It's your birthday - go banana!! | Clearly Besotted

Hi everyone! I am back with a new card using Clearly Besotted, Hero Arts, Mama Elephant and Altenew stamps.

Due to a very stressful time in the next two months I have to keep my blog entry very short and time-efficient. Therefore, I will only link the main products I used in the supply list. I promise that this will be more detailed starting July again. Thanks for your understanding!!

I startet this card by stamping the adorable monkeys and masked them off with Inkadinkado masking paper. Than I added the leafs from Hero Arts and Altenew with Hero Arts Shadow Inks. I tried to avoid masking whenever it was possible ;) I also added some bananas from the 'Little Edibles' stamp set from Mama Elephant. Then I colored the monkeys and the bananas with Copic markers.

I die cut a circle shape out of the paper using a die from 'Dotted Details' from Mama Elephant. The inlay I colored in with Copic markers too and added the sentiment and a banana. I clued the pieces to a yellow card base and the card was all finished!!

I love the cute monkeys compared with the bananas - I even have another projects in mind with those two stamp sets!! :)

Thank you for stopping by,
xo
Lisa

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Card trio | Altenew

Hello everyone! I made a set of three cards using Altenew stamps and distress inks. Family members and friends often come around and ask if I had a card for them because they want to thank someone or send birthday wishes etc. Because most of the time this happens very spontaneous (e.g. 'I need it tomorrow') I love having some cards on stock because I know that they will be useful soon :) That's the reason why I made a birthday, thank you and 'kindness' card. You can save so much time by making more than one card at once using the same design!!

Because every card has the same design, I only walk you through the orange birthday card.

I wanted to use the beautiful flower and leaf stamps with distress inks in order to create watercolored flowers. So I pressed the first stamp of the flower into the spiced marmalade distress ink pad and then sprizzed it about three times with my mini mister which is always filled with clean water. After that I could stamp the layer onto a distress cardstock. I repeated the same step using the second layer and the distress ink pad abandoned coral after the first layer had already been dried. I did this five times per card using two different color combinations: a dark one and a light one. For the light combination I used scattered straw and dried marigold.

After letting the flowers dry I masked them off and stamped the first layer of the leafs with hickory smoke distress ink (I didn't sprizz it with water this time but used a paint brush to add only a little amount of water to the stamp on the acrylic block). Then I took the outline stamps for the leafs as wells as for the flowers and stamped it with archival jet black ink. It doesn't have to be perfectly layered - it will look pretty anyway!! (This is the huge advantage of this technique - It will turn out fine, no matter how it looks at first :) )

For the last step I used the sentiment from 'Ella and Friends' from Mama Elephant and stamped it right in the centre with archival jet black ink. Then I added some sequins from pretty pink posh to finish up my cards before I adhered them to coordinating standard-sized card bases.

And here you can see the other examples using different colors and sentiments:

 

            dark flower: salty ocean, blueprint sketch                        dark flower: victorian velvet, seedless preserves

            light flower: tumbled glass, broken china                         light flower: spun sugar, picked raspberry

Thank you for stopping by and I'll see you soon!!

xo
Lisa

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Merry Christmas | Altenew

Hello! For todays card I tried a (for me) new stamp company: Altenew. I really love their layered stamps; therefore, I bought three sets, I think from their newest release, and started with 'Winter Cardinal'. However, I stamped the image at least five times but the impression has never been totally smooth. Maybe the paper I used was not ment for stamping, I don't know. I still like the stamped image and I am not too concerned about the crisp looking base layer because the feathering of a bird isn't that smooth  :) Using a Misti stamping tool would make it much easier too because you can restamp the image very easily and get a nice finished look.  

I used four different Lawn Fawn inks for the bird: Mermaid, Hippo, Peacock and Fish Tank (in that order). For the branch I went with the Doe color and for the berries I used Lobster for second generation stamping.

I wanted the bird to be the main focus of the card so I chose a very tiny sentiment from the 'Mini Messages' stamp set from Mama Elephant and scattered some sequins. To make the card more elegant I adhered the piece of white cardstock to a teal glitter paper.

The finished card is 10,4 x 10,4 cm (4,09 x 4,09 inch). Although it is not perfect, I really like the result and I'm looking forward to using the other stamp sets!!

Thank's for stopping by and have a nice weekend!!

xo

Lisa

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