Dust Fairy {CopicMarkerNorge}

February 25, 2014February 24, 2014 Elin3 Comments

Appropriate title for a blog entry considering it’s been a few weeks since my last one. Yikes! Sometimes life just gets too busy. It’s not that I haven’t made any cards recently, because I have, but they’re either not completely finished or just not ready for the world wide web quite yet. I could make up some excuse about not writing any entries because my new laptop keys haven’t arrived yet, making it difficult to type (which is totally true, btw), but I won’t. 😉

This card was made to order for a woman who just turned 60. She cleans floors, and although I couldn’t find an image of an old lady with a bucket and a mop, I did find this Mo Manning fairy dust image, which I think fits. This card also happens to be my contribution to our current challenge at CopicMarkerNorge – anything goes. There are still plenty of days left before the Sunday deadline, so join us, won’t you? I printed the image in brown on Perfect Colouring Paper. I couldn’t find my X-Press It at the time, and I’ve got plenty of PCP. I don’t really like PCP to color on, so I even used it for the insides and the back of the card. I’m sure it’s no surprise that I’ve used patterned paper by Maja Design. This time I pulled out some scraps (this card is made entirely from scraps!) from the Vintage Summer Basics line (1922, 1923, and 1899), as well as some Inkido scraps – the cream one is “Pink Newspaper”, and I don’t know what the blue one’s called, only that it’s by Inkido. Bazzill Vanilla cardstock (as usual), paired with Bazzill Dotted Swiss – Romantic Mauve (also scraps, btw). The sentiment on the banner is from the “Mum’s the Word” stamp set from Papertrey Ink.

I didn’t really have a lot of time with this card, it was thrown together in less than a day, including coloring, which – for me – is warp speed. This meant really simple insides, the first one includes a stamped sentiment from the “Over Under Easy” stamp set by Papertrey Ink, stamped in Autumn Rose ink – also from PTI.

The second inside is just as simple. Just a birthday stamp (from the same stamp set as the first inside) and a few really dark pink pearls from Inkido in the bottom right corner. I needed a really big panel on the inside, there were 30 different signatures going on this card, so I had to make sure there was plenty of space.

The back – pretty similar to the front. The lovely edge of the blue paper is made with a Magnolia die (Old Swedish Lace). I’m not too sure where the flowers are from, some are from Wild Orchid Crafts, others might be from Papirloftet (yes, I’m a paper flower hoarder – who isn’t?) The letters and numbers are diecut from the patterned paper using the Santa’s workshop alphabet by Quickutz. It’s an alphabet I really, really like, the size is perfect and the alphabet itself is sans serif, another huge pluss (although I do like Tim Holtz’ typeset alphabet, which is definitely not sans…)! I prefer the much cleaner, graphic look of sans serif types to serif ones (there are a few slab serifs I like, though)!

Enough about my preferences in type faces – these are the colors I used for the dust fairy. I also used RV97, which is a color I’ve made myself.

Happy birthday {CopicMarkerNorge}

January 31, 2014January 30, 2014 Elin1 Comment

Our current challenge at CopicMarkerNorge is a bingo one. There’s still a couple of days left before the deadline, feel free to join us!

My card for the challenge is a birthday card I sent to our CMN boss lady Siv, her birthday is today. I chose to do a magic card this time, the center part is about 6×6″, so this card is quite large. I’ve taken out products that I rarely use for this one – patterned paper by Melissa Frances (Betty-Ann), Patternscape Design (Brokade 2), and 7 Dots Studio (Love Me), along with Prima flowers. The “wings” are made using a Martha Stewart PATP punch (Vintage Lace) on the Bazzill Rain cardstock. I’ve also used a Magnolia doohickey die (Antique Lace) for the horizontal panel on the center of the card front, and the edges are inked with Creamy Brown ink.

The image is “Policia” by Sureya on DeviantArt, colored (of course) with Copics. The colors I’ve used are at the bottom of the post. The image is diecut with a Lifestyle Crafts circle die.

A closer look at the flowers, I’ve also used some pearl stamens by Kort & Godt that I’ve tucked underneath the flowers. I hardly ever use Prima flowers, not because I don’t like them, but because they’re difficult to combine with roses and because this particular corally salmon pink color (shockingly, it’s the only color I have) is a tricky one. The color did, however, match the 7 Dots paper perfectly, making it an easy choice!!

On the first inside I’ve stamped a birthday song (stamp by North Star Stamps) with Memento Rich Cocoa ink on a piece of Vanilla cardstock I’ve diecut with a Spellbinders die (from Grand Decorative Circles One). I airbrushed the diecut with BG53 and 45 before removing the cardstock from the die. I added FabScraps pearls around the circle.

On the second inside I’ve made a pocket to make room for a tag with a personal greeting, diecut using a Magnolia Doohickey die (Jolly Tags). I’ve added a seam binding bow to the tag and a jute string bow on top with a button from My Mind’s Eye to finish it off. The Stempelglede text stamp on the pocket is stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa ink and I’ve added 3 pearls from Kort & Godt as the last little finish on this second inside.

The back. Another Stempelglede text stamp and some more airbrushing. The hydrangeas are from Petaloo.

The colors I’ve used for the image on this card. Surprisingly few colors given that the image is fairly intricate.

Vinterlig bursdag

January 14, 2014January 13, 2014 Elin3 Comments

På CopicMarkerNorge er vi nå inne i uke 2 av årets første utfordring, og i dag er det team 2 sin tur til å prøve å inspirere litt.

Mitt bidrag ble dette vinterlige bursdagskortet med motivet Robin on a watering can fra Justinklined, skrevet ut veldig svakt på X-Press It og farget med no lines-teknikk. Motivet er stanset ut med en die fra Nesting Circles-settet til Lifestyle Crafts, og en scallopsirkel er plassert bak. Mellom de to panelene er det enda et panel – i Bazzill Juicy Plum, skåret ut med sirkelkutter fra Making Memories. Har gjort det samme med teksten, som er fra Kort & Godt og stemplet med fargen Plum Pudding fra Papertrey Ink.

Ellers på forsiden har jeg brukt arkene Viola og Violaceus fra Flower Frames-kolleksjonen til Pion Design, i tillegg til blomster fra Wild Orchid Crafts og perler fra FabScraps. Jeg har brukt en Magnolia Doohickey-die (Old Swedish Lace) til å lage kanten på det ene panelet.

Samme oppsett inni som utenpå. Tekststempelet her kommer fra North Star Stamps og er stemplet på Papertrey Inks Stamper’s Select White-kartong med samme farge som teksten på forsiden.

Enkel bakside med Magi-stempel fra Stempelglede. Blomstene er klippet ut fra et av mønsterarkene.

Til slutt: fargene jeg har brukt på motivet. I tillegg har jeg brukt V97, som er en farge jeg har laget selv.

Mye nytt {Copic Marker Norge}, {North Star Stamps}, {Ett Trykk}

December 8, 2013December 21, 2013 Elin2 Comments

Her har det skjedd mye i det siste. På fredag ble jeg annonsert som nytt DT-medlem hos Copic Marker Norge, og på fredagens luke i kalenderen hos CMN hadde jeg en tutorial på fargelegging av mørk himmel på dette motivet.

Motivet heter “Guttefe med stjerne” og kommer fra North Star Stamps. Og mens jeg er inne på NSS ble jeg i går annonsert som nytt DT-medlem der også!

Tagene som er skjult bak motivet mitt har også stempler fra North Star Stamps, tekstene kommer fra en juleplate jeg har hatt lenge og som jeg har brukt kjempemye, mens snøfnuggene (som jeg har annengangsstemplet) er fra nyere stempelplater.

Teksten på innsiden av kortet er stemplet med et tekststempel fra samme plate som tekststemplene på tagene på fronten av kortet.

Baksiden med nok et tekststempel fra North Star Stamps. Jeg har fargelagt litt X-Press It med en gul Copic og lagt på glitter med en atyou Spica-penn, før jeg har punchet ut noen stjerner med en liten stjernepunch.

Jeg er ikke ferdig ennå, nå er nemlig desembernummeret av Ett Trykk ute i butikkene. Gjett hvem som er gjesteartisten i dette nummeret! 😉

Det er uvant å se tingene mine på trykk, selv om jeg også bidro i juleheftet som ble sluppet på messa i september. Da var jeg i full gang med å lage juleprosjekter til dette nummeret, som har så fin blå forside! Blått er som kjent min favorittfarge til jul, så jeg er veldig fornøyd med at akkurat “mitt” nummer har blå forside! 🙂