Today I am sharing a card I created using Rachel Vass release called circle of hope.
For this card I had this idea with a Lot of layers and lot of dimension.
The Focus
For the Main focus of the card the floral image was one layer matted with a golden card-stock layered with slightly bigger than the floral image itself.
I colored the flower with Coppic markers in the warm grays. The darkest shade was double five then W2 and then blended with W00. I wanted the flower to be a neutral shade because there was a lot going on on this card design already.
The center of the flower was colored using the COPIC marker that matches the background and dotted the stamen with a gel pen and embossed with gold embossing powder.
The Sentiment
The sentiment on this card was another layer again baked with a layer of golden card stock. The sentiment that says life is tough but so are you is converted into white on back black.
For the background of this card I decided do use a stencil with distressed oxide ink. The stencil I picked for this was from Altenew and the ink I used was tumbled glass. My stencil had a little yellow from the last time I used which I forgot to clean. That made the stenciling a little bit greenish shade. Then I sprinkled some embossing powder with the help of my fingers. The embossing powder I used was Seaglass from Wow embossing.
The background piece was again layered with a gold card stock.
I usually design my card layout silhouette studio. That makes it easier for me to size the image perfectly and create cutlines around the images and matting layers which are slightly bigger than the images.
I then adhered everything on a top folding landscape A2 card base.
Today I am sharing a trio of cards I created featuring the new release by Rachel Vass. This stamp set is a digital stamp called Glorious Geometry.
Coloring digital images are my favorite. I usually color them using Copic Markers. But to be able to use the digital images on your cards you don’t have to be perfect at using coloring mediums. Sometimes simple coloring can make beautiful cards.
First Card
For my first card I didn’t even use the image as it was supposed to be. The beauty of digital image is that you can modify the way you like. Almost like masking off the part of the physical stamp.
On this card I only used the large cluster of floral image and quick colored them with Copics. With not much blending or shading it took me no time to color those.
I then foam mounted this image cut with the help of a pair of scissors on a black background I had created a couple of weeks ago. This background was created using the Nuvo Crackle Mousse in black on a black cardstock. The sentiment is from this same stamp set. Printed on white on black .
That finished my first card.
Second Card
Here this is how this image was supposed to be printed and used. So for my second card I kept it as is and colored with copics again. Simple coloring,nothing fancy.
For this card, I printed the sentiment in white and filled the triangle with black before printing. That’s how I got the white on black sentiment in the middle.
A lot of people ask me how I change the digital sentiment from black in white to white on black. Here I am sharing a video explaining the technique .
You Tube Video explaining how to change the digital sentiment into white on black.
I cut the printed and colored panel to slightly smaller than an A2 base, matted it with black cardstock and finally foam mounted on a card base. This finishes my second card.
TheThird Card
My third card is even more simpler. As I just cut out some of the flowers in the design. Just gave it a hint of color.
ThenI foam mounted the flowers in an arrangement on an alcohol ink background I created a few weeks ago.
Again the sentiment is from this stamp set. Which I created in white on black, cut in a strip and added across the card.
Then the panel was added to an A2 base.
The versatility of digital stamp is endless. You don’t have to be an artist to color the images. Digital images can be resized and flipped. You can add images on top of each other or remove a part of the image.
Rachel Vass release her new stamps ever week. Her designs are one of a kind and beautifully drawn. I have been spending money on physical stamp less ever since I started using Digital Stamps.
Hopefully this will inspire you to create beautiful card like these with simple copic coloring and premade backgrounds.
Today I have sharing some cards I created using the Alex Syberia Release for June 20. This release so fun with all beautiful images.
First Card
This card is created using the Alex Syberia Sunflower digital stamp. I colored this image using copic markers in the shades:
YR04, Y17, Y15, and Y08
And the stem and the leaves in
YG67, YG63 YG17 and YG13
This image of sunflower was just so pretty I didn’t want any distractions on the background. The cover cutting file from Silhoutte Design Store. It is called Pebbles Overlay by Lizzie Mayne. was a perfect backdrop for this beautiful image.
I glued the die cut on a white panel using liquid glue.
There are options to cut the digital images using a few softwares like Silhouette Machine, Cricut Machine or Brother scan and cut. For this particular project I decided to fussy cut it using scissors. Sometimes I find it hard to cut using scissors but most of the time when the image is large enough to cut around it I find it therapeutic.
The sentiment was from the Taylored Expressions stamp and die set. With which you can stamp and cut a bunch of different sentiments at once so it is always ready when you want to create a card.
Finally Embellished with some Nuvo Jewel Drops in clear color as I wanted the focus on the sunflower image.
Second Card
I used the Dogrose flower from this latest release by Alex Syberia. For my second card I wanted some ombre sky background. When I was getting the image ready for printing I added the ombre background and then printed it.
Now the background was already done, all I had to do was color the image.
I again picked Copic Markers for the coloring. For the flower I used:
RV55, RV42 and R00
For the berries:
R29,R27,R24
And for the leaves and stem believe it or not I only used one color
YG67
I colored all the leaves and after the marker was dry I went back and darkened the shadow area with the same color.
About the word Happy, I had downloaded this font from Silhouette Design store and simply typed the word and cut it with gold foil paper. The black offset layer is also cut with the silhouette machine. It is just an offset image of the word happy which I cut out of the black card-stock. I added the Birthday to you underneath to complete the sentiment which was already stamped, embossed and cut in a strip.
I also cut the thin frame border around the image out of the same gold foil card-stock with the help of the silhouette machine. I think that tied in all my elements together.
For the final finishing touch, I added some white gel pen on the highlighted areas on the berries. I added some gel pen on the stamen of the flowers and before the gel pen dried added some gold sparkle embossing powder and heat set it. This way I was able to achieve the metallic look on the center of the flowers.
This completed my second card.
Third Card
This sea shell border on the slimline format was my favorite in this release. This image was the first one I printed in light ink and started coloring. I was actually going for a almost realistic look while coloring I used watercolor for this one.
I am just a beginner in watercoloring and I am still learning a lot. My weakness is impatience with watercoloring. I cannot wait between layers. I tried my best to achieve the “realistic” look. At one point I was already getting frustrated with the painting which is so not like me. But I kept going and finished it.
The final result was worth the hours I spent on water-coloring this image.
I printed the sentiment in another piece and layered both the sentiment and the watercolored panel onto a teal green card-stock and then mounted it on a slimline base made out of a heavyweight card-stock.
Finally added some flat back green jewels to embellish this card and call it done.
This completed my third and last card for this release. In near future I may want to make a few more cards with this release.
Today I am sharing this fun and sparkly cards featuring Floral Burst Digital stamp release by Rachel Vass.
I have made two cards using this latest release called Floral Burst.
The First Card
Here is my first card.
We’re used to making the standard A2 size cards and lately the slimline size is getting so popular. Since this image was somewhat more square I wanted to create a 6 by 6 card with it.
The Technique
Like my previous card I used the digital background for this card too. I really loved this pastel green background for my card. Rachel’s images has white fill to them so it’s nice to print over the digital pattern paper and still have some white space inside the image for coloring.
One of these days I will learn how to color the image digitally. I do not have softwares like Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator. I use my Sillhoutte cameo software to design my digital images and print them.
The Focus
After I printed the floral image along with the background, all I had left was to color the image. I chose Copic Color for my image. Reds I thought would compliment the pastel green background. The images don’t really show the true color of the background.
The flowers were colored with R24, R37, and R39. These colors blend so well. That’s my favorite red combination. I only colored the open spaces on the flowers with Copics, because I had this sparkly idea in my head.
The Accent
This picture may not be very good, but I wanted to capture the sparkle. Hope you can see them. I drew lines with a sparkly gel pen and filled some of the leaves with the sparkly pen too.
Then I cut this panel and matted with a red card-stock that matched with my Copic coloring perfectly. Then added that one a 6 by 6 top folding card base using foam tapes.
The Sentiment
I printed the sentiment that came with the Floral Burst stamp set. If you guys know how to do the reverse color with the sentiment, I did white on black. All I did was traced the sentiment, and changed the color of the sentiment to white then created a black background around it and printed. I love the look of the white on black sentiment better than black on white. The sentiment is cut in a strip and adhered with another layer of foam tape behind it.
The Second Card
This one I created an A2 card but with the split image. Looks like I printed one image and cut it in half. But in fact I printed it that way. I left the background plain this time.
The Focus
For this one I colored in two colors. Yellow and blue has been one of my favorite combo.The open petals I colored in shades of yellow but the lined petals was only one shade of blue.
I used Y08, YR12, Y17 and YR15. I know it sounds like a weird combination but it gave me the look that I was going for. The blue I used is B04.
The Accent
I colored the open spaces in the smaller flowers with the sparkly gel pen. The yellow petals were a little too big to just fill with the gel pen so I doodled some swirly circles on them to fill the space. I loved how this one turned out.
In fact this is my favorite among these two cards.
The Sentiment
Again for this card too I created the white on black thank you sentiment and cut that in a strip and adhered with foam tape.
I then matted this panel on a slightly bigger blue card-stock panel that matched with my coloring to make a 4 and a quarter by 5 and a half card front. This was added on a A2 size card-base using foam tape.
Finally added some blue Nuvo Jewel Drops to fill the empty white space and complete the card.
I hope this inspires you to use whatever you have in your stash to create this fun sparkly effect on your card.
Today I am sharing a fun way to create an instant background with your digital images. I used Digital Paper with my digital stamps.
There are lots of free digital prints and pattern papers online. You can download any of those nowadays.
Along with the technique this project features the latest release digital stamp by Rachel Vass. This stamp is called Joyous Moments.
This is a beautiful stamp with a flower cluster of three fluffy flowers and some sentiments in beautiful fonts.
I usually design my card using the silhouette cameo software whenever i am using digital stamps. I had this beautiful pater paper in teal saved in my library. You can also purchase a digital pattern paper from the silhouette design store.
The Design
I brought this patter paper to my silhoutte design page and then added the digital stamps from Rachel Vass to alighn in a way that two floral clusters would face away from eachother leaving a space for sentiments along the middle of the card panel.
I love how Rachel Vass Digital stamps are made with a white background to the images so you are able to layer them on top of each-other or on top of pattern paper like I did for this project.
It looks like a dimensional card but it is really just one layer besides the sentiment which is another piece of cardstock. The sentiment came from the same stamp set.
After I printed out my flowers with the pattern already done for the background, all I had to do was color the image and the card would be done.
The Focus
The main focus of this card is this beautiful digital stamp from Rachel Vass. I really love how well illustrated Rachel’s images are. They are so fun to color. Of course there are other ways to use these lovely images but I love to color them with my Copic Markers.
Copic Colors
For the flowers I chose shades of orange to go with the teal background.
YR04, YR07, Y17 and YR09
I also added a little bit of highlights to some areas using prismacolor pencil in yellow for extra dimension.
For the leaves I picked
G99, YG67, G17 and YG17
For the center of the flower
E39 E49
Once the coloring was finished which didn’t take a long time, I adhered this panel on an A2 size white card base made of heavyweight card-stock.
For the final touch I added some yellow gelly roll dots on the stamens of the flowers.
I hope this inspires you to use varieties of digital papers available online. I just downloaded some free digital papers from this website for future projects.
Kokeshi dolls are Japanese wooden dolls for children that have been crafted for over 150 years. One characteristic of these dolls is their lack of arms or legs. These dolls come in many colors and are full of personality.
This release of Alex Syberia digital stamps has three kokeshi dolls and she has given them thier own names. Fumiko, Akemi and Mitsuki.
There is also a very special giveaway for you guys in this post. Don’t forget to check all the way down at the bottom of this post for more details!
Today I have two cards to share with you featuring these adorable dolls. As soon as I saw this new release I was super excited about these beautiful doll images.
First Card
Meet Akemi.
Whenever I think of anything Japanese it automatically reminds me of Cherry blossoms, so I wanted my cards to have cherry blossoms in the background.
I colored Akemi using copics in red shades R24 R27 and R39, her hair in black copic marker, and some parts shaded with C9 and C7. Her skin is colored in E00 and E04.
For my first card, I took a panel of craft card-stock piece. I then cut it using two of the large Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangle die to cut a border. The inside piece of the panel I embossed using Spellbinders embossing folder.
I used Altenew Vintage Flowers Die to cut some smaller flowers in three sizes and the large stem out of white piece of scrap card-stock. I colored the flowers in using distressed oxide ink in color Barn Door. The stem is colored with distressed oxide in Deep Mahogany.
I attached the stem on the embossed piece with art glitter glue, then I arranged the flowers some added with liquid glue and some on foam tapes, creating a look of a blooming cherry blossom. I then added some Ink of Stella clear pen on the flowers and her dress. The middle of the flowers are embellished with white Nuvo drops.
Finally the panel was added on a top-folding A2 size card base made out of craft card-stock and the rectangle border adhered with foam tapes to create a frame around it.
Second Card
Meet Mitsuki.
I colored her using copic markers in shades of light blue, pink and red. Her hair is colored in black. Her glasses in light blue.
For the background of this card I took a panel of light pink cardstock blended Red Barn distressed oxide ink from the top fading towards the middle.
This card also would look lovely with cherry blossoms on the background. I decided on blue flowers for this one to match her kimono. I used the AltenewVintage Flower stem die to cut the stem and colored it with copic in E34. I used the flower die from Spellbinders Small die of the month for March 20 to cut some flowers. I colored the flowers with the same blue Copic I used on her dress.
The sentiment and Mitsuki are added on the background using foam tapes.
Finally added some ink of stella on the flowers and Mitsuki’s kimono.
It was wonderful creating cards with these super adorable Kokeshi dolls illustrated by Talented Alex Syberia, and I am so honored to be designing for her.
Here are the other cards I created using this release.
Thank you so much for visiting my blog. I hope this inspires you.
Giveaway
To celebrate this release, Alex is giving away 7 $10 gift certificates. Please leave a comment on each of the participating designers’ blogs/IG accounts in this blog hop by 05/22/2020 for a chance to win. Winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the blogs/IG accounts listed below and will be announced on Alex’s blog on 05/23/2020.
You must have come here from TaeEun yoo ‘s blog. Your next stop after my blog will be Coleen Balija.
Here is the full list of participants of his hop to celebrate this wonderful release by Alex Syberia
Weclcome to my blog. Today I am sharing this card I made featuring Rachel Vass latest release digital stamp called Mock Orange Blossom. This is a beautiful flower cluster with some wonderful Sentiments.
Here’s My card
I printed this stamp with one of the sentiment on Mixed media paper in light beige ink thinking about watercoloring them. But I don’t know why I wanted to color these with Copic color instead.
I started coloring the flowers with Copics in light red shades. It looks orange in the photos but its pale reds. The colors I used for the flowers are:
R00 RV42 R32 and R24
I then colored the leaves and the stem in shades of green:
G99 G69 G17 and YG17
Then for the stamens of the flower I used Yellow Gelly Roll pen.
The sentiment for this specific card I picked “You are in my prayers” which is included in this digital stamp set. I thought this sentiment goes perfectly well with the soft florals.
Today I have a card to share with you which features this beautiful digital stamp release by Rachel Vass Designs. It’s called Dancing Delights. These flower images are just too adorable.
The Focus
The main focal image for this card is a cluster of these lovely flowers and buds. I colored the flowers using Copic colors in Y17 YR12 and YR15. The leaves and the stems are colored using G99 and G07. Nothing fancy coloring, but still these flowers look so pretty.
Arranged the flowers in a bunch and added with foam tape on a strip of metallic paint splattered black cardstock.
The sentiment is from a Hero Arts stamp. This is stamped on a black piece of cardstock with sticky embossing ink and embossed with detail white embossing powder and heat set.
Finally embellished the card with the Nuvo Drops in Yellow and some shimmering pen over the flowers.
I hope you get inspired by this project.
Hugs
Jyoti
Here’s another card I created using Rachel’s stamp
Today I have two cards to share with you. I created these cards using the latest release by Rachel Vass Designs called Doodle Flowers. It’s a beautiful stamp for someone who likes to color.
First Card
The Focus
For my first card, I colored these flowers in Copics. I decided on the purple and green combination for the flowers I started coloring the center with dark purple and shaded with a lighter shade on the outside. Blending the purple with the green was a little tough but I managed to create a smooth blend. The outside of the petals I wanted it darker green shade.
This is almost a one layer card. But I wanted something fun and not so simple. So I traced the center of the flower with my sparkly silver gel pen. Added some gold pearls to finish off this card.
The Second Card
The Focus
For the focal image of this card I just wanted a simple ink blended look. I didn’t want to spend a lot of time coloring these images. Not because it isn’t fun to color these beautiful images, but because I wanted this one to be a quick card.
I started ink blending the image with distressed oxide inks in colors Abandoned Coral, Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron, Peacock Feathers, and Broken China in almost rainbow colors. Then I used a metallic watercolor in color gold carefully painted the stamens with it to give it a sparkly look.
I actually intended to make a fun fold card with these images were a little too big for that design I adhered with some foam tape one nest to another on a slimline card base again blended with distressed oxide ink in color Wild Honey.
Finally, I finished off the card with some gold sequins adhered with the help of art glitter glue.
I hope you liked these cards and get inspired to create something like this. Tag me on social media if you create something similar. I would like to see what you come up with.
For this card, I had this fun color combination in my mind. Yellow and blue. But I wanted something unique so I went with blue for the center of the flowers and yellow for the petals.
I started coloring centers of the flowers using Copic colors in blue shades, B02, B04, and B06.
For the petals, I picked Y12, Y15, and Y17. For a little bit of depth in the center, I used E11.
I then matted that square piece with black card stock.
The Background
For the background of this card, I stretched the otherwise square stamp into a rectangle of 4 inches by 5 and a quarter inches which is slightly smaller than a regular A2 size card.
I colored the background panel using cool gray shades of Copic Markers. C3, C5, and Colorless Blender to blend Them all. I used Prismacolor pencils in 50% cool gray for extra depth in those black and white looking flowers.
Then I matted that panel with black card stock and mounted it on a top folding A2 card base. I added glossy accent to the center of the flower.
The Sentiment
The sentiment for this card came from the same digital stamp set. I loved the sentiment which is in white on black. They are all Thank You sentiments.
The Second Card
The Focus
For this second card, I wanted to color it in ombre. Since I owned a few different shades of Copic markers in reds, I picked all of them.
The center of the card is light and as it goes towards the edge of the card it becomes darker and darker. Vignette is the exact term.
For the darkest red shade which is the background behind the flowers I used G17 first and used R39 on top of it to make it even darker.
