D.I.Y. patterened paper.....

Hi there it's Anja again on this first day of a new week. And did you place your order already if you haven't you should for the new release is so, so awesome.

For today I have a layout for you and I would like to focuse on patterned paper with stamps.

 

 

I wanted to show you that you can use the create a smile stamps also perfectly for making layouts. For this layout I used the stamps to make my own patterned paper.

First I took some coastal cabana SU cardstock and stamped the wild waters background in pigment white ink. Heat set it and stamped the wild waters background stamp another time slightly offset to create a special effect.

For the second patterned paper I stamped the flower from botanical love, the little flower from big time, the spatters from eggstraordinary egghunt and the little heart from underwater love at random.

to give it some extra interest I used a white gelpen to highlight some areas.

 

 

After I had made the patterned paper I started assembling the layout.
I first used a brush with some black soot distressink and flicked it to make some splashes on the white background.
I followed some lines in the paper created with the wild waters backgroundstamp and cut away the paper with a craftknife thus creating a peek through effect.
Behind the paper I stamped the eyes of monstermassig and big time.
I diecut several glasses out of black cardstock and placed them over the eyes.
Finished the layout with some enamel dots ( a lot), chipboard, washi-tape, thread, white heatembossed sentiment and a tag.

 

Stamps;

 

 

Chipboard;

 

 

Washi-tape;

 

 

 

 

Stamping a tone on tone color on your cardstock slightly offset from your white pigment ink stamping you get a great effect almost as if you used more colors. Try it with different colors and you can also use this technique with stencils.

Create your own patterned paper by using different small stamps and stamp them randomly on your cardstock.

To place those little enamel dots in a straight row use a ruler to guide you.

It doesn't really show in the pictures but I used clear embossed black cardstock for the glasses. You can easily first clear embossed some black cardstock before you diecut those little dies.

 

 

To link up your work at the sidebar we really love to see what you all make using our supplies.

An Interactive Card

Hey stampers, how are you?
Today's card is a little bit boring, isn't it? But it has a surprise on the inside...

I love interactive cards! So I had the idea to make a pop up card. I am planing to show you some more ways to add interactive elements to your card in the next weeks (obviously not next week because next week is RELEASE COUNTDOWN).
So here is the inside of the card.

There are a lot of tutorials on the internet on how to make a pop up card. Here is one in photos. 

Here in the detail photo I hope you can see that I added two layers of pop up elements.

• That kind of interactive card is not that difficult so give it a try!
• It is easier if you choose simple shapes for the pop up elements. For example I choose the "hills". They are easy to adhere to the pop up elements. After that you can add the monsters without thinking about the "technique".
• With the pop up element inside the card the outside don't have to be so fabulous. Keep it simple to have a great WOW effect when you open the card.

Which kind of interactive cards do you like? What technique do you think I HAVE to try? Please let me know!!

There are a lot of exciting things going on at the moment. Don't forget to play along at our CAS(e) the DT Team Challenge! There are already a lot of fabulous cards to see!

You made a card using CAS products? We want to see them: Link them up in our sidebar.

Next week is release week: Awesome stamps ahead! So stay tuned!

    

Monster selfie...........

Hello folks, here is Anja again on the create a smile monday. I hope you are doing well and are ready for a new week full of inspiration..

Let's get right to the project for today.

 

 

I wanted to use all those lovely monster images we have already over at create a smile. And since taking selfies is very populair at the moment I wanted to create a monster selfie.....
I also wanted to make a bit of an interactive card so you had to guess what's inside.



The card is made by using two cardbases that are glued together. To create the window you can take any shape you want either by cutting it or use a die. I used a heartshaped die. measure the middle of the card and diecut your heart. Measure the middle of this heart and make a fold. Repeat this process for the other card and glue them together thus forming a heart.
I used nesting heart dies so I diecut a second heart frame from some patterned paper and placed it on the front.
I used the say it stencil to create a nice background. heat embossed some sentiments and fuzzy cut them.
Now for the fun part, the inside of the card. I diecut a frame from some patterned paper and stamped and masked several monster from different stampsets. Colored them with copics and placed the frame in the middle of the card. Before I did this I used the skinny chevron stencil to give the background some more interest. I also stamped several sentiments second generation, so ink them and first stamp on some scrap of paper and then on my card.
Finished the card with some enamel dots and held it together with a paperclip.

 

Stamps;



Stencils;



Patterned paper;





You can use different shaped to create a window on your card and build something of interest on the inside.
It's important with these cards that you score your folds and make them really flat by using a bone folder for instant.
Try making a scenery with different images. You can first build up your scenery by layering your stamps since they are clear it's very easy. Before stamping decide which figure you want in the front so you know which one you have to mask.

You probably know by now that you can link all your projects the entire month at the link up in the side bar.
NEW is the CAS(-e) the DT challenge we have for you. You can find all the details HERE.



Have a nice week and much fun and we hope to see your projects!!!!!!!!!!

Monochrome Background

Hi everyone! I love the new Big Time set with all the awesome cute monsters. You know how I love creating background right? Well, that's what this post is all about.

I wanted to share that you don't need stress over colours if you don't want to. Monochrome background works as well! I actually find it a bit more challenging this way but I had fun :) 

I started by stamping the monsters on watercolour paper (just because I choose to watercolour, you can use any paper you prefer) using the Ranger Archival Ink as it's waterproof. I had no plan when I stamped this creature. I just went with it and stamped it in different positions everytime.

I used the Black Soot Distress Ink pad to paint this. I'm not very good at this as it's my first time tackling a monochrome colouring but it was fun :) I tried to have some dark areas and pulling the colours to make them grey.

To finish off, I took a bright colour as the center and stamped my sentiment on a vellum paper :) 

For someone like me who doesn't own any sewing machine, embellishments like enamel dots are very important to me because it covers the areas where I can put dabs of liquid glue to adhere my vellum ;) 

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Thanks for stopping by,

Marina