The last of the Outlines Entries

In a bigger effort to be as brief as possible I am posting the final two designs submitted for the Outlines Design Team. Keeping it short for two reasons: I want to do Tim Holtz's tag #4 (it is soooooo cute) and DS will be ready for bed soon. This first one is done using one of their mandela flower type stamps.

I had a load of fun using my Sakura pens to color them in to create a unique design.

I used my craft knife to cut away the 'leaves' from the main image and curled them using a pencil. The underside was spritzed with Glimmer mist so there would not be any glaring white peeking out. I stamped a second image to use under the main flower.

I made a mask by removing one petal and used that to spray a different color of Glimmer Mist on each one. After drying them, I used my Sakura pens to mimic the pattern on top.

This reminds me of a lotus blossom. If I were to do this card again, I would stamp the main image and then remove the inside petal of the large petal and create a third level for added dimension. I secured the two with a brad and gave the upper petals a slight turn to the right. It does matter how you place the top. Make sure that the petals are aligned correctly prior to turning. This is another shot but with normal lighting. Look at how glistening it looks.

The Believe is from a metal embellishment from Pressed Petals. I simply used it in my Cuttlebug and was able to get the impression to show very well on the Bazzill cardstock.

I wanted to keep the background and the accessories as simple as possible so as not to detract from that breathtaking stamp. I lightly embossed a petal background using a Sizzix texture plate. You can really see the stamp's dimension.

The final card was a Halloween one. This one should be titled looks are deceiving. I stamped this image 5 times. Twice in black, once in green, orange, and brown. I did quite a bit of paper pieceing to make this one happen.

The image was built up from the cats. I went over them with a black embossing pen and heat embossed. They have a lot of solid dimension.

I distressed the pumpkins after heat embossing them. I used an orange Sakura stardust pen to highlight the veins on the pumpkins and to create the Jack-o-lantern face. The leaves and stems are all pieced to the main image. I traced over the leaves and vine with a Sakura metallic pen.

I distressed the edges of the card using a combination of Dusty Concord and Vintage Photo. I colored the moon with a Yellow embossing pen and then went around the cat to create a slightly scary shadow. Considered doing something wierd to the eyes, but decided to leave them alone. The paper is Halloween Echo Park Collection, ribbon is from a swap and the Boo is one of the EK Success slimline punches--love those. The pumpkin prop was borrowed from my son. :)

So, it is back to the drawing board for me.  I will either need to re-work my ideas or come up with something much more clever or have less talented people to compete against to make it for the next design team call.

In the meantime I will continue to create and ink in the name of love.

Until then.

"7 Today" Card

Happy Birthday, Zachary. Yes, he is no longer my little baby boy. He is definitely becoming my little man. Weeping and sighing. My awesome son turned seven today. In honor of his birthday and his love for animals, I broke out the Dinosaur Tracks Cricut Cart and modeled his card after the one in the book.

As you can see, I took several liberties with the card. Since the T-Rex is his favorite I used that one instead. Did you know that the T-Rex lived during the Cretaceous period?

I cut the brown base card at 12x8 using the Bazzill Chocolate to create a 6x8 card when folded. The lighter Bazzill card was cut at 7 3/4 x 5 1/2. I cut the T-Rex card at 4 1/2.


 
I cut the DCWV Happy Birthday paper at slightly less than 4 1/2" (it needed to fit behind the cut out T-Rex).

The number 7 was cut at 2" out of the Happy Birthday paper and TODAY was cut at 1 inch from Fiskars red cardstock. I decided to use red to mat the 7 and added another mat of Chocolate card.

I used the remaining Happy Birthday paper to place behind TODAY. I then matted it again onto the Chocolate cardstock that I used for the base. I inked all of the letters and the seven with Vintage Photo.

Once I had cut all of my paper to size I inked the tan color in green and saw that the T-Rex looked a bit naked and wanted to use a layer for him. This might be able to be worked out, but I could not do that using the Card and layer icon features together. I eyeballed the piece and decided to cut the layer at 6" and it was a perfect fit!!! I used a sheet of brown leather look paper from Paper Pizzaz (HOTP).
 

 

I glued the layer to the card base and cut off the excess T-Rex. I punched two holes on the left hand side and threaded through the ribbon and tied a knot. Hapharzardly added the words across the bottom of the card. I put two red star brads through the holes in the number 7. Red is his favorite color. I also cut a T-Rex at 4 1/2 inches that I used on the inside of the card along with my message to him.
 
I like how the card turned out and can hardly wait to cut more images. We have been having loads of fun with this cart. The HOTP press animal skin prints is a perfect match with the Bazzill earthtones paper pack. I probably would have added more inking but I was in the middle of a huge digital project, but wanted to create a special handmade card for my son from me. He loved it!!!!
 
As always keep inking and thinking in the name of love.
Until then.