Clean and Simple Card~Frienship~Kindness~Gratitude-A Blank Page Muse Post

 

Hello! I am at the Blank Page Muse Blog with card. The month is almost over as the team celebrates friendship, kindness and gratitude. I created a clean and simple card and intentionally finished it off without a sentiment. I can always personalize it when the time to comes to give it away. 

The Blank Page Muse products I used are:

• Woodlands Art Rubber Stamps
  
• Leaves Collage Stencil
  

I like the large white space which makes the flowers pop. Please visit the BPM blog for details on how I created this card.

Thank you. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day! Happy Thanksgiving!

Maria Giselle B.

CAS Rainbow Color Block ~ A Blank Page Muse Post

 

Hello! I am at the Blank Page Muse blog with this card. We are wrapping up this month's theme of using the products from a stamp bundle chosen by Kim, BPM owner. I hope you have cruised through the other DT member's work and enjoyed the variation in creativity. 

For this project, I used the following BPM products:

• Texture Wet Cement Red Rubber Stamp
  
• Etched Stone Flower Art Rubber Stamp
  
• Fern Art Rubber Stamp
  

Please visit the BPM blog for details on how I created this card panel.

Thank you. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

CAS & ATC

Hello! Welcome to my blog. I am back after a much needed month long break from blogging. We have a new challenge at Incy Wincy Designs. I am this month's challenge author, too. Thank you to co-DT Karen for suggesting this month's theme/s of ATC (Artist Trading Card) and CAS (Clean and Simple).

I stamped the dog on a white cardstock using a black dye ink. The stamp is from the Lawn Fawn Critters at the Dog Park stamp set. I also stamped this image on a Post-It note to create a mask. I fussy cut the stamped dog right on the stamped line. I applied the mask over the stamped dog image on the panel.

I stamped the letters for the sentiment. The sentiment was inspired by one of the sentiments on the LF stamp set. The alphabet stamp set I used is from Heidi Swapp. 

I colored the dog and the letters with Faber-Castell Polychromos pencil. I added details with a white Sakura gel pen.

I die cut the panel using a 3x4 stitched die from the Mama Elephant Peek a Frame Creative Cuts. 

ATC cards are easy to pull off especially if you make it a CAS one. With this card, the small size of the ATC and the white space of a CAS made this project easy to create. The most that took my time on this card is the fussy cutting and the coloring. 

I hope you like today's project and that it inspired you enough to join this month's challenge at Incy Wincy. Thank you for visiting my blog. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

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Challenge #323

Simon Says Stamp Instagram Challenge

 

A CAS Flamingo Card

Hello! Welcome back to my blog. Today's card is a very simple, easy to recreate card. I am using products from Blank Page Muse:

• Flamingo Row Red Rubber Art stamps 
  
• Clouds & Drops 5x5" Mixed Media stencil
  

I stamped the flamingos on watercolor paper using Versafine Onyx Black ink. I heat set the stamped image before coloring it with Altenew Woodless Watercolor pencils. I used a waterbrush to apply the pigment to the birds. I fussy cut the flamingos leaving a thin border around it. I added shimmer to the flamingos' feathers using Lawn Fawn Liquid Stardust.

I trimmed a heavy weight white cardstock at 4 1/4" x 11". I scored this on the long side at 5 1/2" to create a top folding A2 note card. 

I created a DIY heart stencil using a Lawn Fawn heart die and a re-purposed plastic from an accordion file. I die cut the heart on the plastic. I used a metal shim to add more pressure as I die cut the plastic. I reinforced the cut with a craft blade. Despite the use of the metal shim, there were parts that were not cut. 

I used the negative cut of the DIY stencil and positioned this over the notecard. I temporarily adhered this stencil to the notecard to prevent any shifting while I blend ink over the stencil. I used Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Speckled Egg and a large blender blush to apply ink on the note card. 

I added clouds to the inked heart by placing the mixed media stencil over the DIY heart stencil. I covered the open areas of the stencil that I will not be using on my card with tape to avoid blending ink over it. 

I heat embossed the sentiment on the bottom of the heart using Versafine Onyx Black ink and clear embossing powder. I temporarily adhered the flamingos to the cardfront to help me approximate where I will stamp this sentiment. 

I adhered the flamingos to the card front with liquid adhesive. I added a black dot on the flamingos' eyes using a black Sakura Glaze pen.

I rounded the corners of the card using a corner puncher.

I hope you like today's project. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

Blank Page Muse is generously offering a 15% discount to their online store to YOU, my blog readers. Just use the code BPMMaria when you check out. Enjoy! 

I also added below a link to the Altenew Woodless Watercolor pencils I used on this card. There will be no additional cost to you should you decide to purchase this item. It is just a way to help a fellow crafter sustain her love for crafting. Don't forget to check out their new release for this month and their sale. Thank you for your support. 

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Repurposing the plastic divider of a broken accordion folder

Clean And Simple Card

Hello! I am late in posting for our latest Incy Wincy Designs Challenge. The current challenge is For The Men And The Boys. I am overflowing with men and boys in my life, my husband and my 4 sons. This should be an easy one to make, right?

I am using an image from one of our sponsors, Fabrika Fantasy. I printed the image on Neenah Solar White cardstock and colored the image with Copic markers. I would like to give a shout out to Sandy Allnock for her tutorial on coloring dogs and cats. It helped me a lot in coloring this dog image.

I created this card with my 12-year old son in mind. He is going to compete next week in our state's, Missouri, National Geography Bee. This is his second year to compete. I am very excited for him. To customize this card for him, I created a globe balloon. I die cut a circle on a blue vellum. I prepared this circle for embossing with an anti-static powder tool. I stamped the map image from Concord and 9th Map Love stamp set. I stamped this with Versamark ink and heat embossed it with gold embossing powder. On the back of the circle vellum, I stamped a part of the map using Delicata Golden Glitz pigment ink. I heat set this to dry being careful not to overheat the vellum so as not to flatten the embossed map image on the front of the circle.

I stamped the sentiment on the front, on top of the embossed map. The sentiment is from an old Hero Arts stamp set name Lil Hoot. I embossed the sentiment using Paper Source navy blue embossing powder.

I adhered this to cover the printed balloon. I cut a small triangle vellum for the end of the balloon. I created a small bow using a silver thread and adhered it to the balloon.

I rarely create clean and simple cards but I don't want to add anymore embellishments to this panel. I want to keep the focus on the image and the balloon. I adhered some October Afternoon washi tape to the front of a top folding note card, on the top and bottom only to create a trim. I trimmed a bit off the the top and bottom edges of the colored panel, then adhered this to the front of the note card.

Thank you for visiting my blog. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

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Clean and Simple Card

 

Incy Wincy Challenge Blog is celebrating its 10th year and what a way to celebrate a decade of creativeness but with a special challenge. I've been in Incy Wincy's DT since July 2016. You can see my first post here, if you want to check it out. I am grateful to Incy Wincy for giving me a chance to become a part of it and to show its followers what I can create. I have many applications submitted before Incy Wincy took me under its wing. Hev is a wonderful moderator. She allows us to be involved in coming up with new challenges for the blog. I wish Incy Wincy more decades of creativity and challenges. Cheers to that!

I am using an new image from Limited Runs called Sedum Cluster. The owner and artist of Limited Runs is our very own DT member Nikki. Thank you, Nikki, for the image. For this card, I decided to re-create something close to my first Incy Wincy card, and that is using the Cricut machine. My sister gave me a surprise Christmas present of a Canon ts9512c printer. This is the first time I am using it. I have some difficulties in printing. It is a new product, so there is not a lot in the internet about it to be familiarized with it.

I used Cricut Design Space to plan the lay out of my card design. I uploaded the image to CDS and added a pot from the image library. After I have re-sized it, I sent it to the printer. I used a scrap piece of patterned paper to print the image. The printer can take a 12x12 paper and also print on A2-sized paper. I used an A2-sized paper and set the printer to recognize this size. When I hit print, the image is not in the center of the paper. The Cricut's paper setting for printing is 8 1/2" x 11" only. Maybe Cricut can work on modifying this on its next upgrade. It also would not print if the paper you fed is 12"x12". I cut the patterned paper to 8 1/2" x 11" and this time it worked.

Another thing I've discovered is that Cricut cannot print and cut on patterned paper. When I fed the  mat with the patterned paper with the printed image, it had a hard time recognizing some of the registry marks. The Cricut stopped and was not able to cut the image. It showed an error image on printing the image on white paper. Oh, well. Instead of repeating the whole ordeal with a white paper, I fussy cut the image.

I stamped the sentiments using the Misti Stamping Tool for perfect placement of the stamps on the top and the bottom of the die cut image. I treated the area with an anti-static tool. I stamped the sentiments using Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Candied Apple. Good thing that I used the Misti since I had to re-stamp both sentiments. I poured clear embossing powder to the stamped sentiments and heat embossed it. I traced the negative stamped impressions on the label with a white gel pen to make it pop out.

I masked the stamped sentiments and used a mini-background stamp from the same stamp set. I want a subtle impression so I used the Hero Arts Soft Vanilla for this. It was very subtle that I brushed in the same color using a Clarity stencil brush for more blended color. I adhered the pot first. I added a thin strip of red washi tape for a pop of color before adhering the cluster with a foam adhesive. I colored the cluster with Spectrum Noir shimmer pens in green and clear colors. I added gems to the center of the cactus. I punched the corners of the card for additional detail.

I cannot believe that I just created a clean and simple card. I usually struggle with creating this kind of card. You have no idea how much I have to stop myself from adding more embellishments to this card.

Thank you for visiting my blog. I hope you join our challenge celebrating 10 years of Incy Wincy Designs. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

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Challenge #12 15th December 2018~Always Anything Goes

Flocked Stamped Sentiment

Do you remember that time when flocking was all rage? Messy work but the fuzzy dimension is eye-catching. I am featuring the flocking powder in this project.

I embossed the Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles onto the front of a top folding 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" white note card. I used an embossing mat to achieve this look. The mat prevents the metal die from cutting the cardstock. Using Tab 2 in the die platform, I applied the embossing mat, a cardboard for extra shim, and the cardstock with die sandwiched between the two plates. I adhered the die with washi tape to prevent it from shifting when I run it through the Sizzix Machine. I was only able to use the two largest rectangles of the SSS die for this card.

I prepared the middle panel for embossing. I positioned the stamp on the Misti Stamping Tool. I first tried using the Ranger Sticky Embossing Powder to attract and adhere the flocking powder. I was not quite happy with the results so I resorted to the Tsukineko Essential Glue Pad. The results with flocking are better using this.

I adhered a very thin strip of double sided tape along the scored lines, avoiding the stitched impressions. I poured Elizabeth Crafts Warm Diamond to these strips and burnished the glitter using my finger. To make this pop, I drew a line around the rectangles using a Copic Marker.
I also added Doodlebug sequins.

To burnish the flocking powder, I covered the flocked sentiment with Swiffer cloth and used a bone folder to apply pressure to the flocked area. When I lifted off the Swiffer, it also picked up the extra stray flocking powder that I was having a hard time brushing off.

Is there a supply in your craft room that you have not used in a long time? How about you take a look and use it alongside with new released embellishments.

Thanks for viewing my blog. Have a blessed & brilliant day!

Maria Giselle B.

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