Hey everyone. I’m up on the Pink and Main blog today. I’m sharing this awesome card from the August 2019 release. Head on over to the Pink and Main blog to check out all the details. Don’t forget to comment as well.
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Hey everyone. I’m up on the Pink and Main blog today. I’m sharing this awesome card from the August 2019 release. Head on over to the Pink and Main blog to check out all the details. Don’t forget to comment as well.
See you there.
Hey peeps. With hurricane Dorian never making land fall I was able to still craft my weekend away. Making Brea Reese galaxy and big dot background cards was a better way to spend my time. Let me share with you the two cards I made.
For my first card I made a galaxy background with several alcohol inks on Brea Reese waterproof paper. I set this panel aside to dry while I worked on my design. When I’m making cards, I like to have a plan. I may sketch out the design first or I may already have a design in mind. For this one I knew I wanted to use the new Waffle Flower Big Dots die. I could use the left over pieces to make another card.
Once the panel was completely dried I ran it through my Gemini Jr. with the Waffle Flower Big Dots Die. Since I also knew I wanted to make this a shaker card I cut out additional backgrounds so I could stack them all together. I needed to have a background for the panel to sit on so I grabbed my distress oxide inks to create the colorful back drop. Since the galaxy panel was really busy I didn’t want to risk stamping a sentiment in the middle. Instead I pulled out my hello die from Pink and Main and die cut it out of silver paper. I also die cut additional hellos to stack the sentiment for weight.
Now it was time to assemble the card. To make things easy I took the Big Dot die and used a pencil to tray the dot areas on the background panel. I pulled out some colorful sequins and placed them in a few of the dots areas for the shaker aspect of the card. Once I had that complete, it was time to place the galaxy background on top. Using the pencil to trace the openings made it super easy to line up. To complete the card I added the sentiment and adhere the entire panel to a white card base. I literally squealed when this card was complete. 😍
Now let’s see what I did with all those left over dots. It was so easy to put a card together with the galaxy dots that were left over. I placed the Big Dot die onto a white card panel and traced around each opening so I had a grid on my paper. I then adhered dots onto the traced lines and the card came together quickly.
For the sentiment I used one of the sentiments from the Big Dot Sentiment stamp also from Waffle Flower. I wanted to have color on this sentiment that matched a color in the galaxy dots so I used the archival ink in the color of plum from Ranger.
I layered this piece onto a purple background and adhere the panel to a white card base. This card is stunningly beautiful in real life. The different colors I was able to achieve with the Brea Reese alcohol inks is what totally made this card so beautiful. Remember if you have an alcohol ink background that you’re not sure you completely love it, pull out die cuts and make backgrounds with them. You can use word dies, shaped dies or cover plates like this one from Waffle Flower.
Thanks for stopping by today. I have all the products I used listed below for your shopping convenience. Have a great day everyone and I’ll see you back here soon.
Hey peeps. I’m joining in on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge using the Bouquet of Roses stencil and some distress oxide inks. The theme for this week is clean and simple. This card totally works as it’s almost a one layer card with a simple design. I started off the card by adhering my stencil over a piece of bristol card stock with Pixie Spray. I carefully added worn lipstick and spiced marmalade to the flowers and used citron and mowed lawn for the leaves. Before I removed the stencil I spritzed on some shimmer spray to activate the colors but also for the sparkle.
Once this panel was dried I ran it through my Gemini Jr. with a stitched rectangle die and stamped a sentiment from the Handmade Happiness stamp from Hero Arts. I love how this card turned out.
I adhered the panel to a coral layering card stock panel and then onto a white card base. The simplicity of this card using the Bouquet of Roses stencil is awesome and will be easy to mass produce. If you haven’t joined in on the challenge, there is still time. Head on over to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge to link up your project.
Thanks for stopping by today. I’ll see you back here soon! Have a great day.
Hey everyone. Welcome to the Pink and Main/Paper Sweeties Birthday Blog Hop. I’m so excited to be a part of this hop. It’s going to be full of inspiration and creativity overload. Paper Sweeties has some really cute stamps and products. So let’s get started.
For my card today I used the Pink and Main Pen Pals as my background paper. I trimmed down the pattern paper so I could add a pretty gray piece of card stock behind it. Next I stamped out the sentiment on white card stock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and trimmed it down. I also placed the sentiment strip onto gray card stock. I added faux white stitching to both panels with a .10 point gelly roll pen. Finishing off this panel I glued the sentiment strip onto the pattern paper panel.
Now it was time to die cut out the love sentiment from Paper Sweeties. I die cut this piece several times and glued the piece together for extra weight. I then used my white gelly roll pen to go over the letters for some white highlights. Once this was complete I adhered it to my card panel and covered the sentiment with Nuvo Crystal Glaze. To keep the card colorful, I placed my pattern paper panel onto a rose card base. Adding just a touch of bling to my card I used these pretty flower sequins also from Paper Sweeties.
Here is a closeup of my card. The little flower sequins are open in the center however I placed a small gem in the middle of mine.
Now for all the details. Paper Sweeties is offering 25% discount on that day to celebrate their 7th Birthday. And Pink and Main will be giving away a surprise package valued at $25.00. Participants must leave a comment on each stop along the hop. Winner announced on Wednesday August 28, 2019.
It’s now time to hop along to the next designer. So head on over to Laurie’s blog and get inspired. Have a great day everyone and I’ll see you back here soon.
Hey peeps. I’m back sharing a card using the Simon Says Stamp Pretty Peony background stamp. I’ve had this card made for months but totally forgot to share it here on my blog.
I stamped out the image onto watercolor paper in memento ink. Pulling out my watercolors and Prismacolor pencils was a great decision for this card since I was able to really build up with color on this piece. Watercoloring always takes me to a happy place. I try not to overthink my color when I work with this medium. The Pretty Peony background stamp was a perfect way to just let me coloring flow.
I kept this card really simple by trimming down the floral panel and layering it with fog card stock from Simon Says Stamp. I placed the panel on my typical white card base. Just for some added interest I splattered on gold paint with a paint brush and added some Nuvo vintage drops.
Here is a quick closeup of the finished card. So what do you think? If you don’t have this background stamp, I would highly suggest it to practice your floral watercoloring with. It’s a very forgiving image to color.
Thanks for stopping by today. I have more cards made using Simon Says Stamp products you can check out here. I’ll see you guys back here soon. Sending hugs and love to all.
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