CAS Bird and Berries

(inside: wishing you a wonderful birthday)

This CAS card features stamps from the Stampin’ Up “Sweet Summer” set (retired) and a greeting stamp from Gina K Designs (unknown set).

The images were stamped with GKD Jet Black Amalgam Ink and colored with Copic Markers (E13, BG70, and BG72).

The background panel was embossed with a Stampin’ Up “Stripes” embossing folder (retired).  Papertrey Ink “Ocean Tides” card stock was used for the mat.

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More Monoprinting – Birthday Daisies

Recently, I shared some cards I made using a monoprinting technique I learned from a class in the online Spring Card Camp 2 course.  This card was done the same way, but the stamp used here was a large background stamp with less “solid” images than on the stamp I used before.  (I don’t want to give too much of the technique/lesson away as the lesson is exclusive to the class and enrollment in the course is required,  but I briefly described what I did in my recent post.)

As mentioned before, you can get several panels from the “same” ink on the gel plate and stamp.

The background stamp is the “Rose Lace Background Stamp” from Gina K Designs.  Cracked Pistachio, Peacock Feathers, and Faded Jeans Distress Oxide inks were applied with a brayer to the plate.

The die cuts used were “Delightful Daisy” by Poppy Stamps and “Mini Expressions – Happy Birthday” by Creative Expressions.  These were each cut three times, stacked, and glued together to make them thicker so they’d stand out better.

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Birthday Banners

(inside: enjoy your day)

I’m always on the lookout for greetings with fun fonts – especially if that is to be the focus of the card, and the stamps in the “Sassy Salutations” set from Stampin’ Up (retired) fit the bill!

I stamped the greeting with Versafine Onyx Black ink and paired this panel with some black card stock and some colorful patterned paper from the “Cupcakes & Carousels” paper pad (also SU).  The solid background panel is from a Momenta pad (Lot 0005508).

I cut my fishtail banners with the Stampin’ Up Banner Triple Punch, added a few strips from scraps that were sitting on my desk, and my card was complete!

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Birthday Ferns – Monoprinting Technique

“Must-Try Monoprinting” was one of the lessons offered in the Spring Card Camp 2 online cardmaking class.  What is cool about this technique is that the “same ink” applied to a gel plate can be used to make two (or more) card panels.

I tried the techniques Dawn showed in her lesson and added a few variations of my own.  And while the class included more detailed instructions along with suggestions for alternate tools and supplies that could be used for this technique, here is a very brief summary of what I did to create my cards:

First, I applied ink to my gel plate (I used Broken China, Faded Jeans, and Peeled Paint Distress Oxide inks) and blended the colors with a brayer.   I then rolled the brayer onto a piece of card stock to clean it; no sense wasting all that ink!  I ended up with an inked panel that I was able to use for this card:

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Next, I “removed” ink from the gel plate with a stamp (kissing technique) and stamped the image onto a second piece of card stock. I used the “Three Ferns” (S5154) stamp from Hero Arts and repeated the kissing and stamping several times (cleaning the stamp between each repetition) to create the panel for this next card.

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Now for the monoprinting – I placed a third piece of card stock on the gel plate to transfer the ink that was left from the previous step.  (The “Hello Topper” die is by Birch Press Designs.)

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My stamp still has some ink on it so I spritzed it with water and stamped on a fourth piece of card stock.  To clean the gel plate, I spritzed water over it and “smooshed” a fifth panel onto the wet ink before wiping it clean/dry.  I used both panels on this next card:

FIVE panels/FOUR cards from a single inking!

I tried this technique several times (it’s very addicting), and in some cases, there was enough ink on the stamp and/or gel plate to get even more panels!  (The card shown at the top of this post was made from one of these later tries and was trimmed to create a 4 1/4 inch square card.)

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If It Were Your Birthday – Birthday Challenge #1

[inside: We’d all wish you a stoo-pendous day!  (And it is, so we do!)]

Welcome to the new “Babitz Children Challenge Blog”…  Just kidding!  For my birthday this year, my children gave me the gift of inspiration; they came up with 12 different card challenges for me to complete.  Each of the themes is based on some childhood memory or other significant connection we shared.  And they included “funds” to purchase supplies I may need to complete the tasks.  How fun and creative is that?!

The first challenge was from Eric, and his theme was “If I Ran the Circus” by Dr. Seuss.  It was one of his favorite books when he was little, and he loved “torturing” me by asking me to read it to him all the time!  I say “torture” because I got terribly “tongue tied” every time I read it, and this amused Eric to no end!!

I based my card design on the book cover (front and back) and characters from the book.

The character images I used were from the “If I Ran the Circus” 2-sided decorating kit by Eureka.  The pieces were too large for my 5 x 7 inch card (they are meant to decorate bulletin boards and such) so I scanned them and then created “print and cut” files for my Silhouette so I could size them to fit.  The elements on the card front are all cut and glued.  I was originally going to also print and cut out all the images for the inside of the card, but I ended up just arranging all them on my computer and printing the panels on photo paper.

Here is the inside of the card:

The letters were created and cut with my Silhouette, and the inside greeting was computer generated, both using the Lucky Goldfish Font (demo version).

11 more challenges to go!

Once the card was finished, I read the book aloud to my 24 year old.  It hasn’t gotten any easier to read after all this time – lol!!!  A fun walk down memory lane….

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