Hei og hopp! I dag har jeg en eske å vise frem, publisert i babyshowerartikkelen i augustnummeret av Ett trykk. Hun som lagde esken opprinnelig lagde den stor nok til å romme et slips i farsdagsgave, men med babytema passer den ypperlig til et par hjemmestrikkede babysokker eller kanskje også en lue.
Esken var overraskende enkel å lage. Jeg valgte ikke å ta mønsterark på de korte endene, men det kan du selvsagt gjøre.
Jeg har brukt ark fra Vintage Baby-serien til Maja Design for denne esken. Vimplene med sømkant er stanset ut med en die fra Rayher, og jeg har tegnet rundt kanten av dieen på den hvite kartongen jeg har brukt som matte bak vimplene og skjært til for hånd med en liten tapetkniv. Teksten kommer fra Småtekster-platen til Norsk Stempelblad AS, og jeg har stemplet den med Spring Rain blekk fra Papertrey Ink.
Jeg har ikke pyntet voldsomt mye. Jeg startet med en minikakeserviett fra Doodlebug og har limt blomster fra North Star Design, Wild Orchid Crafts og kort & Godt oppå. Pyntegrenene og de små blå diamantene kommer også fra Kort & Godt.
Jeg har laget et OLC denne gangen, eller one layer card, som det heter på godt norsk. Jeg stemplet først motivene mine fra Altenew med blekkfarger som ville forsvinne når fargeleggingen kom over. Jeg brukte Memento Angel Pink for blomstene, og annengenerasjonsstempling med Memento Bamboo Leaves for det grønne.
Det neste trinnet mitt var å fargelegge med Copics. Jeg brukte tre tusjer for det rosa, tre for det grønne og tre for det gule. For meg er ni tusjer på et motiv veldig lite, men det skulle bare være underlaget til blyantene jeg skulle bruke over.
Jeg brukte ikke mange fargeblyanter heller, men det tok litt tid. Jeg hadde ikke brukt fargeblyanter over Copic-tusjer før, så jeg lærte underveis. Det siste jeg gjorde var å stemple en tekst fra Gratulerer-platen til Norsk Stempelblad AS med svart blekk og lime på tre hvite halvperler fra Papirdesign, og det er hele kortet. Enkelt i utseende, men tidkrevende å fargelegge, så det er ikke masseproduksjonsvennlig akkurat, men det er vanligvis ikke kortene mine likevel, det er ikke noe mål.
I’ve colored her up before. A couple of years ago I colored her with reds and turned her into a Christmas card. This time, though, I just had to go for the blues. I love blue for Christmas. Well, I love blue all year, but especially at Christmas time. There’s just something about it that screams Christmas to me, way more than red ever will.
I wanted to make her hair golden blonde. Well, this is more in the area of light redish brown, but she’s so darn cute, I really don’t mind. The bench, her pants, and her little winter boots are actually all colored with the same color family, I just didn’t use the lighter ones for the bench, and similarly, I didn’t use the dark ones for her boots. Skipped both the lightest and the darkest for her pants. I did the same thing with my blues, I went very light with the scarf, and darker on everything else.
I found a tiny little gingerbread man in my stash, I just had to include him. I used some lacy ribbon from Papirdesign in the perfect blue color to match my coloring, and tied the gingerbread man to the ribbon with some warp thread from my grandmother’s loom stash. Added a tiny bit of strong liquid glue to my knot, so that it wouldn’t come undone.
The sentiment is made from two stamps from the B04 stamp set from Norsk Stempelblad AS. I stamped Nisseklem first, in Enchanted Evening ink from Papertrey Ink, then the smaller bit right below using the same ink. I wanted the two lines to be fairly close together, otherwise I would have stamped them both at the same time.
On the back I used another Norsk Stempelblad AS stamp, stamped it in the same blue color, then started on my background. I started with my tree and the little kid tobogganing by stamping them both in white hybrid ink from Papertrey Ink. I did this in my Misti, making sure I got good coverage over the entire surface of both stamps. I then went in with an acrylic block and a tiny snowflake stamp from the same stamp set, rotating between each stamping to create a random snowflake border along the top. When I was sure my hybrid ink was dry (I used a heat tool to help speed up the drying process), I went in with a mini ink blending tool and blue inks (Spring Rain and Blueberry Sky from Papertrey Ink), trying to make an even blend across the rest of the background. The hybrid ink somewhat resists anything you put on top, but not completely, resulting in a much softer look than if I were to heat emboss the images, then ink blend on top. I really like this soft look, it won’t distract from the names I’m putting on my gift tag, and everyone will be able to read it on Christmas Eve when it’s time to open presents, even with dim lights.
Jeg printet ut et blomstermotiv fra Make It Crafty to ganger, en gang i full styrke på X-Press It blending card, og en gang med svakere strek på gul kartong fra Papertrey Ink. Jeg fargela fullstyrkeversjonen med Copics og stanset ut et rimelig stort sirkelhull fra midten av motivet. Jeg gjorde det samme på den gule kartongen. Dermed kunne jeg bruke en bit av hver på hvert kort.
Jeg limte på det ferdig fargelagte panelet mitt på en gul kortbase med 3D-teip på hele baksiden, så det skulle få litt dimensjon. Den utstansede gule sirkelen ble limt rett på kortbasen og danner resten av motivet, selv om det ikke er fargelagt. Jeg stanset ut bokstavene til ordet takk med et Tim Holtz-alfabet fra Sizzix, fire ganger i hvit kartong og ett lag øverst i X-Press It, som jeg fargela med den samme rosakombinasjonen av Copics som jeg brukte på motivet. Jeg limte alle lagene til bokstavene oppå hverandre og limte dem fast midt i sirkelen.
Jeg brukte to plater fra Norsk Stempelblad AS til å lage tekstremsen som er på den svarte kartongen. “du er den du er” kommer fra 
Jeg stemplet blomsten min på Strathmore Bristol Smooth-ark med blekk fra Papertrey Ink i fargen 
Jeg stanset ut en sirkel av det grå panelet mitt (
Jeg fargela i utgangspunktet to blomster. Jeg hadde aldri prøvd Zig-tusjene på Bristol Smooth før, så jeg trengte en prøverunde. Den første blomsten jeg fargela delte jeg i tre og satte på innsidene av kortet. Det er litt mer farge – og sånn sett også litt mer liv – på denne, men jeg ville ha et veldig dust uttrykk på forsiden av kortet, derfor havnet den lyse varianten på fronten.
The scalloped circle on the scalloped half circle is actually the front of the card, which is kept closed with a pair of magnets hidden beneath the layers of patterned paper.
Once you open it up, a hidden sentiment is revealed. The stamp is from Papirdesign, stamped in Papertrey Ink Blueberry Sky ink.
When you open it up even further, you get to the actual insides of the card, with plenty of space to write a personal greeting. I added a little stamped crown in the bottom right hand corner on the right side, also a stamp from Papirdesign.
The back of the card isn’t exactly very fascinating. The second half of the scalloped circle, another Papirdesign sentiment stamped in Blueberry Sky ink and a few Studio Calico veneer stars.
I’ll admit, I struggled putting this one together. I had a stray pink Copic streak on the left side of the image, and no matter how times I used my blender on it, it was just too stubborn to go away. I decided to cut it off, I wasn’t about to redo the entire image. I sort of had a plan, but that didn’t really work, so I wound up diecutting a scrap piece of 7 Dots Studio patterned paper to go behind my image.
I used the same patterned paper for my sentiment strip, which I stamped with a Norsk Stempelblad AS stamp and then diecut using one of the Fishtail Flag Frames dies from My Favorite Things. The pink patterned paper behind the sentiment strip is actually the other side of that same patterned paper. I thought it fit my Papertrey Ink Berry Sorbet cardstock pretty well, in addition to the pink in the actual image. The pink cardstock is debossed with an impression plate from Papertrey Ink and then diecut with a stitched rectangle die from My Favorite Things. I also added some enamel dots in coordinating colors, as well as a couple of scraps of some doilies I had in my stash.
I popped up the entire image using foam tape – lots of it, I’m not shy when I use foam tape.
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I colored her with my Copics in the colors shown at the bottom of this post, and diecut her using a stitched rectangle die from My Favorite Things. I added her with lots of foam tape to a piece of Papertrey Ink Aqua Mist cardstock that I embossed using a quilted backdrop die from Lawn Fawn, and added some 2 mm Kort & Godt pearls to the background for a little bit of extra interest.
I diecut my sentiment using a small stitched circle die, also from MFT. I punched out a 1″ circle out of some Aqua Mist cardstock that I glued my stitched circle to. I stamped a Norsk Stempelblad AS sentiment in a combination of Doll Pink ink from Simon Says Stamp and Autumn Rose ink from Papertrey Ink. Neither of the colors matchet my image on their own, but together they were perfect.
As you can see from this photo, my main panel is popped up from the rest of the card, keeping the focus on her.
I colored her up in reds with a really dark night sky background and lots of snow flurrying through the air. I diecut her and put her on a scalloped circle. Added a few diecut snowflakes and a charm shaped like mittens for a little bit of embellishment.
I stamped a sentiment (No peeking! – not to be opened until Christmas Eve!) on a 1″ circle and glued a pebble on top, just for that tiny bit of dimension.
The back of the tag is very simple. More diecut snowflakes, a stitched snowflake circle and a To/From stamp from Norsk Stempelblad AS, stamped using Papertrey Ink Scarlet Jewel ink. I added tiny Kort & Godt pearls to the center of each of the snowflakes.
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