This card kinda makes me laugh!! Like, whut?! Succulents floating in outer space?! Really, Sharon?? Yes, really!! 😀 As I was playing with my new supplies from Ranger Ink and Wendy Vecchi I decided to go out of my comfort zone and do something a bit silly!It all started when I made this galaxy background by blending all of my new Wendy Vecchi’s Blendable inks onto a panel of Perfect White cardstock and covering them with a layer of Black Soot distress ink! I added spatters of white craft paint and then gold from Gansai Tambi’s Starry Colors palette! But what next?! The sweet succulent from Wendy Vecchi’s Flower Pot Stamp/Die/Stencil set was just begging to be featured on a card again, so I heat-embossed a bunch of them in gold, colored them with Zig markers then cut them out. Before I adhered them to the panel, I added strips of washi tape from Wendy Vecchi’s Washi Tape Assortment 2– the watercolor-y design just perfectly coordinated with my card! I also like how the straight lines of the tape nicely balanced out the organic shapes of the succulents and the flowy script of the sentiment! “Dreaming of You” seemed the most appropriate sentiment for this galaxy card and it’s from Simon Says Stamp’s Seeing Stars set. I embossed “Dreaming of” in gold onto a strip of black card stock then trimmed it down and mounted it with a bit of foam tape to my card. Just below it I embossed the “You” directly to my panel. I really love this whimsical card with floating succulents and hope you do too! Thanks for stopping by!
Welcome to my blog! Today I have a couple of cards to share which I made using Brutus Monroe’s Designer Toner Sheets! The package comes with four sheets in all, two of which are printed on white paper and I used Marble for my cards! My new laminating machine ate two of my recent projects and one is currently stuck in the machine, waiting for attention from my hubby! Since I couldn’t use foil on these, I wanted to show that you don’t NEED a laminator to use these awesome products! Let me tell you how I made my cards! First of all, I trimmed down the toner sheet to fit my A2 card, then sponged distress oxide inks in various colors over the pattern, ending with a layer of Black Soot. The paper has a very smooth surface so I wiped any excess ink off with a paper towel. How cool is that?! We all love making galaxy cards, right?!I always like to spatter drops of water over oxide inks for the effect it gives, so I did that and then spattered white paint to depict the galaxy of stars. I have a really fun space set and heat-embossed the planet stamp, colored it with some Zig markers, then sponged a little more Black Soot over it to tone it down. Having recently received some great products from Thermoweb, I adhered my planet with their 3D Foam Squares which was SO much easier than my usual cutting pieces of foam tape, getting my scissors all gummed up! I added Wink of Stella clear glitter ink to the card for a little sparkle!The space stamp set also came with this JOURNEY sentiment (I wish I knew who makes the set but it was secondhand to me!) and I heat-embossed it directly to the card front in white. I’ll be happy to get my laminating machine fixed but in the meantime, it’s good to know I can still use these great toner sheets!I wasn’t going to share this card because my heat-embossing got a little messy, but it shows the galaxy pattern with a little less black ink covering up the colors! The constellation stamps are from Simon Say’s Stamp’s Seeing Stars. Brutus Monroe has a great assortment of toner sheet designs, so be sure to check them out! Thanks for visiting today!
I stamped the constellations using Colorbox white pigment ink but didn’t heat-emboss them so that they’d remain subtly in the background. The sentiment from Seeing Stars was heat-embossed in gold onto a scrap of black card stock, then lifted up with a strip of foam tape.
I colored the bears with, you guessed it! Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers, then fussy-cut them out and mounted them with small pieces of foam tape. ***I’m pleased to have shared this card today for the 2018 Stamping For Autism Awareness Blog Hop!
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