Patterned Papered Dreams

Feathers + Faux Letterpress

Good afternoon!! Today I'm super excited to show you a little experiment that went great! I've been wanting for some time to try the faux letterpress technique by inking up an embossing folder and running it through my little Cuttlebug. So, a few days ago I finally decided to do it and it worked!!! Actually, it happened because I wanted to create a project with feathers for the Moxie Fab World Fascination with Feathers challenge. After pulling out all of my feather stamps I remembered I had this peacock feathers embossing folder and decided to go a different route. And, tada!!!

I inked the embossing folder with a blue pigment ink (Fresh Ink by Impress). This technique works better with pigment, as it gives a more even coverage. Dye inks tend to bead when applied to a plastic surface, although I guess if you coat the surface with Versamark first, it may work too. Does that make sense? :)

To finish the card I fussy cut a sentiment from PTI's Beautiful Butterflies and finished with a tiny butterfly cut with my new favorite die. I have tiny butterflies all over my crafting desk right now and I'm loving it!

Thanks so much for visiting!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: PTI; Ink: Fresh by Impress, Versafine; Embossing folder: Provo Craft; Die: (butterfly) Memory Box.

Hexagons

Hi there! What an original title for my post, uh? :) But hey, they're the star of the show today, so I guess they deserved to be on the title :) Ok, so I created this card for the Cutting and Trimming Challenge at the Moxie Fab World, and my color inspiration was taken from the current Runway Inspired Challenge. My tool was an Xacto knife. I used it to trim the outside and the inside of all those PTI hexagons that I had previously stamped and heat embossed in white (you'll find the hexagons in this set). Then, I simply adhered them to colored cardstock and trimmed again (hey, this is a great way to use your scraps!).

When my hexagons were ready, I fiddled around a bit with them while I decided the pattern I wanted to create. And then I discovered that they fitted as a pretty awesome flower!! Oh, happy day...

 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: Rosie Posie by PTI, Technique Tuesday (sentiment); Ink: Versamark, Versafine black; Embossing powder: Ranger; Other: Olfa cutting blade (a must!).

Hello

Good morning, friends! Today I'm popping by with a card that features quite a lot of die cutting. Also, it's possibly one of my favorite cards ever and that's why I'm entering it at the Cool Tools Week: Die Cutting Challenge at the Moxie Fab World. Lately I've seen a few amazing uses of PTI's Quatrefoil plate, specially by super talented Amber, who always inspires me to try new things. That said, here's what I came up with...

I die cut the Quatrefoil plate from white cardstock and adhered it to a white card base. Then I die cut it from a few colors and used the positive pieces to fill in the gaps. You can call it the "puzzle therapy card" because it was very relaxing to do ;). And you'll be left with 5 pretty colored Quatrefoil bases in pink, aqua, green, red and yellow to make a few more cards.

Thanks so much for visiting and check out the Moxie Fab World because there are a ton of tool related challenges going on!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: Papertrey Ink (sentiment from Modern Basics); Ink: Tsukineko Versafine black; Die: Papertrey Ink Quatrefoil plate.

An Autumn card

Good morning! Autumn officially started yesterday but at least in Madrid we still have summery weather, which I love! However, I had to jump straight into fall mood for this card.

I stamped a masked background with this cute Hero Arts flower and then restamped the flower on patterned paper, fussy cut the smaller layer and adhered it loosely. The bigger layer underneath was colored with white ink. And the sentiment (it's a masked one from this set)...  I gave it a thousand thoughts until I realized that it needed a bold one to stand out in that busy background. I first stamped it and heat embossed in brown, but it looked horrible! So I carefully restamped with Versamark over the embossing and used white instead. This time worked, phewww!I also added some white Enamel Accents for good measure ;)

The jute center was made by covering a circle with scor-tape and rolling the jute on it. This is my entry for this month's HA challenge, details here.

Thanks for visiting and happy Fall!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: All Hero Arts; Ink: Versafine (brown), Versamark, PTI (white); Paper: Pink Paislee; Other: White Enamel Accents, jute string.

Fabulous Felt

Good evening craftosphere! Today I'm sharing a little project with lots of fabulous felt on it, which makes it perfect for the current challenge at the Moxie Fab World. All the details here. And also for the A Passion for Papertrey one (anything goes!).

The front of the card is popped with foam tape because the felt flowers are really...

hair pins!

The rolled felt flowers were made from this fantastic tutorial posted by Nichole Heady on her blog. I topped them with a pearl and adhered them to the hair pins with hot glue. I also added a felt cloud and a felt lawn cut with a ric rac die.

I hope you like this project that I plan to give to a friend's little daughter.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: PTI; Ink: Versafine (black), Memento (green); Dies: PTI (cloud, ric rac, vine border, flower); Felt: All PTI except the white one; Other: hair pins, pearls.

 

Embossing

Hello there! We arrived safely in Madrid and we'll be heading North next Thursday for the final stretch of our summer holidays. Many people out there seems to be craving for cooler time, fall and all that stuff. Not me! I love summer and sun, it feels soooo good! Guess that's because I'm Mediterranean :) I'm SO not ready for rain, cold, school and spending so much time on the car! Anyway, enough ranting and on to my card for today, which uses a lot of one of my fave techniques: embossing, both dry and heat:

I made it for my dear grandmother (and also for the CAS-ual Fridays challenge which this weeks focuses on embossing, all the details here). This color combo is one of my all time faves. The pop of red was added with Ranger Liquid Pearls. Both the focal image and the sentiment were heat embossed in white, while the base pannel was debossed with a PTI plate and the medium one was dry embossed with a circle nestabilitie die.

Thanks for visiting and have a fantastic week!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: PTI (2009 anniversary set, Gracious Vases); Ink: Versamark; Dies: Nestabilities circles, PTI double ended banner; Embossing plate: PTI; Other: Liquid Pearls (red, pearl).

Something new

Good morning friends! Today is our last day in the South before heading North for the rest of our holidays. We've rented a dreamy little cottage for 10 days and I can't wait to get there! It looks like it came straight from a fairy tale, all covered in green. I'll try to take some pics and share them here :) So for this card I tried to capture the feeling of a cute fairy tale house and also wanted to do something new. A "double scene" card. I'm sure this already has some kind of name, but I don't know it... Ok, so this is the closed card:

 

And this is what happens when you open card:

I masked, stamped, sponged and paper pieced like crazy for this card, but it was so worth it! All the stamps are Hero Arts: this one, this and this for the sentiment. I'm entering it in this month's challenge, check it out here.

Thanks so much for visiting!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: Hero Arts; Ink: Memento; Paper: My Mind's Eye; Other: Ranger Enamel Accents, Perfect Pearls.

 

 

Making a scene

Morning friends! One of the options for the Hero Arts challenge for this month is making a scene (the other two are cards for kids and using critters). I kind of combined the three of them in this card:

Ok, get ready because there's a lot of stamping involved here, just my fave kind of card! I started by creating 3 sepparate masks for the clouds. Then, I placed the masks on the white cardstock with non permanent adhesive and stamped the envelope pattern with broken china Distress Ink. Aftert this, I removed the masks and stamped the clouds in the masked areas.

Next came building the hills. I used one of the striped dots from this set and, again, masked one after each other overlapping them. After that I made a tree with another image from the same set. I first stamped it in yellow, and just a bot to the right in green. Easy peasy two toned tree :) I handcut the trunk from kraft. Last came the birdie, which was paper pieced. I traced his cute hair over with a yellow glitter pen. And finally, some Liquid Pearls to make the fruits in the tree and to paint over the flower. It gives a very cool effect! A sentiment and some doodling finish the card.

Thanks so much for visiting!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: All Hero Arts (CL528, CL519, CL270, CL377, S5507); Ink: Distress (blue), Jenni Bowlin (green), Memento (yellow, black); Paper: Cosmo Cricket; Other: Liquid Pearls, yellow glitter pen, white gel pen.

Some color inspiration

Good morning friends! One of the good things about being an early bird is that by 10 a.m. all the domestic stuff is almost done and I have aaalll the day to enjoy, be with my son and craft. So yesterday, I went completely crazy with this Paper Crafts color combo:

I had already made this card with that scheme. And then I made this:

And this:

And there's another one which I'll save for another post :) It's amazing what different looks you can get with the same color combo!

Thanks for visiting and have a fab day!

Supplies for card 1: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: All PTI; Ink: Memento (green), Versamagic (turquoise), Jenni Bowlin (light orange), Versafine (black); Other: Orange gel pen, Ranger Liquid Pearls.

Supplies for card 2: Cardstock: Canson: Stamps: PTI (flowers, leaves), Hero Arts (sentiment); Ink: Distress Ink (dried marigold, wild honey), Memento (green), Versamagic (turquoise), Versamark; Embossing powder: Ranger; Other: Enamel Accents (white).

Joy's Life Design Team Thursday with some stamp surgery

Hi there! Isn't my post title a bit weird? lol, I'll soon explain you why :) It will soon be Father's Day in the USA so this week we are focusing in dads. But as I didn't have any father's related stamps in my Joy's Life stash, some serious measures had to be taken...

See my sentiment? It originally said "Happy Cake Day" and belongs to Joy's Yummy Puns stamp set, which you can find here. Love this set! But that didn't stop me from doing a bit of stamping surgery to get the sentiment I needed. I simply cut the stamp (carefully, no one got harmed!), separated the 3 words and  mounted "happy" and "day" on an acrylic block. A new sentiment! And the best part is that I can mount the original saying back too. Joy's Life stamps are made of high quality photopolymer, so they will keep their shape and fit back perfectly. I'm thinking about making a tutorial for stamp surgery, what do you think?

Thanks for visiting and don't forget to check on the rest of the DT here!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson, Bazill; Stamps: Joy's Life Yummy Puns, Hero Arts (chair), Lawn Fawn (hat), PTI: wooden floor; Paper: Basic Grey; Dies: (banners) PTI; Twine: May Arts.