Spring Daisies Mixed Media Card
Hi friends! Happy Thursday! I hope you’re having a great week so far! Please join me in welcoming back special guest Cheiron Brandon to the blog with this gorgeous Daisy mixed media card! Read on to learn all of the details, and enjoy!
Hi there crafty friends! It’s Cheiron Brandon and I am thrilled to be back on the Simon Says Stamp Blog today to share a fun spring card with you.
I don’t know about you but where I live everything is coming into bloom and I can’t wait for some spring flowers. Today I have a card using one of my all-time favorite Tim Holtz Sizzix Flower die sets using Distress Watercolor Pencils to give them some easy coloring and shading.
To begin, I cut a watercolor cardstock panel and stamped it with different elements from the Eccentric stamp set using Black Soot Archival Distress Ink. Then I added color by adding Distress Mica Stain in Shiny Bauble and Distress Spray Stain in Salvaged Patina. It looked a little plain to me so I added a bit more stamping using the Ledger Script stamps. I dried the panel with a heat tool and added splatter using Sterling Foundry Wax, Black Soot Distress Paint and Picket Fence Distress Paint. For additional texture, I added some Translucent Distress Crackle Paste to the edges.
Now that the panel is done, it is time to paint the flowers. I cut the flowers from Distress Watercolor cardstock and colored them with my Distress Watercolor Pencils by using a Detailer Waterbrush. I picked up the pigment from the tip of the pencil and painting it onto the die cuts. I added some shading to the parts of the flower that were white to make them pop and once everything was dry I added some more of the darker colors of pigment on top to add shading.
To complete my card, I roughed up the edges with the Tonic Paper Distresser and then inked them with Black Soot Distress Ink. I added the flowers with some foam tape and overlapped them to add interest. Finally, I added a stamped sentiment from the Noteworthy stamp set that I embossed in white onto Distress Black Heavystock.
I hope you enjoyed creating this spring card today, and will try coloring in your die cuts with Distress Watercolor Pencils for lots of shading and dimension.
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A TWEET Die Cut Design! Hello Friend Spring Bird Card: Crafty with Caly
Hi friends! Happy Wednesday! Please join me in welcoming special guest Caly Person in our bi-monthly Crafty with Caly blog series! Today, Caly is showcasing some new Honey Bee die cuts perfect to make a sweet Hello card to celebrate the Spring season and send to a special friend! Be sure to watch the video for all the details, and enjoy!
Hi there! It’s Caly with you today and I’m bringing fresh spring vibes with today’s die-cut card using Lovely Layers Spring Birds, Nest, and Spring Greenery from Honey Bee Stamps!
I’m a huge fan of piecing together die-cut elements and it’s so fun to be able to create a full screen with the Honey Bee Stamps coordinating products! Everything you see aside from the nest and lavender flowers are die-cut using white cardstock and then ink-blended with ink to color.
Check out the video to see how it’s done!
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The Lovely Layers Nest is die-cut using Neenah Desert Storm Environmental cardstock and the lavender sprigs using Lavender cardstock. I tried to incorporate lots of colors to make this card colorful. All the colors will be linked below for your convenience!
For the background, I ink-blended Sage ink for a soft glow and die-cut a stitched border using the Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles dies. After piecing all the elements, I began to build and layer the images to create my spring scene.
I finished by stamping a sentiment from the Best of Everything stamp set. I hope you like it!! Thanks so much for stopping by today! ~Caly
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