Pastellkort {Ett Trykk}

May 25, 2014May 2, 2014 Elin1 Comment

Dagens lille oppdatering er et kort laget for et av fargeleggingsheftene til Ett Trykk, der jeg har bidratt med Copic-fargelegging fra og med det første påfyllingsheftet. Til pastellheftet ville de også at jeg skulle lage et kort av det ferdige motivet mitt, og da var valget enkelt. Jeg har ikke fått brukt Sofiero-arkene mine fra Maja Design så mye som jeg skulle ønske, så jeg tok dem frem for anledningen og storkoste meg med mitt aller første gatefold-kort!

Motivet er Honey fra Saturated Canary, selvfølgelig fargelagt med Copics. Kortet er laget med Classic Smooth White og Chablis kartong fra Bazzill, med Royal Summer Residence og Strolling Down the Rose Path-arkene fra Maja Design. Alle panelene er sydd og revet litt, og jeg har bakgrunnsstemplet diverse stempler fra Kort & Godt, Magnolia, Basic Grey og Marianne Design på selve motivet og også inni kortet.

Kortet holdes lukket med skjulte magneter fra Basic Grey. Jeg har pyntet kortet med blomster fra Wild Orchid Crafts og pyntebær fra Magnolia, og har også brukt en Magnolia-die (Heart Swirls) til å lage snirkler under blomstene. Jeg har også satt på rosa halvperler fra Staz og gule halvperler fra Papirdesign.

Innsidene har jeg laget meget enkle, med plass til mye tekst.

Baksiden har jeg også gjort enkel, med noen runde diecuts av kartong og mønsterark og et tekststempel fra Papirdesign som siste finish.

Til slutt: Fargene jeg har brukt til motivet mitt.

Fredagsscrapp

May 6, 2014May 7, 2014 ElinLeave a comment

Ja, det er tirsdag, men en fredag tidlig i februar hadde vi fredagsscrapp på scrapping.no. Det var et slags virtuelt scrappetreff, der det ble skravlet i ett og medlemmene la ut det ene prosjektet etter det andre. Dette er et av kortene jeg lagde den fredagen. Kortet er kjempestort, det måler 9 x 4 1/4″. Basen er i Stamper’s Select White kartong fra Papertrey Ink. Jeg har brukt Framed Out #12 die (også fra Papertrey Ink) til å stanse ut fem rammer av fem forskjellige farger kartong (Lavender Moon, Lemon Tart, Limeade Ice, Aqua Mist og Spring Rain). Jeg har stemplet små hjerter på den hvite bakgrunnen i fem farger som matcher kartongene (Distress Ink spun sugar, Memento Dandelion, Papertrey Ink Limeade Ice, Papertrey Ink Aqua Mist og Papertrey Ink Spring Rain). Jeg har også brukt min Martha Stewart Lace Heart punch til å punche ut alle de små hjertene av Perfect Coloring Paper, som jeg har farget med Copics.

Den ene rammen har jeg satt på veldig tynn 3D-teip og stemplet et tekststempel fra Framed Out #12 Mini Stamp-settet til Papertrey Ink med Aqua Mist-blekk. Førstkommende fredag har vi en ny fredagsscrapp på forumet på scrapping.no, sett av fredagen og bli med da vel!

Fargene jeg har brukt på de forskjellige hjertene mine.

Dåpsinvitasjon {Ett Trykk}

May 3, 2014April 30, 2014 Elin1 Comment

Denne dåpsinvitasjonen var mitt bidrag til dåpsoppgaven jeg fikk som gjestedesigner i Ett Trykk og er publisert i aprilnummeret.

Invitasjonen ble laget for en venninne som skulle døpe sin sønn i februar, så timingen av oppgaven var perfekt. Kortet måler 5×5″ og har mindre rygg enn mine vanlige kort med bare 1/8″. Kortet er bygd opp med mønsterark fra Grandma’s School Book-kolleksjonen til Pion Design og babyskomotiv fra North Star Stamps.

Jeg har brukt en kombinasjon av dies fra Lifestyle Crafts og Spellbinders på forskjellige paneler. Ordet Invitasjon er laget på en kurve i Photoshop i en farge som matcher det grønne mønsterarket, stanset ut med en Spellbinders-die og proppet opp på 3D-puter for dimensjon. En knapp med en sløyfe i naturlig twine er også satt på. Jeg har satt en rose fra Wild Orchid Crafts og et par pyntebær fra Kort & Godt i det motsatte hjørnet og avsluttet fronten av kortet med perler i to av hjørnene.

Motivet er stemplet med Memento Rich Cocoa og fargelagt med Copics på X-Press It Blending Card.

Innsidene av kortet har det samme grunnoppsettet som forsiden. På den første innsiden har jeg stemplet dåpsordklyngestempelet fra NSS med Memento Rich Cocoa.

Den andre innsiden har tekst skrevet ut fra PCen i mørk brunt på en bit mønsterark.

Baksiden lagde jeg veldig enkel, med miniutgaven av babyskostempelet på en liten sirkel med en scallopsirkel bak, proppet opp på 3D-teip.

Hydrangea {CopicMarkerNorge}

May 1, 2014April 30, 2014 Elin2 Comments

It’s time for our midway inspiration for the current challenge at CopicMarkerNorge – anything goes. I’ve made this very clean and simple card using a hydrangea image by Aurora Wings. I love hydrangeas and this image was a blast to color. I made four different cards with this image, I’ll show the other three later.

I decided to focus on the image for this one. The card size is a bit odd, it measures 5 1/2 x 5 7/8″. The image is printed on X-Press It Blending Card and colored with the Copics listed at the bottom of this post. I diecut the flower with a Lifestyle Crafts die (Nesting Squares) and did the same with the purple panel underneath (using a die from the Nesting Rectangles set), cutting a wide V shape in the Maja Design patterned paper to make a banner. I added some foam tape to the back of my flower panel and added it to the card front. Realizing I didn’t have room for a sentiment, I fiddled around for a while trying vellum and other things, but nothing worked, so I decided to stamp my sentiment directly on the flower. I used my antistatic powder, stamped the sentiment with VersaMark and white heat embossed my greeting. I finished off the card with a little bit of Panduro bling.

The Copics I used for my hydrangea. I like the two-toned effect that I got using BVa and Vs for the purple.

Oldtimer {CopicMarkerNorge}

April 8, 2014April 7, 2014 ElinLeave a comment

It’s a wonderful Tuesday morning, and time for some more inspiration for our current challenge over at CopicMarkerNorge – coloring in sepia or black and white. I chose sepia for this vintage car image.

I made a birthay card for my dad’s early March birthday. This card is unlike me in so many ways, yet it is very me in others. It’s a fairly technique heavy card, and I’ve done tons of things on this card that I don’t normally do. The card layout is heavily inspired by a card Mona V made last year using plenty of tags and corrugated cardstock, I just love her cardmaking style!

I used an old kraft paper bag for the base of my card. I added some gesso around the edges to soften up the brown a bit. I found a scrap piece of Pion Design patterned paper with a collage design on it and added a thin layer of gesso across the entire piece with a sponge. I let that dry, then went over the whole thing with an ink blending tool with vintage photo distress ink. I wanted some of the gesso to show through, so I took my trusty Tim Holtz sanding grip and sanded the entire piece and finished it off by distressing the edges.

I added a few tags, some large ones from Søstrene Grene, and some smaller ones (in true Mona style) that were left over from other projects (diecut with dies from Magnolia (Tea Label Tags), Tim Holtz (Tiny Tabs & Tags) and Papertrey Ink (Tiny Tags)). I glued all my tags down and stamped on top of them with a couple of Marianne Design ticket stamps Henrikke gave me last fall (thank you, sweetie!) using Memento Rich Cocoa ink. I even used some of my Tim Holtz remnant rubs for this one, I’ve had it for like forever, and have never used it before… oh well, it kind of fit this project, I think. Next I placed my corrugated cardstock (the white is by Inkido, I don’t know where the kraft is from) and glued it all down after inking the edges with distress ink.

My dad loves old cars, so I thought this new Oldtimer stamp from La Blanche would fit perfectly for his card. I stamped it in Memento Rich Cocoa ink on Papertrey Ink Rustic Cream cardstock and colored it in with my Copics. Inked the edges with distress ink and stapled it to a kraft base using a Bambi stapler I bought at Staples eons ago. Finally I added a Tim Holtz word band and tucked all the natural twine and white Hemptique hemp on the back of the corrugated pieces. I stamped a North Star Stamps text stamp on a piece of kraft cardstock and put it in an ornate plate, also by Tim Holtz. I dented the brads on either side of the ornate plate with my TH hammer, and glued the entire piece down to the rest of my card front using some glossy accents.

The tag inside the bag is one of those huge Tim Holtz ones. I inked up the entire surface of the tag with vintage photo distress ink and added a few drops of water for interest. I took out the ticket stamps that I used on the front of the card and did some generation stamping with them on this piece. The last little bit was adding a Norsk Stempelblad stamp (26B) with Memento Rich Cocoa ink. I used some natural twine and more of the white hemp, so I can easily pull the tag out of the bag. A jump ring and a philosophy tag was the last little detail, and the entire back of this tag had plenty of room for a personal message.

I did the exact same thing with the Pion Design scrap piece of paper I used on the back as I did on the front: Gesso, then distress ink, then sanded it down and added the Marianne Design ticket stamps with generation stamping. More of the Søstrene Grene and smaller Papertrey Ink tags on the back, with a little natural twine and white hemp on some of the tags. I inked more Pion Design scraps and glued them to a small piece of grungeboard, went crazy with my ticket stamps and Memento Rich Cocoa ink over the entire piece, which I then diecut using the Mini Old Jalopy die from Tim Holtz and the wordplay die. I glued the letters and the car to the back of my paper bag, and added a couple of numbers on the car diecut from the Tim Holtz Typeset die.

As usual I’m finishing off my post with the Copics I’ve used. Not a whole lot this time!

Morsdagskort {Ett Trykk}

March 1, 2014January 1, 2014 ElinLeave a comment

Ja, jeg vet at det er en stund siden morsdag. Og det er enda lenger siden at kortet ble laget. Dette kortet var nemlig med i årets første nummer av Ett Trykk, som kom ut i begynnelsen av februar. Kortet ble laget i oktober, rett etter fristen min på alle prosjektene jeg lagde til desembernummeret, og derfor ble det et veldig enkelt kort.

Jeg har kun brukt produkter fra Papertrey Ink på dette prosjektet: kartong i fargene Blueberry Sky, Spring Rain, Ripe Avocado og Rustic Cream, blekk i fargene Blueberry Sky og Ripe Avocado og “Mum’s the word” stempler og dies. Gratulerer med morsdagen er skrevet ut fra Photoshop i farge som matcher Blueberry Sky-fargen.

Blomstene og bladene er proppet opp på kjempetynne 3D-puter for bittelitt dimensjon.

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.

Shabby & simple? {North Star Stamps}

February 4, 2014 Elin2 Comments

I don’t usually make shabby chic cards. Don’t get me wrong, I like them, I just don’t make them. The same used to be true of clean & simple cards, though I’ve made a few of those in the last couple of years. Combining the two styles, however, is not something I’ve done. Until now. This card is very simple, yet shabby. And to top it off – made entirely from scraps!! I found a piece of a lovely Dotted Swiss cardstock from Bazzill (Sunset Rose), just large enough to make a cardbase (A2 size – 5 1/2 x 4 1/4″), a panel for my sentiment and a few butterflies. While rummaging through my scraps I also found this green patterned paper by Maja Design (The Elegant Wine House from the “Sofiero” collection). I added gesso altong the edges of the cardbase and the patterned paper as well as a light tough of gesso on the sentiment panel and the rest of the cardstock I used for the butterflies. I stamped the sentiment from North Star Stamps with Memento Rich Cocoa ink on the cardstock. The texture of the dotted Swiss cardstock and the layer of gesso makes the stamped sentiment look a little worn – perfect for a shabby card. I distressed the edges of the patterned paper and the cardstock, added a doily from Helz Cuppleditch, butterflies, and some ruffled satin ribbon, as well as a few Kaisercraft pearls on the butterflies.

Believe it or not, but getting the ribbon just right was the most time consuming process on this entire card. The very lovely Renate has perfected the art of the wrinkled ribbon, but she uses glue, which, for some reason, seems like an impossible task for me. I bet she puts her fingers right into the glue, and since I hate (I really can’t stress this enough) getting anything on my fingers (glue, paint, food, ANYTHING), I do what I can to avoid it.

Very simple insides. The pieces of white cardstock (Bazzill Classic Smooth) also happen to be a couple of scraps, diecut with a Spellbinders die (Lattice Rectangles). The stamp on the left is another great stamp by North Star Stamps, and there’s plenty of room for a personal greeting on the right.

The back of the card. The rest of the patterned paper by Maja Design, the rest of the doily I used on the front, and a few more butterflies to tie the whole thing together, along with a stamped sentiment at the bottom, also from North Star Stamps.

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.