Lisa Stein

paper crafter, quilter, crochet addict, book reader, golden retriever lover, vegan

April 9, 2018

Spring Card Set

Good morning to you! I am here with a set of cards that I made for a little birthday gift for my mother. Don’t worry, she doesn’t read the blog. 🙂

Since it’s also April 9th, you know what that means! It’s a new challenge at Where Creativity Meets C9 and a new release from Concord & 9th. You should click there and go shop right now. This is a VERY good release. My wallet has been warned. 

The challenge this month is Spring! And I thought that a little set of flat cards would be perfect. My Mom spends the winters in Florida, you know, as per nature, and I know she can use these cards for friends. She’s always telling me that she bought a card at the store, and I cringe at this, each and every time. Ha.

For these cards I used a few sets from Concord & 9th, one for the florals, one for a leaf, and then another for the sentiments. I love that it’s so easy to combine sets as you need them, and it gets more use out of them. Win win in my book.

These were very easy to make; here is what I did:

  • Stamped the floral image in a pale distress ink using my MISTI so I could easily make multiples. I also made a mask of this stamp so I could stamp the foliage.
  • Masked the flower and then stamped the foliage in two different colors of distress ink.
  • Using a small stamp block I stamped the “berries” in the second generation of Evergreen Bough distress ink. That means that I stamped it off once before stamping onto the cardstock.
  • Die cut the panels using the Hero Arts rounded rectangle infinity dies.
  • Using copic markers I colored in the images. Just two markers per image, and nothing fancy. I was going for a sort of organic coloring. Just simple color application, and wasn’t going for perfection.
  • Added some Sparkle marker over the berries.
  • Stamped the sentiments in Distress Oxide ink and used clear embossing powder over that.
  • Lastly, I made some envelopes that coordinated with some old patterned paper and my We Are Memory Keepers Envelope Punch Board. I love that tool and sometimes when I want to be crafty, but am not feeling “it”, I just make envelopes. Try it, very relaxing.

I hope you’ll join us for this month’s challenge. It’s a fun one. I know that lots of people live somewhere where they are READY for spring already, so maybe if you join this challenge, Mother Nature will know you’re serious. Plus, there are prizes up for grabs!

Supplies:

Hi There Bear
Hi There BearEH | SSS | C9
Wildflower
WildflowerEH | SSS | C9
All Year Long
All Year LongEH | SSS | C9
Rounded Rectangles
Rounded RectanglesEH | SSS | HA
Evergreen Bough
Evergreen BoughEH | SSS
Shabby Shutters
Shabby ShuttersEH | SSS |
Tattered Rose
Tattered RoseEH | SSS |
Crushed Olive
Crushed OliveEH | SSS
Hickory Smoke
Hickory SmokeEH | SSS |
Powder Tool
Powder ToolEH | SSS
Hero Arts Clear
Hero Arts ClearEH | SSS
Neenah 110 lb
Neenah 110 lbEH | SSS
Copic Markers
Copic MarkersEH | SSS
Clear Overlay Pen
Clear Overlay PenEH | SSS
Be Creative Tape, 1/8
Be Creative Tape, 1/8″EH | SSS
Be Creative Tape, 1/4
Be Creative Tape, 1/4″EH | SSS
Embossing Gun
Embossing GunEH | SSS
Stamp Shammy
Stamp ShammyEH | SSS
MISTI
MISTIEH | SSS
Envelope Punch Board
Envelope Punch BoardSSS | AZ |
Tweezers
TweezersEH | SSS
Paper Trimmer
Paper TrimmerEH | SSS

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Posted In: Where Creativity Meets C9 · Tagged: Concord & 9th, Distress Inks, distress oxide, Hero Arts

Comments

  1. Linda T says

    April 9, 2018 at 9:51 pm

    This is so lovely, what a great gift they’d make. I sound like Yoda, my sentence structure is all weird. make envelope, you must! lol
    xo

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