Christmas CAS Card class Colouring

Hello all

(See also http://redcardcorner.blogspot.com/2018/11/christmas-cas-card-class-day-1.html)

Day 3 of https://www.onlinecardclasses.com/cleansimpleholiday/ was all about coloring. I was weary of this one because I actually hate coloring. Whether it be pencils (too much effort and I'm impatient) or markers (too expensive to maintain) so I try and avoid it where possible. Which means that a LOT of my stamps start to gather dust. Not. Good. So I was very relieved to see a lot of watercolouring, not only of backgrounds, but images as well.

The images, with candy canes, are from Unity's 2013 (Oct) Kit of the Month:

I made a shaker card and it was actually not difficult at all. The image was stamped on watercolour paper (front) with Archival Ink. I mounted it with painter's tape and watercoloured the images. Once it was dry I cut it out with a craft knife to make a window. The image was stamped on normal cardstock as well for the back and lightly shaded with distress ink. The candy canes were also stamped on watercolour paper, painted and cut out. Then it was easily assembled with foam tape behind the front panel. The shaker window has some of the candy canes and some stars added. 

All credit for this goes to Kristina Werner who's blog I have been practically stalking these past few months and I can't get enough of her watercolour cards. It's been a revelation.

I trust everyone is A-OK!

God bless,
From a VERY hot Johannesburg!

Riette

Christmas CAS Card class Inking

Hello all!
It's been ages but I HAVE been card-making. I've just not had time to update my blog!
I signed up for Kristina and Jennifer's  Online Card Class and day 1 is all about INKING!.

I did a masked off strip that I ink-blended before stamping over it. I did some shadow stamping on the trees as well.

I'm so looking forward to Day 2!

God bless!
Riette

Altenew October 2018 and CTS291

WOW it's been a long time!  I have been making some cards but with a very special purpose and not for challenges. At least not card blog challenges, but they were very challenging! More about that soon.

This is my very first Altenew challenge entry with my first (and currently only) Altenew set! (It's nearly impossible to afford importing them to South Africa.)

Altenew set:  https://altenew.com/products/hope-stamp-set 
Altenew ink cube sets: Tropical forest + Pocketful of Sunshine
Sentiment: https://www.unitystampco.com/feel-better-soon-april-2014-sentiment-kit/

The background was shaded with various different dye inks in my stash.

ALTENEW OCTOBER INSPIRATION CHALLENGE:

Cas(e) This Sketch #291

God bless
Riette

Veels Geluk dimensions

This card was made for a friend of my mother's.  "Veels Geluk" means congratulations in Afrikaans.

The letters were die-cut three times with white and the top layer with design paper and then all glued and stacked. I added glossy accents on top of the letters to give them even more dimension. They almost don't look like paper!

The flowers were stamped in the round around the edge and I did it twice to have a duplicate set which was cut out and popped on for dimension.

The florals are from Unity Stamp Co Kit of the Month January 2014

Love & Blessings
Riette

Nested die-cuts window

In a previous post I posted a card I made using nested die-cuts. Here is another card I made with some of the other colors that I had cut at the same time.

I made  window card and used the nested die-cuts over the acetate of the window.

The back of the glued die-cuts doesn't show the liquid glue because it dries clear.

The sentiment is from GinaK designs "Whimsical Wishes" (retired set).

Bad-ass every day

I've been making quite a few cards over the past few weeks but haven't had time to upload them yet so I'm starting to add these in no particular order.

This card was made with Unity Stamp Co Kit of the Month June 2013 floral image and the sentiment is an itty-bitty "Badass Every Day".  This was the very first time I've used this stamp and even still had to peel off the protective backing.

I don't like coloring so the flowers were colored by scratching Gilettos onto the craft mat, adding water and then with minimum color on a brush I colored the images. This is not on watercolor paper but normal mid-weight cardstock.

I was trying a different technique that didn't work out but because I had two identical sets of the image I cut out the second set and added it as a dimensional layer to the bottom. I love how this turned out.

Playing along with:
http://craftingwithanattitude.blogspot.co.za/2018/05/challenge-39.html
http://carabbiemomentsofcraft.blogspot.co.za/2018/05/challenge-143.html
https://moo-mania.blogspot.co.za/2018/05/even-more-flowers-noch-mehr-blumen.html
https://polkadoodle.blogspot.co.za/2018/05/wk-20-anything-goes-polkadoodles.html
http://simplypapercraftsforalloccassions.blogspot.co.za/2018/04/challenge-57.html


Love & Blessings
Riette

Wonderful wishes

I've been extremely inspired by Jennifer McGuire's blog videos and have a very, very long list of techniques I want to try.  I have been using my Cuttlebug for die-cutting a LOT more lately :D

• The die-cut is from Nellie Snellen:  https://www.nelliesnellen.com/techniques-nellie-snellen/dies/multi-frame-dies/nellies-multi-frame-die-mfd030-round-lilly.html 
• The sentiment stamp from Unity Stamp Co:  https://www.unitystampco.com/everything-wonderful-june-2013-sentiment-kit/

It's great to get back into the swing of things.

I used the new Viva La Verve sketch for May 2018 as inspiration.

Love & Blessings

Riette