LDRS Creative: Rainbow Backdrop Tutorial!

Hey, all!

I'm back with you today to share a Rainbow Plaid Background tutorial using the fabulous hybrid inks at LDRS Creative!

I was playing around the other day with my hybrid inks and stencils and thought it would be fun to create a rainbow card, with a twist! This technique can be done with any patterned stencil and cardstock size, but I chose to use the 6x6 Plaid one for this project.

First step is to mask areas in diagonal lines with tape. I like to do this on a craft mat, so that the tape releases easily and the inks blend smoothly from the outside toward the inside of the cardstock.

Next, place your stencil on top of the protected cardstock and keep securely in place too, by adding tape on each corner.

Time to blend some ink! You could do the entire panel with one colour, but I chose to go with separate sections of colours.

Here are the colours I used on this project: Tropical Sea, Banana Cream Pie, Prickly Pear Perfection, Boysenberry, Tangerine and Soft Kisses.

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When inking each section, my fingers were always in the way! So I used a piece of scrap paper to have them stay put, hehe.

When all sections were inked, I delicately removed all the tape and stencil. Ta-dam!!!

I completed my card with a negative diecut made with the Thinking Of You Word die in black cardstock and glued to a piece of vellum.

Like it? I hope you will try this rainbow pattern with your favorite hybrid ink combo!

OH and while we're at it... 

Use discount code MDAY2020 to get 20% off your entire order from now until May 25, 11:59pm EST! Time to scoop up all those amazing hybrid inks, stamps, dies and stencils Angie has been playing with during her 7pm Tuesday & Thursday LIVE sessions on Facebook and Youtube!

LDRS Creative: Stencil tutorial + Hope you feel better!

Hello everone! Stephanie with you for LDRS Creative,

and I have a very sweet tutorial that takes no time at all using the brand new Coming Up Daisies stencil.

From the very first moment I saw that 

stencil, I knew I wanted to do more than just ink through it. So I started with a white cardstock, a pencil and some tape to keep it in place. The first step was fairly easy; just pencil in all the lines of the fence. Be careful not to press too hard, or the lines won't fade in the end.

This is what it looked like when everything was stenciled in. 

Next, I colored within the pencil lines with alcohol markers, and when everything was done, you couldn't even see the "sketch"! How cool, right? Plus, it gives a kind of a no-line coloring look to the whole thing. 

When that was done, I fussy cut the fence, glued it to a white A2 cardbase with foam adhesive, added a few colored flowers from the A New Beginning stamp and tied the whole thing with twine.

I also stamped a sentiment from the Puddle Jumper stamp set with Raven hybrid ink.

I hope you will try this little technique, too! Make sure to look at the 5 cards-1 kit video for more inspiration with the new release!

La-La Land Crafts: Thursday tutorial, mermaid background!

Hey everyone!

I quickly want to show you how to create a perfect water background for the lovely mermaids that hit the store at La-La Land Crafts!

Here are the simple steps:

You will need three shades of inks, no matter the brand, as long as they blend together and can react a bit to water (if not, just splatter some paint!).

Apply the lightest colour first to the top of the panel. Sunshine is always closer to the surface!

Then, blend in your mid-tone ink. Working in small circles usually helps, overlapping layers!

Finish with the darkest ink at the bottom of the panel. No sun, all shades!

Sprinkle some water if your ink is reactive, or paint.

Dab excess with a towel, and voilà! Mermaid background it is!

Last step was to create the waves with the negative from the Ropes die. Simple as this!

I completed the project by adding Mermaid Baby Marci all coloured up and a few pals from the Make A Splash set and Jaws Because. Of course, she wouldn't be that sweet without the diecuts: Fishing net, Heart Anchor, Sea Critters,  Sea Shells.

I hope this will encourage you to try a watery scene for the gorgeous Mermaid Princess Marci, Sitting Mermaid Baby Marci and Sassy Mermaid Molli in store!

LDRS Creative: Lift the flap Tutorial

Hello everyone!

I'm back for LDRS Creative to share a quick and fun tutorial on how to make your own interactive flap card with the Safari stamp and die set!

Here's how you can easily turn the large oval dies from the Woodland Foliage Frames into a flap to be added to any crafty projects; cards, scrapbook layouts, mini-albums, etc. The technique is fairly simple. 

First start with a piece of patterned paper cut at your cardbase dimensions. Mine are 4"x5 1/4", so to fit on an A2 white cardbase. Place an oval die in the middle of the panel and run through your diecutting machine. Adding a piece of washi tape helps keep the die in place ;-)

Glue to cardbase the negative part. Ink a sentiment (or a critter!) from the

Safari set with 

Raven hybrid ink in the opening. 

With the oval diecut, place the smaller oval die and run through your diecutting machine. Put aside.

Diecut another oval frame in a different cardstock.

Take back the first oval diecut and place the die on top, as to stencil in with a light pencil line the inside of the die.

Cut along the pencil line.

Now, we need one last thing for the flap; a tab, which I decided to borrow from the 

Pinafore Build-A-Card die set. You can write or stamp any message on it, but I wanted to make sure this one would entice the receiver to lift it up :-P

Before glueing the two oval diecuts together, score each one at half an inch from its edge. This is a tip, people, because if you glue them together before the scoring part, the paper will bubble, just like mine! Oops!

Glue the patterned oval on the cardstock one. Next, add adhesive on the part that was scored on the cardstock oval.

And stick that part on the cardbase. That's it!

Add different decorative elements to the card for a nice finishing touch. I decided to pop the tree from the Safari set right in the middle (previously inked with Raven hybrid ink and coloured with alcohol markers), as a focal point, and a little circle ribbon diecut from the Pinafore Build-A-Card die set.

I can see so many possibilities, also with the Happy Days Circle set! 

I hope you liked it and will give it a try and share on our Facebook Group! 

Lime Citron: Félicitations! + tutoriel

Bon matin à toutes!

J'ai un petit projet de mise en couleurs à vous partager aujourd'hui avec les produits Lime Citron! Ça a bien failli être une carte de type "un seul étage de papiers", mais bon, je me suis laissée aller et j'ai ajouté un souhait embossé.

Vous vous demandez d'où m'est venue l'idée? Bah ça... j'ai décidé que les animaux exotiques pouvaient se retrouver un peu partout, hihi! Comme quoi on n'a pas à se limiter et lorsqu'on se sent inspirer, il faut tout simplement se laisser aller. Aussi, je tiens à dire que cette technique a été faite avec des marqueurs à l'alcool (Copics), mais vous pourriez reprendre le tout avec votre médium de prédilection sans problème!

Après réflexion, il aurait été plus facile de vous expliquer le processus par vidéo, mais bon, cette fois-ci ce sera en images!

Alors j'ai débuté avec les deux ensembles d'étampes en vedette, soit le flamand et le toucan de l'ensemble Tropical sur un panneau de carton d'environ 4"x6". Je savais que je voulais créer une scène où on retrouverait plusieurs flamands, donc la première étape a été d'en étamper un au milieu de la carte, puis à l'aide de papier-cache, j'y ai ajouté deux autres acolytes, en plus du toucan qui est légèrement vers le coin haut-droit (ça se dit?! Vous comprenez!).

La deuxième étape est vraiment difficile à voir sur photos, mais en bref, j'ai pris un marqueur d'une teinte très pâle et j'ai légèrement "sketché" les formes de la scène à main levée, soit l'arbre, la bande d'horizon et les feuilles. Ça n'a pas besoin d'être parfait et on peut se reprendre à maintes fois, car en utilisant une teinte pâle, on viendra tout simplement effacer ses lignes de repères plus tard.

Ensuite, la partie plus amusante, celle de commencer à ajouter du caractère à la scène, avec des couleurs plus soutenues. On repasse par-dessus les traits pâles, et hop, l'image prend forme. C'est en fait une technique de "no-lines" inversées et de papier-cache. Puis, on continue d'ajouter les couleurs ici et là. Personnellement, je travaille du plus foncé vers le pâle, mais c'est une question de goûts. 

J'ai donc "rempli" mon image avec le tronc d'arbre, les feuilles, de l'herbe et un ciel bleu. Ne restait plus qu'à donner un peu de vie aux éléments de départ! Et si vous travaillez avec les marqueurs à l'alcool, ne vous inquiétez pas, l'encre va graduellement pénétrer le papier et l'aspect "coup de crayon" va s'estomper sans problème.

Le résultat final n'aurait pas été aussi punché si on n'avait pas ajouté un souhait de l'ensemble Souhaits Divers #2, embossé à la Versamark et à la poudre blanche. Ne restait qu'à apposer sur une base de carte, et voilà le travail!

J'espère que ça vous aura donner le goût d'essayer et de vous laisser aller à l'imaginaire, vous aussi!

Produits Lime Citron utilisés:

Étampe - Tropical

Matrice de coupe ET étampe - Flamand

Étampe - Souhait divers 2

SugarPea Designs: How! + VIDEO

Hey, all!

I'm back with you today and I thought I'd show you today how quickly and adorable the teepees from the gorgeous Indian Summer stamp set can be done. 

I simply can't get enough of this set as Fall is slowly entering town, so I keep playing with it, eheh. As you can see, I paired the stamp set with its coordinating die set and they are placed on top of a SugarCut – Zig Zag Stitched Rectangles and two layers of the brand new Spots & Stripes Brights Patterned Paper Collection, one being made from the new SugarCut – Arrow Cover Plate. 

I just love how vibrant these papers are! They match every colouring you could come up with!

And when I say quick, I mean SHORT and SWEET! Are you ready? Because in less than 2 minutes, you'll have seen the whole thing, I promise ;-)

(can't see the video? Here's the link!)

https://youtu.be/lGAQYPTrceg

See you next time!

SugarPea Designs: New release on video + how to create your own patterned paper with Knit Wit!

Hello everyone!

I'm back with you today for a special recollection of the AWESOME Fall release that we just had at SugarPea Designs! Did you miss it due to back-to-school, or some late vacation just in time before September?

Nonetheless, I have a quick video for you to catch up! Oh and you might remember seeing the card below here and about, wondering how to create a pattern paper out of the Knit Wit stamp set that comes FREE with orders of $60 and up? Gotta love the sweet incentive program!

Well, now is your chance to see it ALL on video! Click here to see it on the SugarPea Designs YouTube channel or right below!

(https://youtu.be/GKsM7_djZUI)

LDRS Creative: Mama's boy

Good morning everyone!

Stephanie here with you today at LDRS Creative and I hope you have a lovely week so far! Have you taken a peak yet at the newsletter that contained some gorgeous inspiration right through your mailbox?! If so, you've probably seen many projects featuring the amazing collection called Splendid Azure from the TLC Paper products line. 

I created a quick-and-simple card using the Mama's Boy stamp set from the Saturated Canary line to go with it and even did a video to show you the whole process (with a glimpse at the products on top!). You can see the 6x6 Paper Pack, the Quick Words Stickers, the Tab Stickers and last but not least the Washi Stickers that I die-cut through with the Basic Pierced Ovals from the Creative Basics line.

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SugarPea Designs: New release on video!

Good morning everyone!

I'm slowly recuperating from my short-but-awesome birthday trip to Walt Disney World this week-end and I have to admit I'm not scared to say this year will be AMAZING!

But enough with the personal stuff, let's give you what you really want, which I assume is a glimpse at the new release from SugarPea Designs on video, right?!

So here's a card I created with both the new paperpad and the Easily Amoosed stamp set. I'll be showing you how I coloured this little guy and I really hope you won't be scared, because he is too adorable not to grab!

You won't see the cardmaking process (sorry! the video was cut short without me knowing...bummer!), but I basically cut a cardbase to 4¼"x5½" so that it would fit perfectly the paper pad, then added two SugarCuts – Zig Zag Stitched Circles (one of them being stamped on with a sentiment and a tiny lantern from the stamp set) AND our moose which was previously coloured- die-cut-and-stacked-on-foam-tabs, too. Voilà, nothing more complicated than that!

Enjoy the video :-)