Birthday Slimline Underwater Card

I love anything that is water related!  My Favorite Things has a stencil that when used once and then rotate 3 times, looks amazingly like water!  Mine arrived over the weekend and I had to play today!

 

I chose to make a slimline card, underwater birthday card.  First I started with a sheet of Neenah 110lb card stock trimmed it to 4 1/4 x 8 1/2.  

Now, time to work with the stencil.  The stencil is approximately 6x6 so I did one section then flipped my card stock around to do the other side.  First I placed purple tape onto my glass media mat to place my card stock.  Then I prayed Pixie Spray onto the back of the stencil to keep in place.  Then I taped my card stock to the mat.  Tumbled Glass Oxide ink was used with a blender brush then I rotated the stencil and repeated inking until stencil has rotated 4 times.  To finish the other side, my card stock is flipped.  Finally, with a light touch, I blended Peacock Feathers all over to hide the seam of ink.

The second piece of card stock is inked with Vintage Photo and a blender brush.  Using my Gemini Jr I die cut the  “sand” piece with Slimline Stitched Hillside Borders and layered them for an ocean bottom.  Then adhered it to the “ocean” piece with connect glue.  Using the Large Slimline with sliders die I ran it through my Gemini Jr.  Finally I used the Small Slimline with Lift the Flaps Die on top and ran that through the Gemini Jr.

Now time to decorate!  Using some older My Monthly Hero Kit stamps I added seaweed with Hero Arts Ink.  Then I stamped with Versamark ink (in my MISTI) two coral pieces and applied Pink Puff Embossing powder and heat set.   Then using You are Sublime I stamped the sentiment with amalgam ink using my MISTI for easy placement.

I pulled out some previously stamped, colored and die cut fishes from You are Sublime and Gill Friends and played with arranging them before adhering with connect glue.  This was soooo fun to do!

Paradise card stock is trimmed to 8 1/2 x 7 and folded in half.  I then opened the flaps and make tick marks with a pencil for placement guide.  A sentiment is stamped with amalgam ink and previously colored images are attached.  I erased the tick marks with the couture creation tool.  Finally, the card top is adhered to the card base.

Have a great day and keep on crafting!

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Beach House Card

Honey Bee's House Builders Honey Cuts just make me happy, plain and simple!  I giggle every time I work with them. 

Using the Beach House Stamps and Honey Cuts have loads of options for your house.  My card started with the roof, I added copic coloring to mimic thatched roof.  For the siding, I used paper from Beach Vibes.  Next came stamping with Tuxedo Black and coloring with Copics.  Then comes die cutting, using my Gemini Jr., all the stamped images along with window, door, fence and other elements.  A little ink makes a big difference!  I decided I want most of my accessories inside the fence so I played with placement before I started to glue them down.  Instead of a traditional door handle, a shell works and shells are placed on the welcome sign.  Twinkle lights add sparkle and glossy accents add shine to the life preservers and window.  Micron Pen and Signo white gel pen adds detail.

Have a great day and keep on crafting!

Affiliate links used at no cost to you.  Not all links are affiliate, I just want to share what I used.  All products were purchase by me unless noted.  I don’t sell anything nor am I employed.  This is my hobby and I hope to inspire you to play :)

Graduation Celebrate with Pop Up Card

I needed a graduation card but wanted something non-traditional.  So I chose celebrate rather than congratulations.  I’m very proud of this graduate and she has big plans!

Starting with a top folding base I chose Grapesicle.  Next I used the quilted background die with white card stock.  Ran that through my Gemini Jr..  Next I used the Celebrate die and cut two white and one from silver mirror card stock.  Once that was done, the layers are attached.  I had some colored wired ribbon in my stash that looked perfect.  I wrapped it around the white background piece and attached on the reverse side.  Next I glued that to the background and applied the sentiment with enough glue to soak through the ribbon.  That pretty light purple peeks through the “quilting”.

For the inside, I chose Pivot Pop Up and again chose that same silver mirror card stock for the Bold Numerals 2020.  A very close color match of ink is brushed around the edges.

The sentiment and signature was inked when I realized I hadn’t taken a photo, so I layed a piece of card stock over for the pic.

Have a great day and keep on crafting!

Affiliate links used at no cost to you.  Not all links are affiliate, I just want to share what I used.  All products were purchase by me unless noted.  I don’t sell anything nor am I employed.  This is my hobby and I hope to inspire you to play :)