10.27.2013

Snowflake Resist Nativity Scene + 5 Minute Card Challenge Attempt

This was actually my attempt at the 5 minute card challenge! I was super close and finished at like 5 minutes and 30 seconds! (The sentiment I added on the inside made me unable to finish it on time! Darn.)
Anyway; The first thing I did was stamp the Snowflake background with Silver Distress Paint. This acts as the resist. I then took Stormy Sky, Broken China and Iced Spruce distress ink and blended them onto the cardstock. I also went around the edges with Iced Spruce to bring it all together. Then I stamped the nativity scene stamp with black archival ink.

 I mounted it onto the A2 sized card and that was it! A very simple and quick card that would be great for mass producing if you need a lot! 


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10.20.2013

Hello World!

For this card I tried out the ombré alcohol ink technique. I didn't quite have all the right colours of alcohol ink for this, but I did my best! haha. So all you have to do, is pick three colours of alcohol ink all in the same colour, but different shades. I picked a Earthtone, Bright and a Light. After I applied it I blended it out using the blending solution! I stamped over the top with silver staz on ink with a star background stamp from Impression Obsession. I die cut a cloud from a memory box die set and stamped 'hello world'. the elephant and the sentiment are both from a Recollections set. I paper pieced the elephant with some scrap pieces of patterned paper. For the little dots, I just used a hold punch. Everything is popped up with foam dots. 


A closer look at the detail on the elephant and background. This card is pretty gender neutral. Although blue is mostly associated with boys, the elephant neutralizes the gender is my opinon! 



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10.19.2013

Snowflake Flurry.

I started off with a piece paper with a snowflake resist on it. I swiped it through Iced Spruce Distress Ink and then went around it with Iced Spruce as well. I took a tree stamp from a My Mind's Eye set and heat embossed it with silver embossing powder and cut them out. 


 I cut out two snowbanks from white cardstock. I adhered one flat and the other one with foam squares. To finish it off I added Stardust stickles to the tops of them!


A very simple card, but it's quite striking and elegant. I love the finished product!


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10.14.2013

GIVE-AWAY ENTRY.

Dawn, over at Joyful Dawn Creations (http://joyfuldawncreations.blogspot.ca/) is doing a giveway! Go over to her blog for a chance to enter! Also checkout her other posts! They're amazing and unique! Thanks for the chance to win Dawn!

10.10.2013

Christmas Blessings.

This card was very simple! It was inspired by Kelly Marie's card. (Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCa79Fmcdr0)

I took a Christmas tree stamp from Hero Arts and stamped it repeatedly in Fired Brick and Pine Needles Distress Ink.  I cut out a snow bank from white card stock and silver heat embossed the sentiment! I inked around the edges with a Martha Stewart silver ink pad. To finish it off, I matted it onto a piece of patterned paper! 


A peek at the inside. This team I did 'second generation' stamping. Where you ink up your stamp, stamp it off once then use it. Just so I got a lighter impression. Then added a sentiment from another Hero Arts set!

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10.08.2013

First Christmas Card of the Season!

The first Christmas card of the season! I can honestly say I was happy I could finally break out my Christmas supplies! I stole the general idea from a magazine. haha. A very simple card though. I took a strips of patterned paper and glued them down on a scrap piece of white cardstock. I wrapped a piece of bakers twine around the two pieces. I rounded the top corners and and popped them up with pop dots.


 I embossed the snowflake stamp with gold embossing powder on red cardstock, cut it out and mounted it on a scalloped circle. 

Here's a peek at the inside! 

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10.06.2013

Chevron Tag.


I started off by taking a #8 manilla tag. I took a chevron stencil from Heidi Swap and used Brushed Pewter Distress Paint. I then took Spiced Marmalade, Picked Raspberry and Peacock Feathers distress ink and blended it over top. The distress paint will resist the distress inks. I spritzed it with water so the distress inks will run together. The beauty of distress paint is once it is dry it no longer reacts with water, so the stencilling didn't run. To finish it off I stamped the quote from a Tim Holtz set and added a few embellishments. 


A closer look at it!



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Mixed Media Tag.

This is an 8 1/2 by 11 inch Mixed Media Tag. 

The background is paper from Recollections. I toned it down with gesso. Gesso is like the most important medium to have in Mixed Media. It's so versatile, I use it on every project! I then added a few pages of book text to the background to draw attention to the focal part of the tag.
 The bird and Cage is a Tim Holtz die, and I cut the pieces out of grungeboard. I love grungeboard, it's so versatile and adds a lot more depth and dimension than just paper! I cut them again out of paper and added it on top.  Then I inked around everything with frayed burlap distress ink then I went around just the edges with black soot.
 The 'Live in the Moment' is a Tim Holtz word band. I went over it with broken China distress paint the wiped off the excess, just to get paint in the words.  Behind the bird cage I have a pieces of burlap that I sprayed with white linen dylusions to tone it down. Then I have a few pieces of lace (one from Heidi Swap, the blue on is just a scrap) layered behind it. I made the blue flower out of some scrap lace. 
 The cream flowers are from Heidi Swap. You can mist these flowers, but I chose just to keep them cream for this one! I added a few leaves and buttons just to cluster the embellishments. 
 I think with Mixed Media it's all about the detail. There are so many little steps that go into everything, most of them you don't even notice, but without it, it would just be plain. the little bit of stamping I did is very faint but it just adds that little extra something. I used a Hero Arts definition stamp in a light blue, almost invisible but you can kinda see it in the photo below. 
 I used a Crafters Workshop Stencil on the silver script using Brushed Pewter distress paint. I also used a dollar stencil and some acrylic paint for some more detail. The 'forever' is a metal piece that I got from Michaels. That little paper clip was the finishing touch. It was the perfect accent!

When you're doing Mixed Media, don't forget to pay attention to the little things because the detail is what finishes it off!


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10.05.2013

National Card Making Day!


National Cardmaking Day! 

In celebration, I thought it was only appropriate to make a 'Celebration Card' . . Well two! 
For the First one, I took two separate solid dot stamps and stamped the repeatedly in various colours of distress inks. I then embossed my greeting with silver embossing powder. I added these little mirror like embellishments that I got from Michaels. I stamped the envelope background stamp from hero arts to finish it off! 



A closer look at it. :)


For the second card, I took a chevron stencil and sprayed it with perfect pearls mist. Since I hadn't cleaned my stencil from the previous use it still had some pink mist on it, so it went through. Complete accident, but I love the outcome! To finish I silver heat embossed the sentiment and added three little gems. 

A closer look at it! :)



There yaa have it! Two cards in honour of National Cardmaking Day! :)


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10.04.2013

New Location.

This is my new blog! I used to be over at wordpress. To see my older posts go to: http://tessabellasblog.wordpress.com/ . As for now, I will be posting here. :)