Floral thank you

 It's so easy to make a beautiful card with embossing folders like this one from Altenew!

 

 

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Birthday floral border

 I'm still trying to build up my birthday card stash! I pulled out this gorgeous border die from Studio Katia and got colouring.

 

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Rainbow birthday cards

 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.)

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Coral birthday

 I made this card recently for my choir's conductor, Jan - Happy birthday, Jan! 

I used a floral stamp from an Altenew/Pink Fresh Studio collab set, and a text background set from Hero Arts. I stamped the background in white ink over a panel of ink blending (using Catherine Pooler Inks.) The sentiment is from a Studio Katia set. 

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Happy Mother's Day

 Happy Mother's Day to my wonderful Mum, and to all the mothers out there! 

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Rainbow Mother's Day cards

 I'm sharing a couple of rainbow Mother's Day cards today.

I inked this card in an unusual way. I had an ancient rainbow ink pad with a series of little foam pads. The foam had deteriorated so much that the pad was totally unusable in the usual way, so I swiped it over a few card bases and then scraped the degraded foam off the surface with a stencil scraping tool.

(You could get the same effect by swiping with some mini ink pads)

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Stamping with water

This card came from a mistake - I was going to make a card using a technique from the last online Card Class which involved adding die cuts to a panel and then adding ink, but I got overexcited and added the ink with Life Changing Blender Brushes first, so I decided to keep the panel and did a different technique on it.

I stamped on the Distress Ink blended panel with a background stamp from Simon Says Stamp, but with water instead of ink. I then dried the panel well, before stamping the sentiment from Studio Katia in Versafine onyx black ink, and clear embossing it. Some sequins and I was done!

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OCC Spring Card Camp day 19

Still catching up on homework!  I really loved Dawn Woleslagle's class on Day 19 of Spring Card Camp, and I made a huge pile of backgrounds using her technique. Like her, I don't have a gelli plate, so I used the back side of a large photopolymer stamp to mix my Distress Oxide inks.

On most of my cards, I used a discontinued background stamp from Hero Arts, but on some, I used a stamp set from Altenew, a Study in Watercolour.

Card 1 - die and sentiment strip from Paper Rose Studio

Card 2: Sentiment from Papertrey Ink

Card 3 - sentiment from Studio Katia

Card 4 - hello die from Pink and Main

Card 5: Hugs die and heart die from Pink and Main

Card 6: Butterfly die from My Favorite Things, sentiment from Taylored Expressions

This is less than half of the cards I made using this technique! I had a ball!

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Online Card Class - Day 6

I very rarely use patterned paper on my cards. I'm much more likely to stamp or ink up a plain piece of cardstock to make my own pattern. But not today! Kristina Werner's 3 for the price of 1 card technique got me rifling through my box of patterned paper scraps and matching up patterns. And I couldn't stop at 3 cards - I made 13!!
Please don't ask me where these papers came from - they came from my scrap box!

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