I needed a quick birthday card and had a stamped and watercoloured panel leftover from another project sitting on my desk.
When I need to whip something up fast, I like to play along with a challenge and Feeling Sketchy has this sketch for inspiration.
I made a shaker card using scraps of cardstock and vellum. I used nesting dies from Spellbinders to create my panel and frame, layering up six frames for dimension. I find this method is much easier than using foam tape to enclose the shaker material. My stamped panel was created using a mixture of tiny images from Hero Arts and I used my Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolours. The Hero Arts sentiment was stamped on vellum with Versamark ink and heat embossed with Ranger Liquid Platinum embossing powder.
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Although I'm no longer on the DT at Feeling Sketchy, I do like to play along when I can. I needed a birthday card for a special lady so I decided to use Sketch #130 for inspiration.
I started by stamping, making and heat embossing a floral image from Hero Arts. Then I watercoloured the flowers and background with a cheap set of pearlised watercolours I got from Spotlight. I was pleasantly surprised that I could blend them to achieve some shading and they behaved quite well when I coloured the background.
I then stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from Avery Elle and matted that on some black cardstock before adding baker's twine and scattering some sequins here and there.
I will be sure to use these watercolours more in the future- the subtle shimmer is lovely in real life!
I'm playing along with Just Add Ink again as I needed a birthday card and I spotted their sketch to inspire me.
I started with some Tim Holtz Watercolour Paper and a Heidi Swapp stencil through which I applied some Texture Paste in a random fashion. Once that had dried I used various pink and mauve shades of Distress Inks to watercolour around the dried paste.
I then took a piece of white cardstock and gold heat embossed a background stamp from Hero Arts and cut it to a banner shape.
Using the same Distress Inks I used on the background, I stamped and diecut images from Stampin' Up's Flower Patch set. After applying the ink, I spritzed the stamps a couple of times with water to create a looser look to my stamping.
I gold heat embossed a sentiment from the Flower Patch set and cut it into another banner shape.
A loose nest of gold thread and some gold sequins were the final finishing touches.
This was a fun card to make as it's not my usual clean and simple style, but I know the recipient will love it :-)
It's time for another Feeling Sketchy Sketch and this time we welcome Lacy Sunshine as our challenge sponsor.
Here's the sketch we're playing with.....
I must admit that at first glance this sketch scared me but once the idea for a large image with inlaid circle die-cutting came to me, I was good to go!
I used the Gamer Reggie image from Lacy Sunshine, sized him in Photoshop and then printed him on Copic-friendly paper, before getting to work with my Copic markers.
I used my Kaisercraft nesting circle dies to cut parts of my panel and then again to cut the same kraft cardstock as my card base to make the layers. I used four layers of kraft under each circle cut from my main panel and once adhered to each other popped them back in the main panel like puzzle pieces- make sense?
I added some Zig Wink of Stella and Glossy Accents to Reggie's eyes, and I used an older Hero Arts sentiment stamped in Versamark and heat embossed with Denim Zing embossing powder. I used a Spellbinders die and then the appropriate size Kaisercraft circle die to make the kraft arrow for the sentiment.
I'm really happy with how this card turned out so remember to never let a sketch frighten you- use it to try something new and different!
Be sure to head over to the Feeling Sketchy Blog for more inspiration and for all the challenge details.
It's time for a new sketch at Feeling Sketchy and here is the sketch we're playing with.....
Our challenge sponsor is Polkadoodles.
I found the sketch to be a little bit busy for my usual style, so I decided on a pared back interpretation for my shaker card. I started with a panel of white cardstock and applied Distress Inks to create a night sky.
I flicked some water on top to add texture and white spray ink for stars.
I made a circle window for the shaker portion of my card using a circle punch, and then coloured the panel beneath with distress inks. I added small silver star confetti to the inside of my shaker and some larger star confetti to the front of my card.
The owl and branch from a Hero Arts stamp set were stamped and Copic coloured before being fussy-cut and added to the card front. I stamped a few extra leaves to fill that space a bit better. The sentiment was white heat-embossed.
I added some Glossy Accents to the owl's eyes for extra shine.
For my second card I used a digital stamp from Polkadoodles, printed it on cardstock with my laser printer and then applied Therm-o-Web Gold Deco-Foil using my laminator. Jennifer McGuire has a terrific tutorial on how to do this here. Although the image I was using had very thin lines, I was able to apply the foil successfully, but it's hard to see it unless you tilt it towards a light source. I will be doing this again for sure with thicker images.
I used patterned papers from Dear Lizzy's Serendipity Collection and added gold embossing to the edges of my card base.
I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut my sentiment three times. I adhered them together to make a sturdy one, then gold heat embossed it before adding it to my card. I also used a doily file from the Silhouette store and cut it from one of my patterned papers.
Be sure to visit the Feeling Sketchy Blog for all the DT projects and to get all the challenge details.
