Better late than never : A belated birthday card

Hello friend ,

I made this card for Jane's Blog.

I used MFT die to cut the window from a pattern paper from PTI. I think the die's stitched detail and black out lines on panel goes well together.  Ink blended the backdrop with oxides and stamped some grass. Stamped sentiment before mounting panel using foam tape. Turtle, cake and party hat is colored with copics. Here is the closeup.

Hope you like it! Thanks & Hugs!

Cactus

This is the card I made for Jane's Doodles blog! I love this stamp set and I am looking for more sentiments to go with these beautiful plants. Coloring succulents is always fun as every time you can try some new combinations. I stamped and colored images on little larger that a2 size and cropped to desired smaller size. Images are colored using copics.

  

Copics on x-press it blending paper

Hello friends,

How are you? I am here after a long time. Instagram is taking over my blog posts. Do you feel the same? All the time I remind myself to write a blog post instead of just posting on fb or insta but I come up with one or other excuse to not to do so, every-time! But not today...:)

I am here to share my experience( first impression) of using x-press blending card for copics. Some time back Roopali Chawla of Allthingscraft.com  got this paper & i was excited to try. She was kind enough to send few ca along with lots of other goodies. Thank you Roopali for being so generous!

I have made a card using 'Good Vibes' stamp set by Your Next Stamp.

The Toucan is stamped on x-press card and colored with copics. It was a quick try to use it. I am sure going to work more with this paper. The inks blend beautifully on it. and it retains the texture marks well at the same time. See the blending around eye and neck while the tone on tone texture in dark grey/black part, the red to orange gradation on beak and patchy colors. 

Blending is almost effortless and the best part i loved about it is when you add light shade on dark it does not create blooms which is most common issue for me with other  card stock. And it is thinner paper so you can easily put it through the printer for digital stamp printing!

I will be back with more on this paper.

I also try to stamp on it as I wanted to use this build a flower, rose stamp by Altenew which Roopali got for me on pre-order. 

It works beautifully with this layered stamps and various inks. I have used lawn fawn, altenew & mft inks for this one. The ink stays put on card once stamped so layers are distinct and crisp.

check the sharpness in close up!

One more with the same stamp. For the rose and leaves I have used Neenah solar- 80gsm!

Roopali also sent me the full sticky post it notes for masking! I love this product and have been using for past 2 years. The best way to create mask. Check how simple it was to cut it with die and mask and stamp the small flowers.

I save the masks along with my stamp set to use it in future. 

I hope you like the post and give this paper a try! Thank you for being here! Have a great day! Hugs!

TEAriffic

Hello,

I am sharing this card which I made for Jane's Doodles Blog. I have used TEAriffic stamp set for the card. I recently got this wood-grain card stock in 3 colors from my local paper supplier. It is superb texture in 300 gsm. Isn't it TEAriffic...:P.

I have use all three colors for this card. Tea pot & cup are colored using copics. Added white embossed sentiment to finish it off. Tiny hearts are also from the same set, gold embossed and colored using distress ink.

Hope you like it.

I am entering this for 2016 fall coffee lovers blog hop! 

Are you hopping? 

See you tomorrow with another card!