Create a smile: Doodle Flowers

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Saturday, July 24, 2021

My Reason to Smile

Hi there!
Samantha here, and today I am sharing a happy and encouraging floral card!

I always have trouble making floral cards, but Create a Smile Stamps has the best, images and they're always calling to me!

Let's make this card together!

- first, I stamped colored all the images with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and then once they were all dry, I fussy cut them out!
- I also splattered some ink color and white acrylic ink on top of the images
- I used Distress Inks in Dried Marigold and Squeezed Lemonade along with the stencil to create the ombre stripes!

- I did more splattering, this time with white acrylic ink onto the background
- I stamped part of the sentiment directly onto the background, and heat embossed the other half and fussy cut it out!

- finally, I finished off the card with some clear sequins!

I went with complimentary colors for my card, but this would be just as beautiful with tone-on-tone colors, as well!

For the background, I used the super fun Wide Stripes Stencil. The sentiment is from Reason to Smile, and the beautiful flowers are from Doodle Flowers!

There is ALWAYS a fun challenge going on in the Create a Smile Stamp Facebook group page! It's fun and filled with prizes! I love seeing all of the incredible, unique and amazing inspiration!

~Samantha

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Birthday Flowers

Hey stampers, Anni here!

Between all the Christmas cards we are seeing on the internet right now I am sharing a birthday card.

I wanted to make a birthday card for a good crafty friend and I was in the mood for watercolouring. My favourite images for watercoöours are föowers. So I went for the Doodle Flowers set.

I love no line colouring. With this technique you get a totally new look from your stamps.
Stamp with a very light ink. This way you can not see the lines later.
Contrast is the key word for no line coloring: Make the shadows really dark and keep some areas really light. Don't be shy - the contrats brings your colouring to life.
I strt with watercolours but later I love to use coloured pencils for the shadows. With pencils I have way more control than a brush.

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Thursday, September 10, 2020

Taking Risks in Cardmaking!

Hello friends and welcome back! Laurie here with you today to share a card that could have been a complete disaster! I wanted to share the process with you to let you know that's its actually quite fun to take some risks in your cardmaking!

I've seen some beautiful cards with florals on top of a very dark background and I wanted to try something similar.

I started by white heat embossing a few of the images from the Doodle Flowers Stamp Set onto a piece of watercolour paper.

Using some liquid watercolours, I did some very simple colouring. I tried my hardest to let the water do the work and not fuss with it too much. It turned out quite pretty.

Normally, this is where I would have left it. Just added it to a cardbase with a sentiment and called it done. But this is where the "risk" comes in. I used an undiluted black watercolour and carefully painted in the background.

This made the colours even more vibrant! I did have to do a couple of light layers to even out the colour.

I trimmed down the panel and foam mounted it to a white card base.

It was at this point that I realized I hadn't added a sentiment. I placed the card in my Misti and stamped the sentiment with Versamark ink and used the same white embossing powder. The sentiment comes from the Mallow Blossoms Stamp Set.

I did end up having some stray embossing powder but we all know how tricky it can be embossing on black!

For a bit of extra detail, I used a white gel pen to add some highlights and dots to the flowers and leaves as well as a few white heart die cuts.

I think embossing your images definitely makes this technique easier. I also think it would be cool to use black embossing powder!! You can also do this with different mediums such as alcohol markers.