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I was recently asked to make a sympathy card for a friend to send to a family member. She liked a sympathy card I made a few years ago (you can see that one HERE, which was a CASE of one I saw on Instagram by Jennie Lundin) but she wanted me to incorporate music into it somehow.
I used quite a few discontinued stamps on this card, so I haven't included a links list at the bottom of this post.
I made a bunch of card bases with rainbows in an unconventional way, so you will be seeing more cards like this!
I have a very, VERY old Colorbox Paintbox pigment ink pad
that has a rainbow of colours on a series of little foam pads. The foam
has degraded so much that the pad was unusable, so I swiped the pad over
some card bases and then scraped the degraded foam off the surface with
a stencil scraping tool. Very messy, but effective! (I think you might be able to get a similar result with a stencil scraping tool and Distress Oxide reinkers. Alternatively, you could mask off stripes and ink blend with a heavy hand in a rainbow of inks.)
We're now onto day 10 of The Daily Marker's 30 Day colouring challenge. I decided to try colouring a stamp that I've always used as just an outline image over an ink blended background.
The flowers are from Altenew/Pink Fresh Studio, and the sentiment is from Avery Elle. The flowers are coloured with Copic markers and some details were added with Derwent pencils.
Another sympathy card I made a couple of weeks ago - this time, a masculine one. I made about 7 or 8 of these, so I will have some on hand if/when needed.
Sadly, both the sentiment stamp from Avery Elle and the leafy silhouette stamps from Stampin' Up are discontinued, but the dandelion stamp is still available from Hero Arts. This card is a CASE of one I saw on Instagram by Jennie Lundin.
I'm still using techniques I learned from the most recent Online Card Class - this technique was demonstrated by Dawn Woleslagle.
I used Distress Oxide inks, with leaf stamps from Altenew, and a sentiment from Papertrey Ink.
And I got to make 2 cards from the one inked panel.
The great thing about this technique is you get 2 panels from the one technique - this is what I made from the 2nd panel. The sentiment on this card is from Avery Elle.
I am very sad that today is the last day of classes for the Online Card Class Spring Card Camp 2, but I am so very grateful to Jennifer McGuire and Kristina Werner and all of their guest artists for providing so much inspiration over the past 6 weeks or so. It has given me something to concentrate on other than the stresses of working from home and what's going on in the world at the moment.
The last day of class involved weaving. Jennifer weaved with paper, Kristina weaved with vellum. I chose to use a panel of Yupo with alcohol ink and foil that has been sitting in my stash for months. Both Jennifer and Kristina did weaving with two rows of strips at right angles to each other. I should have done that. However, I am a glutton for punishment and I chose a hexagon die, so decided to weave with 3 rows of strips interlaced with each other. 0 stars, do not recommend.
I am very excited to be a guest of CAS(e) this sketch today for challenge #340!
I did some Distress Oxide ink blending using a stencil from Paper Rose Studio and Life Changing Blender Brushes from Picket Fence Studio. I then added a sentiment from Avery Elle and that's it - a clean and simple, one-layer card!
I've been asked multiple times to make videos of my alcohol ink cards. Seeing as I told myself I would try to make more videos this year, I made a video. It has four cards in it!
For the first card, I used Alcohol inks in Salmon and Peach Bellini, and Alccohol Pearl in Alchemy. The giraffe is from Reverse Confetti "Lift me up" and the sentiment is from Stampin' Up (discontinued). The Stitched Hillside Border dies are from Lawn Fawn.
For the second card, I used Inks in Aqua and Sailboat Blue, and Alcohol pearls in Tranquil. The birdie stamp is from My Favorite Things (Tweet Friends) and the sentiment is from Stampin' Up (discontinued).
For the third card, I used Alcohol ink in Indigo and alcohol pearls in Tranquil. The cute stamps are from Mama Elephant "Up and Away" and the cloud dies are from Memory Box. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up (discontinued).
The final card has alcohol inks in Salmon and Pink Sherbet, and alcohol pearls in Intrigue and Enchanted. The elephhant is from Mama Elephant "Fly with me" and the sentiment is from Avery Elle "So Happy".
And here's the video! (I apologise in advance for the coughing)
I had this panel of alcohol ink on Yupo, decided to use some Lift Ink on it, and somewhere along the way, this card became a CASE of a Christmas card I made for my Challenge me a Christmas Card series.
I used the Hummingbird stamp set from Avery Elle, and a sentiment from Papertrey Ink.
Of course, because this is a lift ink card, there is anther card to go along with it using the lifted ink - stay tuned for that card next week!
Welcome to "Challenge me a Christmas Card" for 2018!
My guest today is Debbie Pamment,
and she has challenged me to make a card with the theme "Holly Jolly". You can check out her take on this challenge HERE.
Here's what I came up with:
I used a very old stamp from Annabelle Stamps (an Australian company that is, sadly, no more) and stamped a wreath of the holy image. I coloured them with Copic markers very quickly, and then added a sentiment with a die from PaperTrey Ink, and a stamp from Birch Press Design.
I decided that one was definitely not enough, so I made another with red glitter for the die cut.
And I decided I quite liked this card, so I made some more, using different dies from PaperTrey Ink, and sentiment stamps from Avery Elle.
