March 17, 2022
That moment that your friends are moving and you need a card... Since I saw a video from Cathy Zielske and Laura Bassen I have found my perfect sets for it and it is so versatile! My favorite things (MFT) has a great die and stampset which coordinate perfectly together! Since I am chronically ill and I have issues with my energy and managing it I thought to be clever and make two cards at the same time. I made them in parts, first the backgrounds and the grass, another day I coloured the rainbow houses and glued them together and glittered them and later I finished them both. So here are two cards in one blog.
I made two European A6 cards from my favourite cardstock. Just cut it in half and made a horizontal top-folded card and scored them at 10,8 cm. Just kept them flat and open and used masking tape on the scored line for a clean straight line. I used my cloud stencil, my blending brush and distress oxide tumbled glass. On a scrap piece of white paper I blended the shabby shutters distress oxide, which is my favourite green I guess. To add some texture for the eye I used the rainy day stencil and used the grass side with mowed lawn and added a grassy look to it. I cut it in half, because it was the long side of an A4 and after that I used the slimline stitched hillside dies to cut them. Apparently I wasn't awake Because I ended up with one stitched grassy hill and one without the stitched edge, but in the end it didn't matter and the card just looks fine. But a reminder for me to pay attention when I die cut it... I assembled the grass on the cardbases with the clouds.
Rainbow houses
When I was finished I thought it looked nice to add some extra sparkle on one of the cards on the edge of the clouds, because the friend it is for loves sparkle in here life and she can use it too. I have seen it in a video from Erica from CaCaCraft by Erica and I added some Lawn Fawn stencil pearl paste with a spatula. In my mind it was easier and looked nicer, but I definitely going to try it again!
The houses were already cut by my best crafty friend, and after using them I decided to buy them myself hahaha. She uses the same cardstock and I coloured them with my copic markers (all the used colours are listed below) in rainbow colours and took a lighter shade for the houses and darker shade for the roofs. When I was done colouring I went outside on a sunny day, placed them on the container (they were taped together in the paper they were diecut from) and I sprayed with my new spray & sparkle and yes it sparkles amazingly, but it is hard to capture on a photo... But if you want sparkle in your life, this one is amazing! The spray dries quite quick, but I also took my time and after that I glued the roofs on the houses.
Before I glue everything together I lie everything down and try different combinations which houses in the front and which in the back before I add the foamtape. I used 2mm foamtape from JeJe. I always take a photo before I am going to glue everything down. After deciding which houses are getting dimension and added the foam tape I try again the composition and position the stamp first. I used a T-ruler to get it straight in my stamping buddy. Probably if I had the stamp to much in the corner of where the platform closes so the pressure was a bit too much. Before stamping I used the magic pouch to remove the static and oil, I uses my WOW inkpad and I added ranger silver embossing powder and heated it with my heat tool. A tip I always warm up my heat tool on the highest heat setting and when I want to heat emboss I lower the heat setting and keep the paper in the air so the heat can go away and the paper doesn't wrinkle. After this I first glue down the houses in the background and after that I take the backs from the foamtape, add some glue drops for some wiggle time. In the end I added a acrylic block for some pressure, after a minute I took it off, folded the card and it is good to go (after writing the message of course).
Greenblue houses
So the next card, I had a mad idea to create an ombre effect, I can imagine it is easier when you first blend the ombre look and than diecut them, but I did it reverse, so that causes the harsh lines around the windows. Also the light was weird and the photo editing didn't go the way I wanted, but in real life they are way prettier. My stephbrother and his girlfriend finally found a home and bought it. The housemarket is horrible her, so for young people it is almost impossible to buy a house. Although they move in August, I was making a card and it was easy enough to finish two at the same time.
I used light blue, dark blue and green colours for the houses and used my distress oxides to blend them. The colours I used are salvaged patina, peacock feathers, broken china, salty ocean, prize ribbon, lucky clover and cracked pistachio for the houses and copic C7 for the roofs. I glued them together and lay them out on the card to see how it would look nice. After I was satisfying with the composition I first stamped the sentiment with versafine clair morning mist, a dark grey which matches the roofs. After stamping it twice to be sure for a good result, I earlier took a photo, so put the houses back in place. I glued the houses on the background first and after adding the foamtape I glued them too, actually I switched two houses by accident and it is kind of fun how it looks now.
Used for both cards:
Picket fence cloud coverage stencil
LDRS creative rainy day stencil
Distress oxides: tumbled glass, shabby shutters, mowed lawn
Lawn Fawn slimline stitched hillside
2mm JeJe foamstrips
MFT right at home stampset
MFT my neighborhood die
Crafters Companion white stamping card A4 300GSM
Creative Expressions woodware magic anti-static pouch
Nellie Snellen stamping buddy pro
Tim Holtz retractable craft pick by tonic studios
WOW dual speed heat tool
Sizzix big shot plus
Tim Holtz media glass mat
Taylored expressions blending brushes
Dutch Doobadoo glue
Vaessen precision glue bottle
Lawn Fawn stamp shammy
Vaessen creative papertrimmer and riller 12x6"
T-ruler
Heffy Doodle post-it tape
Rainbow card:
Copic: V04, V15, B02, B05, BG13, BG49, YG06, G07, Y08, Y17, YR04, YR07, R46, R59, RV04, RV06
Crafter's companion spray and spark - pearl diamond
Lawn Fawn stencil paste pearl
WOW clear ultra slow drying embossing inkpad
Ranger embossing powder silver
Bluegreen houses:
Distress oxides: salvaged patina, peacock feathers, broken china, salty ocean, prize ribbon, lucky clover, cracked pistachio
Copic C7
Versafine Clair morning mist
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