Get Well Soon Loving Heart with Scallop Pinpoint Loving Heart Cutouts

Hello everyone.  I am here today with a card that I seem to be needing a lot of these days; A Get Well Soon card.

I wanted to use some of my pretty spring papers from Memory Box to pull a get well card together.  I also want to layer them up so I pulled out my Scallop Pinpoint Loving Heart Cutout Dies because the shape is an exact match (Memory Box did that on purpose)  to the Get Well Soon Loving Heart Die.

To begin I selected one of the Spring Plaids from the Springtime Bouquet Paper Pack.  Then I selected 3 additional sheets of paper from the Cottage Stripes and Dots Paper Pack in coordinating colors to the plaid.  In this case, that was pastel blue stripe, pastel pink stripe, and pastel lavender stripe.

 I stacked the 4 papers together and put a bit of low tack tape on each side to keep them lined up.  Next, I took a wide piece of low tack tape and aligned the 4 Scallop Pinpoint Loving Heart dies inside the other until I had all four of them centered.  First I cut the paid piece which would be my top layer.

Next, I removed the largest die and cut my Pastel Pink Paper with the three remaining dies, using the first cutout to make sure I had it aligned the same.   Next, I removed the Plaid Paper and another die then used the pink cutout to line up my dies in the same spot and run it through my die cut machine. I did this until all four layers of the patterned paper were cut with a heart in the center.  This gives you the stacked look that you see in the photo.  At the bottom layer, I put a scrap of cardstock behind the smallest heart, so it appears that you actually have 5 layers.  This is one reason that I chose the text weight of the patterned paper versus using thick cardstock.  All of my cardstock is at least #110, so it would have been a lot hard to cut that many layers.

For the Get Well Soon loving Heart, I chose Gold Foiled cardstock.  I was also able to cut some really small hearts from the scraps of that gold paper to add to the font of the card.  I have a little group of dies that sits in a magnetic bowl on my desk that are all really tiny and I don't know the brand, but I love to use these little hearts on lots of cards, especially right now.

Because there are so many layers, be sure to use a heavyweight cardstock #110 or higher) for your card base.  If you don't, it will just keep falling flat.

You could also add foam tape between each layer, but because my card is actually going into the mailbox, I kept my layers flat.

You could make some beautiful Easter Cards in this style.  I just happened to need a Get Well Soon card today.  I hope my design gives you ideas for creating your own version of whatever card you need today.

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A Simple Card Made With Stylish Memory Box Products

Hello everyone.  It's Vicki here with you today to share a really simple but beautiful card with you.  It's no secret that I like geometric dies and I think a lot of that comes from my love of Art Deco Style. 

Recently, I took a watercolor card class and learned that Hot Press or Bristol Paper doesn't really hold up well when you need to use it with a lot of water, but this is a cold-pressed paper, so it isn't an issue at all.  It is also a really beautiful paper for ink blending and splatter techniques, which I really love to do. The texture of the paper on the front side reminds me of pinwale corduroy, only not that deep.  It's super cool.

To start this card, I used an ink blending brush on a sheet of the new Memory Box Watercolor Paper that comes in a 4.5 x 5.75-inch sheet.  I blended Hawaiian Shores Ink over the center of the panel.  and gently worked my way out all the way around this piece.  Next, I gave it a generous amount of splatter with Daniel Smith Iridescent Aztec Gold Watercolor.  You need to use a very small, fine brush with long bristles to get this small splatter.  I have a Princeton Neptune Script Brush in Size 1 for this purpose.  I set that aside to dry for a little while, and moved on to my die-cutting.

The Stylish Rectangle Trio has three different sizes of rectangles but I cut the smaller two from Gold Foiled Cardstock.  I also cut the 4 different layers of the Birch Press Design Sparkler Butterfly from colored Glitter Cardstock that Memory Box recently released. The gold glitter card is from Simon Says Stamp but the rest is Memory Box.  I assembled the butterfly layers using ranger Multi-Medium Matte then laid a heavy 5 x 7 glass block on the top to let it finish drying.

Going back to my ink blended panel, I decided I also wanted to add some iridescent gold shimmer mist to the panel.  This spray is very fine, but if you haven't used it for a few days, it can put some larger drips on there as well.  I didn't mind that as this gives it that somewhat distressed look that feels more organic.  If you want just the fine mist, be sure to spray it into a box or whatever first until the mist is coming out evenly without the big drops.  Be sure to wipe off the hole on the nozzle for a "clean" spray. 

Once that dried, I die cut the panel with the Matinee Rectangle Layers Die in the largest size.  I made a card base from Hawaiian Shores Cardstock and started assembling my card. I ran the Stylish Rectangle Frames, very carefully, through my 5-inch Xyron and then ran it through my die cutting machine with an embossing sandwich so that I didn't have to spend time going around each frame with a little tool and then still have gooey strings to pull off.  This trick works every time. It saves a lot of time and frustration in dealing with glue strings.  And because the frames have such a fine line, this was much easier to do than trying to use a liquid adhesive that I got all over the outside of the gold foil.  That would ruin the look.  I added some sequins then added the gems onto the sequins to cover the little holes and add a lot of sparkle and shine to my card.

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Birthday Rose Corner Stamps and Dies

Hello everyone!  If you are a regular visitor to my blog, you know that I am taking a watercolor class right now, so I was very anxious to ink up this beautiful new set from Memory Box.  The Birthday Rose Corner Stamp Set is a large 6 x 8 Stamp Set and the main image takes up the entire front of a 5 x 7 card!  There is also a coordinating die for that large image. I don't keep top folding card bases on hand in that size, so I cut a sheet of Brutus Monroe's "Not Your Mama's #130 lb. Cardstock" in half horizontally.  Then I cut one piece down to a 5 x 7-inch panel and the other piece down to a 5 x 7.5-inch panel.  Score the longer piece at .5 inches, fold it over and burnish that fold, then use score tape to adhere the front panel (the longer piece) to the back panel along that 1/2 inch wide fold.  I like top folding tent cards so they can be displayed easier and that is a little trick I learned from Yana Smakula several years ago in one of her YouTube videos.  I don't have any 12 x 12 cardstock in a heavy enough weight for a cardbase, so this works fantastic.

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For the large image, I used Fabriano Artistico Extra White Cold Pressed Paper.  To me, this looks and feels identical to the Arches Cold Pressed Extra White Watercolor Paper.  You can only but the Arches in large sheets at a Craft and Hobby Store (like Hobby Lobby) that you have to cut down.  I love that the Fabriano comes in many sizes and it is the whitest 100% cotton paper you can buy, being even a bit whiter than the Arches Extra White.  I really enjoy the 5 x 7 blocks for my purposes.  If you want to get more serious about doing watercolor, you definitely have to get serious about the paper you use.  I have both brands available, but I do like the little bit brighter white of the Fabriano.  I stamped the image in Versamark and heat embossed it using Simon Says Stamp Antique Gold Embossing Powder to heat set it.  It is harder to get a good impression the first time with the texture of the watercolor paper, so be sure to use a MISTI tool to do your stamping.  Also, because the image is so large, you have to move your magnet around, to be sure you got the whole image.

If you are heat embossing your image, be sure to use plenty of powder tool as the embossing powder does like to stick a bit into all that texture.  Be sure to check and sweep away with a small paintbrush, any stray bit of embossing powder before you start melting the powder.

I've been buying Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors a couple of tubes at a time for over a year and just created my first palette with swatches last weekend.  Right now I have 25 colors.  I have about a dozen on my wishlist that I'll get in a few weeks. But I have a great selection of colors right now.  I just need to fill in a few shades that I don't have.  Bleus and greens mainly.  I have Silver Black Brushes since I've been working on watercolor looks for a few years now.  I think most crafters prefer the Silver Black Velvet Line of Brushes. Until now, I liked using reinkers with a water brush or my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers.  The trouble with the Zigs is that they aren't lightfast and fade-resistant, so the color fades very quickly.  I was frustrated with that, so I've been waiting for the right time to make the change.  When the class came up, I decided now was the time.  *Ü*

This is just simple watercoloring of a really large, beautiful, image.  There are so many techniques and I'm also finding that I really love the very organic feel of wet on wet watercoloring.  My next lesson is No Line Watercoloring using some special ink called Fadeout Ink.  In another week or so, I'm sure there will be another card here on my blog showing my progress.  The class is "work at your own pace" and lifetime access, which is great for me. I know this is far from perfect, but it is perfectly respectable! I am anxious to show you other watercolor techniques as time allows.  I want to do last week's set, Wild Rose Stem, again using the wet on wet technique.  It's such a different look.

For this card, I had a little trouble deciding whether or not to mount the watercolor image onto colored cardstock, but the simple elegance of white on white is always beautiful, so I kept it very simple.  I always need birthday cards so I know this will be a set I use often.

The Daniel Smith Watercolors I used are Deep Sap Green, Diopside Green, Rose of Ultramarine, Quinacridone Rose and Moonglow to deepen the shadows.  I wanted to keep it to 6 or fewer colors and experiment with mixing some of my own colors.  Rose of Ultramarine will be a favorite for its Sugarplum color. You might remember that purple-y-pink shade is a favorite of mine.  Pink and Purple are my two favorite colors so this is the best of both worlds.  Add that little pop of gold embossing and it's heaven on earth for me.

I hope you enjoyed this project and that you might be inspired to try your hand at watercoloring.  This is a big improvement from last week's card, so I totally feel very happy with my result.  Watercolor is definitely not quick cardmaking, but I find it very soothing so I don't mind taking the time to do something like this.

Thank you so much for popping in today. You can find this stamp and die set at Simon Says Stamp!