Green Spotty Flower Card

This is yet another attempt to prove to everyone that I can use colours other than pink. So I've gone over to the green side and produced this card with one of my new funky flower die cuts and a Dotterific Pen from Kuretake.

What I used:

1 funky flower die cut
1 base card 10.5 x 15 cm when folded
1 die cut frame in green
a sentiment stamp form the Inspirational sayings sheet
1 length of green spot ribbon
1 green button
dotterific pen in green
hole punch
Stazon Ink Pad in Stone Grey
3d foam pads

What I did:

1. I stamped the sentiment on to a piece of white card and trimmed the card to fit under the green frame.
   I used the dotterific pen to customise the flower die cut and then used a green Art and graphic pen to colour the edges of the flower.
2. I then threaded a small piece of green ribbon through the holes of the button and tied it to secure it.
3. I stuck a length of green ribbon down the side of the card as shown and then I stuck the frame and sentiment to the card. I then stuck the flower to the edge of the frame.
4. Towards the bottom of the card I stuck three circles that I had punched out of some scrap green glitter card.card.

Here's another version in lilac just to prove to myself that I can do it. The next card will be pink though.

Dragonfly Days

When I went to the training day with Kuretake they kindly gave me some of their 12 x 12 white paper to play with. This has a finish almost like water colour paper so I decided to use it to make the same effects that you can get with regular watercolour paper and at a fraction of the cost as well.

I started by cutting out a piece of the paper to the size that I wanted. It doesn't matter if it's too big as it can be trimmed later on.

I put the paper on a piece of cling film to protect my work surface and used an old watercolour brush to wet the paper thoroughly. This is because I wanted to do something which is called wet-into-wet. Don't worry about the technicalities. You only want to know that it works.

When the paper was wet I touched the surface with two of the pinks that are shown in the photograph. They are the TUT 80 Art and Graphic pens 202 and 20. If the paper is wet enough the colour should spread over the surface of the paper. If it remains too close to the point where you touched the paper is too dry. Wet it again and add more colour. You want a soft mottled effect.

Now put the paper aside to dry.

You are probably thinking that it looks nothing at the moment and you might even be right but you don’t want the surface to be full of colour as it will mean that the stamping will not show up well later on.

When it's dry you can use the narrow end of the pen to draw some swirls and then ink up a small stamp, I used a dragonfly in this instance and I stamped over the base paper as seen. I used both pinks to ink up the stamp.

I then cut a length of white grosgrain and stuck it to the front of the paper. The paper was then stuck to the front of a base card.

I then stamped a large dragonfly on to pink card and embossed it with a silvery white embossing powder. I cut out the dragonfly.

I stamped the message on a piece of white card and mounted it onto pink card which I then trimmed to leave a narrow border. I Used 3d foam pads to stick the message to the front of the card as shown.

I stuck the dragonfly to the card with 3d foam pads and the card was finished.

Customised Flowers and Calligraphy Background.

I had anothe rof my bright ideas last night and I thought of putting the calligraphy petal background to work with the customised flowers and this is what I came up with.



There's no need to tell you what to do as it's explained in the previous posts.

How to customise a die cut flower.

I have random thoughts now and then and I suddenly thought of how to use the die cut flower heads and the brushable pens that I have on the Craft Fairy site to bring a bit of excitement into my cards.

So this is what we do

Take the plain white die cut hibiscus flower heads. See below.




At the moment they are fairly boring but I am going to transform them.

Step one:

Colour the flower with the paler of your chosen brushables.

Step two:
The deeper tone is used to brush out from the centre.

Step three:
The deepest of your chosen colours is used to flick the colour out from the centre and it is kept shorter than the other two colours.

Step four:
Use a silver pen to add strokes to the centre and edges of the flower.

Step five:

Stick the centre to the flower. You can curl the petals if you wish.