Holmade Laura: September 2021

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Sunshine Silhouette Card

Made this sunshine card after seeing Gina K's Sunshine Silhouette - 5 Minute Cards YouTube. This was fun and quick and easy! I didn't use the dies to cut the layers. Just cut "freehand" with my Fiskars cutter.

I masked the bottom portion as shown by Gina. Using her Sunshine Stencil and a blending brush, added distress scattered straw ink first, working around the edge of the sun and the rays and getting lighter further out. Then I added spiced marmalade ink to get some contract at the edge of the sun and up into the rays slightly. Gina described and demonstrated this method of adding color in the great video. I did not have the ink colors she used.

I do not have the Gina K's Wild Blossoms stamp. I tried to arrange a few sprigs stamps in the Misti. Stamped a sample, but it did not look great. Luckily I found an Inkakindado Meadow stamp that I stamped with Versafine onxy black ink.

I like how Gina used a 1/8 inch strip of black cardstock at the masking line. I glued it with some nice thick white glue from my stash. I had put the glue in a small bottle with a needle nose tip. However the tip always gets clogged and I have to play with getting the glue to flow.

Happy birthday stamped in the Versafine black onyx ink using a Stampabilities stamp.

Thanks so much for visiting! Peace and all good!

Time to Coast Cards

I had so much fun making these seaside cards with Gina K's Time To Coast stamp set and her cool window dies from the Master Layouts 5 die set.

This was my first card. On a quarter sheet of white cardstock, I stamped the lighthouse with my Misti using Marvy #1 black ink for all 3 cards. The lighthouse, clouds and rocks are one stamp.

I should have cut out a mask for the clouds and lighthouse before blending the colors of the sky!

I used sticky notes at the horizon line, to separate the sky from the ocean. Using blending brushes, I added ink to the sky starting at the horizon and going upward with the following:

distress spiced marmalade

distress scattered straw

Gina K ocean mist

Gina K blue lagoon

distress faded jeans at the top.

For the ocean I covered the sky at the horizon using sticky notes, applying distress oxide salty ocean with a blending brush.

Then I colored the lighthouse red and the tops of the rocks grey using "Simply" Daler Rowney colored pencils.

Used black cardstock to frame the lighthouse piece and then attached to a 4-1/4" x 5-1/2" white card.

For this card and the next one, I made a mask to cover the clouds and lighthouse, so my clouds stayed white. I also used sticky notes at the horizon line to mask the ocean.

Using blending brushes, I added ink to the sky starting at the horizon and going upward with the following:

Gina K wild dandelion

Gina K ocean mist

distress faded jeans.

For the ocean I used distress salty ocean (not the oxide this time).

In addition to the "Simply" Daler Rowney red and grey colored pencils used in the previous card, I also used a Jane Davenport colored pencil called "ink" to add shading to the clouds where there were "lines".

I made the window using white cardstock and Gina K's faux woodgrain technique explained on her Sunset Window Scene with Master Layouts 5 - Stamp and Chat Live Replay. The woodgrain appears almost like magic! Love this technique. For the window, I used distress pumice stone on a quarter sheet of cardstock to create faux woodgrain. Then I cut Gina's frame and rectangle from the Master Layouts 5 dies set.

For the scene behind the window, I used the same method for the sky previously described, except I used these colors:

distress dried marigold

distress scattered straw

Gina K ocean mist

distress faded jeans

I used a Faber Castell #152 colored pencil to add blue to the ocean.

I followed Gina's Creating an Ink Blended Window Scene - Stamp and Chat Live Replay very helpful for details in positioning the window over the scene as well as Gina's blending ideas.

Used Gina K's scalloped rectangle (3.85" x 5") from Gina's Master Layouts 4 die set to cut the blue layer behind the window.

Thanks for visiting! Peace and all good!

Sunday, September 12, 2021

Fluttering Fall Stamp and Stencil Bundle

I treated myself to Gina K's Fluttering Fall Stamp and Stencil Bundle. Found Gina's YouTube tutorial Washi Tape Background Technique and a Fluttering Fall Card Idea very helpful. Gina gives excellent advice on cutting the stencils out first and using removable tape to keep the cutout in place on your work surface. Then it is easy to center the stencil. I kept my flowers simple-using only 2 ink colors, a light color first, with the larger stencil. Then a darker color for the smaller stencil. I omitted the circle oval and the dotted center stencil parts as shown in Gina's video only. This was a totally new technique of adding color with the stencil. I look forward to using more of the stencil parts next time.

Instead of using Gina's washi tape background, I made a faux woodgrain background that I learned from Gina's Creating an Ink Blended Window Scene - Stamp and Chat Live Replay. Scroll to about 18:31 minutes to see how she swipes an inkpad over scored cardstock to look like planks of wood. I used white paper and distress antique linen ink on this card.

For the butterfly I used distress shaded lilac, distress wilted violet, distress and a Gelly Roll 08 white pen for the dots.

For the leaves and twig: GK jelly bean green, GK honey mustard

The sentiment is from Gina K's Original Wreath Builder stamp set.

Butterfly: GK sea glass and tranquil teal

Flower same as above, but added dots with Gelly Roll 08 white pen.

Leaves: ink blended the GK jelly bean green first then added a touch of GK tranquil teal to give the leaves a two-tone look, see minute 44:00 in her YouTube video.

Sentiment; Love and prayers, are 2 stamps from Gina's Fluttering Fall Stamp set.