Saturday 13 May 2017

Mother's Day Cards | Sizzix Post


We are observing Mother’s Day in India on the 14th of this month and I came up with a couple of last minute mother’s day card ideas featuring the newly released dies from Sizzix—Butterfly Meadow by Debi Potter and the Sentiment Words Thin by Tim Holtz.

First One:-





Although this one was quick to put together after planning the design, it took a lot of time and brain-storming to finalize the card layout. Yeah, guess that happens when you’re low on creative ideas. I usually find it difficult to incorporate patterned papers on my cards. But I have a huge stock of pretty patterned papers kept in the drawers unused and it hurts me to see them getting dusty. So I challenged myself to try using PPs onto my card.  That beautiful die cut is a single piece with the butterfly, flowers and the leaves. I sponged the die cut using different colours of distress inks with the help of sponge daubers.

And now over to the second one:-


For this card, I wanted to try out a stenciling technique with my distress inks. I started by sponging three colours(abandoned coral, scattered straw, evergreen bough) of distress inks on a 4 by 5 ¼ inches sized Iris Sg card panel.


Then I chose my stencil I wished to use, sprayed some water over the stencil and placed it over the sponged card panel. I saw this technique in one of the recent card-making videos by Jennifer McGuire.
That gave me a beautiful background. The reason why this technique works so beautifully with distress inks (or even distress oxides) is the unique tendency of these inks to react with water.
And because I already had a colourful and striking background, I decided to keep the butterfly meadow die cut uncoloured.



How do you like these cards? Would love to know. :)

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Love,
Jasleen.

5 comments:

  1. Both of them are beautiful Jasleen !Loved the layout of first one .The butterfly with delicate flowers looks fab on your stenciled bg !

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  2. Both the card are gorgeous Jasleen. . :)

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  3. Such lovely cards, cool products and great ideas! Thank you.

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  4. Just beautiful Jasleen! As always!!
    Thanks so much for playing Paru’s Card Making Challenges


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  5. What beautiful designs Jasleen and such a delicate detailed die!!
    Cheers
    Dr Sonia

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