Hey there crafty friends! It’s Ceal, here. Today I am sharing a Halloween card with you.
Skill Level: Intermediate Time: 30 Minutes
Directions:
Gather your supplies. You will need a Halloween themed stamp set, a stencil, white and black embossing powder, some markers if you have a line art image and three Halloween colors of ink.
Step 1: Ink Blend a purple ink (VersaFine Clair Purple Delight used) on a third of the panel.
Step 2: Ink Blend an orange (VersaFine Clair Summertime used) ink over the second third of the panel.
Step 3: Ink Blend a yellow (VersaFine Clair Cheerful used) ink over the bottom third of the panel.
Step 4: Place a stencil over the blended panel and add black (VersaFine Clair Nocturne used) ink over the stencil.
Step 5: Stamp a spider web in the corner using black ink and then emboss with black powder.
Step 6: Stamp, color and cut out the image and add to the front of the card.
I’ve had a small metal tea box that I’ve wanted to repurpose into a mixed media piece for a while, so I took some time on a rainy day to make it happen.
Skill: Advanced Time: 1 hour active time, 6+ hours (drying between layers)
Directions:
Step 1:
After applying two coats of gesso around all four sides of a tea tin, spray the top of the tin with Cherry Blossom Walnut Ink Antiquing Solution and allow it to drip down the sides of the tin. Set aside to dry.
Step 2:
Spray all four sides of the tin with Lulu Lavender Fireworks! Craft Spray and allow to dry.
Step 3:
While the tin was drying, die cut four leaf clusters out of watercolor paper. Then randomly add Paris Dusk Fireworks! Craft Spray to the centers of each leaf with the stick of the spray nozzle and color the outsides of the leaves with Elderberry Memento Dual Marker.
Step 4:
Spray each of the 4 leaf clusters with Lulu Lavender Fireworks! Craft Spray and allow to dry.
Step 5:
Partially stamp each of the four sides of the tin with Night Sky VersaMagic ink on a background stamp. (I used an old woodblock typewriter stamp.) Then press the ink pad along the top edge of the tin and the raised rib as well. Heat emboss the top rim of ink with clear embossing powder.
Step 6:
Ink blend Lilac VersaColor ink through a stencil on all four sides of the tin using a sponge dauber. (Not pictured was splattering more of the Paris Dusk Fireworks! Craft Spray onto each of the four sides as well.) Then allow everything to dry.
Step 7:
Glue two of the leaf cluster dies (one on top of the other) along the right edge of two of the sides of the tin.
Not pictured was the step after this where I decided to use my sponge daubers to ink blend some more of the Night Sky VersaMagic ink along some of the edges of the leaves while they were glued down, nor using my Gold Sheer Shimmer Stix Dauber Top to add some gold to the leaves as well.
Splatter the tin with more Paris Dusk Fireworks! Craft Spray. Allow it to dry. Then glue dark blue gems around the leaf clusters to finish the box on the two slides with leaves.
– As a high school teacher, having cards with a snarky-edge ready to go for a coworker having a wild day is a must, and coffee-themed cards are great to have in your stash because they are always appreciated. So as I get ready to go back to school, I can tuck this away for someone who may need a smile.
Skill: Intermediate Time: 2.0 hours
Directions:
Step 1: Rub a Love Letter Memento ink pad onto a piece of watercolor paper. (The paper was a little rough, so additional color will be added later.)
Step 2: After die cutting the colored watercolor paper, use a Poppy Red Fabrico marker to fix any areas that weren’t colored with the ink pad.Then spray the die cuts with Silver Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray.
(Later, a third die cut was made to better fit the card. This was made in the same way.)
Step 3: Die cut a piece of watercolor paper with the second-largest die from an A2-sized background die set. Then spray Rose Gold Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray into a coffee-themed embossing folder and emboss the watercolor panel. Allow the spray to dry.
Step 4: Ink blend the edges of the embossed watercolor background panel with Champagne Delicata ink using a sponge dauber.
Step 5: Before gluing the die cuts, I pressed the center coffee cup into the Ruby Red Delicata ink pad to change the color of that cup just a little. Glue all three die cuts down and trim the edges with scissors.
Step 6: Ink blend a piece of patterned paper with more of the Ruby Red Delicata ink using a sponge dauber.
Step 7: Die cut the ink blended patterned paper with the largest die from the A2-sized background die set. Then press both Ruby Red and Bark Brown Shimmer Delicata ink onto acetate packaging and spraying with water and splatter both panels with the red and brown watercolor. Ater the splatter dries, glue the two panels together.
Step 8: Stamp the sentiment with Glamorous VersaFine Clair ink and heat emboss with clear embossing powder.
Step 9: Die the inside of the coffee cups (the coffee) out of watercolor paper with the same coffee cup die three times and then spray them all with Potter’s Clay Fireworks! Craft Spray.
Step 10: Ink blend the edges of all three coffee dies with Dark Brown Shimmer Delicata ink with an ink dauber. Then glue the three small brown die cuts into the three coffee cups on the cardbase.
Step 11: Press the edges of the sentiment into the Ruby Red Delicata ink pad and then heat emboss the edges with clear embossing powder. Then assemble the card by attaching the sentiment onto the lower right corner of the upper card panel with foam tape and glue sequins onto the card.
Finally, glue the whole thing onto an A2-sized white cardbase.
Other • Altenew – foam tape • Catherine Pooler – sequin mix – Manhattan • Pink and Main – die set – Notched Corners • Riley and Company – die set – Coffee Heartbeat • Sizzix – embossing folder – Coffee by Tim Holtz • A2-sized white card base • Clear Embossing Powder • Watercolor paper • Patterned paper • Thin paint brush • Die cutting machine • Scissors • Glue
Hello friends! It’s Ceal, here. Today I am sharing a coffee card. This totally looks like me on a Monday morning.
Skill: Beginner Time: 30 minutes
Directions:
Gather your supplies. You will need a coffee stamp, a sentiment set, markers, dark brown ink and a stencil for the background.
Step 1: Stamp the image and color it in with markers. I used Toffee Crunch and Desert Sand for her hair, Angel Pink and Lilac Posies for her outfit, Summery Sky for the coffee cup and Gray Flannel for the kitty.
Step 2: Cut the panel down and add sentiment.
Step 3: Cut a panel of Kraft cardstock to A2 size and use a dark brown (I used Fallen Leaves) to color in the stencil for the background. Add the background panel and the image panel to the card base.
Other supplies: • Coffee is not Enough Stamp Set – Unity Stamp Co • Coffee Create Repeat Stamp set – Taylored Expressions • Coffee Bean Flower Stencil – Ink On 3 • Rectangle dies – Hero Arts • Grip mat – Simon Says Stamp
Hello Friends! Tracy here and today I am delighted to share this tutorial about how to color with your inks and using Brushstix to get into those tiny places!
Tracy
Skill: Intermediate Time: 30 Minutes to 90 Minutes
Art Supplies
• Stamping Platform • Glue • Paint Brush • White Paint • Gold Splatter Paint • Scene Stamp • Small Blending Brushes
As a veteran teacher in a local high school, I was excited to make a welcome card for the new culinary teacher at my high school. I decided that since I was making the card specifically for them, I would personalize it– using maroon (or as close as I could with the colors in my stash) and gray as the color scheme of the card as our school colors and use a cute new to me charcuterie-themed stamp set.
Skill: Intermediate Time: 1.0 hour
Directions:
Step 1: Stamp the large charcuterie stamp onto a piece of watercolor paper with Nocturne VersaFine Clair ink and heat emboss with clear embossing powder.
Step 2: After die cutting the colored watercolor paper with the second-largest die from an A2-sized background die set, press the Midnight Black VersaMagic ink pad onto a piece of acetate packaging and then sprayed the ink with Frost Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray. Then press the acetate onto the watercolor panel. After everything dried, ink blend the edges of the panel with more of the Midnight Black VersaMagic ink using a sponge dauber.
Step 3: Press the Rhubarb Stalk Memento ink pad onto the edges of a watercolor panel.
Step 4: Die cut the panel with the largest die from the A2-sized background die set. Then press the Rhubarb Stalk Memento Ink pad onto another piece of acetate packaging and spray the acetate with more of the Frost Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray and then watercolor smooshed the Rhubarb Stalk-colored panel. Allow to dry.
Step 5: Press more Rhubarb Stalk Memento Ink pad onto acetate packaging and spray the acetate with more of the Frost Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray and then watercolor smoosh the stamped gray and white charcuterie board stamped panel to add a hint of color to the card. Allow to dry.
Step 6: Press Rhubarb Stalk Memento ink pad onto a small scrap of watercolor paper. Make sure the paper is fully colored. After the ink has dried, die cut the watercolor paper with the sentiment die. While die cutting, die cut two additional scraps of cardstock to create a-three layered die cut for dimension.
Step 7: Assemble the card. Glue the two panels together. Then glue the three layers of the sentiment together and glue to the center of the card. Attach clear enamel dots onto the card (while they are hard to see on the photo, there are three on the lower left corner of the gray panel, and two on the upper right panel). Then glue everything onto an A2-sized white cardbase.
Other Altenew – enamel dots – Crystal Clear Enamel Dots Colorado Craft Company – stamp set – Charcuterie Board Pink and Main – die set – Notched Corners Welcome sentiment die Clear Embossing Powder Watercolor paper Die cutting machine Glue
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