Bokeh

I thought I'd try my hand at a bokeh card, which seem to be pretty popular right now.

I used the Lots of Dots set from Simon Says Stamp, it's perfect for this technique.

The sentiment panel was stamped in yellows, oranges and reds while the background was stamped with different shades of yellow. Because the background is done from one colour family it produces a very soft and fuzzy look with not much of a distinction between the dots while on the sentiment panel the dot shapes are more pronounced.

Here are a few tricks that I figured out along the way.

• Starting with coloured card stock helps with the layering and blending of dots.
• Make sure to layer different coloured dots on top of one another.
• This works really well with the Hero Arts Shadow Inks or die inks.
• You can use pigment inks though they are more opaque and can block out colours underneath it.
• I like to start off with the largest circle, stamp it 3-4 times with one colour, then move on to the next colour. Once I've used all the colours, I switch to the second largest dot and stamp in all the different colours and repeat for all the dots sizes.
• When I'm done with all my stamping I like to soften it and make it a little more fuzzy by taking Memories White Dye Ink and stamping a few of the larger dots randomly over the piece.

This is definitely a fun and addicting technique, I hope you'll give it a try!

I'm entering this card for the Anything Goes Challenge at Simon Says Stamp.

Wishing a Happy Canada Day to all my fellow Canadians!

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Dazzling Birthday

My card today is based on the card below, which I made a few weeks ago.

I wanted the sentiment to take centre stage so I picked a few birthday greetings from my Hero Arts stamps, made a little grouping, and white embossed them.

For a watercolour look, I used Distress Inks to paint over the sentiments and make them pop.

To make the card a little more dazzling I added gold glitter card stock, some gold glitter hearts and a few touches with a Wink of Stella pen.

I'm entering this card over at Simon Says Stamps Anything Goes Challenge. There's still lots of time to play along.



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Anything Goes

It's Anything Goes over at the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge and today I made a card with no sentiment.

When I was going through my stash of cards yesterday I noticed I did not have any blank cards and I always like to have a few of these around so I can add a sentiment or hand written note on the inside when needed. Do you like to keep blank cards in your stash?

I just got my hands on some of the Ranger Black Sparkle Embossing Powder so I wanted to try it out on my card. Love how it looks with the Lattice stamp on the black card stock, though it is a bit hard to get a good pic to show the sparkle.

I white embossed the Penny Black flower onto the tag and coloured some white seam binding with Peacock Feathers to match the card stock.

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Simon Says You Gotta Have Friends

You can never have too many friend cards in your stash so it's a good time to get crafty and enter the Friend Challenge over at Simon Says Stamp.

I inked up a tag with Distress Ink and spritzed it with Perfect Pearls for a little shimmer and splatter and continued with the splattering with some gold Heidi Swapp spray. It's a gray and rainy day here today so I think that's why I needed a little sparkle in my day!

I managed to use two patterned papers on this card along with some Simon Says dies. The Fresh Daisies is an oldie die but it is one of my most favourites.

Wishing you a sunny day and thanks for stopping by!

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Runway Inspired #62

It's been a long time since I've made a card for the Runway Inspired Challenge. But with a little free time and a beautiful photo to get my mojo working, I decided to play along.

Isn't this dress so pretty...I was totally inspired by the gliding birds against the dark blue background.

I did tone-on-tone stamping with Hero Arts Flourish Background and made some stencils of flying birds on my Silhouette and used them to add embossing paste on top of  the flourishes.  While the embossing paste was still wet I sprinkled on Martha Stewart Crystal Fine Glitter for a subtle sparkle.

I stamped the sentiment on vellum, added a strip of silver glitter paper, some May Arts Silk Ribbon and a pretty button to finish off the card. I was thinking this would be a great card for a wedding.

There's still plenty of time to play along with the challenge, you'll find all the deets here.

I'm also entering this in Simon Says Anything Goes Challenge.


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