Index Card A Day – #32 & #33

04 Wednesday Jul 2012

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First of all – Happy Fourth of July to all the Americans celebrating out there – enjoy the food, the fireworks, and the fun!

Onto the cards!

Day 32

This started out with a layer of light molding paste over a new stencil which was misted with red and yellow when it dried. To blend the colours I just sprayed some plain water.

Once the card was completely dry, I stamped (and stamped off) some leaves and added the quote. Then I cut out 6 different sections with my Fiskars fingertip knife and added some book paper and old paper towels behind the open spaces. Love how it turned out!

The most fun thing about this? The translucency of the paper towel – very cool when held up to the light!

Oh, and the true colour of the card is more like this one!

Day 33

I finally decided to try my hand at a mandala. I’ve always thought they look incredible and one woman I follow on Instagram, Emily Lagore, does amazing ones. Here’s my, very imperfect and non symmetrical, take on a mandala:

Considering this was my first attempt ever, I’ve really happy with how this turned out!

When M saw my “pretty flower” she wanted to make one too! As always, she was very specific as to where the mist should be sprayed and once it dried, she drew everything herself. I told her to draw an “x” and then a plus sign so she had 4 intersecting lines, and I gave her ideas like, draw circles in the pie pieces, or dots all around the outside, but she came up with everything else herself. I think she did an awesome job!

I got a fun little package in the mail today with new ink pads and fun stars so I’m sure some of that will make it on today’s card! Come back and see it tomorrow!

Index Card A Day – #31

03 Tuesday Jul 2012

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Canada, Canada Day, Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls Mist, ICAD, ICAD2, Maple leaf

Since this was Canada Day, I wanted to actually do a themed card and do something about Canada. That being said, I didn’t want to just do a flag.

We spent time at one of the National Parks on the day and had cupcakes which had, luckily for me, flags stuck in them! I say this is lucky because I wanted to add a maple leaf to my card and I can’t draw one to save my life. It’s really pathetic…

Anyway, I misted some red, cut out and adhered the maple leaf, sprayed the whole thing with Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls Mist and let it dry. I added the words but it still needed something.

I pulled out my Golden Light Molding Paste and smeared it over a new stencil. Just enough to add that touch I wanted!

Not too flag-like but still very Canadian!

I love the Golden Molding Paste – very soft and almost velvety. It adds a bit of texture without being too much:

I hope all you Canadians had a fabulous long weekend – here in NL we actually had wonderful sunny and warm weather! To any Americans who may pop by here, enjoy the Fourth!

See you tomorrow for some more cards, plus a weekend recap if I get a chance to edit some pics. I also will have a Paperie Pick post later this week and am getting ready to go away for the weekend again – going to be a busy one!

Index Card A Day – #29 & #30

03 Tuesday Jul 2012

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Dylusions, ICAD, ICAD2, Ranger, Tim Holtz

I was away for the Canada Day long weekend so I won’t have a Tuesday Technique post for you today – sorry if you were looking for it! I’ll be back next week with something new!

I did manage to keep up with my index cards while I was lazing away at the cabin though! 🙂

Day 29

This was a background left over from when I was working on my alphabet stamps card. It had previously been stamped and gessoed over, then left. I liked the background but it didn’t work for the cards I was doing at that time so I saved it. I kept it pretty simple since I had minimal supplies with me – a few stamps, some mist, and stickers.

I really wanted to play with the Dylusions house stamps, since I finally broke down and bought them, and my Distress Markers, since I love the way they play with gesso, but when I went to get them, they were at home. Hmmmmm….

So I misted some colours on my craft mat and grabbed my paintbrush. Luckily, it worked! I simply painted the grassy hill and the houses, let that dry, then misted some Perfect Pearls and added some Chitchat stickers.

I like how the mist worked, though it took forever to dry, and I love the background of letters. Plus, those little houses are the cutest! There’s also the appearance of great texture from the gesso but it’s actually pretty smooth IRL.

Day 30

My last card for the month is super simple. I sprayed some mist on my craft sheet, misted with Perfect Pearls to tone down the colours and make them even more fluid, then painted them on, taking care to blend them together. I used a Tim Holtz stamp and a Jillibean Soup label sticker.

Definitely not my fave of the series, but it’s another one done! I’ll be back later with the first one for July – Canada Day!

Index Card A Day – #28

29 Friday Jun 2012

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Creative Imaginations, Dylusions, ICAD, ICAD2, Index Card A Day, Ranger, Twinkling H2O's

As promised, here’s M’s card:

She used simple Crayola watercolours but the way she picks and blends colours is amazing to me. I would never think of using the colours she mixes together and she loves it when she makes a new one! And they always seem to work – she’s got a good eye, that one!

I got a new stamp set that just had to be broken in so I started with another premade base – this one was clear gesso over the hexagon portion of the 12×12 Punchinella.

I knew the quote I was using so wanted a night sky and a moon. I painted the moon with two shades of Twinkling H2O’s then, because I didn’t have a dark or navy blue, painted teal over the card, followed by a deep purple and used tons of water to blend – the colour was perfect! I sprinkled some salt but it didn’t work for some reason so, whatever!

I didn’t like the moon, it needed something more and book paper seemed to do the trick – I love how the paint for the sky darkened the edges of the moon and how the paint from the moon lightened the area of the sky around it.

I stamped the sentiment directly on the card but it didn’t stand out so I took a tag from my Tuesday Techniques post, stamped on that, cut it out and it was perfect!

This card turned out even better than I had hoped! The texture from the gesso and the stencil is subtle and exactly what I wanted for this, and I love the gradient in the quote strips. Plus, the moon seems to be glowing – awesome!

It’s Canada Day weekend here and more importantly, Memorial Day in Newfoundland¹, so I’ll be away this weekend but still creating! Can’t wait to see what everyone else comes up with in the next few days!

1. In the First World War, on July 1, 1916, approximately 90% of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment was lost at Beaumont-Hamel. The following day, only 68 of the original 780 men were available for roll call.

Index Card A Day – #27

29 Friday Jun 2012

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ICAD, ICAD2, Index Card A Day, Ranger ChitChat Stickers, The Crafter's Workshop

I had a premade base for this – Flexible Molding Paste spread over the star portion of a 12×12 Punchinella stencil.

I started by blowing three different watercolours around with a straw. I wasn’t happy with the amount of tentacles spreading out and there was too much solid space so I covered the whole thing with my new, but old, favourite product – Twinkling H2O’s! I really like how the colours blended together more and appear layered under a translucent teal cover.

For my quote, I used one that M and I say to each other all the time but in my ChitChat stickers there was no “stars” so I wrote it on the card. Blerg. Then I stamped the letters on one of my Martha Stewart kraft sticker labels, cut out each letter and stuck them down. Then I covered the word and letter stickers with matte multimedium which removed some of the teal paint around the stickers revealing more of the original colour – pretty cool!

I got lots of glare from the shimmer but it’s super sunny here (yay! and finally!) so that’s all I can do folks! 🙂

I really like how the stars appear to be part of the whole but still have lots of texture and dimension on their own:

M decided to jump in the game again so I’ll be back later with another card of mine and one of hers too!

Index Card A Day – #25 & #26

27 Wednesday Jun 2012

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Two index cards for you today…

The first one is super simple and uses a technique I’ve been meaning to play with but always seems to get put on the back burner. Amy Tangerine originally did it with watercolours but I broke out my Twinkling H2O’s, of course!

I didn’t use gesso first so getting the paint to move proved to be a bit of a challenge but I really like how it turned out. Once that part was done, I didn’t want to cover it all up and so was a little stumped as to what to do next. I googled quotes and found this one which seemed perfect. I printed it out on Martha Stewart kraft stickers labels and adhered it, then inked the card edges and was done.

I finally got a picture of all the shimmer and shine that are in Twinkling H2O’s! Isn’t it amazing?

My second card got gessoed and heat set to make bubbles, then had all sorts of stuff thrown at it until some combination worked! There’s some stamping, some misting, and some Twinkling H2O’s. Add in the paper piecing and word stickers and we’re done!

I love how this finally turned out and am really glad I went back at the last second to paper piece the last top hat man.

Back tomorrow with another one! And there’s another post today so if you missed Tuesday Techniques, scroll down!

Index Card A Day – #24

25 Monday Jun 2012

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ICAD, ICAD2, Lawn Fawn, Ranger, Studio Calico

(Note: This is my third ICAD post today, check here and here for the others!)

I started out with a completely different card base but then messed it up and wasn’t in the mood to try and fix it – so I pulled out a previously messed up card base and worked on that instead!

I had originally used Matte Multi Medium to adhere the book paper to the card and then misted over the top, wiping away most of the excess. It didn’t work with the idea I had in mind for that day so I put it aside. Luckily, it was perfect for this one!

I added Bronze and Interference Red Perfect Pearls Mists, then used my gold and silver Metallic Paint Dabbers to stamp the stars and create the moon. I outlined with a black pen, and used Tim Holtz Chitchat stickers, plus Lawn Fawn stamps for the sentiment.

I had thought to use a wood veneer airplane but when I opened the bag and saw the bicycle I laughed at the thought of an ET type of card – so I went with it! Even if no one else gets it, it makes me laugh!

Love the interest that book paper gives the background, and it always adds a great textural element as well – I’m glad I held onto this one and kept it out of the trash bin!

Hopefully, the mess I set aside earlier will come to a good end another day…

See you all tomorrow for another Tuesday Techniques: Stencil post – I’m breaking out the molding paste!

Index Card A Day – #23

25 Monday Jun 2012

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Archival Ink, Creative Imaginations, Golden, ICAD, ICAD2, Liquitex, Luminarte, Ranger, Stamper's Anonymous, Tim Holtz, Twinkling H2O's

I don’t know if I’m going to be able to tell you about this one – it was a big hot mess and so I just kept layering!

Essentially, there’s a ton of paper towel on here, and a bit of book paper. Then some Coarse Texture Gel over a stencil and heated, which added to the hot mess, so Flexible Molding Paste and another stencil.

Add some Twinkling H2O’s, some Stardust pen, and a quote… I’m calling it done!

Because of the multitude of paper towel layers and the molding paste, there’s lots of dimension and texture to this one:

See you soon for the last one!

Index Card A Day – #22

25 Monday Jun 2012

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Archival Ink, Cosmo Cricket, Distress Markers, Dylusions, ICAD, ICAD2, Ranger, Stamper's Anonymous

I was a bit of a slacker over the weekend and didn’t blog my ICAD’s – oops! You’ll get an overload today! 🙂

This one is actually super simple – I wanted to play with my new stamps and the Distress Marker over gesso technique I used on the house card.

I slopped on some gesso and heat it so the gesso bubbled and popped – lots of fun texture!

I then stamped the circles from Around the Edge with Jet Black Archival Ink and coloured them with different Distress Markers. I used my finger to smear and lighten the markers, making some darker areas where I first laid down the ink.

I then distressed some word stickers and added them to finish it off.

I just have to say, the more I use Stamper’s Anonymous Stamps, the more I love them – the quality is amazing!

Index Card A Day – #21

22 Friday Jun 2012

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The first day of summer and I got my new Summer Distress Inks – perfect timing!

I used my ink blending tool to cover the card in the three colours and loved how the Salty Ocean and Picked Raspberry blended to make an amazing purple. I went with that so the card turned out to be a deeper colour than I had originally intended.

I did my favourite spritz and flick with Biscotti Perfect Pearls Mist, then stamped some new Dylusions stamps, a sentiment and the birds with Archival Ink. I pressed Mowed Grass Distress on my craft sheet, misted with Biscotti, and used a paint brush to colour the leaves and sections of the circles.

I inked the wood veneer house and made it into a bird house and called it done!

I was going to stamp another sentiment but liked this one on it’s own once it was stamped. Those Around the Edge stamps are beautiful – love the numbers instead of text going through them.