Stencil Use

Stencils are becoming a fun way to make a card.  Before long a new Online Card class will highlight these and I am signed up.  Of course as my LSS store Fond Memories gets these new cardmaking toys in I have to give them a try.  This card was made as a quick birthday greeting for a friend.    I used the Memory Box "Butterfly Vine for this card.  I started with a 4 x 5.25 piece of white cardstock.  The next step was to use Antique Linen distress to get the outline of the stencil.  The butterflies were colored with Copic Markers Y18, B32 and B34 and then this was mounted on a brown 5.5 x 4.25.  A May Arts blue ribbon was added and this was mounted on the card base.  This does not take long and is a simple card.  Hope you enjoy.

More Than One Fold

JustRite Friday Challenge #080 - More Than One Fold    This  week the challenge at JustRite is to create a card with more than one fold.  

 

1. The first step was to cut paper from Reminisce "Autumn Plaid" into a 6 x 12 along with a piece of card stock.   The next step was to attach the paper to each side of the card stock so I had the front and back of the DP visible.  I then scored the paper every 3 inches to create four flaps.  On the left side I started about 2 inchs and began a free hand cut to the third score line at 6 inchs to create my card.  The top edges were distressed with Vintage Photo. The card when folded is 3 x6.

 2.  Next was to stamp the JustRite "Shabby Chic Autumn Leaves" on Solar White and distressed them with : Vintage Photo, Rusty Hing, Peeled Paint, Tea Dye and Wild Honey to try and create a fall leaf color.  The leaves from the stamp set were cut by hand.

3.  The ribbon which comes to the front through a slit in the fold was colored with Wild Honey stain  and a Doodlebug charm was added over a tag from Memory Box which was stamped with a sentiment from the JustRite set and distressed with Vintage Photo.  

 4.  The inside again has the leaves from the  JustRite set.  Spellbinder circles were used to cut the sentiment.  A Kraft paper was stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa. This was mounted on a circle that was embossed with a Sizzix 'Distress Stripes ' folder.  Both circles were cut to help form the edge of the card.

5.  The back of the card has  a Spellbinder labels 18 tag and was stamped with Dear Friend from the JustRite set. This was distressed with Vintage Photo.   A small leaf was added as a finishing touch

 

 

Happy Birthday

JustRite Stampers Friday Challenge this week is to create a spring card with a butterfly.  I Started the card with BasicGrey "Picadilly" paper and a JustRite "Breath of Spring" stamp.  The flower image was stamped and cut with a Spellbinder oval.  Copic markers were used to color the image and Antique Linen distress finished off the oval.  The stamped image was mounted on the new Spellbinder Floral oval.  A JustRite "Happy Everything" "Happy Birthday" was stamped and cut with a Spellbinder Tag.   While taking the Tim Holtz online class he showed how to use the Rock Candy Crackle Paint and I thought it would make a perfect butterfly.  Hope you can see it in the picture on the right (it will enlarge if you click on the picture).   I cut the butterfly using the Sizzix die and added the paint and allowed it to air dry.  After it had dried I used my Memento markers on it and added some pearls to finish it.  I put this on a ribbon that was colored with Antique Linen Distress ink and added a pearl pin colored with a Copic Marker-RV32 . This is a 4.25 x 5.5 card.  Copic markers used include  Y15, Y18, RV32, B21, YG91, YG93    Hope you enjoy.

I Love You

A clean and simple card designed using a card sketch by Kristina Werner for the Clean and Simple On-Line card class.  The card began with a 5 x5 light blue cardstock.  A post it note was used to mask the center.  This was stamped using the  Impression Obsession "Flourishes" and Distress Ink "iced spruce".  Three hearts were cut with a Spellbinder heart die (smallest) and using a white Gelly Roll pen mock stiching was added.  The  mock effect was also placed around the solid square.  The sentiment was stamped from a Mimi Penny Black set and heat embossed using Hero Arts embossing powder. This was all mounted on a white 5.25 square to make a simple to complete card. Hope you enjoy.

Merry Christmas Tag

Joan's Garden is sponsoring a tag challenge this week.  My tag is simple to make. A tag was embossed using Hero Arts embossing powder and an Impression Obsession Snowflakes background stamp.  A small amount of Distress Antique Linen was used followed by Distress Ink Evergreen Bough.  The sentiment is from a Hero Arts set and stamped in black.  A Spellbinder poinsettia was cut, dry embossed and distressed with the Evergreen Bough.  A Candi dot from Craftworkcards was colored and completed the flower.  Seam binding was distressed for color and a ribbon from the stash pile finished off the tag.  Very simple and this was fun to make.
Hope you enjoy