Have a Wild Birthday

Hello and welcome to my blog!  Today I am showing you a tutorial of a card I made for my older daughter's birthday.  She loves elephants so much, always has.  So when my good friend Barb showed up to our monthly crop at Scrappin in the City with the hero arts June card kit stamps and dies (that I have been wanting) I asked her if I could borrow it and cut a few of the shapes out with her dies.  She of course was only too happy to oblige.  And because I had not brought any of my cardmaking supplies, I'm trying to catch up on scrapbooking, she let me use her cardstock too!!!  Barb you are the best, thanks again!!!

So I cut out the elephant and tree from black cardstock and the sun on white cardstock with Barb's cuddlebug and took them home.  It took a week and a day but I finally got around to working with them yesterday.  So first I wanted to color the sun.  I got out my newer set of colorburst, my craft mat, water pen and some paper to test on.  I was not totally sure what colors I wanted to use yet so I picked three to start with and test out together.

I really like the orange and yellow together but not the other color.  So next tested out all the colors to see what direction I wanted to go in.

I mean look at those colors!!!  They are so beautiful and this is on regular cardstock folks!!!  Not watercolor paper!!!  Ultimately i decided to go with the yellow, orange and sepia in that order.

So the strategy I used was to put a tiny but of colorburst on my mat and above it a clean bead of water from my water pen.  Then I put a tiny bit of the yellow powder on my water pen and added it to the bead of water.  The powder totally filled the bead and I used that to color my sun.  Then I added more powder as needed until I had the top of all three suns colored.  Then I followed the same process with the other two colors being sure to overlap a little at the start of the new color.  The key with colorburst is not to use too much powder.  A tiny bit goes a long way!!!

That's just an idea of how little I used.  And I accidentally leaned a little trick when I was coloring my suns!  I always love happy accidents!  My first sun did not turn out the way I wanted it to so I turned it over to try again.  When they dried I realized that the part of the sun where I had colored both front and back did not curl like paper usually does after being wet on just one side!  So just a little hint for next time you are using your water brush put a little water on the other side of your paper too.  Just not to much to avoid tearing.

Ok so now I needed to cut mt background.  I really wanted my sun to be the main focus of the card so I chose black cardstock for my background.  I trimmed the cardstock to size with my Fiskars trimmer.  Than I glued my sun to the card using Tombo aqua liquid adhesive.  Then I played with the placement of the elephant and the tree for a while until I was happy with how it looked.  I glued the tree down with the Tombo adhesive too and then used pop dots to glue down the elephant for some dimension.

Now it was time for my sentiment.  I used one from the Lawn Fawn wild about you stamp set.  I used Hero Arts white ink stamp pad and my large acrylic stamp block.

When I was done I wiped my stamps with my shammie and used miracle tape to attach my card to an A2 card base.

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today!  I hope you enjoyed the card tutorial and that you come back to see another card soon.  Below you will find my supply list and a plug for my local scrapbook store from which you can order online and find most of the supplies I used here today!   If you like the card but don't want to take the time to make it visit my Etsy shop where you can buy this card and many others!  https://www.etsy.com/shop/IslaBug?ref=search_shop_redirect

Supply List
A2 card bases and envelopes
White (smooth) and black cardstock
Colorburst-Yellow Ochre, Burnt Orange, Sepia
Miracle tape
Pop dots
Tombo aqua liquid adhesive
Acrylic block
Lawn Fawn shammie
Lawn Fawn wild about you stamp set
Hero Arts-June card kit
Hero arts-Hero hues white pigment die
Craft mat
Water brush (I use Tim Holtz but any will do)
Cuddlebug
Fiskars trimmers

I am not an affiliate of my local scrapbook store but I love it!  It
gives me my sanity and I consider it my second home!  So I have to put
in a plug for my favorite scrapbook store!  As we all know many of our
local scrapbook stores are an endangered species.  So if you happen to
be in town or want to order online please do!  There are so many unique
products available.  I would truly appreciate you supporting my cropping
haven!

   
 

Eye Think You're Neat

Hello and welcome to my blog!  Today I'm going to show you a tutorial for a monster card I made.  My mother in law wanted a couple of boy cards so this is the second one I made for her.  If you have not already checked out my post, Out of this World, to see the other.  On both cards I used colorburst in different ways so it would be interesting to compare the two.

Ok so here is is in all its glory!  the background was made with....you guessed it...colorburst!  So I started by cutting some American Crafts smooth white cardstock.  I got out my craft mat and put my cardstock on it.  Then I sprinkled some lemon yellow colorburst on the card and spritzed it with water.  Next I sprinkled some ultramarine blue and violet on it where it was already wet.  It gave me this neat firework effect.

Next it was time to work on my monsters,  I got out my acrylic block, shammie, lawn Fawn monster mash stamps and dies, and memento ink.  I stamped the images and wiped my stamps with my shammie.

Then I colored the little guys in with my Zig real brush markers.  I love these markers!!!!

Now it was time to cut them out.  I placed them on my cuddlebug with my new magnetic mat, a must have!!!  No more wasting time and washi taping the dies down anymore!!!

I was ready to attach my little monsters to the card with pop dots!  I think I might actually be the person keeping the booing pop dot business alive!

After they were on I used miracle tape to attach my card to the A2 card base and I had my card!

Thanks so much for checking out my card tutorial today.  Follow me for more great card tutorials!  Below you will find a supply list and a plug for my amazing local scrapbook store where you will find most of the items I have used here plus many other amazing paper crafting supplies.

Supply list
A2 cards and envelopes
American Crafts smooth white cardstock
Acrylic block
Memento ink
Cuttlebug with magnetic plate, A plate, and 2-B plates
Lawn fawn shammie
Lawn Fawn monster mash stamps and dies
Colorburst colors:  lemon yellow, violet, ultramarine blue
Miracle tape
Pop dots
Fiskars trimmer
Zig real brush markers
Craft mat
Mister

I am not an affiliate of my local scrapbook store but I love it!  It
gives me my sanity and I consider it my second home!  So I have to put
in a plug for my favorite scrapbook store!  As we all know many of our
local scrapbook stores are an endangered species.  So if you happen to
be in town or want to order online please do!  There are so many unique
products available.  I would truly appreciate you supporting my cropping
haven!

   
 

Out of this World

Hello and welcome to my blog!  Today I am going to show you a card tutorial I call out of this world.  My mother in law wanted a couple of little boy cards so space naturally came to mind.

Ok so I had just picked up a new toy called colorburst and it is amazing!!!!  It is featured on this card and the next card I'm going to blog.  When I set out to make these two cards I only had a little while to work on them and I was so disappointed because I could have played with the colorburst for hours!!!!

I used ultramarine for this card since it was occurring in outer-space.  I cant tell you how amazing this product is all day but you have to try it for yourself you won't even believe it!  I got out my Fiskars and trimmed a piece of white cardstock, yes I said cardstock, I did not use watercolor paper for this!!!!!

Then I got out my craft mat, water pen, and colorbusrt.  And the magic happened!!!  I put a very small amount of the colorburst powder in my craft mat.  I added water with my pen and I couldn't believe how vibrant the color was! I was instantly in love!!!  I simply water colored on my cardstock with the water pen and the powder.  I added more water where the color was too bright and played around with it until I was happy.  I need to remind you again that this is regular white American Crafts cardstock not watercolor paper!!!

I let my paper dry and then flattened it out with my hands.  After that I used the starry skies die from lawn fawn and my cuddlebug to punch out stars in all four corners.

Then I attached the piece of cardstock to my A2 card base with Tombo aqua liquid adhesive.

Next I got to work on my characters.  I used the Out of this World stamp and die set from lawn fawn.  I got out my shammie, memento ink, acrylic block and my stamp set too.

Then I had this

Time to color so I went to my go to pens.  Zig real brush markers, worth every penny!!!  Below in the picture you will see the colors I used.

Now that they were all colored in I needed to cut them out.  I have to say this die set sent me to the craft store the first time I used it.  The dies were so close together I needed to but a new wire cutter with an extremely thin nose to cut them.

After I cut out what I needed I used my new cuddlebug magnetic plate to line up my dies over my paper.  No more wasted washi tape taping down your dies and no more wasted time doing so either!!!  Also totally worth the $20 yes just $20!!!

So my other big complaint about this set is that there is not a die for the stars or the flame from the rocket.  So I cut them out with my Tim Holtz small scissors (another great purchase). 

I attached the flame to the rocket with my Tombo aqua liquid glue.  Then I decided it looked dumb so i pulled it back off.  the great thing about the glue is that it takes a few seconds to dry so you have some flexibility to move or remove an object before it is stuck there.  A feature that has saved projects for me personally many times!!!

Now it was time to stamp my sentiment onto my card.  So I got out my memento ink, acrylic block and my sentiment, You are OUT OF THIS WORLD ready.  and I stamped it on and wiped my stamps clean with my shammie.  Then I used pop dots (of course) to add my planets and astronaut.

Now I had this adorable card for my mother in law to send!!!  Yay!!!  I really love this card and my colorburst.  Below you will find a supply list and plug for my local scrapbook store where I got my colorburst half off!!!!  After I made this card, and the other one I will blog next, I went back to my local scrapbook store and bought the other set of colorburst.  They are the great I'm telling you!!!  Thanks for dropping by and come back soon for another tutorial!

Supply list
A2 card bases and envelopes
American Crafts smooth white cardstock
Fiskars trimmer
Acrylic block
Memento ink
Tiny nosed wire cutters
Pop dots
Miracle tape
Tombo aqua liquid adhesive
Lawn fawn sahmmie
Lawn Fawn out of this world stamp and die set
Lawn Fawn starry skies dies
Tim Holtz small scissors
Zig real brush markers
Cuddlebug and the magnetic plate, A plate, and 2-B plates
And the star of the show Colorburst Ultramarine blue


I am not an affiliate of my local scrapbook store but I love it!  It
gives me my sanity and I consider it my second home!  So I have to put
in a plug for my favorite scrapbook store!  As we all know many of our
local scrapbook stores are an endangered species.  So if you happen to
be in town or want to order online please do!  There are so many unique
products available.  I would truly appreciate you supporting my cropping
haven!