Hello crafty friends! It’s Ceal, here. – Today I am sharing this card for Independence Day. I throw an Independence Day celebration at my home each year and I send out invitations. This is my invitation for this year.
Skill: Beginner to Intermediate Time: 30 minutes
Directions:
Gather your supplies, you will need a flag die cut set and red, blue and black inks, stamping platform, a grip mat and a ink blending tool.
Step 1: Cut out the die cut pieces.
Step 2: Using an ink blending tool, ink blend red ink on the strips. I used VersaFine Clair Strawberry.
Step 3: Using an ink blending tool, ink blend blue ink on the star piece, I used VersaFine Clair Blue Belle.
Step 4: Adhere the blue star piece and the red strips to the flag panel. This panel has lines to show where to place them.
Step 5: Place the white panel into the Misti Lite and stamp the sentiment at the bottom of the panel.
Step 6: Adhere the flag to the panel that the sentiment is stamped on and adhere to card base.
Hi everyone! It’s Jessica here. Wedding season is right around the corner, so I wanted to share a wedding card idea that features a gender-neutral palette. I often struggle with cards that are for male recipients, but this color combination I have in mind today is less-feminine and perfect for the groom.
Step 1: Trim a piece of DCS Dolphin Gray cardstock to 5 ½’’ x 8 ½’’ and score in the middle at 4 ¼’’ to create the card base. Cut CardStock offers many beautiful shades of gray cardstock; I chose DCS Dolphin Gray because it is a nice weight of cardstock that can still be easily embossed. The embossing folder I used here is called Distressed Tile by Stampin’ Up.
Step 2: Next, stamp the focal image with VersaFine Clair Sand Dune ink on Classic Crest Solar White cardstock. VersaFine Clair Sand Dune has been a new favorite ink of mine for outline images; I used to only stamp the outlines with VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink, but this Sand Dune color is such a great neutral alternative. This large and elegant flower is from the Good Morning Magnolia stamp set.
Step 3: After stamping, die cut the images with the coordinating dies.
Step 4: I decided to ink blend on the leaves to add some color. Since the flower petals are large, they were easy to mask off. Classic Crest Solar White cardstock is ultra smooth and ink blends beautifully with Memento New Sprout and Bamboo Leaves inks.
Step 5: Then, trim DCS Canvas Textured Lava Stone Gray cardstock to a ¾’’ x 5 ½’’ strip, and heat emboss on the smooth side. The darker shade of gray really makes the sentiment stand out.
Step 6: Finally, add a strip of DCS Indigo Blue for an additional pop of color. A dark green cardstock would actually look great, too. Adhere all of the layers to complete this gender-neutral wedding card.
Skill: – Beginner to Intermediate – Time: 45 Minutes
Directions:
Gather your supplies. For this card you will need a floral background stamp that has a coordinating stencil & several ink colors
Step 1: Stamp the floral background using black ink, I used VersaFine Clair Nocturne.
Step 2: Using the first of the two coordinating stencils, blend in the flowers. I blended VersaFine Clair Baby Pink first and then went around the edges with Charming Pink.
Step 3: Using the second stencil ink blend the leaves. I blended VersaFine Clair Warm Breeze and went over part of the leaf with Rain Forest.
Step 4: Stamp, emboss and cut out the sentiment and attach to the floral panel. I added some gold highlights to mine.
– My dad passed away a few years ago, so I didn’t feel like making a traditional Father’s Day card. Instead, I wanted to make a card that reflected his life as a farmer. He grew citrus in central Arizona for over twenty years and citrus trees always remind me of him.
Skill: Intermediate Time: 2 hours
Directions:
Step 1: Die cut a piece of watercolor paper with a mid-sized die cut in a nesting A2-sized die set. Then spray the inside of a citrus-themed embossing folder with Eucalyptus colored Walnut Ink Antiquing Solution. Wipe off the Eucalyptus colored Walnut Ink Antiquing Solution off of the lower tangerines and the flowers and tangerine on the upper right corner of the embossing folder. Then place the watercolor paper panel inside the embossing folder before running it through a die cutting machine. Remove the panel from the embossing folder and set aside to dry.
Step 2: Use a combination of Memento Markers and Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray to color in the flowers, tangerines, branches and leaves on the card panel. Starting with the flower petals, I colored the flowers’ outlines with Rose Bud Memento Marker and then watercolored the petals with Lilac Posies Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray. The centers of the flowers were colored with Cantaloupe Memento Marker before watercoloring them with Dandelion Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray. The leaves were watercolored with Cottage Ivy Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray.
The branches were watercolored with Rich Cocoa Memento Marker and the tangerines were watercolored with Tangelo Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray. After everything dried, a light watercolor layer of Dandelion Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray was painted over the flower petals. Splatter some of the remaining Dandelion, Cottage Ivy, and Tangelo Fireworks!
Shimmer Craft Spray over the panel. Set the panel aside to dry again.
Step 3: Press edges of the card panel into Celstial Copper Delicata Ink pad and heat emboss the edges with Champagne Mboss Embossing Powder (retired-substitute)
Step 4: Die cut a piece of brown cardstock with the next-largest die from nesting die set from step 1. Paint the branches with glitter glue. Allow to dry and then glue the two panels together and then glue the whole thing onto an A2-sized white card base.
Step 5: Stamp the sentiment with Nocturne VersaFine Clair ink and heat emboss with clear embossing powder. Use a sentiment strip die (from the same set as the sentiment itself) to die cut the sentiment.
Step 6: Press the edges of the sentiment strip into the Celestial Copper Delicata ink pad and heat emboss with more of the Champagne Mboss embossing powder (retired).
Step 7: To finish the card, attach the sentiment strip onto the card panel with foam tape.
Directions: Gather your supplies. You will need a postage die, Postage collage stencils, Father’s Day stamp set.
Step 1: Cut out a panel of white cardstock using a postage die. Photo not included.
Step 2: Using a postage collage background layering stencil blend two different colors of ink with the first stencil. I used Lulu Lavender and Bahama Blue.
Step 3: Using the second layering stencil, ink blend two different colors. I used Rose Bud and Tangelo.
Step 4: Using the third stencil of the set ink blend one color of choice. I used Memento Pear Tart.
Step 5 Finally, stamp the images from the Dad Silhouettes Stamp Set using VersaFine Clair Nocturne.
~Hello crafty friends! Today, we are going to make a masculine card style card for dads with a faux wood background and some layers. So, let’s get crafting!
Skill: Intermediate Time: 15-20 Minutes
Directions:
Step 1
Stamp the Typewriter Keys Caps alpha stamp set on a piece of white cardstock with the VersaFine Clair Pinecone ink pad.
Since I used the whole stamp set, I did not remove them from its acetate backing and added to the stamping lid and taped it.
Step 2
On another piece of white cardstock, stamp the typewriter image with the VersaFine Clair Morning Mist ink pad.
Step 3
Stamp the paper image with the VersaFine Clair Morning Mist ink pad on a piece of white cardstock.
Step 4
Stamp the word “love” in the middle of the stamped paper image with VersaFine Clair Morning Mist ink pad.
Step 5
Cut a piece of ivory cardstock into 4.25 inch x 5.5 inch.
Score the cardstock at ½ inch until the whole cardstock scored.
Step 6
This is the fun part… ink swiping to create the faux wood background.
Lightly swipe the ink over the scored cardstock, start with VersaFine Clair Sand Dune ink pad, and then use the VersaFine Clair Fallen leaves, and the VersaFine Clair Bali Blue ink pad.
Use a craft heat gun to dry the inks in between swiping to avoid the ink transfer to the different color ink pad.
Step 7
Use a tag die to cut the stamped alpa cardstock.
Add it to the faux background mat with On Point Glue.
Step 8
Fussy cut the stamped typewriter image and the stamped paper image with micro-tip scissors.
Add the paper to the typewriter with On Point Glue. And then add a little piece of white fun foam behind the paper using On Point Glue for a bit of dimension.
Add the whole image to the background mat with On Point Glue.
Step 9
On a piece of ivory cardstock, stamped the sentiment with VersaFine Clair Pinecone ink pad. Trim it into a banner flag, and then add some of the VersaFine Clair Sand Dune ink around it with a sponge dauber.
And then add a piece of fun foam behind the sentiment and the sentiment banner to the background mat with On Point Glue.
Step 10
Add the whole finish background mat to the card with On Point Glue. Press firmly for a few seconds to make sure the glue dries well.
Add the ribbon bow to the top of the tag with On Point Glue. Hold it for a few seconds for the glue to dry well in place.
The simple scoring and ink swiping techniques are a fun technique to try to add texture to the faux wood background.
I hope you like this masculine card idea and give it a try to make a card for a special dad figure in your life.
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