Rachel Vass Designs

 Happy Sunday!  I don't think I shared yet on my blog that I have joined the design team for Rachel Vass Designs!  It's SUPER exciting for me because I have long adored Rachel's digital stamps.  She creates the most phenomal floral images and much more!  My full gig starts in April but I hit the ground running and managed two projects for this month.

I'm actually going to share them in reverse order by showing this week's card first.

I created an easel card using the Freshly Picked set.  This is one of her new releases for March.

I printed the flowers on Bristol Smooth cardstock and colored them with Karin Markers.  The colors I used were Pale Pink 220, Cerise 375, Lilac 226, Pale Orange 357 and Amber 197.

The card base is 80# Neenah Solar White cardstock.  I used the Splintered Stencil from A Colorful Life Designs.  I added soft coloring with Worn Lipstick and Spun Sugar.  I concentrated the darkest color in the area I wanted to be behind the flowers and slowly faded it out from there.

I added Worn Lipstick and silver splatters to the card base.  I went ahead and fussy cut the flowers out and added foam tape to the back.  I adhered them to the card right below the fold line for the easel.  I tucked in a few pink sequins and added Unicorn Stickles to the flower centers.

The sentiment was printed onto Neenah cardstock.  I used a scrap piece of Bristol and sponged on Worn Lipstick distress ink so it would match the front.  I popped it up on foam tape and added to the inside of the card.  

The card I shared earlier in the month features the Ruffle Flowers Background.  It is also a new release this month.  It is a very simple mini slimline.  Perfect if you need to create a quick card!

I printed the Ruffle Flowers Background out onto black cardstock.  Then I ran it through my Minc with opal foil.   I cut the panel down to 3" x 6".  I added it to a purple panel 3 1/8" x 6 1/8" and then onto a white card base.

The sentiment was printed onto white cardstock.  I added the same purple cardstock.  Popped it up with foam tape before adding it to the card.  And that was it!  So quick and easy but it still packs a visual punch thanks to the pretty foil!

I look forward to sharing more of my projects featuring Rachel Vass Designs digital stamps in the months to come.

~Toodles

Kristina

Supplies used:

Compensated affliate links may be used - I may receive a small commission at no additional charge to you should you make a purchase using my link.

Teflon bone folder Shop at: EH	Antiques Silver Spray - Altenew Shop at: Altenew	Neenah Solar White Shop at: SBC | EH	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue Shop at: SBC | EH
Lawn Fawn Black Licorice Cardstock Shop at: SBC	Therm O Web Foam Tape Shop at: SBC | EH	Opal Deco Foil Shop at: SBC | EH	Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper Shop at: EH
Spun Sugar Distress Ink Shop at: SBC	Zots for Bling Therm O Web Shop at: SBC	Unicorn Stickles Shop at: SBC | EH	Replacement blending foam - Ranger Shop at: EH
Worn Lipstick distress ink Shop at: SBC | EH

Home Is Where Mom Is release hop

Welcome to the Scrappy Tails Craft's Home is Where Mom is blog and video hop!  Today, we are hopping along to celebrate the launch of the new release!  Each designer along the hop will be showcasing products frm the new release, so there will be plenty of Mother's Day and Spring time inspiration!  Hop along and leave your comments on each person's blog and video to enter into the chance to win one of three $25 gift certificates to the Scrappy Tails Craft's website!  The more comments you leave, the more opportunities to win!  Be sure to subscribe to the Scrappy Tails YouTube channel to enter the giveaways, and also consder subscribing to all of the designer's blogs and videos.  

The hop ends on Thursday, April 1st at 11:59 PM EST.  Winners will be announced on the Scrappy Tails Craft's YouTbue channel on Friday, April 2nd.  If you see something that catches your as you are hopping along, be sure to use our design team member's affilate links linsted in their blogs and video descriptions!  This is no added cost to you, it's just a fun way to support our crafty friends!

Welcome to my blog!  For my project I tried to squeeze in as many of the new products as I could in one card.  They are the Slimline Brick Background die, Whimsical Layering Daisies dies, Oopsy Daisy stamps and the Oopsy Daisy matching dies.  Let's check out my card.

Let's talk about the process.  I ran the Slimline Brick Background die through my die cut machine.  When I took it out, I carefully added tape to the back side so the pieces would stay in place.  Next I inked it up with Fired Brick and Aged Mahogany distress inks.  I splattered it with clean water, dabbed it off and dried it with my heat tool.

I wanted my bricks to look more aged and add some sort of texture.  I grabbed a semi-translucent embossing paste and a craft spatula.  I just spread some of it on here and there.  The added benefit was that it seemed to actually brighten up the colors on my panel.

I set that aside got to work on creating ink smooshed watercolor papers to cut my daisy pieces from.

The light panels on the left are Antique Linen.  The panels in the middle are Mustard Seed, Wild Honey and a touch of Ripe Persimmon.  The panels on the right are Shabby Shutters and Peeled paint.

I glued the brick panel onto a white slimline card base.  I added a generous amount of metallic dark silver splatters.  I laid out all of the daisy pieces onto the card.  Once I liked the positions, I used a piece of Press 'n Seal to pick them up.  I worked my way through each flower.  Liquid glue for the flat pieces and some of the flower centers are popped up with foam tape.

I stamped and die cut one of the bees from the Oopsy Daisy set.  I colored the bee with a Y15 copic marker on the body.  I used BV0000 for the wings.  I popped it up with foam tape and added it to the flower.  I did go over the wings with Unicorn Stickles.  The sentiment also came from the Oopsy Daisy stamp set.  I fussy cut it out as well as the black shadow layer.  I put foam tape on the back before adding it to the card.

Another view so you can see the embossing past texture.

That's it for me!  And if you saw something you liked, you can use code STCBLOG10 for 10% off your order in the Scrappy Tails Crafts store!

Your next stop on the hop is: Jackie Pasko

Disclaimer: We must mention that this is in no way sponsored, administered or associated with YouTube.  By entering, entrants confirm that they are 13+ years of age, we release YouTube of responsibility, and agree to their terms of use.

~Toodles

Kristina

 Supplies used:

Compensated affliate links may be used - I may receive a small commission at no additional charge to you should you make a purchase using my link.

Teflon bone folder Shop at: EH	Antiques Silver Spray - Altenew Shop at: Altenew	Neenah Solar White Shop at: SBC | EH	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue Shop at: SBC | EH
Lawn Fawn Black Licorice Cardstock Shop at: SBC	Therm O Web Foam Tape Shop at: SBC | EH	Canson Watercolor paper Shop at: EH	Copic Marker BV0000 Shop at: EH
Jet Black Amalgam ink pad - Gina K Shop at: EH	Copic Marker Y15 Shop at: EH	Unicorn Stickles Shop at: SBC | EH	Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink - mini Shop at: SBC | EH
Antique Linen Distress Ink - mini Shop at: SBC | EH	Cutter Bee Scissors - EK Success Shop at: SBC	Fired Brick - Distress Ink Shop at: SBC | EH	Oopsy Daisy Stamps - Scrappy Tails Crafts Shop at: SCT
Oopsy Daisy dies - Scrappy Tails Crafts Shop at: SCT	Slimline Brick Background die - Scrappy Tails Crafts Shop at: SCT	Whimsical Layering Daisies dies - Scrappy Tails Crafts Shop at: SCT	Shabby Shutters distress ink Shop at: SBC | EH
Peeled Paint distress ink Shop at: SBC

Coffee Lovers hop

 Woot!  It's my favorite time of year!  The Spring/Summer Coffee Lovers hop has arrived!  Would you like to play along?  Click HERE to get all of the details.

My card for today features a gorgeous digital stamp from Super Sponsor Rachel Vass Designs.  I am using images from the Cup of Joe set.  You can find that HERE in her Etsy shop.

I shook things up because this card actually opens to the left instead of the top.  You could even turn it the other way if you liked how it looked from that direction.  I printed it on Neenah Solar White cardstock.  The background is a combination of Copic markers in BG18, 13 and 11.  I went over it several times until I had a nice blend.  Then I went back and added dot detail to make the transition more visually appealing.  

While I was coloring it I realized my BG11 was bone dry so I refilled it.  Well, I must have overfilled it because it just wanted to create big blobs.  So, I let it!  I changed it to an advantage instead of a disadvantage.  Sometimes you just have to go with it!

The coffee cup is colored with V01, Y17, Y15 and Y13.  The coffee itself is E29, E27 and E25.

I wanted the coffee cup to really pop so I went with minimal details on the saucer and flowers.  I added shading with a graphite pencil around the cup and on the flower petals.  I used a blending stump to smooth it out a bit.  I used a fine tip black pen to add the flower center detail.  It's a little outside my comfort zone to doodle but I did it anyway!

The rest of the card is pretty simple.  I cut the coffee panel with a stitched rectangle die.  I ran a another piece of Neenah cardstock through with a circles embossing folder.  I glued the embossed piece to the card base.  I added foam tape to the back of the coffee panel and added it to the card base as well.  And that's it! #springsummer2021clh

Thanks for stopping by!

~Kristina

Supplies used:

Compensated affliate links may be used - I may receive a small commission at no additional charge to you should you make a purchase using my link.

Teflon bone folder Shop at: EH	Neenah Solar White Shop at: SBC | EH	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue Shop at: SBC | EH	Copic Marker Y13 Shop at: EH
Kuretake ZIG Millennium pen set Shop at: SBC	Therm O Web Foam Tape Shop at: SBC | EH	Blending Stumps Shop at: EH	BG 18 Copic Marker Shop at: EH
BG13 Copic Marker Shop at: EH	BG11 Copic Marker Shop at: EH	V01 Copic Marker Shop at: EH	Y17 Copic Marker Shop at: EH
E29 Copic Marker Shop at: EH	E27 Copic Marker Shop at: EH	E25 Copic Marker Shop at: EH	Copic Marker Y15 Shop at: EH
A2 Stitched Rectangle Stax Set 1 dies -My favorite things Shop at: EH