Special mum Girl on Swing card

Hi Everyone!!!

So it's been a while since my last post. I've been really busy working on orders. I've also been working on some other projects, which I will share with you all very soon. 

So today I finished this quick card that I made for my lovely mum. Tomorrow will actually be my birthday, but in our family we have always given mum a card and a little gift as a sort of thank you. After all I think birthdays are just as special for the parents. I know on my sons birthday I re-live every moment of him being born. Anyway I'll quickly show you how I made this one.

I must apologise as I started making this and forgot to take pictures from the beginning.

I cut a piece of card approx 8x10cm using my Tim Holtz deckle edge trimmer. 

Stamp and emboss the girl on the swing (impression obsession E13307).

Create a sky themed background using Tim Holtz distress inks. I lightly applied scattered straw all over and then built up the colours, masking an area for the sun. Then flick some rays of ink around the mask to highlight the sun.

Darken the edge with versafine clair twilight ink pad.

Stamp the tree from crafty individuals CI-361 around the edge at the top. This is probably my most used CI stamp. Its perfect for creating scenic toppers. 

For the next step I inked just the grasses of CI-495 and stamped it a few times along the bottom of the image. 

Using the Hunkudory moonstone words - Die cut 'special' and 'Mum' in black card.

Stamp and emboss the words 'thank you for being you'. I got this set free from a magazine. I'm afraid I can't remember what issue though - sorry!

Cut a mount for the die wording using the deckle edge trimmer.

trim the edge of the stamped wording - again using the deckle edge trimmer.

Cut a piece of card to fit a 5x7 pre folded card blank leaving a small border around the edge.

Lightly ink the background to match the main topper.

Then lightly ink the smaller pieces of card.

Stamp the crafty individuals tree and grasses around the edge in Versafine Clair Twilight. 

Add some silver foiling to the main topper and wording with a quickie glue pen.

Cut a mount from black card using the deckle edge cutter.

Stick your main background onto the pre-folded 5x7 card blank. Then stick the topper and wording in place. 

I decided it looked a little bare so stamped some little birds from CI-209.

Thank you for visiting!

X- Dena -X

Shopping list

-White card

-Pre-folded card

- Black ink

-Versafine Clair - Twilight

-Distress inks

-Blending sponges

-Deckle edge trimmer

-Glue

- Impression Obsession E13307

- Freebie stamp set

-Crafty individuals CI-209

- Crafty Individuals CI-495

-Crafty Individuals CI361

 

Saxonphonist card using visible image stencil

Afternoon everyone!

Hope your all keeping safe and well.

Thought I'd share this really quick card using the the Saxophonist stencil from visible image.

Cut a piece of card to fit on a pre-folded 6x6 card blank.

Select the colours of distress inks you'd like to use. For these cards i used the following:

- Squeezed lemonade

- Wild honey

- Candied apple

- Cracked pistachio

- Peacock Feathers

Dab them randomly on a glass mat and spritz with water.

Place your piece of card in the ink and press down all over.

If the ink hasn't covered the complete card you can go in again and pick up some more ink. I often dry the card with a heat gun in between adding layers of ink. this creates a lovely effect and prevent your card topper going muddy where all the inks are mixing.

If you need to add more ink just wipe your mat down and repeat the step.

I decided to batch make some of these backgrounds - here's just a few of the inky back grounds in different colours.

Now tape your piece of card in position and ink through using an applicator sponge with black versafine clair ink.

Carefully peel the stencil away. This is what you should be left with.

You can now mount your topper onto a pre-folded 6x6 card blank. 

Sorry this was just a real quick post.

Thank you for visiting!!

x - Dena - x

Shopping List 

- Pre-folded 6x6 card 

- White card

- Paper trimmer

- Glue 

- Versafine Clair black ink pad

- Distress inks in various colours

- Glass mat/acetate 

- Water spritzer 

- Visible image - sax it up stencil