Ocean Birthday Card for Spellbinders

I have an ocean themed card to share, featuring the June Glimmer of the Month Club Kit from Spellbinders. This kit is titled "Cast Away", and I've had so much fun creating with it. Scroll down for details and click any of the highlighted text throughout this post for more product information or to shop.

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This Glimmer kit includes a netting hot foil plate, 3 hot foil sentiment plates, a large sentiment outline die and a roll of Glimmer hot foil (selection varies).

The foil that I received in my kit this month is Opal. I am also using the Spellbinders Glimmer black/white opaque foil from my stash, for my foiled sentiments.

I don't really have much in the way of nautical themed stamps and dies, but I do have the Simon Hurley Smooth Sailing stamp/die set which is also sold at Spellbinders. I decided to incorporate the small sailboat stamp into my scene.

First, I stamped, then colored my sailboat with OLO Markers using these colors:

BG2.3, C-G3, OR3.4, R-G5

Next, I hand trimmed my sails, and foiled them with my Glimmer Hot Foil System, along with the base of my sailboat. You also need a die cut machine, such as the Spellbinders Platinum 6, to run your Glimmer platform through, to seal the foiling.

I wanted to pop up these elements with adhesive foam and also ended up trimming these elements down a bit with my scissors. I wanted this boat to be a little bit smaller to better fit within the confines of the scene that I was creating.

My sentiments were foiled on black cardstock, using my white Spellbinders hot foil. I also made some extra sentiments to have on hand, foiling on white cardstock with black foil.

For my scene, I tore some ombre paper from a paper pad in my stash to create a layer of color. The torn part, makes very effective waves, which is a bonus! I also created some 3D elements, hot gluing some netting using cheesecloth, and creating a rope from the boat to the netting, with some twine from my stash.

 

I created one final piece of foiling, which you can see at the bottom of my card. I foiled a trimmed section of kraft paper with the Opal hot foil, for my sandy beach.

I really love how this turned out! Let me know if you have any questions in the comment section. If you'd like to become a new subscriber to the Glimmer Monthly Club Kit, the window to receive this kit is through June 27th. Click here for details, and click here to view all the Spellbinders Club Kits!

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Terri

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Landscape Tea Kettle Card

Hello friends. As many of you know, I'm a huge tea lover. I often share my daily sips in my stories on Instagram and Facebook. Did you know landscape tea kettles are a thing? In fact, many coffee and tea brands are collaborating with artists to design artistic tea kettles for their lineup of products. I think that's so cool! With that in mind, I came up with the idea to create my own landscape tea kettle, featuring Pajama Crafter Stamps and OLO Markers. Scroll down for details. You can also click any of the highlighted text in this post for more product information or to shop.

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The Pajama Crafters Stamps products that I'm using today are the "Your My Cup of Tea" Flash Cards and the "Honor Valor Pride" stamp set.

The OLO Markers that I used are shown in the photo above.

I also used a variety of products from Scrapbookcom: adhesive, A2 vertical cards, solid paper from the Daybreak paper pad, a white gel pen, my Misti stamp positioner, mint tape,  black acrylic paint, a paint brush and a trimmer.

As you can see in the photo above, I masked the entire area around my tea kettle surface with the mint tape, which then allows me to stamp directly into that space with my stamp positioner.

After removing all the tape, I colored the image with my OLO Markers, and added stars to the sky with my white gel pen. I also applied other white highlights on the top of my kettle and the spout.

I did trim my card panel down just a bit, before adhering to some solid purple paper from my paper pad. I also trimmed my A2 white card as well, so this is just a tad smaller than an A2 sized card.

I also covered my kettle before adding some paint splatters to my card panel, mixing a small amount of paint with a drop of water and splattering it about with a wet paint brush.

 

I would love to see my tea loving friends make their own landscape or artist kettles in their cardmaking. This technique is not limited to just tea kettles though. The masking technique is frequently used for applying stamped or stenciled images in an isolated space. Give it a try, if you've never done this before. It's so much fun!

I'm so glad you stopped in today. Let me know if you have any questions in the comments. You're also welcome to leave a lovely comment, if you like. Thanks so much for stopping by!

Terri

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Beachy Birthday Card for Spellbinders

Where's my ocean lovers? I'm loving the new club kits at Spellbinders this month. Most, if not all, have a nautical theme and they're so fun! For today's card, I've paired the June Stamp/Die Club Kit with the Glimmer plate from the June Glimmer of the Month Club Kit. I love when a card comes together easily and this one certainly did. Scroll down for creative details and click any of the highlighted words throughout this post for more product information or to shop.

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sion for purchases made through my convenient affiliate links, at no additional cost to you)

The Spellbinders Clear Stamp & Die Monthly Club Kit for June is titled, "Anchors Away". I don't have any other club kits in my possession (except the Glimmer Kit), so I tried to get really creative with minimal products.

Let me also mention, this stamp set is also available without dies, if you're interested in joining the Stamp of the Month Club.

This month's Glimmer Hot Foil Club Kit is called, "Cast Away" and includes this awesome netting Glimmer Hot foil Plate, 3 hot foil plate sentiments, 1 large sentiment outline die and 1 roll of Glimmer Hot Foil. Foil selection varies.

The foil that came with my Glimmer kit this month is called Opal. It's a translucent, shiny, iridescent foil. I'll be sharing another project soon that features that foil, but I actually used my Spellbinders White Opaque foil that I purchased some time ago, in a 2-pack with Black. I thought it would really make the netting pop.

To get started, I turned to several products in my stash, some Ranger Kraft Cardstock, as the base for my foiling, and an ombre paper pad from Scrapbookcom.

The Glimmer plate is roughly 4 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches, so I foiled a larger section of kraft paper, then trimmed my foiled cardstock down to A2 sized. My foiling was done using my Glimmer Hot Foil System, then run through my Platinum 6.

 

As you can see in the photo above, I tore my ombre paper at an angle, to have a wide white edge which represents the foam from the sea at the water's edge. Don't strive for perfection when tearing, irregularity is actually what you want!

I also wanted you to see the placement of my twine. I opted to use a blue/white twine from my stash, to tie in with the blue colors of my background and my stamped images. I used my hot glue gun, tacking down about 4 or 5 spots of my twine.

My sentiment was stamped with Catherine Pooler Glacier Ink and Midnight inks, using a mask technique and my stamp positioner, and my anchor was also stamped with Glacier and colored in with some of my OLO Markers.

Everything was adhered flat to my Spellbinders A2 white card, with the exception of my stamped images which were popped up on adhesive foam. I love how this turned out, and even better that it was a fairly quick card to make.

Let me know if you have any questions in the comment section. If you'd like to subscribe to any of the Spellbinders Monthly Club Kits, the window for new subscribers is June 6th-June 27th. Some kits do sell out, so don't wait! You can always cancel at any time, and re-subscribe again at any time, if a future club kit is not to your liking.

I hope you have a great week, thanks for stopping by!

Terri

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Painted Mountains Card for Pajama Crafter Stamps

Today's card features the Honor Valor Pride stamp set from Pajama Crafter Stamps. I wanted to create a colorful mountain, inspired by God's wondrous creation, such as the Rainbow Mountain in Peru, and the Zhangye National Geopark in China. Scroll down for brief, creative details. You can also click any of the highlighted products throughout this post for additional product information.

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I opted to do several techniques for today's card; watercoloring, ink blending, paint splatters and masking. This is a square card with full dimensions measuring in at 5.25 x 5.25 inches. My stamped card panel was trimmed down a bit to fit within the confines of these dimensions.

 

Since I'm watercoloring, I opted to stamp my image on heavyweight mixed media cardstock. 

I initially stamped my card with black hybrid ink using my stamp positioner, then laid down some masking tape (mint tape) and stamped again with the extra ink on my stamp, fussy cutting only around the top portion of the image. 

I laid the trimmed tape on top of my stamped image to mask that area and ink blend my sky, however I forgot to heat set my ink after stamping and some of the red ink blending got a bit muddy around the trees.

I also decided to trim off the trees from my masking tape before ink blending to better better get my ink into the space between the branches. I highly recommend you don't forget to heat set your stamped ink, or instead, do some heat embossing for the stamped image.

All of the inks I'm using today are Catherine Pooler inks. They're water based, and easy to paint with by simply pressing your ink pad on a craft mat, spritzing with a tiny bit of water, then grabbing the mixture with a waterbrush to paint. You can also use a wet paintbrush.

The colors I used are:

Ink blended sky and mountains - Rockin' Red, Orange Twist, Glacier

Field - Succulent, Macchiato, With an Olive

To embellish my mountains, I also used a white gel pen for some snow capped mountains, then added white paint splatters to my ink blended sky.

Here's a bonus tip: Use the handle end of a small paint brush to dot on larger spots of white painted stars. To create a "comet" in the sky, place the handle end of your paintbrush on the wet, white dot of paint and with a quick stroke, swipe the dotted paint with your handle to create the tail of the comet.

You might want to practice first on some dark colored cardstock to get the hang of it.

I love this patriotic stamp set, and there are 3 fabulous sentiments included. Let me know if you have any questions, in the comment section.

Check out the entire new release at Pajama Crafter Stamps! There's a really great variety of patriotic stamp sets, plus other themed stamp sets. as well.  Something for everyone! Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Terri

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