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
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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!
Since we are deep in holiday card making seasons, I am sharing a Hanukkah card featuring a lot of different blues.
Skill: Intermediate Time: 2 hours
Directions:
Step 1: Watercolor smoosh Danube Blue and Grape Jelly Memento Dual Markers as well as Turquoise Gem VersaMagic Chalk Ink mixed with water on a piece of scrap acetate packaging onto a watercolor panel. Allow the panel to dry.
Step 2: Arrange a variety of six-sided stars onto one side of the watercolor panel in a stamp positioner. Stamp the stars onto the panel with Bali Blue VersaFine Clair Pigment Ink and then heat emboss with clear Mboss powder. Flip the panel and repeat the process. Move any of the stars around on the stamp positioner to fill in any holes on the panel.
Step 3: Watercolor smoosh the panel again, this time with Teal Zeal Memento Dye ink mixed with Sparkle Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray on the acetate packaging.
Step 4: Color in the six-sided stars with Summer Sky and Lulu Lavender Memento Dual Markers.
Step 5: Ink blend the edges of the panel Neptune VersaColor ink with a sponge dauber. Run the edges of the panel through the Neptune VersaColor ink pad and then heat emboss with more clear Mboss powder.
Step 6: Stamp the menorah and sentiment on watercolor paper with Medieval Blue VersaFine Clair ink. Heat emboss with more clear Mboss powder. Then die cut with the corresponding dies from the matching die set.
If desired, die cut some scraps of cardstock with the two dies two more times (to create two layers to glue behind the menorah and two layers to glue behind the sentiment) for strength and dimension.
Step 7: Watercolor the flames with Cantaloupe Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray. Then use some of the remaining Teal Zeal Memento dye ink mixed with Sparkle Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray (from step 3) to watercolor the tops of each candle. Add some of the Sparkle Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray (by itself) to the bottom of each candle.
If desired, watercolor the base of the menorah with more of the same Tael Zeal Memento dye ink mixed with Sparkle Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray.
Set the die cut aside to dry.
Steps 8 and 9: Add Neptune VersaColor ink directly to another panel of watercolor paper that is slightly larger than the first panel. You may need to do this a few times to get the coverage you want. Allow the panel to dry.
(And this is where my camera crashed after taking pictures so I can’t share the next few steps.) Die cut the panel with a die slightly larger than the stamped panel.
Then glue the two panels together, glue the menorah onto the center of the top panel and the sentiment a little lower and right of the sentiment. Then glue blue gems around the menorah.
Steps 10: Glue the panel onto an A2-sized white card base.
Other • Crafty Meraki – embellishments – Meraki Sparkle Prismatic Blue • Pink & Main – die set – Notched Corners • Simon Says Stamp – die set – Light the Menorah • Simon Says Stamp – stamp set – Light the Menorah • Watercolor paper • Die cutting machine • Paint brush • Paper trimmer • Scissors • Glue
Hello Crafty Friends! It’s Ceal, here. Today I am sharing how I made this faux stained-glass Christmas Card.
Skill Level: Beginner Time: 30 Minutes
Directions:
Gather your supplies. You will three inks, Pink, Yellow and Blue. A blending tool, a silhouette die along with black, white and gold cardstock.
Step 1: Cut the nativity die out of black cardstock, the backer out of white and the star out of the gold cardstock.
Step 2: On the backer using a sponge or other blending tool, blend the blue around the outer edge of the panel and the pink and yellow inside the blue.
Step 3: Line up the nativity over the backer and adhere it down with On Point glue. As you can see in the photo above, I use the corner of the MISTI to help me line things up.
Other Products: Misti 2.0 – My Sweet Petunia Nativity Die – Stampendous White Cardstock – CutCardStock Black Cardstock – Hero Arts Gold foil cardstock – Erin Lee Creative
In today’s card, I made a congratulations card for a coworker who just had a baby using some of the beautiful new VersaFine Clair ink colors.
Skill: Intermediate Time: 1.5 hours
Directions:
Step 1: Stamp a piece of watercolor paper with Grass Green VersaFine Clair ink using a background stamp with a variety of lines on it. Rotate the paper 180 degrees and repeat the process. Then move the stamp on the stamp positioning tool a little (so the lines don’t overlap) and repeat the process with Spruce VersaFine Clair ink. Heat emboss the whole thing with Clear Mbossing powder.
Step 2: Die cut the panel with the second-largest die from a nested die cutting set.
Step 3: Use a sponge dauber to ink blend the whole panel with Grass Green VersaFine Clair ink. (This doesn’t have to be done perfectly because it won’t matter on the final card.)
Step 4: Stamp the large floral image with Bali Blue VersaFine Clair ink on another piece of watercolor paper. Then heat emboss with more Clear Mboss powder.
Step 5: Die cut the floral image with the corresponding die.
Step 6: Die cut the left edge of the floral image with the same die used earlier, that way the decorative edge of the stamped image can line up with the edge of the green panel.
Since I smudged the floral image while die cutting, I decided to cover the smudge with some spray.
Spray the image with Sparkle Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray. Press the cap of the spray bottle down about half-way, allowing the spray to come out more in drips rather than as a mist. (I was able to cover the smudges with large splatters of spray.) Allow to dry.
Step 7: Glue the floral image onto the left side of the panel.
Press the Teal Zeal Memento Ink pad onto a piece of scrap acetate packaging and spray the packaging with water to create watercolor. Splatter it with a paint brush. After the splatter dried, ink blend the left side of the panel with more Grass Green VersaFine Clair ink.
Steps 8 and 9: Stamp a sentiment from the same stamp set as the floral image with Spruce VersaFine Clair ink on watercolor paper and heat emboss with more clear Mboss powder. Trim the sentiment strip with a paper trimmer.
Then run the edges of the sentiment strip through the Bali Blue VersaFine Clair ink pad. Emboss the Bali Blue ink with more clear Mboss powder.
Step 10: Die cut a piece of silver glitter cardstock with the largest die from the same nesting die cut set.
Step 11: Glue the green panel onto the silver panel, orientating them at a diagonal. Glue the sentiment on the lower right corner of the green and silver panels. Set aside to dry.
Step 12: Glue blue and green sequins onto the card–three on the lower left corner and two on the upper right corner.
Step 13: Finish the card by gluing the whole panel onto an A2-sized white card base.
Other • Catherine Pooler – sequins – Yukon • Gina Marie Designs – Die set – Pleated Lace Rectangles die set • Hero Arts – Stamp set – Succulent Bouquet • Hero Arts – Die set – Succulent Bouquet • Unknown stamp company – background stamp – diagonal lines (I don’t know the brand or name of this stamp) • Watercolor paper • Silver glitter cardstock • Die cutting machine • Paint brush • Paper trimmer • Scissors • Glue
Hello Crafty Friends. Today, I am sharing how to add dimension to your card using diecuts and VersaFine Clair Inks.
Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate Time: 30 to 45 Minutes
Directions:
Step 1: Gather your supplies. You will need several colors of ink, a stencil, a background cover plate, and die cuts for your stenciled image. You will also need VersaMark ink and some clear embossing powder.
Step 2: Using a grip mat or another sticky mat, lay your panel on the mat and cover with the stencil. Use several colors of ink to color the snowflake. Repeat this process 3 times.
Step 3: Using the coordinating die, cut out all of the snowflakes you colored along with 6 others out of a heavyweight cardstock. Add the ones cut out of the heavyweight cardstock to the colored ones. This will give you dimension for the snowflakes and will still go through the mail without extra postage.
Step 4: Stamp the sentiment in purple ink and emboss it with clear powder. For my sample I decided to go with embossing it with silver powder on purple cardstock.
Create a background by using a cover plate die.
Assemble your card.
I created a second card with the left-over pieces.
Craft Supplies:
Imagine products: VersaFine Clair – Bali Blue, Warm Breeze, Lilac Bloom and Very Peri VersaMark On Point Glue
Other products: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 120lb – CutCardStock Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80lb – CutCardStock Stardream Silver Metallic 105lb – CutCardStock Radiating Snowflake Stencil – PinkFresh Studio Radiating Snowflake Die – PinkFresh Studio Holiday Greeting Sentiments – PinkFresh Studio Cover plate die – PinkFresh Studio Merry Die – Kristina Werner C9
Hi! This is Amalia with Imagine crafts. In this video, I am using the new VersaFine Clair colors and stencils to create backgrounds that will turn into beautiful cards. The VersaFine Clair inks are highly pigmented and stamp perfectly the first time. They are vibrant and great for use with watercolor as they won’t bleed when wet. I love color and use the new colors with coordinating card stock from my stash for a tone-on-tone look. I hope you get inspired with the new colors and what I am able to create with them.
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