Monday, May 28, 2018

Birthday Amigos

Hola! I made a watercolor birthday card with the Three Amigos stamp set from Mama Elephant. It was a rather simple card. For the background, I used wide brush strokes with four different colors from Daniel Smith watercolor. They are more on the muted tune side. For the images, I watercolored them with distress ink markers. I adhered them with foam adhesive to add dimensions to the images.



I'm submitting this card to the following challenges.
 
Supplies used in this card:
  • Mama Elephant Three amigos stamp set (ME)
  • Pretty Pink Posh Stitched hexagons dies (PPP)

Sunday, May 27, 2018

Thank You Gift Tags

It's teacher appreciation week! As usual, the school sends home a list of each teacher's favorite colors/snacks/stationary. Based on the list, we prepared a small gift for 7 techers. It was my good opportunity to make tags (otherwise they are not needed as often). Tag background colors are of course based off teacher's favorite colors as well.




I'm submitting this card to the following challenges.
Word Art Wednesday #336-337 - Anything Goes
 
Supplies used in this card:
  • Mama Elephant Page huggers stamp set (ME)
  • MFT Tag Builder blueprint die-namics (MFT)

Sunday, May 13, 2018

Sunny Day with Dragon

Dragon often relates to mystery. In this card I'm sharing today, I wanted to create a sunny and cheerful look. To start off, I applied distress ink using the wet on wet technique for the background. I added a few more watercolor layers with random strokes of different blue/green shades just to create textures. I also used distress ink to watercolor the stamped images. In the end, I added more shadings using color pencils.


I'm submitting this card to the following challenges.
   
Supplies used in this card:
  • Mama Elephant Me and my dragon stamp set (ME)
  • Mama Elephant Dragon wishes stamp set (ME)

Monday, May 7, 2018

Tall Tree Snowy Scene Card

The tree trunks in this card takes me a few days to figure out how to create with my limited card making supplies. So here's what I did.

I first took a piece of masking paper same size as the card and drew the trees and the hill. I then cut out the shapes I drew and masked off all the areas except the trees. I don't have woodgrain background stamp, so I used the only stamp I have that has woodgrain and repeatedly stamp them using a brown momento ink. It needs to be a Copic friendly ink because after stamping, I used a c0 marker to color all the trees. I wanted the tress to be same color as the background so that they are not overpowering. At this point, trees are completed.

For the background, I applied distress ink salty ocean, faded jeans, peacock feathers and a tiny bit of black soot. To create the snowy look, I splattered some water and wiped them off. I also used snow stencil to apply white embossing paste. At the end, I stamped a few grey snowflakes but I actually regretted it because the grey tone was darker than I wanted it to be.

For the sentiment, I embossed the word die cut with plantinum embossing powder. It gives a warm tone at certain angles. In the picture, it just looks like silver.


I'm submitting this card to the following challenges.
   
Supplies used in this card:
  • Mama Elephant Whimsical winter stamp set (ME)
  • STAMPlorations Merry christmas phrase die (SP)
  • Purple Onion Designs SS Minow stamp (POD)
  • Simon Says Stamp Falling snow stencil (SSS)