Give Thanks

Welcome

Our Canadian Thanksgiving is coming up next weekend, so I was feeling inspired to create some cards.

I was even more inspired after watching one of Vicki Boutin's Friday Night Lives where she did some inking using a sheet of acetate.  

* I call it acetate inking and you can find more examples of this on my blog using the search button *

So, here's what I did to create my card.

• Like I mentioned above, I watched Vicki's live and wanted to make some Thanksgiving cards using some colours inspired by Fall.  Vicki calls her technique 'kissing' and it is very easy to do.
• I cut a piece of white cardstock, got out a sheet of acetate and my Distress inks. The colours I used were:  Mustard Seed, Ripe Persimmon, Barn Door, Peeled Paint and Rusty Hinge.
• I rubbed each colour, one at a time onto the sheet of acetate, sprayed it with a good amount of water and pressed and dragged it over my cardstock.  I dried each layer and I wiped off the acetate between each inking until the cardstock was covered with colour.
• I splattered with my black Posca pen to grunge it up a bit more.

Here is what it looked like:

• After the panel was totally dry, I die cut the leaves and the letters from the sheet.
• I pulled out a piece of brown cardstock and embossed it using a folder from Carabelle to add interest.  I glued that onto an A2 size card base.
• I glued the leaves in the top corner, adding some pop dots just under the tips of leaves to raise them up.
• I glued the 'thanks' letters cut from the same inked sheet, just under the leaves.
• To finish my card off, I tied a small piece of twine around the stems of the leaves.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Shopping Our Stash- Leaf Me Alone

Simon Says- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- Distress 

Paper- heavy white- Scribes Nook, Waterloo, Ont.; brown

Accessories and Tools- Leaf Fragments (TH); Thanks (MFT); 

Texte Grunge eb folder (Carabelle); sheet of acetate; black Posca pen

Doodled Flowers

 

Welcome

Something a bit different for me today.

On Friday night, I like to watch Vicki Boutin's live classes.  They are free and lots of fun.

Last week, she showed us how to make simple, doodled flowers.

I decided to give it a go and this is what I came up with.

So here's what I did to create my card. 

• I began by making these doodled flowers...very simple to do.  I used a Pigma waterproof pen to doodle the flowers...that part is important as I wanted to watercolour them.  Check to see if your pen is waterproof before you start to paint them.
• After I drew a few I was happy with, I started to paint them.  I used Vicki Boutin's Art Crayons to do that.  I rubbed the orange and pink crayon onto a piece of acetate, sprayed with water and picked up the wet ink with a paintbrush to add to my flowers.  
• I dried the flowers a bit, then stamped over them with the Friends Script stamp using some Shaded Lilac Distress Oxide ink.  I inked up the stamp and then stamped off onto some scrap paper as not to overwhelm the look of the flowers with heavy stamping.  The script added a lot of interest.
• Next, I drew some leaf shapes and watercoloured them using the Art Crayons again in greens.
• I splattered them all with my white and black Posca pens and set aside to dry.
• I started looking through my stash of previously made backgrounds and came across this one.  It was done on the Gel Plate using some pink acrylic paint and this super stencil from ACLD called Messy Dot Grid.  I thought the colour worked well with the flowers.
• The flowers were now dry, so I fussy cut them out with the leaves.  
• I placed the stenciled background into my Misti and stamped the sentiment in the corner.
• I curled the flowers and leaves a bit, then arranged them with pop dots onto my card front.
• I glued the finished panel onto a piece of pink cardstock, then onto a white card base and added some small black gems to the flower centers.
• Finished card is 5 1/2 x 4 1/4".

Here is the stencil I used:

Messy Dot Grid

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Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Alphabet Challenge- 'B' FOR BLOOM

Cut it Up- APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY FLOWERS

Supplies

Stamps- Enjoy the Moment (Daisy Bucket-no longer available); Friends Script (HA)

Inks- Vicki Boutin Art Crayons; DOX inks; Versafine Clair

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ontario)

Accessories and Tools- Pigma marker; Posca pens; Basics Acrylic paint; 

Messy Dot stencil (ACLD); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); black gems

Wildflower Garden

Welcome

Here is today's card I created after watching a Friday Night Live with Vicki Boutin.

For any of you that don't know Vicki, she is a Canadian Mixed Media artist that has a line of products with American Crafts.

Every Friday night, she does a live on FB and YouTube, all free!

One of my favourite products she has is her Art Crayons.  That's what I used on this card.

So here's what I did to create my card.

• I cut a piece of white cardstock for my card front.  I got out my Vicki Boutin Art Crayons and rubbed some purple and blue onto a piece of acetate.  I picked up the crayon with a stencil brush and rubbed it onto my cardstock, blending the colours together, fading out towards the edges of the panel.
• These crayons are water soluble so when I was happy with the inking, I took the Messy Grid stencil from ACLD and using a wet stencil brush, I rubbed over it, lifting some of the ink and revealing the white cardstock underneath.
• Using some Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide ink, I stamped some script randomly over the bkg to add more interest, then splattered with my white and black Posca pen.  **I get a lot of questions about the splatters using my Posca pen.  When I want to add splatters, I press the tip of the pen onto my work surface to get the ink flowing a little bit, then I hold the pen over my project and tap it using a metal ruler.**
• As that dried, I looked through my stash of die cuts to find some flowers that would work on my card front.  I like to die cut in advance using leftover scraps and keep them in a folder for future use.  I found these and thought they worked great.
• When the panel was dry, I placed it into my Misti and rubbed it with my anti-static bag.  I stamped the sentiment from Impression Obsession using some black Versafine Clair, then clear heat embossed it.
• I glued the flowers along the bottom of the card front panel, then onto a heavy white card base.

Here is the stencil I used in the background

Messy Grid

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 Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANTHING GOES

Challenge Up Your Life- SPLATTERS

Try it on Tues.- SAY IT WITH FLOWERS

Supplies

Stamps- To Everything There is a Season (IO); Script (Penny Black)

Inks- Vicki Boutin Art Crayons; Distress Oxides; Versafine Clair

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Messy Grid stencil (ACLD); Posca pens; Anti-static bag;

Lawn Fawn clear eb powder; stencil brush; Wildflower Stems dies- (TH-Sizzix); 

Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Spellbinders Platinum die cutting machine

Welcome Fall

Hello and Welcome

This card was just a fun one done during some spare time I had, trying out some new to me products.

So a bit of a story.......

In my neighbourhood, a local artist, Meredith Sexton, has decided to set up a Free Little Art Gallery.

It has been a wonderful addition to our area.  It is based on one she saw on social media set up in the States.  Anyone can contribute to the Gallery to share and anyone can take a piece of art to appreciate.  

I really like that it is all inclusive and lots of the kids in our neighbourhood have been adding special little art pieces as well as the artists.  

Here is a link to the article written about the Gallery.

I've had the pleasure of adding some cards to the box, just a great little way for our community to connect and share some love during which has been a difficult year and a half.

Here are some pictures showing the box...I think more neighbourhoods should have this.

So onto my card details.

• I began by creating what I would use for my background.  I cut a white cardstock panel, then using my Vicki Boutin Art Crayons, I inked it up.  I rubbed the crayons onto a piece of acetate, diluted with water and pressed onto my cardstock.  You can see this technique and how I used it in the Tutorials section above.
• I added layers of colour to the background, drying between layers and dripping the extra ink to add interest.

• I set the inked piece aside to dry, then took out another piece of white cardstock to stencil onto.  I place the Layered Fancy Leaf stencil over the cardstock and used some more of the crayons to ink it up.  I rubbed the crayon onto my sheet of acetate, then picked up the colour with a stencil brush.
• I splattered with my black Posca pen and simply die cut the 'fall' letters from white cardstock.
• I cut a white border using the Memory Box stitched dies, to create a frame.  I glued the first panel behind that frame then onto a heavy white card base.
• Next, I cut another piece of white, a piece of matching orange, then the stenciled leaf using the stitched die again.  I glued them all together and foam mounted them over the inked background.
• Finally, I glued on the 'fall' letters.

Here is the stencil I used:

Layered Fancy Leaf Stencil

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on stencils and masks.

(affiliate with not extra cost to you)

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

The Sisterhood of Crafters- STENCILS

Crafty Gals- FALL

As You Like It- WINTER OR AUTUMMN

(no question...Autumn with all the inspiring colours that nature has to offer)

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- Vicki Boutin Art Crayons

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Layered Fancy Leaf stencil (ACLD); Stencil brush (TH); Posca pen;

Stitched Fame die (Memory Box); alphabet letters (Photoplay); sheet of acetate