Thoughtful - Card

Hello all!

I'm over on the Butterfly Reflections Ink blog today.  I hope you will head on over to see my post.

Thanks for stopping by, see you again soon.

Coralynn  :)


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Love You!

Hello everyone,

Coralynn here and I'm back with a set of cards for you.  This is an oldie but a goodie.  I love the elegance of this set and thought I would try a new to me technique of added a contrasting colour around the image to pop it off the card.  

I used the "Love for Mom" set and stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with white embossing powder on to water colour card stock.
I then die cut the front panel and added colour with my Zig clean colour markers with an aqua brush.

I added the sentiment with a black pigment ink and used clear sequins from the Mink Owl sequins mix. I popped the front panel on to a pink and yellow piece of card stock and adhered that to the card bases.

That's it for me, thanks for stopping by.

Coralynn  :)

Sea You Soon

Hello everyone,

It's Coralynn and I'm happy to be back with a fun summer card for you.  I also have some fun pictures of my kitty, BooMan as we call him, helping me out with taking pictures of my card. So stay tuned till the end of my post.

Today was a beautiful day and it would have been a perfect day to go sailing.  Since I wasn't able to, I thought I would make a card about sailing instead.

I started out with an A2 card base and I used distress inks to add the water.  I then heat set it so that the embossing powder would only stick to the embossing powder. I used the boat, waves and shells from the Beach Babes stamp set and added them to the card with SSS Clear ink.

I cut out the front panel with a story book die from Pretty Pink Posh and popped it up over the images and the added some die cut clouds from my stash. I added the sentiment with black ink and as usual I always forget to add it till the end.  This time I was lucky as the foam tape was thick enough under that front panel for me to stamp it without messing it up.  

Okay, I just had to share this with you all.  My BooMan (my kitty) often hops up on my table and lays down with me while I craft.  Well today he decided to do so while I was taking pictures of my card for this post.  Needless to say he doesn't really care about what is on my desk at the time; he just jumps up and walks around wondering what I'm doing.  Love having him with me though.  So what you're seeing in the picture is him walking through my shot.  The first picture is the tip of his chin and chest and the second one is his belly.

Thanks for stopping by, see you again soon!

Coralynn   :)

Tic Tac Toe Challenge 15 - Stamping Smiles Designs

 Hello everyone,

We are back for Stamping Smiles Designs Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge 15.

My choice: WORD DIES - SPARKLE - COLOUR BLOCKING

Now I have to say that I did google colour blocking as I just assumed that it was blocks of colour but I found out that it was also solid sections of colour.  So I have found a few designs that I liked but this style caught my eye.  

I started with an ivory card base and used a stitched rectangle die to cut out the panel.  I then took a pencil and drew the lines to block off my colours and then went over them with a copic multi liner. 

 I then used Scattered Straw, Pumice Stone and Tattered Straw distress inks and added them with a water brush to the panel and let it dry.  I then took my Wink of Stella marker and added sparkle to the work die and the top left corner.

Thanks for stopping by, we hope to see your creations in the link up!

Coralynn  :)

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AAA Card Challenge #70 - Stitching

Hello everyone,

We are back with Game #70 here at AAA Cards and it's all about stitching. 

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I love stitching on my cards but I thought I would branch out and use actual stitching from my sewing machine.  Well let's just say it's the thought that counts because all went wrong short of breaking a needle, which thankfully didn't happen.  But I decided to move on and try it again another day.  

I ink blended Mint and Audrey blue SSS inks onto vellum and heat set it (ink doesn't dry as fast on vellum as it does on card stock.  I then took one of the cross stitched circle dies from Lawn Fawn and die cut the vellum.  

I then die cut the work hello from white card stock with MFT's Emmitt alpha dies and adhered it to the die cut circle and the used that space to add adhesive and added it to my card base.  This would be a great card to mass produce but the little letters can be a bit tedious to add.  Mind you I'm the type that likes having all the letters straight but that rarely happens that way.  

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Coralynn  :)

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Happy Birthday - Mint Owl Studio

Hello everyone,

I'm back today with a water colour birthday card.

I have been doing lots of water colouring lately and I have always loved embossed sentiments on a watercolour background.  So this is what I have for you today.

I used the Happy Moments stamp set and heat embossed the sentiments with white embossing powder.  The happy is directly on the watercolour panel and the birthday is on a piece of black card stock from my stash and cut it out with my scissors and popped it up with foam tape.

When I have a panel that is warped because of the water I add fun foam to the back so that I have a solid piece to help straighten the panel but this one was a bit harder to do.  I had to set something heavy on top of it overnight in order to get it so that it wasn't warping the card base.  Oh the troubles we go through to get a perfect card!  LoL!!

That's if for me today, thanks for stopping by.

Coralynn  :)

Gel Well Card Set

Hello everyone,

I am back with a couple of cards for you today.  If you read my last post, I'm trying to create more than one card so I made two.  I will soon work up to 4 or five soon!

I used the Get Well Critters and with white embossing powder, heat embossed the adorable Dino to created a background.  I then took distress ink and blended it around the edges and left the middle a bit lighter.

I used some black glitter spray and added splatters to the background for interest.  Then I cut out the banner from some ivory card dock and stamped the sentiment with black ink.  To finish off the card I added some enamel dots to the top right hand corner.

Here is the second card I created using the same techniques but with a different colour distress ink.  I also spritzed the card base with water droplets and wiped it away with a paper towel.  I did this for both cards.

I added the same banner and stamped the sentiment with black ink but instead of enamel dots to finish off the card, I used some natural twine that I added to the banner die cut.

Thanks so much for stopping by, see you again soon!

Coralynn  :)

AAA Cards Game #69

Hello everyone,

We are back with a new Game.  Stash Favourite.  I have to say my stash favourite would be rectangle dies.  It's the one thing that I use the most in my craft room.

17th July 2016

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For my card today, I started with a scalloped stitched rectangle die and I found out that this die will cut out two panels perfectly from an A2 stop fold card scored at 4.25.  That makes it fold on the long side so I can cut the base in half and get to small note cards.  This helps me with making multiple cards which is something I am working on.

I started out with an A2 sized card base and cut it in two.  I then took one of he scalloped rectangle dies from MFT and cut out two panels.  You can also get two out of an A2 sized piece of card stock.

I then used Fog in on a dotted background stamp from MFT and added that to the card base.  I used the sweet little kitties from MFT that I coloured in for Kathy's the 30 Day Colour Challenge from The Daily Marker.  

I adhered the kitty to the pillow and popped it up on foam tape.  I stamped the sentiment in Slate ink.  I didn't want to add anything more because they are so small but will make great note cards for presents or just because notes. 

Below are two more that I made in the same way.  

                          

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Coralynn  :)

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