This cute little gnome couple is the newest free digi that come from playing in the monthly challenges at Gerda Steiner Designs...you can also purchase it, if you don't want to play.
I opened it in Photoshop and it was the prefect size for a cardfront, so I didn't resize or anything, just added the punny sentiment.
I printed it onto the Crafter's Companion Neenah Paper and colored it with Spectrum Noir markers. Mounted the panel with foamtape and added it to the cardbase.
I think it might be my father's day card? coming up soon...my dad had a grey beard and I have kind of brown hair....
For more information or to play along the April Challenge at Gerda Steiner, see this.
This fortnight our challenge over at AAA cards is: favourite technique and our sponsor is Sugar Pea Designs and you could win a $25 gift certificate. For my favourite technique card I used two of mine, inkblending and marker colouring, not sure which would win in a battle, but I love both. Although I did minimal inkblending here, as our challenge is a CAS one. I masked off the grass, inkblended Distress ink Mowed lawn, then Peacock feathers for the lake and Mermaid lagoon for the sky. The images are from Sugar Pea designs (Indian summer) I stamped them with Simon Say Stamp intense black and colored them with both Spectrum Noir and Illustrator
markers. The reed is from Clearly Besotted ( fluffy flamingos). My scan n cut did all the cutting and I adhered the images as a little scene with taperunner and or foamtape.. Three enamel dots around the scene to help your eye travel.
No sentiment, as the set is very much geared toward fall and Thanksgiving, but I was actually picturing children playing. For more examples from our design team, or to play along the AAA cards Challenge, see this.
The Less is More challenge this week is the lucky dip, to CASE a past winner's card. In this case Aileen's card.
I see blue flowers and diecut sentiment.
For my card I diecut the blue and placed them in a fan shape, much like Aileen's flowers, although much smaller and I stamped the sentiment.
The Yay is from My Favorite Things Happy Wonderful Christmas Die, and I diecut it from blue glittery card. In my head it was bigger, I must have confused it with their YAY die..lol..
anyway I think it works for a CAS card.
The sentiment is from Stampendous (Fran's Tweet chirps), so I can also enter it into the
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, anything goes, showcasing Stampendous products.
Also it rhymes, lucky coincidence lol.
I used Versafine Onyx black ink to stamp them and then added a few blue rhinestones as Aileen had sequins sprinkled on the card.
I didn't really like the card I made last night for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: anything goes, showcasing Stampendous products.
So I made this just now after work. It's purple so that helps lol..I love this one actually.
I don't have many Stampendous products and this one is a bit older. The sentiment is from Encouraging words, and I stamped it with Versafine onyx black ink.
I diecut the opening using the Simon Says Stamp circle of leaves.
Then I traced the opening onto the cardbase and applied Versamagic inks (Spring pansy, Perfect hydrangea and Eggplant.
Applied glue to the panel and adhered a few enamel sprinkles.
For more information or to play along the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, see this.
It's a Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. The theme is Anything goes, showcasing Stampendous products.
For my card I stamped the images from the Stampendous set called spring tweets, the sentiment from Fran's tweet chirps with Versafine Onyx black ink onto watercolor cardstock.
I colored them with my Talens Ecoline and had the Scan n cut, cut them out.
On the cardbase I inkblended Distress inks Mermaid Lagoon and Versamagic inks Sea breeze and turquoise gem, then splattered water and sprayed Shimmer spritz on the base.
Arranged the images with foamtape onto the cardbase.
For more information or to play along the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, see this.
I've started a card swap group on Facebook, it's called Maaike's card swaps.
As there were lots of requests from members from another group. It's not a selling site, it's a swap site. so far only my cards are in the albums, but anyone can join and upload their creations. If someone would like to swap with you they can leave a comment and then you can get intouch privately via messenger and exchange your details.
If you would like to join and send card only within your country because of postage, that's is OK but please add it to the photo comment, so please know.
I hope I've created the most common albums, if not you can add topical albums.
I made a version with Nuvo drops, but today I;m making a card with Wow embossing powders, A lot more fiddly, but as I have many powders but not as many enamel accents/Nuvo drops I thought I would try and give you options in case you lack the liquid ones too.
I started by diecutting a shape into black card, mine was a bit thin and warped with the heat, make sure yours is sturdy.
I traced the opening onto the cardbase and diecut it again. Now this isn't a precise method and you may or may not have to cut the card panel, but that's ok, you'll have a nice border, just take this into account if you don;t want a mat, make the panel bigger.
I used the Poppy Stamp/ Memory box cute caterpillar die, I also considered the Fiesta flowers. Any you have with a few open areas will work, the bigger the better though.
I used Stick it on the back to make applying the heat resistant acetate much easier.
Then I stamped the sentiment from Craft Emotions with Versamar ink and heat embossed it with opaque white embossing powder from Wow!.
For the caterpillar I also used Wow! powders: Cha Cha Cha primary apple red,primary lemon, primary chartreuse,primary lagoon, primary fuchsia fusion, eggplant and pacifi wave.
I used my sample book to see which ones are translucent, most if not all primaries are and some of the glittery ones too. the sample book really helps.
I used the Versamarker to apply ink on the openings/acetate and heat set it. I used as little heat as possible, just to be sure.
I've cut out a lot of the footage as it took about half and hour and the process is the same, just different colors.
Then I applied liquid glue on the back so I ouwld have a bit more wiggle time and matched it with the openings on the cardbase. Also here it payes to use thicker card, I must get some ;-)
