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Friday, 16 March 2018

Trio of Floral Cards

Hi friends !
Good Morning :)

Preeti Datta (aka Dutt Preety) here. How are you this fine morning ?

Today, I have a Trio of Floral Cards to share with you.
I wanted to create 3 different cards with the same stamp set, "Adore You" by Altenew. This stamp set is one of my favorites and definitely a must have for your cardmaking and other crafting projects. I used similar supplies & color scheme for the 3 cards to show that we can get a different look by making slight alterations. I've used Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers for watercoloring. They are currently on sale at Crafters Corner, so, it is a great time to grab them! All the supplies from the store are linked at the end of this post for your convenience :)

Let's get started.

Card 1: Happy

Photo Tutorial:

1. Stamped the flowers and leaves from Altenew's Adore You Stamp Set onto Watercolor Paper with Versafine Onyx Black ink

2. Watercolored the images with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers & Koi Water Brushes.

Tip: Keep a few tissues nearby to dab off excess color/water

3. Did ink smooshing on Dress My Craft Floral Oriental White Cardstock by scribbling blue markers onto a piece of acetate, spraying it with water and then smooshing the colors onto the paper. Did this a few times to get an organic look of ink splatter.

Tip: Dry the colors before adding more layers of color on top

4. Fussy cut the images with the Cutter Bee Scissors

Tip: Darken the edges of the cut images with a black marker for a finished look

5. Die cut the ink smooshed cardstock with the largest out of the Gina Marie Designs Rounded Stitched Rectangle Die set and also die cut the word happy a few times in black using Altenew's Happy die. Then stuck the die cuts together (to form a dimensional sentiment) using Ranger's Multi Medium Matte.

6. Assembled the card by creating a floral cluster with the fussy cut images. Before adhering it to the stitched panel added some black thread under it for texture and interest. Then adhered the cluster with a few foam mounted elements and some adhered with glue. Then adhered the dimensional sentiment & foam mounted the panel onto the A2 sized card base. Finally, embellished the card with a few Nuvo Drops.

Card 2: Thank You (Clean & Simple Style- CAS)

Process:

1. Added a striped washi tape to the right side of the beige colored card (A2 size).

2. Created a floral cluster & adhered some of the elements with foam tape & the rest with glue

3. Stamped the sentiment with Versafine Onyx Black Ink

4. Embellished the card with a few Nuvo Drops

Card 3: Have a Beautiful Day

Process:

1. Created watercolored stripes with zig markers and a water brush on a rounded stitched rectangle die cut. Also created a little splatter with black ink to add interest to the background.

2. Stamped the sentiment in black from Altenew's Floral Frames Stamp Set

3. Created a floral cluster with the water colored & fussy cut images. Then adhered the floral cluster to the panel.

4. Foam mounted the panel onto an A2 sized white card base.

5. Finally, embellished the card with blue sequins

Supplies from the Crafters Corner Store:

1. Altenew's Adore You Stamp

2. Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers- 80 Pack

3. Versafine Onyx Black Mini Inkpad

4. Cutter Bee Scissors

5. 3 D foam tape

6. Gina Marie Rounded Stitched Rectangle Die

7. White Cardstock- Dress My Craft Floral Oriental Collection

8. Ranger's Multi Medium Matte (Adhesive)

9. Tonic Studio's Nuvo Crystal Drops- Pearl White

10. Tonic Studio's Nuvo Glitter Drops- Blue Lagoon

11. Tonic Studio's Nuvo Crystal Drops- Ebony Black

12. Glossy Accents

13. Mudra's Couture Sequins- Harvest Mix

14. Craft Medley Sequins- Rhythm N Blues

15. Dress My Craft 3.5 inch Acrylic Block

16. Koi Water Brush Small

17. Koi Water Brush Medium

18. Big Shot Plus Machine for Die Cutting

19. Altenew's Happy Die & Floral Frames Stamp (on Pre-Order)

We love to see your gorgeous creations using supplies from the store, so please do share them with us in our Facebook Group- Crafters Corner Showcase using the apt hashtags #craftwithcrafterscorner #dressmycraft #crafterscornerindia, on Twitter or on Instagram.

Thanks a lot for your precious time :)

Hope you have a great weekend!

Stay Blessed

Preeti

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Thursday, 17 September 2015

"Reach Out To your Dreams"- Mixed media canvas with a video tutorial

Hello friends!
Jaya here today with you all.

Today I have a mixed media canvas to share with you all. I also have a video tutorial for it.

Have a look

Here is the link to the video tutorial

Supplies used-

Canvas board

Prima modelling paste Opaque matt

Prima heavy gesso Black

Palette knife

Tim Holtz stencil- Stripes

Rangers Gold embossing powder

Jet Black Archival Ink

Prima chalk edger- black

Prima resin - Butterfly

Prima SIIC

Lindys stamp gang sprays-

Time Travel Teal,

Rusty Lantern Lime,

Hags wart Orange,

Yellow rose of Texas,

Mango mania

Stamps-

Marion Smith Typography,

Altenew Painted flowers stamp

Hope you like it.

Have a great crafty week!

Monday, 29 June 2015

Exploring different papers

Hello there,

How are you all? In my last post here I talked about Neenah Card Stock which is excellent for regular cardmaking and works the best with ink blending, stamping, die cutting and as a card base . Today, I am sharing few other speciality papers and how they work with different mediums. I am sharing few other papers we have at Crafters Corner. See, each paper has its characteristic so read the package carefully to get the best out of it. I am listing few of them with its meaning .

- Acid Free - Means it has pH 7.0 or higher. In our school chemistry we learned about acidic and basic substances and their pH scale measures . If the pH is less than 7 it is considered acidic. Such papers (eg. news paper) deteriorate and become yellowish and brittle. So your cards and scrapbook will deteriorate over time if you are not careful choosing your papers.

- Lignin Free - As we know papers are made from plants. Lignin is a natural occurring bonding element in plants that holds the wood fibre together. While lignin is not an acid, it does give off acids as it deteriorates. Therefore if you have a paper that is only acid free, but still contains lignin, it will become acidic over time.

- Archival Quality - means paper is acid & lignin free, made from cotton and processed in a way to make it more durable.

- Cotton Content - makes paper strong yet pliable at the same time. Cheap papers are made from wood pulp rather than cotton.

1. ) Brustro water color papers.

These papers are made of cotton and cellulose. They are professional grade paper made in Italy . It is cold press paper which means it has texture. The bumps and dents hold colour pigments very well. It adsorbs water quickly without warping and gives bright images.

I simply stamped and heat embossed images from this penny black set . I used various distress inks ( I don't have distress markers. I love to dab my ink pad on an acrylic block and use it as a palate.) Die cut is by PTI die. It didn't buckle or warp a bit in spite of using loads of water and ya, I never tape it down...:P. Use regular glue to mount it on Neenah CS.

And here goes my first video. (It has a spelling mistake but hey...i didn't have time to correct it). It is very basic and mute but I request you all to go easy on my video making skills...:) I really wanted to share how i use distress inks as water colours.

Video : Water colouring with distress inks.

Hope you will enjoy it. And don't forget to leave a comment.

2. Brustro Ultra SmoothBristrol -

This paper is super smooth which makes it ideal for solvent based markers, felt tip pen, ink, airbrush, pencil & charcoal.

I have used the Altenew stamp with black Memento ink for stamping and Copic markers for colouring. Because of the paper's smooth surface, the marker tip glides very smoothly making colouring so...so easy and gives beautiful blending. And it is little less absorbent which means you use less ink to blend.

For the next card, I have used same paper for panel . I used Altenew -Figure Effect- stamp set. Background is stamped in smoke grey-versa fine ink. Added few splatters in gold. For the panel, I used Hero arts Ink Daubers to make that little green slope. Both the figures and 'more than you'll know' sentiment are stamped with versafine-black ink. Added little glossy accent on heart.

As the paper is smooth, stamping was super neat. Along with Neenah this is going to be my go to paper.

3. In my last post, I worked with Neenah and pigment inks. Today, I used various dye inks for stamping on Neenah. See the end result.

I used Papertrey ink stamp to create this fun pattern by stamping multiple times with various (memento, wplus, heroarts) inks. Die is by papertrey too. I stacked various colored die cut underneath to give dimension to sentiment. It gives very elegant touch to the card.

4. You all know about Fabriano paper. It is textured on one side and smooth on other. Their colors are bright and pretty. Here i have used the smooth side of white CS as my card base. it is a simple single layer card with multilayer stamping.

I created a cluster of flowers using wplus9 stamp and various memento inks. Sentiment is by Simon says stamp. Smooth side is ideal for stamping. Textured side can be used as base when you are mounting stamped panel on top of it.

5. Next paper is Brustro Artists'Oil Painting Paper. I don't know how many of you have used this paper but I used it for the first time and I am very impressed. It has this unique paper surface which is obtained through a specialized texturing process. It is similar to linen canvas. I used it as a base for my card. I gave a wash with yellow thin down acrylic color. Added a layer of gesso on top of it to mute the background a little.

I applied texture paste using Tim Holtz Stencil and some acrylic colour splatter. I took one portion of a cover plate die cut by Winnie & Walter. I coloured the die cut using acrylic colours with a piece of foam. Added foil in few parts once dried. Added diamond die cut, sentiment and two rub-ons to finish it off. This paper is perfect fit for mixed-media artists.

I loved this paper so much that I decided to try acrylic colours. I wanted few tags for a friend who is an artist. So instead of making each tag separately, I decided to make a large panel and cut it into tags eventually.

I taped down a panel with masking tape and painted a whole rainbow with acrylics. Once it was dry, I added a wash of white color and drew some shapes with sharpie. I kept on adding layers till I was happy. I was so engrossed that I forgot to take pictures in between. Once it was dry I cut the panel into various tags.

Look at the gorgeous canvas like texture. Love it.

I hope this post will help you to choose a perfect fit paper for your project.

Please leave a comment here if you would like to know about any particular product. I would love to hear from you all.

Keep crafting and be happy...!

Supply List:

Papers :

- Neenah CS

- Brustro water color papers.

- Brustro Ultra SmoothBristrol

- Fabriano

- Brustro Artists'Oil Painting Paper

Inks :

- Memento Dye Inks

- Versafine Black, Smoke grey

- Hero Arts Shadow inks

- Heroarts Daubers Green Field, Mint

-Distress inks

- Copic Markers

- Versamark

Stamps:

- penny black set

- Altenew stamp

- Penny Black Heartfelt

- Simon Says Sending and wishing

Other :

- Ranger Embossing Powder -white

- Ranger Texture Paste

- Gesso

- Tim Holz Stencil

- Thermo web foil and glue

- Tim Holtz Rub On

Wednesday, 27 May 2015

Banner garland

Hi friends ,

This project is very close to my heart as I made it for my daughters room. Both of us love pink and we always wanna be surrounded with this gorgeous colour .

I created a banner for her pin up board where she organises her school schedule and her other activities.

Step 1:

I started by cutting 5 thick Kraft coloured triangles and 5 different pion patterned paper triangles( which were a little smaller than the Kraft triangles) I love the pion papers because they r so pretty and girly.

Step 2:

I used clear bead gel and the beautiful tim holtz lace stencil to add some texutre on the triangles.

Step 3:

Next I stamped few Altenew vintage flowers and vintage roses with the help of my misti tool. Fussy cut them by hand.

I used the stampin up inks for these vibrant pretty blooms.I have a tiny video tute to introduce you to "Misti"

video link :
https://youtu.be/Z1cW4villWQ

Step 4:

I wanted to use the super cute Julie Nutting wooden dolls for this project as my daughter loves them. I wanted to trim away the loop and it was easy with tonic scissors.

Step 5:

I used one of my spellbinders labels die to cut 5 pieces which i have placed at the base of my arrangement. There are lots of cute tags and elements in the pion stack and I trimmed and distressed them too.

Step 6:

I punched some pink paper with the STAMPIN up border punch & added at the top. I sticked a pearl string and a white lace trim to add interest.

Step 7:

Final arrangement of the banner . I layered few pion elements and tags over each other. Then I placed the roses and leaves. I sticked the doll and a cute mini metal charm. To add a little bling I used the mariane crystals here and there.

Finally i stringed all the five triangles through some seem binding and a cute banner was created .

Here are some close up shots :

My daughter absolutely loved it and will place it the way she wants.

I hope u too liked this post.

Thanks for stopping by

Lots of love

Arjita

list of supplies:
Altenew Vintage flowers stamp
pion papers
spellbinders labels 20
darice kraft card stock
Misti tool
Glass bead glitter
tim holtz lace stencil
jullie nutting wooden dolls
pink gems
distress ink-vintage photo
crop a dile
tonic scissors
charms mixed
stamping up Ink(on demand)
stamping up scalloped punch( on demand)
foam tape
tombow multi glue

Thursday, 21 May 2015

Altenew bonanza!!!

Hi friends,

I fell in love with the Altenew stamps at first sight😍. The stamps are so different and versatile . We can achieve various looks and styles with just one stamp. For today's post I have picked one of the most popular stamp sets called the "Persian motifs" and it's coordinating die set available at our store. Having the die set makes cutting the shapes hassle free but I must mention that the images can be easily fussy cut too.

The techniques are very popular and are created by few of my favorite card makers. I have attempted to take inspiration for them and here is my version ...
I have created mini video tutorials for each of the techniques I have used , I have also uploaded them on the crafterscornerscreen youtube channel .

Hope u like the post for today and give these cool techniques a try.

This is the Persian motifs stamp set and the coordinating die

Card #1 White on Kraft

I stamped and Heat embossed the flowers and leaves at the top left corner of the Kraft card stock. I used the super fine detail white embossing power to emboss my images and sentiment.

Coloured the flowers and leaves by using water soluble pencil colours and few distress makers.

Close up

the video for this card is linked here

List of supplies Card #1

Altenew stamp-Persian motifs

Altenew die- Persian motifs

Versa mark watermark ink

White super fine embossing powder

Heat it tool

Pencil colours

Abandoned coral marker

Peeled paint marker

Water brush

Card #2 Alcohol markers

I created a background paper by randomly stamping the flowers on a light brown paper. Stamped the two flowers with memento tuxedo ink which is used when we wish to use copic markers .

I used two shades of green copics and stampin' blendability to colour all the images .

I then used the die set to cut the images and sticked them over a tag with some foam tape.

Close up

The video link

List of supplies Card #2

Altenew stamp-Persian motifs

Altenew die- Persian motifs

Memento tuxedo black

Stampin up blendibility

Stampin up tag punch

Stampin up ink pad

Copic markers

Foam tape

Card #3 Water colouring

This is the most exotic of the cards and I love love love water colouring specially the no line look. All u need to do is stamp the images with a light archival ink and then put in all your efforts to achieve the best watercolour results. I used the new distress ink mermaid lagoon and black soot to make this gorgeous card.

Close up

the video link is here

List of supplies Card #2

Altenew stamp-Persian motifs

Wink of Stella

Penny black die -hello

Distress ink-mermaid lagoon

Distress ink-peacock feathers

Distress ink-black soot

Achival ink-coffee

Water brush

Card #4 Delicate Vellum

I wanted a bright background for these delicate vellum flowers to pop. I sprayed few colours on a water coloured paper and blended it with water. Once the background was dry I flicked few water droplets to get the bleached/ bokeh effect. Then I sticked the flowers with some ranger Matt medium. Embossed a sentiment and the card was ready.