A Birthday Card

G'Day

A special lady is turning 50 on 23rd March and Shirley is hosting a virtual party for the month of March.

So come and join in and wish Maria (rieslingmama) a Design Team member from STAMPlorations a happy Birthday at Shirley Bees Stamping Stuff Blog.

Here is my Birthday Card for Maria.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARIA. You are fabulous artist, congratulations on your life achievements and many more in your future.

I used water color pencils, for a subtle colour on an embossed background. With a simple and elegant sentiment surrounded by flowers for some bling.

I would like to link this card to CAS(e) this Sketch #69 which was my inspiration for the layout of this card. Also The Card Concept challenge #6

 

Come and join the party at Shirley's... And wish Maria a Happy Birthday with your fabulous cards.

 

Cheers MoniKa

 

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Just a Note to Say

G'day

Feeling good this morning so I decided to make another simple card, using my new feather stamps from STAMPloarations.

Here is a picture.

This is the inside with glitter on the butterflies.

A bit of close up and angle to show dimension and glitter on butterflies.

 

I used the following distress inks by Tim Holtz (shaded lilac and broken china), memento (teal zeal).

The stamps used are by STAMPlorations (vignette - trendy feathers, artiful butterflies, patchwork frenzy - graphic pentagons) and KaiserCraft - humming bird.

Simple card to make using water color paper, I stamped the feathers in broken china and the butterflies in shaded lilac, I stamped off once to achieve a lighter look background, I then used water brush to get a soft blue on the images.

I wanted the main images to stand out so I used teal zeal and stamped three butterflies and three feathers for the main images.

I then punched out three small butterflies with light blue textured paper.  I used crayola silver glitter glue on all the butterflies.   I like a bit of dimension on my card.
Then I used my favorite designer Victorian style scissors and cut around.  I finally sponged with broken china the edges.

Glued the design paper onto a darker blue textured paper and stuck it on the base card.   Stamped a couple of sentiments in teal zeal.   Which I think go well together and followed it by inspirational words on the inside.


Hope you like my card....

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges :-

Simon Says Stamp - Glitter it (Wednesday challenge blog)


cheers MoniKa

A Crackle of a Card

G'Day

I just love making my own crackle paint, so easy, check out my post on how to make homemade crackle paint.

I created crackle paint on black paper using distress paints (dusty concord, wild honey, broken china and peeled paint). I find them easier to paint with, they seem to be smoother then acrylic paint.

I just love distress paints by Tim Holtz. I reckon they are so cool I am slowly building up the whole collection of colors. I have so far, broken china, barn door, peeled paint, wild honey and dusty concord.

I cut the dried crackle paint to size and made small banners out of them.
I then stamped a sentiment (STAMPlorations vignette - trendy feathers) in versamark watermark ink and heat set it with Zing silver embossing powder on black paper and cutting out.

I wanted to make a simple card (CAS).

Here are pictures. clik for detail of the crackle paint.

I was not sure what to do with the fourth banner, three is always good number, so I decided on a flower, always makes a simple statement. The banner looked like a vase, cool. I was not sure about the stem, thus left it at that.

Accompany the sentiment, on the front, Just a Note, i wanted inspiring words on the inside, so I stamped words from STAMPlorations artiful flutters.

That's it, a simple card....cool...

 

I would like to enter the following challenges :-

 

Divas by Design - Flower Power

Scribble and Scrap - always anything goes

CAS on Sundays - challenge #29 One Layer Wonder

Stamlegarten Challenge - challenge #23 one layer card

That Craft Place - flowers

 

See ya soon...Monika

 

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