Beautiful Flowers with Bibi Cameron
Hi friends! Happy Saturday! Please join me in welcoming back Bibi Cameron as a special guest on our blog today! She has made a stunningly (well, for lack of a better word) BEAUTIFUL card and envelope with our Beautiful Flowers stamp set. Read on and enjoy!
Hello from Scotland! It’s Bibi Cameron here and I’m so thrilled to be able to share the joy of papercraft with you today.
So I’m featuring gorgeous stamped images and sentiments from Beautiful Flowers Stamp Set by Simon Says Stamp. That fantastic floral cluster is just perfect to stamp the front panel of a card, a box, an envelope or a tag and it is wonderful to enjoy coloring.
As I love watercolors especially the Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors paints as they are beautiful, easy to use, great quality at amazing value and because in the 36 colors set an artist can get all the colors you will ever need including gold, silver, and pearl. You can spray water on the paint and mix different paint colors on a pallet to create thousands of new color shades… the sky’s the limit.
You can apply these paints to your artwork using a water brush or watercolor brushes. For the card today I only used a round tip Silver Black Velvet brush #4.
Ok. I started by stamping the image on the left side of a 6×8 inches piece of Arches watercolor paper using Antique Linen Distress Oxide Ink.
I used red shades mixed with white to add colors to the flowers. To add lights I used yellow, orange and white. To add dark areas I used brown and black and to add colors to the leaves I used different shades of green.
I then applied a wash of aqua and green watercolor paints on the background and around the floral image. When the paint was dry, I splattered the panel using a purple Nuvo Aqua Flow Pen, a Nuvo Shimmer Pen and then ink of a white Posca Marker to add texture.
I then used a pencil and a C6 rectangular die as a guide to trace a rectangle around the stamped panel, keeping the large image in the left of the panel. Some parts of the image were outside the rectangular shape and that was ok. As I wanted to keep them I simply cut the panel with a craft knife and I used scissors to cut around the images in those areas they were outside the line.
To keep this card as small as possible I trimmed the watercolor panel a little bit more so the final rectangular watercolor panel measures 4 x 5 -3/8 inches. I then glued it on a 4-1/4 x 5-5/8 inches piece of gold mirror cardstock and then onto a 4-1/2 x 6 inches card base.
You can see that there are areas of the images completely outside the card so I had to make a larger envelope for it and I used the Envelope Punch Board to easily make a 5 x 7 inches matching golden envelope. Voila!
I couldn’t resist and I heat embossed the large floral image on the back of the envelope using Versamark and Gold Nuvo Fine Detail Embossing Powder.
I also heat embossed the sentiment using Gold Embossing Powder and I made a little banner layered on gold cardstock.
To finish I embellished the card with crystals.
That’s all for today.
Happy Crafting
Bibi
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Yippee for Yana: Floral Friendship Card
Hi friends! Welcome back to another edition of Yippee for Yana where the amazing Yana Smakula is our special guest and making a gorgeous card for a friend with a pretty assortment of products! Read on for more information and be sure to watch the video and enjoy!
Hi everyone, this is Yana Smakula and welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video!
If you live in a warmer climate you probably enjoy beautiful greenery outside all year round. But if you are like me, and live in one of the colder parts of the world, chances are, by now you are dreaming of spring, double-digit temperatures (if you are using Celsius system) or above 60 degrees Fahrenheit weather and some nice greenery and flowers. Since Spring won’t be getting to my neck of the woods for another few weeks I’m browsing for Spring online and trying to recreate it in my handmade card. Today I’m bringing you a simple to make floral Friendship card.
I’ve started working on my card by creating a background using Quilted Hearts background stamp, White Satin Pearl embossing powder, and light blue cardstock.
Next, I stamped “Friend” from the Bestiest stamp set from CZ. I used Cloudy Sky ink on white cardstock. I added “Thank You For Being My” in black ink and trimmed latter into a skinny strip with a V-shape at the end. The word “Friend” was die cut using coordinating die.
I also stamped a few images from the Moments of Grace stamp set in Intense Black ink on white paper. I used this specific ink as I planned to color these with my Copic markers and this ink will not blend when it comes in contact with alcohol.
I used YG03 and YG17 markers to color greenery on this card. For the flowers, I went with RV11, RV10, RV00, and RV13 markers. Using coordinating dies I cut these images out.
Next, I trimmed my background panel to 3 7/8 x 5 ⅛” and foam mounted it onto an A2 white side folding card base. I foam mounted the word “Friend” and added florals all around it.
I couldn’t resist adding a few embellishments – an enamel heart and some sequins from the Girls Best Friend sequin mix.
Have fun stamping!
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Distress Oxide Sprays Background + Die Cuts
Hi all! Kristina Werner here. Today I have a fun card made using the new Distress Oxides Sprays from Tim Holtz and Ranger, plus some die cutting using dies from Simon Says Stamp.
I started out by placing a piece of Strathmore cold press watercolor paper inside an open box. I use sprays inside a box to help keep my work area clean. To create a colorful background, I used three Distress Oxide Sprays in Fossilized Amber, Picked Raspberry, and Mermaid Lagoon. I worked in layers and then dried the piece with a heat tool (you could also let it air dry).
To add even more interesting areas to the background, I lightly sprinkled water and sprayed water onto the background. Then I sopped up the water using a paper towel. This left behind “water spots.”
For the main design of the card, I used the Outline Floral Frame die and the You’re Doing Awesome die. I cut both out of white cardstock. The large die cut frame was adhered to the watercolor piece using Gina K Connect Glue.
I also cut out a large vellum heart using the Nested Hearts dies. I adhered the greeting die cut to the vellum heart, and then onto the card using thin foam adhesive that I cut into tiny pieces to fit behind the greeting die cut.
Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you enjoy the card video. :)
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