Card Recap

Hello! I'm here today to share the last few cards I've created. I've been sneaking in some creative time, but not taking the time to share things here, so I'm going to catch up over the next few days.

First up is a birthday card. During January, Paper Issues released a new sketch each day on Facebook in their group. They were layout sketches, but I ended up using this one for a card:

I've had a sheet of patterned paper with these cute robots for a long time and I finally decided to use it for this card. I fussy cut the robots. I dug through my stash to find patterned papers with colors that went with my robots. I cut those up for my background and inked the edges with dark red ink since that was the color around the edges of my robots. I stamped the sentiment on the blocks below the robots and then I added the robots to my card front with foam adhesive. I added some homemade enamel dots (made from Perler beads) and some leftover diamond art gems to embellish my card.

Next up is a card I made for a couple of people receiving first sacraments at our church (I made two like this). I started by using sheer Yupo paper and squirted red, yellow, and orange alcohol inks on my paper, along with some gold and white mixatives. I used a felt piece on a blending tool and twisted the tool on the ink, making swirls. Once I was happy with how it looked, I set it aside to let it completely dry. I then used my Cricut to cut the dove. I didn't have two colors of the shimmery cream cardstock, so I blended a light tan ink over the back wing to add some dimension. I colored in the eye and the beak with a couple of pens. For the card base, I used a script background stamp and used the same light tan color to stamp in on my card. I layered the inked Yupo over the top and stamped the sentiment with Archival ink. I then added the dove.

Last, I have a Baptism card that I made for my nephew. His Baptism was on the Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord, so I decded to use this Cricut cut of John the Baptist baptizing Jesus. For the background, I used an embossing folder and pressed an ombre inkpad over the raised part and ran it through the machine, I had to do it twice, with a spritz of water. The water made the ink bleed a bit, but it added some interest. For the sentiment, I stamped with VersaMark on some vellum and heat embossed it with gold powder. I wrapped the strip around the card front and adhered it to the back. I used a colored pencil and some chalk to add some details to the robes on the cut out, and a blue glitter pen for the water ripples.