Handmade Cards
Hi! Lettuce celebrate! My card for today features guinea pigs and lettuce confetti. I think they are adorable and funny pets. Lucky for me, I found a guinea pig stampset. To make the card, I started by blending Distress Inks over a stencil for the background. I used the colors Mowed Lawn, Mustard Seed, and … Continue reading Card | Lettuce celebrate!
Hello everyone! I thought it was time for another art journal page. First I prepared craft cardstock with gesso and after it dried I applied green acrylic paint with a brayer. To add more interest, I grabbed my Time Warp stencil and blended black soot and vintage photo Distress Ink over it. To give the … Continue reading Art Journal | Time to switch gears
Hi! Today I'm sharing a cat birthday card. It was made with one of the digital stamps from Gerda Steiner. As I'm a big fan of cats (have 2 myself) I sometimes just have to make a card featuring a cat. I started by masking of the card, just leaving an open circle in the … Continue reading Card | Cat Birthday Card
Hi! Today I have another card for you, this time it is with a stamp from Woodware. Normally a mushroom has a fall feeling, but I think with this one that is not the case. I watercolored the stamped image with some vibrant reds and greens to make it really pop. To finish the card, … Continue reading Card | So Mushroom
Happy Easter everyone! Today I'm sharing a cute Easter card made with a digital stamp from Gerda Steiner. Unfortunately, my printer wouldn't accept the watercolor paper so I had to trace the lines in an old fashioned way: holding it up against the window 😀 I watercolored the bunnies with my watercolor brushes. For the … Continue reading Card | Happy Easter
The base of this card is very similar to the 'Starburst' card I made previously: It is the same stamp and the background is created with Nuvo Shimmer Powder. However, instead of cutting the image into pieces, like with the Starburst card, I kept it whole. To make the flowers stand out more from the … Continue reading Card | Watercolor Sketched Flowers
For this art journal page I digged up my gelatos and choose some vibrant happy colors. First I prepped my page with gesso, this helps with distributing the gelatos. With a stencil and baby wipe, I removed some of the gelato from the background to create some interest. For the border, I used modeling paste … Continue reading Art Journal | Bloom
