My Creative Journey

  Hello! I’m so glad you stopped by. Today I’m sharing a fun shaker card using a background created with alcohol inks.   I had purchased a ton of alcohol inks from Ranger Ink and decided it was time to experiment. I took one crafty afternoon and made a ton of backgrounds on different substrates.  I just love all the different color values from just one or two colors. The alcohol ink blending solution is a great way to achieve this look. I used so much of the blending solution that I had to go out and buy the bigger bottle. LoL  😂    Some of the different papers I used was classic Yupo, translucent Yupo, and sparkle Yupo. Each paper gave me different results from the same colors. The sparkle Yupo adds fun texture to the background. The translucent Yupo would be fun to illuminate with a battery operated candle or tiny lights. The card’s background was created on classic Yupo. I wanted to make sure this background would shine and decided on creating a shaker ...

Hello and welcome! Today I have another rainbow-inspired slimline card. The star of the show on this slimline card is the Fern Square die from Simon Says Stamp. I had so much fun creating the Leafy Rainbow slimline card that I searched my stash for another “sleeper die.” I found another square die from Simon Says Stamp called Fern Square. Since this was the same size as the other Leafy Square, I decided to cut them from Concord & 9th cardstock in rainbow colors and then nested them together. I also decided to turn the square on a corner so the fern looks like it is growing upwards. While the rainbow ferns were drying, I dressed up the inside of the card. I love seeing the inside of cards dressed up and I tend to forget this; but not this time! I used a leaf border stamp from the Leafy Frames set and a sentiment from Just Miss You set; both from Simon Says Stamp. The border leaf stamp does not stretch across a slimline so I started in the center then shifted the stamp to either sid...

Hello there! Today I am sharing a fun rainbow-inspired slimline card. This little Leafy Square die is such a fun little die. It is what I like to call a sleeper die; you kind of forget it is there but then it just shines the second you take you out! This idea actually came to me after playing around with a couple of the die cuts already cut from a previous project. I was trying to stack the leaves but they got stuck and then: IDEA! Why not purposely nest the leafy squares into each other and why not make it a rainbow?  So, I chose some color card stock from my Concord & 9th stash and cut out my leafy rainbow. Next, I began to nest the leafy squares together in rainbow order. I used a strong liquid glue along the overlapping sections of the leafy squares to keep them together while I got the card base ready.  To prepare the card base, I cut down a white piece of cardstock to 8.5 in tall by 7 in wide then I scored and folded it at 3.5 in. Then, I cut a stitched and scalloped...

Hello!! I’m so happy you have stopped by. Today I am sharing a fun Halloween-themed project featuring the Little Witch Agenda from Mama Elephant. I am entering this project in the #MamaElephant2021GDCall.  I started by creating the sky using the MFT cloud stencil with Distress ink Shaded Lilac and trimmed them down to fit inside the clear boxes. Then I stamped out the little witches and pumpkins with cats and colored them in with Copic markers. I kept the Copic coloring simple and used only 2-3 colors for shading some of the images. Finally, I used the matching die cuts to cut out the witches and pumpkins with cats. To create the hills and floor, I chose some pattern paper from my stash and used the hill border die from Lawn Fawn to cut them out. To give them some depth, I ink blended various Distress Ink colors on the cutouts. The last item I prepped was the letters to spell out BOO. I coated the letters with two coats of Black Soot Distress paint paying attention to the coat the ...

Hello!! I am so happy you stopped by to see how this card came together. It truly is a simple design using masking and Copic coloring. The scene for this card is inspired by the Mama Elephant me-challenge Discord prompt: “Summer Time!” Summer reminds me of lots of camping trips when I was little. So, I created a simple forest scene using three Mama Elephant sets: Winter Fox, Dandelion Wishes, and Sunday Sentiments. I first stamped the red panda and the foxes then masked them off to add some trees to complete the scene. I then masked the trees and used a stencil to ink blend a sunset sky and ground. After the ink blending, I used my Copic markers to color in all the images. I really love the blending of the colors for the foxes! I am still learning about to use my Copics and found the blend easily on Bristol Smooth card so, my go to is Strathmore Bristol Smooth cardstock. Lastly, I heat embossed the “Thank you” sentiment across the bottom, being sure to mask off the ends to keep the whi...