Made with Love

Good Morning and Welcome to the Weekend!!

Always happy when I get some time to play.

I made this card after watching a Friday night live with Vicki Boutin.  She does them every week and they are so inspiring.  You can find her on FB or on YouTube.  

So here's what I did to create my card.

• I began by cutting a 4 x 4 inch piece of white cardstock.  I use a heavy weight 110lb that I get from my local store.  I die-cut a circle from more cardstock and positioned it over my panel to use as a mask.
• I rubbed the pink crayon from the Warm set of Vicki Boutin Art Crayons onto a piece of acetate, diluted it with water and pressed it over the masked circle.  I repeated that process using some Distress inks next (Picked Raspberry and Spiced Marmalade) until the circle was inked.
• I got out my Simple Grid stencil from ACLD and rubbed some Picked Raspberry over it (seen in the top left and bottom right)
• I diluted some more of the Art Crayon and stamped using a Graffiti stamp, Script and the Zig Zag by dipping the stamps into the wet ink.  By doing that, it gives more of a watercolour look.
• I removed the circle mask and let the piece dry, then placed it into my Misti to stamp the thistles and the sentiment using some Versafine black ink.
• I splattered with my white Posca pen and then doodled around the circle.
• I added 3 black gems under the sentiment, then glued the panel onto a heavy white card base.

 

Here are some of the other panels I created as well so more cards to come.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend.

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Supplies

Stamps- Nature Flowers (Art Journey); Everyday Circle Tags (Avery Elle); Zig Zag Stitch (TH);

Graffiti (Kaisercraft)

Inks- Distress (TH); Versafine; Vicki Boutin Art Crayons

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ontario)

Accessories and Tools- Grid Stencil (ACLD); Circle Die (HA); Sakura Black marker; Posca pen;

inking tool; acetate sheet; black gems; Misti (My Sweet Petunia)