Bingorivi

Paskiksessa jälleen bingoillaan. Halusin käyttää pois vihreitä taustoja, halusin käyttää uusia kukkaleimojani... joten riviksi valikoitui vihreä - kukkia - one layer.

Minulla on laatikossa yleensä aina jämäkortteja joiden pintaan olen liimannut paperinpalasia ja maalannut gessolla. Pari päivää sitten putsasin vihreää maalia useammalle niistä, ja valitsin yhden työstettäväksi. Teksti on norjalaisen Rubber Dancen uudelta arkilta, muut leimat Paperartsyn (löysin vastikään tämän hollantilaisen firman, suosittelen). Kukat on leimattu ja embossattu mustalla kohojauheella, minkä jälkeen maalasin akryylimaaleilla ja oikein ohuella pensselillä... tunnustan, että jälkikäteen on lisätty myös mustaa tussia, kun maali peitti väkisin leimausjälkeä. Lopuksi koristelin vielä kuorenkin sävy sävyyn.

Yesterday's memories

A quick post for a quick card... for the Craft Barn weekly challenge (colouring).

The sentiment is from Paperartsy and the background is a Chocolate Baroque stamp. What made this a five-minute card is the fact that I coloured this piece in probably a year ago and found it in my destash pile :) it has been coloured with Inktense pencils and a waterbrush. I found a flower stamp that fit seemingly well with the background, stamped it on the envelope and coloured in with coloursoft pencils. I like the way they worked on the kraft background.

Woyww #323

Joining today in the worldwide wednesday-deskhop hosted by Julia. School has started yesterday, today lessons are running according to normal schedule... Haven't got any real work on my table though. I've been working on my art journal, and lifted it away last night so I could sit and browse the web :) wouldn't have been able to show it anyway, because It's DT stuff!

Last Wednesday evening I decided to dare myself and applied for the Rubberdance scandinavian DT, and was chosen. I'm going to be blogging in swedish, that's why you can see a Finnish-Swedish dictionary on the table. We have a swedish-speaking minority here in Finland, and everyone has to learn swedish at school. For me that was two decades ago... I always had an easy time with it, now I've being warming up by doing the correspondence with RD boss Bibi in swedish and at times I find myself at loss for words or spelling :)

Oh, yes... I made a cool bendy card according to Angelas tutorial, you can find my card here and the tutorial here! 

Love always!

This has been one busy week, but I got a small card made with the Rubber Dance August challenge colours (green, yellow, fuchsia). Part of what has made this week so busy is, that I have had the honour of being chosen as part of the Rubber Dance Scandinavian DT (which means I will be posting in swedish on the RD Scandinavian blog)! I am linking my card as an inspirational piece to the challenge... Happy crafting!

I have been watching some flower tutorials lately, and realized I should maybe buy some dies and try building lovely roses and fuchsia and the like... The flowers on my card are about as simple as can go, the good thing about these is they are so flat that they are easy to attach, the card fits nicely in an envelope and actually the beads keep it from flattening completely inside the envelope. I used a punch from my children's stash, adding colour with Distress inks and cutting into the top layer flowers with a craft knife, so the petals can be lifted. I used Glossy Accents to glue the flower together and adhere the beads.

I made a few bubble backgrounds using this tutorial and Distress reinkers in Mowed Lawn and Squeezed Lemonade. My main image is from Rubber Dance Art Stamps. I coloured it with Distress markers and gave it a spritz of water before stamping. Actually the spritz was a bit too big, his green bowtie just disappeared, and her dress seaped into his suit... But it is quite enchanting like this.

I like to do a bit of mail art for my cards. I used my RD Harlequin stamp, inking it with an ink blender to get a very subtle look. The sentiment was inked up with the same ink (DI Mowed Lawn), spritzed with water and stamped on top of the harlequin pattern.

A Bendy Card

I'm posting my last take on the Paperartsy flowers-challenge. The prompt video of the challenge showed Jofy flowers combined with book paper, I have kraft cards in my destash pile and I've been wanting to try making a bendy card.... all this resulted in a neutral flower card that I think would be suitable for many situations.

The card base is a 6x6 square, and I followed this tutorial for cutting and remodelling it. The two front flaps are held in a bend by tabs that fit in slits. The flowers were then stamped both onto the card base and onto book paper. After quite a bit of fussy cutting, the pieces were in place and I added a touch of white gel pen. Here's how it folds out.

I can imagine adding a sentiment like "congratulations" or "thanks" on the innermost layer, perhaps stamping or heat embossing it with white on a piece of kraft card. For the time being I'm leaving this as it is. I like to do a bit of mail art while I have the stuff out. Since it's not certain that glued pieces would stay stuck on an envelope, I just used a gel pen on a stamped flower. When the tabs are pulled out of the slits, the card fits in the envelope (just have to hope the recipient realizes how to assemble the card!)

Woyww #322 -it's Wednesday again!

Where do these weeks fly? Schools begin in Finland next week, and I just received my teaching schedule beginning next Tuesday... it's hanging on the right, on the screen of our old computer. My desk shows a neat mess of stuff that's left behind after finishing a project: stamps and stencils and Crackle Accents. Most of today's visitors know what this is about, but if you don't, pop over to the Stamping-Ground blog to find a lovely international desk-hop of crafty work spaces.

To finish a hibiscus card project I made some simple mail art on the envelope, visible on the left against the white drawer unit. On top of the drawers is a kraft card base waiting to turn into a bendy card (got to check the tutorial on Angela's blog once more), my art journal and a "how to draw manga" book. The DLP prompts are asking for drawings of faces this week (all month...) and I went to ask my girls if their manga books had some eye practices. There were several, and this one felt least comic-like. I'm still not sure how to dare myself to try! 

My purse is out, because I had to change my credit card info at PayPal... my bank called me a few weeks ago after someone in Africa had tried buying train tickets with my credit card. Took two weeks to get a new one. I'm feeling lucky I just had to suffer the inconvenience.

"Slate" cards

After reading the Garden Slate Panel post on the Paperartsy blog, I wanted to try something similar. Don't have any slate, not really into home decor... I considered covering some card with black gesso, but then I realized I actually have some black card in my stash. After getting started I made three cards, each for different challenges but using the same technique: heat embossing in white, colour with opaque Fresco Finish paints, glitter with Wink of Stella and Stickles and gloss with Crackle accents.

My first experiment involved the same stamps and colours as in the Garden Slate Panel post. I'm posting this card for the Paperartsy challenge (Flowers) and the Craft Barn challenge (Diamonds). I used Smurf as an opaque layer and Southern Skies on top of it to colour the diamond shaped petals.

My second card uses Chocolate Baroque stamps and follows the CB colour challenge (tan, yellow, green, purple). My array of paints is a bit limited, so I used colour pencils on top of the acrylic paints.

Actually it first looked like this, but I felt the multicolour was too restless, and covered the yellow on the left flower and the purple on the right flower with Snowflake and swapped the colours.

I had added dots of purple Sharpie to the purple parts. And despite the opaque paint layers on top, the Crackle accents activated it so that there are orange dots on the butterfly and the yellow flower.

My last card is for the Designs by Ryn August customer challenge. There seems to be some problem with the link, so I'll add this when it starts to work. I used the same blues as for the first card and some Paynes Grey on the moth and leaves, and for the flowers I used Dolly mix as an opaque layer (doesn't really show), and Bougainvilla, a pearlescent pink and Quinadicrone red to add interest.

Colouring in between the lines was mostly quite slow, the first card has fairly small areas to colour and comparing to it the stripes on these hibiscus flowers seemed endless! I mounted each on colour cardstock, they fit perfectly on 5x7 card bases.