It's been awhile since I've posted a 3-D card. I love making them but sometimes life gets in the way. And sometimes it hands you what you need. Over the weekend I ended up with more colored, cut-out unicorns than I needed for my DT card. So.....
A unicorn box card! I have several dies that make the box itself. This one is from Mama Elephant. I mostly like it. My only issue is that the fold lines aren't embossed they are perforated, which seems to be a little delicate. I'm afraid too many times folded and opened could cause a flap to fall off. But we shall see. Generally speaking, when someone receives a card like this they open it and leave it open. The advantage of this particular die is that everything is straight. I have others where the edge is scalloped or the corners curved. Not perfect for designing - this one is better for that.
I used wood look paper for the accent panels on the card and washi tape to accent the front. The tape says "Play", "Explore" and "Amazing".
Inside, my unicorns have Wink of Stella added to their manes and horns. I used an acetate strip to hold the one jumping up.
See my first card made with only one unicorn and Scan 'n Cut tip here.
Stamps: Stamping Bella Unicorns and Unicorn Add-Ons
Die: MFT Clouds, Mama Elephant 3-D Box
Copics: YG21, YG23, BG11, BG13, BG07, RV52, RV55, RV19, YR02, C0, C00
Prismacolors: 1004, 989, 912, 992, 905, 105, 993, 994, 995, 918, Cool Grey 20% & 30%
Distress Oxide Tumbled Glass
Stencil: MFT Small Clouds
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This Tuesday's sketch challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches provided me with a few challenges. First, it's a lovely sketch but it took me awhile to come up with an idea. And getting the curves just right and symmetrical was a whole OTHER challenge.
Here is the sketch:
Ultimately, I used grid paper to align my panel with my curve die and it wasn't as tough as I anticipated to get the curves right.
I colored three unicorns thinking I would use all of three. I planned on using my Scan 'n Cut to cut them out. I got it for Christmas and I'm still getting comfortable using it. Something about sending my art through a machine to be automatically cut makes me nervous. The few times I've used it I've sent another uncolored, stamped only image through first to make sure I'm doing everything right.
Am I glad I did this time! I learned that if you don't have your panel firmly stuck to the scanning mat it can move. The first pass went through fine to scan but when the mat fed back into the machine to begin cutting, the panel moved and cutting was not where it should have been. Lesson learned - stick your artwork on really well!
It did cut my final artwork perfectly. I decided to only use one unicorn so I had a few extras. In a future post (see that here) you'll see what I did with those....
The background on this is stenciled with Distress Oxide ink. I left the unicorn plain though I thought about adding some Wink of Stella to him. I decided the glittery "Believe" was enough sparkle for today.
Stamps: Stamping Bella Unicorns
Die: Poppy Believe, MFT Clouds, MFT Stitched edges
Copics: YG21, YG23, BG11, BG13, BG07, RV52, RV55, RV19, C0, C00
Prismacolors: 1004, 989, 912, 992, 905, 105, 993, 994, 995, Cool Grey 20% & 30%
Distress Oxide Tumbled Glass
Stencil: MFT Small Clouds
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Happy Friday (or should I say Frog-day?)! I couldn't resist another card for the SplitcoastStampers color challenge this week.
The colors tare Daffodil Delight, Pear Pizzazz and white. I
thought they lent themselves perfectly for this die.
This card is easy to put together. After cutting all the pieces from white card stock, I used Distress Oxide ink and a blending tool to color the pieces. The sentiment and bugs come from two separate stamp sets. (There are some pretty cute frog stamp sets around right now.)
Finally I used foam dots to give the frog dimension and rhinestones as the bodies on the little bugs.
Dies: Cottage Cutz Frog w/Lilypad
Stamps: Technique Tuesday Felix the Frog (sentiment); Stampin' Up! So Hoppy Together (bugs)
Distress Oxide inks: Forest Moss, Peeled Paint, Shabby Shutters, Gathered Twigs, Scattered Straw
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Today I feature cards for two color challenge DesignTeams. The colors were SO close it was tempting to try and make just one card for both. However, you can't combine color challenges pretty much by definition. The challenge is to make a card using just those colors (plus neutrals) so adding a color breaks the challenge rules. This week the color challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches is Daffodil Delight, Pear Pizzazz and So Saffron. The challenge at SplitcoastStampers is Daffodil Delight, Pear Pizzazz and White. See my dilemma? But I couldn't add So Saffron to SCS and I couldn't omit it from CC&S, so two cards with one theme.
Floral or frogs (there are some pretty cute frog sets out there right now) were my first thoughts. However, I've been traveling the past two weeks and I didn't get to color. And I really love to color! Stamping Bella images are among my favorites - they are fun and lend themselves to different media. For these I used Copic markers and Prismacolor pencils.
This one is for the CC&S challenge. Her wings use both the Daffodil Delight and So Saffron. For the background paper I used Stampin' Up! DSP in So Saffron and Pear Pizzazz. Pencils give her give extra definition. With the limited palette I wanted to make sure that there was some contrast in areas where there wasn't much of tonal difference. The pencils allowed me to add slight shadows in a neutral with a very light touch. While I love my markers, sometimes I just can't get that fine or subtle detail from them.
This girl for SplitcoastStampers presented her own set of challenges. Since I didn't have two yellows to deal with it started out going much easier and faster. But then IT happened - the dreaded Copic marker blurble! After coloring her wings my N7 marker splotched the wing!
I opted to try and save it, and feel I did a fairly decent job. I was planning to cut her out so I knew the majority of it would be cut away. I used a Copic blender to push the ink back/dilute it. I then used my N7 marker (with both caps off now!) to add some color to rest of the edge of her wings. I planned that the majority of the edge color would be pencil since that area is so narrow. When the marker base was laid down I went back in with the pencils. After she was cut out I used a white pencil to help mask the splotch. It's not perfect but I think it looks okay. I spent less time fixing it than if I had to start over again.
After assembling the cards my final step was to add sparkle with a few rhinestones and LOTS of Wink of Stella!
Copics: Daffodil Delight - Y00, Y11, Y15, Y18; Pear Pizzazz - G40, G43, G82, G94; So Saffron - YR30, YR31, Y21, Y23 Others used - E000, E21, E50, E35, E37, E29, N7, Blender 0
Prismacolors: Yellows - 914, 916, 1034, 1012, 1034, 997, Greens - 1005, 989, 1097, Neutrals - 946, 948, 934, 1065, 1067
Stamps & matching dies: Stamping Bella Tiny Townie Butterfly Girls Babette and Brianna
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It's getting close to Valentine's Day and the sketch challenge at CAS Colour & Sketches features a sketch this week that is just perfect for it.
Here is the sketch:
This card came together very quickly. I had in my mind a totally different card using only die cuts. Then I was organizing a bit in my craft area when I found this stamp and die set that I forgot I had. And it is PERFECT for this challenge! The die set even had the two smaller hearts! So on to "Plan B."
I toyed with making the birds brighter colors - more parrot like - but opted to use softer colors that could be for Valentine's Day. This would also be a great wedding or anniversary card.
I colored the birds with a combo of Copics and Stampin' Blends. I used the heart dies to cut out the hearts on a white panel and then used the same dies to cut out and inlay the image and colored hearts, keeping my panel smooth. The sentiment has multiple layers of stacked cardstock under it to give dimension.
Stamps and Dies: Newton's Nook Darling Duos
Markers: Stampin' Blends - Pink Pirouette Light & Dark, Mint Macaron Light & Dark; Copic markers - G0000, RV0000, YR30, YR31, E55, E57
Cardstock: Mint Macaron, Baked Brown Sugar, Powder Pink
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A couple of weeks ago I posted about a color challenge card that just didn't work with the colors in the challenge. In my opinion it ended up looking not so great for a birthday card (although my hubby said it was fine). So I remade that card using this week's colors at CAS Colours & Sketches challenge and I'm much happier with the result.
Here are the colors that are posted this week:
The original color challenge was Gray Granite, Mango Melody and Blackberry Bliss. All great colors.
I have maintained that just about any color can look good with any other color given the right third color, the appropriate amounts of each and a fitting design. I think where this went wrong was in the background choice. To me, Mango Melody is SO BRIGHT that I only use it in small quantities - wouldn't use it as a background. I tried a Blackberry Bliss background but that was too dark. Ultimately, the gray just doesn't look birthday festive. This card falls short in the "fitting design" category for those colors. However, they looked great in the card I eventually made for the challenge.
When I was given the colors for this week's challenge at CC&S I knew exactly what to do. I have a friend whose birthday is on Valentine's Day. These colors could be birthday festive AND Valentine's Day! I remade the card and just changed a few things - switched the inside and outside sentiments and used a punch on the sentiment strip.
Finally, to make it a bit more Valentine's, I added a few iridescent hearts instead of sequins. I plan to make more of this birthday card. The layout is quick (I took it from a sketch challenge on Splitcoast Stampers) and the stamp set is great for male or female, young or old. Just change up the colors to suit the recipient.
The following supplies are for both the cake and the bike cards.
Stamps and Punch:
Piece of Cake Bundle
Stamps:
Piece of Cake
Bike Ride
Needle and Thread
Punch:
Cake Builder
Dies:
Build a Bike
Paper:
Stampin' Up! 2018-2020 DSP
Stampin' Up! 2017-2019 DSP
Stampin' Up! Neutrals DSP
Stampin' Up! Brights DSP
Stampin' Up! Regals DSP
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