Kelsie's Card

Hi all!

Our family has a lot of birthdays and anniversaries

in February.  One of those is our daughter's birthday.

Kelsie loves purple, so I took a dive into my 

background stash and found this piece that I made

with alcohol inks and blending solution on

vellum.  It's hard to get a picture of how really 

beautiful this piece is, but I love it.

When the ink was still a little tacky in spots

I applied some pink metallic Deco-foil

Adhesives show through vellum, so I covered the 

entire back of it with wide score tape and adhered it to

a white card base. Covering the entire piece

gives it a uniform look and you can't see the adhesive.

I cut the Happy Birthday from some glitter card stock

and also cut 3 or 4 from plain white card stock.

I then layered them to give the sentiment some dimension.

You can see the shiny pink Deco-foil a little better

in this picture.

On the inside of the card, I wrote a personal note 

to Kelsie.

Thanks for coming by today,

I hope you'll stop again soon.

Until then,

make someone smile.

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Abstract Card

Hello!
Something a little different today.
This is a birthday card that I made for my hubby.
I was looking through my stash of backgrounds for
something to use on his card and came across this piece.
I loved it so much that I couldn't stand to cut it into
pieces, so I used the whole thing.
I made it using alcohol inks on a glossy card stock 
along with some blending solution.
When the ink was mostly dry, I applied some gold
Deco-foil, which stuck to the areas that were still a little
wet and a little bit sticky.

I simply adhered the piece to a white card base,
wrote a message inside and called it done.

Here you can see some of the shiny gold areas where
the Deco-foil stuck.  It's really quite beautiful.

I chose to use the piece for a horizontal
card, but it could be used as a vertical also.
My hubby loved it and I told him I understand
that he doesn't know what to do with the cards
I make for him and I'll take this one off his hands
to hang in my craft room.
I may just have him frame it for me.

Thanks for popping in today.
I hope you'll come again soon and
that you have been inspired in some way today.
Until next time,
give something different a try!

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Tags - Alcohol Ink and Foil

Good day crafty people!
I have a group of friends that are
crafty people.  We are in different areas
of the US and most of us know each other online.
I am close friends with some of them in real life
and I hope to meet the rest of them in person
one day. But for now we are close online friends.
Some of our group decided to have a
Tag Swap.
We have done this at Christmas before,
but this time decide to do other tags.
We needed to make 5 tags for each person
in the swap.  There were only 5 of us participating,
so I needed to make 20 tags for the other ladies.
I will be posting about these tags over the
 next couple weeks.  These are
the first tags in this series.

I knew I wanted to use some of my
alcohol ink pieces for the tags, so I looked
through my stash and found some of the ones
I liked the best.
This one I used alcohol inks on silver metallic
card stock.  I put the ink onto a felt blending tool
and pounced it onto the card stock.
The alcohol inked piece flips up on each
of these tags, you'll see that below.
I made a "messy nest" of silver thread
and topped it with a silver thread bow to
finish it off.

This one was made by dripping alcohol inks
onto white glossy card stock and blowing through
a straw to spread the inks.  I also pounce with
ink and blending solution to create this beautiful
design.  I added a few buttons for interest.

I had an inked tag that matched beautifully
with the alcohol inked piece, so I used that
for the tag base. I inked this tag with
Distress Inks then flicked water onto the tag
and picked it up with a paper towel, creating the
lighter areas.
For all of the tags, I used small strips of
clear acetate packaging to make the hinges.

These next two tags were done on one larger
piece of glossy card stock and cut down. 
I used alcohol inks
and when they were not quite dry, and still a little
tacky, I applied gold Deco Foil to them, then pulled it off.
Where ever the ink wasn't dried the gold foil stuck,
that's where you see it on the tags.
I love this technique, you never know
what you'll end up with, it's always different.
To finish one off, I wound gold thread around
the tag and tied a bow on the front.

This one I simply tied a bow with gold thread
and glued it to the front of the tag on top
of a messy nest of thread.

This is what the insides of the tags
look like.

I think my crafty friends will like
the tags I made, each of them will get one of these.
Next post I'll show you some other tags I made for the swap.

Thanks for stopping by today,
until next time, have fun
crafting something.

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Thank You...

Hello, I hope you are having a great day!

Today I'm showing you a card I made for

a good friend.
My Mom passed away in early May and my friend

jumped right in to help me in any way she could.

She came to be with us and help for the memorial service,

give me a shoulder to cry on and a listening ear.

There is no way I could repay her love and support,

but I wanted to at least make her a thank you card.

This is what I made for her.

I used alcohol ink on Yupo paper.

Yupo paper is a plastic paper and is so much

fun to work on.

For some areas I dropped the ink onto the paper,

then used a straw to blow the ink across the paper,

other areas, I simply added Blending Solution and

let the ink flow where it wanted to flow.

I also used gold Deco Foil on some areas that 

were still tacky, to give it a metallic shine.

The sentiment was heat embossed with 

Glitter Embossing Powder

onto vellum.

Thanks for stopping by today.

I hope you'll stop by again soon.

Until then,

Happy Crafting!

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Father's Day

Hello all!

I know this is really late for Father's Day,

but I wanted to share this card I made for my husband.

It, obviously, could be used for any occasion,

with just a different sentiment.

Recently I have been spending a lot of my 

crafty time making backgrounds for my stash.

One of the techniques I've been doing a lot is

using alcohol inks, dropping them onto different

papers and seeing what I get.

There are many techniques that you can use to

make different patterns.

For this one, I dropped ink onto a piece of vellum.

I used blending solution to help the inks flow and mix.

When most of the ink was dry, but there were spots

that were still a little tacky, I applied 

light blue Deco Foil.

The foil adhered to the tacky ink creating 

shiny blue areas on the background piece.

I wrapped the vellum background around a

piece of white card stock to make it more sturdy

then adhered it to a white card base.

The sentiment was stamped with 

Twisted Citron Distress Ink.

Here you can see where the blue foil has adhered to the 

ink, giving a metallic shine.

I've been having so much fun creating backgrounds 

for my stash, I've built up quite a collection.

Now I just have to get to work making cards and

other projects with them.

Thanks for popping in to check out what I've been up to.

Come again soon,

you never know what you'll find on

Kristie Kreates!

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