A glimpse of heaven

 A card that would depict a hobby while using no stamping? A stencil that would produce a pattern? And a two-color scheme to cover it all? And make it for a male.

I thought I could find an answer to these multiple requirements and set out to select my supplies. I didn't need much, just a stencil, colors according to the scheme and TH text strips.

I stenciled the background and cut it to size, then adhered it to a backing. Now it was time to select the text and bring it onto strip of a vellum. Originally I had two in mind, but in the end I found four that suit each other well. Put together they evoke the dream of every fisherman out there. Listen to this:

"glittering in the sun:

a very wonderful place -

a glimpse of heaven

wonderful dream"

 

Entering this in all the challenges that were my inspiration today:

Creative Crafting Uncles: #79 No stamping

The Male Room: #212 Hobbies - this is for a hobby fisherman 

 

GCG: #26 blauw en/ of zalm (salmon and/ or blue) - I chose both 

Krafty Chicks: #830 Masculine week

Stencil Fun: AG/ make a pattern (optional) - I am playing with "Pattern" 

Simon Says Monday: Add some text  (2nd)

Simon Says Wednesday: Make your own background (2nd) 

Get well soon

Get well soon cards brighten the day - but what to make for a pre-teen boy? I settled for a lizard stamp, a chamaeleon to be exact. As for other supplies I took guidance from other challenges that suggested text and mark-making.

I cut up the large letters from my gelli-printed papers. I had made these to be backgrounds (hence the card stock), but they didn't quite turn out the way I had liked, so I cut them up for the alphabet. I also cut the irregular background with dies. Later it seemed too bare and I added color through a TH stencil.

 

After coloring the lizard with Gansai Tambi watercolors and fussy cutting it came the assembling. The sentiment takes the center role, the lizard gives it interest as does the mark making. Hopefully just right for this boy!

 

Entering it in these lovely challenges that I followed today:

Unicorn Challenge: #122 No design paper - no, indeed, I made my own

Addicted to Stamps and More: #521 Make your mark 

 

TioT: Animals real or imaginary  

Creative Crafting Uncles: #78 Get well

4 Seasons challenge: #106 Focus op tekst 

 

Color with embossing

 I have watched many videos on how to apply color to embossed paper. Now that I was actually ready to try it my brain was totally blank. This is why I can't say in whose video I saw this idea - and where to find it.

So,  I started with a white embossed paper, turned it over to the reverse, de-bossed side. As I had a monochrome result in my mind I went rough over the whole sheet with an ink cube. I wanted to catch the background, not the flowers per se, but it was a nice surprise that even the flowers took color.

Then I went over some parts that hadn't caught the first time. Lastly I took a finger dauber and filled in softly some of the de-bossed parts. I used Distress Oxides in Picked Raspberries and Ripe Persimmon.

A simple vellum tag holds the heat embossed greeting.

 

Entering this in these lovely challenges:

Simon Says Monday Challenge: Lots of texture

TioT: Emboss it! - I used dry and heat embossing here

Allsorts Challenge: Week 782 AG or a Blast from the past - I went with AG 

Creative Crafting Uncles: #53 Monochrom - I went with reds

Can You Handle The Pressure: AG wit a twist of fruits and veggies - I went with AG

Here's to you!

 A new year and #newbeginnings. To celebrate the event, I gathered festive pinks and reds and ventured into new territory myself. 

The background has a wax imprint, made with some wax paper and an embossing folder. The imprint needed to be ironed so the wax can melt - this makes the pattern transfer into the paper. When I colored the background with distress oxides - Picked raspberry and Festive berries - wax resisted the color and a pattern was created. There's an old Youtube video on the technique, I will link it when I find it again.

 

That of course created a lovely texture on the paper - the wax imprint is never 1-on-1 with the embossing folder, as the wax paper will crease and those creases will imprint themselves onto the card base.

A huge bouguet of die cuts, mostly gelliprints, and a wax seal round up the design.

Entering it into these challenges that inspired me:

Creative Crafting Uncles Challenge: #48 Christmas / New Year

Tuesday Morning Sketches: #737 Annual AG

Crafty Chicks: #696 All occasions

Alphabet Challenge: T is for texture 

 

Thank you for your visit and see you again in 2024!

First time

 My first time making a slim line card. I have shied away from it, not exactly knowing how to handle such a large space. But today was the day...

Background done with ink blending on watercolor paper. The images are from my stash and the text is Dina Wakeley Typed sheets 2.

Entering in the challenges that inspired me:

Challenge Up Your Life: #159 Slimline Card

Creative Crafting Uncles: #42 Time

SimonSays Monday Challenge: Masculine

Creative Fingers Crafting Challenge: #257 AG