Memory Box - Right as Rain

CAS3: Day Nine

I took the day off yesterday from the Clean & Simple Cardmaking 3 class. Well, technically, I tried a few things that didn’t work out the way I’d planned. One of those “fails” is incorporated into today’s card, which is based on the one shared in class by Debby Hughes.

CAS3: Day Nine I made a few changes with the way I created my card. Rather than stamp and color a butterfly, as Debby did, I die cut a butterfly (Memory Box Vivienne Butterfly) that I inlaid into the panel. I backed the front panel with a heat-embossed and watercolored panel using the Penny Black Sweetness stamp (that was a project from yesterday which didn’t go according to plan). The butterfly was also cut from watercolor paper onto which I had scribbled some Distress ink. The front panel was stamped with a sentiment from the Hero Arts “Enjoy Today” set. I adding embossing paste with a Simon Says Stamp stencil.

I made the white panel three times. The first time I added some spray drops, as Debby did, and I didn’t like the effect at all. The second time, I got embossing paste in places I didn’t want! Third time’s a charm I guess!

CAS3: Day Three

In today’s Clean & Simple Cardmaking 3 lesson, we learned about creating optical illusions. Originally, I started out to CASE Julie Ebersole’s scenic stamping example, which involved simple watercoloring. But after half an hour, my anxiety level was off the charts – I like to watercolor, but I’m not good at it, and I stress when watercoloring under pressure.

So, back to square one – I decided to do another inlaid die cut card using optical illusion! Yes, I’m hooked on this technique. In this case, I played with the size of the sun as compared to the cityscape to create illusion.

Supplies:

Memory Box Dies, Cityscape Nightline	Memory Box Dies, Cityscape Silhouette	Lawn Cuts Dies, Spring Showers	Poppystamps Dies, Grand Madison Window
Technique Tuesday Clear Stamps, Bring on the Sun by Ali Edwards	Memory Box Cardstock, Licorice	EEE22 Cardstock, Sky	Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Cardstock, 25 pack

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Pinky Promise

Today, I’m sharing an encouragement card that combines two recently-released Mama Elephant stamp sets – “Honey Bunny” and “True Friend.”

Mama Elephant Pinky Promise

I paper-pieced the bunny pair (blue and pink for boy and girl), and they sat on my work table overnight. I kept wondering how to anchor them to the card base without them getting lost. After resting on the problem, I decided to use the Poppystamps window showing a gray, rainy day as a metaphor for a “tough time” that the bunnies would be handling together. The “True Friend” set is fabulous, and I can see using those sentiments, both paired and alone, on a lot of future projects. For the raindrops, I used the stencil I recently created cutting the Crafter’s Workshop Blank Stencil material with the Memory Box “A Little Rain” die (I also used the stencil on this card).

Supplies: Studio Calico patterned paper

Mama Elephant Clear Stamps, Honey Bunny	Mama Elephant Clear Stamps, True Friend	Mama Elephant Creative Cuts, Bold Banner	Poppystamps Dies, Small Madison Window
Memory Box Dies, A Little Rain	Crafter’s Workshop Templates, 6×6 Blank Stencil Sheets	Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Cardstock, 25 pack	Memento Ink Pad, Gray Flannel
VersaFine, Onyx Black	Ranger Super Fine Embossing Powder, 1 oz. Clear

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Retrosketches #102

I’m sharing a card I created for the latest Retrosketches Challenge. I flipped the sketch horizontally because I thought it worked better with the orientation of the umbrella.

Using the Crafter’s Workshop blank stencil material, I created a rain drop stencil with the Memory Box die. I also created an umbrella stencil using the Up and Away umbrella die cut. I added Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink to the stamped umbrella through the stencil, swiping from the top down. It’s raining here (pouring!) in the Pacific Northwest, so some cheery colors were in order!!

Supplies:

Mama Elephant Clear Stamps, Up And Away	Mama Elephant Creative Cuts, Up and Away	Memory Box Dies, A Little Rain	Crafter’s Workshop Templates, 6×6 Blank Stencil Sheets
Memento Ink Pad, Tuxedo Black	Distress Ink Pad, Squeezed Lemonade	Distress Ink Pad, Broken China	Hero Arts, Layering Paper, Cerulean
Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Cardstock, 25 pack

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OCC Stenciled: Day Three

Today’s lesson in the Online Card Classes Stenciled Class focused on using embossing pastes with stencils. I followed one of the cards shown by Debby Hughes.

OCC Stenciled: Day Three

I made several modifications and simplifications on my card. For one, I didn’t use any mist on the card panel like Debby did. I can see how doing so would lend a little more softness and color. Instead I used a colored card base rather than white. I used vellum, die cut with the Poppystamps Lorelai Leaf, as a substitute for one of the elements Debby used. The “hello” die cut is from Simon Says Stamp. The butterfly is cut with the Memory Box Vivienne Butterfly die cut. Like Debby, I used white embossing paste with the Hero Arts Tweed Pattern stencil.

This class is going by quickly! Right now my goal is to make a card each day and in the next several weeks I’ll revisit the techniques and designs.