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Showing posts with label technique. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technique. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Thinking of You

I have another card to share today with a mini tutorial.  I wanted something bright and primary, so I chose to use Cosmo Cricket Odds And Ends paper collection.  I picked out a few patterns that I liked and that followed with the 3 basic colors I wanted to use.



I started by making a rough layout of my card.  I used a Papertrey Ink die to cut out the scalloped edge and the green frame was cut from the Cosmo Cricket paper.



Next, I rummaged through my embellies to find a few things that I would like to add.  I originally had planned on using wrinkle ribbon, but I couldn't find a color that worked well with the color scheme I wanted, so I decided to make my own.





I used an 18" long piece of crochet trim from Melissa Frances and using embroidery floss, I threaded it through one edge of the trim.



Once threaded, I held both ends of the embroidery floss while scrunching up the trim towards the center.



Once I had the shape I wanted, I tied the embroidery floss in a tight knot and cut the long ends.



I used a pretty red mulberry flower as the center of my crochet rosette and found some vintage green lace that I thought would look nice.  I opted to leave out the blue ticking stripe pattern paper from my final design because I wanted to showcase the floral patterned paper a bit more.  For the sentiment, I used Printer's Type letters from Hero Arts and cut out each word, then attached them with foam tape.



Thursday, February 10, 2011

Pucker Up

"Kissing" is the technique at H2H this week!  Yes, I am going to show you how I "kiss".  For those who are not familiar with "kissing" in the papercrafting world, it is a stamping technique, really.  Basically it is inking up a stamp and touching it to another stamp to transfer the image from one to the other then stamping the image onto the project.

My "kissing" technique is used on the inside of my card on the TOKEN ticket.  I used the back of the cross-hatch pattern stamp from Tasty Treats as a base and from the same stamp set, I inked up the polka-dot square with Pear ink, stamped the polka-dot onto the back of the other stamp, then used the base stamp and stamped onto cardstock.  A very subtle polka-dot pattern in the shape of a ticket.






On the front of the card I used an "A-Door-Ables" which I modified slightly to make the frame. 

Supplies~

Paper:  Pear, Tulip, Hollyhock and White Daisy textured cardstock, pattern paper from Sophia.

Inks:  Blush, Hollyhock, Tulip and Pear stamp pads and Hollyhock marker.

Stamps:  Tasty Treats (TOKEN Ticket), Priceless Love Word Puzzle, Polka Dot Alphabet and Storytime Caps

Embellishments:  CTMH pink button assortment, Pear brad and button from mini-medley, Blush ric-rac and mint baker's twine.

Other:  CTMH 1 1/4" circle punch, Just Blooms II die (papertrey ink), Fillable Frames 1 (papertrey ink) and an EK flower punch (I cut petals apart for the leaves).

Inspired by: My Mind's Eye

~Shari
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