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Mar 18
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Celebrate with Style

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Hi all,

Hope you all are enjoying the new site and liking the projects that I have been posting up. I know I’m having a blast trying out new techniques and playing with some of the awesome products I have in my stash or that were given to me as gifts. For today’s card I wanted to explore the world of watercolor paper and Tim Holtz Distress Inks. I used a water-spritzing method to create “blobs” of ink that could blend together to create a background. I absolutely love the way the background turned out. I then used a Basic Grey chipboard embellishment and hand stamped a flourish to look like a stem.

Here is the finished product =)

Celebrate With Style

Supplies:

Card Base: Neenah Solar White

Paper: Strathmore Watercolor and Authentique

Inks: Tim Holtz Distress Inks – Festive Berries, Iced Spruce and Broken China

Flower Embellishment: Basic Grey

Sentiment: Hero Arts – Happiness Messages

 

Linked up:

Whimsical Wednesday

 

Mar 11
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Pattern Play – Card 6

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Hi all,

It’s the last day of pattern play and I’ve got one last card to show ya! The theme for today is paper manipulation. Basically we were shown several ways to take paper and use it in a different way than how it is usually intended. I used the technique of combining soft tones to create a quilted image.

Here it is!

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Papers used from scraps! Now I have a use from all those small pieces I save.

Mar 06
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Pattern Play – Card 5

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Hi all,

Let’s get right into it! Today’s objective is altering pattern paper. There are so many ways to change the texture and overall condition of paper. You can paint it, emboss it, score it, tear it, sew it…and the list goes on. I wanted to try an exact technique an instructor used and try scoring my paper and then sanding down the score lines to create raised white lines.

Each white line on the card was created by sanding the paper. Pretty neat huh?

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Papers from My Minds Eye and Basic Grey

Mar 04
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Pattern Play – Card 4

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Hi all,

Day 3 and card 4 is here! And today’s lesson could be my favorite take away. Today’s lesson was how to use “hard to use” and bold patterns. I wanted to take a busy pattern and break it up a bit to create a card that looked a little easier on the eye. I think an even larger print would look amazing!

Here it is!

kwclass_thinkhappythoughts

Papers from My minds eye and Basic Grey