The Alphabet

The Alphabet

Sunday, February 13, 2011

I made this card using a technique from Crafts & Things Magazine (Dec 2010). Put pearl-ex on craft mat. Add a bit of water and mix well. Repeat with 2 more colors. Using glossy cardstock, put cardstock glossy side down in to pearl-ex. Twist and lift up. Heat with heat gun, and repeat layering as many times as you want until you get the look you like, making sure to heat in between. Once in a while the pearl-ex mixture will kind of bubble up. Personally I like the texture.
Then I cut a piece of acetate and stamped Passion from Hampton Art with staz-on. I then painted the flowers and lips with Smooch. Make sure this is dry before going to the next step. I glued the glossy cardstock onto the layers of other cardstock and then the card. I put a tiny bit of dimensional magic behind some of the dark layers on the acetate so it would not show through, the I put the acetate on top and put theClass A Peels from Stampendous arond the acetate. WaaLaa it's done. Yeah
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This is a card I made my husband for Valentine's day.
Just used stickers and a Martha Stewart punch.
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Saturday, July 10, 2010

This image is from paper wishes. I stamped on white, colored with pencils and stippled the background with lavender ink. The border is a border punch. I just kept punching different widths of the paper and layering. I punched on each side. Everything was glued to a white card.
This image is from paper wishes. I stamped on white cardstock, then colored in the flowers with colored pencils. The background is stippled with Tim Holtz distress ink broken china. Image was then mounted on card with ribbon at bottom.
Using markers I colored the stamp, then I spritzed just a tiny bit of water before I stamped the rose. Then using a fine black pen I went around the frame, the rose and the leaves. Mounted on black, then mounted on purple that was embossed in the cuttlebug. The buckle is from a spellbinders die cut and embossing template.
The light house was stamped with broken china distress ink. I tore around the edges, mounted it on a piece of blue that I had torn and glued it on to a white card.
I stamped the image, then stippled the inks on. The inks are Tim Holtz distress ink. Then I mounted the stamped image and glue it on the card, stamping Life is beautiful on the other side.