Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Blended Backgrounds

No surprise I'm more than ready for Spring, though I could have happily done without Sunday's spring forward. My body still is struggling to adjust to one less hour of sleep.

Few more blended cards. I'm not a huge fan of embossing. Despite following tips and tricks supplied by the best crafting has to offer, I still find granules of embossing powder everywhere. I think it's just the nature of embossing. On the upside, there is nothing quite like a beautiful stamp (background or other), white embossing and colorful blended inks. A relatively quick and straightforward process which always delivers stunning results. Another plus, if you're inclined to look on the bright side, all my equipment gets a good cleaning after embossing. Damn those granules.


These cards use the MFT Etched Flower background stamp. It's a large rubber stamp, big enough to cover a front panel of an A2 card, but since most of my cards are 5x7, I needed to stamp top and bottom. A great property of rubber is I always get a great first impression, so I rarely need to re-stamp an area to ensure coverage.


































It's not noticeable on the photos, but I did add a little sparkle to parts of the card using a shimmer pen. Just enough to fancy it up a bit.


Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Color Blending Birth Yay!

The last couple of weeks have been a bit crazy, and to top it off, this is the week my computer monitor decided to take a permanent snooze. Ugh! There are some things I'm willing to go without for any period: cleaning, laundry, maybe if you really twist my arm...chocolate, but, access to a computer is not one of them. We're pretty teched-up in this household, but tablets and smartphones can only get you so far, especially with these old eyes. So now I'm positioned in front of a new monitor, a little poorer but much happier.

























The cards I'm sharing today is Birth yay from My Favorite Things. This is one of the few sets I saw and immediately ordered. I didn't even wait for it to qualify for sale pricing; it's that adorably cute. I pulled out the Copics and inks for some destress time. Plus, my birthday card stash is woefully depleted, like I had to actually "purchase a card" depleted.


   
























Love how these turned out. Bright colors always make me happy. I made 4 cards total and have 9 birthdays this month. For the moment I'm done coloring rhinos, even cute ones. Time to hit the stamps.