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Creating Your Own Chipboard
Creating your own chipboard is very easy. My chipboard is gold, but you can paint yours any colour. See how easy it is.
Gesso a cereal box. If you gesso the shiny side, sand off the shine. Otherwise, gesso the backside.
Paint over your gesso. I used gold. Dry completely before embossing.
Embossed chipboard.
Cut chipboard with Nestabilities.
Finished Chipboard.
Image: Twisted Papers
Subscribe to the comments for this postA2 Spine Card
Here we are at Tuesday again. That means Tutorial Tuesday, which I forgot all about last week. Never mind I had three tutorials shot and uploaded. My memory isn’t as good as it should be.
I first saw this spine card on Godelieve’s Stamping Matilda blog. When I saw it again at my local card shop, I thought it was time to do a tutorial. My card goes a step further by using the Cuttlebug. Enjoy!
Supplies: CB folder, cardstock, ATG gun adhesive or double-sided tape
Cut your card at 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″
Score at 4 5/16″
Using a ruler and pencil, draw a line at 1″ from the center score. Do this on the left side and the right side of the score line.
Fold cardstock in half.
Lift cardstock and crease it at the score line. Do this with the front and back score line. Your spine is now created.
Place your Cuttlebug folder over your cardstock, and butt the edge of your CB folder to the spine score line. Your spine will not be embossed.
This is how your card will look after it has been embossed.
Using a good bondable tape, run tape along the spine of the card and press down to seal well.
Decorate your spine, or leave it alone. Either way works well.
Stamp: Stamping Bella; Decorative Edging: K&Co
How to Create a Moon by Masking
This week I will show you how to create a moon. Although I am using a lighthouse image, any image will do.
My card and tutorial was inspired by this week’s challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs. This week’s challenge is to find a sketch and run with it. My sketch came from Bev at Lili of the Valley’s Challenge Blog.
How do you like my mosaic? It is called Mosaic Magic and came from the August 2006 issue of the Technique Junkie Newsletter.
Supplies: Stamp Image, Ink pads, circle punch/punches, post-it notes, sponges
Stamp out images twice
Cut and punch out your masks
To adhere mask I use these sticker squares because they do not tear the paper when lifting off the mask.
After punching post-it note and placing your mask (the lighthouse) in place, position your post-it note where you would like your moon to go. Sponge yellow or gold around the circle to create the moon.
Nest, place a punched circle over the moon and hold in place while sponging. Sponge a medium blue around the top of the skyline.
Next, use another colour for the sky. I chose Adirondack’s Citrus, but you may choose a purple to act as a sunset.
Finish sponging image.
Sponging accent pieces adds a nice touch to your finished card.
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Try That Technique: Textured Tape Tutorial
TRY THAT TECHNIQUE this week is Textured Tape. Thanks, Diana, for suggesting it. Diana has her own version of Textured Tape so why not take a peak over on her blog to see how different this technique can look.
You can find Textured Tape in the October 2005 issue of the Technique Junkie Newsletter.
Are you interested in seeing how I made my card?
Don’t have the Technique Junkie Newsletter–no worries, this technique can be used with any paper you would like to use.
I created the Textured Tape background as seen in the October 2005 issue of the TJ Newsletter.
Next I stamped my Hero Arts collage stamp on top of my Textured Tape background.
I then stamped out images that I wanted to layer on my collage.
The stamped out images were cut out for layering.
My main image was distressed with a darker ink.
I created a second Textured Tape background and stamped out my Hero Arts background stamp in a darker colour of ink.
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How to Create Paper Flowers
Today I will show you how to create paper flowers by using your favourite floral designer paper. I find it very relaxing to sit back, watch some TV, and cut out flowers from designer paper. This floral paper was loved so much that when I went back to my LSS it was all gone and I cried was disappointed.
Lets pull out some scissors and have a good time.
Supplies: designer paper and scissors (pop dots not in photo)
Cut out flowers. The brown flower can be cut out three different ways: 1) Cut around the outside perimeter; 2) Cut on the outside of the white portion–cuting off the dark brown all together; 3) Use a hole punch to punch out the blue
Here are some examples of how the flowers were cut out.
Layer pop dots to add dimension to your flowers.
Stamp: Our Daily Bread Designs
Designer Paper: Unknown
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Spritz and Scrunch
This week I have a quick technique for you. It is a technique that offers a different look every time. Use your favourite colour combination, or try another. All I ask of you this week, is patience. The drying time is the hardest part, because you will want to see the results right away. Have fun!
Supplies: Ink pads, saran wrap, glossy cardstock
Rub colours of ink onto saran wrap. Butt colours right up to each other–do not leave white space.
Spritz saran wrap with water.
Place on to top glossy cardstock. Scrunch saran wrap and crinkle well.
Once saran has been scrunched, and no white space is left, leave to dry completely. Sometimes drying can take one hour, or a little longer–depending on the amount of water that was spritzed.
Stamp onto dried background and finish as desired.
Stamp credits: Hero Arts
How to Create a One-Layer Panel Card with the Brayer
Gosh, how do you like the title to this tutorial? Coming up with an appropriate eye-catching title is hard to do each week, and this week was the toughest. If you look at my card and the title, you will notice how I compacted it all in the title. My card is one layer, has the look of 9 panels, and it’s all done with the brayer. So there you have it. Enjoy!
Brayer your ink onto glossy cardstock. In my photo I am using Kaleidacolor Caribbean Sea. In my first photo, my other cards use Kaleidacolor Berry Blaze.
With a stamp placement product, center your main image on your cardstock.
Next, place your images along the side of your main image.
You will see that I stamped on additional images so I have a pattern that goes from top to bottom. Place a sticky note across the main image area. You want to add post-it notes to create segments to your card. Your placement is dependent on the images you choose.
Encase the corner images by using sticky notes. With a tiny sponge, sponge coordinating colour around the top and side of your card. You will also do the same along the top of your card (work is underneath the post-it note). Finish by stamping an image in the open area at the center of the top and bottom.
Wasn’t that fun?
Stamp is from Stampin’ Up
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How to Create a Monochromatic Card
Today I will show you how to create a monochromatic card. Continuing on from my Introduction to the Colour Wheel and Work Wonders With the Colour Wheel posts, I want to look at monochrome a little more . You will find my tutorial short, as I didn’t want to overdo my colouring steps. I’m confident that you can colour without me bombarding you with “stuff.”
To start, pick your designer paper. Choose a paper that uses one colour, or one colour with black or with white. For example, your paper may be a variety of shades of pink or blue, or it might be one colour (pink in my case) with black.
Chose an image that lends itself to colouring in only one colour.
Here is a line-up of monochrome colours along with black. In my photo I used light pink to dark magenta.
Don’t forget you can embellish your card, but don’t forget to keep the embellishments within the colours you are allowed. In my example, my brads are black.
I hope this helps you to understand monochrome colours a little more.
Stamp is from Stampin Up and is no longer available
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How to Make a Vellum Criss Cross Card
As I was blurfing, I came across a wonderful blog called Pinkpuds. The most lovely criss cross cross card was displayed and gave me the inspiration for today’s tutorial.
Mina’s card is soft in appearance because she used vellum. I am going to re-create the look but I am going to emboss on my vellum rather than buy vellum with a pattern already on it.
A word of caution, be gentle when you heat emboss on your vellum or else it will warp. Hold your gun over the vellum in brief periods. Have fun!
Supplies: heat gun, white embossing powder, vellum, VersaMark, double sided tape (not in photo)
2 – 4 1/4″ x 11″ strips of vellum
1 – 3 1/2″ x 4 3/4″ (card insert)
1- 3 3/4″ x 5 ” (matt for card)
Heat emboss white stamped images onto vellum.
Tip: To prevent warping, when heat embossing on vellum, hold heat embosser away from the vellum, and lightly heat emboss small areas for 10 seconds and then move onto another area that has not been embossed (cold areas). Next, start from the beginning and emboss until powder is fully embossed.
Score each piece of vellum at 5 1/5″
Following along with the photo, draw lines as shown. Cut along those lines with your paper cutter or with a ruler and exacto knife.
Fold one piece of vellum inwards to the left, and the other inwards to the right,
Using double-sided tape, tape around the perimeter of the back of one of the pieces of vellum.
Join the second backside to create one card.
Optional: Edge your card with gold Krylon pen.
Place double-side tape, or ATG gun tape, along the bottom of the card and bring the right hand side of the vellum in and press it along the bottom of the card.
As above, glue along the bottom of the card, and bring the left hand side forward and press down hard to seal the bottom.
Decorate the inside of your card.
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Colour Me Beautiful
Today on Tutorial Tuesday, I will be providing you with a tutorial I did way back in 2008, as a refresher on colour, since I have been posting about the colour wheel. There are lots of pictures full of information and inspiration focusing on colouring with Prismacolor pencil crayons. These pencil crayons provide a professional finish when blended with Odorless Mineral Spirits, also known as Gamsol or Odorless Turpenoid. This Odorless Mineral Spirit (OMS) can be found at your local craft and hobby store.
For more information on Prismacolor pencil crayons you can read a recent post of mine entitled An Introduction to Prismacolor Pencil Crayon. For more information on the colour wheel you can read Introduction to the Colour Wheel.
As I colour, I blend after each area is coloured. For purpose of this tutorial, I am colouring the entire image before I blend. I hope you enjoy this tutorial.
Supplies:
Prismacolour Pencil Crayons
Odourless Mineral Spirits/Gamsol/Odorless Terponoid
Tortillions (paper sticks)
Permanent Ink Pad (such as VersaMark or Versafine)
The hat is coloured gold. Notice the large area left uncoloured. This allows even a lighter area of gold once it has been blended.
To add a 3-D look to an image, darker shades are used, and this is called “shadowing” or “shading.” To add a shadow, imagine where an item is blocked by the sun. In this photo, the sun hits the tip of the hat, leaving the area around the rim in the shadow. A shadow will also sit around the ears. When two lines butt up against each other I often colour that area darker, thus creating a depth as if the item is indented.
When I colour an image, I chose at least two areas that will be coloured using two different colours. Once again, this adds interest to the image. Here, I chose blue as the main colour for the pants. The blue was coloured in a random pattern, leaving uncoloured areas for reasons explained next.
One item that I often refer to is the colour wheel. I decided that I would like the pants to contain two different colours. Wondering what would be the best choice, I looked to see what complemented the colour blue. There were three colours to choose from: red, gold/brown and yellow. I chose gold.
Next, the gold is coloured in a random pattern, leaving some areas free of colour. When the pants are blended, the joining of the two colours, along with the uncoloured areas, will reveal a lovely variety of colour.
Like the pants, the boots were coloured with two colours–a light green and a dark green. The jacket was coloured, leaving areas of white so that the colour is lighter in the bottom area. Notice how the vest is left uncoloured on the bottom as well. As I go along, I add darker areas in the areas that need shadows. If you do not have a deeper shade of the colour you are using, then use brown in the shadows. When blended, it will look lovely.
Now it is time to colour the fish. I like to add as much interest to my image as I can, so once again I pulled out my colour wheel to see what colour would work well. Because the moon is yellow, I put that colour at the top of my wheel. There were three lovely colours to choose, and I picked purple because the colour was not in the image at all. Just like decorating a house, splashes of different colours is visually appealing.
Now it is time to blend my image. Here you can see the OMS I am working with. It was chosen for no particular reason. Any OMS is good. Gamsol may be just a little bit better.
These are paper tortillions made specifically for blending. A starter kit is very handy to have because it comes with several shapes and sizes of paper tips, and it also comes with a hand held pad of sand paper. The sand paper is used to sand the colour off of the colour and to sharpen the points. I have many shapes and sizes of tortillions so I do not have to sand a lot.
The larger the area to be blended, the larger the tip I use.
In small areas I use small tips. This tip was used in the vest area, including along the blue vest edge.
There is a lot of blending in this image. Notice the white area on the hat that was specifically left without a dark colour. Can’t you imagine the sun hitting that area? Under the shirt you can see how I added brown to the top of the pants because I felt it was in a shadowed area. There are no mistakes with colouring and blending. Experiment, have fun and play.
You are now ready to finish your card.
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