52 Week Mini Art Card/Tag Challenge
I made this card with a certain friend in mind that has a lot on her mind at the moment.
I used the IndigoBlu "Colour Me Daisy" stamp, coloured with Distress Inks. I die cut the word "Hope" using a Stampin' Up set called "Sunshine Wishes". I added droplets of "Glossy Accents" to give a raindrop look to the flower.
Today I found out that our friends celebrate their anniversary tomorrow, so I made a quick card this evening.
I used Distress Oxides for the main background and inked the edges with Distress Inks. I then stamped the two text areas using a stamp from the Stampin' Up "By The Tide" set.
I then used my Big Shot to die cut the heart and the love word. For these I used Stampin' Up "Expressions Thinlits" and "Sunshine Wishes" sets. I then punched some hearts from the same colour card and added some sticky backed bling crystals.
I'm getting a feel for these eclipse cards now, so I made one for Liam who will be celebrating his birthday next week.
I've realised they are not easy to take photographs of, they have to be at an angle to see the word across the middle of the card.
I used patterned paper with a red background for this eclipse card, mounted on black card, it gives a nod to the colours of his favourite footie team Manchester United.
The banner at the top was stamped using a Papertrey Ink stamp from their "Movers & Shakers" set. I then die cut it into a banner using the Stampin' Up "Banner Framelits". The "Congrats" is a die cut using a die from the Stampin' Up die set called "Sunshine Wishes".
I've been putting off making Valentine cards, but today I submitted and made one.
I've used a dry embossed background using a Sizzix embossing folder. The hearts are Papermania wooden hearts which I have coloured using a Promarker pen in "Poppy Red" and stuck in a circle. I then die cut the word "love" using a Stampin' Up die from their "Sunshine Wishes" set. Finally, I added a tiny pearl to cover the drilled hole in the heart.
Our friends celebrate their anniversary in ten days, so I made this card for them.
Using a glass mat, I started by creating a background of two shades of Tim Holtz Distress Inks - Picked Raspberry and Wilted Violet adding the inks to the glass mat and then spritzing with water. I then placed a piece of white card on top of the puddle of colour and drifted it across the surface till all the card was covered in colour. I then used my heat gun to dry it off.
Once dry, using dies, I cut two hearts from the coloured paper. One was solid and one was filigree. I also used a Stampin' Up die from their "Sunshine Wishes" set to cut the word love from the coloured paper. I then cut another solid heart in white card and glued the filigree heart to it.
On a clean piece of card, I used the same two shades of Distress Inks to splatter colour across the surface of the card, making sure I splattered in the same direction. This provides a kind of diagonal look. I used my heat gun to dry the surface. Once dry, I cut the piece of card to size and glued it onto a card blank.
I positioned and glues the love sentiment into place and then played with the positioning of the two hearts. I first stuck the coloured heart and then using foam pads, stuck the filigree heart into position. This gives a little dimension to the card.
Using a background of blended Panpastels, I created this card with a flower die cut from the Stampin' Up "Sunshine Wishes" set and the sentiment from their "Good Greetings" stamp set.
The image was trimmed to size using a die from the Memorybox "Stitched Rectangle Layers" set which was mounted onto black cardstock.
Today I have made two butterfly cards, both in similar colour tones, one more fussy than the other.
I used a stamp & die from Papertrey Ink set called "Love Lives Here" for the stamped & die cut butterfly. The background is embossed using the Stampin' up "Seaside" embossing folder. The Swirly rose is also from Stampin' Up, called "Swirly Scribbles" and the love sentiment is Stampin' Up from their "Sunshine Wishes" die set.
This week I received some Stampin' Up goodies. Part of that order was the Sunshine Wishes Thinlits die set, which resulted in this engagement card I made today. (The patterned paper is by Crate Paper).
