Hi everyone! Wednesday, and I know I haven’t posted any Mo goodies in a while. I broke my shoulder a couple of months ago, and I still have a long way to go before my arm is back to normal, but I’ve got a card for you today made before my accident. It was published in the April issue of Ett trykk, which was the last ever issue of the magazine, and it was only in a digital format, no actual pages to flip through in that last one, which is kind of sad, but that’s just the way it is. Anyway, in each issue we had a template for a special type of card to follow, and this was my card for the April template.
I used Mo’s Prom image for the front of my card. I think it totally worked for a confirmation card. By cutting off the bottom, the corsage is gone and I can use the image for lots of different occasions!
The pink I used for the dress matched perfectly with the roses in the Vintage Romance collection by Maja Design. I stacked white konfirmant diecuts on top of each other and finished off with a pink one on top colored with the darkest Copic I used for her dress. I’ve added dimension to pretty much all the panels, and a few flowers to embellish a little.
When you pull on the front of the card, there’s a neat little suprise behind it, four accordian folded “walls”, one on each side. I stamped confirmation sentiments from Norsk Stempelblad AS in Papertrey Ink Autumn Rose ink on punched circles of patterned paper and added them to my accordian folds.
Inside the “walls” of the card, I put a sentiment from Stempelglede, stamped in the same Autumn Rose ink from Papertrey Ink that I used on the punched circles.
Jeg stanset ut et vindu med en die fra My Favorite Things til å ha alle bananene mine i. Det hvite panelet er satt på mosegummi, så bananene har litt spillerom. Jeg svertet Distress Oxide blekk i fargen Tumbled glass på en hvit bit kartong med hjelp av en skystensil (også fra My Favorite Things), så bananene ikke skulle flyte i hvitt tomrom. Under vinduet stemplet jeg en av tekstene fra 
Her syns det godt at det er god plass til bananene i vinduet, dybden på mosegummien gjorde dette shakervinduet veldig enkelt å lage.
Den lille apekatten er stemplet med svart blekk (Extreme Black fra My Favorite Things), farget med Copics og så stemplet enda en gang, denne gangen med VersaFine Onyx Black. VersaFine Onyx Black er et supert blekk, det blir ordentlig svart når du stempler, men det kan ikke brukes med Copics. Ved å fargelegge først og stemple med VersaFine etterpå får jeg fine, svarte linjer. Det hvite panelet er limt på en kortbase jeg har laget av kartong fra Hero Arts i fargen Periwinkle.
Enda en nærtitt på shakervinduet med bananene. Ved å farge noen bananer gule og noen grønne får man litt liv i shakerområdet også. Og alle bananer er jo ikke like, eller hva?
Jeg følte behovet for en apekatt inni kortet også. På samme måte som med apekatten på fronten ble den stemplet, farget med Copics, stemplet på nytt og så skjært/klippet ut og limt på med flytende lim.
Jeg klippet ut bananene og lagde en haug med polaroidrammer til både bananene og apekattene. Jeg tør nesten ikke å tenke på hvor mange rammer jeg har limt oppå hverandre for å få dimensjon. På rammen med bananene brukte jeg også en bit acetat for å lage shakerboks. Den øverste rammen på apekatten som er oppned ble stemplet med en tekst fra stempelplaten som passet perfekt både til apekatten, til bananene og også til rammen – størrelsen kunne ikke ha vært mer perfekt.
Jeg stemplet så mange bananer at jeg hadde en del til overs, så jeg stemplet enda en tekst, denne gangen på kortets innside, og limte på noen flere bananer som pynt.
I wanted a very colorful cake, but had a hard time deciding what color her dress should be (and subsequently what color cardbase I needed). I went with a really bright green. It really is super bright. A Granny Smith apple is pale in comparison, this green is so vivid! 
I recently spent a crafty weekend with some really good crafty friends. I borrowed a die from one of them and a few sentiment strips from another.
I wanted to use enamel dots that matched the colors of the patterned paper matted behind the sentiment strips. The purple one matches better in real life, purple is a color that’s really hard to get right in photographs.
I recently purchased a new glass film set for my phone. The set comes with a front film and a back film. I got a crack in my previous front film and needed to replace it, thus the new set. The old back film is still perfectly fine, so I don’t have the need to replace that (at least not yet). I realized that the new back film was perfect to use as a template for whatever design I wanted. I get the nice rounded corners and the hole for the camera is in the right spot.
I’m longing for summer and warmer weather, so I decided that 
I have a clear silicone back cover that I put on top, and voilà – my phone is suddenly one of a kind. I guess I should get that front film on there. Even though I bought the new set a few weeks ago, both pieces are still in the packaging. There’s not exactly much protection on my phone when they’re not attached, I need to get to it!
My card today features Cadi. She’s one of the fairies in the 
I stamped the polka dot turnabout stamp from Concord & 9th on my white background using VersaMark ink, before brushing Perfect Pearls pigment powder over. The result is a subtle shimmer on the polka dots. So subtle, in fact, that it’s hard to pick up in the photo.
I glued my white background onto a cardbase I made from Melon Berry cardstock from Papertrey Ink and popped up my image using foam tape, before adding a white heat embossed sentiment from Huldra designstudio and a few Pretty Pink Posh sequins to finish my card.
I colored my image years ago, so I have no idea which Copics I used. I added more contrast to the image at some point last year, but that doesn’t mean I remember any more. My memory’s pretty good, but not THAT good!
I rummaged through my blue scraps of patterned paper for this card. The dark blue one is from the Muligheter collection by Papirdesign, and the paler blue is from the Denim & Friends collection by Maja Design.
I chose stitched STAX sets from My Favorite Things (Stitched Rectangles STAX Set 2 and Stitched Circle STAX) to diecut all the panels on my card except for the blue circle I used as a mat for my sentiment, I used a Spellbinders die for that, it was the only “oddly” sized circle die I found in my stash, and it fit perfectly around my other circle with a 1/16″ border, which I happen to think is the perfect border size!
I glued my matted sentiment circle to the card using foam tape, and decided to add a few dark blue Papirdesign enamel dots to add more circular elements.
For once I decided to put something on the back. I don’t usually do that on my simple cards, but I really wanted to use that pale blue diecut strip I’d made, and I really love that Norsk Stempelblad AS sentiment (What? Aren’t you older?) that I stamped in Papertrey Ink Enchanted Evening ink.
I colored her up on X-Press It blending card with my Copics. It’s been a while, so I don’t recall which Copics I used, but I’m guessing I chose the R80s for the pink and the E40s for the brown.
I decided to diecut my colored piece using one of the rectangle dies from My Favorite Things with faux stitching. I also ran a white cardstock panel through a We R Memory Keepers embossing folder to give some interest to the background. I glued the dry embossed piece to the pink (Hibiscus Burst cardstock from Papertrey Ink) cardbase, and added my stitched rectangle on top of that with some dimensional adhesive.
I needed a sentiment that matched my image, so I decided to go with a belated birthday greeting from a Huldra designstudio stamp set. I heat embossed the sentiment on some pink cardstock and diecut it into a banner using a die from My Favorite Things. I added another fishtail banner behind it in brown and popped them both up from the image with some dimensional adhesive.
Here you can see the dimension, with the stitched rectangle popped up from the background, and the banners popped up from the stitched rectangle. I decided to add a few Papirdesign enamel dots as a finishing touch.
This card is large, it’s nearly 8 inches wide. Not what I normally do, but I really wanted to use all the birds.
I stamped a Norsk Stempelblad AS sentiment in blue ink. I actually double stamped to get the right color. I used Salty Ocean Distress Oxide ink for my first stamping, and then Papertrey Ink Blueberry Sky on top. The combination matches the coloring of the images well, but looking at the photos, I’m thinking there’s a possibilty I should have gone with Enchanted Evening, which is the same color as the blue cardstock I used for my cardbase.
The colors I used for my image. I actually used R39 to deepen my blues, it worked really well for that.
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