If you follow my YouTube channel you’ll have already seen these cards. These are my first cards using the Love From Lizi July card kit (still available as of writing this post). I wanted this to be my video for yesterday, and it kind of was – it went live just a few minutes after midnight. I didn’t have time to finish the blog post then though. Now that I’m more awake I’ve got it finished up. The inspiration behind these cards was the tassels that came in the card kit. I ink blended simple backgrounds to match each tassel, paired them with a stamped, coloured and die cut girl from the Summer Fruits stamp set, and turned them into a set of four fun cards.
As I said, I began with my ink blending. I used a different kind of ink for each of the cards. For the red I used Festive Berries Distress Oxide. I went with Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink for the yellow-orange, and decided to use Limoncello ink by Catherine Pooler for the yellow-green tassel. Finally I used Hero Arts’ Green Apple for the green tassel.
Next I stamped out the rear-facing girl from the the Summer Fruits stamp set that came in the kit. I stamped her four times onto a snippet of white card stock using MFT Black Licorice Hybrid ink. I then used my Spectrum Noir Illustrator Markers to colour the images in. You can see the colours I used in the video. I gave each of the girls different hair and skin colours. I then used the coordinating dies to die cut them out.
Before adhering everything into place I chose a sentiment from the stamp set and added it to each of the card bases, stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink for a crisp impression. I then snipped away the bottom portion of each of the girls and popped them up with a double layer of the foam squares that were also a part of the kit. For the tassels I used my hot glue gun.
As a final touch I added some Nuvo Drops to each of the cards. I used Strawberry Coulis for the red card, Ripened Pumpkin for the orange, Yellow Bird glitter drops for the yellow, and Sour Apple glow drops for the green.
I had a lot of fun making these cards and I’m really pleased with how they turned out. It’s pretty much exactly what I had in mind! I enjoyed trying out the different inks and seeing which worked best for this. It was interesting to find that the Distress Oxide was actually the most difficult to work with. It gives a very good coverage but I wanted to fade out to white, and it didn’t work quite as well for that. The others all worked really nicely for that purpose.
Love,
Lady Joyful
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Challenges:
Addicted to Stamps and More – Clean and Simple
Crafty Gals Corner – Summer Fun
Creatalicious Challenges – Anything Goes
Digi Choosday – Anything Goes
Double D Challenges – Tropical
Fabrika Fantasy – Summer
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends – Anything Goes
Pixie’s Snippets Playground – Snippets
Polkadoodles Craft Challenge – Anything Goes
The Cutie Pie Challenge – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Wow these are fabulous. Such a clever idea. Love them. Thank you for sharing your project with us at Digi Choosday this time. Hope to see you again next time.
Dawn xxx
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What a fabulous Creation you`ve made I love it and
Thank you for joining us at Polkadoodles Craft Challenge
Hugs and much creativity
Cinderella
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OMG so clever and what fun! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Double D ‘Tropical’ challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.
Darlene
DOUBLE D Challenge Blog
DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS Please stop in for a visit!
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This is super effective! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Creatalicious. Good luck with your entry and we do hope to see you here again. Jackie DT @ Creatalicious xx
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I love these Charlotte – and, I always love watching and listening to your videos. Always calm. composed – and so worth watching! Great cards kiddo!
Hugs
Di xx
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These are so fun! Great choice of colors.
Thank you for joining us at Crafty Gals Corner for our Summer Fun challenge.
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Too darn clever and so much fun! Thank you so much for playing along with us at ATSM!
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Simply gorgeous!
Thanks for joining us at Digi Choosday
Julie T
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Gorgeous cards…Thanks for joining us at the Cutie Pie challenge 🙂
Wendy xx
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Wonderful cards!
Thank you soo much for taking part in our “anything goes + optional 2 or more design papers” challenge over at Creatalicious & good luck in the draw.
Hope to see you again in our new challenge as well…
Hugs,
Melanie
(DT-Coordinator Creatalicious Challenges)
(DT Crafty Friends)
(DT The Sketchy Challenges)
(DT Simply Create Too)
PS: Sorry for the late comment, life had been very busy these past weeks…
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