Purple and Black Mixed Media Card by Sara Cook

Hi everyone.  I have another mixed media card today.  I had so much fun with the last one I came up with another design.  I used one of my favorite of all time dies, Fresh Foliage with the Tall Frilly Leafs Steams (a new favorite).  These types of designs are quick and easy to make while allowing you to be a little messy.  

Background:

I used Open Studio Watercolor paper and trimmed it down slightly less then 4" x 5 1/4".  I used Oxide Sprays in Villainous Potion and Hickory Smoke with the "smooshing" technique with the plastic packaging from a die. I started by misting the paper with water. Then spray a few drops of Villainous Potion on the plastic with a little water and smoosh onto watercolor paper.  Heat dry.  Repeat this process with Hickory Smoke then Villainous Potion until you have a background you like.   I then splattered with white and black paint.  Heat set dry all the way.  Next white heat emboss the word Hugs from the All the Happiness stamp set randomly on the back ground.  Making sure to have some of the words go off the sides.  Finally stamp portions of any of the full sentiments, making sure not to stamp it completely,  from the same stamp set in black pigment ink.  This is a way to introduce the black again but not over powering the background.  It will tie in the focal image.

Focal Image:

Die cut the Fresh Foliage and Tall Frilly Leaf Stems from black and vellum paper.  Stamp the "with love" sentiment from the Big and little Reverse Words stamp set from a matching, pigment in, and die cut with the coordinating date.  The pigment ink I used was VersaFine Clair.

Assembly:

Trim black card stock to 4" x 5 1/4" and adhere it behind the background panel. Adhere to a white A2 top folding card.  Glue the vellum Tall Frilly Leaf Stems cuts then the black die cuts on top.  Repeat with the Fresh Foliage.  Adhere the sentiment with foam tape over the middle lover portion of the foliage.

 

 

Supplies

 

94615 Tall Frilly Leaf Stems

98502 Fresh Foliage

cl5259 Big and Little Reverse Words clear stamp set

cl5265 All the Happiness clear stamp set

WP101 Watercolor Paper

Transfer, Emboss and Frame a Marvelous Magnolia by Jean Okimoto

Need a quick card?  Transfer, diecut and 3D-emboss a Marvelous Magnolia and add a shimmery Crystal Frame background.  A diecut greeting and Autumn Fairy Crystals top it off.  Hi, Jean here with a garden greeting to start the weekend.

Cut a Magnolia Rub-on Transfer and its paper liner - with a generous border.  Carefully remove the paper liner and tap the transfer onto heavy smooth white cardstock.  Place it between two sheets of printer paper to protect the design. Run it through the diecut machine (without the die!) with the plates used for cutting.  Carefully remove the top plastic liner.  Memory Box Rub-on Transfer sets include a wooden craft stick to burnish the transfer - but the rolling pressure of a diecut machine does a great job too!

Diecut the design with the matching die from the 3D embossing folder set.  Cut a second piece from heavy white cardstock and layer it for dimension.

Place the diecut in the Marvelous Magnolia 3D Embossing Folder and run it through the machine using the plates required for 3D embossing.

I used an ink-blended piece of Open Studio Watercolor Paper from my stash and spritzed it with more water and daubed it with a tissue to blot some of the inks for a lighter background.  Lightly spritzed it with Imagine's Gold Sheer Shimmer Sprtiz too.  Let it dry, then cut it with the large Crystal Frames die.  Attach the frame and its offcut to a white side-folded 5-½" square card.  The peaked Crystal Frame complements and resembles the top of the blossom without being too match-y.

Stamp the greeting - from the Friends and Family Clear Stamp Set - on a pale lavender 6x6 from the Twilight Purple Collection with Purple Delight VersaFine Clair.  Dry the ink, then trim the greeting with the 1-½" Square Basics die.

Assemble the card  - use foam tape for the greeting.  Add purple Autumn Fairy Crystals.  Cut a 5-½" square of cardstock to protect the card front for mailing.  Square cards require additional postage and handling.

Thanks for visiting - have a great weekend!

Supplies

 

ef1035 Marvelous Magnolia 3D Embossing Folder and Cutting Dies

sp1008 Twilight Purple

cry101 Autumn Fairy Crystals

94523 Crystal Frames

rub101 Magnolia Rub On

30088 Square Basics Set

CL5276 Friends and Family clear stamp set

wp101 Watercolor Paper

Two Cards- Freshwater Fish & Confetti Dot Hot Foil Plate by Angie Cimbalo

Hello and welcome, it's Angie here today with two cards featuring new products from the latest release.  

My first card is a slimline card using two fish from the combination "Freshwater Fish" stencil and embossing folder set.  The background for my card was ink blended with lots of blues.  Once it dried, I ran it through my hot foil machine using the "Confetti Dot" hot foil plate and some gold foil.  Here's a closer look:

I colored the fish with Distress Inks and watercolor markers and then fussy cut them out.  Next I splashed some water on the background to make more dots on it.  I added the two fish and then a sentiment from "You Anchor Me" stamp set.  It was stamped in brown ink on a stitched rectangle die.  Lastly I added water droplets from Memory Box and added the blue panel to a slimline size card base.  Here's one last look:

Now, here's a look at my second card:

I made this card the same way except I used very little ink on the background and I used Memory Box watercolor card stock.

Here's a closer look at this card.  You can see I heat embossed the sentiment on black card stock with white embossing powder.

And here's one last look at my card:

I hope you like my cards for today!  Be sure to come back each day to the blog for more inspiration from the design team!

 

 

 

Supplies

 

EF1028 Freshwater Fish 3D Embossing Folder and Matching Dies

88622 Freshwater Fish Stencil

mbf001 Confetti Dot Foil Plate

WP101 Watercolor Paper

cl5269D You Anchor Me clear stamp and die set

Cld101 Clear Fairy Drops

Plumed Gypsy Feather and Hugs Dies by Angie Cimbalo

Hello and welcome!  It's Angie here today with a mini slimline card featuring the new Plumed Gypsy Feather die and the Hugs die.  Here's a closer look at my card:

I cut the feather several times from white and black card stock and also from a watercolor panel that I had smooshed with Distress Inks.  If you look above at the bottom feather you can really see the texture of the watercolor paper!

Next I paper pieced different black and colored pieced into two stacked white feathers.  Then I arranged one on the top of my mini slimline card base and cut off excess.  I used the left over pieces to add to the bottom of the card.  

For the sentiment I layered a strip of watercolored paper on top of a black strip, then added the sentiment.  The sentiment was layered.   The bottom shadow die cut 2 from black and one from watercolor panel.  To get the black shadow effect glue the 3 dies together but offset the black ones (one on the top, one on the bottom.)  Then add the white "hugs" die on top and add it over the strips on the front of the card.

Here's one last look at my card:

I hope you like my card for today.  I really love the new dies especially the feather.  You can create such lovely cards with it!  Thanks so much for stopping by!

 

Supplies

 

JWL002 Pastel Jewels

94669 Hugs Tender Script

94711 Plumed Gypsy Feather

WP101 Watercolor Paper

Freshwater Fish Stories by Jean Okimoto

Say hello to Friday with embossed, stenciled and diecut Freshwater Fish. They're from coordinating sets of a 3D embossing folder, dies and 2-layer stencils.  Hi, Jean here with a white and bright design from our spring collection - and a new pinpoint cover plate from Birch Press Design.

Spritz both sides of watercolor paper with a fine mist of water.  Emboss it with the Freshwater Fish 3D Embossing Folder.

Use a sponge, dauber or blending brush to color the fish with the Freshwater Fish Stencil Set and Distress Oxides.  Colors used here are salvaged patina, iced spruce, twisted citron, peacock feathers, broken china and shaded lilac.  Dry the inks, then diecut the fish.  Smaller accent pieces are also included in the sets.

Brayer the fish with VersaMark - use a clean, well-inked pad.  Heat-emboss them with detail clear powder for a glossy highlighted texture, like fresh-caught fish.  Add black Sharpie marker dots for the eyes.

Cut white and black cardstock with the End of My Rope die - save the ropes for another project.  Diecut the white interior offcut with the Birch Press Design Pinpoint Contour Plate.  Trim a tiny amount from the edges of the black offcut and attach it behind the white layer.  The dark backing emphasizes the pinpoint pattern - it makes a difference!

Cut a blue 6x6 from the Glitzy Glitter Pad with Hello Rush Script.  Cut watercolor paper with the die too and layer it behind the glittered greeting for extra dimension.

Attach the diecuts to a top-folded 5-½" square white card. Add turquoise Christmas Fairy Dewdrops.  Cut a 5-½" square of cardstock to protect the card front for mailing.  Square cards require extra postage.

Freshwater Fish are perfect for embossing and diecutting from Memory Box mirror cardstock too. The Rainbow Reflections and Vintage Pastel 6x6 pads have a wide range of beautiful colors that capture the details of this great fish trio.  Add them to birthday, retirement and Father's Day cards for that special guy.

Thanks for visiting...have a great weekend!

Supplies

 

ef1028 Freshwater Fish 3D Embossing Folder and Matching Dies

88622 Freshwater Fish Stencil

94468 Hello Rush Script

94546 End of My Rope Set

ddp101 Christmas Fairy Dewdrops

gp1007 Glitzy Glitter Pad

 

 

 

Supplies

 

57511 Pinpoint Contour Plate

Backpaint a Vellum Scribble Daisy by Jean Okimoto

Here's a floral card with a technique that's fast, forgiving and foolproof!  The new Scribble Daisy is perfect for reverse-painting on vellum.  It's faster than paper-piecing, forgivingly painted on the backside and simply foolproof.  Hi, Jean here with a spring-into-summer design that would work in any color combination, for any occasion.

Cut medium-weight vellum with the 3-¼" wide Curved Cap Pinpoint Layer.  Cut the pale lavender 6x6 from the Twilight Purple Collection with the 2-¼" wide Curved Cap Pinpoint Layer.

Prep the Scribble Daisy die by rubbing it briskly with scrunched waxed paper to help release the little pieces.  Cut the daisy from Open Studio Watercolor Paper.  We won't be watercoloring it - but it's the perfect heavy weight for a bold outline. Attach tiny pieces of doublestick tape behind the top center - it'll be filled in with diecut yellow glittered cardstock.  Attach more tape to the flower's center, the leaf tips and where the stem meets the leaves. 

 

Flip it over to the reverse side and place it on a dark background (not purple or green!) - to make it easy to see and control the painted colors.  Paint the backside using diluted dye inks - Imagine's Pansy and Spring Green were used here, about 1 part of ink to 10 parts of water. Undiluted Distress Oxide refill inks can also be used.  Test the inks on scraps of the same vellum to see how they'll look.

Set it aside to airdry completely - heat-setting might warp or burn the vellum.

Cut the tiny pieces for the center of the flower from the light yellow 6x6 in the Graceful Garden Glitter Pad.  Attach them to the vellum background. Attach the vellum to the smaller Curved Cap Pinpoint Layer - narrow strips of ScorTape (or Couture Doublestick Tape) won't show through the painted areas.   Attach everything to a lavender notecard.

Cut the Hugs Tender Script background from green cardsstock.  Spritz both sides of it with a light mist of water to prep it for pressure-embossing. Pressure-emboss it with the detailed script background to make it easy to attach the top layer.  Cut the top layer from a green 6x6 in the Graceful Garden Glitter Pad.

Assemble and attach the greeting .  Add some sparkle with lime green Bright Jewels.

Thanks for visiting - backpainting vellum is a great way to brighten any outline design - try it in your favorite colors!

 

Supplies

 

94669 Hugs Tender Script

94646 Curved Cap Pinpoint Layers

94617 Scribble Daisy

gp1002 Graceful Garden Glitter Pad

sp1008 Twilight Purple

jwl003 Bright Jewels

wp101 Watercolor Paper

A Feathery View by Trina Pham

Hello everyone.  Using dies from the current 2023 February release, I created this thank you card.  To be honest I set out to do something else, but this resulted instead. 😂

Once again, I saw several watercoloring/painting reels on Instagram (IG) and wanted to give it a try.  Started by adding blobs of gouache paints on the smooth side of Memory Box’s watercolor paper in the order of the desired colors.

Using flat watercolor brushes and as little water as possible, created a background wash.

Took a small round brush and black gouache paint and painted in the land mass.  Lightly splattered with diluted white gouache paint for the stars.  Also used white gouache paint to paint the moo and reflection in the water.

The artists in the IG reels painted in their own silhouettes.  I didn’t want to take the chance of ruining my progress, so I die cut my silhouettes from black cardstock using the Backyard Floral Stems die.

The Plumed Gypsy Feather background die was then used to die cut the feather aperture from an A2 size Bristol panel.  The detailed top layer was also die cut from Bristol and mounted onto the back cutout layer.  Die cut the Tilted Thanks sentiment 3x to stack for dimension, then assembled the card onto a white card base to finish.  

That does it for my card.  Thank you for joining me today.  Have a lovely day.

Supplies

 

94711 Plumed Gypsy Feather

94638 Backyard Floral Stems

94470 Tilited Thanks

WP101 Watercolor Paper

Hello with Scribble Daisy by Angie Cimbalo

Hello and welcome!  It's Angie here today with a pretty spring hello card featuring new dies from the February release.

 

I used both the Hello Rush Script die 94468, the Scribble Daisy die 94617, along with the new A2 Rectangle Frames dies 94672.  The background was made with the Geometric Crystals 3D Embossing Folder EF 1016.  

 

I embossed some cream colored thick watercolor paper with the folder and then inked the edges with light pink.  I also used that same watercolor paper smooshed with green and pink inks, and both white and black card stock to cut the sentiment and the daisy from.  Next I stacked them offset from each other for dimension.  I matted the embossed panel on a slightly larger black panel then added it all to the card base.  I finished my card with some Memory Box Pastel Jewels and Wink of Stella on the flower petals and the hello die.

 

The inks I used to smoosh with were Distress Inks in Saltwater Taffy, Twisted Citron.  I added a little  Walnut Stain to the bottom of the hello smooshed die with a domed ink blender.

 

Here's a closer look:

 

I hope you like my card for today.  I really love the soft colors and the puffy dimension look from the 3D embossing folder.  Please come back every day to see more inspiration from the design team.  

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

 

 

Supplies

 

94468 Hello Rush Script

94617 Scribble Daisy

94672 A2 Rectangle Frames Die Set

EF1016 Geometric Crystals 3D Embossing Folder

JWL002 Pastel Jewels

WP101 Watercolor Paper

Pastel Plumed Gypsy Feather by Jean Okimoto

The new Plumed Gypsy Feather is both bold and delicate - and perfect for any occasion.  It's just one of many beautiful and versatile designs in our Spring '23 Collection.  Hi, Jean here with a simple pastel design ready to welcome spring.

Cut the delicate overlay of the Plumed Gypsy Feather from heavy white cardstock.  Here's a tip - use the diecut as a template to find just the right section from a pale, watercolored background painted onto the smoother side of Open Studio Watercolor Paper.    Cut the background with the solid die.  This great set also includes a junior Plumed Gypsy Feather - I'm saving that for another project.

Tape two layers of white cardstock together and cut the new Hugs Tender Script background.  Pressure-emboss it with the overlay to create a debossed impression of the greeting to attach the overlay.  Cut the overlay from the pale blue Delicate Pastels Glitter Pad 6x6 sheet.  

Assemble the feather and the greeting.  Attach the diecuts to a pale aqua card - use foamdots for the greeting.  Add matching Pastel Fairy Jewels.  

  
We're loving the great designs in our Spring Collection - there's something for everyone, and every occasion.   View the newest dies, stencils, embossing folders and hot foil plates here.  Enjoy our Idea Book too!

Thanks for visiting - join us again tomorrow for Angie's great project.

Supplies

 

94711 Plumed Gypsy Feather

94669 Hugs Tender Script

jwl002 Pastel Jewels

wp101 Watercolor Paper

gp1001 Delicate Pastel Glitter Pad

Floral Wish Card by Sara Cook

Hi everyone.  I have a birthday card featuring the new Backyard Floral Stems die.  I also using the new Curlicue Plate as a stencil.

Background:

Die cut the Curlicue Plate from the Black Glossy paper to create a stencil.  The glossy paper is best to use as a stencil as it wipes up and die cuts easily.  Stencil a piece of Open Studio Watercolor paper using stencil brushes on the following Element ink pad Pine, Mermaid, and Blue Lagoon.  Ink blend the colors randomly, overlapping the colors.  Remove the stencil and lightly ink blend with just the color left on the brushes until the paper is all covered up.  Spritz the left over ink on your crafting surface with water and smoosh the color onto the paper.  Let dry.  Cut down to 4" x 5 1/4".

Flowers:

Die cut the Backyard Floral Stems die from Open Studio Watercolor paper.  Color using pastel color pencils.  I used Van Gogh pencils in greens, yellow, pink, purple and white.  Pastel color pencils are easy to blend together as you color.  Using your finger to smudge the color together also works.

Sentiment:

Die cut the new Best Wishes Tender Script bottom die from cream card stock.  Die cut the top from a matching aqua color from the Fresh Aqua paper pad. Adhere together.  Use a clear glitter paint pen to add glitter to the top of the sentiment.  I have Nuvo's Glitter Gloss Aqua Shimmer pen.

Assembly:

Adhere the background panel to a A2 cream card base.  Tare vellum to just be smaller then the size of the flowers.  Adhere the flowers on the vellum.  Add tiny dots of glue to just behind the flowers so it does not show through and adhere to the background.  Adhere the sentiment to the lower portion of the flowers, showing the lower half of the stems.  Add some Pastel Fairy Jewels in matching color around the flowers.  

Supplies

 

94638 Backyard Floral Stems

94698 Curlicue Plate

94670 Best Wishes Tender Script

wp101 Watercolor Paper

sp1004 Fresh Aqua

sh44004 Black Glossy Paper

jwl002 Pastel Jewels