Hello my craft-lovin’ friends! It’s day 12 of the color challenge and I am still at it. Yesterday was a long day and so I was unable to complete my card. So this morning I was on a mission to finish coloring my image and pull together a Valentine’s day card.
One of the fun things about this craft is that from time to time, you get faced with a mistake that you must find a creative workaround to make them work. Sometimes, It might be my color combinations don’t work as planned, sometimes, it’s a stamping error, etc. Well I printed up multliple digi images on Copic paper to color for various projects. Sometimes I print them up with space for me to incorporate a drawn background and other times, I lay them out so that I can maximize the amount I can fit on a sheet with the intention of fussy cutting them out after I color them. Well in haste, I forgot to print a test view to see if everything fit on the page. So the balloon on this image was clipped. I don’t like to waste paper and products so as a rule I find a way to make it work for the project or use on another to avoid wasting anything.
So I pushed the imaged flush right and cut off a little more of the balloon to line up with the right edge of the card. Problem solved!! I also designed two sentiment designs (love, forever) on my Silhouette and played around to ensure the digi when cut out, would fit nicely with the word. I used the print and cut feature on my Silhouette (yes I use a Cricut cutting mat – don’t judge) to cut out the cards and then placed the image on each to see which sentiment I would use for this card.
I ended up using the ‘Forever’ sentiment and matted it on American Crafts ‘Everyday’ patterned paper.
I think I might just use this card for my husband. That way I can still see her cute face around the house!
It’s really cold here (18 degrees) and I am thinking of stopping work early, making tea and grabbing my book and heading to my reading nook for a little comfort.
I will be back tomorrow for day 13!
Have a lovely weekend!
Belinda
I picked out a digi from Saturated Canary, picked some go-to colors and printed her up on some copic paper. Then I realized the balloon was cut off a little. Tomorrow I will show you how I can create a work-around once I finish coloring and complete the card.
I finished coloring a second pair of the flowers and then cut them out as well as the leaves.
I then used my Memento pen to go around the fresh cut edges for a more finished look.
Inspired by Kathy, I pulled out my distress inks and added some more color. Using different color mediums on a project can really bring them to the next level. They softened any hard lines on the flowers.
I colored a third flower center so that I could have three levels of dimension on the final card. I also embossed some cardstock and diecut a stitched circle on my Cuttlebug. I also played around with cutting out several petals on for the top layer to make the flower look more dimensional and curled the petal edges so they would raise nicely.
I used my MISTI to stamp a new sentiment I just bought this week at Michael’s from Hero Arts. I layed out the circle like I wanted it and positioned my stamp right where I wanted it to go and then inked it up.
It came out great. I love this tool because it takes the nerves our of sentiment stamping for me. Nothing like ruining a pretty project with a messed up impression.
While I had the stamp on the MISTI, I inked up and stamped another sentiment so that I could make another card soon.
You didn’t think I used any of the leaves I fussy cut did you? Well I did. I placed one more on the right side with dots and my tweezers. I love the way it looks with this extra leaf.
I added Wink of Stella clear to the centers for a touch of shine. and you can see the dimension of this card from this shot.
My final card came out pretty cool. I definitely going to make some more.
But I think I will try a pink combo later.
This is as far as I got before I had to pick up the boys from school. My plan was to complete this but Apollo was sick in school so now I am going to cut this short and put on my nurse’s hat for the rest of the day. I will try to finish it tomorrow although I think my “nursing’ duties will extend into tomorrow.