Not An A2 Sized Card and a Narwal

 Hello my crafty friends. I hope you're having a great day today. I'm back with that trusty spread sheet and a random number generator to use my crafty stash and make a card. So get comfy and let's get crafty.

Without further ado, the brand chosen was Sizzix, the product was coordinating stamps and dies, the technique was not an a2 size card, the color pallet was a color challenge, the theme was love or anniversary, and the extra was brads. 

I had one Sizzix stamp set and luckily it has coordinating dies, so decision made. And the sentiment fits the theme this card needs to be. Winner winner. Here is the stamp set I used. I found this image attached to an ebay item. 

For the not A2 size card, I decided to make a mini slim line card. The card base is 7 x 6 inches and when finished this card will fit into a regular first class mail envelope. 

The color challenge is from MFT Stamps. Here is the graphic and the link.

https://tinyurl.com/2zzyut88

I used colored cardstock for most of the colors, and Copic markers for the blue. Here is my Copic combinations.

I stamped the narwal, bubbles and hearts with an alcohol friendly ink onto Neenah 80 pound Solar White card stock. 

I stamped the sentiment onto gray cardstock in a white pigment ink and added white embossing powder then heat set it with my heat tool.

After the images were colored, I cut them out with the coordinating dies by running it through my Empress machine.

I wanted to add the brads to the corners of the yellow cardstock, so I punched the corners of the green panel with my crop a dile. That left a little cut out for the brad.

I added a hole to the corners with my paper piercer from Tim Holtz. Then I added the aqua brads and got them all open and flattened. 

I added the foam tape to the back of the panels and added them to the gray card base. 

I added all the die cuts to the card base and then the card is finished. 

Here is the finished card

You can watch the video here:

https://tinyurl.com/2pkd6pw6

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day.

Crime and Coloring Season 2 episode 54: The Disappearance of Conradian Olson

 Hello my true crime friends. I hope you're having a great day. I'm back with another true crime stories that may be lost to the annuals of time. 

Our journey today takes us back to the state of Wisconsin and the disappearance of Conradian Olson. But before we talk crime, let's talk about the coloring.

I have added a new stamp company to my collection, and will be using a stamp set from Sweet November stamps. This one is called Simple Room Reading Nook Add On.

I bought it from Simon Says Stamp but you can buy it from Sweet November Stamps shop as well.

https://tinyurl.com/2dc6bwh6

https://tinyurl.com/nvetucra

I wanted to make a one layer scene card so I will need to use some masking paper to get the layers just right. 

https://tinyurl.com/4hfxjpm2

I am stamping on Neenah Solar White 80 pound card stock that has been cut to 4x51/4 inches. And will be stamping in a alcohol marker friendly ink from Honey Bee Stamps.

To create a one layer scene you have to stamp from the front of the scene backward. Today I just added my stamps to the cardstock in my MISTI to figure out what I needed to stamp and mask first. 

I stamped and cut masks for each of the three elements of my card and added them to the stamped images so I can create the background as well. 

I used poste it tape to create the floor and wall separation and used ink blending to create the floor and the wall. 

I used a TCR stencil for the brick wall, that I couldn't find but here is a Wendy Vecchi stencil that is very similar.

https://tinyurl.com/3urd28r7

Once the ink blending was complete, I colored the images with my Copic markers. Here is my color combinations. I think I forgot to add the E29 that I used for the shadow on the floor.

Once the coloring was complete I added the panel to a dark green card base. 

I left off any sentiment because this card could be used for anything. It does look a little unfinished, but that will change when I go to use it. 

Here is the finished card.

 Now on to the crime. Today we are talking about the disappearance of Conradian Olson. She boarded a train to go to Milwaukee to go to the dentist and never came home. It was suspected that she just left her unhappy and abusive marriage. Until her grand daughter took up the investigation and with the help of a psych began the search for Conradian.

You can hear the rest of the story here:

https://tinyurl.com/4wrwnjj3

Thanks for stopping by, 

Have a great day!

Art Journal Page for the April Mission Inspiration Facebook Group

 Hello my crafty friends. I hope you're having a great day. I'm back with an art journal page for the Mission Inspiration Facebook Group for the month of April. Get Comfy and let's get crafty.

Here is the prompt card that Mike curated for this month. I kind of used the theme, and I did use all of the prompts.

I started with a piece of pattern paper that has a rain drop kind of pattern on it.

I added a piece of Tim Holtz tissue paper over the top of the paper to add that doodle element. It's not really doodles but it breaks up the background a bit. I added it with some Liquitex Matt Medium. I buy mine from Amazon. 

I wanted to add some more doodle elements with stencils and gold paint. I use a few from my stash.

I also wanted to add more gold in drips with gold water color paint and water across the top of the page. 

I set it aside and want to work on the tag element. I have this tag cut from mixed media paper and I am going to add some color with distress paints in pink, yellow, and blue.

I added water to my work surface and then smooshed the tag into the colors until I was happy with the way it looked. I heat set in between each layer and added multiple layers.

For the tickets, I added some gold paint to the back of a piece of the pattern paper I used for the background. I added the paint with a piece of sponge and heat set it before adding another layer with what was still in the sponge.

To begin the focal image collage, I added some embroidery thread through the hole and ink blended the edge with Archival Ink in the color Potting Soil.

Then I glued the tag to the page. I have some die cut circles cut in three colors of brown to create a nest look. I added them with liquid glue onto the center of the tag.

I also have some branches die cut from three green cardstocks. I added the brown to the branches with a Pitt Pen.

I then added the branches to the page for a place for the nest to sit. 

I have some bird ephemera that I added brown ink around the edges and fit them into the nest by cutting off their little feet. 

I added two collages of tickets under the sides of the tags. I also added some Pitt pen around the edges of the tickets to give them dimension.

To finish off the page I added a few more doodles to the sides of the page with a zig pen.

I added the other piece of the pattern paper to the back and clued the prompt card to the back after I punched holes in the page. 

Then I added some ink blending to the edges.

And this is the finished page.

You can watch the video here:

https://tinyurl.com/yvz6ruxk

Have a great day.

 

Non Traditional Baby Card with WPLus9 Stamps and an Action Wobble

 Hello my crafty friends. I hope you're having a great day today. I'm back with another card made using products chosen by the random number generator and my spread sheet. I am still loving finding products in my stash that I haven't used in a while and making cards that maybe don't fit the theme of the stamp set. And that's what happened today. So get comfy and let's get crafty.

The spread sheet choices today are; WPlus9 for the brand, and layering stamps for the product, interactive card for the technique, pattern paper for the color pallet, new baby for the theme, and enamel dots for the extra. 

I started by choosing this bird house stamp set. I have other sets that would have worked for a baby card, but this is the only layering set I have from Wplus9. 

I choose some inks from Altenew that match this piece of pattern paper from my stash. I won't use the paper on the card, but it was another stretch on this card. 

I stamped the bird house and a couple of the flower pot combinations on a piece of 80lb Neenah.

When the stamping was complete, I fussy cut the images. The bird house has no border, but there was not a good way to cut the flowers without a border, so I left a slight border around them. 

For the card, I wanted the background to be more clean so I went with a heavy weight white card stock cut to 11x 4 1/4 inches and scored in half to make a US A2, portrait card. I took another piece of the heavy weight cardstock and cut it down to 4x 5 1/4 inches then cut this emerald shape into it with this Spellbinders die.

The die set is pretty cool because it gives you the option of making a frame or layer. I decided to just cut the layer and not make it a frame. 

You can buy the dies here:

https://tinyurl.com/2dfj3vwa

Next I needed to figure out how to lay the pieces out and still make it an interactive card. I laid the flower pots down and then used a small piece of press and seal to pick up the collage and add liquid glue to the back before I added it to the front of the layer. 

The birdhouse looks like it's floating in mid air, so I need to make a pole for the birdhouse. I took a scrap of kraft cardstock and added some wood grain to it with W gray copic markers. 

To help it coordinate a little better, I also used the Altenew gray inks from the flower pots and a blending brush to change the color a bit. Then I glued the post to the layer. 

I added the action wobbler to the back of the birdhouse by removing the liner to reveal the adhesive. 

To put the layer on the card base, I used my ATG runner. 

I stamped the sentiment in white ink and heat set some white embossing powder with my heat tool and then fussy cut the sentiment too. I added it to the card with liquid glue.

For the enamel dots, I went through my stash and found some old ones that will work with the color pallet. I added a couple of groupings to the top right and bottom left of the layer. 

Here is the finished card. 

You can watch the video here:

https://tinyurl.com/5cak3mf6

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day.