Boy Cards and Dry Wall Tape

Hello Papercrafters!  Here are a few "simple style" cards for you.  I used the Close to My Heart "Windy Day" stamp set....I love this set - includes a boy and a girl flying kites and has some great sentiments with it. Later on  I will post an art journal page I made with this same stamp set.   

Here's how I made the card:

- I stamped the images on cardfront (excluding the clouds).

- colored in images with copic markers

- after coloring in, I took some dry wall tape and used it as a background stencil - used Cashmere inkpad and lightly sponged the color randonly on the cardfront.

 - I stamped the clouds on another piece of cartstock.  Cut it out.  Then used Crystal Blue inkpad to sponge color over dry wall tape on clouds.

Dry wall tape looks like this, I know, some of us didn't know that. lol.  It has adhesive on one side so it's great for stencilling:

- the sentiment was stamped on another piece of cardstock, cut out to form a banner and pop-dotted  to bottom  left side.

Here's another "boy" card. I used Crafty Secrets "Little Boy" stamp set - what a cutie, right?  I colored in with copic markers.  After coloring in, I used a blending tool and sponged Broken Glass distress ink around the image.  I pop-dotted the "curious cat"  die from Poppystamps, Inc. on left-bottom of frame.

Well, time for you to go out and use some of that dry wall tape you may have sitting around your garage!  Thanks for dropping by.  Have a glorious weekend!

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4x4 Enjoy Your Day Card

Hello friends!  I love square cards but it's hard to find the envelopes to match.  Because I mostly make A2 cards and I can find those envelopes ALL the time, I thought why not make 4x4 cards? ...they will fit in the A2 envelopes! So I wanted to share  some fun 4x4 cards I made with Penny Black stamps.

Here's how I made this one:

-Stamp image on white cs and color it in.  I used copic markers.

-Stamp image again but only color the balloons...set aside for now.

-Cut pink frame using Cricut Accent Essentials, key 47 (scallop frame).

  TIP:  I used the Shadow feature so that I would have a more substantial area to dry emboss.

-With my Cuttlebug I embossed the pink frame using a squared   circle embossing folder.

-Adhere the stamped image to back of pink frame.

-Ahdere the pink frame to front of your patterned paper cardfront.

-Cut out the balloons, use pop dots to adhere to top front of pink frame.

-Stamp sentiment and adhere to lower right corner of pink frame.

That's it! 

TIP:  To get rid of those white areas around the balloon where I scissor-cut them, see picture below, use a black marker to edge around the balloons.  It will look more tidy & professional looking. I forgot to do that as you can well see.  oops!

  

Here's what I used:


Stamps:  Penny Black - Betsy Bluebell

Ink:  Memento Black

Copic Markers:  E00, E02, RV11, RV23, B00, G00, Y23,Y35

Embossing Folder:  Darice squared circles

Cricut:  Accent Essentials

I found this website that has value pricing for the PB stamps! Look here for their info and you'll find that the owners are the best in accomodating your needs!  Very friendly.

Hope you enjoyed this.  I will do the other 4x4 card on my next post.  Thanks for looking.