Monthly Archives: September 2013

Bright leaves card (gelli monoprint)

card, gelli plate, monoprint

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Having got a few colour sprays, inks and paints out the other day to make a birthday card I found that I didn’t want to use the usual autumnal colours this time and then I remembered that I had already created a background page that would be just what I was after.  I had made the background paper last year and it had been on a day that mum was visiting and we were playing around with my gelli plate.  Mum had brought round some of her paints too and  we both made some lovely background papers.  This one was made using dried Acer leaves from my garden and some fibres and the little accent leaf is just a copper peel-off that I coloured with a dark reddy/brown pen then stuck it onto a portion of the same background paper then cut it out.

Anniversary card – misty grasses

anniversary card, card

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I have a few anniversary cards to make in September so I made 3 similar but ever so slightly different by changing the colours slightly or the shading (only showing one here).  The photo doesn’t really pick up the shading very well.  I was trying to capture a  misty Autumnal morning effect.  To get the misty effect spray a very fine mist of water over the image as this reacts with the inks I used and diffuses them slightly.

 

Inks:  Distress inks Tumbled glass, Weathered wood, Frayed burlap, Stamping up Mellow moss and Crumb cake

Card:  white card

Stamps:  Judikins bamboo, Carity (?) flock of birds, Rubber stamp tapestry (small leaf), Stampin up Cheer and wishes, English stamp company Oriental grasses (reversed by stamping onto brayer)

Butterfly – live the life you’ve imagined card

birthday card, butterfly, card

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I was trying to be clever with the background paper for this card.  I had already made the background a while ago with spray colours and I used salt to make a blotchy pattern on it but I wanted a few more layers in keeping with the recipient’s likes (numbers and accountancy) so I used stamps with those themes but just quite low key in the background.  The butterfly is stamped onto acetate and coloured on the back side using Copic pens and Stickles.

Inks and paints: Stazon black, Black India ink, Dylusions Vanilla custard, Chroma jewels slate, Cosmic shimmer Aqua lagoon, Hot jewels Lime, Acrylic paint Light antique white, Lumiere Halo blue-gold, yellow

Card:  white, watercolour paper, acetate

Stamps: Stampers anonymous Mini muse, Fairytale frenzy and Urban tapestry, Paperbag studios Scrap journal, Paperartsy Words plate 6, Clingables flourishes, Inkadinkado Mindscapes

Other:  Stickles, Copics pens blue and yellow, Diamond glaze (to glue acetate)

 

Steampunk airship card

birthday, card, steampunk, steampunk card

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Steampunk or steampunk style is great for men’s card.  The design is quite simple – I was trying to recreate a smoggy scene and grunged it up a bit.

Inks:  Distress inks Black soot, Antique linen, and Pumice stone, Black India ink

Card:  white card, pale dusky green, black

Stamps:  Clarity stamps wrought iron corner (?), Oxford impression Steampunk

Other:  natural sponge to stipple on black ink

Dragon fly card

card, dragonflies, dragonfly, watercolour

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I was finding it difficult to come up with new ideas for some cards and even after flicking through some old magazines and books I still couldn’t come up with any thing.  But I then started to look back at some previous cards I have made I got an idea from 2 previous designs that I joined together.  This is made using the watercolour technique and stamps where you ink up your stamp and spritz the stamp with water before stamping onto water colour paper.

Inks:  Adirondack Wild plum, Red pepper, Terra cotta, Stream, Lettuce, and Oregano

Card:  water colour paper, old olive card, ivory card

Stamps:  Clarity stamps Dandelion heads, Satampin up Pocket silhouettes, unknown dragonfly stamp, Papertrey ink Out on a limb sentiments

Other:  Stampin up hardware, Tiny mosaic Cranberry, East of India ribbon