TGIF, CRAFTERS!!! After a stressful week, I am looking forward to some quality time in my craft room this weekend; can anyone relate? So I’ve been working on this card and its layout for a few days. It started with some fun and easy ink blending; the colors chosen are reminiscent of the inspiration photo(LR) from the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge. Thank you, Diane and Darlene!! I had to use my new-to-me die-cut Frightening Faces by Tim Holtz, Sizzix; and, the inspiration board lent itself to this. I added a border of a black cat, jack-o-lantern and trees I designed on Cricut. Some purple paper got some glimmer added with the Hocus Pocus Mica spray. The sentiment (Tim Holtz) was stamped with Versamark Ink and Perfect Pearls in Berry Twist applied.
Happy Weekend, Crafters! I have been working on thank you cards this week. I had not made anything in a Kawaii style in a while and decided that would be the style for my thank yous this year. These are clearly Tokidoki-inspired cards. My girls have nicknamed this type of card QAC (pronounce ‘quack’), quick and cute.
My unicorn card started with the background; it is origami paper by Tokidoki. The center image is also Tokidoki which comes from one of their coloring books. I traced Unicorno onto bristol smooth cardstock using a lightbox and a Copic Liner pen. To stay with Kawaii style, simple coloring, a gold sharpie was used along with a clear Wink of Stella pen. The sentiment is from a Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous set. Unicorno and the sentiment are adhered with a little foam tape.
My second card follows the same pattern as the first, origami paper and a coloring book image. However, a few more colors were used for Donutella, Copic markers (E55,RV00,RV13, E51). How does one add donut glaze to an image? Pretty easy…. Nuvo drops! I used Nuvo drops in Simply White, Shocking Pink, and Rhubarb Crumble. Once the glaze was dry, I added the sprinkles using a very small paintbrush and acrylic paints. The sentiment was stamped with Archival Ink in Vintage Photo; the sentiment is from a retired Designing Desert Divas set. The sentiment and focal image are mounted on some foam tape to finish the card. For a little whimsy, some very small donuts from Kindred Stamps were added to the sentiment strip.
My last image was inspired by a card I saw on Instagram; my apologies as I do not remember the maker. My focal image is a stamp I bought from Michaels a few years back; she is stamped in Memento black ink and colored with Copic RV00. Layers of pink and grey card stock were stitched and layered up; stitching on cards is new to me. The sentiment is from the same stamp set and stamped in Versafine Onyx Black Ink. A small heart from Kindred Stamps was added to the sentiment strip for some interest.
Good evening, crafters! We’ve been busy over here…… too cold to go outside. This is my first Halloween card of the year!!!! OM goodness, this was too much fun. I used Antique Linen Distressed Spray on watercolor cardstock for the skull and background. The sentiment was downloaded and cut using Cricut and watercolor paper; while the ink was still wet, it was sprayed with the same Distressed spray to allow the ink to bleed. The edges were touched a bit with Black Soot Distressed Oxide Ink. The bound pirate skull……. he is a stamp from Stampers Anonymous and was fussy cut. My cut was traced and then inked on the background so no white “bleed-through” would show through. His is bound with 2×2 gauze that was tinted with the same Distressed spray. The background was lightly cut with TH’s deckle trimmer and a simple black border finishes it up.
Eden and Makira would like to introduce their new YouTube Channel. We are still working on getting used to this new platform. Please stop by and check out our channel and new crafty Challenge
Happy New Year! I’d like to welcome Eden to her first post on MKCcreate and to the design team over at the Colorful Options Challenge! Eden’s crafty passion is crochet; although, she does papercrafts and knitting as well. Her rainbow belt was constructed using DMC embroidery thread, 3-ply, and a 0.4mm crochet hook. This makes a fun and vibrant accessory to any outfit; it is particularly stunning with a black dress.
Happy New Year, makers. Today marks a new venture for me, I have started a crafting challenge. This is my first entry as a DT member for the new blogspot. The name of the challenge is: Colorful Options. Please go check it out. The color this month is Winter Blue. Any art/craft/card entry is welcome.
So, here’s this card’s story. Little Elsa is out playing and misses her cat,Fluffy, as she is visiting family in Northern Minnesota and had to leave him at home in Florida. She decided to make a snowkitty to help ease her heart; she used her extra scarf to help keep SnowFluffy warm and used carrots for his ears. While sculpting SnowFluffy, she met a little friend who brings her a gift of holly.
Elsa and SnowFluffy were provided by TwistToons and colored with Copic colors: C3,C7,B21,B23,B37. Little friend is from Tim Holtz Snarky Cats Christmas.The Sentiment is WOW embossing powder and Joy Clair Snowy Greetings. The background Snowflakes are 80lb cardstock and Tim Holtz Sizzix Impresslits 665376. The bacground papers are from the stash.
It’s a cats sort of day, crafters. I came across the Paper Shelter for the first time last week OMgoodness what fabulous stamps! This stamp is: ”All About Kittens” It was transferred onto Express-it paper and colored with Copics Prismacolor pencils added fine details. I had to add some sparkles; Art Glitter in a hot pink with the white help from a glue pen Straight-foward paper piecing provided the background. Another sweet 16 birthday card complete
A warm steampunk welcome, crafters! This was inspired by DD15’s Renasaissance Festival costume; her renfair persona is a plague doctor in the alternative colors: brown and green. Green and Gold Gato is full of layers in paper and techniques. The background is a Distressed Oxide paint technique. You can find the technique on Tim Holtz’s youTube video: Demo: Distress Paints; it will be at 1hour 35 minutes. The paints chosen were Folk Art color Shirft Emerald Flash for the base color with Antique Bronze Distressed Oxide paint as the top coat. Once dry, it was covered with Rustic Wilderness Distress Ink and sprinkled with water. The paper was then embossed with 3D texture typewrite (Tim Holtz, Sizzix) and guilded with gold guilding wax to accent the letters. The white paper border was inked with Black Soot, Distressed oxide. The green border paper is from Tim Holtz. My steampunk gato is from Sheepskidesigns on Etsy. I uploaded the image to Cricut, removed all the white “background”, added an offset to the image, drew and cut the image. Next….. the coloring…… Mi gato was colored with Arteza brush markers, Emerald Flash Colorshift paint and Distressed Crayon in Spun Sugar. The 16 was cut with Sizzix Alphanumeric Classic Lower in brown cardstock and the “gold leafed” with the same gold guilding wax used previously. A few ideology gears and you are done. This is a card for DD15’s birthday. Hope you enjoy!!
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