Hi everyone! Another Wednesday, and you know what that means – it’s Mo Manning day. I’ve colored up the adorable Make a Wish image for my card today. I made it very simple, so there’s not too much on the card to distract from the image.
I colored her up with my Copics in mainly RVs ang BGs. I diecut her with a stitched rectangle die from the Stitched Rectangles STAX Set 2 from My Favorite Things – try saying that ten times fast. I put her on lots of foam tape to a panel of Ocean Tides cardstock from Papertrey Ink, diecut with another stitched rectangle die from MFT, this time from Set 1. I added that to a Plum Pudding cardbase.
I tend to make my cards simple with clusters of embellishments. This card is no exception. I dug through my patterned paper scraps and found some papers that matched my cardstock pretty well. The light teal is from My Mind’s Eye, the dark teal is from Pion Design, and the purple is from Papirdesign.
I also added a doily. Well, half a doily, another signature of mine. I diecut my teal banners with a couple of My Favorite Things dies, and glued a little vine from Snip Art on top. This chipboard piece is very delicate, so I used spray adhesive on the back of it to avoid having to deal with liquid glue oosing out the sides. I added my diecut heart with some liquid glue, put a layer of Wink of Stella on top, and then Glossy Accents on top of that.
Here you can see the Glossy Accents on the heart heaps better. I also added Wink of Stella and Glossy Accents on the heart on her shirt.
I found some scraps of mostly green patterned paper from Maja Design. I had no idea that the club he plays at is named Green Joy, so that was pure luck. I added his age on a flag, thought it was fitting. Not that there’s 50 holes on a course (that much I know), but I’m guessing he gets it anyway.
I colored up my golfer to fit my papers and added a bit of green below his feet and the ball. I love his tongue sticking out, he’s SO focused on making that put!
I added a little cluster of banners in the lower left corner, with a sentiment on one of them. It says “a man at his best age” in Norwegian. I stamped it in Papertrey Ink Dark Chocolate ink and added a few veneer stars from Studio Calico as accents.
The inside basically has the same design. I made a pocket for some cash on the left side, with a diecut sentiment and some more stars.
The back is also pretty simple, the first line of a Norwegian birthday song stamped in the same dark brown color that I used for the sentiment on the front of the card. I scattered a few stars here, as well.
Jeg har stemplet alle smileyene fra Smileys-platen på Stamper’s Select White kartong fra Papertrey Ink med Soft Stone blekk, også fra PTI. Jeg har fargelagt utvalgte smileys med Copictusjene mine og så stemplet over disse med Extreme Black blekk fra My Favorite Things.
At jeg endte opp med å fargelegge to av smileyen med store øyne var helt tilfeldig, det var plasseringen av smileyene som bestemte hvilke som ble fargelagt, ikke hvilke smileyer det var snakk om. Egentlig var planen en bredere og lengre tekststripe som gikk helt bort til den nederste rosa, men den lange, brede tekststripen funket ikke. Sånn sett burde jeg sikkert ha fargelagt den med briller som er til høyre for den nederste rosa når jeg endret planen min, men da måtte jeg ha stemplet hele bakgrunnen på nytt, og det var nok presisjonsarbeid den første gangen, så jeg lot det være som det var.
De første gangene jeg lagde CAS-kort gjorde jeg alltid noe på innsiden også, for det var det jeg var vant til fra mine lag-på-lag-kort, men etter kort tid gikk jeg bort fra det. Enkelt skal liksom være enkelt, det trenger ofte ikke noe mer enn forsiden, har jeg tenkt. 
Teksten embosset jeg på den samme turkise kartongen som jeg brukte til basen (Papertrey Ink Hawaiian Shores), stanset den ut til et banner og proppet den opp på noen lave 3D-puter. For å forankre tekststripen litt brukte jeg noen dotter i farger som matchet den ensomme, oransje smileyen øverst på kortet, for å ta igjen fargen litt. Og det er all pynten. Easy peasy. Håper jeg kanskje kan inspirere deg til å se på stemplene du har og finne nye bruksmuligheter til dem.
Jeg har fargelagt bjørnene mine med Copics, klippet dem ut og satt dem i hver sin polaroidramme stanset ut med en die fra Papertrey Ink. Alle rammene er stanset ut i hver sin farge kartong fra PTI (Pure Poppy, Orange Zest, Harvest Gold, Simply Chartreuse, Blueberry Sky, Enchanted Evening og Royal Velvet), og fargene på pakker, ballonger, muffins og hjerter matcher fargene på rammene de er i.
Måten jeg har stablet rammene på gjorde at jeg hadde et lite tomrom et stykke opp på kortet. Plassen var i akkurat passe størrelse til å stemple en tekst, og stempelet jeg valgte fra 
Både bjørnene og rammene er proppet opp fra basen for dimensjon. Bjørnene er satt på 3D-teip, mens jeg har stanset ut mosegummi bak rammene. Da slapp jeg å klippe 3D-teip i småbiter, det smaleste på rammene er nemlig bare 3 mm bredt. Med mosegummi ser det også mye penere ut fra siden. Jeg har farget kanten på mosegummien med farge som matcher kartongen. Et lurt lite triks, da ser det nemlig ut som jeg har mange farger med mosegummi, selv om jeg stort sett bare har brukt hvit mosegummi (av en eller annen grunn hadde jeg oransje mosegummi også, så det er brukt bak den oransje og den røde ramma).
I used a word die from Kort & Godt on the bottom of my colored piece, diecut it a second time in craft foam, and glued the two diecuts in place, making sure to keep the center pieces of the Rs and the A, so I could pop them back in.
The card is a standard top folding A2 card made from Papertrey Ink Stamper’s Select White cardstock. It’s my favorite white cardstock of all the different ones I have tried. It’s bright white, heavy weight and folds beautifully. What more could a girl ask for?
I stamped and white heat embossed part of a Norsk Stempelblad AS sentiment on a small strip of X-Press It. Before stamping, I colored my strip with one of the pink markers from my image, so my pinks would match. I finished the card off with a few white crystals from Papirdesign.
Back to the card. I colored up my image with Copics and added some grass and a few freehand flowers to ground her. I added tons of Glossy Accents to the balloons, making them super shiny.
I like making my cards simple, so I put her on a standard A2 sized card base made from Raspberry Fizz cardstock from Papertrey Ink, before adding a scrap of a tiny Doodlebug doily, a couple of strips of patterned paper from Maja Design and Papirdesign diecut with dies from My Favorite Things and a couple of tiny staples.
The sentiment is from a stamp set from Norsk Stempelblad AS, stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black. I added a couple of enamel dots, the pink ones are from Papirdesign, the teal from My Mind’s Eye. I added some divine twine and tied it in a bow as my last finishing touch. And that’s my card for today.
I like plenty of white space on my cards, so I kept most of the card pretty simple. I colored my image with Copics, and I must admit, the colors blend very easily on this cardstock, maybe even too easily. It was kind of difficult to get any real contrast, even though I used some very dark and very light colors to get as much contrast as I could. I would also say that the colors look very different on this cardstock compared to the X-Press It blending card I normally use. The skin tones, in particular, look a lot more blue on this one – not really the look I was going for, I didn’t want her looking sick. I used a lot of E13, but it really doesn’t look that way. Just something to be aware of, I guess.
Since my plan to do a one layer card really didn’t work, I decided to go all out and add an embellishment cluster. I found patterned paper scraps in colors that coordinated well with my image and went to town. I also added a few pieces that I had left over on the inside.
There’s plenty of manufacturers represented in that tiny cluster. The patterned paper with the sentiment (“You’re the world’s best” in Norwegian, stamp from Norsk Stempelblad AS) is from Melissa Frances, the yellow one below it is from Chatterbox, the light blue underneath that is from Inkido, and the pink one that you see a little bit of on either side of the banners is from American Crafts. Two of the banners are scraps from Pion Design, the pale pink is from Maja Design, and the one with the yellow stripes is the same digital Project Life paper that I used at the bottom. I’ve also used a brad from Kaisercraft, a yellow enamel dot from My Mind’s Eye and a pink enamel dot from Papirdesign, in addition to a small paper doily from Doodlebug Design. In other words – a real mishmash, but I think it kind of works. Oh, and I brought out my sewing machine for that stitching detail at the top.
Hei og hopp! Dagens kort er publisert i aprilnummeret av Ett trykk, i Inspirert av-artikkelen som vi har begynt med i år. Jeg lot meg inspirere av 
Motivet jeg har brukt er 
Jeg har satt panelet med det fargelagte motivet på 3D-teip, og pyntet bak med mønsterark. Det stripete gule er et digitalt Project Life-ark, det turkise med stjerner på er fra Papirdesign og det grønne er fra Imaginisce. Dottene jeg har satt på kommer også fra Papirdesign.
Jeg tok Tim Holtz tissue wrap som jeg skjærte i strimler på 1/2″, kjørte gjennom klistremerkemaskinen min og fargela med Copics. Vips, så hadde jeg washi.
Jeg kjørte hvit kartong gjennom BigShot-maskinen min med en impression plate fra Papertrey Ink, da ble det hvite panelet mitt debosset og så med en gang litt mer spennende ut enn vanlig flat, hvit kartong. Jeg la på tre strimler med min hjemmelagde washi, stemplet et stempel fra Norsk Stempelblad AS med Distress Oxide Fossilized Amber, stanset det ut til en sirkel, stanset ut en gul scallopsirkel som jeg monterte teksten på og proppet det hele opp. Det hvite panelet satte jeg på en gul kortbase av kartong fra Papertrey Ink og pyntet enkelt med noen enamel dots fra My Mind’s Eye.
Papirmølla 