Showing posts with label Endless Birthday Wishes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Endless Birthday Wishes. Show all posts

Friday, November 27, 2015

Beautiful Butterfly

I have a second card to share with you today!  Two in one day is amazing since I'm lucky to do two a week! lol  Anyway it was my niece's birthday yesterday on Thanksgiving so I definitely had to have a card for her.  I also made her a chocolate cake along with the pumpkin, French apple and pecan pies that I made...yummy!  Making the cake was extra work, but definitely worth it to see the smile on her face. :)  Since I made her card yesterday morning just before heading to lunch I had to have a little help.  I checked out the sketch challenges I follow and decided to use Freshly Made Sketches challenge #214 and Color Me... #99.  I think the two challenges helped make a beautiful card.  I loved it even more because lately most of my cards have been  fall, winter or Christmas so to get a bit of spring and summer back was nice. :)


I love Freshly Made Sketches CAS sketch this week!  This card was so easy to whip up using it. 


Love, love, love these colors together!  If I have time I just might  need to do a little brayering with them.  I do have to make a bunch of thank yous for orders so maybe... :)



Thanks for looking and have  a great day!
Sara

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Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Wonderland Wilderness

Today I have a masculine card to share with you that I made for my brother-in-law's birthday.  I've been itching to use the new set Wonderland because I love using trees on my cards.  Over at Try Stampin' or Not on Tuesday we have a great sketch and a technique challenge called a gate fold this week.  I'm not sure what way the gate fold is supposed to go, but the way I chose was perfect for the idea I had in my mind. 


For some reason my poor elk looks like he's kind of red, but he's not that way on the card.  I find that water coloring with Stampin' Up! inks work, but the colors ink the ink do break apart the more water you use.  I think that's why it looks this way in the picture.  I'll keep on using their inks though since I love Stampin' Up! and if you use the colors enough you know what colors they start to break into.  Plus I love trying my hand at water coloring.  It's kind of a cheating form of water coloring, but I enjoy the results! :)


Make sure you head over to Try Stampin' or Not on Tuesday to check out all the other great cards made using this sketch!  We'd love to see what you create!


Since it's a gate fold card I figured I'd show you the card in a couple different stages. :)


Other than taking the time to watercolor this card was actually really simple to create...and that makes me happy! :)


Thanks for looking and have a great day!
Sara

I would love to be your demonstrator! If you like what you see and want to order anything just click on any of the products that I've listed at the bottom of my blog or click on the "Shop Now" tab at the top of my blog. Any of them will take you directly to my website! If you have questions feel free to contact me. Just click "Contact Me" at the top of my blog . If you're thinking of becoming a demonstrator click "Join My Team". I'd love to have you join me!

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Friday, July 24, 2015

2015 Stampin' Up! Convention Swaps

Today I'd like to show you the cards I made to swap at this year's convention.  I wasn't going to make swaps this year, but at the last minute decided to "quickly" whip out 30 of them.  I designed this one to be similar to the birthday card I made for my husband last month.  Since I had used all the other stamps from the great new masculine set The Wilderness Awaits  I figured I'd make a card using the one stamp I hadn't used yet.  



The first thing I want to show you is the "candy dots" I made to put on my card.  I love using them as an embellishment, but don't want to buy all the sheets I would need to keep up with so many of one color so this is what I do to make my own...



Punch out a bunch of circles the size you want (I used the three circles from the cupcake punch).


Next cover each circle with crystal effects.  Make sure it is FULL.  It shrinks drastically when it dries.


I punched out Soft Suede and did up a bunch as you can see.


This is what they look like when they've dried overnight. :)  I really like using them and hope you might too.  Just make sure you have a pair of tweezers handy!


Now onto the main picture of the card.  First I stamped the dog with Black StazOn onto watercolor paper 3" x 4 1/2"...simple right? :)  


Next I stamped with StazOn again like we had demo'd during the first general session...just ink up part of the stamp.



Here you can see it added to the bottom right of the card.


Then I did it again to the bottom left.


Now it's time to add the tree.  I only inked up part of the stamp since I wasn't using the whole thing anyway.  Less mess to clean up that way. :)


First tree...


Second tree...


Third tree.  Pretty simple so far isn't it!:)


I know it's hard to tell in the pic, but my dog is completely wet using an aqua painter.  I got him wet because I want the ink to bleed.  It needs to be damp, but not covered in water.  


I used my Soft Suede ink and aqua painter to start things out.


He's just a light brown for now since the water dilutes the color.


Yes, this looks like the same picture, but if it's big enough on your screen you can see that the dog is wet again.  I did that so I could blend in more colors.


As you can see I missed a picture.  I didn't realize I forgot it until my cards were done. :(  What I did was add Basic Black here and there on the dog while it was still damp, then go back over it again with more Soft Suede.  I didn't cover the black with the brown, but got just close enough so the started to bleed together.  If you look at all the cards piled together you'll see that each dog turned out a little differently, but that's OK!


Now it's time to start adding in some green...Garden Green.


I made sure my aqua painter was damp, but not too wet and quickly added it to the trees and grass.  I did this very quickly and didn't try to be precise at all. 


I did the same thing with Always Artichoke.


It's little more green, but I didn't put quite as much on.


Now for the last green...Mossy Meadow.


I know it's hard to tell in the pics, but I did dab it on the grass and trees, but didn't do it out quite as far as the other greens so the other colors aren't completely covered.


Now it's time to start the hill or mountain.  I ripped a used piece of paper to make my mountain shape.  You can make it any shape you want...round or pointed.


Here I used my sponge and dragged downward with Mossy Meadow.


I pulled the scrap piece off so you can see the shape it made. :) 


I did the same thing again with Always Artichoke, making sure I only pulled the sponge downward.


In this picture I added a touch of garden green.


And here's what it looks like with all three colors after I take off the scrap piece.


Now it's time to add the sky using Soft Sky. 


If you look in the top left corner you can see I got the paper wet again.  I got everything above the hill wet.  I actually went into the hill just a touch.


And now I've added some blue in the top corner.


Keep on adding more blue on until the sky is covered.  If there are a few spots that don't get it that's ok.  That's just the nature of water coloring.


Now on to finishing it up by adding water to the hill.  As you can see I just blobbed it on.  I was just getting it wet so it starts to spread.


Here I've done the whole hill.  


It's hard to tell in this picture, but I actually pulled the green down to go around the dog.  I also pulled some of the green from the grass and trees to do the bottom and behind the trees.


I took this picture to show you the difference in both the hills and the dogs.  I like them both, but water coloring is always going to turn out different even if you're trying to make them the same.


I have the main picture done!!


Finally a completed card. :)  I used Soft Sky as my card base and Old Olive 4" x 5 1/4" as my first layer (even though I never used Old Olive ink! lol).  Then I ran the Old Olive through the Big Shot using the Woodgrain Embossing folder, but I made sure I didn't do part of the bottom so I could stamp words onto it...


I layered my watercolor paper onto Very Vanilla 3 1/8" x 4 5/8" and attached both to the Old Olive card stock.


For the final touch I added the three "candy dots", then stamped "birthday and happy" (yes, in that order) and now I have a finished card!

Thanks to all of you who swapped with me, and took the time to read how I made my card on here!  I hope you enjoyed my picture tutorial and are inspired to make something of your own using any of the great stamps from the set The Wilderness Awaits.

Sara

I would love to be your demonstrator! If you like what you see and want to order anything just click on any of the products that I've listed at the bottom of my blog or click on the "Shop Now" tab at the top of my blog. Any of them will take you directly to my website! If you have questions feel free to contact me. Just click "Contact Me" at the top of my blog . If you're thinking of becoming a demonstrator click "Join My Team". I'd love to have you join me!

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