Faux Water Colored Flowers in Pink

Posted in Birthday Cards, Cards by lisababitz

I love the look of water coloring, but sadly, I am not really very good at it. So I fake it!

For my faux water coloring, I took a few solid image floral stamps (from a set of stamps I found in a “ms. sparkle & co.” bin at Joann Fabrics a while back), inked them up with Memento Lilac Posies ink, spritzed them with water, and then stamped them on water color paper. (I didn’t use much water so the effect on my finished card is subtle.)

After the images dried, I stamped over them with some line art images (from “Sunshine Daisy Flowers” set by Forever in Time) which added definition without covering up the water colored effect. These two sets do not really match up at all, but I was really pleased with the outcome when they were layered.

I didn’t have a stem stamp (this is a card/lesson I prepared for my class, and I was limited to the stamp sets I had available for class use), so I painted those by hand with Memento Bamboo Leaves ink, some water, and a brush.

The leaves were from a multi-step stamp set (unbranded?), and I chose to stamp just the “middle step” stamp. No water was used to stamp the leaves, but I thought the sketchy look of that stamp seemed to fit with the rest of the card.

As I mentioned, I didn’t use much water for my sample above. Here is a look at what the flower stamp looks like (without the layered scribble stamp) with water and without.

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8Oct2019

Love Is…

Posted in Cards, Wedding/Anniversary by lisababitz

Love Is…

Here’s another wedding card design – simple, but elegant.

I have several stamps with this beautiful verse, but none are big enough for a 5″ x 7″ card, so I used a digital image I purchased from a shop called Chickadee Art and Co on Etsy. (I love the combination of fonts used here!)

The card stock is from the Recollections Shimmer Silver & Champagne pack, my go-to paper for wedding cards. It has a beautiful, subtle shimmer which makes it perfect for “elegant” card designs. (Difficult to photograph, though!!) I chose a grayish taupe color on my computer for printing the verse. The shimmer paper was mounted on Stampin’ Up Tip Top Taupe (retired?).

The embossing folder is called “5 in x 7 in Corner Scroll Background” by Darice.

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4Oct2019

Diagonal Split Panel Wedding Card

Posted in Birthday Cards, Cards, Christmas, Holiday Cards, Wedding/Anniversary by lisababitz

Diagonal Split Panel Wedding Card

I came across this fun technique that features offset angles and some patterned paper to create an interesting, layered background panel.

Here is a video tutorial on how to do this technique, although I changed mine up a bit by matting my finished panel and changing the angle/measurements of my cuts. I’ve also seen variations where the solid panels are popped up with foam tape and where the center portion is hand-stamped.

I used Bazzill “Whirlpool” along with black and heavy weight white card stock. The patterned paper is called “B&W Wedding Words” by the Paper Studio. I just love the dies from the “Shadow Box Collection – Mr. & Mrs.” set by Creative Expressions!

Here are two more cards I made using this technique:

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2Oct2019

CAS Thinking of You Note Card

Posted in Cards, Get Well/Sympathy by lisababitz

CAS Thinking of You Note Card

This “Clean and Simple” card features a stamp from the “Water Color Trio” set from Stampin’ Up (retired) and a greeting from the “Banners” set from Joy! Crafts.

I originally purchased a used, incomplete set of these stamps on ebay (specifically for this stamp), but the greetings (and one of the other images) were not included. I saw the complete set on ebay when doing this post and immediately ordered the complete set! I just love those greeting stamps!! (I guess the seller did too – lol!!!)

The stamps in this set were designed to look like the images were water colored, so just stamping them makes it look like water was added. Although not the correct colors for cherry blossoms (which I think these are supposed to be – lol!), I went with GKD Moonlit Fog and Wild Lilac ink on water color paper. The base is Bazzill Buttermints, and the mats are Wild Lilac.

Back to basics… just a few stamps and inks!

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29Sep2019

Teal Thinking of You (Two-Tone Inking)

Posted in Cards, Get Well/Sympathy by lisababitz

Thinking of You (Two-Tone Inking)

I saw this video where Gina K shows an inking technique she calls “Two-tone Inking” to create the look of layering stamps when using a single stamp and thought I’d give it a try. It is basically a thumping technique, but instead of using markers, you use the edge of an ink pad to “thump” the second, darker color over the lighter ink on a stamp.

This technique will work with any solid or silhouette image stamp. I used one of the flower images from the “Petal Prints, Two Step Stampin” set from Stampin’ Up (retired?). (Even though this is a two step stamp set, I only used one of the layers for this card.) First, I inked the stamp with GKD Sea Glass ink (the lighter color), and then I thumped over it with GKD Tranquil Teal. It was suggested that you use the smaller ink cubes for this technique, but I only have the full size pad, and it worked fine.

I “smooshed” my background using GKD Seaglass ink and water. I used some of this with a paintbrush for the splatters as well. Tranquil Teal card stock was used for the mat panel. The leaves (from the same Petal Prints stamp set) were “stamped off” with Sea Glass. The greeting can be found in the “Moments of Grace” set from Simon Says Stamp and was stamped with Tranquil Teal.

Over at the Modsquad Challenge Blog, the challenge this week is “A Time for Giving” where we are to “make a card to demonstrate GIVING such as kindness, thankfulness and friendship.” This “Get Well” card was sent to let the recipient know she was in my thoughts and prayers as she recovered and to offer any help she might need until she gets back on her feet.

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