Like many, I am a huge Tim Holtz fan. I wanted to make a TH themed St. Patrick's Day card using just his products, with the four-leaf clover from the Sizzix Lucky Love Impresslit. I am not a natural at mixed media. I have to experiment, think, study Pinterest, and more, to come up with a mixed media piece I really like. I found a wonderful card by a Finnish artist named Riikka Kovasin here that I loved. Her layout and her use of some of the embellishments inspired me most.
Like many, I am a huge Tim Holtz fan. I wanted to make a TH themed St. Patrick's Day card using just his products, with the four-leaf clover from the Sizzix Lucky Love Impresslit. I am not a natural at mixed media. I have to experiment, think, study Pinterest, and more, to come up with a mixed media piece I really like. I found a wonderful card by a Finnish artist named Riikka Kovasin here that I loved. Her layout and her use of some of the embellishments inspired me most.
Using words and phrases as an integral part of a card design is something I love to do. I love text, fonts, big words, titles, you name it. If it involves the alphabet more than numbers, I'm there. (Yep, I am a Wordle addict). So when Poppystamps chose Word Art as this month's challenge topic, I was all in. This card features the Freestyle Hello die and the matching shadow. I saw Debby Hughes of Lime Doodle Design watercolor on a large stamp of small floral images, then spritz it with water and stamp onto watercolor paper. The sharp lines of the image blurred and moved and made it look amazing. I used four Zig Clean Color Markers and tried the same thing with a rubber stamp with little florals all over it. I was thrilled with the result. I used the mid-size die from the Scalloped Stitch Frames die set and cut a white frame. I trimmed the top of the frame off and glued this to a Stampin' Up! Crumb Cake card front. Next, I trimmed the watercolor to slightly larger than the frame opening and mounted it with foam adhesive to the card. I matted the kraft onto a SU Calypso Coral card.
I cut the Freestyle Hello from Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110lb cardstock. Next I cut the matching shadow from Heavyweight Vellum I bought on Amazon. I hid drops of clear Nuvo Crystal Drops behind the hello and adhered it to the shadow and then the watercolor piece.
I finished the card with tiny adhesive pearls on the watercolor paper. I'd love to make this again with different colors.
Using words and phrases as an integral part of a card design is something I love to do. I love text, fonts, big words, titles, you name it. If it involves the alphabet more than numbers, I'm there. (Yep, I am a Wordle addict). So when Poppystamps chose Word Art as this month's challenge topic, I was all in. This card features the Freestyle Hello die and the matching shadow. I saw Debby Hughes of Lime Doodle Design watercolor on a large stamp of small floral images, then spritz it with water and stamp onto watercolor paper. The sharp lines of the image blurred and moved and made it look amazing. I used four Zig Clean Color Markers and tried the same thing with a rubber stamp with little florals all over it. I was thrilled with the result. I used the mid-size die from the Scalloped Stitch Frames die set and cut a white frame. I trimmed the top of the frame off and glued this to a Stampin' Up! Crumb Cake card front. Next, I trimmed the watercolor to slightly larger than the frame opening and mounted it with foam adhesive to the card. I matted the kraft onto a SU Calypso Coral card.
I cut the Freestyle Hello from Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110lb cardstock. Next I cut the matching shadow from Heavyweight Vellum I bought on Amazon. I hid drops of clear Nuvo Crystal Drops behind the hello and adhered it to the shadow and then the watercolor piece.
I finished the card with tiny adhesive pearls on the watercolor paper. I'd love to make this again with different colors.
I'm on the Poppystamps Blog today with this Smile card. This card was inspired by May Sukyong Park's card (@mayholicdesign is a fellow Austinite) for the @ukrainecarddrive in late February. I started by choosing Stampin' Up! cardstock in six different shades of blue-green. I don't know if I have the names of all six, but I know I used Soft Sky, Cool Caribbean, Tempting Turquoise, and Island Indigo. I used repositionable Post-it tape to tape three shades together and using the new Poppystamps Penelope Pinpoint Frame, I die cut each set of three colors in order to get 7-10 of the diamond cutouts that the die produces.
I'm on the Poppystamps Blog today with this Smile card. This card was inspired by May Sukyong Park's card (@mayholicdesign is a fellow Austinite) for the @ukrainecarddrive in late February. I started by choosing Stampin' Up! cardstock in six different shades of blue-green. I don't know if I have the names of all six, but I know I used Soft Sky, Cool Caribbean, Tempting Turquoise, and Island Indigo. I used repositionable Post-it tape to tape three shades together and using the new Poppystamps Penelope Pinpoint Frame, I die cut each set of three colors in order to get 7-10 of the diamond cutouts that the die produces.
As much as I enjoy the traditional red, green, silver and gold of Christmas, I get a big kick out of color twists on this festive season. A pastel approach to a Christmas card makes me think of candy and frosting. Add in glitter and I think of sugar cookies.
I used three dies to create this sugary pastel Christmas card. First, I knew I wanted a shimmery pink background. I randomly watercolored a piece of watercolor paper with two pink ink colors. I added a little splattering. Then I heavily spritzed the paper with a pearlescent glimmer mist.
After it was dry, I used a snowflake background die to cut out my sugary pink piece. I mounted this on a piece of mint green patterned paper (I love mint green and pale pink together). Next, I used the Merry Christmas die to cut out the sentiment from pale pink glittered cardstock. Then I used a medium-size stitched frame die to cut the frame from white cardstock. I next cut a piece of vellum paper to just a fraction smaller than the frame and glued it to the back of the frame. I adhered my Merry Christmas to the front of this framed vellum. I then put everything together on a folded white card, adhering the vellum frame with skinny foam tape so it wouldn't show. Finally, I adhered the clear droplets to the card with clear liquid glue. I just love how these things look on everything.
Perhaps I'll mail this card to someone with a sweet tooth.
Ingredients:
CS: Canson XL Watercolor Paper, Neenah Solar White Classic Crest 110, vellum
Ink: Distress Ink Spun Sugar, Stampin' Up! Sweet Sugarplum, both used as watercolor
Other paper: Patterned is Fancy Pants (2009) Christmas Magic collection On the Tree design, Glitter is Memory Box Delicate Pastels Glitter Pad 6x6
Dies: Merry Christmas Poe Script, Snowflake Background, Scalloped Stitched Frames all by Poppystamps
Embellishments: Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Pearl, Fairy Drops Clear by Poppystamps
As much as I enjoy the traditional red, green, silver and gold of Christmas, I get a big kick out of color twists on this festive season. A pastel approach to a Christmas card makes me think of candy and frosting. Add in glitter and I think of sugar cookies.
I used three dies to create this sugary pastel Christmas card. First, I knew I wanted a shimmery pink background. I randomly watercolored a piece of watercolor paper with two pink ink colors. I added a little splattering. Then I heavily spritzed the paper with a pearlescent glimmer mist.
After it was dry, I used a snowflake background die to cut out my sugary pink piece. I mounted this on a piece of mint green patterned paper (I love mint green and pale pink together). Next, I used the Merry Christmas die to cut out the sentiment from pale pink glittered cardstock. Then I used a medium-size stitched frame die to cut the frame from white cardstock. I next cut a piece of vellum paper to just a fraction smaller than the frame and glued it to the back of the frame. I adhered my Merry Christmas to the front of this framed vellum. I then put everything together on a folded white card, adhering the vellum frame with skinny foam tape so it wouldn't show. Finally, I adhered the clear droplets to the card with clear liquid glue. I just love how these things look on everything.
Perhaps I'll mail this card to someone with a sweet tooth.
Ingredients:
CS: Canson XL Watercolor Paper, Neenah Solar White Classic Crest 110, vellum
Ink: Distress Ink Spun Sugar, Stampin' Up! Sweet Sugarplum, both used as watercolor
Other paper: Patterned is Fancy Pants (2009) Christmas Magic collection On the Tree design, Glitter is Memory Box Delicate Pastels Glitter Pad 6x6
Dies: Merry Christmas Poe Script, Snowflake Background, Scalloped Stitched Frames all by Poppystamps
Embellishments: Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Pearl, Fairy Drops Clear by Poppystamps
