Cards!

Hi all! I've neglected this blog the last couple of weeks! I have some cards to share to make up for it!

First up, I have a graduation card. I got a Hero Arts ombre inkpad this week and wanted to try it out. I used this large sunflower stamp and the result turned out beautiful. I then found some coordinating cardstock for the sentiment and stamped and heat embossed it in gold. I wanted the card front to stand out from the card base, so I ink blended the lightest color from the ombre pad around the edges. Once that was all dry, I stamped and heat embossed the graduation hats. I adhered the sentiment banner and added a few gold sequin leaves to finish it off.

Next is a birthday card I made for my son's 6th birthday. He has been really into "Spidey and His Amazing Friends" so I went in search of a cut file to make Spidey. I found this as part of a set here.  The only bummer about this cut file is that all of the red is individual pieces- it took a while to assemble. I ended up using clear contact paper to lift the pieces from the mat, added glue to the back and then pressed it onto the black background piece. However, not every piece transferred with that technique, so I spent some time placing tiny individual pieces. Since the pieces around the spider on the chest didn't cut great, I created a spider with some silver Nuvo drops. For the card front, I used a background stamp. I cut a piece of red cardstock to create a thin border around the main panel. To finish things off, I used some sequins.

My next card is also a birthday card. This one was based off the current card sketch from Stick It Down:

I started by doing the smooshing technique on a piece of watercolor paper. I used green, yellow, and blue. Once that was dry, I tore it down one edge, inked the torn edge, and layered it over a piece of coordinating patterned paper. I cut the bursts and wrote the sentiment using my Cricut. I finished off the card front with some irridescent gold stars.

Finally is a set of mother's day cards. I used the same techniques across all of them, just varied the papers. I started with the Concord and 9th butterfly turnabout stamp and made two 6x6 panels, which I cut in half and fit them on a card front. I used patterned paper for two of my side panels and a shimmery silver paper, that I ran through an embossing folder, for the other two. I stamped and heat embossed the large butterflies and just adhered the centers to allow the wings to lift a bit. For the sentiment, I used words from a couple of different sets. The "you are" is actually part of a stamp that says "you are my," but I just didn't ink "my." I stamped and heat embossed the words.