Faux mother of pearl

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For today's card I tried the faux mother of pearl technique for the first time.
This is the technique of this month's CAS Challenge over at Happy Little Stampers.

For faux mother of pearl effect I mixed white acrylic paint with pearl pigment, as I have neither pearl acrylic paint nor the Frost white ink from Tsukineko. I then pounced it using a scrunched cling wrap on my card base.
After it dried I blended some DIs in green and blue. It looks white on the pic but it is shimmery in real life. I mounted some White Bling CS from Bazzill on the card using foam tape to make the card CAS.
The flowers are from Wild peonies stamp set from The Ton. I stamped and white heat embossed the flowers and leaves on a water color paper and colored them using Zig brush pens. I used some colors from the color palette at The Ton's color palette Challenge. After fussy cutting I arranged them as shown in the picture. The sentiment is from Oriental orchids stamp set by Altenew. I used dark blue CS for the white heat embossed sentiment.

Challenges:

Happy Little Stampers March CAS Challenge: Faux mother of pearl

The Ton's Color Palette Challenge

 

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Wish Big!

Hello, I hope your weekend is going well so far!
Today's card features my first try to make a "smooshed" background :).
I followed Kristina Werner's video tutorial and used a small acetate sheet to apply the colors on some watercolor paper. I used Distress inks.

I can't say I'm happy with that background. I need more practice, if it helps...
The flowers are from the Bohemian Garden stamp from Essentials by Ellen.  I stamped them and silver heat embossed on a vellum and fussy cut them.
The watercolor paper panel was mounted slightly rotated on a green card base. The sentiment from My favorite things was stamped using black Memento ink. I glued the flowers and leaves flat in their position, only the big flower was adhered using clear foam. Lastly I added some sparkle using Wink of Stella and clear sequins.

Challenges:

Happy Little Stampers January CAS challenge: Smooshing 

Essentials by Ellen January Mix It Up Challenge: with My Favorite Things

Colour Q #324

Addicted to Stamps and More #176:  Anything Goes

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Wishing you a good start into the new week! 

Guest Designing at HappyLittleStampers CAS Challenge

Today I have the honour to be a guest designer over at Happy Little Stampers December CAS Challenge.
The theme for December's Challenge over there is Use Your Favourite Technique.
I think we all have one or another favorite things to do during card making.

For me as a beginner in this crafting world I am still trying techniques I see on other crafter's blogs. So it is hard to name a technique as my favourite:)
Because I use my Cricut for almost every card I make, I've picked "using Cricut" as my favourite technique for this challenge.

Here is what I came up with.

I've made a shaker christmas card in CAS style. To make this card I made cutting files for the scene. I create my cutting files using Inkscape, which is a free vector graphic editor.
Before I cut the front panel with cut out trees, I blended the bottom part of a white CS in light blue and dry embossed it using Wave EF from We R Memory Keepers. I then blended a small panel in various shades of green and brown Distress inks and cut the outline of the trees from it. The inner part of this cut was used as the background for the shaker window. I added silver dots on the window background using silver gel pen. I then mounted all the elements as shown in the picture. I filled the window with silver beads to give the card some christmas feelings.
The banner for the sentiment and the hill was cut from a CS which I blended in light green.
The sentiment is from Happy Little Stampers' Mixed Christmas Sentiments.
To finish off my card I adhered star sequins on the top of the trees.

I hope I could inspire you with my card to play along at HLS December CAS Challenge.

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Happy crafting!

Deck the halls

My second post today :)!
I have another christmas card to share with you. This time in red and gold.
I had two challenges in my mind. The current challenge at Less is More is a colour challenge and the colour of this month is "Fire". At Happy Little Stampers Blog runs HLS November CAS challenge with the theme "Gilding"

The flame background was made using alcohol inks. I dropped red, orange and yellow alcohol inks on a glossy CS and blowed them through a small straw.
I then stamped a branch from the Golden Garden stamp set from Altenew using metallic gold ink and added some dots with a brush.  I then trimmed right and bottom edge of the glossy CS panel and mounted it on a card base, the edges of which I gold heat embossed.

The sentiment from Happy Little Stampers was stamped and gold heat embossed on a black CS, cut and adhered on the card using foam tape.

I am happy with the result, even though it was my first trial of this technique (blowing alcohol ink).
But it took a very long time until it was dry.

Challenges:

Less is More #249: FIRE

Happy Little Stampers November CAS Challenge: Gilding
Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes Challenge

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Thanks

Since I've got the Misti tool, there was a thing which I absolutely want to try to do with it.
Coloring an image using colored pencils and then heat embossing it!
Because the pencil scratches the embossing off, it was very hard to color an heat embossed image using colored pencils.

So finally I could make a card featuring a bouquet of tulip which I colored at first and then white heat embossed with the help of Misti Tool.

I chose a kraft CS as my card base. I stamped the tulip bouquet from Penny Black in Desert Sand and colored it using Prismacolor colored pencils. I then stamped the same image with embossing ink and white heat embossed it.  For the vase I used a piece of pattern paper (Paper piecing is the theme at the Happy Little Stampers October CAS Challenge).
I then flicked some white inks after I covered the image with a piece of scrap paper.
I actually regret that action...
The sentiment is from Cricut online store.

Here is the close up where you can see my white fingerprints :)....

Challenges:

Happy Little Stampers October CAS Challenge: Paper Piecing 

SimonSaysStamp work it wednesday October: Thank You Card

SimonSaysStamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

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Blue poppy

I didn't know that there are blue poppies. For me poppies are blazing red.
As I saw the cord word over at Addicted to CAS, BLUE, blue flowers came into my mind and I googled blue poppy on the internet. And voila! There is blue poppy!

So the poppy stamp from Hero Arts came in action. I stamped only some part of the stamp on the kraft card base, colored with prismacolor colored pencils. I added dots using glaze pens to draw the stamen. For the sentiment I used patterned acetate sheet. Some faux water droplets using glossy accents are the finishing touch.

I'm happy with the way it turned out :), love the prismacolor colored pencils!

I'm linking up this card at these challenges:
Addicted to CAS; Blue
Happy Little Stampers September CAS Challenge; Colouring
TIME OUT Challenge #39; Make your Mark
My Time To Craft Challenge; Flowers

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