card design

HAPPY HELLO

I had seen a color combo on Pinterest, with a great print pattern and I thought the strawberries in Fruitastic would be so fun done this way!  On COTTON CANDY PINK card stock, no less!  I know, right?  Kinda shocked myself over stamping TWO cards recently on non-white cardstock.  LOL!

BTW, I don't know that this particular shade of pink cardstock is available any more; it's from the Bazzill Card Shoppe line.

 

I used the negative to mount onto my white base card--it makes the letters almost look like they were letter-pressed into the paper.  Cool.  Highlighting the strawberries worked best with my white gel pen.  The White NUVO Drops will actually wick up the water-based ink beneath and turn orange-ish; ask me how I know . . . 

Gosh, I love the look of this--has a really FUN kitchen kitsch vibe!!!

START WITH A SONG

I just love the watercolor look on this rainbow-esque washi tape.  The little cupped flower sequins remind me of blown glass . . . *swoon*

It didn't take much to pull this all together--just a little colored pencil shading on the stamped images!

 

I put a little puddle of Multi-Medium on scrap paper and grasped the sequins with my tweezers (super easy when they are cupped like these) and swiped them through the glue and plunked 'em onto the card.

Everyone needs a 5MQ like this in their card-makin' aresenal.

Side note:  5MQ stands for five minute (card-makin') quickie.

YOU'RE THE BEST

I have a thing for birds.  I just... like them.  BTW, just in case you've never seen it, here's a reference:  Put a Bird On It, Portlandia.  Cracks me every.single.time.

Anyhoo, I had to have this Aviary set by Pinkfresh Studio, just cuz of the birds. *sheepish shrug*  All the flora in the set is a bonus. *chinkle*  There's a matching die set for it, but I don't own it so I fussy cut the birdies.

It's kinda rare for me to actually stamp on colored (not white??? *gasp*) card stock, but for this one, it worked out particularly lovely.   Bonus? That Twilight Versafine Clair ink is bleed proof so you can watercolor with it.  I finally bought the new Pinkfresh Studio Watercolors--they are quite lovely--WOW'd me big time!

 

HOW TO:

  • Stamp assortment of twigs/branches and sentiment onto a pale rose card with Twilight (navy) ink.
  • Stamp birds with same Twilight ink onto scrap of watercolor paper.
  • Watercolor birds and trim out; 3D mount to card front as shown.
  • Punch 1/8" hole into gutter crease of card, thread twine through, wrapping twice around card front and tie into a bow.

*BOOM*

MY BAD

This set CRACKS me!  I just love these Mermaid Animals!  And how could anyone NOT forgive you with such an apology???  They would have to have no sense of humor whatsoever. Period.

Bird was colored with Prismacolor pencils ( see how his face is turning red??? ), which always look so nice on kraft card stock,  and embellished with a little wiggle eye.  

 

Hero Arts Unicorn Pigment Ink is the best white ink ever.  Just sayin'... 

When I tilt the card, that little eye follows . . . *squee*

All Over Floral

I love the floral images in these Flora & Fauna stamp sets--it's fun to pile on as many as I can onto the lid of my MISTI and create an all-over floral pattern.  These were stamped in a deep, almost cranberry red.

The black spatters are from Distress Paint that I daubed onto an acrylic block and then flicked off onto the card with a paint brush.  It adds a nice bit of texture--the paint is fluid, but thicker than ink so it has really nice opacity when you need/want it.

 

The sentiment looks like my DYMO label maker, but it's actually from a great stamp set by Altenew!  And, all I needed to set off this card was to die cut a few of the sweet leafy branch from a Flora & Fauna die set out of glitter card stock and pop them up along with the sentiment.

I kinda really, really love this birthday design--so simple but that touch of glitter and the paint spatters give it such an elegant look!