Aloha Card

If you have been following my blog, I am in the beginning stages of trying different mixed media techniques. This is a card that I made from using Hot Off the Press’s Color Me Card Toppers. These papers are on glossy cardstock and have a raised, embossed image and come in all kinds of colors of the embossing: white, black, silver, brown, and copper. They are also available in 12 x 12 sheets. The beauty of using these papers is that you can color them whatever color you want, so you will always have that “perfect” color of paper.  Here is a link to a “Webisode” tutorial for using the Ebony Floral Color Me toppers: http://www.paperwishes.com/webisodes/?id=424.

I chose one of the sheets that had a floral side and a “text” side, and cut the card in half.  I will be showing a project I made with the text edge in a couple of days. Today’s project is using the floral edge. I used Stampin’ Up “Watercolor Pencils” from a set I got in the early 2000s.  They are really crayons, not pencils. I believe that the watercolor pencils that they sell now are actual pencils.  I picked some pink and orange colors for the flowers and the end result was tropical in look. I used a light aqua alcohol pen for the background and and colored the flowers and leaves with the crayons. The technique I used was to scribble the crayons on the shiny side of freezer paper and use a wet brush to pick up the color.

I went through my stash of cardstock and found a perfect pink and I cut the cardstock to make a 5 x 6 inch card. I fished through my papers and found some coordinating pink patterned paper.  I belong to Paper Wishes Premiere Dazzles Personal Shopper subscription service, and I had received some red Hibiscus Dazzles stickers a couple of months ago. There is an “Aloha” sticker in the set, which I thought was perfect for this card. I placed the “Aloha” on light pink paper and matted it with the leftover pink cardstock. I also used a red jewel border Dazzle sticker along the right edge of the card, and I had some red tiny flower Dazzles that were a perfect match and I placed them on the edge

For the inside, I cut two 2 ½ x 3 ½ inch rectangles and placed the darker pink print paper slightly offset behind the lighter pink paper. I chose a “Just Because” tiny gold Dazzles sticker, and added some more red flower Dazzles.  This is a nice bright, summery card to send to anyone.

Materials Used: 

• Color Me Toppers Ebony Floral: http://www.paperwishes.com/products/4007055
• Hibiscus Flowers Dazzles: http://www.paperwishes.com/products/4102523
• Tiny Flowers Dazzles: http://www.paperwishes.com/products/4102488
• Red Jewel Border Dazzles: http://www.paperwishes.com/products/4102438
• Gold Tiny Words and Phrases Dazzles: http://www.paperwishes.com/products/4102402
• Pink Cardstock
• Glue
• Foam squares

Your choice of coloring media

All these items can be purchased from www.paperwishes.com

Link to previous blog posting: https://prettycolorful.wordpress.com/2015/05/25/beginning-with-mixed-media/

Revisiting my most viewed blog

I just read my WordPress blog statistics for 2014, and the interesting fact is that one of the first blogs I wrote, in 2013,  was my most viewed blog. This is a blog about making a Hunkydory Crafts Dreams of Spring Rocking Card. This card kit is still available from http://www.paperwishes.com. This is not, however, a tutorial for making an original rocking card. This is a big card, that came in an even bigger cardmaking kit. This was my introduction to Hunkydory.

Pink Rocker Card

The card kit comes with cards in pink, green, peach and lavender. If you want to view my original blog, here is the link: https://prettycolorful.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/following-directions-to-make-a-rocking-card-2/

Here are some links to some rocker card tutorial sites:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_WB4NTKEf4
• http://thestampingchef.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/tutorial-thursday-how-to-make-a-rocker-card/
• http://theclipartfairy.blogspot.com/2013/01/tutorial-how-to-make-up-rocker-card.html

If you want to buy this Hunkydory Dreams of Spring rocking card kit, here is a link: http://www.paperwishes.com/products/4006337

Taking a Side Step

I took a good look through my paper stash to see which papers and images would work with the Side Step Card Blanks from Hot Off the Press. I decided to stay with a similar recipe, using oval die-cuts for the side area of the card and small stickers or die-cuts embellishing the “steps.”  I have a Hunkydory individual card kit that is actually still available at www.paperwishes.com. The kit is called Pink Celebrate and has black Adorable Scorable (http://www.paperwishes.com/products/4006323). For the second card, I used more die-cuts and cardstock from the Lace in Bloom kit that is no longer available.

Materials Used

• Hot Off the Press Side Step Card Blank set http://www.paperwishes.com/products/4103426)
• Hunkydory Pink Celebrate Card Kit
• Pink foiled cardstock from my stash
• Black lacy Dazzle border stickers from my stash
• Hunkydory Lace in Bloom luxury card making kit
• Pink ribbon bow
• Glue dot runner
• Foam tape

 

For my first card, I decided that I needed to have the entire card, front and back, covered with the black Adorable Scorable. I traced the front and back of the cards onto the plain black cardstock from the kit and edged the pieces with black ink. I also measured the steps of the front of the card and cut them out of the black cardstock. I used some foiled pink cardstock from stash and traced the templates from the card blanks onto the back of the cardstock. This cardstock is a match for the pink foiling on the die-cuts from the Pink Celebrate kit. There are several die-cuts in this kit, but I chose the cake and the “Birthday Wishes” die-cuts from the set. I applied foam tape to the back of each die-cut. I used some lacy black Dazzles stickers from my stash, from some Dazzles stickers that are out of stock, but they have all kinds of border dazzles at www.paperwishes.com. The die-cuts have pink and silver foiling, and the card looks so elegant and classy.

 

For my second card, I found an oval die-cut with three roses in vases from the Lace in Bloom kit. There was a coordinating piece of Adorable Scorable with a ghosted rose print and silver lacy foiling on the border. I used the border edge of the cardstock on the “steps” and cut a piece without the border for the front of the card. I found some small, pink die-cuts of a butterfly and a heart with a silver foiled butterfly print, and a die cut that has silver lacy border that says “On your special Day” and stuck some foam tape to each of the die cuts and layered them on the card. I glued a pink bow to the bottom of the roses die-cut. This is also a very elegant looking card. I think that I will probably put these cards up for sale at my Etsy shop, which is also called Pretty Colorful. Because I don’t have a commercial blog account, I can’t post a link to my shop.

 

I really liked how my cards turned out.