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Forget-me-not...

Hi Friends

Here is another card I had loads of fun to make.  I love making flowers, and mixing that with beautiful cards is satisfying to me.  I keep it fun by adding a flower card in my library every now and then so this is my next one I am displaying for you.

Multi frame Birthday card

Recipe

White card base, A2 size, white linen textured paper and more white for the Spellbinder corner die cut named Decorative Blossom corners HCD729 made for Heartfelt Creations found on their site.  The flowers are rubberstamps I have in my stash from Heartfelt Creations (vase as well) and the smaller flowers were from one of the paper punches I have in my collection.  Black and Blue ink, some Blue Liquid Pearls for the simulation of half pearls in each corner. A few different paper punches were used to add ferns around the bouquet.  Stickles (Diamond)

The making of this card was easy, the bouquet was the time consuming aspect of this card as you can see.  I started by matting my back layer in linen white after running some blue ink in circular motion with my sponge dauber, keeping it light.  Then I added my corner die cut and then started to work on my multi frames.  See attached photo.

Run through your machine making sure that both dies are not touching and preferably put in an equal fashion.  Do not emboss. Keep middle piece for future cards.  My frames on this card are from white linen texture so it looks very effective when inked lightly.  At least I thought it was adding interest to the multi-frame idea.

Extra tip:  If you want a thinner frame simply cut one from drawing around the one single die and you should get thinner slimmer frame.  I like the one I get with the two dies together but I may also use this idea some day.  Never say never hee hee

Once I had all my frame's positions figured out I adhered all in place.  The next stage was to add the vase to one inside piece of the frames I had just made.  When I had my bouquet in place I added some greenerie around the bouquet to fluff it up a little more.

The flowers were stamped in black memento, I inked up the vase portion with some coordinating blue, cut out and cupped with a stylus on a rubber mat or mouse pad if you have one.  Shaped and positonned on to the stamped vase with flowers.  The smaller flowers after being punched out in white, I just added a blue dot in the middle with the Copic marker, then cupped it as well and added in strategic spots between the bigger flowers.  I used Aileen's white tacky glue.  Ended with the stickles in the middle of the flowers, and Liquid pearls to simulate the half pearls, to keep the card as flat as possible without bumps.

I hope you enjoyed!  It was fun making it, so please leave a comment let me know what you think!

Be happy, be creative, keep it fun, always!

 

 

Thank you card

Hi Friends

Well, since I am in the cardmaking mode, I am trying to take as many pictures as I can as I go so I have something to share with you on regular basis.  Loads of thinking and planning but nothing I haven't done before so today I have a Thank you cards to show you.  I turned the image into a dimensional one with 3 layers, it was fun going back to the dimensions again.  Also time consuming but nevertheless so much fun to do. 

One photo shows more light than the other.
Recipe

You will need an image of choice, Thanks Sentiment, Egg shell card base, pink, a pretty shimmering background paper.  A window, flower pot and flowers or similar to what I used.  To prepare the flowers I used some piece of scrap cs in green ran the die cut once in green and once in pink.  Taking all the stems of the pink flowers off and glueing individually each flower to it stem and cupping each one, then I added a dot of pink with Copic on the pointy side of the marker.  I also distressed with some pink the flower box as well.

Very straight forward card, just time consuming with the flower details but was all worth the time it took I was really happy with this one at the end.  I hope you enjoyed this card and the recipe.

Please all comments are welcome, it costs nothing but it sure encourages us bloggers to show you what we make, with a great possibility that my idea of a card may trigger something for your next project.  So a few words are worth so much to me and bloggers in general.  Number one wish of a blogger is to hear from all of you, so don't be shy, get those fingers moving on the keyboard hee hee

Next card, a bouquet of Forget-me-not!

Be creative but mostly, keep it fun!

 

A little birdie told me....

Hi Friends

I have another freshly made card to share with you.  I hope you will enjoy it and the recipe that comes with it.  In the meantime I hope you are enjoying your weekend

Recipe

You will need white base card, Pink CS, subtle yellow CS,white for the stamped image.  Image Penny Black rubberstamp, A little Birdie told me stamp, pink and black from memento, sponge dauber for pink.  Bisque Liquid Pearls, Cuttlebug embossing folder, unknown name, Diamond stickles for dress seam and collar.  Spellbinder made for Just Rite Stampers tags, I used some flower print background paper also.

Coloring was made by using Prismacolor color pencils/paper stumps, OMS= Odorless Mineral Spirit color edges first and in a circular motion with paper stump dipped in OMS move the color around for as long as it takes to get the desired effect.  For th skin tone I used Copic E02

I embossed half the CS in pink knowing where to stop so I could continue with the flower paper to the right of embossing adhered both the CS and paper leaving a pink edge to the right for more dimension.  I added some Liquid Pearls to each intersection on the embossing design making sure to keep the card as flat as possible, it gets a look closer to a half pearl and very effective looking.

The image was then cut/embosses on Spellbinder rectangle then added some pink ink along the edges, then matted focal image to yellow CS.  Also prepared my Sentiment separately with the Spellbinder tag die, embossed it as well and ran the pink ink around edges as well.

The pictures are not as bright as usual sorry about that.  We were hosting a rain storm here today,  so it was really dark even with my special light that is all I could come up with. 

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial and will come back soon for another freshly made card with a Thank you Sentiment.

Stay healthy and be creative...

Here is a Birthday card that was received

Hi Friends,

I'm back for this blog as promised here is the card I made for one friend's Birthday with a quick recipe.

Phyllis's Birthday card 2013

Notice that not all photos have the 80 on it since at the last minute I found my peel offs that has numbers so I was thrilled to be able to add such an important number not everyone makes it to 80 and Phyllis doesn't look a day older at 80 then when I met her over 6 years ago.  Her other friends can attest to that.
A little close up of the present I have colored with Copic markers
Recipe

I used, some shimmering blue (linen texture), some gold CS, whisper white CS, Stamp set is from Flourishes.org (recent purchase) the present and the sentiment are both from the same set of acrylic stamp.  Quality stamps too.

Copic makers 2 shades of blue and 2 shades of brown, some half pearls, brown gingham 1/4 inch wide ribbon (2 pieces), 3D foam, peel off 80, Diamond stickles....

I started with a white base card in the A2 size (5 1/2 inch X 4 1/4 inch), Cut up a mat in the shimmering blue, a next mat in Gold CS I then fixed the ribbon to the Gold CS before I adhered it to the rest of the card.  Next I needed to color my the present and made a frame with 2 sizes of Spellbinders squares, ran through the machine making sure they didn't overlap by taping 2 sides and no need to emboss so you cut and your frame is ready.  Any shape of spellbinder can be used as a frame as long as the sizes are staggered and will not touch while cutting through the machine.

After the coloring is done/the glittering/the pearling, cut your image to desired size then you can use 3D foam to adhere your frame to your image, adhere your sentiment add some glitter to it if you so desire and you are done.

Easy wasn't it?

You have a happy and find a way to be creative today!

Next post will have another card to share

Thank you so much blogging friends!

I was amazed to see how so many of you were showing anticipation as well as excitement as to see what was coming next for the passed almost 3 weeks now.  I had so much fun preparing this for you and to see all the emails and comments from you make me smile every day.  You make it all worth while for me to post a few things and share how I make them.

I am in and out of experimenting so I will surprise you from time to time with an old technique immersed with some new so in fact to me it feels like it is all new again because it is not totally old.  But touching the roots of where my cardmaking passion started is fun for me so I hope you can continue to enjoy what's to come.  I have 70 cards to make, (my goal for March) yes call me crazy but I will be slow at posting so please bare with me, I will desperately try to post something every other day or every 3 whenever I can.

If I am slow at answering emails you will also know why, never anything personal, if you know me, you know that.

So for a California friend who happened to have turned 80, I wish her Happy Birthday Phyllis and I will post her card in the next blog. 

Thank you for your participation on the comment box or via email it is so very much appreciated, don't ever stop, please!  I love smiling when I am reading them with my first coffee of the day.

Have a fun and creative day!

Encaustic Art explained in my own way

Hi Friends

At last, I am here to explain what Encaustic Art is.  This technique fell onto my lap accidentally once again.  I think I am successful at finding fun stuff when I am not looking for anything in particular.  That being said, I found a Youtube video showing classes of Encaustic Art at first I thought, what on earth?  What is he doing?  Curiosity got the best of me so I continued to watch and got simply amazed by what can be done with this craft.

It is basically soft wax made for this Art, with a crafting iron (Specifically made for that as well) with a glossy type of CS some beautiful things can be achieved with an iron used as a painting tool.  Yes a painting tool.

Many different techniques can be used to make so many different designs and effects.  The first one that appealed to me was to try to spread one color on the iron adding white to it to see what the result would be.  I was happy with what I saw.  Once the effect is reached, just wipe it so it shines.  Then I personally add a finishing spray coat to the work so it doesn't peel or scratch.

Here is my card I made with my first try at a sunset....Look with your arty eyes....

This is the first piece out of 2.  I will post it below the two pieces were one piece before I cut it in half to make 2 cards with it.

As you can see it is fairly simple to look artistic, I had seen one of their cards made with a cut straight through the middle of the piece which was making me scared to do at first, but when I saw it sitting on the finished card I was happy with the results.

This second card, I decided to try it with a gold paper to mat on the background and the focal image it looked so much better in the flesh.  Too bad I didn't make two the same and how could I.  This is a one of a kind twin card, even if I tried to make another one the same it would still look very different.

I hope you enjoyed my newest cards, but there are more to share soon.  Keep on visiting and commenting I love reading your comments.  Thank you for visiting, you emails, and support!  Woohoo!!! What a great start in the New Year....

Be happy and be creative!

Perhaps another card (Mosaic from scratch)

Hi Friends

I will share another card before I give you the technique.  I will have the other card to share on the next post, promised!

Here is my next card to share:

This is my Mosaic made from scratch card.

Recipe

Only giving you the recipe on how I proceeded with my pieces to make the mosaic heart you see on the card for today.  After using the technique that I will explain on the next post, I cut all of the strips to begin the process.  From one strip I ran across the edges with Silver leafing marker.  I did about 3 strips of this and then with scissors I cut little squares out of the strips.  Took each piece individually and silver leaf the two edges that were not yet marked.  *You are rolling your eyes, just about now, right?*

Then when all is dry, on a cut out heart with some tacky glue I filled the heart with all the little pieces I had worked on for a while hee hee.  *Patience is a virtue*

Once the heart piece is covered it is time to secure all the work done on this as it is not yet finished.  Last step to this madness is to add some crystal lacquer to your mosaic to enhance the color and fill in the spaces in between the pieces.  I set it aside to dry for the night.  Always make sure you have complete coverage of the lacquer it will give you excellent results each time.  I then matted the heart on a blue colored CS as well as adding 4 pieces to the frame as well.

Next post I will explain how I got the blue piece of paper done so you can piece it all together at last.

Happy crafting day! 

 

Enc.....c Art technique?

Hi Friends

Well, well, well.  You read right!  Enc......c Art.  Do you remember reading about a technique I would show you later on?  For today, I will show you what I made with some of it and lead you to my fuller piece I made after a few practice shots.

This is a Valentine's Day related card but it can also be for a loved one for any other sentiment.  So here it is and I will talk about the technique on the next post.  Will let you ponder a little, evil smirking...

No need to give you a recipe until I give you the technique on how I did this!

I know some of you knows but don't give out the technique just yet. 

Happy creative day!

 

Getting outside of Valentine's day for a day to share another card

Hi Friends

As the subject gave you a clue I am sharing another card but with a flower in a frame.  Another technique that I tried and was successful in my opinion so I wanted to share it with you.

Here is the card to begin and tell you about the technique in question:

There it is.  The flower is what I want to emphasize on.

Recipe

Flower making technique.  I had forgotten how I had made this technique nearly 10 years ago.  So I had to start and experiment until I would get the feeling of saying "That's it".

Material needed

Used dryer sheet, copy paper, shimmer powder, water spritz bottle, flower die cut or punch, this daisy has 2 layers and some fancy beads I had in my stash called "Barbara Trombley's Art Glitter" "Gala Pink Glitz" and Mod Podge Brand (glossy), a roller.

Technique

Take the used dryer sheet, in my case I had to iron it flat for ease to work with it.  I don't think there is a right or wrong side so apply an equal amount of Mod Podge glossy on the white paper I use a wide brush for a quick application.  Adhere the dryer sheet to the paper and with a roller I make sure all of the sheet is adhered from corner to corner.  With a heat gun I dry up my work.  Stay at least 8 inches away from your work and constantly move the heat gun so you don't burn your work.

Once dry, use some powder called "shimmer powder"  it comes in different brands and one in particular is more expensive than the rest.  I will give you a tip.  I went to a popular Dollar Store and found some eye shadow in powder form, for a $1 and there is enough in there to help you make a lot of the shimmered water you need to continue this technique with.

Moving right along.  My spritz bottle is about 3 ounces so my measuring is really not scientific I add about a teaspoon of the shimmer powder and drop it in the bottle.  Give it a good shake before spraying directly onto your dryer sheet everywhere.  Heat dry or let it dry on its own.  Once dry you can iron it to flatten up your finished sheet.  It will be whiter and than white.  It will be shimmeringly beautiful.  Cut around the paper that has no dryer sheet on.  Your sheet is ready to trim, die cut, punch, emboss and so much more.  If you like this technique try and make a few at a time next time and keep some on hand for a future project, you will love that you had made extra I promise you.

Some of the shimmer powder have no bonding agent, which means the shimmering may stay on your hand after it is dry.  The expensive brand has it and the $1 store one has it too.  I can't tell if any other has the bonding agent in them.

On my previous blog I have shown how to make a frame.  The rest of the card is easy to see how it was made so enjoy this technique as much as I enjoyed remembering it all over again.

Visiting the passed card making notes is always another one I am keen on doing.

Happy creative Day everyone!

Here we go, another card to share for Valentine's Day!

Hi Friends

I hope I am giving you ideas to make your own projects.  It wasn't easy to find the way to make 25 + 10 this week all for Valentine's Day, for my man, for friends nearby and so on.  But once I broke the ice, mental block we all dislike having, I was able to make some pretty good things.

I also want to mention that I was also playing with another type of media/technique over the Holidays and I will tel you more in a few days when I show you one of the cards I made with this fun new product I used for the very first time and it won't be the last!

Here is the card I am sharing with you today:

 

Recipe

Things needed to make this cutie one.  White card base, white linen for frame, bright red CS, Black CS, Spellbinder rectangle die cut, Cuttlebug embossing folder.  Black lace and ribbon for focal hearts (needle & thread)

Focal heart pieces

 you will need some glossy white CS, Gold Leaf marker, Crayola wax crayons, a dedicated craft iron only (important), cover iron board with paper bag large enough to not drop the wax on it.  Learned lesson!  Crystal lacquer, heat gun.  Patience.  Patience is a very important tool.  The more patient you are the more elegant the results will be.

Again, starting from the back to the front of the card.  I have a white card base, which I then added a red CS that I embossed with a Cuttlebug folder.

Crayola Wax Crayons Technique

Using RED and very little WHITE crayons, I peeled some of the paper to leave me a good inch of use while I am in the middle of my work, always be prepared and be ahead of the next step ahead.  On your properly mess protected ironing board and craft dedicated iron only (minimum setting no steam), a piece of your glossy CS facing upward.  Iron in hand, turn it up to see the bottom of the iron and gribble some red crayon on it, you have to move quickly but very gently on the paper so you don't want to slide the wax outside of the paper.  Try and work where there are no holes in the iron.  Not easy but you will get the hang of it soon.  Your goal is to cover your Glossy CS completely and when you see you are near completion add some white to it but necessary.  With the iron as you work you want to create a pattern in the paper.  You take you paper in left hand and with the right you bring the iron slightly to the wax already on the card and touch it and lift it, touch it and lift it application.  You will see a pattern forming and you quickly do this all over your Glossy CS.  Quick is the Key.  I practiced on about 4 pieces before I was able to make something I would call good enough for the work ahead.  Don't be too critical of yourself, just do this because it is FUN!  Remember LOL

The making of the hearts

Your Glossy CS should be done large enough to accommodate 2 heart shapes and one matting if you look closely there is a mat under the framing part.

So you have 2 cut out hearts now and a properly sized mat to use later.  Take your hearts, one at a time and apply some crystal lacquer to your hearts starting from the edge inward. make sure it is all covered look at it in different angles and set it aside to dry, do the same for the other heart.  Too risky to manipulate and dry so better to leave it overnight to dry.  The next step will be to add a line around the heart with your Gold Leaf marker.  I hold the piece I want to line in my left hand, with the marker in my right hand I just work one side at a time and make sure when I rotate to the other side I don't touch the freshly marked gold.

Ribbon and Lace

The ribbon I used some satin ribbon about 2 inches long and glued the ends to make a closed circle.  Flattened up the circle making sure to hide at the bottom the glued area. Then with a black threaded needdle and the one inch long piece of black ribbon I wrap around the piece of ribbon and sew it together in the back.  Added a glue dot to adhere the bow to the heart.  As for the lace, I had a very sophisticated black lace ribbon (from market in China) I just trimmed the top part of it without damaging the rest of the lace.  Glued this piece to the heart and added some rhinestones to make a fancy neck piece.

The frame is easily made with any shape of Spellbinder you have, Cut the bottom part of your frame first.  Secondly, I use the same die and the next smaller one in the set, put them together and tape them together so it is not touching.  This will make your frame, run it in your machine and attach it to your back by using 3D foam.  Then you can place your beautiful hearts inside the frame.  See photo below for the frame making

I hope you enjoyed the technique.  More to come LOL

Have a great creative day!  If you have a mental blockage for creativity, try something new, it worked for me and I enjoyed getting out of my safe comfortable box.

Next card soon! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Are you ready?

Hi Friends

I have another card to share with you today.  Hoping it is a small treasure for an eye treat!

Recipe

Refer to the previous post for techniques of this focal point.  The rest is as follows:

My card base is in white whisper by SU.  I have a gold sheet (found in a large sheet at your local Craft store) 1st mat, second mat is in yellow and last layer (top one) is white linen embossed with a Darice Embossing folder found at a local Craft store.  With the help of a Spellbinder laced oval I used some white linen paper to cut and emboss it, then I pencilled the inside of the die cut oval to cut out by hand and took a piece of this same gold sheet and traced the outside edge of the same laced oval die cut to make an angel piece to my focal die cut.  So in the end I had 3 pieces before I added the heart on the top.  Love this die cut.  The Bliss sentiment is also used with a layer of the same gold sheet. Self explanatory.  The middle oval I used a Gold Leaf marker (the best there is that hasn't leaked all over for me while using it) to apply gold to the edge, let dry for a few minutes before applying to the rest of the oval die cut.  Then the heart goes on top (watercolor technique made, find instructions up above)

Voila!  The red in the back ground was the paper I sat the finished card on for a photo taking session :-)

Please leave a comment, let me know what you think, just before leaving.  It costs nothing and it is so encouraging to us blogger/cardmakers.  Check back tomorrow for more!

My first official post of the year! YIPPEE

Hi blogger friends!

I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas celebrations with family and a Happy New Year with people you love to spend time with.

Here we go!  Ready for another year of fun shares.  A quick update on our after the Holidays being over, we finally were able to put almost everything away some are waiting boxes to put away neatly but it is considered put away as it is near the attic right now.  After the removal of all decorations, it was time for a great clean up and I did the whole house in one day, it was a lot of work and had to lie down when done.  I was exhausted. LOL but it was a labor of love and love to be done for a few days anyway.

Throughout the Holidays, I happily made a discovery for a new product I had been looking or dreaming about for a long time.  It was a paper trimmer of all things.  Yes I know, why get so GAGA over a paper trimmer huh?  Well, I must tell you that when you are making loads of cards like I am, my little Fiskar cutter takes a beating and you would think I eat blades because for each 10 to 15 cuts if I didn't change the small tiny blade that cuts the paper I would always get the fuzzy edge after cutting which was driving me bunkers.  So I would buy the packages of 2 blades each chance I got and when it was also available at my Local craft store.  Blades are not cheap.

www.cutterpillar.com is where I ended up by pure accident as I was like most of us do some Youtube videos on techniques for card making as well as some flowers made by many people.  Anyhow, I got to see the video for this machine and I was hooked, I had to have it YESTERDAY!  So I showed the video to my dear hubby and it was a go!  Yes I have received my new trimmer and I am in Awe of what it does for me.  Once you see the video that comes on this link I gave you, you will also say WOW.  Unless you have a Genesis.  But for me at this time this was my best choice.  If you are not making as many cards as I am, I frankly say if you have the money go for it.  You will be amazed to see the results as I am not kidding.  Straight cuts each time.  IE:  Took a whole 25 cardstock from SU to cut to get ready for my next batch of cards, and all of them came out straight and no fuzzies.  Once you tap all of the card stock into one pack onto the table you see how straight all of the card has cut and in such a neat way.

Today, finally here I am.  I had so many things to get done before I decided to come and start my year here as well.  But here it is, I am starting as promised with the two models of cards I made for this passed Christmas and will not leave a recipe for any of them.  It is straight forward with coloring and piecing together the finished product that you will see and by now we are all tired of Christmas this and that right? So I will make this quick and painless for you.  Then read passed the cards.....

Next, I wanted to start the New Year with one of the many cards I made for Valentine's Day.  I have many to come and will do my best to explain the new techniques to me as well as some of you will have not heard of this before so I will show you, some cards I took some pride and some time to make it was a labor of love for me.  So please feel free to comment, I would love to hear what you think....Sending thank you's ahead.

Recipe

This card was my first one I decided to make with my (long time stored LYRA box of 48 watercolor crayons) the list of things I used for this card are as follows:  3 watercolor crayons red, fuschia, and yellow.  Canvas paper sold in pads at your craft supplier.  Watercolor paper from pad.  Glitter glue, glue gun the cooler glue one and glue to use with.  Paper trimmer.  Valentine's Sentiment stamp, Gold sheets (comes in rolls or sheets of different colors like silver, copper and sometimes black is also in there) Scissors.  Heat gun.  Cardstock for the card base.  Spray bottle of water and patience.

Will start from the back going toward the focal point heart.  With a watercolor paper cut to matting size my card was an A2 size card which is cutting an 8 1/2 inches X 11 inches card stock in half lengthwise.  Which gives you a 4 1/4 inch X 5 1/2 inch piece which you will bend in half lengthwise.  Matting comes next.  A size slightly smaller than your 4.25 X 5.5 inch is needed for your watercolor paper to start watercoloring.

Watercoloring

No science involved with watercoloring as we pretty much have tried it once or twice in our lifetime right?  But for those of you who want an easy technique here goes:  I sprayed my WCCS (watercolor cardstock) with water in a prepared area not to wet anything other than the piece you work with.  I took my crayons and scribbled all around the piece first and stopped when I saw the color was saturating the paper but not overly so.  Then I went ahead with the water spray bottle and added water until I saw the water running around the piece to mix up the crayons and sometimes went and helped it with my fingers.  Finger painting right?  Re-applied some after using the heat gun for much quicker results.  You can also let it dry by itself.  I prefer instant results.  So once you have touched up to your liking you leave it aside and with a paper towel you can iron your piece so it will not warp on your card.

Focal image matting

This piece was so fun to make.  Let's start with a Canvas piece to the size you wish it to be, I forgot to take the measurement of mine but, you can see and easily make up the size of your own card.  Then because the canvas paper is much more porous to work with it doesn't mean it is harder to do the watercoloring so you use the same technique as for the watercoloring up above even for the drying process, fast is fun.  Love heat guns for that.  Remember not to dry your papers too close it could burn your hard work.  Keep a save distance of about 8 inches and farther and always move your heat gun around for anything you heat up to dry.

Decorating the focal point mat

Once my canvas is all dry, I took my glitter glue and went around the piece until I was pleased with the glittered look, I usually know that once it is dry it looks like there is a lot less glue so applying more than on a normal cardstock is ok since you are using a canvas.  I heat set it making sure to keep it from bubbling while drying.  Now for the glue gun operation if you have never used one before and you have one, please always make sure that you do not come in contact with the hot glue coming straight out of the gun.  It will not feel good!  Now keep that in mind for what is to follow, please.  Never leave a hot glue gun plugged in with children around you....you get the picture.  It's a neener....

Glue gun add on

Always working on the focal image MAT, heat up your glue gun, the cool heat gun (Sorry it escapes me the name of it but the glue coming out is not as hot as the HOT HOT glue gun LOL)  Oh dear.  Anyhow, about 10 minutes later it should be ready to use.  With a foil sheet ready and your piece in hand apply a line of glue not too thick where you would like to be keeping in mind you will add a focal image to this later.  Apply glue, deposit glue gun, and immediately apply the foil sheet the shiny side up facing you and with your finger go smooth it down slowly with a gently touch so you get the feel of your glue under the foil.  Practice makes almost perfect.  I went ahead and added a dot which is my favorite add on in the glue department.

Focal image

We are almost done folks, yes it is a long read but once you have read it all it will come to you like nature happens.  You can go ahead and cut yourself a heart or in my case I used a heart punch from my stash, easy peasy.  Now this is all done on your watercolor card stock.  Repeat the same thing for watercoloring technique up about for the heart, the difference for me was to make sure I had two apparent colors to match the background watercolor effects.  So I decided to keep the red and fuschia colors around the top edges of the heart and use more of the yellow at the bottom for clear definition.  Once dry if any warping go iron it using a paper towel folded in half and your heart inside of it.  You can use a squirt of water to help it out if it seems too stiff to flatten out.  Ok back to finishing it.  Apply some glitter glue on the yellow portion of the heart, dry it.  Then back to the glue gun and foil sheet and do the same technique for the gold as it is a very effective look. 

Now you can put your card together like an easy puzzle and admire your work and think, boy that was all worth trying it out.  I must also tell you that when I do that type of work, I make it worth my while.  I will make many of the pieces at once so I can make 5-8 cards from it all.  So thinking ahead on how many you will need is a pretty good idea.  Stamp out your Sentiment directly to the card or mat it onto another matching piece of watercolor card stock, really, anything goes!

That's it!

For a great majority of the cards that will ne shown next, I will refer to this technique so be prepared to get back to this page when needed.  I will link it up if I can and know how hee hee

Have a great weekend everyone and I hope this was breaking out of your ordinary box, it sure was for me and will do it again in a heart beat it was so much fun.  Leave a comment and if you have any different ideas to share, by all means I am opened to them.

Will share another card in a day or two.  Come back soon!

P.S.:  Sorry for any typo, spell check wasn't working :(

 

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!

I wanted to stop by and wish all of you a very Happy New Year, overall that you had a wonderful Christmas and started the New Year on a FUN FUN FUN HAPPY note.

Will be back soon with more cards to view, I will start with the Christmas cards I made this year there were only 2 of them but I had to make many of each. 

Have a wonderful day blogger friends!