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You Got This | Handmade Card

Posted on by helen

Hello! We hope you are having a good weekend, and managing to take a little time out. Ali is here on the blog today with a really inspiring card for anyone going through something difficult or testing. It features 2 of our awesome stencils: SKULL SHADOW + LAVA, with the big butterfly stamp from our BUTTERFLY EFFECT set and the ‘you got this’ sentiment from LOST FOR WORDS…


This week’s blog post is all about me [lol], I’ve had a tough week and my mind is working overtime. Crafting keeps me grounded.

I’ve used a couple of Visible Image stencils on this card – Skull Shadow and Lava, the big butterfly is one I made a couple of weeks ago but didn’t use, and the fab sentiment, ‘you got this’.


You Got This | Handmade Card | Skull Stencil | Butterfly Stamp



Tutorial

Cut a piece of heavy white cardstock (300gm) to 6 7/8″ by 6 7/8″ (17.5 cm x 17.5cm).

Draw through the skull stencil onto copier paper using a pencil and cut out around the edge to make a paper mask.

Spray the back with stencil spray or a little low tack tape folded over itself and put to one side.


skull stencil


Position the Skull Shadow stencil on the left of the card and tape down.



Tip a little black gesso into an old tin and stipple over the middle of the skull and just around the edge with an almost dry brush.

Tap off the excess paint onto your craft mat.



Remove the stencil and draw in the edges of the teeth and the top of the skull with a pencil.

Put your stencil into water with a little dish soap to soak.



Use a bit of kitchen sponge to cover the card with black gesso, use a fine paint brush to do around the teeth and the top of the skull.



Use a heat gun to dry your card then cover the skull with the paper mask you made earlier.



Position the Lava stencil over the top right of the card and tape in place with a little low tack tape.

Apply some holographic or glitter paste using a spatula, avoid going up to the edges of the stencil and having any straight lines.



Gently remove the stencil and position over the bottom left and apply more paste. Then stencil over the gaps. It doesn’t matter if the blobs merge as it will blend in with the design.

You could leave your card to dry between stencilling but don’t allow the paste to dry on your stencil. Better to risk a bit of smudging – it all adds texture 😀.



Gently peel off the paper mask, I found using a pokey tool on the edges helped get it up.

Leave your card to dry – this may take a few hours. You could speed things up with a heat gun but be gentle as the extreme heat may make the paste bubble and crack.



Stamp the large butterfly from the Visible Image Butterfly Effect set onto white card using black versafine ink then heat emboss with clear embossing powder.

Tip some shimmer shaker pigment onto your craft mat and add a drop of water to make liquid paint. I used Bright Sunshine, Tangy Tangerine and Raspberry Rose Shimmer Shakers from Cosmic Shimmer.

Have fun colouring your butterfly with these bright shimmery paints.



Cut out your butterfly leaving a little white border and then cover with Star Dust stickles.



Stamp the “You Got This” sentiment with black versafine ink onto white card, and clear heat emboss as before.

Cut out and fix it to black card matt with a 1/8″ border.



When your skull card is dry, use the Cosmic Shimmer iridescent blue and green watercolours on the skull – leave the teeth white – I painted them orange and had to repaint them white later on.

You could paint just one of the teeth gold, like a pirate 😎



Matt and layer your painted card onto white card with a 1/16″ border, onto black card with a 3/16″ border and then onto an 8″ x 8″ white card blank.

Mould your dry butterfly between your fingers to lift the wings and fix to the skull using 3d glue gel.

Fix your sentiment to the bottom right of your card using 3d glue gel or foam tape.

I added some white dots to the wings and some doodling around the sentiment with an orange pen to finish it.

You could use glossy accents on your skull’s white teeth to finish them off too.


Here is my completed piece.




Supplies




  • Visible Image Stamps – Butterfly Effect & Lost For Words
  • Visible Image Stencils – Skull Shadow & Lava
  • Cosmic Shimmer Shimmer Shakers – Bright Sunshine, Tangy Tangerine, Raspberry Rose
  • Cosmic Shimmer Iridescent Watercolour palette – Carnival
  • Black Gesso
  • Holographic gel medium (That’s Crafty) or glittery gel (Cosmic Shimmer)
  • Black Versafine ink pad
  • Clear embossing powder
  • Paint brush, stencil brush, spatula
  • kitchen sponge, little tin tray
  • heat gun
  • White heavy card (300gsm) and black & white card for matting and layering
  • Copier paper for masking
  • Low tack tape, stencil spray
  • white and orange gel pens
  • 7″ x 7″ white card blank for second card
  • pva, 3d glue gel and foam pads



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    I hope you have enjoyed this project and thanks for stopping by 💖,

    Ali xxx




    Amazing card!!! Loving the combination of stamps and stencils used, and the contrast of the holographic glitter against the black.

    Thank you for your fantastic tutorial Ali… YOU GOT THIS! ♡ ♡ ♡

     

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Butterfly Stamp + Ripples Stencil Card

Posted on by helen

Hello! We have Stempelfrida on the blog today with a beautiful layered card featuring the big butterfly stamp from our BUTTERFLY EFFECT set, with our gorgeous RIPPLES stencil…


In one of my last posts I had described to you that things often go differently when crafting than you might have imagined. I had made a background, but then it did not fit at all to the flowers I wanted to arrange on the card. I used this background from the former project as one of the starting points for this card. I really wanted to showcase this amazing butterfly. It’s honestly huge, but looks smaller here since the card is so big overall.


Butterfly Stamp | Ripples Stencil | Handmade Card


So, where do I start? Let’s first take the wonderful butterfly. I stamped it with Versamark and embossed it with an embossing powder that contains small golden flakes in addition to the turquoise base colour. This adds a great vintage touch and shimmers wonderfully. I wanted to have a delicate butterfly, so I chose the contrast not too big and did not colour the white paper much further. I only traced the edges even towards the inside with a dark turquoise shade of a polychromos pen. Although the butterfly is actually the main element of the card, it was supposed to not be too dominant, but be played around in the overall collage.  


 



As described earlier, I then took the background from my previous project. This is how I made it: I had attached the Ripples stencil over a white cardstock, coated it with a shimmery texture paste, sprayed it with Distress Oxide sprays, took an impression, and carefully removed the stencil. Since it was an expanding mousse, I still heated it up a lot.



The result is the wonderful metallic shimmering raised rings. In addition, I then had the print, part of which I used for the left part of my collage.



On the background I stamped the collage stamp from the ‘Butterfly Effect’ set here and there with a turquoise tone Distress Oxides. At the edges I have attached colour matching eyelets. Around the white cardboard I wrapped the strings and then set the print over it with spacer pads.



For the birthday greeting, I made a marbled paper by applying ink to the white cardstock with the Distress Oxides stamp pad and then spraying it with water. This I dabbed with a cloth and then dried well before stamping the greeting. I tore off the upper part and added a dark brown paper behind it.



The frame I also had left over from another project. I have also applied color directly with the stamp pad, stamped the sentiment on it, and knotted two bows with a wide ribbon to it.






Supplies



Stamp pads: Versamark; Distress Oxides – ground espresso, salvaged patina
Embossing powder: Ranger mint chip speckle
Polychromos 156
Distress Oxide Sprays –  fired brick, spiced marmalade, vintage photo

Nuvo expanding mousse – white russian

Stamps: Visible Image


big butterfly stamp | grunge circles | bubbles | clear | rubber



card making sentiment stamps greetings



Stencil: Visible Image


ripples | circles | stencils





This card is so gorgeous, the colours are really beautiful together and we love all the layers and the bow. Thank you stempelfrida ♡

 

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