Hello! Alison Heikkila here. Grab a sentiment that’s worth repeating and let’s do some tone on tone stamping. You can do any color combo you want, just try not to overlap colors that are opposite on the color wheel. The techniques we’re doing today are great ways to mix various inks you may have in your stash.
Skill Level: Intermediate Time to Complete: 20-30 Minutes
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This was so much fun to create. I’d love to make it again with different colors. What colors would you use? I might try teal, terra cotta, and cocoa next. Thanks so much for stopping by. Have an inspiring day!
I wanted to use some dies in my stash plus some warm colored inks to make a Valentine’s Day card for my husband.
Skill: Intermediate Time: 1.5 hours
Directions:
Step 1:
Rub a piece of watercolor paper with a Love Letter Memento ink pad. Don’t worry too much about the consistent color across the watercolor paper.
Step 2:
Spray the same watercolor paper with Rose Gold Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray and allow to dry.
Step 3:
Die cut the colored and sprayed watercolor paper.
Step 4:
Use a background or texture stamp to to stamp the center of the die cut with ore Love Letter Memento ink. If desired, rub the small hearts around the edge with more Love Letter Memento ink as well.
Step 5:
Rub a piece of watercolor paper with Rhubarb Stalk Memento ink pad. Again, don’t worry too much about the consistent color across the watercolor paper.
Steps 6 and 7:
Die cut the Rhubarb Stalk colored watercolor paper and use a paintbrush to paint GooseBumps Shimmer Texture Spray on the die cut. Allow the GooseBumps Shimmer Texture Spray to dry (or if you are impatient like me use your heat tool to dry it quickly).
(Not pictured: Die cut two more layers of the sentiment die with scraps of cardstock and glue the three layers together for dimension. Then die cut the shadow of the sentiment with vellum and glue the sentiment onto the shadow.)
Step 8:
Spray enough Angel Pink Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray onto a piece of watercolor paper to totally color the paper and allow to dry.
Step 9:
Die cut the sprayed watercolor paper. Glue the two layers of die cut hearts together.
Step 10:
Tape an outer and inner frames together with tape and use them both together to die cut more watercolor paper.
Step 11:
Ink blend the die cut frame with Rhubarb Stalk Memento Ink using a sponge dauber.
Step 12:
Spray the internal part of the die cut with Rose Gold Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray and allow to dry.
Step 13:
Use Love Letter and Rhubarb Stalk Memento Ink to ink blend through a stencil. Then ink blend around the edges of the die cut with more Rhubarb Stalk Memento Ink.
Step 14 and 15:
Use the same texture stamp used to stamp the red heart, stamp the background (internal part) of the card base with more of the Love Letter Memento Ink multiple times to add some more interest to the background.
Step 16:
Arrange the card and glue it onto a 6” x 6” card base. Start out by gluing the sentiment onto the internal part of the cardpanel (over the die cut heart). Then glue the frame onto the card base and nestle the internal part of the card onto the card. Add sequins on the lower left and upper right parts of the card.
Hello crafty friends! Valentine’s Day is around the corner and today, I have a love themed CAS card idea to share with you all. It is a fun and quick card to make to spread love with others through handmade cards.
Let’s get crafting!
Skill: Intermediate Time: 15-20 minutes
Direction:
Step 1 Cut out a piece of Canson watercolor paper into 4.5 inch x 6 inch that you want to use as your background panel. I use 9×12 Canson watercolor paper and trim it into 2 panels.
Dab randomly the Memento inks (Love Letter & Rose Bud) on the background stamp.
Spray lightly with the Ink Potion No. 9.
Step 2 Add the watercolor panel to the inked stamp and firmly press it down to the stamp. Try to center it to the stamp.
Carefully move around your finger all over the watercolor panel to get the ink transferred well.
Lift up the paper off the stamp and you will get the first watercolor print background. There are still some inks left on the stamp, pray again with the Ink Potion No.9 to get the second print out of it.
Step 3 Repeat step 2 but instead of moving your hand all over the paper, you can try to just partially press the paper to get partially watercolor background print just like on the right panel in the picture.
Step 4 This layered stamping technique is easier done with a position stamping tool if you have it. If you do not have it, clear acrylic stamping blocks work, too. Cut out a white cardstock into 4.25 inch x 5.5 inch.
Stamp the outline flower images with a Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad.
Stamp the solid background flower images with a Rose Bud ink pad, then stamp the shadow flower images with a Rhubarb Stalk ink pad.
Stamp the leaves images with a Bamboo Leaves ink pad.
Step 5 Stamp the sentiment with a Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad at the extra space of the cardstock panel.
Step 6 Cut out all the flower pieces with the matching dies. Optional, if you don’t have the matching dies to your stamp set, you can fussy cut it with scissors.
Cut out the sentiment with one of the Label framelits dies.
Step 7 Rip the top and bottom of the watercolor background panel to give some texture to the background panel.
Optional: You can use the whole watercolor background panel as your background.
Wrap around some of the Burlap twine around the background panel and tie up a bow.
Add it to the card base with some of the Tear It! Tape.
Step 8 Add some of the Tear It Tape! to both sides of the white fun foam and cut it into a 3D foam tape strip. Add some of them to the flowers and sentiment label.
Add each of the flowers and sentiment to the card.
Step 9 Add some of the white pearl gems with some of the On Point Glue to embellish the card.
Hope this CAS card project gives you an idea to make some Valentine’s Day. Thank you for stopping by our blog today. Have a fabulous day!
Craft Supplies
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Memento Dew Drop (Tuxedo Black, Love Letter, Rose Bud, Rhubarb Stalk, Bamboo Leaves)
– Hey there friends, LeeAnn here with a fun project that the idea will work any time of year, but this one especially is for Valentine’s Day. I did direct ink to paper, and blending Rose Bud, Love Letter and Angel Pink Memento Dye Ink in dew drop form.
I then ran the panel through my Big Shot with a die that embossed stitching into the background and made the perfect a2 cut around the panel. I then did direct to paper with VersaMark which I the poured Gold Mboss and then took my heat tool to melt it. After using my Big Shot to cut out the sentiment with the embossed panel and 3 layers of white, I cut the shadow layer out of vellum.
Then I used On Point Glue to adhere the layers together, and attached to the card panel, I used Tear It Tape to attach the panel with my card base. I followed that up with a few drops of On Point Glue to adhere some flat backed Gold Pearls to my panel and spritzed it with Sparkle Simmer Spray. With that this 20 minute video was complete (actually 6 video’s spliced together) I sped it up and cut the messy parts and you now have more time to enjoy the rest of your day. Thank you for watching, and I would love to see what you make that perhaps this project inspired you with.
Hi everyone, on today’s blog, I am sharing some fun cards I created using StazOn Studio Glaze.
I love this stuff for the fun effects you can achieve as well as the vibrant and amazing colors in the range.
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 20 minutes
Directions:
Step 1
Squeeze some glaze onto your squeegee and swipe your first color over a sheet of smooth white cardstock.
You can leave this to dry for a few minutes.
Step 2
Apply a second color to your squeegee and swipe it over the first color. I use the rubber side on my squeegee but also sometimes use one of the other edges.
Both edges work perfectly, and you can always create some effects using the textured sides.
Step 3
I also used a second color combination and created another sheet for a fresh spring look.
Step 4
Once your background is dry, use a heart or flower die-cut and die-cut some shapes using your die-cutting machine.
Step 5
Use your VersaFine Clair ink and color some chipboard words by directly inking the words.
Once dry, you can adhere them to your card.
Step 6
Assemble your card by adhering the hearts to your background using foam tape.
Adhere the “love” word using On Point Glue and finish off your card with an enamel dot.
And in a few easy steps, you have a gorgeous set of cards using some fun backgrounds and hearts.
For me the shine, texture, and patterns achieved are what makes these cards so special, and I just love using these glazes.
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