Dena's Designs: May 2022

Tuesday 24 May 2022

Crafty individuals dog card

Hi Everyone!

Second post for me tonight, this time using this fab dog image.

Cut a piece of card to fit on a pre-folded 6x6 card blank, leaving enough room for a white border.

Stamp and emboss the border along the left hand side of the card. Then stamp and emboss the dog.

Colour the background with speckled egg oxide ink. Don't worry too much if you ink some of the dog as its going to be coloured using a similar tone.

Distress the edges with vintage photo.

Randomly stamp some of the textures in the background using vintage photo oxide ink.

Colour the dog using alcohol markers. I used a mix of pro-markers and spectrum noir tri-blend pens. Use the blender pen to lighten and fade the ink into the white areas on the face.

Finally mount the image onto you pre-folded 6x6 card blank.

Shopping list

Happy dog - CI-522

Mans best friend - CI-595

White card

6x6 card blank

Oxide inks

Black ink

Embossing powder

Heat gun

spectrum noir tri-blend pens

Blender pen

blending brushes

Thanks for visiting

X-Dena-X

Crafty individuals Trilby cats

Hi Everyone!

I have a couple of posts to share with you tonight. The first is this extra bright trilby cats card.

Stamp and emboss the cats on white card.

Cut around the image leaving a little white border around the edge. I used a guillotine to cut the 3 straight edges and cut the other edge with scissors.

Colour the cats and the background with pro markers.

Cut a piece of card to fit on a pre-folded 5x7 pre-folded card blank leaving enough space for a border.

Using a brayer apply a layer of squeezed lemonade distress ink.

Stamp the harlequin design (CI-171) in twisted citron on opposite corners.

Randomly stamp the small textured dots from CI-542 in wild honey.

Then stamp the funky triangle edger stamp From CI-595 around all four edges in black ink.

Stamp and emboss the happy birthday sentiment from CI-570

Place the stamped cats over your background and draw around the edge in pencil (do not stick it down at this stage)

Use a straggly brush apply some black gesso, to do this the brush needs to be fairly dry. Start with your brush in the centre section then flick out to the edge to create a wispy look. I personally think this gives the illusion you've used torn black handmade paper.

Once the paint has dried mount the topper to the background and then onto your pre-folded card blank.

Shopping List

Trilby cats - CI-568

Harlequin stamp - CI-171

Mismesh textures - CI-542

Mans best friend - CI-595

It's cool for cats - CI-570

Black ink

Distress ink pads

Clear embossing powder

Heat gun

White card

Pre-folded card blank

Black Gesso paint

Old paintbrush

Pro-markers

Blending brushes

Thanks for joining me.

X-Dena-X

Sunday 22 May 2022

Dragonfly Card

Hi Everyone!!!

Wow it's been such a long time since my last proper blog post. I've been really busy making flower headbands for the Chelsea flower show and making samples using the new Crafty Individuals stamps, due to be launched on 3rd June on Create and Craft. The new stamps are absolutely gorgeous, you may also notice some new sentiment stamps that I was lucky enough to design.

Anyway - had a quick crafting session today using my new Tim Holtz dies.

Use a brayer to apply speckled egg oxide ink to your gel plate.

Dab vintage photo onto a tile and pick the ink up with a watery fan brush. Spatter the ink on the gel plate.

Using a piece of card that'll fit on a 6x6 card blank, place on the inky section of the gel plate and rub over the back to pick all the ink up.

Distress the edges with vintage photo.

Die cut the crackle corner.

Randomly stamp the crafty individuals script in vintage photo.

Apply Forest Moss oxide ink to the Tim Holtz grassy stamp and spritz with water. Stamp the image once and then again in another area so the ink appears lighter. Repeat this process along the bottom section of the card.

Die cut the dragonfly from the Tim Holtz bug collection twice. This die cuts three separate sections of the dragonfly, which creates lovely layers when stuck down.