ICAD 2013 | June 10:creativity

11 Tuesday Jun 2013

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Distress Stain, ICAD, kidart, The Crafter's Workshop

This was a fun playing around, turned out better than I had hoped card.

I started with loads of Rock Candy Crackle Paint in the middle of the card. Once that finally dried I did layers of Distress Stain. Many, many layers!

Over that I smeared Viva Modeling Creme and had to wait again while that dried. I finally stamped the sentiment and walked away – too much waiting around for this one!

I love the texture of the crackle paint mixed with the shine of the crackle paint and the Modeling Creme:

Love the final product but, since I’m not the most patient person, the waiting made me crazy!

Molly did the best card ever today:

ICAD 2013 | June 3: unsupervised

04 Tuesday Jun 2013

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ICAD, kidart

Gabe saw Molly have so much fun painting with my mists the other day that he wanted a turn too – so today you get to see what he made during our crafty time yesterday!

He learned from her mistakes and didn’t try to make an actual picture – he just painted colours. He had a blast doing it, especially the date stamping part – he picked the date himself.

For mine, I took the paper towel we had been using the past few days for cleaning up and pasted it to the card.

After it dried, I smeared Glass Gel Beads through a stencil, heated them, and then coloured a few with mist (since it was out anyway!). I left the paper towel raggedy, I love the organic look of the edges that way:

The texture left by the paper towel is pretty cool so I tried not to cover it all up:

I finished by spraying a blank card with the same mist I painted the gel beads, stamped my sentiment, courtesy of Dyan Reaveley naturally, and cut it out to add to the card.

I am currently unsupervised, indeed!

ICAD 2013 | June 2: wish…

03 Monday Jun 2013

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ICAD, kidart

Molly sat down and made a card with me so I have two to show you today!

I was playing with my mists so of course, she needed to play as well. She dipped paintbrush in the open bottles and started to make a pirate ship but the mist did not cooperate with that plan! She did end up with some great shapes, patterns, and colours and was happy with it – I call that all good!

For mine, I knew I wanted to make “wish flowers” – those fluffly, seed laden, end-of-their-life dandelions that are everywhere around us right now. Molly, Gabe, and I went for a walk yesterday and found a bunch which we promptly wished upon and blew everywhere.

I painted the card with gesso (having fun playing with that right now) and then sprayed and smeared mist all over it.

I punched holes for the dandelions with my old eyelet setter then masked the rest of the card and sprayed Mister Huey’s Blizzard over the holes:

It’s hard to see, but the way I scraped the layer of gesso over the card left some flat texture that was picked up when the mist went over it – in real life it adds a lot to the look of the card:

I”ll be back later with a card I made for an event this weekend!

Index Card A Day – #17

18 Monday Jun 2012

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Golden, ICAD, ICAD2, kidart, Kiddies, Ranger, Sakura, The Crafter's Workshop

This card was a very late at night one, so M didn’t play along, though she did make an awesome heart for her daddy covered in, of course, Twinkling H2O’s!

And naturally, she needed to write on the back:

For my card, I broke open my new Golden Heavy Body Acrylics and smeared them across my card, blending the colours so they weren’t so bright. Once that dried, I mixed the green into my light molding paste and spread it across the Pomegranate stencil, covering most of the card. The small spaces I had left, I covered with Coarse Pumice Gel which mixed with some of the green paint. Finally, I traced the letters from a Dylusions stencil and added touches to the card with my Stardust Pen.