Happy Mother's Day

Hello everyone!
Today I want to share a mother's day card.
A card I made for my mom.


I features Die-Cutting Inlay Watercoloring, and basically is a technique that you die cut the shapes, watercolor them and piece them back together!

1. Trim to size the front panel of the card - a piece of watercolor paper
2. Place the dies and run them through your die cutting machine. I used that AMAZING set from Sizzix.
3. Using distress inks, water and a paint brush, watercolor the pieces. For my card, I used Mustard seed and Peacock feathers for the flowers and Pumice stone for the leaves.
4. Adhere the piece on a piece of typing paper and then adhere the watercolored pieces back in place.
5. Die cut the hello sentiment, a die from Wplus9 you can find here.
6. Adhere the panel with the watercolored die cuts on the card, then adhere the hello greeting on top and stamp the mother word with black ink. The stamp is partially inked and it is from this set from Clearly Besotted.
7. Decorate with gems and sequins. Cover the hello greeting in Wink of stella black marker to give it some shine.

Tip: Because of the die cutting you might have an imperfect impression when you stamp the word mother, so if that happens use a super fine black marker to fix the bad stamping!



Happy Mother's Day

George
xx

THANK YOU layered stamped cards

Hello!

Today I would like to share 3 cards I made using the layer stamping technique along with some masking and gold heat embossing.

The floral stamp set I used is the Wplus9 Pretty Little Peonies and it is perfect. You stamp the flower parts in different colored inks and you end up with amazing floral images!

How To Make The Cards

1. Use a pice of card stock and stamp the thank you greeting circle in the middle with Versamark. Apply gold embossing powder and then heat set it.

2. Cut a mask out of some masking paper or post it notes in the same size of the circle and stick it on top of the gold embossed sentiment.

3. Using the stamps from the Wplus9 Pretty Little Peonies, stamp the images making sure you overlap the masked circle. The final result is to show that flowers come from behind the circle.

Start with the most solid image of a flower with the lightest ink and then layer the more detailed one on top with the darker color and finish with the most detailed/outline stamp with the darkest color.

It is very easy to figure out which stamp goes with the other but you have to play with them so you get the hang of it. Then its easy!!!

4. When you move on to the next flower or leaves, stamp the same images on some masking paper or post it note, cut the masks out and use these masks to cover the stamped images so you don't end up with overlapped images.

5. Once you finish stamping, remove that masks, cut the stamped pieces to size, mat them and adhered to the cards.

You can use foam adhesive to pop them up, or normal adhesive if you need a more flat look.

6. Decorate with gems and pearls and if you like, add a layer of Wink of Stella in clear.

Supplies

WPLUS9- Pretty little peonies 
HERO ARTS - Chalk board style sentiments
HERO ARTS shadow ink - Soft Olive
HERO ARTS shadow ink - Soft Pink
Hero Arts Mid-tone shadow ink - Bubblegum
Hero Arts Mid-tone shadow ink - Raspberry Jam

HERO ARTS - Gold embossing powder
ZIG - Wink of stella clear brush pen


Easy?

George