Hello Friends! Katy here with another quick project for you. Today’s card is a fun summertime vibes card, but as always you can use this design for what ever you need!
I did a little ink blending to create my background and used some silhouette stamps to create my scene. Check out the video below for all the details.
As I was making one card focusing on summer colors, I realized that I could easily make a second (bonus) card and wanted to share both with you.
Skill: Intermediate Time: 2 hours
Directions:
Step 1: Stamp a large floral image on watercolor paper with Medieval Blue VersaFine Clair Ink and heat emboss with clear embossing powder.
Step 2: After die cutting the floral image with the corresponding die, watercolor smoosh Angel Pink Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray, focusing on coloring the roses. Use a heat tool to dry the spray or set aside to dry.
Step 3: Watercolor smoosh the floral image with Cantaloupe Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray, this time focusing on getting most of the color into the centers of the daisies. Use a heat tool to dry the spray or set aside to dry.
Step 4: Use Lilac Posies Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray to add another layer of watercolor smooshing to the image, this time focusing the color onto the daisies’ petals. Then paint in more of the Cantaloupe Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray into the centers of the daisies (to cover up some of the Lilac Posies spray in daisies’ centers).
Step 5: Watercolor smoosh the floral arrangement again–this time with New Sprout Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray, focusing on adding color to the leaves and other greenery.
Step 6: Cut a piece of watercolor paper about 3 inches by 5.5 inches. Add texture to the panel by die cutting the panel. (Since the panel was smaller than the die, it didn’t actually cut anything out it just pierced the panel.) Then spray the panel with Rose Gold and Sparkle Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray. Allow to dry.
Step 7: Add irRESISTible Gold medium through a heart stencil onto the right side of the watercolor panel.
Step 8: Add irRESISTible Gold onto some of the thinner ribs on the larger stamped leaves and onto some of the berries. After it dried, cut the floral cluster in half with a paper trimmer. Then glue half of the floral cluster onto the lefts side of the panel.
Add more of the irRESISTible Gold medium onto the piece of acetate and spray with water to dilute it. Watercolor smoosh it onto the floral cluster and the background panel. Then glue half of the floral cluster onto the left side of the panel. Then paint the edges of the panel with more of the irRESISTible Gold medium.
Finally glue everything onto a minislimline card base.
Step 9: Stamp two sentiments on a scrap of watercolor paper with Medieval Blue VersaFine Clair ink and emboss them with clear embossing powder. They were die cut with corresponding dies.
Step 10: Attach one of the sentiments onto the card with foam tape. To finish the card, glue white gem embellishments around the sentiment.
Step 11: Then it was onto the bonus card made with the leftover part of the floral image. The same heart stencil was sprayed with Rose Gold Sheer Shimmer Spray and then was pressed onto another panel of watercolor paper trimmed to 3 inches by 5.5 inches. After the spray dried, more of the gold IrRESISTABLE medium was painted onto a small music stamp, which was then stamped multiple times onto the panel.
Step 12: The remaining half of the floral cluster stamp was glued onto this pahel. The sentiment was attached with more foam tape. The edges were ink blended with Medieval Blue VersaFine Clair ink using a sponge dauber.
Step 13: Finish the second card by gluing the panel onto another mini slimline cardbase and gluing more white gem embellishments around the sentiment.
Hello crafty friends. It’s Ceal, here. Today I am sharing a beachy card using some summer colors. When I think beach, I think lighthouses because the beach we go to has one on it.
Skill level: Intermediate to advanced Time: An hour or more
Directions:
Gather your supplies. You will need a beach themed stamp, stencil and dies. Several colors of inks. Post-it notes or masking paper and a fine liner pen.
Step 1:
Die cut the postage stamp panel. This must be cut first with this particular set because you line up the stitched lines.
Step 2:
Place the stencil over the panel, lining up the stitched part, I circled it so you could see what I am referencing. Mask off other areas of the card so you don’t get ink on it. Ink blend green ink for the grass. Remove and clean the stencil
Step 3:
Mask off the grass and ink blend blue for the ocean. Remove and clean the stencil.
Step 4:
Mask off the ocean. Ink blend brown for the sand, remove and clean the stencil.
Step 5:
Mask off the bottom portion of the stencil. Ink blend Yellow for the sun rays. Remove and clean the stencil.
Step 6:
Ink blend red for the lighthouse. Remove and clean the stencil.
Step 7:
Be sure to mask off portions of the card that may get inky. Place the stencil down where the sun is in the white space that was left after blending the sunrays. Ink blend orange in the circle and also at the base of the sunrays. Remove and clean the stencil.
Step 8: (optional)
This step s totally optional but I like the way it grounds the lighthouse. Place stencil back over the lighthouse and use a fine liner pen to trace the stripes.
Step 9:
Stamp the greeting in blue and the 25 cents in black. Not pictured in this photo but you will need to die cut the flower and add it to the corner as shown in the finished card.
In today’s post, I am sharing a card that features a summer scene.
Skill: Intermediate Time: 1 hour
Directions:
Step 1: Use Memento Markers–Dandelion, Cantaloupe, Morocco and Lady Bug to color the sun and sun rays through a stencil onto watercolor paper. Blend some of the colors together by coloring a lighter color over a darker one to create even more color variety. Use some ink blenders to ink blend the sky with Pearlescent Sky Blue Brilliance (closer to the sun) and Ocean Depth VersaMagic Chalk Ink (farther away from the sun. Use a sparkly clear gel pen to add sparkle to the clouds. (This ended up being mostly die cut out.)
Step 2: Slowly and gently press on the cap of the Sparkle Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray bottle, making sure to only press about half way so that a small amount of splatters go onto the watercolor panel. Allow to dry.
Step 3: Die cut the panel with a mid-sized arch die.
Step 4: Using daubers, ink blend Red Magic VersaMagic Chalk Ink along the bottom and right side of the die cut (where the orange and red rays touch the edges) and more of the Ocean Depth VersaMagic Chalk Ink along the left edge through the upper third part of the right edge (where the blue sky touch the edges). Don’t ink blend the bottom right corner of the panel (with the sun and cloud).
Step 5: Using die two die cuts, die cut some blue and green patterned paper and blue mirror cardstock to look like waves. (I used leftover die cuts from a previous project.) Glue the blue and green cardstock wave first, and then glue the blue mirror cardstock on top of it. Make sure the left side and bottom of both die cuts align with the edges of the arch. Trim the right side of the die cut waves so that they stop along the edge of the arch.
Step 6: Use the largest arch die in the set to die cut a piece of sparkly black cardstock for the matte layer.
Step 7: Press the Nocturne VersaFine Clair ink onto a small scrap of watercolor paper to create black cardstock. Die cut two small bird silhouettes out of the black paper.
Step 8: Use two die cuts to create two layers of a cloud, both out of watercolor paper. Use an ink dauber to very lightly ink blend Pink Grapefruit VersaMagic Chalk Ink onto the base (larger) layer. Ink blend the upper player with the same Pink Grapefruit VersaMagic Chalk Ink with a heavier hand so the layer is a darker pink. Then spray both layers of the cloud with more Sparkle Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray. After both layers of the cloud are dry, glue them together. Then glue the cloud onto the right side of the card panel. I positioned my cloud to cover a small imperfection from the stenciling.
Step 9: Glue the birds onto the card base. (Optional step: Add glitter to the birds by coloring on them with a sparkly clear gel pen. Then glue the main scene onto the black matte layer.
Step 10: Die cut the sentiment out of the same black sparkly cardstock and attach to the bottom corner of the upper (stenciled) layer. If desired, die cut a second piece of scrap cardstock with the same die to add dimension underneath the stencil or to help make the tittle (the dot on the i) pop up as it doesn’t have layers of die cuts behind it like the rest of the sentiment does.
Step 11: Glue sequins onto the bottom left corner and upper right part of the card.
Step 12: Glue the whole card onto an A2-sized white card base.
Hi everyone! Summer is finally here and I’m so excited for the sunny weather! What reminds you of summer? I think of pools, ice cream and acai bowls, which is the inspiration for today’s card. Most of my creations are more advanced with lots of tools and techniques, but I thought today I would do a simple card with just stamps and inks.
Skill: Beginner Time: 30 minutes
Directions:
Step 1: I’m using two stamp sets today: Sweet Strawberry and Berry Blessings. I stamped the fruit outline images with VersaFine Clair ink in Nocturne. This is my favorite black ink! Today’s card is a smaller notecard style so I’m stamping on a 6’’ x 6’’ square piece cardstock. I am also trying out a new rotating stamping technique on the We R stamp platform. This is such a fun tool to use to create your own patterned backgrounds. I placed the stamps within the 3’’ x 3’’ grid and rotated the plate 4 times with 90 degrees each time. If you don’t have this particular stamping tool, you could stamp the outlines freehand as well.
Step 2: I then stamped the layering images with these VersaFine Clair inks. I love the bright, bold colors, especially for a summertime themed card.
Step 3: To keep the sentiment simple, I used StazOn Pigment ink in Snowflake and stamped it on black cardstock. For a more vibrant look, you could heat emboss with white embossing powder. But the StazOn Pigment ink is a great alternative for beginners with just inks and stamps in their stash. I adhered some sequins with On Point glue as some finishing touches, and a simple summer notecard is complete! Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed this quick project.
Greetings friends and fellow crafters, LeeAnn here with a fun to make, retirement card using both stencils and stamps. I am finding myself in love with stencils these days, and you will see more coming from me in the upcoming months.
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