Monthly Archives: November 2012

Bright and colourful grungy birthday card

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Inspired by Craft stamper again but can’t remember the issues, I used a mixture of techniques.  Using an A5 piece of old card I started making the background using torn masking tape along with some ripped pieces of text from an old book sticking them haphazardly over the whole piece of card.Then I applied some Distress inks to the page  (tiny drops from re-inkers)  and smooshed it around with a baby wipe so that some of the ink highlighted the edges of the tears.  I gave it a light spray with water and while it was still wet I sprinkled on some salt in some areas.  Once dry the salt was then wiped off.  Using various found items I made some marks with black and white acrylic paint and stamped some text using white acrylic paint (I tried various white inks but none of them came out well).
Next I stamped the silhouette onto tissue paper and stuck that onto my card.  Stamped more white text over the image and highlighted areas with oil pastels.  Cut the size you need then mat and layer it all on the card.  Similar background card was created with ordinary white card as one of the layers.

Inks:  Memento Tuxedo black, Distress re-inkers Picked raspberry, Moved lawn and Salty ocean
Card: white and black
Stamps:  Dina Wakely grungy silhouette D1007
Other:  black and white acrylic paint, oil pastels, torn book pages, masking tape

Autumn anniversary card

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I really liked the look of  Michelle Zindorf’s card she made in one of her tutorials  #543 so I wanted to make my version for my mum and dad’s anniversary.  As usual I have tweaked a few bits to make it a little different but keeping to her overall design. The grungier type of swirls go better with this very rustic grungy type of image. The direct to paper technique makes every card look different as you can never swipe the inks pads identically.

Inks:  Stampin up Soft suede and Crumb cake, Adirondack Espresso
Card: ivory, dark green, pearlised brown and dark brown card
Stamps:  Stampin up Lovely as a tree and Cheer and wishes, Creative expressions Swirl elements, Tim Holtz Urban tapestry (texture stamp)
Other: copper peel-off leaf (darkened with brown Sharpie pen to dull the copper), Tombow green pen, Moonshadow ink Incandescent copper, copper brads
I did use a white pen to create highlights but I smudged them in a little as they were just too bright.