Hello there.

Kailash here with a card for this months floral challenge at A Blog Named Hero.

 I started off with a piece of dove white cardstock which I first masked to create an inked panel using splash reactive ink, spritzing with water to create droplets. I then die cut two sizes of Hero arts wood frame infinity dies from white cardstock. I also die cut the same dies using inexpensive white cardstock to adhere to each of the rectangles to add dimension.

I stamped the protea flowers with intensified black ink, colored with copic markers RV13, R32, RV04, YG45, YG41, G09, Y19 which was then die cut with the coordinating frame cuts.

Next I stamped the sentiment from sending love mail using versamark ink onto a piece of black cardstock, heat embossing with white embossing powder.

My card was assembled onto an A2 size panel finishing off with sequins from my stash.

 

Thanks so much for visiting! Hope you will join us in our challenge for a chance to win gift certificates from our wonderful sponsor Hero Arts!

Crafty hugs

 

 

 

 

I hope you’re doing well. If you didn’t have time to create and/or participate to our first challenge, I hope you will on this new one. This month’s theme is « Floral », I don’t have a lot of floral stamps but I found a gorgeous stamp set which could fit right in.    

I made 2 cards from this stamp, so you could have more inspiration from it.
Are you ready for the making process ?

Yes ? Let’s go ! 

So, for both cards, I used Tulip field Heroscape ( Layering stamps are my favourites 😊), you can totally change the look of the design just by changing the colors you use. I do love that.

For the first card, I stamped the first layer of grass with pool party reactive ink, then I stamped the detailed grass with blue raspberry reactive ink (love this combo) on Hero arts white cardstock.
For the flowers, I used Taffy reactive ink and then ultra pink mid-tone shadow ink.

To make the sky, I found my inspiration on Google image.
I began to ink the bottom part (just over the flowers’ field) with Taffy reactive ink using a Q-tip and added a little bit of to create some light.

After that, I ink blended the same colors that I used for the grass : pool party and blue raspberry reactive inks , leaving almost a blank space in the center left of the sky, and added some blue hawaii reactive ink and some intens-ified black ink all around and on some spots but I tried to leave the center of the card lighter than the outline of the sky.

I used the splatter technique 3 times with a brush on the sky, to make some stars:
1 – Using unicorn white pigment ink reinker mixed with white iridescent shimmer mist on the sky to make some shimmery stars.
2 – Again using unicorn pigment ink with just a little of water.
3 – For the last layer, I used a tiny bit of unicorn ink without mixing it, to create whiter stars.

That way this created 3 different star distances and some depth to the galaxy.

To finish this card I drew some scribbles to make the illusion of a cloudy effect on our lighter space with a white gel pen, and I added some intensi-fied black ink with a Q-tip (very lightly) and then I used a gelly roll pen to draw some silver stars all over the sky.

The best sentiment I found for this card was this «  If flowers were hugs, I would send you a thousand » from the same stamp set. I stamped it on the right center of the card using again intensi-fied black ink.

This is it for the first card. Now let me present the second one. 

For this sunny card, I used the same white cardstock and the same stamp set , which is the Tulip field Heroscape with (in the same stamps order of appareance than the first one 😊 ) : Key Lime fizz reactive ink, green apple reactive ink, thistle reactive ink and for the flowers details berry smoothie reactive ink.

To create that sunny sky, I used the sun background stencil and I inked the top portion of it with lemon drop reactive ink, leaving the bottom half as white as possible . Then I die cut the cloudy sky scene dies on some paper (you can use scrap paper for that). I used it as a stencil and placed it on top of the sun stencil, then I used a blending brush with soft sky shadow ink to make the clouds in the portion that we left white.
It looks like the rays of the sun hide the clouds.
I’m always looking for ideas to create more realistic looks, and I’m happy  I found this one.
I hope you’ll like it too !
As my brush wasn’t clean (it happens…) , I had to come back on my blue clouds with unicorn pigment ink to make it softer, and then I came back with the soft sky ink. So don’t forget to clean well your brush or if you can, it’s better to have one brush for each color type. 🙂

To finish this card, I heat embossed the sentiment « sending you fields of joy » with clear embossing and watermark ink and gold embossing powder from the same stamp set.
This sentiment was perfect for this card. To add more of a shiny look to the rays of the sun, I used a shimmery pen ( hard to see in the pictures but in real life, it’s beautiful) and : “voila, notre carte est terminée” (that’s it, our card is finished ). 😊

I wish you a ton of joy and I hope you’ll join us on this challenge.

Have a beautiful day !

Happy March, Heroic Friends!  

Our floral challenge is in full swing, and honestly, the toughest problem I had was deciding which floral image to use.  I finally decided to break out my new bees and flowers and honey pot fancy dies to make this slimline card.

There are two things in the this card that I really had fun with. 

First:  My flower vase started life as the new honey pot die…but it was too big.  I “cut” it down by about a third by simply diecutting the honey pot and then re-cutting the left side of the honey pot using the the die (I just slid it to the right about half an inch.)  I clipped off the top two bands and the bottom band as well.  And suddenly,  my biiiig honey pot became a perfectly-sized vase for my daisies–so easy!

My second bit of fun:  I die cut the flowers and the bees from an old road atlas that I keep in my stash.  I really like to repurpose odd bits of material that I find around my house:  The road atlas, cigar box thin wood liners, old ledgers, the net bag that held onions…all of it is fair game for card making!  I added some depth to the bees, flowers, and vase with my Copic markers, and popped them on a panel that has an embossed stencil (more flowers…look closely!) on the top white portion, and stamped and colored wood texture on the bottom (to mimic a tabletop.)  Plenty of clear lacquer on the daisies’ centers and the vase and some glitter and lacquer on the bees wings help catch the light. 

I hope you’ll pull out your Hero Arts flowers and play along this month.  Can’t wait to see what you make! 

                                                Thanks for stopping by,

 

Hello friends! I am so happy to be back today with this floral card for our new March Challenge. I took a different approach than my card in the initial challenge announcement and went a little more traditional with lots of dimension. I hope you enjoy it! 

My card is an A2 size top folding base made from heavy weight white cardstock. To create this easel card, I made an additional score at 2 3/4 inches on the front panel. 

Out of a 4 1/4 by 5 1/2 inch panel of contact paper, I used a circle die to make my mask for ink blending. Using the negative area, I masked my white A2 panel of Bristol Smooth paper. I blocked off small triangular areas within the circle and ink blended with Soft Sky ink. I did this multiple times to create some texture. I cut the white panel to 4 by 5 1/4 inches and matted it with Mist cardstock. 

I set the panel aside and worked on my other elements by die cutting multiples of the Autumn Bouquet from white cardstock. I colored the flower and greenery elements with Copic markers using: YR27, YR24, Y15, E18 and E15 (Sunflower), RV34, R85 and RV11 (pink flower), BV00 and BV0000 (purple flower), C0, C1 and C3 (white flower), Y15 and YR24 (small flower centers) and YG95, G99, and YG17 (greenery).  

I cut pieces from the extra flowers to add dimension or doubled up and adhered the flowers together. I added all of the elements onto the inked panel with foam tape or liquid adhesive.

The butterfly was die cut with the Bouquet Accessories Fancy Dies from Periwinkle cardstock. I added dimension with BV04 and BV01 Copic markers. Adding the platinum embossing powder to areas of the wings and the body really makes it pop! The sentiment was heat embossed  with platinum embossing powder onto the same Periwinkle cardstock and diecut into a strip. 

 

To make this card stand on its own, I adhered a strip of 1 1/4 inch of white cardstock on the inside. You can place this where you think is best depending on how high you want your card to stand. I heat embossed the “Thinking of you” sentiment with platinum embossing powder onto the periwinkle cardstock and adhered it to the white strip already inside. The finished panel was adhered to the bottom portion of the front card base only. This is so it can be displayed nicely. 

I really hope that you enjoyed this easel card. I look forward to seeing your submissions for the challenge this month!

Stay crafty friends!