Hello my friends! I hope you are all having a wonderful day! I wanted to show you the Mother’s Day card I created for my mom this year. It’s not your traditional Mother’s Day card. This is a 3D basket; however, it can fold up into a card. It fits into an A7 size envelope, and when your mom opens it, it pops up into the cutest basket.
It may look complicated to put together, but it’s actually quite simple and fun to create. All of the products I used to create this card are from Scrappy Tails Crafts.
You can watch how I put this basket together by clicking on the video below.
Welcome back for day 2 of the Under the Sea inspiration hop! Today I created a mermaid card using a beautiful block stamp that I picked up at my local craft store. I stamped her out onto a piece of Gina K Designs Artist’s Choice Cardstock which is great for colored pencils. I pulled out some Faber Castell Polychromos colored pencils to color in my mermaid. I love coloring mermaids, and for her tail I followed the inspiration on the block stamp and colored it in with blues and purples.
I then fussy cut her out, added some foam tape behind her and place her on a velum heart.
The sentiment comes from the LDRS stamp set called Mermaid Treasure. I stamped this using Versafine Onyx Black ink and then I pour on some Gina K Designs Fine Detail Clear Embossing powder. When you melt the powder, it gives a nice shine to the sentiment.
The stencil I used is called Perfect Pool Water from MFT. I used 3 different colors of Distress ink onto this panel of Bristol Smooth cardstock. I used Mermaid Lagoon, Peacock Feathers, Cracked Pistachio. The white lines left behind seemed to stark white, so I shifted the stencil and added more color.
Faber-Castell Polychromos Colored Pencils:
Skin: Burnt Siena 285, Burnt Umber 280, Light Red Violet 135, Light Yellow Ochre 185
Hello everyone! I hope you’re all having a wonderful day. Arteza sent me some new products to try–products perfect for card crafting. They sent me their foam mounting tape, adhesive felt, and colored pencils. These are all products that I use often in my card crafting, and I was very excited to try out the Arteza brand.
I created two cards, but I used all all three products to create them. I guess the star of the show for these cards is the adhesive felt. I love crafting with felt, but I don’t like gluing it onto my projects–it takes ages for it to dry and adhere together. However, this adhesive felt from Arteza is a game-changer; it comes in lots of beautiful colors, and it has adhesive on the back. Felt can add some really fun texture and dimension to your cards. I was able to die cut this felt easily with my dies and Sizzix Big Shot machine. It was a blast to play with.
I have links to all the products I used to create these cards below. I also have a coupon code for 10% off your Arteza purchase: JackiesCraftTable4 This coupon code is valid February 8th through March 13th 2020.
Card #1: Squeezable Hearts Card
To create my first card, I used a darling Pure Innocence stamp from My Favorite Things. I colored her in with Arteza’s colored pencils. (I have a video coming soon focusing just on these fabulous pencils.) Next, I stamped her arms and heart on the release paper on the back of a piece of pink felt and fussy cut it. I pulled off the release paper, stuck it over the heart on my image, and then colored and cut out her arms a second time. I used liquid glue to attach the girl’s arms over the heart. I thought it needed a few more felt hearts on the card to give it an added touch of fun.
Card #2: Felt Critter Hugger Card
To create this raccoon, I used a Lawn Fawn die set called Woodland Critter Huggers. You can create many critters with this one interchangeable set of dies. I thought the Raccoon, paired with the sentiment, “You Stole My Heart” would make the perfect card for Valentine’s day. This was a fast card to put together thanks to the adhesive on the back of this felt.
Here’s a look at all the felt that came in this bundle. I love this stuff!
This is the foam mounting tape I used to add dimension behind my little girl image on my first card! This product works just as well as Scotch Foam Tape, and it has a great price point.
The colored pencils also have a great price point, and you get 120 gorgeous colors. I love colored pencils, and I highly recommend the Arteza brand.
Hello and welcome to my blog! I adore the Hero Arts January card kit! It includes tons of beautiful dies, stamps, and sentiments. It’s perfect for creating Valentine’s day cards, but it can really be used to create cards for multiple occasions. The sentiments included give you a lot of options. However, the main reason I purchased this kit was for the darling mini envelope die–I absolutely love it! I created 9 cards using this kit this time. The footage for my 10th card disappeared, so it’s almost a 10 cards, 1 kit blog and video.
Card #1: Hello Friend Card
For my first card I had to use my favorite products from this kit: the envelope die and the kraft card stock. I used some Vintage Photo Distress Oxide ink to distress the edges of the envelope. However, I could have added more distressing; it doesn’t show up very well in the photo. I die cut lots of flowers using Neenah Solar White 110# card stock, and I colored them in very quickly using more Distress Oxide Inks and a foam blender.
Card #2: Envelope & Hearts Card
I couldn’t get enough of the envelope die, so I used it again on card #2. I used some heart dies from my stash to cut out several sizes and colors of heart, and then I distressed the edges using Distress Oxide Inks. I also used the cute text block stamp to create my little letter for the envelope. I used the Pink Sparkle embossing powder from the kit for the sentiment.
Card #3: Butterfly Silhouette Card
I love creating my own pattern paper backgrounds. First I stamped the text block with gray ink several times on a pink piece of card stock. Then I randomly stamped the small images from the stamp set over the text. I used a piece of ribbon from the kit on this card and some black card stock for my butterflies and sentiment.
Card #4: Stamped Pattern with Die Cuts Card
I turned the dies from this kit into stamps by cutting them out with fun foam. I then put a few dots of Mono Multi Medium glue. When this glue dries, it dries tacky, and you can put it on an acrylic block to stamp onto your project. You can also reuse these die cut stamps. Make sure you allow the glue to dry for an hour or two before putting them on your acrylic blocks–speeding up this process with your heat tool won’t work unfortunately–I tried. Lol!
Card #5: Watercolor Die Cuts Card
I had a blast creating the beautiful flowers for this card with some Daniels Smith Watercolors and Arches Cold Press paper. I painted the panel first, allowed them to dry, and then cut them out with all the flowers and leaves dies. I love the soft look of these flowers!
Card #6: Roses and Banners Valentine Card
For this card I used left-over watercolor die cuts from my previous card. To showcase the flowers and the butterfly I matted them with two banner die cuts. I also cut out the sentiment with the banner die from the kit.
Card #7: Stamped Pattern with Die Cuts Card–Take 2
I wanted to use the die cut stamps again. I used different colors of Distress Oxide Inks for this one, and I added a dimensional die cut and leaf next to the sentiment.
This is one of my favorites from my set of cards. I die cut more flowers using Neenah Solar White card stock, and I colored them in with Copic Markers. To cut out my white panel I used a scalloped die and popped up the panels with foam tape. I used a piece of soft teal pattern paper behind my flowers.
Card #9: Butterfly Sympathy Card
This is a simple card, but I love how it turned out! I used one of the leaf dies to cut out several colors of green card stock. For the butterfly I used more white card stock and my Copic markers to color it in. I cut out this butterfly four times and glued them together to add a nice weight to this focal piece of my card.
Thank you for stopping by, and I hope you have a wonderful week! You can watch my process video below or over on my YouTube channel in HD!
Happy Friday, my crafty friends! I have 5 Valentine’s Day cards to show you. I love designing cards for this holiday! The products I’m using are from the In Love Arts Shop. They asked if I would like to collaborate with them again, and I selected several products from their shop that would be fun to create Valentine’s Day cards with. They also gave me a coupon code to pass along to you! Use the code S5581 to get 15% off your purchase at the In Love Arts Shop! I love their products because they are very unique and have a great price point.
Card #1: Text Block & Flowers Card
I used the following Arteza Real Brush pens to color in these flowers:
Hello everyone! I hope you are all having a lovely day! I have another watercolor paint review for you. Arteza very generously sent me their 36 Half Pan Watercolor set. They are beautiful paints! I wanted to use them on a floral card, and I thought this stamp set from Memory Box would be perfect. I love a big floral stamp–this one completely covers an A2 size card. This is a stamp I purchased from Simon Says Stamp during their Stamptember celebration.
I inked it up with VersaFine Onyx Black Ink which is a waterproof ink. I stamped in onto a piece of Arteza 100% cotton watercolor paper, and then I had a ball coloring this beautiful image with these beautiful paints. They are highly pigmented, vivid, and a dream to work with.
After my painting was dry, I inked it up again with the same ink and poured on some clear embossing powder. After I melted the embossing powder, this made my stamp lines crisp and shiny, and it added a lot to my card project. I cut down my panel with a 5 1/2 X 4 1/4 faux stitch die. It was hard for me to cut down this image, but I used a leftover scrap from this panel on the inside on my card.
You can watch the whole process in my video below. You can watch it here or over on my YouTube channel in HD.
Jackie's Craft Table 