Resist Watercolor Background

I made this using a technique from Jennifer McGuire. I used a paintbrush, distress inks and water to cover a piece of watercolor cardstock. Then I used Versamark ink and stamped a background over the painted surface. I used clear embossing powder over the Versamark. Then I spritzed water over the background. This "lifted" the color from the cardstock, but left the "full=strength" color under the embossing. I added the sentiment (from Stampabilities) with black ink. I used a die to cut the flowers and added two lines above and below the sentiment with my Scor-Pal

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Speedy Recovery

Our daughter-in-law's father recently had quadruple by-pass surgery. (He's doing quite well, from what I hear.) This is the card we sent him. I used a die for the timepieces. I placed it on an ivory panel and matted with black. The sentiments are from a Verve set. The card base is Papertrey Ink kraft.

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Birthday Wishes

I have several word dies and I was looking through them recently. I'm not sure if I have used this one previously or not. The die set is from Sizzix. It cuts the sentiments in corners. I made a frame from the die cut. I used patterned paper under it. The card base is ivory. Just a simple card, but I share all of the cards that I make:)

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Christmas Stencil

I happened across a few stencil recently, and decided to use one or two. Actually, the two that I used were on the same sheet:) They are by Plaid. The holly and berries were on this part of the stencil. I matted with red and used Diamond Glaze (same as crystal effects??) on the berries. The sentiment is from Gina K.

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Happy Birthday, Vicki!

This is the birthday card that I made for my friend, Vicki. Hope you have a great day, Vicki!

I used the same stencil that I used on another card recently. This time, I used Versamark ink on the stencil and Kaleidoscope embossing powder for the sparkle. The flowers were die-cut and sprayed with a shimmer mist, with Nuvo drops added to the centers. I added a thin strip of black above the purple. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up!

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Watercolor Left-Over

I did a watercolor background piece recently that I haven't used on a card yet, but I used the left-over ink that I had "smooshed" onto my glass mat to make this background piece. It's not watercolor paper, but I just used a brush to add the color to some off-white cardstock. I stamped on it when it was dry using an Inkadinkado stamp and matted it with black. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

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Stenciled Background

I got a new Darice stencil (through Consumer Crafts) and used it to make a piece for both of these cards. I used four colors of Gina K ink and a makeup brush for the backgrounds. 

On this first card, I used the left-over piece from the second card. I used a technique from Jennifer McGuire's blog for the sentiment die. I first added sparkly embossing powder to the die-cut and then added a couple layers of ultra-thick embossing powder. The original die-cut is from the same color as the bottom layer.

For this second card, I die-cut a frame and then added vellum behind it. I used another die to cut the sentiment. The sentiment panel is mounted on foam squares.

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Friend Tree

A new-to-me Papertrey Ink set that I had ordered and delivered to me by a friend in Ankeny in June. All three stamps are from the same set. I cut the "leafy" part directly onto the card front along with the trunk, and then again on scrap paper. I cut out the one from scrap paper, mounted it on foam squares, and added it on top of the card-front one, placing it off-set.

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Metallic Marker Flowers

While in Ankeny in June, we played with embossed images on black cardstock, colored with metallic markers. I stamped a few images and brought the pieces home. I already had some metallic markers that were not the "brush" kind that we used in Ankeny, but they worked just fine. I embossed the sentiment with gold, also. Hard to tell, but I colored the flower centers with a light turquoise, but then I added some Wink of Stella. It looks very "prominent" in the photos, but it's actually quite subtle in real life. I added thin strips of shimmery gold down each side.

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Recycled Christmas

I very rarely use a previously-made card to make another card, but I did for this one. Actually, I made two cards like this. (That makes 52 for this year so far.) Going through my mom and dad's things a couple years ago, I came across two cards that had this as part of them. I just couldn't throw them away, so I finally recycled them on this card. I added the sentiment, from Papertrey, mounted on foam squares.

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So Very Sorry

I got an email from Gina K showing this method of coloring. I made this card almost immediately. :) The image and the sentiment are both from Gina K. I stamped the image with Versamark and embossed with white embossing powder. I sponged some turquoise ink over the image. Then I colored the image partially with Prismacolor pencils. What a great and easy technique! I matted the panel with black. I thought this would work as a sympathy card.

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More Die-Cut Flowers

I used some of my special tie-dyed glitter cardstock to back this die-cut piece. I used another little piece of it to die-cut the sentiment. I used the die to cut two more "hellos" and stacked them up for added dimension.

For this card, I slightly trimmed down the die-cut piece and matted with red. The sentiment is from a Gina K set. I made three like this.

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Die-Cut Window Birthdays

I die-cut these window pieces at our Group Gathering. I used some very fine mesh tulle for this first card. The flower is one of the Brusho flowers I shared a picture of on yesterday's post. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

The window on this second card is light purple vellum. I used another of my Brusho flowers and two of the leaves. The sentiment is again from Papertrey.

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More Card Parts!

I had already cut many pieces out of the Brusho sheet that I made when my friend, Cheryl, was over here in May. But recently I took the parts of the sheet that were left and cut out these pieces. So, instead of using up some card parts, I have more! Hopefully you'll be seeing them on some completed cards soon, though. I just love the way the leaves turned out.

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September Calendar Page

Here is my calendar page for September. The image is stamped with a Repeat Impressions stamp using a Kaleidacolor ink pad. I colored the line-art images (the pinecone and small-leaved branch) with Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers. I added it to patterned paper.

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Soft Anniversary

More card parts from years ago. I'm quite certain the stamp I used for this card is from Penny Black. It was colored with markers, misted, and then stamped on to off-white cardstock. I matted it. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. It's matted and mounted on foam squares.

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Birthday Fishes

I came across this background in a stack of extra parts. I think it was maybe from a card that I planned on 're-purposing." I added Wink of Stella to the "waves" which were embossed with a Darice folder. I found a fishy stamp (from Stampin' Up!), stamped it on watercolor paper and die-cut it with a stitched square die. I "messy" water-colored it and added it to the background with foam squares. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

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Birthday Balloons

More pieces cut from the Brusho piece I made in May. I cut the sentiment and backed part of it with black and mounted on foam squares. I cut the balloons from a different section of the Brusho paper. I drew the strings on the background, then embossed the background with a Darice embossing folder. The balloons are mounted on foam squares, also.

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Thinking of You

Several years ago at our Group Gathering, a friend chose three pieces of my patterned paper, stacked them up, and cut them into three pieces. I had added them to card bases almost right away, but had never finished them up. It was time! To each of them, I simply stamped the sentiment on off-white cardstock, gently drew the edges across the ink pad, and mounted them on foam squares.

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Die-Cut Birthday Wishes

I cut these three pieces with a die in June. I'm happy to have them on cards already! :) For this first one which is cut from blue foil cardstock, I added it to a piece of "tie-dyed" glitter cardstock. (Thanks, Georgia!!) I embossed the background with a Darice embossing folder.

It's hard to see the color of this second card, but it's actually a deep purple. I added the white die-cut at an angle and added white dots with my gel pen.

I added the third, gold foil die-cut to some dotted patterned paper.

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