Hand made paper card

Hi all!

Here's another card from my "make it from my stash" 

cards.  For this card, I used a water color paper background.

I used water color paints to make the panel and the piece with

the sentiment on it.  This was originally for part of a Christmas 

gift and was left over, so it went into my background papers stash.

Finally I pulled it out and decided to use it.

I combined it with a piece of handmade paper.

My hubby is a photographer and does Art Festivals with his work.

A few year ago I went to a show in Pennsylvania with him and the

woman across from him was selling artwork made from 

handmade paper.  She also was selling pieces of her paper.

Well, I couldn't go home without some of it. This piece

has some shimmery paint on it in gold and copper and it 

is just beautiful.

I used a fairly fine paint brush to brush on some water

in a line where I wanted to tear it, then simply pulled along that

wet line, the paper tears and leaves this very organic edge.

The Happy Birthday sentiment is from 

Stamp On It

Using Brown StazOn ink, I stamped the sentiment

onto a piece of that water colored paper,

trimmed it out, adhered it to a piece of white card stock,

the onto the front of the card.

I think this makes a nice masculine card, although it could

be used for anyone.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you will return soon.

You never know what you'll find on

Kristie Kreates!

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see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

pastel smooching

Hello!

I hope your day is going well.

The card I'm showing you today is one I made

to have on hand for when I need a birthday card.

I used this piece for the background from my stash.

I again used the smooching method to make this background.

I smooched Distress Inks onto a piece of acetate, added water 

then smooched it onto a piece of water color paper, 

to get a beautiful background.

I thought these flowers from 

The Floral Minis Stamp Set

from 

Stacy Stamps

were perfect to go with this background.

I stamped them with VersaFine Onyx Black Ink

colored them with colored pencils and fussy cut them.

They are adhered to the card with different thicknesses 

of foam tape.  The Happy Birthday is from

Stamp On It

Note the links are only to give a reference so you can

see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

Gift for Lennon

Hi!  Hope you're having a great day.

Today I'm showing you a gift I made for a little guy.

He turned 5 and absolutely loves dinosaurs.

This wasn't an easy and smooth process and I'll try to tell 

about my mistakes, so you don't also make them.

I started with a blank canvas, acrylic paints and Chap Stick.

Yes, I know that sounds strange, but I couldn't find my Microglaze and

thought I'd give the Chap Stick a try.

And I have to say it did work to a degree, but not as easily as

the Microglaze would have.

Here is a link to what I wanted to do with it.

I ended up not using it for the gift piece, but 

not because it wasn't working at all, I just didn't

have the time to play with it.

And of course guess what I found a couple days later?!?!

I know this might be hard to see, but it sure is hard to

photograph something that is clear.

I cut out a dinosaur design with Lennon's name on it

using my Silhouette Cameo and The Dinosaur Border Set

from the Silhouette Design Store.

I used a piece of acetate to make the stencil and mask.

I ran the stencil and mask through my large Xyron machine

and stuck the mask down onto the canvas.

I started painting with the lightest color that I had, which

was a pink.  I was going for a sunset/universe look.

I continued to add colors, one by one, lightest to darkest.

I also added the red to his name.

Then came the darker colors, blues and purples.

And BOOM that's when things went awry. 

It all looked fine, until I took the mask off and the paint

had bled under the mask and made a total mess.

So I began again.

I used a little different strategy for the second attempt.

I used a bit less paint, less water on my brush when cleaning

it between colors and was more careful about how I applied the 

paint, trying to brush out from the mask at all times.

This time the dinosaurs came out much better, but there was

still some bleeding, but no where near as bad this time

Then I laid the stencil part of the acetate over the painted

canvas to see exactly where the dinosaurs were and painted his name in

more carefully.

Once that was done, I took the stencil off and began 

painting all the white parts with black paint.

After a couple coats of black and some more red....

it was almost finished.

For a finishing touch, I used some white paint,

added a little water and used my paint brush to flick

spatters onto the sky.  

I did lay the mask over the dinosaurs before

flicking the white paint.

I also gave the dinosaurs red eyes and I was done.

Then I was on to the card.

I decided to make a card to match the gift.

I cut the dinosaurs and the 

Happy Birthday! 

from black card stock.

I used a star stamp and stamped the card with 

VersaMark Ink and heat embossed them with silver

embossing powder.

Here is a picture of the gift and card together.

The day of his party, I think Lennon was so overwhelmed

that he didn't really know all the gifts he got,

but his parents did and they both loved this gift.

I think it turned out pretty cool too.

Thanks for popping in to see what I've been creating.

Glad to have you here, come again soon.

Until next time,

have fun crafting!

Note the links are only to give a reference so you can

see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

Card for Julie

Hello fans!

Recently I was invited to a birthday party for my

daughter's boyfriend's nephew.  It happened that his birthday

and his grandma's are on the same day, so I wanted to also

give something to Julie.

I wrapped up some of my handmade cards as a gift and

wanted to make a card for her.

This is the card that I made for her.

I started with a background stamp and stamped 

it onto white card stock with VersaMark Ink and 

heat embossed it with Silver Embossing Powder.

Once I trimmed it down I adhered it to a piece of

silver card stock, then onto a white card base.

I know this isn't a great picture, but I wanted to show

the shine on the embossing and the silver mat.

For the inside, I stamped and embossed this greeting, 

which was a stamp in my stash.

She loved the card as well as the ones I gave her as a gift.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you'll come again soon, next time

I'll be showing you what I made for Lennon,

the little guy the party was for.

Until then,

Happy Stamping!

Note the links are only to give a reference so you can

see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

Smooched background

Hello crafting friends!

This past Saturday I decided to work on making some 

birthday cards.  I always seem to fall short when I need them

unexpectedly.  I also wanted to use some of the pieces that I had

in my stash.  This is one of the cards I made. 

I had this background in my stash from a couple months ago

when I was making some "smooched" background pieces.

I taped a piece of watercolor paper to a board,

then I smooched Distress Inks onto a piece of acetate,

sprayed it with a bit of water then laid it onto the 

paper and let it sit for just 15-20 seconds.

When I picked up the acetate, this was what I was left with.

And I LOVE how it turned out.

All I needed to do was adhere it to a piece of brown card stock,

then to a white card base and add a sentiment.

The Happy Birthday sentiment is from 

"Stamp On It"

stamped with brown Color Box Chalk Ink onto

white card stock, trimmed out and adhered with 

foam tape.

Simple card, but I think it turned out great.

Thanks for stopping in today, I hope you'll 

come again soon.

Until then,

try something new!

Cork

Hello crafty friends!

Today I have a card to show you that I mad for no

other reason than that I wanted to use this really cool

cork that I have.

My friend, Marie, saw a 12x12 stack of cork "paper" on

clearance and thought of me and picked it up for me.

How nice was that?!?!

I started by stamping

"Buck in the Forest"

from Stamp On It

onto a manilla tag with brown 

StazOn ink.

I then used water color crayons to add 

a little green to the leaves.

I used Distress ink and a blending tool to color the top of the 

tag and added the sentiment with the same brown ink.

The cork is self adhesive, so it was easy to adhere to 

a white card base.  A little twine, added the tag to the cork

front with ATG tape and called it done.

I like the way this card turned out and can't wait to

try more cards and maybe a layout with that cork.

Thanks for stopping by today, I hope you've been 

inspired to try some new supplies.  If you see something

different, especially on clearance, pick it up and give it a try.

You never know what new favorites you might discover.

Come again soon.

You never know what you'll find on 

Kristie Kreates!