Hello Everyone,
I created this card the other day, which I liked a lot and already sent to a friend who is only slowly recovering after surgery. Now my initial idea was to use it with embossing paste, so I still wanted to do that.
Besides, I just bought Wendy Vecchi embossing paste, because I really disliked my old structure paste, which simply isn't as nice. So I wanted to try that as well. I must say, it's really cool. Much smoother and nicer than my old paste. Not as heavy somehow.
For the new card, I cut a light grey cardbase and added some texture with the embossing paste and a stencil with irregular little dots, called "well rounded".
Then I created the bird with Inktense pencils on water color paper (using another stencil). Pretty much like the original one, though the colors turned out darker. I also went for more of a kingfisher look, with the orange belly and dark beak. I cut out the bird leaving a white border and and adhered it to the cardbase. The sentiment banner was popped up with foam dots.
This time I didn't use a store bought envelop but created my own from the same cardstock. I also added some embossing paste to the front and even across the fold lines, just to see how that worked. It seems to be fine, but it would probably be better to handdeliver this envelop. I am not sure if it would pass through the mail alright.
I am surprised at how much I like this bird stencil, I hadn't expected that. I really need to try out a few other colors on it, see how that looks.
Have a great day
Ela
Challenges:
Stempelküche: Geburtstag / Birthday
Hey Crafters,
Today I want to brag a little: I won a challange!!
Isn't that awasome? I can hardly believe it, there were so many fantastic cards, and they picked me. I am sooo happy!
So here's my price winning champion: ;)
I'd like to thank Carolin from Stempelküche and her fabulous design team!
Love
Ela
Hey Crafters,
today was the big Ninja party, so I want to show you the last few pieces I created for it.
I completed my little bookmarks by laminating them and adding a little bast to the top.
I also created a card, with a print from the Internet that I watercolored with my inktense pencils. I am very pleased with my coloring this time. I drew the same rays on the envelop with a copic liner and colored them with waterbased markers.
Then I wrapped the gift with green wrapping paper drew the mouth and stuck on crepe paper and eyes for the mask.
Have good week-end
Ela
Hello Everyone,
a few days ago I shared these Ninja Turtle goodie bags, that I created to help a friend with her birthday preparations.
I met that friend yesterday, and she's totally stressed out, so I offered her more help and created and created bookmarks and a cup game in the same style.
The bookmarks are not yet done completely, I still need to laminate them and add some ribbon or something to the top. But I don't own a laminator and have to borrow one first. But here they are almost ready. I didn't use cardstock for the masks and eyes, because last time I laminated bookmarks, the cardstock made them a little too bulky. So I used thin colored paper. Unfortunately I had run out of blue and purple, so there are only red and orange turtles. But as these go in the goodie bags, that won't matter...
I don't really like the color of the green cardstock, but it's the only one they had in the shop.
For the cups I used the same cardstock to cover the cups. Then I used crepe paper for the masks and added googly eyes and a mouth. In the end I tied little balls on a string and poked the string through the bottom.
Now the only thing that's left to create is the Birthday card. Ah well, and laminate the bookmarks of course.
Love
Ela
Hey Crafters,
I created another card for some more challenges.
I stenciled on the background with colored texture paste, masking off an area for the fox and sentiment. I must say, I really dislike my paste. First of all, because it is not really bright white. And secondly it dried while I was actually working with it, so even though I cleaned it off straight away, it dried on my craft mat and stencil. I think I'll have to get some real embossing paste.
As the stencil has only little open space, I emphasized the masked area with faux stitching. Then I stamped the sentiment and the fox and colored it with distress inks and as little water as possible, as this is no watercolor cardstock.
For the envelop and inside, I just stamped the fox again in light grey, without any coloring.
Hope you have a great day
Ela
Challenges:
Creative Friday: #110 Stuktur / texture
Lawnscraping Challenge: One layer
Simon says Stamp: Anything goes
Crazy for CAS: #52 Sketch
Hello Everyone,
Challenges really can help you with your creativity. I decided to work on some last Monday, and as you may have seen I was pretty creative.
Some of my cards didn't meet the requirements for the challenges I created them for in the end, but who cares. I've had the fun and the card is done, inspired by a challenge, even if I cannot submit it.
This card is one of such. I had three challenges in mind for it, but only submitted it for two of them...
The snowman and bird are colored with alcohol markers, the scarf and hat are paper pieced. T
he card base is dry embossed with snowflakes, the panel and sentiment are popped up on foam adhesive.
I really like that card, but it took too long for mass production, with all the stamping, die cutting, embossing and coloring.
For the envelop and inside I stamped the birds in light grey ink. I wanted to use copics, but didn't want them to bleed through to the back, so I did a simple water coloring on the inside.
I am looking forward to the holiday season.
An early merry Christmas
Ela
Edit:
I didn't like the original foto, because I had to take it with flash, so the details were hard to see. Therefore I uploaded a daylight shot this morning and kept the original at the very bottom, so as not to disturb the challenge linkups.
Challenges:
Creative Friday: #110 Struktur / Texture
CAS(E) this sketch: #90
Hi again,
I did have a creative night last night. I wanted to create a card with structure for a challenge, but when I had completed my water coloring, I was so happy with it, I didn't dare add structure paste as I had intended... So I kept it very CAS and one layer:
The sentiment says "Get well" in German and is espresso, not black. It's a bit softer, and there is some brown but no black in the water coloring.
The bird I colored through a stencil, a technique I learnt at "Stenciled". I used my water color pencils for it and kept with blues and greens mainly.
It reminds me of a kingfisher, though it was actually intended as a fantasy bird. For a true kingfisher the beak would have to be bluish dark and longer and the belly would have to be orange. But still it reminds me of one.
For once I managed not to overwork it and I am really happy with how it turned out.
Love
Ela
Challenges:
clean&simple: 305 (Hope it is ok, that the sentiment moved to the left a bit)
Hey Crafters,
as I said the other day, I had another idea for a differnet use of my feather dies, so here it is:
I die cut the larger feather from fun foam and used it as a stamp, stamping one feather in red, all the others tone on tone. The sentiment, though you can hardly read it on the pictures is "you're special" from the TAWS set Monster Mash. I inked up only the last words of the sentiment "My imaginary friend says you're special".
I also created a matching envelop and stamped the red feather on the inside, for extra detail.
Bye
Ela
Challenges:
Simon says stamp: Anything goes
Hey Crafters,
when I posted earlier today, I noticed that I missed my blog anniversary. My first blog post went up on the 26th of August 2013. So I decided to do some crafting tonight to celebrate.
That had not actually been my plan for the night, because I already did the turtle goodie bags and my arm is still annoyingly painful, but it somehow felt right and I am glad I did it.
I decided to take part in a few challenges, because I neglected that lately. And it can be so inspiring.
So I created this butterfly card:
It's similar to the thank you card I created a few weeks ago, but I changed it a bit, added sequins and some spritzing. And a birthday sentiment, because you can NEVER have enough of those...
I stamped a smaller butterfly on the inside:
Have a great day
Ela
Challenges:
Keep it Simple: Ombre
Seize the Birthday: Anything goes
Simon sys stamp: Anything goes
clean&simple: 305
Hey Crafters,
this week-end, my daughter's first love has his 8th birthday and celebrating a Ninja Turtle party.
I offered his Mom some help and created the goodie bags:
I stuck to what I knew, changing my old concept (I created this before as aliens and angry birds) up a bit. I used crepe paper for the masks. They are glued to the front and knotted on the back. The nouthes are drawn on with edding markers.
I am not entirely happy, I think it doesn't look enough like turles, but I don't have an idea how to improve them.
By the way, the bear was made a ninja too by my kids.
As I just realized, when I tried to link them: I never posted my alien goodie bags, so here they are:
Have a great day
Ela
