I have been changing out my home decor to all things Fall with a little touch of Halloween too. I always like to make some of my own decor pieces. Today I am sharing two pieces that created for just that.
I made a piece to attach to an easel clipboard that I have had for years. I like to make new pieces to hang on it for different seasons.
The second piece is a small frame that I found at the thrift store and did a little DIY with. Inserted into the frame is a hand stamped watercolored image.
Watch it all come together in this video. If you can not see the video up on your screen you can watch it here.
I'd love to know, do you use your paper crafting supplies to make home decor?
Here is another look at the clipboard piece.
The background turned out so good on this project. I am loving the dark moodiness of the top background lined up with the clean background underneath.
Watercoloring in these images was very relaxing. This piece could easily be translated into a card as well.
I am totally giddy at how this frame turned out that use to be black. Painting this was so much fun! And the insert turned out better than I could have imagined with the ink smooshing in the background and the watercolored image over the top.
The stamps I used to make todays projects are from the Trinity Stamps shop. I am loving all the fun stuff they have for Fall and Halloween this year.
Here are all the supplies I used to make these projects.
Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to stop by.
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You might look at this Large Poinsettia stamp from Trinity Stamps and think that would be fun to color, but what else could I do with it???
Today I am going to share with you 3 ways to use this beautiful Poinsettia that do not involve coloring at all. Each of these cards has a vintage vibe to it and are special cards that are made not just with paper but with love.
It is best to see how these cards came together, check out this video to see my process:
The moral of this card is a very famous proverb, Necessity is the mother of invention. When I masked off my watercolored Poinsettia I did not realize that the masking paper I used was actually sticker paper! That lead to my watercolored poinsettia being covered in glitter. I did not want to start over as I already had such a beautiful inky background. And in the end, I love how it turned out.
As far as the watercolored Poinsettia goes, it is super easy. I used Distress ink cubes in Fired Brick and Rustic Wilderness to ink up the stamp. Then I spritzed the stamp with water several times and stamped it down on to my watercolor paper. The result is this beautiful flowy Christmas floral. Then I masked off the flower using the largest die in the coordinating die set and "masking paper". With the flower covered I was then able to stamp the Encouragement Text background stamp around that. Which was inked up with Vintage Photo Distress ink and spritzed with water before stamping down. Then it was time for splattering. I splattered and ink smooshed Vintage Photo, Fired Brick and Rustic Wilderness. And after I added the die cut sentiment I splattered even more with some white acrylic paint.
Each of my cards has a certain feel to it. The feel of the first card is Christmas Fruit Cake, the colors just remind me of that colorful creation. So, I call it with Poinsettia Fruit Cake card. This next card is the Poinsettia Christmas Fireplace card. Think of the soot around the fireplace, where bits of coal have fallen off Santa's boots, but not into your stocking.
I just love how this card turned out.
It all started with a ink smooshed background in Fired Brick. Then I stamped the poinsettia over the top with Vintage Photo ink, spritzing it with water before stamping it down. When that was dry I use a fine liner pen and sketched out the poinsettia. The point is to make it look very sketchy, not perfect. I also decided to make the entire image be just the poinsettia and not have green leaves. It was very easy to sketch the leaves to look like more petals of the flower. Then I masked off the image, with actually masking paper this time. I stamped the same background stamp with Black Soot Distress ink and water. Then I did a bit of water coloring with the same colors of ink. Adding red highlights to the petals and a black shadow around the flower. White splatter finished it off.
I wanted to carry the glitter element over to this card as well, since it was an unexpected addition to the first card, why not challenge myself to add it to each card I was creating.
So, I used Black Mica flakes in the corners, I was a bit nervous doing this as the card has so much work put into it at this point. BUT, it really adds a WOW factor to this card.
This next card I call Poinsettia Christmas Postcard.
For this card I wanted to utilize the 4 piece coordinating die set and make a layered poinsettia. To color this up I used Distress Mica Spray Stains. Now, I know these are sold out and if you did not get these you could use Distress Spray or Distress Oxide Spray for this technique. After spraying you could add shimmer to it with lots of other products. I will link one I love in the supplies below, Sparkle Silk.
With my sprayed Peppermint Stick Panel and Tree Lot Panel I then stamped the poinsettia once on the green and twice on the red. I die cut them and layers them up with foam squares. For the center of the flower I used Flickering Candle. When you turn this piece in the light the shimmer is lovely.
The background was stamped with the Encouragement Text background stamp in Pealed Paint Distress Oxide ink. Spritzing this with water before stamping it, really gave it a glow! I then splattered it with Broomstick Mica Spray.
The glitter I used on the edges of this card is Tinsel Distress Glitter. And how about those Forest Fern Baubles, they are just the perfect embellishment for the card. All of the baubles I used are from Trinity Stamps and can be found in the supplies below.
I'd love to know if you have a favorite. I think mine is the Poinsettia Fireplace card. I am so proud of myself for sketching that poinsettia and I just love the look. But truly I had so much fun playing and getting inky making these cards.
Thank you so much for stopping by and I will see you soon with more creations.
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Today I was on the Trinity Stamps Instagram doing a live video where I shared the Summer Blooms Kit and how to do loose watercoloring.
I stamped all of the line images from the Summer Blooms stamp set as well as the First Blooms stamp set (both of these sets were designed by Melanie of Paper Starr) on to watercolor card stock with clear ink and embossed them with clear embossing powder.
Then I was able to watercolor these flowers, but before I explain the technique I used take a look at the finished card.
For this loose watercolor look I started by spraying the paper with water. I used the Atelier inks show in the photo, Petunia Pink, Goddess Green and Marigold Orange. I pressed them down onto my glass mat and watered them down a bit with my water brush. I added the ink to my wet and embossed panel. I let the ink flow outside the lines of the images. One that was done I dried the piece a bit with a heat tool. Then I went back in with more ink, less watered down to give the images more depth and dimension. The last step was to splatter on some of the ink to finish off the look.
You can watch it come together in the Instagram video right here:
The finished card is A7 size; 10" x 7", scored at 5". After my watercolored panel was dry I die cut it out with the second to largest die from the A7 Modern embossed panel die set, giving the edge a nice embossed line detail.
The sentiment I added is from the amazing stamp set; A Sentiment for ALMOST Everything. Speaking of everything, I have all the things I used to make this card listed and linked for you below.
If you love both of these stamp sets you can get the First Blooms stamp and die set at a discount when you purchase the Summer Blooms kit! AWESOME, right! Trinity Stamps is offering 20% off the First Bloom stamp set and and die set when you purchase your Summer Blooms kit. Just add the Kit, the First Bloom Stamp Set and Die set to your cart then enter FirstBloom20off at check out!
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Hello my stamping friends! For today's creations I am playing with the July 2021 Glimmer Kit of the Month from Spellbinders. This month's kit is a set of nesting plates that make a frame of dots on a rectangular card stock panel. This kit also comes with a roll of Rose Gold foil. That Rose Gold foil inspired me to create and once I started I kept adding more rose gold! So, in this video you will get all the details on the Mini Slimline Nested Glimmer Dots plate of the month set and you will see 3 ways to add Rose Gold to your projects!
Let's take a close up look at the July Glimmer Kit of the Month.
The contents of the Mini Slimline Nesting Glimmer Dots kit are:
*7 Hot Foil Plates - Nesting Rectangles that hot foil a frame of dots
(Largest Plate = 5-7/8" x 2-7/8")
(Smallest Plate = 3-3/4" x 3/4")
*1 Roll of Foil - Rose Gold
This month's kit perfectly coordinates with the Large Die of the Month for July, the Mini Envelope and Nested Card Creator set. I used this die set as well as the Clear Stamp of the month on my projects today.
Let's take a close up look at what I made and how I added Rose Gold.
First I used the Rose Gold foil on both my card and book mark, hot foiling a dotted frame on each. I love the touch of subtle elegance this brings to a card. If you have never seen hot foiling be sure to watch the video of these projects being made.
The flowers on this card are stamped with the largest flower from this months Clear Stamp of the Month set. I added Rose Gold to these flowers with Metallic Watercolors from Altenew. The shine on these flowers when you turn the in the light is amazing!
The third touch of Rose Gold is in the sentiment. Which I embossed with Rose Gold embossing powder. It has a slightly different tint but a lovely shine and still coordinated very nicely with my card.
I had so much fun playing with this month's kits I had to keep on creating! I thought the smaller rectangles that I had die cut and hot foiled would make the perfect sized book mark to go with my card.
And to put it all in I used the Large Die of the Month to make an envelope, which is thicker, almost like and envelope box. It will fit my card that has a lot of dimension on it as well as my book mark and a gift card for sure. I am so excited to have this die for my THICK cards, I love a lot of dimension on my cards.
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Hey there crafty friends! I am excited to be guest designing for the Dare 2B Artzy channel today!
I am sharing with you a stamp set I picked from their shop, one I thought was versatile and fun. It is the Wishing Happiness stamp set.
I love the Zentangle feel of this stamp set. I have tried my hand at this kind of art form and decided I would stick to stamping my images. So, I was excited to play with this stamp set.
For today's projects I thought it would be fun to do something other than color the images in. So, I pulled out my watercolors.
For the first card I did some watercolor resist.
I started by embossing the stamped images with clear powder on watercolor paper. Then I used my Arteza watercolors to apply a watercolor wash over the stamped images. I love the soft look of a watercolor wash.
I also love the look of splatter, which you may have already known, so I added splatters with Gold and Bubble Gum silk to the card.
I added a gold embossed sentiment from the Wishing Happiness stamp set. And to finish off this card, some gold sequins. I did not want to leave the inside blank, so I stamped on of the flowers in Picked Raspberry ink on the inside, you can see this in the video below.
Card two, also has a watercolor wash and embossing. This time I did the watercolor wash first and then gold embossed the images over the top.
To add to this scene, I stamped the solid image from the Wishing Happiness stamp set in Distress Oxide inks, as they stamp so nicely over a colored background. I used; Picked Raspberry, Seedless Preserves, and Mustard Seed.
I added the same Gold and Bubble Gum silk for the splatters on this card.
The sentiment was stamped with Seedless Preserves Distress Oxide ink and embossed with clear powder.
A sprinkling of Gold sequins finished off this card.
Such a fun stamp set to play with and so many possibilities with it besides coloring in these images.
You can see these cards made in the video below.
Below I have listed and linked all the supplies used to make these cards.
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Today is all about slimline, rainbows, unicorns and watercoloring! Sounds like fun to me!
In Episode 4 I am making slimline cards! My current favorite thing to make! So, you knew there would be an episode with slimlines.
I made two different cards, like I like to do, both using watercoloring to color in my images. And it was so fun playing with watercolors!
Take a look at today's cards.
I pulled out a couple other Avery Elle sets for todays cards, Rainbows stamp set and die set and Peek-a-Boo Balloon stamp and die set as well. I really wanted to make a "somewhere over the rainbow" card. And there is where the unicorn is going in his hot air balloon.
I used my Arteza watercolors to paint all of my images and the sky background as well.
To give them a bit of shimmer I sprayed the sky and rainbow with Avery Elle Clear Shimmer Spray. A pretty easy card to make.
These slimline cards measure: 9" x 8" scored at 4"
The card front layer is 3-3/4" x 8-3/4"
For card two I used the Rainbows die set to make a shaker for the front of the card.
Each of the rainbow strips were die cut from a watercolored panel to give character to each piece. I also used those watercolored panels to stamp my rain drops on.
My shaker elements are from Nuvo, Rainbow Quartz Triangles. I might just adore these little iridescent triangles! I used them in Episode 3 for both of my shaker cards.
You can watch Episode 4 right here:
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Thank you for taking time out of your day with me!
I asked my Facebook friends what they thought I should do with this kit and Hope Jones said I should make a framed home decor piece. So, that is what I am doing. I also thought it would be fun to watercolor in the images.
I have been wondering how watercolor paper would do when hot foiled. And if you are hot foiling watercolor paper then you might as well go ahead and watercolor!
For my framed piece I not actually putting the finished project into a frame but on to a stand up clipboard that I have had for a while.
The size of the piece is 6" x 9", it's a lot of space to fill, so I knew I wanted to make a cool background.
I started by painting my 6" x 9" Canson Watercolor paper with a wash of watercolor paint. I used my 36 Pan set by Arteza. I used the color Jade Green, it shows up a bit more blue in the photos than in person. I painted so that the color got lighter as I worked my way toward the bottom of the paper.
While this was drying I set about hot foiling my pumpkins and leaves. I wanted to use the Copper foil that came in the October kit, but it did not see to foil well on the watercolor paper even when I adjusted my shims. So I tried Gold and it worked great. Some foils seem to do certain things better than others.
Then I started watercoloring my images. Here's what I found about watercoloring a Glimmer Hot Foil image.
A puddle of watercolor paint can dry on top of foil and dull that shine.
Here are my tips to overcome this.
Avoid painting over the glimmer hot foil lines.
If you get a puddle dab it up with a paper towel.
If a puddle dries on your foil, wet the line with a fine paint brush and dab it up.
As you can see I did not have much issue with the watercolor covering my shiny foil.
Once my watercolor background was dry I added to it with the Cement Tile stencil by FSJ and some modeling paste. I love this stencil! It really added what this piece needed so that the bottom was not so bare, cause who likes a bare bottom? Don't answer that!
I splattered the background with Cool Pool Silk to finish it off. I stamped a sentiment from the Gather Together stamp set on a Special Day die cut. With the sentiment done and all my glimmered pieces die cut (cause the kit comes with coordinating dies! yay!), I was able to start assembling.
The sentiment is adhered with foam squares. I used liquid glue to adhere all the glimmered pieces, except the two yellow leaves that are popped up.
For accessories I added a piece of ribbon around the top. The ribbon is called Sweet Haystack, I love the texture of this ribbon, it's perfect for fall projects! The last touch were a sprinkling of Rainbow Drops. These rainbow drops I used are actually orange, but because they are slightly translucent the background gives them the look of rust. Which goes perfectly with the Pumpkin Bread card stock I used for my sentiment.
I really enjoyed making this and playing with watercoloring. I am going to go set it on my mantle now. But don't you think this would make a great gift!
You can watch the making of this piece in the video below. If you have not yet done so I would love for you to subscribe to my YouTube channel.
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I am so excited to bring you Part 2 of my SketchBox challenge. For Part 2 I am taking the backgrounds I made in Part 1 (see that video here) and turning them into cards. In Part 1 I used the watercolor paints from the June 2019 SketchBox to paint some watercolor panels. I have 4 backgrounds plus one image that I watercolored that I will be using in today's video. I LOVE how these cards turned out and hope that you like them as well and enjoy watching them be created in this video.
Now let's take a closer look at each of the 4 cards I made.
Card 1
That cow! I do love her! This background was made using the all the watercolors from the SketchBox in wide washes down the watercolor paper panel.
Someone tell me if it is weird to put a sentiment that say Beautiful on a card with a cow.
Card 2
The background for this cowgirl card was made with Deep Yellow, Pale Orange and Burnt Sienna watercolor paints. I randomly dotted the paint on a wet piece of watercolor paper.
And I do have to mention how excited I am with how my watercolored image turned out. I might like this watercoloring thing!
Card 3
So, I am not a gamer, and if you watched the video that was probably very clear. But how fun is this card. I am in love with that galaxy background, they are so much fun to make.
Card 4
This card was the hardest for me. But once I figured out that I needed to warm up that tree background I like it much better. To do that I added some brown to the trees and the ground, much better.
This squirrel is the image that I used the watercolors on for some no line coloring. Not too bad for my first time doing no line coloring with watercolors. I just stamped the image in a light tan color, Oatmeal Cookie, and then painted on the lines, so it looks as if I painted it, instead of it being a stamped image.
Overall I really loved this challenge, using the SketchBox to paint some watercolor background and then turning those into card. I used products I most likely would not have tried on my own and I love how the backgrounds tuned out. Which lead to 4 unique cards that I am also very pleased with.
So, which card is your favorite? Leave me a comment and let me know. I love to connect with you!
I have listed and linked all the supplies I used to make these cards for you below:
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It was time. Time to step out of my comfort zone. Time to try something new that stretches me.
And that thing is SketchBox. SketchBox is an art subscription box. My 14 year old daughter is the one who gets this box in the mail. Her art form is drawning. So this months Sketchbox, themed watercoloring, did not excite her. So, I offered to take it off her hands and give it a try.
What could a rubber stamper card maker do with this Sketch box? I knew it was outside of my "art form" too. I am new to the world of watercoloring, but it is a medium that I am excited to learn more about and incorporate into card making.
So, check out this video and see what's in the June 2019 SketchBox (basic subscription) and what I make with it.
That was very much outside of my comfort zone. So, what are my thoughts?
The one tool from this box that I am familiar with and have used a lot is the H20 brush. And I loved this brush. You can tell it is a good brand. It does not leak water. It has a small, precision tip that stays together. I was able to do fine details with this and control the water, for the most part. What I did learn aobut controlling the water is that when you squeeze the barrel to let out water you will have a very wet brush for a minute or so. Knowing that, I will have even better results in the future. I will use this brush again! Here is a set of H20 brushes by Zig that has the brush from this kit in it.
As far as the watercolor paints. I have never used liquid watercolors before, in this form. I use inks of all kinds and found it to be similar to some that I have used to watercolor with. I loved the backgrounds that I made with these paints. Would I use them again??? I am honestly not sure that I will. If I had more colors I might, like this set here. I am more familiar with pan style watercolors and have a set that I will continue to use, it has 36 colors. It is a great set for someone who wants a nice set, that is reasonably priced. You can check that out here, Arteza Premium 36 Water Color set.
I do see myself using the KingArt Inkline Artists Pen again? I was easy to use and I can incorporate it into card making easily. I do wish it was waterproof, but knowing that is it not is again something I can work with. It is similar to the Micron Fine Liner pens I have used before.
Will I continue to subscribe to SketchBox? Although I had a great time playing with this box and seeing what I could create with its contents I would have to say No. I do not see myself subscribing to SketchBox as a rubber stamper. That being said the teaser email came out for the July box and there will be Copic Markers inside! So, I have went back and forth on this decision. I do already subscribe to the Glimmer Hot Foil plate of the month by Spellbinders. If you want to know what that is check out this video. If I am going to subscribe to a box I am leaning towards the My Monthly Hero Box by Hero Arts. Tell me if you think I should get the SketchBox or the My Monthly Hero Box in the comments below. I'd love your input!
Overall, I am so glad I did this. Playing with the SketchBox stretched and challenged me in ways that ink and stamps do not. And I will continue to try new things like this. I am not head over heels with the piece I made on the Aquaboard, but I am proud of myself for going for it. I risked ruining it, making something ugly and did it even though it was scary. And I really enjoyed it.
Be sure to tune into my YouTube channel and blog tomorrow for Part 2 of this series where I turn the backgrounds I made in this video into cards!
Below are all the supplies I used besides the SketchBox contents.
You can find out more about SketchBox HERE, it does make a great gift for any artist in your life.
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