Love Was Born on Christmas Day

Posted in Cards, Christmas, Holiday Cards by lisababitz

This card is being entered in the StampTV MIUM Challenge – STV14MON41 – “Christmas Comes Early” where our card project should be Christmas themed. (Sadly, this site is no longer active.)

It is also being entered in the Perfectly Rustics “PR Design Challenge No. 34 – Holidays” where we are to show our holiday creations (any holiday). (http://perfectlyrustics.com/2014/10/20/prdc-no-34-holidays/)

This card is also being entered in the Mod Squad Challenge – It’s My Favorite, where we are to create our all-time favorite kind of card, be it a technique, color, layout, or whatever else we may love. We have free rein to do whatever we want, as long as it’s our most very favorite kind of card. (Sadly, this site is no longer active.) My favorite type of card is distressed or vintage. I tend to like warm colors and use a lot of browns!

The stamps I used for this card project are from the Gina K Designs Fabulous Frame and Christmas Joy sets. I used Gina K dark chocolate ink and Tim Holtz vintage photo distress ink. The card stock I used is Gina K Sandy Beach and Kraft. I also used printed paper (digital) I purchased on Etsy (Adeste Fideles Sheet Music and the background version of the same paper without the sheet music, which she made for me on my request, so I had matching paper on which to stamp my focal image – Thanks, Rachel!!) I used ribbon for the belly band from my stash.

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21Oct2014

Santa Trims the Tree

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Santa Trims the Tree

This card is being entered in the StampTV MIUM Challenge – STV14MON41 – “Christmas Comes Early” where our card project should be Christmas themed. (Sadly, this site is no longer active.)

The stamps I used for this card are from the Gina K Designs Cheers Mini Set, Season’s Greetings, and Inspiration Mosaic sets. The inks I used were Gina K Christmas Pine, Cranberry Tart, and Memento Tuxedo Black. Card Stock was Gina K Christmas Pine, Cranberry Tart and white. The printed paper was Melissa Frances Caleb. Copic Markers (R59 and G29) were used to color Santa. A Sakura clear glitter pen and some mini rhinestones added a touch of sparkle.

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21Oct2014

Wise Men Still Seek Him

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Wise Men Still Seek Him

This card features the Gina K Designs “City of David” set for the images and the sentiment and the (text) pattern behind the stamped images. The background pattern on the large panel was stamped using the stamp from the Sizzix Holly Background Stamp with Embossing Folder set. Card stock used was gina k ivory and dusty sage along with basic gray plumeria. Inks used were gina k edible eggplant and memento toffee crunch.

It is being entered in the Perfectly Rustics “PR Design Challenge No. 34 – Holidays” where we are to show our holiday creations (any holiday).(http://perfectlyrustics.com/2014/10/20/prdc-no-34-holidays/)

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21Oct2014

Christmas Shaker Card

Posted in Cards, Christmas, Holiday Cards, Interactive by lisababitz

Christmas Shaker Card

This is a shaker card I created where the stamped Santa image is recessed and sits behind a piece of acetate, and metal snowflakes are sealed between them. When you shake the card, the snowflakes move around – hard to show that in a photo!

The Santa stamp is by Inkadinkado #5247 (Alma Lynne Designs), and the sentiment is from the Gina K Designs “Merry Tree” duo.

Santa was stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copic Markers:
holly – R89, zg24, G29
hair – E55, E57, E59
face – E30, E13
coat – R46, R59
mittens – B24, B29, C5, C7, C9
heart – R89, E49
fur & belt – E30, E33
checks – E40, E42
boots – E57, E59

Card stock used: Gina K Cranberry Tart and Kraft, Coredinations Hunter, along with patterned paper by Pebbles called Mary from the Walnut Grove collection.

Dies used: Spellbinders Matting Basics B (3rd from biggest), Ribbon Tag Trio Two, and the pine bough from Diemond Dies.

Inks used: StazOn cotton white and timber brown, Gina K dark chocolate and desert sand, and Memento tuxedo black.

For the white snowflakes, I hand drew them with a Sakura Gelly Roll white pen. The metallic snowflakes were from my stash. Scotch foam mounting tape was used to create and adhere the “window” over the image.

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19Oct2014

Thinking of You with Shaving Cream Background

Posted in Cards, Other by lisababitz

Thinking of You with Shaving Cream Background

My daughter doesn’t really love paper crafting 😦 , but she LOVES doing the shaving cream technique and asks me to do it almost daily!! I decided to use this technique on the background panel for this card. I have to admit, the results are pretty cool! And it was fun crafting with Kelly!

This card is being entered in the Perfectly Rustics Design Challenge No. 33 – Colour Combo. For this challenge, we were to use three Stampin’ Up! colours (shown below) to create our project. Equivalent colours in different products are allowed! (http://perfectlyrustics.com/2014/10/06/prdc-no-33-colour-combo/)

It is also being entered in the Mod Squad Challenge “Who’s Got the Button?” where we were create a card with a button on it. A real button, not just a paper one, or one in the image. (Sadly, this site is no longer active.)

The Stampin’ Up re-inkers (Early Espresso, Pistachio Pudding, and Soft Suede) and foam shaving cream were used to create the marbleized effect on the background panel. First, a large blob of shaving cream was sprayed on a paper plate. Then, several drops of each of the three inks were added to the shaving cream. The colors were swirled (not mixed) around with a craft stick. A piece of glossy card stock was placed, face down, on the shaving cream and ink. Once the whole panel had made contact with the shaving cream, it was removed from the plate and placed on my craft mat. Then the shaving cream was scraped (or “shaved”) off with a metal ruler. What was left behind once the shaving cream was removed were the swirls of ink. Kelly’s favorite part of the whole process is “shaving” the shaving cream off the card stock! What is cool about this technique is that you never know what you will end up with after the shaving cream is removed. You can make several panels with the same pile of shaving cream and ink, and they will all be different!

Even though pistachio pudding ink was added to the shaving cream, there wasn’t much of this color on the panel used on this card. (If you look closely, you may be able to see a hint of it!) There ended up being a bit of white on the panel where just shaving cream with no ink came in contact with the card stock. In order to keep the colors consistent with the required colors, I ended up airbrushing over the whole panel (lightly) with Copic Marker (E44) which is a close match for the soft suede.

The flower was made using the Heartfelt Creations “Sun Kissed Fleur” die and the “Sun Kissed Fleur PreCut Stamp” for detail. It was stamped and sponged with the soft suede ink on pistachio pudding card stock. The greeting came from the Gina K Designs “By The Sea 2” set and was stamped with the early espresso ink on pistachio pudding card stock and mounted on soft suede.

The card base and center strip are Stampin’ Up soft suede card stock. The striped panel was from the BasicGrey “Little Black Dress” paper pad.

The soft suede strip in the center of the card was crimped to add texture.

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