Month: September 2020

I had not one but two birthdays sneak up on me, and needed some quick and simple birthday cards. So I went to a clean and simple layout and just changed up the colors and stamps.

For the video tutorial I made the blue card, this was for my boyfriends brother, so I used the Lovable Legends stamp set from Lawn Fawn. Matched it up with some blue and brown copic coloring and some simple Distress Oxide Ink blending. Very quick and very simple.

The other card was for my grandmother, and because she is Swedish and don’t speak english I wanted to have a Swedish sentiment. I don’t have any stamps with that, so I’m using some Kelly Purkey/Simon Says Stamp Alphabet Stickers, these are real old one that I got in a Simon Says Stamp Card Kit back in 2012-2013. But you could use any kind of alphabet stickers. I spelled out “Grattis på födelsedagen” which basically means happy birthday in Swedish.

For focal image I’m using a flower from the For All Moms stamp set by Simon Says Stamp. And colored it with copic markers, placing it on the same kind of blended mid border as with the previous card.

Copic:

Nessie: B21, 34, B37
Ship: E40, E41, E42, E43
Flower: R24, R27, R35, R37
Leaves: YG63, G43, G24

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I love halloween and mermaids, so of course I had to make a Mermaid Halloween card! And the perfect mermaid for that I thought would be the What’s Up Kraken stamp. It’s from the Under the Sea Theme Bundle from Stamp Anniething. (If you want to see all of the stamps in the bundle I have a video of that HERE).

I had recently seen a video by Cathy Zielske (I think it was, can’t find the specific video right now), where she talked about spotlight blending. I have used that technique for years but it was a while ago.The video inspired me to play some more with it, and to experiment with my stencils.

Spotlight blending is when you blend behind a focal image or sentiment to “shine” a spotlight on that part of your card. Basically help the eye to be drawn to that place. In my case it also helps to ground the image, as a mermaid is a floating character.

To add some more texture and dimension to the card I decided to use a stencil in my spotlight. I found that the Crocodile stencil by Tim Holtz got just right amount of scaryness. I also added bats and some sequins for more texture.

For the coloring I decided to go for a darker and deeper color palette. There for I also chose to use black outlines, because I felt I needed a little bit more of a delimiter. I wanted to give her a darker skin tone as most of my mermaids have a light complexion, and I really need to change things up a bit.

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Copic:

Skin: E33, E35, V17, R22, R21
Eyes: E49, E59, E57, B63, B60
Body: V04, V05, V06, V09, BV13
Hair: BV00, BV11, V25, V28

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Being in the middle of a big office/craftroom redo, but I’m hopping in to share my latest Merman Scene Card Tutorial using the Under the Sea Theme Bundle by Stamp Anniething. If you want to see all the supplies in the kit you can see last weeks post.

Today I have three videos for you, decided to seperate the real-time coloring videos, both because I didn’t want them to be too long, but also so I could keep the energy up for the voice over. And then as usually I have a card tutorial using the images that I colored up.

I decided to use the just the Under the Sea Anniething bundle (almost) for this card. I still needed some papers, inks, markers and I could not not use my favourite rectangular die for the base. I wanted the scene to be a more traditional mermaid scene and decided to use the merman to hot it up, well all jokes aside, there is so seldom that you see mermans so getting one in the bundle made me really happy.

I really love the die cuts that came in the bundle, but as I wanted to do the no line coloring technique on the merman, I was a little worried that the black lines on them would be to stark. But then I remebered that Stephen had shown that you can heat foil the pieces! So i brought out my only roll of foil (there will be more, definitely) and my laminator. I actually did a whole test on what you can color the pieces with before laminating, that video will come up next week.

The card together really nice, don’t you think? I have a couple of more ideas to use the set with, they will be coming up here later on. Hope you enjoy the videos. What was your favorite part?

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