Birthday card for a friend

Hi all, and welcome back.
Today I would like to share with you a birthday card that I have made for a friends birthday back in July. (Last card is still on holiday somewhere)


I started the card with a piece of 12" x 6" teal blue Bazzill card stock. Folded this in half to make a 6"x6" card.

I then cut a piece of dusty blue card stock 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" distressed the edges using a distressing tool. When I was happy with the amount of distressing I then distressed the edges using some Rangers Stormy Sky distress ink.

From my Tim Holtz stash I then cut a piece of triangular print paper to fit over the dusty blue cardstock. I again distressed the edges with both the distressing tool and the Stormy Sky distress in

I machine sewed the print paper to the dusty blue cardstock.


For the words I printed them of on my computer, cut them into single words, distressed the edges and used mounting foam to adhere them to the print paper.

Once this was done I stuck the top layers of card to the teal blue card.
I then added some black "Bling" swirls to the card, and added some paper flowers and small beads through the flowers.

I am quite happy with the end result and knowing that my friend loves the distressed look, I am sure she will love it.

 

Hi all, welcome, this is my first post as a member of the design team for the Crafters Cupboard.

Today I would love to share with you an "Art Journal" book that I have made for myself using a blank cover that I had in my stash.

I started of by covering the whole cover in gesso.

 

 

From there I applied some Paper Artsy grunge paste through various stencils which were TCW287s (Mini /burst), TCW436s (Mini Skyline), TCW467s (Mini Love, Live, Laugh) and THS018 Doily  from the Tim Holtz collection. I also used some other stencils from my stash for two of the words on the front cover (the Journey) and two words on the back cover (travel journey)

Stencils front cover TCW467s. Spine THS018

Stencils back cover TCW 287s & TCW436s

After  adding the stencilling I then applied a light covering of Paper Artsy Fresco Paint "Stone" then I applied some "Very Berry." I then decided that it need a bit more, so using a stipple brush I applied a liberal coat of  "Stone, Very Berry and Claret" until I was happy with the overall effect.

After heat drying I then used Rangers Distress Ink "Black Soot" to  distress all the edges. I also used one of my favourite mediums which is "Treasure Gold" using the colours "White Fire and Spanish Topaz" to highlight all the stencilling and edges. When I was happy with the effects of the distressing and application of treasure gold, I added some stamping. I used the stamp set "Hot Picks HP1301EZ" from Paper Artsy.

From there I distressed the inside of the cover with "Black Soot" distress ink.

When I was happy with that, I added a bow to the front cover using some matching coloured ribbon from my own stash.



I cut out some printed paper from my Paper Artsy paper collection "Thordon Hall." I  then applied a light covering of "Victorian Velvet" distress ink, scrunched the paper a little to age it, and again lightly applied some "Black Soot" distress ink to highlight all the creases in the paper. I also re applied the "Black Soot" distress ink to all the edges. I heat dried the distress ink before I applied some more Treasure Gold to the edges.



Inside cover

I re-stamped the butterfly using the same stamp on the front cover, cut it out and coloured it in using the same colour paints used for painting the cover.After all of this was done I attached my butterfly over the butterfly stamp on the front cover using pop dots to give a 3 dimensional look.

 

 

I then cut out a bundle of 190gsm paper to make into the pages for my mini art journal.

I hope that you enjoy this "Mini Art journal" as much as I  have in making it. I'd love to see any creations you make using this great idea for creating n Art Journal Cover.



Until next time,
Cheers,


 Anne