Showing posts with label Crafter's Workshop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crafter's Workshop. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

More Laser Cut Wood Technique Cards from My Newest Video


I love to take techniques I've learned from others and change them up to make the cards my own as I did here with Gina K's Laser Cut Wood Technique and show in my newest video. I show how I used a lighter blue, violet and dark blue ink with stencils to create this awesome background. The snowflake stencil on this card is from A Colorful Life Designs and the sentiment is from CUTplorations. As I usually do, I added some gems from Gina Marie Designs to complete the card. 


I recently purchased the Sizzix Mystical Nature die set and needed a night sky look for the background so I chose a galaxy stencil from The Crafter's Workshop and blue and black inks for the technique. The extra stars were also cut with a Sizzix die. 

I had so much fun playing with this technique and different colors of ink and dies and thank Gina K Designs for the inspiration! 

Monday, January 6, 2020

Video - CAS Softly Stenciled Sympathy Cards


Even though we wish we didn't, we all need sympathy cards sometimes, and in my newest video I am sharing many sympathy cards I made with softly brushed stencils along with favorite stamps and dies. 


This is one of the cards I make in the video. The background was made with softly brushing on inks through a The Crafter's Workshop stencil and then I overstamped with stamps from Inkadinkado. The card was very easy to make, but will be perfect the next time I need a sympathy card.


I also show in the video how we can make our own stencils and for this card I die cut a rounded corner rectangle from Spellbinders out of vellum and then brushed on the blue fading out as I moved up the paper. Then I simply stamped the feather and birds from Visible Image and a perfect sentiment from Penny Black.

I share these and many other softly stenciled sympathy cards in my newest video here. Thanks for your visit here and for your support of my YouTube channel. 

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Large Gift Tags or Tag Cards For Birthdays From My Newest Video

 As I share in my newest video here, tags can be used on gifts or for cards, with or without gift cards and they are not just for Christmas. They also can be feminine or masculine depending on the stencils and dies used to create them. I love butterflies and rainbows and used a Memory Box butterfly stencil and my favorite Rainbow Shattered Deco Foil to create this birthday tag for a special female. The layered butterfly is from Birch Press Designs, the tag die is from Crealies and the sentiment die is from Tonic Studios. On the back I die cut Happy Birthday from Tonic Studios into a pocket created with a Gina Marie Designs Wonky Rectangle die. I can choose to use the pocket for a gift card or just to sign the card. These size tag cards fit perfectly into a legal sized envelope.





This masculine tag card is the smallest of the tag card I made and I used an Elizabeth Crafts tag die for the decorative top. The stencil used for the background is called Dragonfly Harmony from The Crafter's Workshop. The dragonfly die is from Sue Wilson and the sentiment dies are from Crealies. On the back I attached a label to sign my name cut with a die from Karen Burniston. 

We all need gift tags and cards for all occasions throughout the year, and I am hoping all the tags and tag cards I shared in the new video inspire you to try some tags with your dies and stencils.

I am entering the first tag in the Anything Goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday.

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Large Gift Tags or Tag Cards For Any Season or Reason

As I show in my newest video, tags and tag cards can  be made for any season or reason and the new Watercolor Woodland Sprigs wide washi tape from Memory Box is perfect for tags and tag cards! It looks totally different depending on what color of cardstock you attach it to. I made this birthday tag card with the Memory Box washi tape and dies from Crealies (tag), Karen Burniston (sentiment) and Sheena Douglas (the leafy swirl.) I used stencils on all the tags I made for the video, and on the back of this birthday tag card, I feature stencils from Altenew and The Crafters Workshop. 




This masculine tag card for Dad was created with a large tag die from Crealies, an alphabet die from Karen Burniston and pinecone and branch dies from Tonic Studios. On the  back I decorated my pocket with a pretty stencil from Gina Marie Designs and a "for you" die from Impression Obsession. 



I have been playing with foils through stencils on the Memory Box washi tape and love the look of the sheen created when the MINC slighly melts the washi tape grabbing gold foil in unexpected places. The stencil I used on the front and back is from The Crafter's Workshop and I again used a Crealies die to cut the stitched tag shape. Of course the foil and transfer gel used are from Deco Foil and Therm O Web. 

This tag could be used for Christmas or anytime and for a special guy or girl. It can be a card or a tag on a present and I show that versatility in my video here.

Thursday, October 31, 2019

Playing with Stencils, Gilding Flakes and Tacky When Dry Gel Medium


I had the opportunity to play with a new (to me) gel medium from Crafter's Workshop called Tacky When Dry recently and now my very own jar is on it's way to me:) I loved how easy it was to apply through a stencil and then add gilding flakes or glitter when it was dry and clear as I did on the first card above. There are Cosmic Shimmer Gilding Flakes on the Crafter's Workshop fern and Nuvo fine detail glitter on the round leaf on the bottom (stencil from A Colorful Life. The stencil  background was created with several colors of distress ink through a Prima stencil and the sentiment die is from Karen Burniston. Here is a close-up to see the gilding flakes and glitter- although both are more gorgeous in real life:



I love how this card turned out too! I used my friend's gilding flakes and a peacock feather stencil from Stencil Girl. The background stencil is from Gina Marie Designs and "hello" is a die from Tonic Studios. The dragonflies were created with dies from Penny Black and the napkin technique I learned about in this video and from my friend. I am going to be playing and designing more with that very fun technique using napkins and will share in an upcoming video. 

I am entering the second card in the Anything Goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday.