C&S Week 2 Card 11 - Woo-Hoo!

Today's class was interesting with Jennifer McGuire touching on more techniques and a cute card by Lisa Spangler. 

Jennifer McGuire gave tips on doing mirror image stamping and I've seen others sharing how they do it but haven't given it a try so I thought why not. The mirror image stamping is a lot easier than I thought too. Will definitely be trying that again. The trick is using the 'right' stamp for the mirroring.

Here is my take on mirror image stamping and taking inspiration from Lisa's card:

Actually made some mistakes with this card but luckily the mistakes were easy to cover up. 

There were a couple of leaves with my log but they got stuck in my cuttlebug and was pulled out when I decided to do some dry embossing to add some texture. That's for not thinking ahead.  Ha...

Masked the inside and colored with Distress Inks Tumbled Glass and Peeled Paint. I really liked how the card turned out despite the minor mistakes during creation.

This card will be added to my stack of cards for the card drive.

Supplies Used:

Paper - PTI Soft Stone, Stamper's Select White
Inks - Momento Tuxedo Black, Versafine Onyx Black, Ranger Distress Inks Tumbled Glass, Peeled Paint, Iced Spruce

Stamps - LF Critters In The Forest, HA Leaf & Floral Background

Others - Spellbinders Circle Die, Pop Dots, PTI Woodgrain Impression Plate, Copics, Copics Multiliner 0.3, WRMK 1/2" Corner Chomper

C&S Week 2 Card 10 - Sending You Bunches Of Love

I've been a little behind in my assignments for class. Day 6 was about using simple embellishment or customizing your embellishments to minimize the bulkiness. Day 7 was about creating plain white cards with a focal image.

In view of the deadline towards the Valentine's Day Card Drive, I decided to focus on the 'Love' theme and did a card based on what I learnt from Day 7.

Stamped and colored with Copics. I'm still learning how to color with Copics especially on the blending part. Added glossy accents to the hearts and Diamond Stickles to just the center heart and added a couple more layers of glossy accent for more dimension.

Supplies Used:

Paper - PTI Stamper's Select White, Smokey Shadow
Inks - Momento Tuxedo Black, Versafine Onyx Black

Stamps - MFT Flopsey Bunches Of Love

Others - MFT Open Scallops Doily Duo Die, Diamond Stickles, 1/16" Pop Dos, 1/8" Pop Dots, Glossy Accents, Copics

C&S Week 1 Card 9 - Love Makes The World Go Round

Today's technique is just so fun! I love working with distress inks and Jennifer McGuire never fails to show some awesome techniques during the course.

I just received my Technique Tuesday's January 2012 stamp in the mail and I thought it will be perfect to use with today's technique. I'm official in love with this technique and will definitely look to trying it again. This is also my second favorite card from this week's creations.

Supplies Used:

Paper - PTI Stamper's Select White, Plum Pudding, Strathmore Watercolor Paper
Inks - Ranger Distress Inks Broken China, Seedless Preserves, Peeled Paint, Worn Lipstick

Stamps - TT Bring On The Love

Others - Zing Embossing Powder White,  SU 3 Hearts Punch, 1/16" Pop Dots

C&S Week 1 Card 7 - Be My Valentine

Talking about inspirations, there is a Hero Hostesses blog hop going on and I was inspired with this card made by Lisa Carroll.

Here is my take:

This card was made with the Card Drive in mind.

Supplies Used:

Paper - PTI Stamper's Select White
Inks - Ranger Distress Ink Worn Lipstick, Tattered Rose

Stamps - HA Dot Flower Pattern, PTI Fillable Frames #11
Others - Zing Embossing Powder White, Momento Dual Marker Rose Bud, PTI Satin Ribbon Autumn Rose, Pop Dots

C&S Week 1 Card 3 - Love

Here is my take on the 3rd and final sketch of today's class. For once, I did all 3 sketches from 1 day. Definitely happy about it.

I trimmed off sections of the red panel and stamped images randomly to mimic the use of pattern papers.

The inside sentiment is not that faint in real life. This card was made with the Card Drive in mind.

Supplies Used:

Paper - PTI Pure Poppy, Soft Stone
Inks - JBS Chewing Gum, Colorbox Frost White

Stamps - Technique Tuesday Adored, Simply You, This One, PTI Tag-Its #5
Others - Versamark, Zing Embossing Powder White

C&S Week 1 Card 1 - You Are Simply The Best

I've joined another card class. This is the Clean & Simple class. Since embarking on my paper crafting journey just last year, I've not actually done a clean & simple card. While I do love techniques and working with distress inks etc, I also marvel at how some cards look so awesome and they are so minimal.

Today's class started with 3 simple sketches and 2 cards by Kristina Werner and Maile Belles were showcased. I just love both their styles.

Here is the first sketch and my take:

I created a frame and used a faux letterpress technique. Scored the frame and white embossed the sentiment. The front panel was adhered to card base on 1/16" Pop Dots.

This card was made with the Card Drive in mind.

Supplies Used:

Paper - PTI Pure Poppy, SU Crumb Cake
Inks - Colorbox Frost White

Stamps - Technique Simply You
Others - PTI Diamond Impression Plate, Versamark, Zing Embossing Powder White, MS Royal Butterfly Punch, 1/16" Pop Dots, MS Scoring Board

Card 39 - Love Is All You need

I bought a few Hero Arts 2012 stamps at my local Archivers when they had their launch but didn't have the chance to ink them up.

Here is a card using the new Zig Zag background stamp. This was one stamp set that I HAD to have when I saw during the preview blog hop. This card was made with the Card Drive in mind.

I inked the background stamp with JBS Chicken Feed, Chewing Gum, Speckled Egg and Lavender Sachet. Die-cut a flower and added White Liquid Pearls to the center as I want to avoid using buttons, brads and crystals or gems. The sentiment is clear embossed and adhered with pop dots. Also added random dots with liquid pearls to substitute the use of gems or crystals.

The inside sentiment looks faint here but it's ok in person. Nevertheless I'll be looking for another pink shade. This is a still a little pale for my liking.

Supplies Used:

Paper - PTI Stamper's Select White
Inks - JBS Chicken Feed, Chewing Gum, Speckled Egg, Lavender Sachet, Ranger Antique Linen Distress Ink

Stamps - Hero Arts Zig Zag Background, Unity Hearty Barley
Others - MFT Perennial Flower Die, Ranger Liquid Pearls White, 1/16" Pop Dots, WRMK 1/2" Corner Chomper

Card 38 - Sending Smiles

 

I've been in a crafting mood and here is another card I did.

Valentine's Day is not necessarily just for couples. It can be for friends or anyone you love so I thought this Lawn Fawn sets were just asking me to ink them up. I've had these stamp sets for a while but sad to say I've not used them much except for the clouds.

All images were paper pieced. Colored the nose of the airplane with Copics, added glossy accents and to the to the windows as well. Layered the clouds at different heights and added Rock Candy Stickles to give it some texture.

Supplies Used:

Paper - PTI Stamper's Select White

Pattern Paper - Lime Twist Fly A Kite by My Mind's EyeInks - Momento Tuxedo Black, Ranger Distress Ink Tumbled Glass

Stamps - Lawn Fawn Bon Voyage, Bannerific, Hello Friend

Others - Copics, Rock Candy Stickles, Glossy Accent, Copics, WRMK 1/2" Corner Chomper, 1/8" Pop Dots, 1/16" Pop Dots, Charcoal Twine by The Twinery

Card 37 - I'll Always Be Stuck On You

I've been on a crafting hiatus as hubs was off from work during that period. As I do my crafting on the coffee table which is in the living room, crafting is just almost impossible when hubs at home since he's either watching tv or playing his playstation. I get distracted with him being around and he can't relax with me blocking his view.

Nevertheless, I'm definitely keeping myself updated and reading the blogs I've subscribed to. Since I'm mentioning blogs, I read about a Valentine's Day Card Drive for a number of children's hospitals which I will be participating. This will be my first Card Drive.

The details on the Card Drive can be found on Winter's blog. My heart just goes out for all those children who have to be in hospital for one reason or other. I definitely do understand how the parents are feeling and what they have to face and especially the children since I had a sister who was sick for 6 years.

There are some conditions on the cards if you are participating in the Card Drive. Please do take the time to read those conditions.

My first card is inspired by the PB&J Monday with Jill Foster. The blog also featured a number of cards which used the spot coloring technique and I thought this stamp set that I had will be perfect.

I stamped the cute hedgehogs and colored their cheeks and the hearts with Copics. I then added stickles to the small hearts and glossy accent to the hearts held by the hedgehogs. The sentiment was selectively stamped with different ink colors.

I decided to just stamp a sentiment on the inside so that the card can also be used to send to whoever that is in those children's hearts for Valentine's Day.

Supplies Used:

Paper - PTI Stamper's Select White
Inks - Momento Tuxedo Black, SU Riding Hood Red

Stamps - Penny Black Stuck On You
Others - Crystal Stickles, Glossy Accent, Copics, WRMK 3/8" Corner Chomper, WRMK 1/2" Corner Chomper