Joy, Love, Xmas

 

Hello again everyone! Are you finished making your holiday cards? I started incredibly late and I'm still not quite done. Luckily, I don't have too many to send out. 

Today's card was fairly simple to complete. I used the Joy, Peace, Love die from My Favorite Things Stamps. I only used joy love and xmas. for this card. I cut the words out of red cardstock and then cut them out of both white cardstock and holly patterned paper. The holly paper is from the Lawn Fawn Snow Day remix collection. 

I glued each layer of the letters together, leaving the holly patterned paper on top. I them inlayed the letter into the red cardstock which I had glued onto a white card base. 

After inlaying the letters, I used a white gel pen to create dots of snow all over the red cardstock. It's difficult to see it in the photo, but I also put glossy accents in the star and heart of the Os in joy and love. This added a nice shine and sparkle to the card in person. That's all there was to it! I hope this helped to give you some inspiration if you haven't finished your holiday cards. Have a great day! 

Hello Bees!

 Hello fellow crafters and critters. Today's card was inspired by Jester from Critical Role. For those of you who don't know, Critical Role is a show with voice actors who play Dungeons & Dragons. This card references one of my favorite moments with the characters Jester and Cadeuceus. 

I started by watercoloring a panel in pink and blue. When it was dry, I splattered the watercolor paper with indigo watercolor. I used Kuretake gansai tambi watercolors.

When the panel was dry, I cut it down to about 4 /8 x 5 3/8 with my A2 layers dies from Waffleflower. The next part of this card was the most challenging. I wanted to have Jesters horns on this card so I had to figure out a way to get that shape. I had never made tiefling horns before, so it took a few tries! 

I accomplished making the horns by cutting a small circle out of a larger circle that was slightly scalloped. I used my small scissors to cut the pointed tip of the horn. To make them curve a bit I followed the lines from the scalloped edged on my scoring board with my bone folder. I was pleasantly surprised with how they turned out. 

Jester has metal caps on her horns, but I didn't have any silver embossing powder or nuvo drops, so I substituted ivory nuvo drops. It worked out well, and I love the shine it gives. This was my first time using nuvo drops!

 

I die cut the word hello in black and yellow. I used to yellow to create a shadow effect. A few layers of hello die cut in white are also glued together for some dimension. The horns were then glued to hello so I could put it on the card as one layer. 

I used the Lawn Fawn little fireflies set to create bees. All it took was to create some lines by coloring black and yellow onto the firefly stamps. I then added a little stinger with my micron pen. I think these bees are too cute! I made quite a few extras so you'll be seeing them in another card. I love that a set of fireflies can be used as bees. Versatility is always a plus with stamp sets. 

After coloring the bees, all I had left to do was assemble. I originally intended for the pink to be at the bottom. I accidentally glued the horns on before I noticed, but I actually think I like it better this way. I hope this card brought you some inspiration for card making. Have a lovely day! 

Catch up!

 Hello Everyone!

 It has been over a month since I've posted on here! I have made a few cards that I posted on Instagram, but I haven't posted them all on here. Since my last post, my daughter has gained 2 new teeth, learned to walk, and she turned 1!! I've been busy chasing her around the house while also trying to entertain my 4 year old son. 

I decided to start with a simple hi card to say hello again! For this card, I simply embossed some paper. I used sidewalk from Brutus Monroe. The embossing folder is called seedhead stems. It was on sale for .99 cents at Simon Says Stamp! 

After embossing the paper, I used my alcohol ink markers to color in the stems and leaves. I also used a marker for the brown seeds. My Sakura Gelly Roll gel pen is what I used for the white part of the seeds and some lines on the leaves.

 

The "hi" as well as the shadow are cut out in plain white paper. I colored the shadow with the same green marker. The hi die is from Photoplay paper. It's the same one I used for my "hi,hey,hello" card in a previous post. 

I had trouble deciding if I wanted the Hi at the top or the bottom of the card. I like it both ways, but ultimately decided to put it at the top. I may make another one so I have one of each! That's it! It was a pretty simple card to make. I think I'll be using embossing folders more often. Thanks for checking out this card. I hope you have a lovely day!