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Essentials by Ellen Mix it Up Challenge!

By KariV on August 10, 2016 in Paper Crafting

Today I’m participating in the Essentials by Ellen Mix it up Challenge for August with Winnie & Walter!

This card was a challenge for me. I used my Akayashi Sai watercolor markers and blended 3 colors together on the beautiful Hydrangea by Ellen Hutson. I love how it turned out, but it took me four days to finish!

I had a vision to cut the right side of the card off and have some beautiful writing on the side. I ended up using my script background stamp, embossing in white, and inking on distress inks over the top. I’m not sure how well you can see the writing in the picture, but it turned out nice.

I added some inking around the edges of the white panel, and of course added shimmer to the flowers. The middles of the flowers are Stickles. In real life, this card has some beautiful shimmer and glitter!

I used my (only) Winnie & Walter stamp set…and embossed in white on black cardstock. Then I fussy cut that sentiment out. I originally thought I would cut out the black part in the “y” but it didn’t look right, so I left that part in.

Can you see the glittery goodness on this?

I love how it turned out! 🙂 This has to go to a special someone since I spent a lot of time on it!

Hope you enjoy.

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Fairyland of Gold pathways

By KariV on July 24, 2016 in Paper Crafting

Well, it has been a while since I’ve posted. I just may have forgotten how to blog! Hopefully it will all come back.

Here’s the card that made me want to blog again:

This cute fairyland has pathways of rainbow and gold and clouds that are sparkling clear!

I used Lawn Fawn stamps, Akashiya Sai watercolor markers, Distrink ink, and Pretty Pink Posh sparkling clear sequins. This was a fun shaker card to make and I think everyone looks pretty happy!

Entering this into the Lawnscaping Challenge.

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Christmas Tree Baubles

By KariV on November 24, 2015 in Christmas, Holidays, Paper Crafting

Wow, this technique was so fun but time consuming! In the Holiday Style Online Card Class, May Park had an awesome sample of a triangle tree shape stamped with all kinds of small stamps and I thought I’d give it a try.

Turns out I have a LOT of small stamps that worked so well for this technique.

I decided to round the bottom of my tree and make the sentiment curved to match. I used my GOLD delicata ink for the very first time (thank you, Wendi!) and I love it! See those stars? They are stamped with the gold ink.

I used the same gold embossing powder on the sentiment and on the right and left edges of the card. So pretty. My husband loves this one! But I don’t think it’s a candidate for mass production. Lol. 🙂

Have a blessed Christmas!

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Vintage Christmas

By KariV on November 24, 2015 in Christmas, Holidays, Paper Crafting

This card was definitely out of my comfort zone. I was nervous to use brown distress ink over my stamping. But vintage fancy was the topic of the day at Online Card Classes Holiday Style!

I used Neenah desert storm for the card base (I have a TON of this, but rarely use it) and I think it complements the vintage look.

After I finished all my stamping and inking I slapped some Versamark clear ink over it all and sprinkled Judikins sparkle embossing powder over it! Then I heat-set it and I think it turned out so fancy! I love that the glitter doesn’t come off on your hands when you use heat embossing.

Well, Kristina Werner totally inspired me to try this card…something very new for me! What do you think?

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O Christmas Tree!

By KariV on November 23, 2015 in Christmas, Holidays, Paper Crafting

So I tried my hand at a clean and simple christmas tree card. I used the Tim Holtz Scribble Trees and I’m ready to try making more. There are so many cute trees in this set!

I used Evergreen Bough Distress ink to ink up the center of the card. This took me TWO tries! I really messed up the first one. This one turned out better. Laura Bassen warned that it takes a light hand and a lot of passes to really build up the color. I embossed the three trees with Ranger embossing powder.

I was going to add this card to a simple white card base, but it looked just too plain for me. So I jazzed it up with some sparkle tape!

This card makes me think of picking out a Christmas tree in a tree lot. That’s so fun to do, but we now have an artificial tree and never go to the tree lots anymore. So sad. I think I’ll visit one this year just for fun. Lol.

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