Paper craft project no. 471: Magical holiday season CAS card

Sharing a card today featuring the awesome stamp set designed by the equally awesome Kimberly Wiener! NORDIC KNIT TAG is being released under the Limited Run Stamps line by STAMPlorations :o) We're having a mini hop and one lucky crafter who leaves a comment on the STAMPlorations blog and designers' blogs will win Kimberly's set.

Pretty cool stamp set, right? Just begs for a clean and simple card -- which is exactly what I did. I die-cut the medium tag from the Luggage Tag dies on white card stock then I placed it at an angle over my card base, securing it with washi tape underneath so it wouldn't move while stamping. I placed the card base on my DIY stamping press and stamped the snowflake border in two different colors. Then I stamped the pair of reindeer in red and the sentiment (from Warm Hands, Warm Hearts) in black. 

Hope you'll check out the cards that the stamp designer herself made + cards and tags by Toni and Vicki featuring these fun stamps. Just head over here. And until Tuesday, November 15, Kimberly's Nordic Knit Tag stamp set is 10% off at the store.

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Paper craft project no. 384: Believe and Discover one layer cards

  

Popping by today to share two one layer cards I made featuring the ink bleeding technique, the same technique I used in this card here. (A little background on the technique: I was playing with my calligraphy pens last week as I sketched new stamp designs on my sketch book. I was prepping one of the drawings for a colorwash and when I ran my waterbrush over the sketched image, the ink bled. The next thing I know, I was testing it out on my stamps and card designs.) 

I used two of the 6 new sets in STAMPlorations' Bold Sentiments line. (If you want the chance to win one of the new sets, check out this post on the STAMPlorations blog.)

Card #1: Believe in your vision

To create this monochromatic card, I stamped the large narcissus in antique linen (Distress marker). Then I traced over the stamped image with a calligraphy pen and ran my waterbrush over the ink to create the inky, artsy look.

I'm linking up card #1 to these fun challenges:

• Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
• Brown Sugar #158 - Anything Goes
• Addicted to Stamps and More #157 - Make Your Mark (I used a calligraphy pen on the stamped image)

Card #2: Discover possibilities

To create this card, I placed the ARTplorations Tribal Triangles stencil on my card base and loosely watercolored inside the triangles with Sakura Koi watercolors. After it dried, I traced the triangles with a calligraphy pen and then ran a wet brush over to let the ink bleed. I added a bit of faux texture on the card by stamping the grunge newsprint and sketchy borders.

I'm linking up card #2 to these fun challenges:

• Artistic Inspirations #137 - Anything goes with a twist of water (I used watercolors)
• Crafting from the Heart #72 - Anything Goes
• Craft Your Passion #274 - Anything Goes

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Paper craft project no. 382: One layer cards featuring Lotus Love!

   

Today's a super special day because there's a special stamp release + mini blog hop happening over at the STAMPlorations blog. Deepti, Cornelia, LauraJane, and I are sharing cards we made using a fabulous new set that Deepti designed: Lotus Love! If you hop along, you could be the lucky winner of the set :o) Comment on the STAMPlorations blog and designers' blogs by Friday, August 7.

I made 2 one layer cards:

Card #1

For this card, I used Canson watercolor paper as my card base. I created the frame by masking. I stamped the different images using a black Faber-Castell PITT artist brush pen and watercolored them with Sakura Koi watercolors. I kept the card pretty simple by sticking to just two colors and leaving out a sentiment (which I'll stamp later depending on the occasion).

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Card #2
I used watercolor paper again as a card base. First, I stamped the lotus image then masked off two sides before stamping the same image again. I used Sakura Koi watercolors and Inktense pencils to color the lotus. Removed the masking tape on the sides then stamped the grunge newsprint and brick (from Mixed Media Grunge) and the sentiment.

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Challenges:

Card #1: Always Something Creative #104 - CAS; Sisters of Craft - ATG

Card #2: OLS #19 - Strip Down; HLS August CAS Challenge - Masking