Birthday Bears Coloring Card

Posted in Birthday Cards, Cards by lisababitz

This “interactive” card was created with the idea that the recipient would have the opportunity to color the images upon receiving it. Of course, it could be sent with color as well!

This card is being used to demonstrate the masking technique in one of the classes I am teaching through the Haddonfield Adult School. Because time is so limited, I was trying to come up with a project that we could complete quickly, and leaving the images uncolored seemed the best way to do that. I wasn’t comfortable sending the students home with an “unfinished card” though….. unless it was supposed to be unfinished….. and came up with the idea to include a box of crayons with the card! Lazy, rushed, or genius? Hmmmmm……

The “Beary Special Birthday” stamp set from My Favorite Things has a bunch of adorable images that can be layered (with masking) to create cute birthday scenes.

I used “Summer Daze” card stock from Recollections along with “From Me to You – Mail Poste Correo” patterned card stock (#732258) from Pebbles. For my colored version, I used Artist’s Loft Colored Pencils.

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1Nov2018

Fall Leaves Birthday Card – Hand Stamped Patterned Paper

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Fall Leaves Birthday Card – Hand Stamped Patterned Paper

The background for this card was created using one of the leaf stamps from the nature stamp set by Momenta. The image was repeatedly stamped with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo and Tea Dye distress inks and Memento Potter’s Clay and Cantaloupe ink. Once the stamping was done, I spritzed ink with a Walnut Stain distress marker and Tim Holtz marker spritzer tool to create the splattered dots.

I pounced Tea Dye and Vintage Photo ink with a foam blending tool onto the greeting panel and mat and adhered these to a pierced rectangle die cut. The embossed strip across the center was made with the Darice Multi Stripes embossing folder. Gina K Dark Chocolate card stock was used along with white (and ivory for the inside panel).

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31Oct2018

Joy Fold Card With Thumping

Posted in Cards, Creative Folds by lisababitz

Joy Fold Card With Thumping

This card features a Joy Fold card base which is like a mini card (that opens backwards) on a larger card base.

First, the smaller “card” is opened:

Then the larger “card” is opened:

A sentiment could be stamped or handwritten on the inside of the smaller “card” panel.

I thought this water color patterned paper (#PPR3507) by love nicole was so beautiful and that the thumping technique would complement it nicely since the end result has a water color look to it. The stamp is called “Butterfly Scroll” (#2056125) by Inkadinkado and was inked up with Memento Summer Sky ink. Then I thumped ink from a blue and a purple marker from the Recollections Brush Marker set over it. Because I used my MISTI to stamp the image, I was able to repeat stamping/thumping it a few times to get more color variation.

The greeting was stamped with Memento Danube Blue ink. Gina K Designs Powder Blue card stock and white card stock was also used.

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29Oct2018

Tranquil Tulips Birthday Card

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Tranquil Tulips Birthday Card

(Inside: Happy Birthday. May today be the start of a wonderful year.”

This card features stamps from the “Tranquil Tulips” set (retired?) by Stampin’ Up. The background was made with the “Dictionary Background” stamp (retired?) also by Stampin’ Up.

I used Tim Holtz “Antique Linen” and “Victorian Velvet” distress inks along with Gina K Designs “Dark Sage” ink. Water color paper added texture to the focal and background panels and was matted on Gina K Dark Sage card stock.

The greeting on the front is from the “Celebrate” stamp set (#SC0752) by Hampton Arts, and the inside sentiment is from the “Birthday Sentiments” set by Honey Doo Crafts.

For my first attempt, I used GKD “Honey Mustard” ink for the dictionary background and had done some sponging around the edges for a more distressed look. A greeting panel could be added later.

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28Oct2018

Paper Pieced Baby Card

Posted in Baby, Cards, Tutorials by lisababitz

Paper Pieced Baby Card

Here’s one more baby card (along with a quick “paper piecing” tutorial) I made while playing with the papers and supplies I had pulled out for the cards in my last post…..

This cute baby image is a cling stamp from a set called “Baby” (#227909) by Recollections. (I purchased this set at Michaels a while ago and can’t seem to find it in the store or online anymore.)

I used the Darice “Quilt Blocks” embossing folder and a scrap of Core’dinations “Light Aqua Plaid” (#320009) card stock for my background along with a pierced circle (and plain circle) die cut to frame the stamped images.

The greeting is from the “Bundle of Love” stamp set from Gina K Designs (retired?) and was stamped with “Mint Macaron” ink from Stampin’ Up. I’m not sure why my camera “sees” blues differently than I do; the ink and these papers match so much better in person than on the photo. (The papers are more greenish, and the ink is more bluish in real life.) Oh well!

I “paper pieced” scraps of card stock to my baby image to add the color. I really like this technique because you can easily match whatever card stock you are using on your project.

HOW TO PAPER PIECE:

To do this technique, you stamp the image onto the panel you plan to use on your card. (For my card, I wanted the baby and greeting to be on a white panel, so I stamped him on white making sure I had enough space around him to die cut the panel with the pierced circle die.)

Next, decide what colors you want to “color in” the image and stamp the image on a scrap of each of those colors. (I couldn’t decide if I wanted his pj’s to be solid or plaid, so I stamped it on a scrap of each.)

With scissors, cut out the portions of the colored pieces you need to “fill in” your image. I cut out the whole body from the peachy paper and just the pj’s from the aqua pieces. Notice that I did not worry about cutting out the line for the baby’s hair on the peach piece. (The hair is too thin to cut out and is not supposed to be peach; it is supposed to be black and is still on the image on the white panel.)

The final step is to glue the layers on to the white panel. Line up the black stamped portions when doing that. You can see how the hair “reappears” in this step! (I was still deciding what he should wear in the photos below. Ultimately, I decided to use the solid piece and removed the plaid one.)