Hello crafty friends, today I am sharing a Father’s Day card using the Bokeh technique.
Skill: Beginner to Intermediate Time: 30 to 45 Minutes
Directions: To create this card, you will need a stencil, at least three different inks that blend well together, round sponge daubers and some Alpha dies.
Step 1: Place the stencil over a panel of white cardstock, then ink up the sponge daubers with each color randomly placing dots of color through the stencil to cover the panel.
Step 2: Cut the letters of dad out of dark blue cardstock once and out of white cardstock twice so it will have dimension.
Step 3: Layer the letters over one another off-setting the dark blue on the bottom.
Step 4: Stamp “Enjoy Your Day” with VersaMark ink and emboss with white MBoss embossing powder.
Other Supplies: • Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 120lb • Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80lb • Midnight Cardstock – Concord & 9th • Stencil – Simon Says Stamp • Celebrate Stamp Set – Hero Arts • Large Alpha Dies – Altenew
Intro: Do you have passwords that continually need to be updated AND have problems remembering them? Do you write those letter-number-symbols somewhere, then end up with an overwritten mess?
Get an inexpensive memo book and use your inks, stamps, stencils, and dies to decorate it!
Skill Level: Intermediate Time: 1.5 hours
Instructions:
Step 1: Use a paintbrush and Snowflake Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paint to paint the front and back covers of the memo pad. You don’t have to be neat as brush strokes will only add texture to the project. You might need a second coat to cover the print on the back cover. Let dry, though this paint dries really quickly!
Step 2: Use a Sponge Dauber to apply a Starlite Silver Brilliance ink to both the covers. Heat set.
Step 3: Use a Fantastix to apply Starlite Silver Brilliance ink around the binding rings of the pad.
Step 4: Use copper or steel wool pads to pounce Cosmic Copper Brilliance Ink spots and marks to both covers the pad. Heat set.
Step 5: Place a magnet sheet under a piece of paper and set the pad’s front cover onto the paper. Place the Keyhole stencil over the notebook. Secure with magnets and/or low-tack tape. Use a Sponge Dauber to apply Starlite Black Brilliance Ink over the stencil onto the pad’s cover. Let sit for a few minutes and repeat the Ink stenciling. Remove the stencil and heat set the pad’s cover.
Step 6: Use a Sponge Dauber to apply Starlite Silver Brilliance Ink to a small piece of black cardstock. Heat Set. Use the Keyhole Cutting Die to cut the inked cardstock. Sorry that there’s no photo.
Steps 7A and 7B: Use Starlite Black Brilliance Ink (7A) to add depth to the silver keyhole. Repeat with Lightning Black Brilliance Ink (7B).
Step 8: Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the Big Head/Big Eye image from the Humanoids Stamp Unmounted Rubber Stamp Set onto white cardstock.
Step 9: Color the image panel with Copic markers. Sorry that there’s no photo!
Step 10: Use Tear It! Tape to adhere the colored image panel behind the opening in the keyhole. Add tiny screw-top brads to the each corner, then mat the keyhole rectangular image panel with black cardstock, cut slightly larger than the keyhole panel.
Step 11: Use Snowflake Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paint to paint the Skull Skeleton masonite key. Let dry, then use a Sponge Dauber to apply Starlite Silver Brilliance Ink to the key. Heat set.
Step 12: Use On Point Glue to adhere the key to the front of the keyhole image panel.
Step 13: Use Tear-It! Tape to adhere the keyhole image panel to the front of the Password memo pad.
Hello crafty friends! Mother’s Day is coming up soon. Sending out a handmade card is a way to show your love to a lovely mother figure in your life. Today, I would like to share with you how to make this Mother’s Day CAS card using Imagine Crafts products and stamps.
Skill: Beginner Time: 15-20 minutes
Direction:
Step 1 Cut a piece of watercolor paper into 6 inch x 5 inch size. This size fits on my stamping tool. Then, stamp the image on the watercolor paper with Versafine Onyx Black ink pad.
Step 2 Dab some of the Memento DewDrop Inks (Rose Bud, Bamboo Leaves, New Sprout, and Summer Sky) on the craft mat.
Add a couple drops of water from the waterbrush on the ink to turn it into watercolor paint. Pick up the ink with the waterbrush and paint the flower and vase.
Dry the painted image with a craft heat gun.
Step 3 On a piece of white cardstock, add some of the Lulu Lavender ink using the blending brush. Build up the color from darker to lighter to create the gradient look on the background.
Step 4 Once done with adding color on the cardstock, lightly spray some of the Sparkle Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray. And then use a small flat brush, add some extra splatter on it for more texture.
Using a craft heat gun, dry the background panel.
Step 5 Fussy cut the flower with micro-tip scissors. Optional: you can use a die if you use a stamp set that has a matching die set.
Step 6 Stamp the sentiment on a white cardstock using the VersaFine Clair Nocturne, dry the ink with a craft heat gun, and then cut it into a sentiment banner with scissors or paper cutter.
Step 7 Add the background panel on an A2 card base using the Tear It! Tape. Add the flower and sentiment to the card using the On Point Glue.
That’s my project for today. Hopefully, you’ll like this project and give it a try. Thanks so much for stopping by our blog today. Have a wonderful day!
Hello! I’m Alison Heikkila. Today, I’m going to show you some fun ways to use Imagine/Tsukineko’s dye-based reinkers. They can be used for so much more than just reinking your dry pads. My card is pretty graphic and bold, but by changing the colors and the stencil used, you can get a completely different look.
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Skill Level: Intermediate Time to Complete: 20-30 minutes, plus drying time
– In today’s post, I will share a way to stretch your crafty supplies like using a die to stamp and to use ink to change the color of some patterned paper.
Skill Level: Intermediate Time: 1.5 hours
Directions:
Step 1: Use a die as a stamp by pressing a Turquoise VersaColor ink pad into the raised edges of a background butterfly die. Then press a piece of previously die cut piece of watercolor paper into the die and lift the panel. You will have the outlines of the butterflies stamped on your panel.
Step 2: Run the Turquoise VersaColor ink pad across some blue paper to enhance the blue color of the paper.
Step 3: Rub the Canary VersaColor ink pad across some yellow patterned paper to enhance the color of the patterned paper.
Steps 4 and 5: Die cut the yellow and blue patterned paper with the butterfly die. Glue some of the die cut butterfly pieces onto the stamped watercolor panel, making sure that the butterflies don’t line up totally with the stamped butterflies.
Step 6 and 7: Die cut another piece of blue patterned paper using another background die. Run the Turquoise VersaColor ink pad and the Golden Glitz Delicata ink pad over the blue patterned paper to add some more colorful interest onto the panel.
Step 8: Using a congrats die cut to die cut three layers– a scrap piece of cardstock as well as the yellow and blue patterned paper.
Step 9: Spray the blue patterned paper with Sparkle Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray and let dry.
Step 10: Glue all three layers of the die cut sentiment together, with the blue layer on the top, and the yellow layer in the middle. Don’t line up the blue layer exactly on top of the yellow layer so that you can see both. Set aside.
Step 11: Ink blend around the edges of the stamped layer with more of the Canary VersaColor ink with an ink dauber. Not pictured: Spray the panel with more of the Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray. Mix some more of the Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray with more Turquoise VersaColor ink and spatter it across the panel.
Step 12: Press some of the remaining yellow and blue patterned paper die cut butterflies into the Golden Glitz Delicata ink pad. Glue those butterflies into the stamped panel.
Step 13: Glue the stamped panel onto the die cut background panel at an angle. Then Glue the sentiment parallel to the base of the die cut background panel.
Step 14: Glue blue, white and gold sequins onto the card panel. Glue the whole panel onto an A2-sized white card base.
Other • DCWV – Patterned Paper – Electric Jungle patterned paper • Hero Arts-Die-Butterfly Confetti fancy die • Honey Bee Stamps – Die – Congrats Honey Cuts die set • Honey Bee Stamps – Sequins – Aztec Empire mix (retired) • Kat Scrappiness – Die – Peacock Backdrop die • Yellow and blue cardstock in my stash • Scissors • Glue
Hello hello hello crafty friends! Today, I have this Funky Card to share with you. Creating that funky background is super fun and easy. I totally had fun with some of the VersaColor ink pads!
Skill: Intermediate Time: 30 minutes
Direction:
Step 1 We will work on a whole piece of 8.5 inch x 11 inch heavyweight white cardstock. Pick 3 or 4 colors you want to use. Make sure the choice of colors won’t muddle when you mix them together.
Roll the mini brayer directly on the VersaColor ink pad several times.
Step 2 Roll the inked mini brayer on the white cardstock in any direction you want vertically and horizontally.
Do the step 1 and step 2 several times for each color you want to use for your background.
Step 3 After several times adding inks on the cardstock with a mini brayer, you can add more layer on top of the first one you did, or you can fill in the space as you want.
Use the Staz-On All-Purpose Stamp Cleaner and paper towel to clean the brayer.
Step 4 Next, pick a funky pattern background stamp to add texture on the inked cardstock. Stamp the background stamp on it with VersaFine Clair Nocturne Ink Pad for contrast colors.
Step 5 Stamp it several times until you fill the whole cardstock. This will look very funky and messy but don’t worry you’ll find it will be fun to use it on project later.
Step 6 After adding ink colors with mini brayer and stamping, the craft mat will look like in the picture above. Don’t panic! The inks will clean right off the mat with that amazing Staz-On All-Purpose Stamp Cleaner. Simply dab some of the cleaner on the mat and use paper towel to clean all the inks off. Repeat as needed.
Use the stamp cleaner also to clean ink off the background stamp, too.
Step 7 Next step, use the paper trimmer to trim cardstock into 4 – 4 ¼ inch x 5 ½ inch background panels.
Step 8 Cut one of the background panels using 2 sizes of rectangle dies.
Step 9 Add some of the Tear It! Tape on the back of the largest frame. Peel off the backing and add the frame to an A4 card base (4 ¼ inch x 5 ½ inch card).
Step 10 Add some of the Tear It! Tape on thin fun foam to create some thin strips of 3D foam tape.
Add the foam tape on the second frame (the middle cut out), and add it to the card. Make sure the pattern matching with the first one on the card.
Final step for the background, add the last piece of the cut out in the middle of the card just with the Tear It! Tape.
Step 11 Stamp the flower on a piece of white cardstock with VersaFine Clair Nocturne Ink Pad using stamping tool or acrylic block.
Step 12 Add some of the Sparkle Mboss Embossing Powder directly on the stamped image and heat it up with a craft heat gun. After embossing it, fussy cut the flower with micro-tip scissors (or use the matching die set if available for your stamp).
Repeat step 11 and step 12 for the sentiment. And then cut the sentiment with a label die (or you can just trim it with paper trimmer).
Step 13 Put together the flower and sentiment label with On Point Glue. Put a couple acrylic blocks on them and let the glue to dry.
After that, add them to the card with some of the fun foam in the middle and secure the edge on the raised frame with On Point Glue.
Here’s the finish card with some funky patterns and dimensions. Isn’t it fun? I hope you will give it a try and have fun creating your own funky background card.
Thank you so much for stopping by our blog today. Have a wonderful day!
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