Showing posts with label Chalk Talk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chalk Talk. Show all posts
Saturday, 7 February 2015
A Bit of Vintage Style
Hi everyone, I would like to share with you my card that I made for the challenge this week at Mojo Monday.
I have used a colour scheme of Basic Black, Kraft, Coastal Cabana and Very Vanilla, a colour scheme that I cased from Sandi McIver as the combination together are so striking. The sentiment is from the 'Chalk Talk' stamp set and the background was made by stamping the 'Hardwood" stamp on Kraft Cardstock with Baked Brown Sugar ink. I have inked all the edges with Baked Brown Sugar to give it a bit of a vintage feel. The DSP is from the 2013-15 In-Colour Paper Stack. The butterfly is made using the 'Butterflies' Thinlits Dies.
Sunday, 30 March 2014
Creating Backgrounds - Sponging and Spritzing
Hi everyone, this is the second technique that I promised to post. I call it the Sponging and Spritzing technique (I am sure there is a more technical term for it).
I have used a colour scheme of Basic Gray, Smoky Slate, Tempting Turquoise and Whisper White. This is a card that I posted several months ago, but I have been asked numerous times on how I created the background, so here goes.
I randomly sponged Tempting Turquoise over a piece of Whisper White cardstock measuring 9cm x 13.3cm.
I have used a colour scheme of Basic Gray, Smoky Slate, Tempting Turquoise and Whisper White. This is a card that I posted several months ago, but I have been asked numerous times on how I created the background, so here goes.
I randomly sponged Tempting Turquoise over a piece of Whisper White cardstock measuring 9cm x 13.3cm.
I then randomly sponged on Basic Gray.
I then sponged on Smoky Slate.
I then lightly spritz this piece with water to blend the colours together. You can leave this step, however the colours will not be blended together as well, It also mutes the colour of the ink slightly. Dry this off with the heat gun to speed up the process.
Once the piece is dry you can stamp your images. I used Smoky Slate to do my stamping using the solid leaf stamp from the Summer Silhouettes stamp set and the Music Note Wheel. I off stamped the Music Note Wheel to get a lighter colour of ink.
The next step is to spritz the piece with Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz to give it a lovely shimmery finish. It does not show up very well in the photo, but the finished effect is beautiful, it also lightens the Smoky Slate stamped images. I then stamped each corner with the small splodge stamp (not sure how to describe this stamp) from the Clockworks stamp set in each corner with Tempting Turquoise ink. This piece will now be slightly wonky, but do not panic as when you stick it down to the base card it flattens out.
You are now ready to make your card. I used a Smoky Slate mat 9.5cm x 13.8cm, a Whisper White mat 10cm x 14.3cm and a Basic Gray card base (a piece of A4 cut in half lengthwise). The inside of the card is a Whisper White piece 10cm x 14.3cm with a White embossed butterfly on Smoky Slate adhered to the bottom right corner.
On my card I have used a doily (cut down to 3/4), a piece of Smoky Slate DSP 2.5cm x 9cm with the sentiment from the Teeny Tiny Sentiments stamp set stamped in Basic Gray, a piece of Tempting Turquoise cardstock punched with the Scallop Trim Border punch, Basic Gray Stitched Grosgrain, frame from the Chalk Talk stamp set (stamped with Smoky Slate on Whisper White) and cut out with the matching Framelit, a 1 1/4" circle of the same background I made with the sponging and spritzing technique, White embossed butterfly from the Backyard Basic stamp set and the matching Framelit (this is on Smoky Slate). The frame piece is lifted slightly with dimensionals.
Saturday, 4 January 2014
Shades of Gray with a Touch of Blue
Was I ever out of my comfort zone today when I made my card for the Color Throwdown Challenge, using the colours of Basic Gray, Tempting Turquoise, Smoky Slate and Whisper White. I am really pleased with my finished card (it has a beautiful shimmer that does not show up in the photo), and I will certainly be using these colours together in the future.
I made the background by sponging Tempting Turquoise, Smoky Slate and Basic Gray ink on Whisper White cardstock, spritzing with water to blend the colours. Once this was dry I stamped on images from the Secret Garden, Clockworks stamp sets and the Music Notes Stampin' Wheel using Smoky Slate. I then misted this with Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz to give a lovely shimmer to the finish.
The butterfly is from the Backyard Basics stamp set, embossed in White on Smoky Slate cardstock. I created a small circle the same as the main background for underneath the butterfly on the tag from the Chalk Talk stamp set.
Saturday, 14 December 2013
Sale-a-bration Sneak Peaks
Hi everyone, it being so hot here in Perth today, 40.4C, I did not venture out of the air conditioning so I sat and played at my craft table.
These are two cards I made using some of my Sale-a-bration Goodies that arrived on Friday.
These are two cards I made using some of my Sale-a-bration Goodies that arrived on Friday.
Sunday, 29 September 2013
Beautiful Butterflies
The challenge this week at the Deconstructed Sketch is based on this terrific sketch
I used the Faux Patina technique that I found on Splitcoast Stampers for my background with a colour scheme of Crumb Cake, Coastal Cabana and Early Espresso.
I cased the idea of the butterflies on the tag from Pat Carr. At a recent shoebox card swap get together Pat used this element on her card and I liked it so much I copied for an element on my card.
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