Trying New Techniques at the Card Maker Success Summit

 

Today I'm sharing two cards I made with my favourite technique that I learned from one of the speakers at last year's Card Maker Success Summit. I love clean and simple techniques, but I also love to get messy every once in a while and these two cards involved layers of Distress Oxide Sprays, lots of water and then some heat embossing over the top. (isn't it interesting how the colour of the embossing changes the overall look of the cards - the gold one seems much 'greener' than the white one, but they're both from the same panel!)

The next Card Maker Success Summit starts exactly 1 week from today, and it's full of even more fun techniques to learn and try - I can't wait to learn from the 24 other amazing speakers that will be sharing their knowledge of techniques!

It's free and there are already so many people signed up - it's going to be a blast! I hope we'll see you there!

Click here for more information!

Reverse Die-Cutting (i-crafter)

I'm on the i-crafter blog today with this simple sympathy card with an easy technique to get more from your dies.

IB84 - Celebrate

I made this fun card for the current Inspired by All the Little Things challenge:

I focused on:
-layers of colour
-circles
-dripping chocolate icing

I started by creating my watercolour panel - I smooshed Distress Oxide inks (one at a time) onto my craft mat and then laid a portion of my panel into the ink. I dried it before doing the same with the next colour.

Once the panel was dry, I cut it with a square die and then used this Scattered Circles Strip Die (pictured above) from A Jillian Vance Design to create holes all over - I think it looks bubbly and fun!

I used the Grande Greetings Celebrate die (also from A Jillian Vance Design). I think the swoopy font mimics the chocolate dripping down the side of the cake.


I used:

FS537 - Peace

Congratulations to this week's Splitcoaststampers' Featured Stamper Shirley (aka snn).  I chose this card as my inspiration:

I focused on Shirley's:
-dove theme
-circle

I changed:
-colours
-size and placement of circle

Here's a quick video of how I created a pretty background with lots of layers of 3 colours of Distress Oxide inks:

I used:

Essentials by Ellen Designer Dies, Bird Shapes by Julie Ebersole

Ranger Distress Oxide Ink Pad, Broken China

Ranger Distress Oxide Ink Pad, Faded Jeans

Ranger Distress Oxide Ink Pad, Wilted Violet

Ranger Distress Sprayer By Tim Holtz

Essentials by Ellen Designer Dies, Holiday Words by Julie Ebersole

My Favorite Things Die-namics, STAX Circle Set 1

Avery ELLE-ments Dies, Double Pierced Square

Neenah Cardstock, Neenah Heavyweight, Classic Crest Solar White 110 lb, 25 pk

Sizzix Big Shot White & Gray

Tonic Comfort 8.5 Inch Guillotine Paper Trimmer by Tim Holtz

Ranger Stickles, Star Dust