Guest Designer Gayatri Murali Part 2

Take time to be happy card

Hello everyone, Gayatri here again as guest designer sharing with you a bright and colourful card using the Botanical Love stamp set. I LOVE the big bold flowers and leaves in this set. I decided to colour them using copic markers.

Here is my finished card.

I stamped the flowers and leaves around the edges of a white card stock panel using Memento Black Ink. I used masking technique to mask the flowers and stamp leaves around the flowers. I then coloured the images using copic markers. Absolutely love the bright vibrant colours and white space towards the centre. I wanted to keep these coloured images are highlight of the card. I stamped the sentiment also from the same stamp set in the centre. While doing that, I stamped the large sentiment a bit crooked. Yes, I do stamp my sentiment crooked most of the time. I blame my astigmatism. Lol! Anyway, I did not want to start again but I wanted to rectify it somehow. So I picked a small rectangle die and die cut the crookedly stamped sentiment off the panel. I then stamped the same sentiment on the card front, this time straight and heat embossed it. I then adhered the stamped panel on the card front using foam adhesive. Now the large sentiment is inside a window. Mistake corrected ☺  Here is a close up of the card.

Hope you are inspired to try some making technique and copic colouring using this beautiful Botanical Love stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Gayatri

 

Guest Designer Gayatri Murali (part #1)

Today we're honored to introduce Gayatri Murali to you. She's an amazingly talented cardmaker, I've been a fan for a long time (and was so happy when she applied for our Guest Designer Spot!)

Please give a warm welcome to her!

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Hello everyone, 

This is Gayatri here today. I am one of the guest designer for March 2015. Today, I am sharing with you a shaker card using one of the older stamp sets – Jungle Fever

 

I wanted to make a shaker card using the frog image from the Jungle Fever stamp set with a beautiful water background using distress inks and Silver Lining seed beads which acts as bubbles inside the shaker box. 

Here is a photo tutorial as how I made my background and also how I coloured the frog image.

I have used three layers of colour wash on watercolour paper using distress inks – Tumbled Glass, Broken China and Peacock Feathers. Then die cut circle out of the colour wash background. I also die cut a circular frame and acetate circle to make the shaker box.

For the frog, I stamped, black heat embossed the image, then sponged pigment inks in yellow and greens to give shading to the frog image. I then heat embossed the entire image with clear embossing powder. Then fuzzy cut the frog image which I adhered using foam adhesives. I also white heat embossed the bubbles from the Jungle Fever stamp set. I added the silver seed beads from Pretty Pink Posh and made a shaker box. Here is a closeup of the shaker box.

 

 then adhered this shaker box on wood grain cardstock, which I adhered to Fog cardstock base. I then simply stamped the sentiment form Jungle Fever stamp set on a strip of fog cardstock, trimmed the edges and adhered using foam adhesives.

I absolutely adore the images from Jungle Fever stamp set. They are great addition to a scene or shaker cards. I will see you soon with another card.

Thanks for stopping by!

Gayatri

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