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Serene Winter

Hello to you all today, Kia here to share my card for the Random Act of Cardness challenge.

I have used Penny Black’s Quietude stamp, along with the Winter Chill sentiment stamp set. I am using Arches Cold Press watercolour paper as I am adding water to this card. My base card is Neenah Solar White.

To start my card I first applied Distress Oxide Ink in Peacock Feathers over the entire stamp. With my finger I rubbed off the colour on the grasses. I did several passes this way until I was happy with the look.

I then added the VersaFine Clair Ink in Nocturne, using the same method. I did not stamp below the water line to the beach as I wanted that area to have snow.

On my work surface I put down the Peacock Feather ink, and spritzed with a bit of water. I then used the ink well the same as I would use my watercolour paints, picking up the ink with a brush and applying to the card. As I used the VersaFine Ink for the birds and grasses I did not have to worry about painting over them.

For the snow I am using Dr. Ph. Martin’s Bleedproof White watercolour, adding my brush to the paint and painting as I normally do. When I was almost finished I decided there should be a Sun, but I did not want to add another colour, so I kept the Sun in the white Bleedproof paint. Some will think it is a Moon, and some the Sun.

To finish up I attached my panel to my white card base and adding splatters in different sizes. I then stamped the sentiment using the Nocturne Ink and added Nuvo Crystal Drops in Morning Dew to some of the snow drops.

Thank you for stopping by today.

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LOTS OF LOVE

Hi Everyone. It’s Susan here to share a card that features one of the birds from the  Happy Hugs stamp set from Penny Black. The stamp comes with one balloon but I stamped it two more times to make a bouquet of balloons. Is three considered a bouquet?

I started with the sky. I used the Cloud Stencil from My Favorite Things, some Broken China Distress Oxide ink and a blending tool. The Cloud Stencil has 4 different edges so I just kept rotating the stencil and blending on some ink until the panel was covered. I die cut it twice using one die from the Large Stitched Rectangles and one next in size from the Small Stitched Rectangles both from Lawn Fawn creating an outer frame that I adhered directly to the card base. I stamped the bird using Versafine Clair Nocturne ink onto the clouds and again onto some scrap card stock. I colored in the balloons and the bird using Prismacolor pencils, fussy cut each one out and adhered them to the panel covering the original stamping. I used a fine tip black marker to add two more balloon strings.

The sentiment is stamped directly onto the panel and the whole panel was added to the card base with craft foam.

This card puts a smile on my face. I hope it puts a smile onto the face of the person I send it to.

 

Happy Stampin’
and thanks so much for visiting!
Stay safe everyone!!
Susan
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Simple Sentiments and Colourful Backgrounds

Happy Sunday Everyone!

I hope that you are having a great weekend!

Today’s cards are the product of me playing around in the craft room and creating cards with simple sentiments and colourful backgrounds.

I find that with so many exciting new products on the marked we can sometimes forget about the products we have already purchase and are sitting in our craft rooms.  I’m not going to lie, I want to buy all the things too….but, sometimes you have to resist!  So, I challenged myself to go back to the basics and create some simple, fast and func cards.

I started off  creating some watercolour splash backgrounds.

To do this, I colour the Zig Real Brush Markers onto some acetate, spray with water and “smush” onto some watercolour paper.  It’s a simple technique with some great results.  The only thing you need to be careful with is with what colours you lay next to each other so that they do not become “muddy”.

I also pulled out my watercolour pan and played with wet on wet technique and dropping colours to create the “splash” look.

While those were drying I moved on to creating some backgrounds using Distress Oxide Inks.  The colours I chose to use are Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade, Seedless Preserves, Cracked Pistachio, Broken China, Faded Jeans, Squeezed Lemonade, Picked Raspberry and Peacock Feathers

I taped of different shapes using some Purple Thermo Web Tape as well as some wider painters tape that I had on hand.  Just remember to be very careful when pulling up the painters tape as I did have some ripping.

I wanted to keep the sentiment simple.  I pulled out some of my favourite MFT sentiment stamps sets: Hello Beautiful, Anything but Basic Friendship, Kind Words (Retired), All Smiles and Anything but Basic Encouragement.  These sentiment sets are so versatile.

I also pulled a view image stamps from an older Tim Holtz Stamp /Stamper’s Anonymous Set called Fancy Flight as well as a Cling stamp from Stampendous called Cling Tree Poem.  The silhouette of the images on the colourful backgrounds is so simple, but pretty and I got a great crisp image by using the VersaClaire Nocturne Ink.

Check out the video here to see the techniques.

 

 I hope you enjoyed today’s cards and that you are inspired to use products you have and create fast, fun and simple cards!

~Chala

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