Cardmaking - Card #3 - inked glossy backgrounds with black embossed stamped images and a die cut frame

 For our last card I always create a quick and easy one!!!  These ones feature the backgrounds I was experimenting with before I came up with the technique for our first card.  It was a fun afternoon of playing with ink, water and alcohol!!!!  So I decided to use them for this set of cards.  I decided to stamp black images onto the backgrounds but wanted to highlight them in some way.  I eventually chose to die cut a long tall rectangle from a piece of white cardstock.  I then embossed them with a texture embossing folder (SU).  With this new element I was able to reasonably position my stamped images where the frame could easily be placed to have the image highlighted in the opening of the frame.  It is a little tricky to stamp with embossing ink on glossy cardstock - can easily slip and make a smudged background that cannot be rescued!!  So I chose to stamp all the images for these cards.  So the assembly was quite straight forward.  We embossed our background with a little dots strip embossing folder, highlighted them with contrasting ink and then adhered them to our card bases.  A bit of embellishment to the frame if we wanted to and adhered them to the front to highlight the stamped images!!  Quick and easy!!!  Therese

Cardmaking - Card #2 - fun backgrounds, layered cardstock and watercoloured and embossed images

 For our second card we added ribbon/seam binding to our scrapbook or collaged backgrounds using double sided tape.  Again, we tied the piece to trimmed off to the front using a single knot to simulate a bow before adding these to our card bases.  

The embossed images were ready to go - the black and white (laser printed) ones were watercoloured to coordinate with the backgrounds.  They were then embellished with paper piercing (pattern tracing wheel), and or distressed on the edges.  Their backgrounds were created by placing coordinating cardstock strips next to each other, taped on the back and then trimmed to size for each image.  We embossed our backgrounds and embellished with the pattern tracing wheel and/or the distress tool.  We adhered our images to their layers and then added 3D foam tape to the back and positioned them over the ribbon/seambinding on the front of our cards.  Lots of variations and colour combinations for this set of cards.   Therese

Cupcake - Cre8tive Hands, little flower (my doodle), fall wreath (Beccy's Place), flower wreath (Melonheadz Ilustration), embossed cup with a flower (Cuttlebug).  

Cardmaking - Card #1 - Distress ink background on glossy embossed and highlight with ribbon and black accents

 

It was so nice to see my cardmaking friends again!!!  This was the first card we made.  Glossy cardstock which has been dipped into puddles of Distress ink and water.  We dabbed the ink pads on plastic (packaging) and then spritz it with water one colour at a time cleaning our plastics in between.  It was a fun process of adding colour here and there, drying, and adding a different colour until we were happy with our creations.  Next, we embossed the colourful glossy background and applied a different colour of ink sparingly to highlight the embossed areas.  So fun!!  That was followed by choosing one of our first colours and dyeing our seam binding to coordinate.  Just dabbed the ink on our clean plastics, spritzed water and then placed our seam binding into the puddle and moved it around with a bamboo stick until it was completely dyed.  We carefully dried it with the heat gun.  After auditioning our accents we added a length of seam binding to our background using double sided tape on the back.  We tied the piece we trimmed off to the front using a single knot to simulate a bow.  

The embellishments were all die cut from black because I could not predict what colours each person would use when creating their backgrounds.  We slipped these under our ribbon and added dots of glue OR 3D foam tape depending on how delicate the embellishments were.  All the die cuts are from Tim Holtz.  

It is so great to be creating with others and we always learn from each other and each person follows their muse when they are creating.  It really is so wonderful how one kit with all the same supplies can be used to create such a diverse and interesting cards!!  Therese