Fathers Day Photo Card for Ranger

Hey crafty guys and gals.  I've got another tutorial up on the Ranger Project Page, featuring Wendy Vecchi's Award Winning stamp, die and stencil set. Discover how easy it is to turn this trophy into a wonderful Father's Day photo card!  Luckily, my husband doesn't follow my social media so I can share this Father's Day inspiration with all of you! He is going to love displaying this card with one of his favorite photos of our son.

(FTC Disclosure: as an affiliate for various companies in the craft industry, I will receive a small commission for purchases made through my convenient affiliate links, at no additional cost to you.)

If you're inclined to do a little shopping, I hope you will use my affiliate links. It doesn't cost anything for you to do so and I appreciate it so much! Thanks so much for stopping by and be sure to hop over and check out my tutorial at Ranger!  Terri

 

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July Inspiration for So Suzy Stamps - Anything Goes

This month, at So Suzy Stamps, the design team has free reign with an Anything Goes theme.  It's the first of the month so the team has come together with a new round of creative projects to help you utilize your collection of So Suzy Stamps.  

My project today is a CAS card that features several stamps; Fairy with Flower, Herb 1, Spire Sage and Sunny and Bright.  You'll also find affiliate shopping links at the end of this post.

You'll need a few additional things to re-create this project:

A4 White Card (8.3" x 11.7" dimensions, folded in half) Kaisercraft

Water based brush markers (Zig, Marvy, Tombow) Greens, Gray, light blue

Nuvo Bubblegum Crystal Drops

Ranger Stickles Glitter Glue -Firefly and Eucalyptus

Memento Dye Ink Tuxedo Black

Water Brush

Misti stamping tool

iron

*optional washi tape

*optional, parchment paper

Craft mat

Craft heat tool

**Note, you may wish to create a card panel instead of directly creating images on an A4 card. Some warping will occur due to watercolors, much of which can be ironed out.

1.  Ink the SSS Fairy with Flower Stamp on the lower right corner of cardstock, using your Misti stamp positioner.  Ink 2-3 times for full coverage.

2. Using the Spire Sage Stamp, swipe with a gray water based marker and stamp along bottom and top edge of card.  *Optional, place a strip of washi tape under the cardstock to avoid messy ink getting on your Misti.

3. Use the Herb 1 stamp and stamp along top and bottom edge of card, swiping stamp directly with various green shades of a water based marker.  You'll be stamping over the gray, inked sage image but that's ok.  Heat set your ink prior to next step.

4.  Swipe a light blue water based brush marker on your craft mat and grab color with slightly wet waterbrush.  Fill in some of the empty space around the foliage, with the blue.  Blot as needed with paper towel.  Try not to over saturate cardstock.

**Lightweight or medium weight cardstock will warp when wet- grab your iron!

5.  Heat set your watercoloring.  Use an iron to smooth out any warping with either a craft iron or a regular iron.  Place image face down on ironing board.  You can place cardstock between two pieces of parchment paper if you like.  Take care not to burn your cardstock

6. Add glitter glue to leaves and Nuvo crystal drops to tiny buds.  Allow to dry 4 hours or overnight for the Nuvo.

As we say in the South, "Ain't she purty?"   A pretty little garden for my fairy.  This card would brighten anyone's day!

Be sure and visit Suzy's blog to see what the rest of the design team have come up with for our Anything Goes theme!

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Watercolored Coffee Cups with the Misti

I'm sharing this colorful project today for the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Summer Blog Hop as well as So Suzy Stamps.  The hop is in full swing and you are welcome to join in with your summer creations featuring coffee, tea or cocoa.

Scroll down for my inspiration behind the bold summer colors!  I also have affiliate links at the end of this post if you'd like to do some shopping.  Enabler alert!

Many years ago, (don't ask HOW many!) I married The Hubs.  He was fresh out of college and was visiting the incoming freshman (me).  One year later we were engaged and 9 months after that, we got married .  We spent our honeymoon in Destin and Panama City Beach, FL.  It's about a 5-6 hour drive from where we live and has the whitest, sugary beaches you will ever find.  It's a beautiful vacation spot.  You'll also find the most colorful beach houses, as pictured below......

(Photo Credit: Todd Carr/Flickr)

Yes, those gorgeous houses are actually in Panama City Beach, Florida.  I wondered, how could I incorporate summer into the coffee project that I had in mind? 

I also spotted a super fabulous project from my pal Jen, at Caffeinated Papercuts. (click, here)  I knew I wanted to use my cup stamp in multiples and Jen's colorful, multitude of caffeinated goodness, pushed me in the right direction.

I grabbed my Lawn Fawn Rainbow Plaid papers, some other goodies and went to work.  This is an amazingly quick card to put together.  All in all, it took less than 10 minutes from start to finish to complete.

The easiest way to accomplish this stamped layout and get it pretty darn near perfect, is use a Misti stamping tool to restamp each image 2-3 times for full, deep coverage.  Using a small pierced rectangle die I cut a piece of Strathmore mixed media paper and eyeballed my first stamp in the middle.  Next, stamp to the far left or right, then stamp at the far opposite.  Now, you can easily line up and stamp the two remaining spaces left just below your center stamp.  I chose to stamp in an arc and leave room for a small sentiment.

Coloring is super easy by grabbing some great watercolor markers, swipe on a craft mat and pick up the color with a slightly wet waterbrush.  Use a different color for each cup.  Using a paper towel, blot slightly on the right side of each cup for a "light effect".  Add more color as desired but heat dry for a few seconds before adding more color to each cup.  If you'd like, add some ribbon and buttons for embellishment.

Thanks for popping in to take a look at today's project.  I hope I've inspired you to give this a try.  You can link up to the summer hop, here, but hurry, Friday 6/30 is the last day.

When: Friday, June 23 – Friday, June 30

THEME: Summer

USE: coffee, tea &/or cocoa images

Use this hashtag in your social media #summer2017clh

Also linking to these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge- Use Patterned Paper

Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge #288-289

The Ribbon Girl June Use Any Image Challenge

Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #166 Summer

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