You are Wonderful Flower Card

Hi there!
Samantha here, and today I'm sharing a tropical card full of whimsy!

 

     

I really wanted to create that great background with Distress Oxide Inks! I love the color of the greens to the almost yellows! And I thought, what better way than to pop some tropical flowers on top!

Let's make this card together!
- this stamp set is really cool, because you can stamp the inside and outside lines of the images!
- I stamped the flowers with the 'inside' portion first with two different Distress Oxide inks with the rock and roll technique!
- then I stamped on top with the outline image! What a great way to get flowers stamped and colored!
- then, I fussy cut and set aside
- on your card front, I used a combination of Lucky Clover, Cracked Pistachio and Twisted Citron Distress Oxide Inks! 
- then I splattered some color on top of all the images and background!

- I heat embossed the sentiment onto a strip of black cardstock
a few of the flowers (and the sentiment!) was popped up with foam tape

I love this cute card! The 'sea' was created with Distress Ink and watercolors. But you could get a totally different look if you ink blended the 'sea'! 

That sentiment is created with the All About You stamp set! LOVE the versatility of the set!

The flower images are from Aloha Spirit!

    

Good news - get your eyes and brains ready for a FUN new release in September!! Yay!!! I can't wait for you to see these stamps!

~Samantha

   

Be Bold - Part 4

To I present to you .... Giant flowers! Kidding ;) Well, it is quite big so I thought it'll be a great example of bring in some  boldness to your card. I hope you'll read on and enjoy the card.

 

As you can see the technique isn't so complicated today :) It's all about layering your images and have fun colouring. 

I usually use my Distress Ink Antique Linen ink to stamp all my images when I want to watercolour them. This is because, the ink is reactive with water so that it can give me the no-line colouring look that I love so much :D Do you love it too? 

I then cut the images, leaving a thin white border, and layer them all to make a bunch.

I used the alphabet sticker to make a little "Hi" and added some enamel stickers!

Aloha Spirit

Distress Ink - Antique Linen

Prima Watercolours

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Thanks for stopping by,

Marina

Make Your Own Background - Part 3

Hey crafters! How have you been? In between days, I've been painting my little journal with repeating pattern using watercolour. That's what inspired me to make this card today. As you might already know, you can use stamps, any stamps, and stamp them repeatedly and you'll get a filled background just like sticking on patterned paper but with more control. That's what I did today. 

I've stamped the flower and leaves using Distress Ink Antique Linen. It's my favourite distress ink colour to use when I want that no-line effect. Basically, it makes it looks like I've handdrawn them. 

Use your colouring medium of choice. I've chosen to watercolour but you can use copics or any other medium that your heart desires. 

Add a bold sentiment to ground the whole background and so that the sentiment doesn't get lost in the busy background.

Leaves are from the Aloha Spirit Stamps

Flowers are from the Crokisses Stamps

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Marina

Aloha Again!

Aloha friends! Keeway here. Did you know that the palm tree die cut in the Beach Party Kit is designed so that you can use it as both a palm tree and a flower? That's got to be the coolest die I've ever seen! And not to mention, there's so many ways to use the die that today I'm going to share with you another idea of how you can use it.

My inspiration spawned from the versatility of the palm tree die cut in the kit. I wanted to use it without the borders in the die cut, so that I can bend and play with the shape of my palm tree as how I see fit to build by beachy card.





I started by die cutting the palm tree out twice from white card stock, and colored it in with copic markers. I tossed out the outline parts, so that I can build my tree without any directional restriction. Now I could have one straight and one bending to the side when I piece the trees back together like legos.

Last but not least, I added coconuts to my palm tree by using a 3/8" circle punch. I copic colored them and added details with a white gel pen.

I blended some warm colors (pink and orange) onto my card base with the waves stencil in the kit to create some soft pattern interest. I also die cut an inverted scallop oval frame to bring my entire scene together. I adhered all the parts directly onto the card base.

Keep your die cut pieces together with some post-it tape to hold everything in place while you color. It will make coloring a lot easier, and when you're done, you can simply remove the post it tape and toss the outline parts away.

Create-A-Smile Products:

• Beach Party Kit
• Aloha Spirit

There's only a few beach party kits left, and the stamps, dies, and stencil is exclusive to this limited kit. Once it's sold out, it's gone and never coming back!

Thanks for dropping by,
Keeway

Aloha!

Hey stampers, Anni here!
Today I want to show you a photo Mr. Rhino took on his last vacation! I can tell you he had a blast!

I had this idea in my mind of Mr. Rhino taking a photo! So that's where it started...

• Stamp, color with Copics and fuzzy cut Mr. Rhino. Add some Glossy Accents to his swimmings goggles.
• Die cut the palm tree from white cardstok. Color it with Copics, too.
• Die Cut an instant frame from white cardstock.
• Add some ink blending with the stencil to your card base.
• Stamp and heat emboss the sentiment. Fuzzy cut it.
• Assemble the card.
• Add some sequins for some extra fun and some enamel dots as coconuts.

• It is so easy to make a project from the Beach Party kit  because all the products match so perfectly.
• Add some scotch tape to the back of the die cuts of the palm tree to keep all the tiny pieces together.

A few member of the Create a Smile Friends & Family started a challenge called one kit - ten cards. Join the fun and use the hashtag #1kit10cards to join.
There are still a few Beach Party Kits available!

   

More summer fun........

Hi there, you probably expected to see another card with that great new kit but for today I would like to share this card with you. It's another summer fun card which you could easily make with the new kit.

 

I would love to incorporate several stampsets in my card for today. Something old and something new and create a nice background for my scenery.

 

 

I started with a topfolded kraft cardbase and stamped the cute palmtrees tone on tone to create a soft background.

I cut a banner out of white cardstock and stamped the bird once and mirrorstamped it. Colored the birds with copics and stamped the flowers and colored them. Fuzzy cut the flowers and arranged them onto the card.

Adhered the banner onto the cardbase and stamped the sentiments.

Rounded two opposite corners to finish of the card.

 

 

Stamps;

Aloha spirit, Comfy, Jungle Fever and Perfect Tune.

 

 

 

Cool cuts (dies);

Stacked Pierced Banners;

 

 

 

Some stampsets are limited so if you like what you see make sure to get them before they are gone. The new beach Party Kit is also limited so don't wait to long. Once it's gone it's gone.

Can't Get Enough of Masking!

Hi Everyone! Happy Mothers' Day to all mothers out there! :) 

As much as I love adding dimensional stickers to my images to have it overlap images and overall, looking more fun and interesting, I do enjoy the planning and carefully stamping all images in one flat layer. Also, I find that masking technique also kind of helps you save some money on buying truck loads of dimensional stickers.

This might not be new to some of you but I would like to share more masking ideas and tips along the way. I hope you'll enjoy today's card and I would like to see what you've come up with.

I am a clumsy crafter. Almost all the time, I managed to ruin my project mid-way or when it's almost done, so eventhough, I usually create a card with spontaneous ideas, in this case I've made a plan on where I want the flowers and leaves to be. 

But first, let's cut the paper. I wanted to die-cut the border using Pretty Pink Posh's Stitched Dies but my new die-cut machine isn't wide enough so I traced the die on my panel and just hand cut it. If anyone has any tips on how I can use border dies on my cardbase using cuttlebug, that would be awesome!

Time to start stamping and masking! General rule for masking is : The image that you want to have it on the front, has to be the one that you stamp first. I want all the flowers to be on top of the leaves, so they get stamped first. I stamped it again on a thin typing paper and carefully cut it out and use a temporary adhesive. I've also made a mask for my leaves :)

This is how it looks after being stamped. It looks a bit chaotic but take your time to colour and it will come out great! I used Antique Linen Distress ink to stamp the images and Prime Watercolour to colour in the images. Since I'm watercolour, I coloured all the flowers first. This allows the flowers to dry before I start colouring the leaves. 

To add something that would pop out of the images, I used a White Gel Pen to add some dots to the flowers. 

All Create A Smile products : 

Aloha Spirit

Just Because 

Non-Create A Smile Products : 

Pretty Pink Posh - Stitched Border Die

Prima Watercolor Confections

Tombow Removable Adhesive

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Antique Linen

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Thanks for stopping by,

Marina