Our March Leading Lady, Maria Fischer is back for her triumphant third performance! If you missed her smashing debut you must see it...CLICK HERE or sensational second performance focusing on the illustrated trend CLICK HERE. Maria takes on another bold and preppy trend today with an array of delightfully creative cards!
Without further ado, Maria....
Card #1 was finished off with a layered Ina Word: Hello Cutaway and a fussy cut tweetie bird and sentiment from LS Exclusives: So Tweet with Evelin T Designs. I die cut the panel for Card #2 using Essentials: Audrey Cutaways and washi taped and stitched it onto my cardbase. Using LS Exclusives: So Tweet with Evelin T Designs, I gave this birdie a fussy cut, heat embossed sentiment cloud over his head and some whimsical leaves from In Bloom: Maggie's Roses Cutaways, a fabulous set of dies thanks to its positives and negatives.
Hello again w&w fans! I'm so happy to be back for Take
Three as Leading Lady and I must thank you all for your kind comments. Here's a
big, squishy virtual hug. You've really made my day!
Today let's talk STRIPES.
I must admit I love 'em. And I must admit, they're not new.
Stripes are classic actually. Maybe it's the three different variations of
daughter's Breton shirts that
I've been seeing every week in the laundry... but methinks stripes are
"in" again. Just google "stripes fashion trend 2016". Wow.
Big, bold, loud, flashy. Any way you like 'em apparently. Best of all mixed
with something else!
Did you see Take Two where my theme was the ILLUSTRATED trend?
Well these first two cards use a little of that, in the totally trendy
"uncolored" style, but mixed with some big and bold stripes.
Card #1 and #2
So where did those stripes come from? I've stretched my dies by
making stamps out of them. I die cut the solid True
Multifaceted Border from craft foam and inked it up with Distress
Inks, spritzing it with water before stamping. After scrubbing the leftover Chipped
Sapphire off the foam before re-inking it, it dawned on me to spritz the
leftover ink and stamp off on another piece of CS. And that's how Card #2 was
born! TIP: Attach your die cut foam to an acrylic block with temporary
adhesive. Distress Inks work well for a watercolor effect. Pigment inks work
best for more thorough coverage.
Card #1 was finished off with a layered Ina Word: Hello Cutaway and a fussy cut tweetie bird and sentiment from LS Exclusives: So Tweet with Evelin T Designs. I die cut the panel for Card #2 using Essentials: Audrey Cutaways and washi taped and stitched it onto my cardbase. Using LS Exclusives: So Tweet with Evelin T Designs, I gave this birdie a fussy cut, heat embossed sentiment cloud over his head and some whimsical leaves from In Bloom: Maggie's Roses Cutaways, a fabulous set of dies thanks to its positives and negatives.
Care to venture a guess on how I created this next background
panel?
Card #3
On a whim I cut the faceted border from True Multifaceted Border Cutaways from foam too. TIP: Add adhesive to
your block and use it to pick up the die cut from cutting plate keeping all the
pieces intact.
Thinking this geometric pattern might be good for a masculine
card, I inked it up with olive dye ink and stamped it five times onto Neenah
white cardstock. Trimmed the sides, stapled it to a kraft cardbase and added a
layered Ina Word: Hello Cutaway. which I cut from an olive-inked CS scrap. Heat
embossed a "happy" from The
Big, The Bold and the Party onto it to add a touch of color.
Continuing with the "stripes are good for masculine
cards" line of thinking...
Card #4
... trimmed some strips of white CS, swiped yellow and rust ink
pads over them and stamped secondary sentiments from Wishing You onto
them. I heat embossed the main sentiment and three stars from the set in gold
and adhered the strips with dimensional adhesive. Easy. And easy to change up
the colors for a girly card too.
A design that always catches my eye is stripes paired with
florals. Think Kate
Spade. I decided to take some elegant gold foil striped PP and
pair it with illustrated florals.
Card #5 and #6
Stamped floral images from In Bloom: Addie's
Garden, Elsa's
Flora and Anna's
Flora in navy and coral pigment inks on white CS for Card #5.
Cut Ina Word: Hi Cutaway and adhered it on a layer cut from foam. Card #6 was
made by stamping the second generation images from Card #5 onto cream
CS. The striped die cut was offset on a coral one. Do you make multiples
when creating cards? I'm a slow crafter so it really helps me reduce the
average time I need to make a card!
Whew! Stamping. Using patterned paper. I didn't even talk about
painting watercolor stripes to create a background! So many ways to incorporate
stripes into your cards. Hope I've inspired you to hit your craft room this
weekend. And please stop by my blog if you'd like a chance at the gift
card Shay has generously given me to give away.
And be sure to come back next Saturday. We'll be exploring
METALLICS in Take Four...
