Taupe, Aqua and Sage Green Honeycomb Trevor and Emma

Today's card is actually two versions of the same card. Both cards use the Spring Couple stamp from CC Designs and are anniversary cards.

 

The images were stamped using Memento Tuxedo Black dye ink and coloured with Copic markers.

 

Here are the details for the first card:

 

 

Copics:

 

Trevor - Hair: E43, E44, E49

Trevor - Skin: E00, E11, E21

Trevor - Shirt: BG11

Trevor - Jacket: YG91, W3, W5, W7

Trevor - Trousers: W3, W5, W7

Trevor - Shoes: YG91, W9

 

Emma - Hair: E41, E43, E44

Emma - Skin: E000, E00, E11, E21, R02

Emma - Flower: BG18

Emma - Top: BG10

Emma - Shoes: YG91, W9

 

The other parts of the image were paper-pieced using papers from the First Edition Isabelle paper pad.

 

Using the Sizzix Framelits Hexagon die, a series of hexagons were cut from a variety of the papers from the Isabelle paper pad and arranged in a honeycomb pattern on the card blank. A larger couple of hexagons were die cut from white cardstock and a patterned paper and the image, having been fussy cut, was adhered onto them.

 

 

The sentiment was stamped onto a diecut hexagon using the Happy circle sentiment stamp and the Anniversary stamp from the Personal Impressions Paula Pascual All Year Round stamp set with Tim Holtz Pumice Stone distress ink. A frame was created from another patterned paper from the Isabelle paper pad and added over the top of the sentiment hexagon.

 

Here is a picture of the finished card.

 

 

To finish the front of the card, highlights were added to Emma's cheeks using a Papermania Snow White gel pen and small faux gems were added to the centres of the flowers on the patterned papers and the flower in Emma's hair.

 

The inside of the card was also decorated, using hexagon diecuts. The sentiment banner was created by stamping the Basic Banner by Clearly Besotted using the Pumice Stone ink and diecutting with the co-ordinating die. The sentiment was stamped within the banner shape using the Have a Beautiful Day stamp from the Personal Impressions Paula Pascual Mix & Match stamp set.

 

 

The second version of the card gave the characters different hair colours.

 

 

Copics:

 

Trevor - Hair: YR14, YR23, YR24

Trevor - Skin: E00, E11, E21

Trevor - Shirt: BG11

Trevor - Jacket: YG91, W3, W5, W7

Trevor - Trousers: W3, W5, W7

Trevor - Shoes: YG91, W9

 

Emma - Hair: E41, E43, E44, E49

Emma - Skin: E000, E00, E11, E21, R02

Emma - Flower: BG18

Emma - Top: BG10

Emma - Shoes: YG91, W9

 

 

Again, the inside of the card was also decorated.

 

 

Coral and Green Dressy Miss Anya

A pretty girlie card for today. This one features the cute Dirndl-wearing Dressy Miss Anya from The Greeting Farm.

The image was stamped using Memento Tuxedo Black dye ink and coloured using Copic markers.

 

 

Copics:

Skin: E000, E00, E11, R20

Hair/Apron: E11, E13, E15

Shoes/Dress: E11, R02, R08

Polka Dot Trim/Socks: YG03, YG11

Highlights were added to the cheeks using a Papermania Snow White gel pen.

 

 

The papers used to decorate the front of the card were from the My Mind's Eye Wild Asparagus paper pack.  The card-edge die cut, created using the Sizzix Card Edges #2 Decorative Strip die was cut from the polka dot paper and added to a panel of ivory card. This was then diecut with a circle Nestabilities die to create an aperture, and a frame was created from the coral coloured polka dot paper from the paper pack using a scalloped circle and plain circle Nestabilities die and added around the aperture.

 

The corners of this panel were punched with the inverted corner rounder from Woodware, and then matted to the card front over a panel of a floral paper from the paper pack.

 

The Miss Anya image was then fussy cut and added over the aperture.

 

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 A couple of flowers were created using the Sizzix Tattered Floral Garland Decorative Strip die and added to the card front with a small orange pearl in their centres.

 

Two tags were die cut from vellum and the polka dot patterned paper cut using a die from the Sizzix Framelits Tags, Sentiments die set. The sentiment, from the Kanban Moulin Divas Très Chic stamp set, was stamped onto the vellum tag using Versamark ink and heat embossed using Heat It Up! Seafoam White embossing powder.

 

The two tags were joined together using a small orange eyelet and threaded with cream hemp cord. The tags were added inside the aperture and decorated with the small flower dies from the Tattered Floral Garland die.

 

 

 The inside of the card was also decorated using matching papers and dies, and a sentiment stamp also from the Très Chic stamp set.

 

Burgundy and Aqua Anniversary Doodle Butterfly

Here are a couple of anniversary cards that I made back in 2011 using the Papermania Clare Curd Doodles stamp set.

For the first card, the butterfly image was stamped using Memento Rhubarb Stalk dye ink and highlighted with Craft Planet Iridescent Sparkle glitter glue.

The image was matted onto aqua cardstock.

The patterned papers, from the Papermania Clare Curd The Big One paper pad were matted onto a panel of aqua cardstock and added to the card front.

The sentiment, from the Elzybells Swirly Sentiments stamp set, was stamped using the Rhubarb Stalk ink and matted onto aqua and added over the image panel.

Silver shimmer dots from Papermania were added in the corners of all the panels.

 

The same card was made reversing the colours.

 

 

Rust Green and Brown Fox

This is a nice simple masculine card made using a free set of stamps that came with the first issue of Get Stamping. (I've not seen whether there was an Issue 2 or not).

The fox image was stamped onto white card using Memento Potter's Clay die ink and die cut using a Nestabilities circle die. This was then matted onto a rust-coloured cardstock diecut with a Labels 3 Nestabilities die.

A strip of the striped paper from the First Edition New Leaf paper pad was also matted onto the rust cardstock and added across the centre of the card, with the image panel matted over the top to the left hand side.

 

The sentiment, from the Amy R Be Happy sentiments stamp set, was stamped using the Potter's Clay ink and die cut using a Classic Oval Nestabilities die. The oval was shaded using the Potter's Clay ink with the die still in place over the die cut, creating a white frame. This was then matted onto a Labels 25 die cut and added in the bottom right corner.

 

To finish the front of the card, copper coloured Card Candi by Craftwork Cards were added in the top right and bottom left corners of the card.

 

The inside of the card was also decorated, using almost an identical layout as the front.

 

The sentiment, from the Bo Bunny Sentiments stamp set, was used to add the greeting to the inside of the card.

Red Grey and Purple Brusho Aliens

OK - I'll admit it. I had a go with some Brushos. These are definitely not my type of crafting. Far too messy and uncontrollable!!

 

But, I made a background using my friend's set and I decided to make it into a card. When looking at the background, I decided it looked a bit space-like, so I thought I'd make a kids' card and use my alien stamp set.

 

So, to create the background, I used quite a few different Brusho colours onto a sheet of white card, namely black, grey, crimson, scarlet, cobalt blue and then these were spritzed with some water. Once the colour was almost dry, some white Brusho was sprinkled over the top and no water added to create some contrast.

 

The background was then over-stamped with a dotty star stamp from the Kirsty Wiseman Terrestrial Friends stamp set using the Heat It Up! Metallic Silver pigment ink.

 

The next stage was to select the best area of the background for the card. This piece had a flare of red which I thought fitted well with my idea of the card. The edge of the panel was then distressed using Tim Holtz Black Soot distress ink.

 

The alien and spacecraft stamp and the planet stamp, also from the Terrestrial Friends stamp set, were stamped using Memento Tuxedo Black dye ink and coloured with Copics:

 

Copics

 

Monster/Planet: B01, B02, B05, B06, BV00, BV04, BV08

Spaceship: C1, C3, C5, C7, B02, B05, B06

 

 

These images were then fussy cut and Ranger's Glossy Accents were added to the glass section of the spacecraft image.

 

To ground the image and create a foreground, a planet was created by cutting a piece of red card into a circle using a Nestabilities die and then embossed using the Crafts-Too Polka Dots embossing folder. Silver-Blue and Golden White metallic wax rub-ons from Craf-T Color Kit #3 were rubbed over the embossed detail to highlight it. The circle was trimmed into a semi-circle and adhered to the Brusho panel, after a few 'craters' were cut from the edge of the circle using a single hole punch.

 

 

The sentiment, from the Personal Impressions Paula Pascual Mixed Sentiments stamp set, was stamped onto white card using the Versafine Majestic Purple archival pigment ink and die cut using the circle tag die from the XCut Tags and Bookplates set of dies. This was then threaded with purple Baker's twine from Gorjuss.

All the components were then adhered to the card front, matted and layered onto grey and silver mirror card.

The inside of the card was also decorated, using the It's Your Birthday circle sentiment stamp from the Hero Arts Birthday Messages stamp set. The sentiment was coloured using Copics to match the images on the front of the card, and then diecut using a circle Nestabilities die and matted onto red and silver mirror circles.

Green and Grey Chester Pocket Card

This is a different type of card for me. It is based on a project that I found on the Splitcoaststampers tutorials page here, a Pocket Card.

With this design of card, the card doesn't actually open, but the sentiment and handwritten greeting go onto a tag that is placed within the pocket section of the card.

 

 

To begin with, the image, Chester by Kraftin' Kimmie, was stamped using Memento Tuxedo Black dye ink and coloured using Copic markers.

 

Copics:

Skin: E00, E11, E21

Hair: E41, E43, E44

Hat/Jacket/Trousers: W1, W3, W5, W7

Hat Band: YG91, YG95, YG99

Tie: G99

Waistcoat: YG95, G99

Inside Jacket: YG91, YG95

Shirt: YG91

Shoes: W5, W7, YG91

Shadow: W1, W3

Outline: W1

 

 

The image panel was then matted onto green and then grey cardstock.

 

The next step was to create the Pocket Card.

 

A piece of card measuring 4" x 11" was then scored in half and then scored again 1.25" from one edge. A panel of white card was embossed using the Cuttlebug Fleur de Lis embossing folder and distressed with Tim Holtz Crushed Olive and Forest Moss distress inks. This panel was adhered to the large front panel of the card. A smaller strip of white card was also embossed and inked with the Crushed Olive and Forest Moss inks and this panel was then adhered to the front flap panel.

 

A couple of lengths of green fibres from the HOTP Sarabooks Emerald Fibres set were then wrapped around the front flap and the flap then adhered down to the front panel.

 

 

Three green card candi were then coloured using the G99 Copic marker and added to the front panel, as was the image panel. Glossy accents were added to the monocle in the image.

 

 

To complete the card, a tag was created. A strip of the embossed and coloured white card was added across the top of the tag, as was a circle of grey cardstock, diecut using a Nestabilities circle die, and then folded in half.

 

A silver eyelet was set in the top of the tag and more of the green fibres were threaded through it.

 

The pocket watch image was stamped using the Tuxedo Black ink and coloured with the W1, W3 and W5 Copic markers. A length of silver embroidery thread was threaded through the image and added to the tag. The sentiment, from the Elzybells Swirly Sentiments stamp set was stamped onto the tag using Versafine Spanish Moss archival pigment ink.

 

 

The tag was then slotted into the pocket on the front of the card.