Showing posts with label The Card Concept. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Card Concept. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
City Sunrise
Today's post is a card that actually took a while to come together. I was trying for another concept entirely, but flowers just aren't my thing and I couldn't make it work, so I took the colors and made it into something that works for me. A sunrise. New beginnings. Feels right to me. (This card was meant for something else entirely and if you saw my post when it actually went live at 5am - long story short, I didn't want to delete the post, but needed to change it into something else.)
When I finally stopped trying to force things and really looked at the colors I saw a sunrise. It's the way the sky looks here in Arizona when the sun starts to peek over the mountains. I'm fortunate that I live where I do (and unfortunate in other ways) because we have completely clear skies about 95% of the time. It makes for some spectacular sunrises and sunsets! I inked up the New York skyline stamp I had from Altenew in StazOn ink and I put my meager watercoloring skills to work with the water and sky. When it was all dry, I added the sentiment from the same set in gold heat embossing. I didn't use anything fancy for this card, just simple washes and a little bit of shadow on the buildings by going in with more color after the first wash had dried. It looks a lot more difficult than it really is. Believe me, if I can do it, you can, too!
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Card Concept Guest Designer!
I was recently asked to step in as the Guest Designer for the month of February over at The Card Concept blog. I'm being featured as a Clean and Simple designer which is normally what my work falls into. I try not to limit myself to one style, but as you know, I typically go for a clean look anyway.
This week's inspiration is this picture:
Yummy! Look at those scrumptious cookies! That's immediately where my head went. I don't really have many cookie stamps, but I do have the pizza set from Lawn Fawn...
I turned those little heart shaped pizzas into cookies just by changing up the way I color them! How fun is that!? I simply stamped the center cookie on a panel and then masked it off with some masking paper to stamp the other two "behind" it. I colored them in with my copics and then added clear Wink of Stella to the frosting for some fun shimmer. I finished the card with a sentiment from another set by Paper Smooches. I love that whimsical font that Kim uses!
Like I said, this card is very simple, but it's striking with all that white space. I just love how it turned out and I can't wait to send it to someone!
And this is also just in time for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge! This week is to "Have a Heart" and this fits perfectly with those sweet cookie images. I'm also entering it into the Lawnscaping Challenge, which is Sending Love.
This week's inspiration is this picture:
Yummy! Look at those scrumptious cookies! That's immediately where my head went. I don't really have many cookie stamps, but I do have the pizza set from Lawn Fawn...
I turned those little heart shaped pizzas into cookies just by changing up the way I color them! How fun is that!? I simply stamped the center cookie on a panel and then masked it off with some masking paper to stamp the other two "behind" it. I colored them in with my copics and then added clear Wink of Stella to the frosting for some fun shimmer. I finished the card with a sentiment from another set by Paper Smooches. I love that whimsical font that Kim uses!
Like I said, this card is very simple, but it's striking with all that white space. I just love how it turned out and I can't wait to send it to someone!
And this is also just in time for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge! This week is to "Have a Heart" and this fits perfectly with those sweet cookie images. I'm also entering it into the Lawnscaping Challenge, which is Sending Love.
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