Cardmaking and Scrapbooking with Jean Manis
The Penny Black Birthday Party [#30-232] stamp set includes adorable images, suitable for birthday card recipients of any age! I watercolored one of the images with watercolor pencils for a special someone’s birthday card.
I adhered the watercolored panel, with I cut with a rectangle die, to a card base stamped and heat embossed with the Happy Birthday sentiment from the Sentimental [#30-176] set.
And off into the mail it goes!
I was inspired by Jennifer McGuire’ss post on watercolor die cuts and decided to give the techniques she showed a try.
For the first card, I watercolored the Marianne Design Bird on Branch, cut from watercolor paper, with traditional watercolors. I placed the bird over a background of watercolor paper colored with an application of Tumbled Glass Distress stain sprayed with a Mini Mister.
For my second card, I decided to use the same die cut in an inlaid design.
For this background, of watercolor paper, I applied Salty Ocean and Peacock Feathers and sprayed with water. I dried the background with a heat gun and decided it needed more color,so I sprayed it with Tumbled Glass Distress Stain in a Mini Mister. Still wanting more color, I smooshed the Salty Ocean and Peacock Feathers ink pads onto my craft sheet, spritzed the sheet with water, and put the watercolor paper into the pool. The bird and branch die cut were colored with Distress Ink markers following Jennifer’s technique and then sprayed with water. I liked how the water evened out the application of the markers. I finished the card with a heat embossed sentiment.
Supplies: sentiment for top card from Penny Black
Today, I’m sharing a CASE of a card by Tami Hartley from the Online Card Classes CAS3 class. I’m still in the process of going back through the class material trying designs and techniques I missed. There’s so much information and inspiration packed into these classes!
Tami’s card was a single layer crafted on cardstock. I made a few modifications, creating my panel out of watercolor paper and adhering it to a cardstock base. The background was created with a combination of inks, both Hero Arts and Distress. The Hero Arts inks do not move a lot on watercolor paper. After applying the Hero Arts inks, I filled in with a wash of the Distress Inks. Once the panel was dry, I stamped the Penny Black Dots in Space with Mint Julep ink and then stamped the Raindrops in Pool. Next, I applied some Picket Fence paint to the area where I was planning to stamp the sentiment. I used my finger to fade out the white paint. Once that I was dry, I stamped the sentiment from On Fun. I’m looking forward to creating more watercolor backgrounds, testing the Hero Arts inks on different papers, and layering background stamps.
Supplies:
Happy Spring for those of you in the Northern Hemisphere! Today, I’m sharing a spring-themed card inspired by a card design of Heather Telford’s.
To begin, I stamped the Penny Black Sweetness [#40-208] background stamp on watercolor paper with Versamark ink and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. I applied several Distress Ink colors to the floral area. Any ink that went on to the embossed area was easily wiped away. After the panel dried, I ironed off the embossing. I cut the panel into squares, arranging them on a card base. I applied white embossing paste through a one-time stencil I created with one of the dragonflies in the Flutters [#51-006] die cut set. I finished the card with a sentiment stamped in gold ink from the Special Wishes [#30-229] set. I tried a couple of other color inks, including green and cocoa brown, before choosing the gold ink for the sentiment. I wanted something soft and elegant.
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Ever since seeing Julie Ebersole’s fabulous card, using the Penny Black “A Day in Paris” stamp set, in the Online Card Classes CAS 3 course, I’ve been wanting to made a card with a scene.
Using stamps from the Penny Black Fashion Tweet [#30-233] set and a stencil made with the Penny Black Silver Linings [#51-033] die cut, I created a birthday card.
The car, the cake, a few of the windows, and the horizon line were painted with various stamp inks and a brush. I used as little water as possible since the card base is cardstock, rather than watercolor paper. For the clouds, I used a sponge dauber to apply ink through the stencil I made with the die cut. (It’s the smaller of the two clouds in the set.)
To finish the card, I stamped the “#celebrate” sentiment, included with the stamp set, on a red cardstock rectangle, which I adhered inside the card. This card makes me want to say “beep, beep”!
