Pink Love and Prayers

This card was made for Sean’s “Stamp Out Cancer – Challenge #2 – Pretty In Pink!” challenge for StampTV. The challenge is for us to create a card of encouragement and support for our family and friends that have been impacted by breast cancer. The key element of the card is that it should be pink.  (Sadly, this site is no longer active.)

It was also made for Lee’s “In the Pink for October” Mod Squad Challenge. In following with the very important theme of cancer awareness…..her challenge this week is to use pink – any pink, any way.  (Sadly, this site is no longer active.)

Stamps for this card came from the Gina K Designs “A Year of Flowers 2” and “With Love and Prayers” sets.

The heart and pink border were made with two handmade masks and airbrushed with my Copic Airbrush System and Copic Marker R56. First I stamped the flowers, stems and leaves with Memento tuxedo black ink. Then I applied Frisket masking liquid to the stamped images with a fine liner paint brush and allowed it to dry. Frisket is a watery substance that dries like rubber cement and creates a mask on the image. After the heart was airbrushed, the frisket mask was rubbed off with a rubber cement eraser (or you can use your finger). The image was then clean and ready to color.

The Flowers were colored with Copic Markers R81, R56, R59, G21, G24, and G28. The greeting was stamped with Memento rhubarb stalk ink.

Flower Soft was used in the centers of the flowers; I used copics to make the Flower Soft match the petals.

This card was originally intended to be a single layer card, but I accidentally used a lighter weight card stock, and the copic markers bled through to the inside. (If I had used the white Gina K heavy base weight card stock, this wouldn’t have happened.) I was forced to cut off the front of the original card and attach it to a separate card base. This then allowed me to add my ribbon across the bottom. (Originally, I just had the awareness ribbon in the corner.) I like the added ribbon and the thin white border that was created by adding my panel to the card base, so I guess my mistake was a good one!

I deviated from my original design in another way as well. My original idea was to color the flowers in a very sketchy way with some white showing around the strokes. I decided I didn’t love it with the white and the really dark highlights, so I added a really light shade of pink where the white was. That was really pretty, but I felt the highlights were still too dark, and in trying to blend them better, I messed up and was forced to color the whole flower in a little darker. Ughhh!!!! I’m telling you this because if I knew I was coloring the flower in so darkly and completely, I probably could have skipped the masking step with the Frisket.

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Autumn Heron Card

Did you ever have this idea for a card project in your head, and when you look at the finished card, you realize it was nothing like what you started out creating?!  That is this card.  It was supposed to be a single layer card with the beach scene (completely different from this design!) sponged in the leaf mask. Several “start overs” ending with a smudge on the background, a masking mishap when the background was being sponged to cover the smudge, and discovering that a spot that previously had glue on it can’t be inked all led to this design!  Perhaps I will attempt the first design again at some point.  We’ll see…..

Anyway, for this card, I used the heron from the Gina K Designs “Follow Your Dreams” set and the greeting from the Gina K Designs “By the Sea” set.

The leaf shape was a mask I traced and hand cut out from an old stencil/tracer I had in my collection. There is no label on the stencil, and I no longer have the original package so I’m not sure who designed it.

I created masks and sponged ink to create the tranquil beach scene.  In trying to create a peaceful autumn feel to the card, I chose warm colors and made it a sunset scene.  The inks I used were Memento desert sand and tuxedo black, and Tim Holtz gathered twigs, scattered straw, rusty hinge, brushed corduroy, frayed burlap and chipped sapphire distress inks.

To add details, I used Copic markers Y00, B91, 0 and Y28 and a Faber-Castell white pitt pen.

The card stock I used was gina k sandy beach, warm cocoa, and white.

To add texture, I used a Sizzix (Stampin’ Up) Textured Impressions “Stripes” embossing folder.  I also used “Mudd Puddles – Tahiti Beach” for the sand.  I found this at a scrapbook expo I went to last month.  The Mudd Puddles come in a variety of textures, and I bought one of the sand ones to try.  It’s basically glue with the texture stuff mixed in.  I tried to apply it with a paint brush, but it probably would have been easier to “rub” it on or spread with a small knife, a popsicle stick or something similar.  A toothpick would probably  have been helpful to get it in the small spots.  Originally I tried to cover the entire area, and then I ended up removing some of it.  I’ll have to continue to play with it to really get the hang of how best to apply it.

This card is being entered in the StampTV MIUM “Critter Card” Challenge where we are to use a critter of any kind … if it flies, flutters, hops, walks or swims, it’s usable. My critter is a heron that flies.  (Sadly, this site is no longer active.)

It is also being entered in Lee’s StampTV “Stamp Out Cancer – Challenge #1 – Comforts” where we are to use an image that brings comfort. (I delayed originally adding this tag until I checked with Lee to make sure entering two challenges with the same card was ok!) My card has a tranquil beach scene at sunset which I find very soothing and comforting. The sentiment reminds the recipient that he/she is being thought of by a loved one which is also comforting when one is sick.  (Sadly, this site is no longer active.)

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