Hello! Alison Heikkila here. Let’s make 2 fun cards with 1 embossing folder and a Kaleidacolor Ink Pad lickety-split! This is so much fun, it’s perfect for beginners, and will work with pretty much any embossing folder you may have.
Skill Level: Beginner-Intermediate Time to Complete: 10-15 Minutes
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Hello crafty friends! Can you feel the love fill the air? With love in our hearts and minds today, we are going to have fun creating this Love Wins art journaling page together. Let’s get crafting!
Skill: Intermediate Time: 45-60 minutes
Direction:
Step 1 Cut out the Canson watercolor leftover or strips into squares and rectangles. Add the pieces to the journal page with On Point Glue. Let them dry well for a few minutes. This will create the tile background to give extra texture to the journal page. (Optional: you can skip this if you want to have smoother background to your page)
Step 2 Add some of the texture paste around the corners and edges of the journal page using a stencil and palette knife. Remove the stencil and wash it right away with warm water. Let the texture paste to dry. You can use a craft heater to speed up the drying time, but be very careful to not heat it up too much, move around your craft heat all over the page. Let the page cool down.
Step 3 This is a fun step! Start spraying your page with the Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray, one color at the time. You do not need to wait for each color to dry to spray the next one. It is fun to watch how each color blends together. Use a craft heater to dry the background. Optional: you can repeat spraying until you get the color blending you like to have.
Step 4 Add some of the Wedding Dress Memento Luxe ink to the page using your finger on the texture paste heart on the background. This will bring out the hearts and muted the bright colors a little bit. Dry the background with a craft heat gun.
Step 5 Building up the background texture on the journal page by randomly stamping each texture stamp one by one using the Memento Luxe ink pads (Tuxedo Black, Rich Cocoa, Espresso Truffle) and VersaFine Clair Charming Pink ink pad. Dry the ink after stamping each image on the journal page.
Step 6 Using sponge dauber, add some of the Memento Luxe Rick Cocoa ink around the corner of the page to create the shadow border. Dry the ink with a craft heat gun.
Step 7 On a piece of white cardstock, stamp the letters for the title or sentiment using VersaFine Clair Charming Pink inkpad. Dry the stamped letters with a craft heat gun. Cut out each letter with scissors. Add some of the VersaFine Clair Charming Pink ink around the edges of the letters using a sponge dauber to give some shadows effect to the letters.
Step 8 Add each letter to the journal page with On Point Glue.
Step 9 This is an optional step. I decided to muted down the Rick Cocoa border by adding some of the Memento Luxe Wedding Dress ink with a blending brush.
Step 10 Add some shimmer sparkle to the page by spraying some of the Sheer Shimmer Sparkle Spritzer. Dry the whole page once more time with a craft heat gun. It’s done.
Let unconditional love fill each of your hearts every day so we can show love to others. At the end… Love wins! Thank you for stopping by our blog today. Have a wonderful day.
Hi everyone, it’s Jessica here. Have you seen the latest addition of colors for the VersaFine Clair ink line? I am a big fan of the VCF inks and am swooning over the new pastel colors. There are some really gorgeous shades of purples and blues, which are perfect for today’s wintery themed card. Let’s get started!
Step 1: Emboss a piece of purple cardstock with Stampin’ Up!’s Whimsical Woodland embossing folder. This is one of my favorite embossing folders to use to create any christmas or winter themed cards. It looks great on both white and colored cardstock.
Step 2: Ink blend the edges of the embossed panel with Lilac Bloom VersaFine Clair ink. I like to dab off excess ink on my craft mat before blending onto the cardstock so that there would be no harsh lines. I also tried to ink blend in a circular motion to create a spotlight effect.
Step 3: Then ink blend Very Peri VersaFine Clair ink to create a color gradient. This beautiful dusty blue complements Lilac Bloom nicely. I just love the blended look of these two colors.
Step 4: I ink blended a small amount of Nocturne VersaFine Clair ink to add a dramatic feel to this forest scene.
Step 5: Using the same VersaFine Clair inks (Lilac Bloom and Very Peri), ink blend the center of a square piece of cardstock. Then die cut a large snowflake with Hero Art’s Snowflake die. If your snowflake die does not have thin, intricate lines, you could die cut the shape before ink blending.
Step 6: Spritz a generous layer of Sheer Shimmer Spray in Sparkle to add a shimmery look to the snowflake die cut. Make sure you shake well before spritzing! I spritzed several layers, letting one layer dry briefly before applying the next, to get a thick coat of shimmer. The photos don’t do it justice! I wish you could see the amount of sparkle in person.
Step 7: I also splattered on some white acrylic paint droplets to the embossed background by flicking the paint brush. After that is dry, I adhered the snowflake onto a strip of white cardstock and mounted the center piece onto the background with foam tape. For some finishing touches, I adhered a couple of rhinestones as well using On Point Glue.
Step 8: To complete the card, I stamped the sentiment using the Silvery Shimmer Delicata ink pad. This sentiment stamp is from My Favorite Things’ Hand Lettered Holiday set.
Hello crafty friends! It’s Ceal, here. Today I am sharing a New Year’s card with yo.
Skill Level: Intermediate Time: 45 mins
Directions: Gather your supplies. You will need an embossing folder, two different colors of dark ink, metallic ink, shimmer spray, number dies, and glitter paper.
Step 1: Blend the two dark inks together on a panel cut to 4x 5.25 to give the appearance of a night sky.
Step 2: Run the blended panel through the die cutting machine with a 3D embossing folder.
Step 3: Rub a metallic ink pad over the raised areas of the panel.
Step 4: Spray a shimmer spray over the panel to give it more sparkle.
Step 5: Cut the number 2 and 5 out of glitter paper.
Step 6: Add number to the panel and adhere the panel to the card base. Stamp the sentiment on panel.
Fireworks embossing folder – Altenew Fancy Die Number 2 – Hero Arts Fancy Die Number 5 – Hero Arts Happy New Year Stamp – Taylored Expressions Glitter paper – Altenew
Step 1: Spray Frost Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray onto a piece of white watercolor paper and set aside to dry.
Step 2: Trim a piece of gray watercolor paper to 4” by 5.25” with a paper trimmer. Then spray the panel and the inside of an embossing folder with more of the Frost Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray, place the gray watercolor panel inside of the embossing folder and then run the embossing folder through a die cutting machine. Allow the panel to dry.
Step 3: Gently run a Teal Zeal Memento Ink pad across both of the embossed stars and around the edges of the panel. Using a small sponge dauber (or your finger), spread some shiny GlazOn onto both of the embossed stars to “lock in” the teal color.
Step 4: Using a sponge dauber, ink blend Paris Dusk Memento ink around the panel (not on the stars).
Step 5: Die cut letters to form the sentiment out of the the sprayed white cardstock from step 1.
Step 6: Spray the panel with more of the Frost Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray and allow it to dry. Then glue the letters from the sentiment onto the lower right corner of the panel.
Step 7: Glue the panel onto an A2-sized white card base.
Altenew – embossing folder – Stellar Cascade Sizzix – die set – Letterboard (666859) White watercolor paper Gray watercolor paper Die cutting machine Paper trimmer Scissors Glue
Hello! Alison Heikkila here. Do you make New Year’s cards? I like to make them when it’s too late to send out Christmas, Hanukkah, etc. cards. It takes off a bit of pressure, but still shows folks we’re thinking about them. I’ve got a quick and fun card that’s perfect not just for New Year’s, but for other celebrations too.
Skill Level: Beginner-Intermediate Time to Complete: 15-20 Minutes
*Some affiliate links are used in this post. That means that if you shop through these links, I may receive a small compensation, at no cost to you.
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I hope you’ll try blending with your VersaFine Clair Inks. And perhaps you’ll want to make some New Year’s cards too! Thanks for stopping by. Have an inspiring day!
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