#thedailymarker30day Challenge : Day 1-5

I know I am really really really behind on this challenge, I have been coloring/creating, just not regularly. The reason being, I needed to take the break, step back and declutter (round 2!), and reorganizing my stash. Knowing what I have and where it is, really helps with productivity. If you follow me on Instagram, then you have already seen these cards, but I’m sharing them on here again so that I can link all the products that I used, and also share a little more into techniques that I used.

Day 1 : Kites with Chameleon Dual Brush Colored Pencils

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This card was part of my Dad’s and Grad’s theme week, and you can find all the details here.

Day 2 : Animal Frames with Zig Real Brush Markers

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This set of cards was also part of Dad’s and Grad’s Theme week, you can find more details here.

Day 3 : Stamped and inked background with Distress Oxides

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I made this card as part of Dad’s and Grad’s theme week, so the exact colors that I used can be found here along with the technique. I shared it as day 3 after a failed attempt to recreate it on Instagram live.

Day 4 : Pigment Ink blending over a Stencil

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If you follow me on Instragram, then you probably heard or read about my disastrous attempt to create a rainbow background on live and then again on stories, but I guess all’s well that ends well. I really ended up liking the final card that I created with the card.

To create this card, start with creating a colored background. I created a rainbow, but any combination of colors will work well. I used distress oxide inks in seedless preserves, salty ocean, shabby shutters, fossilized amber, spiced marmalade and candied apple. Next I attached a stencil to the inked background, and adhered it to my work surface. Using a Tim Holtz mini ink blending tool, I inked up the stencil using Fresh Ink in Paper White. Peel off the stencil and set it aside to dry, while working on the sentiment ring, starting with diecutting the beach scene die 5-6 times from regular cardstock, and layering them. On a piece of velllum, I embossed sentiments from Tropical Friends stamp set, and placed my stacked window die cuts on the vellum. Once the glue dried, I trimmed the vellum and adhered it on to my card front. If the pigment ink is still tacky, you can dry it off using a heat gun. As always, I added some jewels to finish the card.

The products I used are listed below :

Distress Oxide // Impress Cards and Crafts
Strathmore Bristol Smooth // Michaels
Tropical Friends Stamp Set // Pretty Pink Posh
Tropical Background Stencil // Pretty Pink Posh
Beach Scene Die // Pretty Pink Posh
Party Jewels Mix // Pretty Pink Posh
Fresh Ink (Paper White) // Impress Cards and Crafts
Ranger Embossing Powder, Holographic // Amazon
VersaFine Onyx Black Ink // Amazon

Day 5 : Peacocks and Stripes with ink blending and water coloring

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While cleaning and clearing I found lots and lots colored diecuts, so

To create this card, I used a previously colored image from Peacock Friends stamp set, using my zig real brush markers. The using the wide stripe stencil from Pretty Pink Posh, I inked up a piece of card stock using peacock feature and a make up brush. Then I cleaned the stencil, used is as a mask, and covered the blue stripes, leaving the white space open. After adhering it back to my work surface, I inked up the card front a second time using twisted citron to create the double color stripes. I cut down the ink panel, layering with with some foam tape and cut white card fronts. Before adhering the white layer I stamped and embossed a sentiment in gold to match the outline of the peacock. And as usual added a few jewels to finish off!

The products that I used are listed below :

Distress Oxide // Impress Cards and Crafts
Strathmore Bristol Smooth // Michaels
Peacock Friends Stamp Set // Pretty Pink Posh
Wide Stripe Stencil // Pretty Pink Posh
Everyday Greeting Stamp Set // Pretty Pink Posh
Party Jewels Mix // Pretty Pink Posh
Ranger Embossing Powder, Gold // Amazon
VersaMark Watermark Ink // Amazon
Zig Real Brush Markers// Amazon

Thanks for stopping by! Please feel free to leave me a comment with any question you may have!

Happy Crafting!

Farhana

Dads and Grads Theme Week (with Pretty Pink Posh) : Day 5

You are probably wondering why I’m sharing a bunch of graduation cards cards this late. I was going to post them on Saturday, but life happened. But I have the cards made, might as well share them, you can always make them for graduation party coming up or change the sentiments for thank you cards too!

As you know, this theme week was more to challenge me to make masculine cards more than anything else, as you probably know that I gravitate towards florals and all things glittery! Another thing that I’m not good at is coloring critters, but my new collections of zig real brush markers has helped! I plan on using the current coloring challenge to get a little more practice with critters has I have managed to collect A LOT of them! 

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After coloring my little critter images, I die cut them with the coordinating die, but these images can also be fussy cut as they aren’t that detailed. I wanted to create cards that can be mass produced, so after the coloring I chose to keep the rest of the card relatively simple. I used two stencils to create an embossed card two (one with graduation caps and the second with bows). I adhered the critters using foam tape an added some star sequins and some clear ones to finish of the cards.

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And that’s it! Thanks for following along this theme week, I really hope that it inspires you to use what you have in your stash and just be creative! We don’t need the newest and greatest products to create!

As always, I’ll leave you with a list of supplies that I used. I also updated supplies for day 4, here. (The rest of the theme week can be found here (day 1), here (day 2) and here (day 3))

Kuretake Clean Color Real Brush Watercolour Brush Pens // Amazon
Strathmore Bristol Smooth // Michaels
Animal Signs Stamp Set // Pretty Pink Posh
Graduation Stencil // Pretty Pink Posh
Bow Ties Stencil // Pretty Pink Posh
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink // Amazon
Nuvo Aqua Shimmer // Amazon

Thanks for stopping by my blog!

Happy Crafting!

Farhana

Dads and Grads Theme Week (with Pretty Pink Posh) : Day 4

For today’s post I decided to look at the stash, and I found an older stamp set from Pretty Pink Posh, and the sentiment was perfect for a graduation card! But how to make a Father’s Day card with the same stamp. After some thinking, I decided to use one of the stamps to create my own background, inspired by my crafting bestie, Crystal. She’s the queen of CAS cards and the reason I am back in the blogging world!

I couldn’t decide on a color palette so went with a rainbow, rainbows are always a good idea. For the graduation card, I used the sentiment, ‘let your dreams soar’, don’t you think its perfect? I colored the kites with my chameleon dual tone pencils, with some simple shading like yesterday’s post. I die cut them using the coordinating dies. To create the background I used a MFT cloud stencil and some distress oxide in salty ocean. I stamped the sentiment, and adhered the strings with some tape adhesive and the kites with some 3M tape to add some dimension.

For the second card, you can use a ‘happy father’s day’ sentiment, but I used a happy birthday die as I told I mentioned previously I don’t need anymore of those cards! But wanted to continue sharing some masculine card ideas! I stamped the sentiment in versafine Black onyx ink, and covered it with some ranger halographic embossing powder (this time I used the right one!), then I used the solid kite image from the set to repeatedly stamp a background in versamark ink and covered it with the same embossing powder. Once heat set, I ink blended with some distress oxides, and created the rainbow. The card looked a little plain to me, so I added some party mix jewels from Pretty Pink Posh to finish off the cards!

(I’ll be back to link all the products I used!)

Edit 6/17 : Here’s a link of all the supplies I used :

Distress Oxide // Impress Cards and Crafts
Strathmore Bristol Smooth // Michaels
Fly A Kite Stamp Set // Pretty Pink Posh
Party Jewels Mix // Pretty Pink Posh
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink // Amazon
Nuvo Aqua Shimmer // Amazon
Ranger Embossing Powder, Holographic // Amazon
VersaMark Watermark Ink // Amazon
Chameleon Art Tones Pencils // Amazon

Till then, thanks for stopping by!

Happy Crafting!

Farhana

Dads and Grads Theme Week (with Pretty Pink Posh) : Day 3

Three days in a row! When was the last time did this ever happen! Today is baby at home day plus we are road tripping tomorrow, so this post is going to be short and sweet. You can find day 1 of this theme week here, along with day 2 here.

For today’s cards I did some really quick coloring, with minimal blending. Since the images are so small, no one will be the wiser. Using the coordinating I cut them out to use as accents on the shaker windows.

For the ‘congrats’ shaker, I started by diecutting the Stitched Film Strip Die (from Pretty Pink Posh) 6 times and glued them together. I really wanted the sections to stay separated, that why layered the diecuts. I did add a layer of acetate after the first colored diecut. To add a little interest to card front, I stamped the clustered confetti stamp with a brown ink and added the sentiment. After filling the shaker with sequins, and closing it off with a second sheet of acetate. Once the glue dried, I attached it to the card front and added the colored images for the final touch.

For the second card, you can use a ‘happy father’s day’ sentiment, but since I don’t need anymore of them, I just used a ‘happy birthday’ sentiment as I’m always struggling with masculine cards. To created the shaker for this I die cut the storybook 1 and scalloped frame die from some colored card stock together. I was going to keep the windows separated, but I ran out of time and couldn’t find my thin foam strips, #momlife. Instead I just added a double layer of 3M foam tape, to create the shaker window, along with some acetate. I filled with with sequins and attached it to the card front, after stamping the sentiment. Just like the congrats card, I added my colored images to finish off the card.

Hope these cards inspire you to create something soon from your stash!

And as usual, before I sign off for you, all the products used are linked below :

Chameleon Art Tones Pencils // Amazon
Strathmore Bristol Smooth // Michaels
GinaK Connect Glue // Ellen Hutson
Congrats Grad Stamp Set // Pretty Pink Posh
Father’s Day Stamp Set // Pretty Pink Posh
Stitched Film Strip Die // Pretty Pink Posh
Scallop Frames Dies // Pretty Pink Posh
Storybook 1 Dies // Pretty Pink Posh
6mm Ocean Spray Sequins // Pretty Pink Posh
6mm Peridot Mist Sequins // Pretty Pink Posh
6mm Sunshine Glow Sequins // Pretty Pink Posh
6mm Blue Lagoon Sequins // Pretty Pink Posh
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink // Amazon

Thanks for stopping by my blog!

Happy Crafting!

Farhana

Dads and Grads Theme Week (with Pretty Pink Posh) : Day 2

Welcome back to day 2! For more details on this theme week, read yesterday’s post here. For today’s cards I decided to do some messy watercoloring or ‘ink smooshing’. I used my distress oxides again, in an attempt to keep the supply list for this theme week short and the mess in my room at a minimum! But while making them I realized that regular distress inks work way better, plus the fact that I have the minis make it easier to mix colors! So, if you have them, use those! The results are much better!

So are you wondering why the sentiments are in white and not very visible? Well I thought I was using clear embossing powder on back ink, not no it was white. Yup, lots and lots of white embossing powder means no black sentiments. But I just went with it.

Individual card pictures and products used are listed below and all products used are linked below. I used water color paper as they handle water better. For the technique, I used a page protector to ‘smoosh’ the ink on to, then spraying it with water, before adding it to the inked and embossed card stock. You can use acetate or leftover packaging from your stamps. Let the card stock dry, to add more layers of color.

Card 1 : Candied Apple Distress Oxides, Congrats Grad Stamp Set, VersaMark watermark ink, white embossing powder, tim holtz water color paper and red card stock for the card base.

Card 2 : Dried Marigold Distress Oxides, Congrats Grad Stamp Set, VersaMark watermark ink, white and gold embossing powder, tim holtz water color paper and orange card stock for the card base.

Card 3 : Faded Jeans Distress Oxides, Father’s Day Stamp Set, VersaMark watermark ink, white embossing powder, tim holtz water color paper and blue card stock for the card base.

Card 4 : Broken China and Twisted Citron Distress Oxides, Father’s Day Stamp Set, VersaMark watermark ink, white embossing powder, tim holtz water color paper and blue card stock for the card base.

In an effort to stick with a masculine theme and keep my use of glitter to a minimum, I resisted from adding a glitter cardstock background, but you are more than welcome to do so if you would like, also change up the colors of the graduation cards to match the school!

And lastly, before I sign off for you, all the products used are linked below :

Distress Oxide // Impress Cards and Crafts
Tim Holtz Watercolor Paper // Amazon
Colored Cardstock // Michaels
Embossing Powder // Michaels
GinaK Connect Glue // Ellen Hutson
Congrats Grad Stamp Set // Pretty Pink Posh
Father’s Day Stamp Set // Pretty Pink Posh
VersaMark Watermark Ink // Amazon

Thanks for stopping by my blog!

Happy Crafting!

Farhana

Dads and Grads Theme Week (with Pretty Pink Posh) : Day 1

Finally posting day one of this theme week super late as it got dark last night by the time I finished making these so had to wait till morning to take pictures. Today through Saturday, I’ll be posting Father’s day and Graduation cards, super quick and easy designs, so you can recreate them in time for the weekend! But if you don’t need those type of cards, you can also change out the sentiments for a different event, as you’ll see I did with some of the cards in the coming posts! I have a hard time making masculine cards, so challenged myself with this theme week.

For these cards, you can use any type of ink that you can blend with. I used distress oxides but I have used Fresh Inks from Impress Cards and Crafts and Gina K die inks for blending too. For today’s card a used the “double blending” or “tone on tone” blending technique, basically I used one ink per card to create a dual tone colored background.

Using a make up brush and Strathmore Bristol smooth card stock (cut to an A2 size), I very lightly blended the entire background. For the second layer, I attached the stencil with some washi tape and very heavily blended the same color ink over the stencil. And your background is done!

For the sentiments, I just added a Happy Father’s Day and Congrats script die. I cut the top layer from glitter card stock and stacked then with plain cardstock using a quickie glue pen for added dimension. I backed the diecuts with some vellum to make it pop! I used ginak connect glue behind the diecuts to adhere the vellum to the inked background.

I used the following distress oxide colors : wilted voilet, candied apple, twisted citron and broken china.

The remaining products used are linked below :

Distress Oxide // Impress Cards and Crafts
Strathmore Bristol cardstock // Amazon
Makeup Brushes // Amazon
Vellum and Glitter Paper // Michaels
GinaK Connect Glue // Ellen Hutson
Quikie Glue Pen // Amazon
Graduation Stencil // Pretty Pink Posh
Bow Ties Stencil // Pretty Pink Posh
Father’s Day Script Die // Pretty Pink Posh
Congrats Script Die // Pretty Pink Posh

Thanks for stopping by my blog!

Happy Crafting!

Farhana

Watercolor pencils and Floral images (with Simon Says Stamp)

Sticking with the #throwback theme that I mentioned in my last post, I’m sharing these cards that I probably made like 6 months ago! With a card kit that is almost a YEAR old, and even though the kit is sold out, the stamp sets I used are still available (I’ll link them below with everything else that I used.)

I started off by stamping all the images a few times and then coloring them on the go with derwart inktense color pencils. After a lot of fussy cutting, it was time to make the cards! (Update : Simon Says Stamp has released coordinating dies for this set if you want them!)

One of the reasons that I’m a sucker for card kits, it that everything is so perfectly coordinated. So of course I had to use the lovely patterned, along with the background stamp that came with it. Keep reading for more details of each card (I ended up with 12 cards, so this is going to be a pretty long post!)

1. Z- fold card : for this card I started with a 8.5 x 5.5 piece of card stock, and stamped with the background stamp from the kit. Then scored it at 4.25 edge from one edge and 2 1/8 inch from the other edge, to create the “Z-fold”. I also die cut a circle, so that you can write a message on it! I added a sentiment to the same ink that I used to stamp the background. Make sure to match up the circle with the stamped/colored image, so that it hide when you fold up the card.

2. Edge shaker card : For this card, I started with 2 pieces of 4.25 x 5.5 inch patterned cardstock. From one I cut a hexagon window on one edge. Using a piece of tulle, I folded it over and filled it with a mix of sequins matching the pattern paper, sealing it with some double sided tape. Next sandwich the tulle ‘pocket’ between the two pattern paper pieces and stick them to the card base. To finish the card, I added a colored image and a sentiment.

3. Window card : Using the same hexagon die from card #2, to cut a window in a pattern paper from the kit, layered it on a colored card base (also from the kit). I added another one of the colored images, along with the smaller sentiments stamped on little paper strips. Added the final touch with some twine and enamel heart stickers.

4. Birthday Frame card : For this card, I layered a pattern paper on the card base, then layered ‘happy birthday’ frame cut from another pattern paper, and placed it on a third pattern paper, to make it pop. Finally added a colored image along with some heart enamels.

5. And 6. And 7. Layered Pattern paper cards : For these three cards I layered different pieces of pattern paper (cut using rectangular edge dies), before adding a floral image and sentiment. For the first of the three cards, I cut the banner from the middle of the pink card stock, and covered it with the second layer. Saved paper and it matches exactly! The other two cards have embossed sentiment using pigment ink and clear embossing powder, saves you the trouble and space of collecting multiple powders!

8. And 9. Shinny Pattern Paper (2 ways) : this kit had an embossed shiny sheet, so I wanted to get the most out of it! For the first of the 2 cards, I cut a banner and embossed the sentiment, adding it along with a colored floral image. For the second card, I embossed one of the floral images on to the card stock in silver and the sentiment in black. Shiny cards are hard to photograph!

 

10. And 11. Border die cut cards : this two cards are made with leftover strips of card stock, die cut using border dies. After stacking on a plain card stock to create a background, I added a floral image and stamped sentiment. Finished them with some Nuvo drops.

12. Leftover scraps card : for the final card, I die cut a stack of hexagons with ALL the leftover scraps. Using a tape adhesive I cover the front of a card base with them to create the background and added a embossed sentiment on vellum.

And one last picture to wrap up this post! If you made it this far, thank you so so much!

Lastly, here’s a link to all the products I used :
Mandy’s Flowers Stamp Set // Simon Says Stamp
Bo Bunny Early Bird Paper Pack // Simon Says Stamp
Modern Rose Bloom Background // Simon Says Stamp
Doodlebugs Tiny Heart Enamels // Simon Says Stamp
Tonic Nuvo (in Bubblegum) // Simon Says Stamp
Derwent Inktense Pencil Set // Amazon
VersaMark Pigment Inkpad // Amazon
VersaFine Pigment Ink (in Onyx Black) // Amazon
Ranger Embossing Powder (Super Fine Clear)
Distress Oxides // Impress Cards and Crafts

Thanks again for stopping by my blog!

Happy Crafting!

Farhana

Wreath Cards (with Pretty Pink Posh)

Oh my look who is blogging! After weeks of clearing my craft room, I realized how much stuff I have accumulated yet never used, I decided that its time to go from hoarder to crafter! And then I made 22 cards in 9 days, and am super pumped and excited to remain creative and re-start this blog again. But blogging with a twist! No new and fresh stuff, its going to be a throwback themed blog where I am going to try and go through all the stamps that a still BRAND NEW in my drawers! Story time is over and lets get to today’s cards!

 Yup, I made three cards using one stamp set and a background die. I did use sentiments from different stamp and die sets. But you can always use the sentiments from the stamp set. I just needed these sentiments!

1. Gatefold card : For this card I started with a 5.5 x 8.5 inch piece of card stock, scored at 2.25 inches from each end to create the gate fold. Then I cut a lattice diecut in half, attaching it to either flap of the card base. After coloring and diecutting the wreath image, I attached it to half of the card front, so that it can still open up. Then I threaded the ribbon through the wreath, glued it to the back and tied a bow in the front. To finish off, I stamped a sentiment and added some jewels to finish off.
   

   
2. Window card : For this card, I started with a lattice die cut and a top folding A2 size card base. I used a circle die matching to die cut the window thought the front of the card, stamped the sentiment making sure that you can see it once the wreath is adhered to the front (after coloring and diecutting). To add a little more interest, I ink blended the card base before sticking the lattice diecut. And of course finished off with some jewels!
3. Embossed background card : Instead of diecutting the lattice background, this time I embossed it on to the front of a A2 card base. Then I ink blended in a circle before sticking colored and diecut wreath image. For the sentiment I used a word diecut, cut from some gold cardstock, that I layered 4 times with regular cardstock to add some dimension. And y’all know that I can’t finish a card without some jewels!

I stamped all the wreath images with versafine ink on startemore bistol cardstock, embossed with gold embossing powder. Then I colored them with zig real brush markers and a nuvo aqua shimmer pen in glitter gloss.

If you made it this far into this post then thank you! I hope to be back with more posts and till then here are links to the products that I used.

Spring Wreath Stamp Set// Pretty Pink Posh
Spring Wreath Coordinating Dies // Pretty Pink Posh
Cupcake Critters Stamp Set // Pretty Pink Posh
Love You Script Die // Pretty Pink Posh
Lattice Background Die // Pretty Pink Posh
Valentine Jewels Mix // Pretty Pink Posh
Spring Green Jewels // Pretty Pink Posh
Pansy Purple Jewels // Pretty Pink Posh
Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide // Impress Cards and Crafts
GinaK Connect Glue // Ellen Hutson
Makeup Brushes // Amazon
gold and white cardstock
Strathmore Bristol cardstock // Amazon
VersaMark Watermark Ink // Amazon
Gold Embossing Powder // Amazon
Zig Real Brush Markers // Amazon

Thanks again for stopping by my blog!

Happy Crafting!

Farhana