Another design team contribution for you for Happy Little Stampers and I decided like last month to delve into the printed digital stamps pouch and see what took my fancy… and this is what I made.
A super cute mini (4×4) card featuring all the bright colours and this gorgeous dog from All Dressed Up.
I do love a dramatic black card and with the bright colours this is such fun. I added a couple of matt black dots for the embellishments but otherwise kept this pretty simple and let the image and the papers do the work!
As it is a black card I did add a panel inside with a strip of the paper to decorate.
Hello! Time for another design team contribution and this time for Creative Knockouts where the theme for this fortnight is to add a sentiment.
I chose to use this flowery watering can image which I was gifted by Connie Fong who are sponsoring the challenge. The image is called Garden Bouquet.
I printed it off in a couple of sizes but for this one I went large and ended up making a 7×7 card. I love the colour schemes and the pretty vintage style I ended up with.
I coloured the image using distress inks and water and a paintbrush and kept the painting quite loose so it has some depth but no precision. I also did some fussy cutting around a rectangle shape so some of the image fell off the edge of the rectangle.
I added the lacy trim and some brads and then the sentiment is hand stamped from a magazine freebie set. I then fussy cut, mounted it, and fussy cut the mount. I added foam to both the sentiment, the top rectangle and then the full background so there is plenty of dimension.
Love how it turned out. Think this image would be great for decoupage too so may give that a go at some point.
Also I did make a video of me making this if you fancy watching me in action!
Now the Creative Knockouts challenges last a fortnight I get a bit more breathing space between my contributions which I must admit is a little bit of a relief.
This time the theme is Birthday Wishes and we are sponsored by All Dressed Up whose images I love.
I chose to use the image Little Scottie Dog which I was gifted by All Dressed Up. I printed it and coloured it using my Promarkers with some really pretty pastels.
I then die cut the image out.
I then went to town with the Pierced Blooms die cuts in coordinating colours.
For the background I went with Kraft cardstock and ran that through the embossing folder to give some texture. I also added some dsp in the blue as some contrast.
When I had put this together I went with a Kraft card blank and so added a mat of white and then chose my sentiment from the Fancy Phrases set.
I also added in some splatters of the pink shimmer ink and then some flower embellishments.
I also added a metallic button with some twine as the final embellishment.
First design team contribution for Creative Knockouts of 2023 to share with you today. The theme is Celebrations and we are sponsored by Alex Sybera designs.
I chose this Lovely Bouquet image which was kindly gifted for using for the challenge.
Our challenge was celebrations so I went with happy birthday as that is the thing we celebrate most in our house.
I printed the image onto cream cardstock and coloured in using my Stampin Blends. Admittedly I should have paused between the printing and colouring as it did move the line art ink a little but not enough for me to consider it ruined.
I then fussy cut the whole image out.
I created a base panel and used my scoreboard to create some border lines … this was because I was also entering this card into a challenge over at UK stampers forum to include dry embossing.
I adhered this panel to the base card, which is slightly larger with foam behind the middle section so it is slightly raised.
I then stuck the flower image in place.
I decided on some ombre letters for the sentiment so I coloured the scrap cardstock with my stampin blends before die cutting the letters using Playful Alphabet dies. I then cut more out of the scrap cardstock so I could stack them for dimension.
Next I used a stamp from the Artistically inked set for the birthday, cut it out, stacked it once and then edged it with the yellow ink to give it a little dimension.
Finally I added the little flowers as embellishments.
Really pleased how it came out and how cute this card is. I must also remember to use the scoreboard more for the creating of borders like this as it is so elegant.
Today is a simple Anything Goes challenge at Creative Knockouts for our last post of the year. We’ve been kindly sponsored by Twinkle Lane Designs who gifted me the Calla Lillies image I used for my design team contribution.
I decided to mix things up a little and printed directly onto some book print and then colour the image using my Stampin Blends.
I then fussy cut the image out but I love this cool image on the text. Really makes it look funky!
I teamed it with some cool paper from an Indigo Blu magazine kit and the embossed panel.
I decided Blackberry Bliss for the base of the card to continue the colour on the sentiment and the embossed panel. Of course that meant I had to decorate the inside to give somewhere to write.
Love how this came out and pleased I thought to use book print for the printing!
Finished off with a metal floral embellishment to add that something special.
Last weekend my youngest great nephew turned two and due to bad weather I decided against popping along (it’s 2.5 hour journey) to see him and so instead posted his card and pressie so have had to hold off on blogging his card until it arrived.
Edit: I don’t think he reads my blog aged 2 … but his Mum might and the card is as much for her as him! Lol!
So here is what I made…
I used the digital stamp from All Dressed Up and some fun graphic papers from the stash to make a bright and cheery card.
I added his name using the Playful Alphabets dies and then a large foam number sticker that I coloured using the Stampin Blends.
Love the Parakeet Party and Tahitian Tide colour cardstock and how bright and fun the card ended up.
I did stamp Happy birthday inside along with some more of the paper but forgot to take a picture before I sealed the envelope so sorry you can’t see that.
I printed off the image on Smoky Slate and then coloured it with my Prismacolour pencils and cut it out… so actually the fact it was a coloured cardstock base ended up making no difference!
I made quite a small (4×3) card this time so it’s really cute. I added some dsp with a green colour and then a panel of white. Then to finish off I die cut the blue Merry using the Tim Holtz dies. Finished off with the gems.
Cute and although the colouring took some time (and a some fiddling as the image is quite small) an easy card to make. There is a little bit of dimension as I raised up the main image and I stacked the merry die cut a couple of times.
I also added just a touch of sparkle with wink of Stella on the tree decorations and the gift trimmings.
So I had a go… just played at random with some reds and oranges but my blending was awful … turned out when you reverse them, go over with a white stamped background type stamp and then die cut it, it really works well!
I decided to use my panel as the background to a digital stamp I had been gifted on a design team project a while ago. I used Stampin Blends to colour the image (non traditional magnolia colouring!) and then added some bright white die cuts for the sentiment and behind the image.
In true Jennifer style I stacked the die cuts to give them dimension and I raised the back panel too.
I also added some gems which picked up the greens from the leaves on the main image.
Love how bright and cheery this card ended up and loved my take on the technique.
I have another design team contribution for Creative Knockouts and this weeks theme is Christmas Delight.
I chose to use the Candy canes with bow image from Patties Creations which I printed off 9 times and then coloured them in green and red. Then I added them all over the background and then some panels of the Heartwarming Hugs dsp.
I then added a die cut label and the sentiment adding a few of the candy canes and the organza bow on the top. I then added some pearls to the top.
Hope you like what I made. I enjoyed fussy cutting those candy canes out and adding them.
I also added a little bit of decoration to the inside too.
Todays blog post I decided to film the making of … so check it out on YouTube.
It is a design team contribution for Creative Knockouts and the challenge is to make a card that is anything but square. We are sponsored by LeeAnn’s World 101 and I received the Rudy image to work with.
I decided to colour him with promarkers and then fussy cut him out.
I decided a circle shaped card would work OK with the image and my largest circle die was just about the right dimensions to cut out the card blank.
I then used a panel I had already die cut with the stitched snowflakes and die cut the circle and then the green ring were already on my desk.
I added the sentiment on the front and in the middle from the Christmas to remember set in white embossing.
I added the lovely laser cut snowflake embellishments and glossy accents for the finishing touches.
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