Hei og hopp! Jeg har lekt meg med monstre, bakgrunn og diecuts til dagens kort.
Det er ingen tvil om at jeg liker å lage enkle kort, men mine enkle kort er ofte ikke så enkle som man skulle tro ved første øyekast. Dette er et sånt kort. Jeg startet med å stemple monstrene fra Monster-platen til Huldra designstudio. Jeg hadde en plan for dette kortet, så jeg visste jeg trengte seks monstre. Det er kun fem på platen, så en måtte stemples to ganger. For å gjøre dem litt forskjellig ga jeg den ene tenner. Da alle var ferdig fargelagt klippet jeg dem ut. Siden de er så små er det skikkelig pirkejobb som tar tid, men det var dette med detaljer, da. Jeg er glad i detaljer og også ganske glad i pirk, så dette var jobb for meg.
Jeg lagde bakgrunnen ved å maskere alle fire kantene, før jeg gikk inn med forskjellige farger Distress Ink med blenderbørster fra Taylored Expressions. Jeg gikk i en slags regnbuerekkefølge, de er fra nederst til øverst Worn Lipstick, Spiced Marmalade, Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron, Cracked Pistachio, Mermaid Lagoon og Blueprint Sketch. Ved å bruke blenderbørstene får jeg en ganske dus fargepalett. Jeg valgte de varme fargene nederst og de kalde fargene øverst på bakgrunnen. Monstrene er satt på i motsatt rekkefølge, så monstrene i kalde farger har varme farger i bakgrunnen, mens monstrene i varme farger har kalde farger i bakgrunnen.
Mer pirkearbeid. Jeg stanset ut en coverdie fra Uniquely Creative 8 ganger i hvit kartong. Jeg limte 7 av lagene sammen og satte dem sentrert på kortbasen. På baksiden av den siste limte jeg fast acetat i annenhver åpning, jeg ville nemlig lage shakerkort og ha paljetter i de hullene hvor jeg ikke hadde monstre. Jeg fylte hullene med paljettblandinger fra Little Things from Lucy’s Cards i farger som matchet bakgrunnen (Let’s Be Mermaids øverst, Urban Chic mellom det gule og grønne monsteret, Peppermint på linjen med det turkise monsteret og Sweet Shop på den nederste raden) og limte det siste hvite laget med kartong oppå.
Til slutt gjensto kun å lime fast monstrene med 3D-puter og å få på en hilsen. Jeg stemplet og embosset en tekst fra en tekstplate fra Mathia design og satte limte den på med en smal strimmel 3D-teip. Teksten er egentlig lenger, men jeg hadde ikke plass til mer, så jeg stemplet EN HILSEN først, embosset det, og stemplet TIL DEG etterpå og embosset det. Til den typen stempeljobber er Mistien uvurderlig, alt er på rett linje!
I had to use my favorite color combination for Christmas on this one. Blue, grey and brown. I made my greys very light, so they look more white than grey, and I have to admit I kind of love the look! I printed the image with 15 % opacity and did no line coloring. I love no line coloring!
This card is very “me”. The cardbase is made from Papertrey Ink Enchanted Evening cardstock, I used a die from My Favorite Things to add the faux stitching detail on the main panel, and I added a little cluster of diecut patterned paper scraps. I stamped and heat embossed a Norsk Stempelblad AS sentiment on one of the patterned paper pieces and added three snowdrift sprinkles from Little Things from Lucy’s Card as my finishing touch.
Clean and simple with cluster, these cards come together so easily once the image is colored.
I used quite a few colors for this simple image. Lots of different earth tones for different parts of the image, and two grey families.
I love every image Stacey Yacula designs. This little penguin, from the 
I created a polaroid frame by diecutting the 
I wanted a little bit of interest to my background and diecut a piece of Raspberry Fizz cardstock from Papertrey Ink with the 
I glued my polaroid frame in the center of the card and added a few strategically placed vellum clouds. Because they hang off the edge of the frame, they break up the rigid rectangular look a little bit.
I colored up 
This card is somewhat different for me. It has a lot of white space, which is fairly common for me, but I used a stencil and texture paste on the card base to change it up a bit, which definitely isn’t normal for me. I even sprinkled distress glitter all over the texture paste while it was still wet, so the card sparkles when you tilt it in the light. Glitter is a nightmare to photograph, though, so it doesn’t show up in the photos very well.
I used the Parker alpha set from Memory box to diecut the word klem, which means hug in Norwegian. I diecut each letter five times and glued them together for a stacked, dimensional look. I created a couple of pink cardstock pieces by using one of the Copic markers I used on the skirt, stamped the remainder of my sentiment and heat embossed in white before glueing them on with clear foam tape.
By adding part of my sentiment on top of the image, I get a more cohesive design than I would have if I had put my little sentiment strip above the word only. Just a little design tip. I finished off the card by adding a few raindrops from Little Things from Lucy’s Cards.
These are all the Copics I used, and I must admit that I really love the pink and peach combos I came up with for this one.
I colored up 
I used a Docrafts die to create those tickets from scraps of patterned paper from Maja Design, popping them up on foam squares from Gina K designs to give them a little bit of dimension. I white heat embossed a sentiment from Ladybug & Friends on one of the tickets and tucked a diecut pine branch behind it. I finished by adding a few red enamel dots from Papirdesign, tying in the red details from the colored image.
As usual, I finish with the Copic colors I used to color my image.
Jeg startet med å stemple den søte reven fra 
Jeg stemplet en 
I colored up 
I’ve had this image for so long, and it really felt good to finally color it up. I used the largest of the dies in the Stitched Rectangles STAX (2) set from My Favorite Things, before heat embossing a Norsk Stempelblad AS sentiment in white using super fine detail embossing powder from Ranger.
I love the look of those heart shaped raindrops from Little Things from Lucy’s Cards. They’re part of the crystal collection and add the perfect little touch to such a simple card.
I turned my image into a card last night by stamping a sentiment, diecutting the entire panel with a faux stitch rectangle die, adding that to my card front and embellishing very sparingly with three clear crystals from the Ice Water mix from Little Things from Lucy’s Cards. That’s it.
The sentiment is from the B04 stamp set from Norsk Stempelblad AS. I love the stamps Åshild has designed and am so glad I have so many different sets from them. I used Enchanted Evening ink from Papertrey Ink. It’s a beautiful dark blue color.
Cards don’t get much simpler than this. And cards like this are so fun to make, too.
Would you believe I used 10 (yes, ten) different colors for the fur?? Am I crazy?
I colored her up with my Copics, focusing on the RV90s that go so incredibly well with the patterned paper from Papirdesign that I used, it’s ridiculous!
I made a shaped card using the third largest die in the XXL Square Frames Frilly #10 set from GoKreate, and did a whole bunch of diecutting elsewhere on the card too. To break up the monotony of a diecut on top of a slightly larger diecut on top of a slightly larger diecut on top of a slightly larger diecut, I cut some Kort & Godt lace and put it across the card. The diecut heart banner, the word banner and all those Wild Orchid Crafts flowers also help. The flower berries and pearls are from Kort & Godt.
There’s a banner hidden behind that image, diecut with a Magnolia die. I tied a bow of seam binding ribbon with the help of a DIY bow easy, I can’t make nice bows for cards to save my life (true story!), so the Bow Easy helps. I stamped a Papirdesign stamp using Memento Sweet Plum ink, which also matches the patterned papers beautifully. On top of the bow I added an old button from Melissa Frances.
Is that an adorable little fairy or what? Those flower berries from Kort & Godt are really old, I think they might actually be from their first production of flower berries. They made some later on that had more of a greenish yellowy tint, but these are more creme colored and perfect for this card. I still have a few left, I only use them on very special cards.
I added another Papirdesign sentiment stamp on the back of the card, along with a few more flowers. I removed the centers of the sweetheart blossoms and added back in some purple pearls from Papirdesign that once again matched the colors of everything else.
As you can see from the above photo, this is a very dimensional card and not at all mail friendly, it’s super thick.
Not too many Copics used for this one. Probably because it’s mostly that one dominating color.
This is a lot more artsy than what I normally do. I printed the image with an opacity setting of 25%, colored it with Copics and then used a Copic multiliner to add back in some black lines in selected areas before fussy cutting my image with a thin, white border on the outside and straight up to the black line on the inside.
I used foam tape from Gina K to pop up my colored piece onto a cardbase I made from Spring Rain cardstock from Papertrey Ink.
I stamped a Norsk Stempelblad AS sentiment using VersaFine Onyx Black ink, and added splatters across the entire card with white liquid watercolor from Hero Arts and a watered down black ink.
Not exactly my usual style of card, this one. What do you think?
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