ThermOWeb | World Card Making Day with Glitz and Flock

Happy World Card Making Day to all of my card making friends! I feel like this day brings everyone together and it makes me so happy! I created a few more tone on tone cards with ThermOWeb Glitz Glitter Gel and Flock Transfer Sheets for a bunch of different occasions - birthday, sympathy, and anniversary! 

I decided to keep my cards simple and keep the focus on the textured backgrounds. I used three colors of Deco Foil Flock Transfer Sheets - Blue Diamond, Ruby Red, and Purple Punch. I trimmed them down to be A2 sized, but decided to trim them down slightly smaller later. The key to trimming Flock Transfer Sheets is to trim them with the "pretty side" down - facing the trimmer. You want your blade to be cutting into the white backing of the Flock Transfer Sheets. This prevents the Flock from shedding. 

I picked out three colors of Glitz Glitter Gel to match the Flock Transfer Sheets - Brilliant Blue, Red Velvet, and Wild Lilac. When I do tone on tone I like to go with colors that are close, but not exactly the same. I used a different stencil with each background - Floral Wave Offset on the blue, Floral Stained Glass on the red, and Stripes on the purple. I sprayed the back of each stencil with Pixie Spray and let them sit for about a minute before placing them on top of my trimmed pieces of Flock Transfer Sheet. I used a Stencil Pal to spread an even layer of the coordinating color of Glitz Glitter Gel over the Flock. The texture is amazing! The Flock Transfer Sheets are slightly dimensional and textured and the Glitz Glitter Gel gives even more dimension and so much shine! 

I set my Glitz panels aside to dry - this takes about 30 minutes to an hour - and worked on my images. I kept with the monochromatic theme and stamped the sentiments and colored the images to pair with the backgrounds. I used the Simon Says Stamp Hexagon Greetings Stamp Set for the blue background, LDRS Creative Friends Stamp Set for the red, and My Favorite Things All the Cupcakes Stamp Set for the purple. I used Purple Tape to hold the coordinating dies in place over the images and trimmed out my little die cuts. 

Once my panels were dry I added them to top folding A2 cards using iCraft Ultra Bond Liquid Adhesive. This is my absolute FAVORITE liquid adhesive! It holds on strong and keeps my Flock nice and flat on the card. I added my images and sentiments with iCraft 3D Foam Squares. These foam squares have about twice the lift and dimension as "traditional" foam squares making the images truly pop off the page! 

Happy World Card Making Day to everyone! I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and that you're inspired! See you soon! 

Miss Ink Stamps | Roll With It Halloween Card

It's officially spooky month! I grabbed some new and old Miss Ink Stamps products to create a cute little Halloween scene card! 

I am loving the quick and easy scene stamps from Miss Ink Stamps! I hope you do, too! Visit the video on YouTube for a full product list! 

World Card Making Day 2017

Hello, everyone! Today I have four - yes, four! - cards for you! After all, it is world card making day! I have been really inspired by Concord & 9th lately, so I pulled out every product that I had, with the intention to make one card, but once I started I couldn't stop! I used only a few of my stamp sets, but I still have so many ideas swirling around my head! Let's just dive in!

I used this lovely mood board from Butterfly Reflections, Ink for my first card. I will be honest, I would never have thought to pair these colors together, but that's why I love color palette inspirations so much! I struggle with color theory and so I love it when someone just tells me - hey! These colors go together!

I used the flower turnabout stamp to stamp the flowers with inks I had that were closest to the color inspiration. I love these turnabouts! They really take the work out of a background! I just stamped a sentiment from another stamp set (Enjoy It) and embossed it with black powder and added some black nuvo drops. I also added some clear glitter drops to the center of the flowers.

I didn't stop there! I made another card with this GORGEOUS image from the Cozy Up stamp set. I love love love this! I colored the image super quick with Copic markers. I really wanted the sentiment to be red, but my ink didn't show up. It just blended in. So I thought I would use red embossing powder and that still didn't pop enough, so I just embossed over the top with white powder. The red still peeks out, but I'm okay with it! I added white Nuvo drops, but alas..they did not stay white. I've been having trouble with that lately. They seem to react with Copics even if I heat set them first. Oh well. I still like how it turned out!

I love to create my own backgrounds using small images. I used the three individual cookie stamps and stamped my own background. I used three different Copic marker combos to color in the background. I had some trouble with the sentiment again. I stamped it in black directly onto my card, but it didn't stand out. I restamped using my MISTI onto vellum and cut it down with a stitched rectangle. I wish now that I had stamped with black on the vellum. I fear that the white doesn't stand out enough.

And now for the final card! This one happens to be my favorite! It is so simple...but so wonderful! I love the stocking image - also from the Cozy Up stamp set! I colored three stockings and cut them out right up to the black outline. I embossed my sentiment at the bottom of my card and then popped up my stockings. As usual...I added SO much clear glitter! There is a crazy amount of glitter - and I love it!


Thanks for joining me for World Card Making Day! I hope you head over to the Butterfly Reflections, Ink blog and shop for all of your crafty needs!