My Etsy Shop!

I now have an Etsy Shop where I sell some of my cards. For now, I'm sticking with my nerdier designs, ones that reference video games, cartoons, science, scifi and fantasy, and other nerdy pursuits. Here are the cards I have listed thus far:





I hope you follow my shop! Keep an eye out because I am adding more products regularly. I have so many ideas for cards and die-cuts, I can't wait to make and list them all!

"Hello!" butterflies card

I've been in a watercolor mood lately, so I used some watercolor paper for the background of this card. I really like the texture it adds; it's very different from plain cardstock. I used two colors of Distress Inks to color the watercolor paper.

For the butterflies, I stamped them on normal cardstock, and I colored them in using a waterbrush and a combination of Distress Inks and American Crafts Stamp Markers. My craft mat makes for a great palette: I added color to it, spritzed it with water, and had pools of different colors to draw from. I simply used a water brush to pick up and apply colors as I saw fit. I fussy-cut the butterflies and used glue dots to adhere them to my card base.

For the sentiment, I took the word "Hello" from a set by My Mind's Eye and stamped it in black onto a scrap piece of white cardstock. I snipped out a flag by hand and attached it using foam squares.

I didn't have twine in the color I wanted, so I took some hemp twine and dyed in "Peacock Feathers" Distress Ink. To do this, I pressed the inkpad onto my craft mat, spritzed it with some water, and rubbed the twine into the pool of color until it was dyed the whole way through. I wrapped it around a few times, tied a little bow, and secured the bow using another glue dot. Finally, I rounded the bottom corners and matted this piece to my card base.

Supplies

Cardstock: Recollections
Watercolor paper: Strathmore
Stamps: sentiment from My Mind's Eye Sweetest Thing Tangerine "Hello", butterflies from studio G
Ink: black Ranger Archival Ink, "Peeled Paint", "Peacock Feathers", and "Shaded Lilac" Distress Ink
Markers: "Key Lime" and "Aqua" Stamp Markers (American Crafts)
Hemp twine
Corner rounder: We R Memory Keepers

Challenges

"You Make Life Sweet" card

Last week was my friend's birthday, so I wanted to make her a cute, unique card. I started by stamping the girl and lemonade stand stamp by My Favorite Things. I colored the girl in using Prismacolor colored pencils, and I paper-pieced her shirt with pink patterned paper. To give the lemonade a watercolored look, I used "Squeezed Lemonade" and "Mustard Seed" Distress Ink with a waterbrush. I colored the table using more colored pencils, and I cut out a rectangle of pattered paper for the plaid tablecloth.

For the sign, I cut the sentiment stamp so I could put it on two lines instead of one. I then stamped the lemons icon twice and colored them in using the same Distress Inks as earlier, plus "Peeled Paint" for the leaves. I added some red brads to attach the sign to the panel. I rounded the corners, matted this panel onto the same pink patterned paper that I used for the shirt, rounded the corners again, and I adhered this to kraft cardstock.



As you can see, the lemonade has a bubbly texture to it. I accomplished this using Glossy Accents. I added a blob of it onto the lemonade, and I let it dry. I also added some pink Liquid Pearls to the girl's heart-shaped hairpiece, so that it, too, has a bit of shine.



For the envelope, I stamped a lemon and glass of lemonade from Lawn Fawn onto a kraft envelope using Versamark ink. I colored them in a bit with a yellow colored pencil, and I used a glue dot to adhere a button to the top.

Supplies

Cardstock: Recollections
Patterned Paper: Recollections
Stamps: Pure Innocence "Pucker Up" (My Favorite Things), "Make Lemonade" (Lawn Fawn)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, "Squeezed Lemonade", "Mustard Seed", "Peeled Paint" Distress Ink; Versamark ink
Colored pencils: Prismacolor
Brads: Recollections
Yellow button and twine
Other media: Glossy Accents (on lemonade), Liquid Pearls (heart)

Wooden Butterflies card

I found a packet of wood butterflies at Michael's, and I colored them with markers and Mister Huey's ink to coordinate with the bright envelope. I also stamped a butterfly into a piece of sticky-back canvas, which I also colored with markers. This is one of my simpler cards, all things considered.

Supplies

Cardstock: Recollections
Stamps: "Everyday Sayings" by Hero Arts, "Butterflies and Wildflowers" from BasicGrey's Indie Bloom collection
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black stamp pad, Mister Huey's Clover
Marker: Broken China and Spun Sugar Distress Markers by Tim Holtz, Blush Stamp Marker by American Crafts
Canvas: natural sticky-back canvas ATC by Inksentialls/Ranger
Wood embellishments: Recollections
Mini envelope: Martha Stewart

Challenges

Lawnscaping Challenge #53: Texture


The Play Date Cafe challenge #172: Hollyhock, Spring Bud, Azure

Make a Wish in the Clouds card

Today's card is a simple sky scene featuring Lawn Fawn's "Critters Ever After" set. I made the masks by hand-drawing and cutting out two clouds on cardstock and using removable adhesive to stick them onto my panel. I used Distress Inks to create a blue sky, and after I removed the masks, I used a Memento marker and silver gel pen to give the clouds some shading and silver lining.

I echoed the gold/yellow and silver/gray while coloring the unicorn and gryphon. For the unicorn, I used watercolor pencils, and for the gryphon, I watercolored using Distress Inks. I added touches of silver with a gel pen, and gave the gryphon a hand-drawn bow, also in silver.

I finished off the card by stamping the sentiment (from the same stamp set as the images), hole-punching either side of it, and stringing twine across. I punched out the sun from a sheet of yellow polka-dotted patterned paper from My Mind's Eye, and I added touches of Wild Honey Distress Ink to its edges. I popped up this panel using foam adhesive onto a cut and scored piece of silver cardstock.

Supplies

Cardstock: silver and white cardstock from Recollections, watercolor paper by Strathmore
Patterned paper: "Moments" paper pad by My Mind's Eye
Stamp: "Critters Ever After" by Lawn Fawn
Ink: Versafine black ink, Distress Ink by Tim Holtz (squeezed lemonade, wild honey, salty ocean, faded jeans)
Marker: Memento gray
Colored Pencils: Recollections watercolor pencils
Gel pens: gold and silver
Punch: 1-inch pinking circle, small hole punch
Twine: silver twine I got from a package (I like recycling the ribbons and twine I get from gifts)

Challenges

Lawnscaping challenge #52: Stamp a Scene


The Play Date Cafe challenge #170: Stone, Buttercream, Denim


CAS-ual Fridays: CFC91

Painted Letters

I bought two more wooden letters and some masking tape, and now I can spell my nickname, "Jas":



This is definitely going on the wall of my room. I don't know if I should stay simple, keeping it to these three letters, or if I should buy the remaining four to spell out my actual first name, "Jasmine." What do you think?

This Blog Brought to You by the Letter J

I picked up a wooden letter J and a $1 circular foam brush from Michaels, and a $6 set of acrylic paints from Marshall's, and used my minimal artistic skills (read: none) to give the letter a purple polka-dot pattern. The purple in the paint set was a bit darker than I wanted, so I mixed in a little white to get a lighter tint. Since the foam brush is circular, I just had to dab it on and rotate it a bit to get good dots.