Hey!
Happy new year everyone! Last post of the year! I hope the new year is bright and full of great things!
Every year I usually make at least one off white/gold combo Valentine card… So here it is!
The sentiments are handwritten… The hearts are hand drawn… I hope you like it!
I have distressed the embossed off white layer with my dried up marker!
Challenges: Skipping Stones
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Hello everyone!
The card that I have to show you today is based on the sketch at Skipping Stones.
I finally got my Silhouette SD and I used it to make the two butterflies on this card as well as the big scalloped oval. Still have a bit of hand drawn element in this card. The middle oval layer is hand drawn. My measurements were a little out for the first and the scalloped oval, so I added another layer… I think it looks complete now.
I have shaded all the white areas with a darker tea pink water color pencil. I designed the pattern paper myself using overlays found online. The card looks gorgeous in real life, my cell phone has not captured the real pastel tea pink color of this card. The pink is not SO bright… it is very muted and looks really elegant…
Alrighty! That’s it for today! Happy crafting!
Challenges: Skipping Stones Design, All Sorts, Flourishes Timeless Tuesday, sew many
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Hello everyone!
I am back with a new card… Here it is!
I was in a hurry otherwise I would have used a better font for the sentiment. The sentiment is computer generated. The paper is an internet download. Flowers are punches. I love the BLUE ribbon! AGAIN the brackety frame is hand drawn, this will be the last time. Thanks to Tejal, I now have a template to make these!
That’s it!
Challenges: Creat4fun, What If Wednesday,All Sorts.
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I changed the font for you guys.
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Hey everyone! Just a quick post. Here is today’s card!
I have used the smaller asterisk die for the flowers, placed flat based pearl in the center and filled up the remaining space with rhinestones. The sentiment is hand written and the brackety frame is hand drawn. I have used three ribbons on this one! The Kraft cardstock kind of looks like cork here… well, it is a cellphone picture…
Alrighty! Catch you soon!
CHALLENGES: Skipping Stones Design, Totally Gorjuss, Critter Sketch Challenge, All Sorts
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This completes the grungy, swirly sentiments set. (If you want any other word in the same design, lemme know)
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Hey everyone! The card that I have to show you today is a tall card, and it was almost impossible to take a straight picture… hence the post title! This card is based on the sketch at Skipping Stones Design blog.
My printer was almost out of ink hence the lines on the PP. I have designed the PP myself using Photoshop. The sentiment and brackety frame thingy is also done on Photoshop. The flowers are punches and the swirl is hand drawn. The design on the bottom right corner of the frame is part of the white border.
Challenges: Skipping Stones Design, Craft your days away, Stamp,scrap and doodle Saturdays,Mami doodles,Cute card Thursday.
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Surprised? Shocked? Yes, I can do a Clean & Simple card! LOL Well at least I am trying to do a few CAS cards. Lets see where that goes!
Here is my card for the CAS challenge at Tuesday Throwdown and a CASE card challenge at The house that stamps built.
It was a quick card! Butterfly is a die cut and the sentiment is hand written… I moved the two ribbons at the base, further down compared to the card that was given to CASE.
On another note, remember this card?
This was selected as one of the Fab 5’s in 2S4Y. I originally made this card for my aunt’s colleague. He is a senior doctor and is about to leave the job… well the card has reached there (WI,USA) and everyone was drooling over it! Now THAT is SOMETHING!
Keeping my fingers crossed now because my aunt told me that everyone wanted my “website url” to purchase some cards! Isn’t this awesome!? I am so thrilled!
I also have to send at least five cards to New York. A family friend wants to keep them at his store :) We will see how that goes and decide what to do!
WOWSERS!!! I am on cloud 9 people!!!
If this goes well I will be able to pay back my dad for the Silhouette that I recently purchased!
Challenges: Digi Doodle Shop’s Best, Tuesday Throwdown , The house that stamps built
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Here’s your freebie!!
This is specially for Rachel Hope.
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Oh well this is what I am naming this card! Hey everyone! Thank you to each and every one of you who took time out to comment. LOVE YOU!!! Thank you to those who listened to me and clicked one of the reactions while snagging the last freebie!
On to the card! This card here is made for a friend’s wife. He wanted THIS card in red and white for their anniversary… I changed the flowers a bit. I had my doubts about the color combination but it turned out alright I guess.
I have dyed the red paper myself. The fat, roundish flowers and the fringy flower is handmade. I think I should have added one more butterfly on the opposite side. What say you? I still say the first card was WAY better!
P,S: Forgot to add a strip/ribbon that runs behind the white layer. (according to the PTW sketch)
XoXo
E.T
Challenges: Play Date Cafe, PTW, A Crafty Little Place, Pixie Dust Studio Challenges,woodware usa
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Goes with the last freebie. I am thinking of making “hope” too. Do you have any requests?
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Hello BLOGVILLE!
Like the flower??? I do!
Alrighty, starting from the argyle design… these two stamps are part of the limited edition Schlosser Design’s Autumn Blessings. I used one of the stamps on THIS card. The frame stamp is also from the same company. The sentiment was a gift from, the incredibly sweet, Stef! The swirl is hand drawn. Outlined it with steel grey glitter (Hi Tejal, I know you are smiling!). The flower is hand made. The flower is gorgeous, I have colored it with three shades of purple and two shades of grey. Finished up the white layer with some hand stitching.
The smaller flap/layer is grey people… I distressed it with purple and some sandy colored pencils and chalk inks.
Now the interesting part. The black layer. Can you see its all shiny and glossy? well that is a plain, matte card stock (the same that I have used as a base card) turned into this glossy beauty by spraying it generously (3-4 times) with Lacquer.
If you want to try this, I suggest that you wait between times of spraying… let the first layer dry… otherwise you will have to wait overnight so that you don't smudge the lacquer when sticking it on your card (we are an impatient crowd, no one wants to wait over night). It is an aerosol paint, so I really don't think that you can use your heat gun to dry it LOL. Do this in an open space or a very well ventilated room… you don’t want to have poisoned lungs like mine :P
If you just spray the card stock lightly then you will achieve a shimmery effect. You can leave it at that too, it looks great! This helps giving life to a very plain, un-textured card stock. The more you spray, the glossier it will get.
Let me know if you try this!
Till then!
XoxO
E.T.
Challenges: Curtain Call, Sketch and Stash, Delightful Challenges, a crafty little place, woodware usa.
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