holtz Ideaology: Typed Tokens, Word Bands - Observations and Heirloom Roses

- Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous: Typo Stencil

- Tim Holtz/Sizzix: Mixed Media Die

- Tim Holtz/Ranger: Distress Ink - Black Soot & Embossing, Distress Spray Stain - Wilted Violet, Distress Paint - Tarnished Brass

- Dina Wakley/Ranger: Black & White Gesso

Make sure that you go and check out the rest of the Emerald Creek Dares Design Team as they have all created fantastic pieces for this weeks challenge:

Julia

Cathy

Diana

Shilpa

Claudia

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my "Authentique" mixed media scrapbook layout. Don't forget to enter your project into our Emerald Creek Dares Challenge for your chance to win a $25.00 gift certificate for the Emerald Creek Store!

Until Next Time!

-Katelyn

"There is Beauty in Simplicity"

I wanted to share my second round submission with you for the Imagine Crafts Artist in Residence tryout. I created a tutorial on a card I created using the product they sent me. Unfortunately I didn't make the Imagine Crafts Artist in Residence Design Team but I wanted to share my tutorial anyways. Enjoy!

For the Imagine Crafts Artist in Residence Design Team second round submission, I was sent a variety of products from the company to create a project and a tutorial. The products I received are fun and vibrant.  When I paired them with a large butterfly stamp I have, inspiration hit! The fun, hand created background finishes the card off perfectly.

Difficulty: Intermediate

Time: 30 minutes 

Required supplies:

Imagine Crafts featuring Tsukienko:

• Kaleidacolor Fresh Greens
• Radiant Neon Warm Set
• Neon Amplify Electric Yellow, Electric Orange, Electric Pink and Electric Coral
• StazOn Jet Black
• Sheer Shimmer Spritz  Sparkle
• Tear It Tape!
• StazOn Stamp Cleaner
• Craft Mat

Other Supplies:

• Stampers Anonymous Stamp: Perspective
• 4 7/8" x 6 and  3" x 4" clear stamp blocks
• Spritzer filled with water
• Black cardstock
• Crafter's Companion: Watercolour and Ultra Smooth cardstock
• Miscellaneous: Foam squares, paper trimmer, heat tool and scissors

Directions:

Step 1: Cut the watercolour paper 5" x 6".

Step 2: Supplies required are the Kaleidacolor Fresh Greens ink pad and the 4 7/8" x 6" clear stamp block.

HINT:  When you have finished using a Kaleidacolor ink pad, pull the notched tab so the individual ink colours are not touching.  When the ink pad is stored with the ink colours touching, the colours will bleed together.

Step 3: Push the notched tab so the individual colours are touching and form a solid ink pad.

Step 4: Ink the entire surface of the clear stamp block with the Kaleidacolor ink pad.  Continue inking the clear stamp block until the desired coverage has been attained.  (Once the clear stamp block has been inked, pull the notched tab so the individual ink pads are separated.)

The clear stamp block will look similar to this once it has been covered in ink.

Step 5: With the water filled spritzer, lightly spritz the inked clear stamp block. This will help the ink move on the block.

This is what the clear stamp block will look like with the water on it.

Step 6: Place the watercolour paper on a craft mat and  stamp the inked clear stamp block onto the watercolour paper.  Once the stamping has been completed, clean the clear stamp block using Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko StazOn Stamp Cleaner.

This is an example of what the watercolour paper may look like based on how the clear stamp block was inked and spritzed with water.  This technique is designed to create a unique background.

Step 7: Dry the custom background using the heat tool, making sure there are no wet ink patches.

Step 8: Trim the custom background to 4" x 5 1/4".

Step 9: Supplies required to stamp the butterfly are the Radiant Neon Warm ink palette, the butterfly stamp, the 4 7/8" x 6" clear stamp block and a sheet of Ultra Smooth white cardstock.

Step 10: Ink the butterfly stamp using all colours on the Radiant Neon Warm ink palette.

 

The above photo is a sample of the inked butterfly stamp.  Randomly applying the ink will create a custom stamped butterfly image.

Step 11: Stamp the butterfly stamp onto the piece of Ultra Smooth white cardstock.  Once the stamping has been completed, clean the clear stamp block using Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko StazOn Stamp Cleaner.

This is an example of what the stamped butterfly may look like based on how the stamp was inked.  This technique is designed to create a unique image.

Step 12: Dry the butterfly image with the heat tool.

Step 13: Precision cut around the stamped butterfly image.

The butterfly image will look like the above photo once it is precision cut.

Step 14: Fold up both sides of the butterfly to give dimension to the wings.

Step 15: Place the butterfly image onto a piece of paper towel.  Spritz the entire butterfly image with the Sheer Shimmer Spritz in Sparkle.

Step 16: Once the butterfly is spritzed, dry with the heat tool.

Step 17:  Adhere the saying "There is Beauty in Simplicity" stamp onto the 3" x 4" clear stamp block.

Step 18: Apply the StazOn Jet Black ink onto the saying stamp.

Step 19: Stamp saying on the same piece of Ultra Smooth white cardstock that the butterfly was stamped onto.

Step 20: Trim the stamped saying to 1" x 2 3/8".

Step 21: Colour the word "Beauty" with desired colours of the Neon Amplify! colours.  Once the colouring has been completed, wipe off the tip of each colour tube.

This is what the letters looked like once I finished colouring them. Based on colour choices, this sample may look different from yours which is okay.  This is an opportunity to make your project unique!

Step 22: Dry the Neon Amplify! with the heat tool. This will allow the Neon Amplify! product to expand while drying. 

Once the beauty word is completely dry, the letters will no longer be shiny. 

Step 23: Cut the following cardstock pieces: 

• Black cardstock - 1 1/8" x 2 1/2" (mat for saying)
• Black cardstock - 4 1/8" x 5 3/8" (mat for custom background)
• White cardstock - 4 1/4" x 10 1/2"; score at 5 1/4" (card base)

Step 24: Ink the edges of the custom background using StazOn Jet Black ink.

Step 25: Ink the edges of the saying using StazOn Jet Black ink.

Step 26: Apply Imagine Crafts Tear It Tape! to the back of the custom background. Peel off the backing on the tape and adhere to the large piece of black cardstock.

Step 27: The custom background that is attached to the black cardstock will look like the above photo. Apply Imagine Crafts Tear It Tape! to the back of the black cardstock. Peel off the backing on the tape and adhere to the card base.

Step 28: Apply Imagine Crafts Tear It Tape! to the back of the stamped saying image. Peel off the backing on the tape and adhere to the small piece of black cardstock.

Step 29: Apply a single foam square to the middle of the butterfly image. 

Step 30: Peel off the backing on the foam square and adhere the butterfly image to the custom background.

Step 31: Adhere three foam squares to the matted saying. Peel off the backing on the foam squares and adhere the saying to the lower portion of the custom background.

Here is the finished card.

Thank you for taking the time to view my tutorial. I hope you have learned something to add to your stamping library.

Thanks to Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko for the product to create my second submission for their design team call. 

Until Next Time!

-Katelyn