Messy Mondays: Happy Birthday To You

Welcome to another Messy Monday! Today I am sharing a quick and easy birthday card using the ink smooshing technique. I used a piece of watercolor paper cut 4" by 5.5" as my front panel. To smoosh the color onto the background, I used Distress ink in Squeezed Lemonade and smooshed it onto my acrylic block. Next, I used my mini mister and sprayed my block a couple of times. I then smooshed the color onto my watercolor panel and held it there for a few seconds. While this was still slightly damp, I repeated this step with Picked Raspberry and Salty Ocean, letting the colors overlap a little bit so they could form a nice orange and purple.

After this dried, I heat embossed the stars and the sentiment using the Make a Wish stamp set from Mama Elephant. I love this scripty, big font! To finish up the card, I added sequins and sticker jewels onto the front panel and adhered it to a pink A4 card base. I stamped a sentiment on the inside of the card as well to match the front. Hope you enjoyed! Happy Crafting!

Sparkling Saturdays: Foil Edition Take 2

Welcome to another Sparkling Saturday! Today I will be sharing with you a fun and simple thank you card using foil. I always need a lot of thank you cards, so it's nice when I can mass produce some.

To start this card, I typed the word 'thank you' on a word document and positioned it on a slant. Next, I set the size to be a standard A4 card and printed 4 of these out on a normal piece of 8.5' by 11' piece of white paper. I had preheated my laminator beforehand, and used gold, holographic silver, and rose gold foil heat transfer paper by MINC to transfer these onto the paper. Once it came out of the lamintor, I just peeled it off and the word was sparkly! I am amazed at how beautiful it looks everytime I do this. I love foiling.

Next, I used an Impression Obsession Cover-a-card Screen stamp to cover the foiled piece. I used Tim Holtz Frayed Burlap ink for this so the ink easily wiped off the foil as well, so I didn't have to worry about creating a mask. To add some color and fun to this piece, I stamped circles from Wplus9 Encouraging Words stamp set everyone. I used Tsukineko Memento Dew Drop inks in Bahama Blue, Cottage Ivy, Tangelo, and Lilac Posies.

To finish off this card, I die cut the foiled panel using Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles and adhered this on a blue card base.

Hope you enjoyed! Happy Crafting.

Messy Mondays: Hang in There

Welcome back to another Messy Monday! Today I will be sharing with you an encouragement card I made for someone that was going through a difficult time in their life. I decided to veer away from my usual rectangular card base and instead made this fun banner shaped card base using Lawn Fawn Stitched Party Banner die. I used the largest banner for the card base and die cut it twice. I tied this card together using some twine.

To decorate my card, I used the small banner die from the same set as my background panel. I also die cut and adhered some clouds on the panel using the Spring Shower die cut set also from Lawn Fawn. The bunny and balloon image from the Up and Away stamp set from Lawn Fawn were colored in using copics. Finally, the images were fussy cut and adhered on using foam adhesive.

To finish up the card, I added some white dots on the bunny using my white jelly roll pen and stamped on a sentiment from the same stamp set. To make the balloons shiny, I added a coat of glossy accents. I am entering this card in the Lawnscaping challenge: Color inspired by the Rainbow. This is the inspiration photo. I used this as inspiration for my balloons. I love rainbows!

Hope you enjoyed. Happy Crafting!

Sparkling Saturdays: Birthday wishes

Hi everyone! Welcome back to another Sparkling Saturday. Today I will be sharing with you a card that I CASE'd from Sandy Allnock here. I loved playing with this technique and adored how it came out.

I started out with a piece of 4" by 4" piece of Strathmore watercolor paper. I used the flower from Penny Black Blooming garden for this piece, and stamped it with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I smudged out the outlines of the image using just water and used the leftover on my brush to draw the circle where my sentiment will be. After the image dried, I blended in some distress ink in Dusty Concord to add a bit of color to my flowers. I also used the remaining color on the brush to add some splatter.

Next, I used my Martha Stewart mini scoring board to score a couple lines near the bottom of the flowers. The birthday sentiment was stamped with Avery Elle Sending Love set. Isn't the font so lovely?

I finished up this card by adding a few sparkly sequins (it IS sparkling Saturday after all!) and framed this on a 4.5" by 4.5" purple cardstock. I mounted this onto a fuchsia card base measuring 5.25" by 5.25" and voilà. Done.

I am entering this card to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Anything Goes! challenge and also the Color Throwdown #351 challenge.

Hope you enjoyed and thanks for stopping by. Happy Crafting!

Sparkling Saturdays: Wedding congratulations #1

Welcome to another Sparkling Saturday! Spring and summer are the months where I attend the most wedding related celebrations, so I'm always thinking of new ideas for wedding themed cards. Today I'm sharing a simple but elegant card using silver embossing powder. I cut a 3 3/4" X 5" piece of vellum and stamped on flowers in an oval shape using the little flower cluster from My Mind's Eye Silly Stamp Set Notable Collectable. Whew! That was a mouthful. I used Versamark to stamp the image and then heat set this using Ranger Platinum Silver Embossing powder (one of my favorites!)

To finish off the card, I hand cut a banner out of white cardstock and used Versamark ink pad to stamp on a sentiment using Hero Arts Best Wishes (CL360). I outlined the edge of the banner with my Versamark pen and then heat set everything using the same Ranger Platinum Embossing powder.

The vellum piece was adhered using a glue pen in strategic places on a vanilla card stock. I hope you enjoyed this simple card!

Thanks for dropping by and happy crafting!

Messy Mondays: Magical Birthday Selfie

Welcome back to another Messy Monday! This past weekend was my youngest sister's birthday. She loves taking selfies and instant cameras, so I decided to combine the both of them for this card! The idea was ignited through this post since it reminded me that it's been awhile since I've made a magic card. It took a while to figure out all the dimensions as it is not a normal A4 sized card but it worked out in the end.

I started out watercoloring a selfie stamp from the Photo Bomb Mama Elephant Stamp set using my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers. Aren't those children the absolute cutest? I find this image so fun to color! I cut a piece of acetate the same size as my watercoloring piece and lined it up. Next, I stamped the exact same image onto the acetate using my MISTI to make sure I stamped it on clearly and accurately.

For my card base I chose some mint colored cardstock from Recollections, and used a piece of patterned paper with cute little cameras as my front layer. I also punched a hole and tied a ribbon to my magic window so it would be easier to pull up.

Tadaa! Isn't this cute? Look on my instagram to see a short video of this card in action! Doesn't this remind you of the instant pictures that you take with Polaroid cameras?

To finish this card off, I die cut a Polaroid frame from white cardstock to glue onto the inside of my card to write my message.

I hope this card made you as happy as it made me! Let me know if you want a tutorial or if you have any questions.

Thanks for stopping by! Happy Crafting!

Sparkling Saturdays: Foil Edition Take 1

Welcome back to another Sparkling Saturday! Today's post will feature a card made with foil as I am madly in love with it right now. It adds such an elegant touch to a simple card. The two cards I am showing you today were made for two friends of mine that recently graduated from medicine and beginning their journey as doctors. I was a little rushed getting them finished, so please excuse the pictures I took of these cards in the car.

Both these cards were made using Doctors Rule stamp set from Altenew. I love all the images and sentiments it comes with and many of them will be used in both these cards. For the first card, I used Tsukineko Ultimate Metallic Gold to make a background using the sentiment 'Congrats Doc'. Next, I stamped out the heart and colored it in using Copics and fussy cut it out. To finish, I adhered the background onto black cardstock and popped up the heart using foam squares. I cut a strip of black to stamp on my sentiment, cut a little fishtail on one side, and stuck it all down to white card base, and voilà! Card 1 was done.

For my next card, I decided to centre it around the Hippocratic Oath that doctors need to take when they graduate. I made my own word cloud using Wordle, and fussed around with it until I got it the way I wanted it. Next, I printed the word cloud out on white cardstock and cut it out. While I was doing all this, my laminator was warming up so it was ready to go!  I used gold iCraft Deco Foil and placed the gold side up on top of my printed word cloud. I ran it through the laminator twice and peeled the foil piece up and TADAA! Isn't it so pretty? I'm loving the way this turned out! To finish off this card, I used SSS Fog ink to stamp on the stethoscope and hearts to make a background. I adhered this to black cardstock and then onto a white card base.

To end this post, I'm sharing with you the sentiments that I stamped on the inside. The script of the congrats is super elegant, and the other sentiment is just too awesome.

Thanks for dropping by! If you have any questions, feel free to ask me in the comment section below.

Happy Crafting!