Higgledy-Piggledy Crafts: Sending Love

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Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Helen Keller Quote

Whenever I make a sympathy card, I usually include this quote from Helen Keller. "What we have once enjoyed, we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."

The small card to the right shows the back of the inserted card.

For this card I constructed a pocket using Lawn Fawn's "Stitched Hillside Borders". Using gold embossing powder, I heat embossed one large and two small butterflies. The two small butterflies act as a tab for the card that is inserted into the pocket. The large butterfly is pop dotted to the pocket.
The background of the inserted card is stamped with a small flourish using Lovely Lavender ink.

Materials List:

Solid Paper: Gina K Designs - Fresh Asparagus

Wild Lilac

White Base Weight

Patterned Paper: Gina K Designs - Parisian Garden

Ink: Gina K Designs - Lovely Lavender

Momento - Tuxedo Black

Stamps: Gina K Designs - Sending Love

Country Roads 2

Dies: Lawn Fawn - Stitched Hillside Borders

Challenges

MIUM Stamp TV - What's That You Say? - *
Mod Squad - Pop It Out! - #10 - *

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Daffodils with Inner Glow

This card was inspired by a challenge to use white colored pencil on kraft card stock. I tried stamping flowers with black ink; then using white colored pencil over it as was recommended for the challenge. This was NOT working for me. I just couldn't get a product that I was happy with. I decided to try something a little different. I first colored with white colored pencil then colored over top of that.

I did not use a heavy hand with the coloring, leaving some of the white peek through.

Inside of Card

A Short Daffodil Coloring Tutorial

1. Loosely color all areas with white.

2. Add Yellow to flowers and lightest green to leaves.

3. Use lightest brown to shade edges and other places indicated by the lines on the stamp.

4. Add medium brown to area where petals originate.

5. Add dark brown to deepest areas of flower.

5. Use darker greens to add shading to the leaves.

Materials List:

Solid Paper: Gina K Designs - Kraft

Sweet Corn

Jelly Bean Green

Ink: Gina K Designs- Dark Chocolate

Momento - Tuxedo Black

Stamps: Gina K Designs - Sending Love

Scripty Sayings

Punch: Recollections - Scalloped Lace

Dies: Our Daily Bread - Double Stitched Circles

Prismacolor Pencils: White 938

Dark Brown 946

Spring Green 913

Apple Green 912

Olive Green 911

Faber Castell Pencils: Raw Umber

Burnt Sienna

Cadmium Yellow

Embellishments - 10 mini champagne pearls

Challenges

Addicted to Stamps - Make Your Mark - #22 - *

Stamp TV - White on Kraft - *

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes - #51 - *

Sunday, January 1, 2017

Spotlight on Daffodils

I'm trying a technique that I have seen many times, but never attempted myself. It isn't hard and is definitely self-explanatory.
The stamp used for this set is from Gina K's "Sending Love". I popped it onto Carta Bella paper (Old World Travel) and matted it on Gina K's "Prickly Pear". The image was stamped using Tuxedo Black and distressed with Vintage Photo. The embellishments are four tan brads that were amazingly close in color to the Prickly Pear CS.

I used Copics to color the image: Y04,08,38. YG25,67.


Inside of Card

Challenges

Stamp TV - Spotlighting - January 1

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Black-Eyed Susan

I received an announcement for a 50th wedding anniversary today. I made this card to send. I used Melanie Muenchinger's "Stately Flowers 9" and Gina K's "Sending Love" stamp sets to make this card. I used Copic markers to color the black-eyed Susans. The butterfly and sentiment are heat embossed in gold.