Card Making / Christmas Cards

    Well, I know it's been quite a while since my last post. With Christmas is around the corner, I made a couple of Christmas cards, though we don't celebrate Christmas in Taiwan. It's a good excuse to make some season's greeting projects.

The first card was inspired by a project I saw from danipeuss. I punched out 3 stars from a red pattern paper, and layered it with a tiny polka dot pattern paper, cut in the shape of a banner.

Holiday Cheers Card designed by Summer Yen

Holiday Cheers Card designed by Summer Yen

This card is very clean and simple.

Holiday Cheers Card designed by Summer Yen

I put some glossy accent on the berries to add some glow.

Holiday Cheers  Card designed by Summer Yen

I like red. It's so holiday-y and bright and cheer. It matches Christmas so well. But mint is one of my favorite colors, and I want to use the color on my card but keep it to the holiday celebration. So here's what I came up with.

Peace Joy Love Card designed by Summer Yen

My second card was started off with a background paper. I used mint watercolor on a watercolor paper, I did a little bit ombre effect, set aside to let dry. 

Since my watercolor was on my desk, I cut a piece of cardstock, stamped Peace, Joy, Love with VersaMark ink and white embossed it. And then I brushed red watercolor on the stamped greeting.

Peace Joy Love Card designed by Summer Yen

After the background paper was dry, I stamped randomly with some Christmas trees using Cozy Christmas stamp set from Ellen Hutson with VersaMark ink. White embossed. I also stamped it with white pigment ink to fill in the spaces in between. 

Peace Joy Love Card designed by Summer Yen

I died cut 3 little houses with the matching dies from Cozy Christmas by Ellen Hutson.  Put some snow-tex and dusted with glitter. I also died cut 2 deer from a gold cardstock. And then assembled my card.

  

HO HO HO Card designed by Summer Yen

When I saw this Santa sticker, I knew I have to made a card with that adorable image! And when I made my third card, I thought why not put red and mint and gold together! 

I wrote HO HO HO with red watercolor onto a piece of watercolor cardstock. And then I stuck the Santa and presents sticker onto a piece of white crafting foam, fussy cut them out.

HO HO HO Card designed by Summer Yen

 I then stamped Merry from Very Merry stamp set by Neat and Tangled, with VersaMark ink and used sticky embossing powder. I heat embossed the image and sprinkled with gold glitter by Heidi Swapp.

The sticky embossing powder was not working as well as I thought, so I used a glue pen to fill in the gaps where needed so that the glitter can stay properly.

And then I fussy cut the word out. 

I have to admit that it was the most difficult part of this card. XD

HO HO HO Card designed by Summer Yen

Finally, I used mint stripe washi tape and gold star washi to decorate the card. Finishing with some gold sequins.

Hope you like these cards!

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    再過幾天就是聖誕節，雖然這個節日在台灣是商人炒作的噱頭，不過國外早在感恩節前就到處洋溢的過節的氣氛，剛好魔力手作挑戰這一次的主題也是聖誕節，應應景地做了幾張聖誕卡。

    第一張卡片是從網路上一個禮物包裝得來的靈感，重點是整張卡片留白的面積要夠多，再點綴幾個大大小小的金色星星。

    第二張卡片的背景紙是自製的，因為我很喜歡薄荷綠這個顏色，在做這張卡片時就決定要用這個顏色。先用水彩做好底色，刻意在底部的地方加重顏色作出漸層的效果，等顏色乾了之後再用白色油性印台蓋上聖誕樹的章，但是覺得效果不夠明顯，於是灑上白色燙凸粉燙凸，忽遠忽近的效果就出來了。底紙做好之後，妝飾用刀模切出房子和麋鹿。中間的Peace Joy Love 用紅色水彩刷色，爲整張卡片增添一點節慶的氛圍。

    最後一張卡片完全是衝著溜冰的聖誕老人去的！初看到這張貼紙時覺得好cute，實在是太喜歡了所以決定要把他放在卡片裏。為了搭配可愛的貼紙，背景也是拿了畫筆沾了紅色水彩自己手寫HO HO HO。然後拿merry印章蓋印，灑上黏性凸粉燙凸後，快速灑上粗顆粒的亮粉。不過不知道是粗顆粒的亮粉不容易黏，還是黏性禿粉的效果不佳，我還是拿出膠水補了補才又灑亮粉。這張卡片最困難的地方就是------>拿剪刀把merry剪出形狀來........   依賴刀模慣了，再回歸原始的手工剪花樣果然是需要練習的。最後拿了條紋和星星的和紙膠帶妝飾底紙就完成啦。



本部落格裏除了另外註明照片或影片來源的資源，其他使用在部落格中的照片或影片均為我自己拍攝及製作的，版權所有，請勿任意使用或拷貝。

Card making / A couple of cards to share

    Hello crafty friends, I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. I've been quite busy these days, but I finally got some time to make cards! Yay! 

    I have a couple of cards to share today. I love surfing on the internet to see talented crafters' projects and learn some tricks and tips or great ideas from them. I cased some cards that really inspired me with a little bit twist. You can see those cards here, here and here. 

    For the first card, I used a mama elephant stamp set called Free Style Florals. I stamped some flowers and leaves on a white cardstock, did some copic coloring, and then fussy cut them out. I made my own background pattern paper with a  "thankful" image from Studio Calico using Fog dye ink from Simon Says Stamp. And then I assembled my flowers and leaves with some glue and pop dots. Finished off my card with some gold sequins.

A Thankful Heart Is A Happy Heart.
mama elephant, studio calico

 For the second card, I started off with stamping tomato image randomly using Berry Sorbet and New Leaf ink pads from PTI.  And then stamped some sentiments using Enchanted Evening and True Black ink from PTI as well. I rounded my card corner with my WRMK corner chomper, glued the card panel with an angle onto my cardbase. I then stamped a sentiment and withe embossed it on a black cardstock, and cut it off. Finishing off this card with Rock Candy stickle from Ranger. 

You Got This Smile!
Wplus9, Studio Calico

Awesome Star
MFT, WRMK, PTI, Studio Calico

    

   For the last one, I blended in Aqua Mist, Spring Rain ink pad with Tim Holtz mini blending tool. Die cut the panel with the stitched frame from MFT Blueprint 21#. And then I dry embossed the card front with a WRMK embossing folder.  Die cut some starts with MFT Stitched Stars die from pattern paper and vellum cardstock. I also cut "AWESOME" from a black cardstock using a Studio Calico die. I put everything together on my embossed card front, embellished with a blue button and some white sequins.





I hope you like my sharing today.

XOXO 

Summer

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    最近趁著放假的空檔做了幾張卡片，製作的靈感來自幾個很喜歡的作品，有興趣的人可以去看看這幾個作品。 here, here and here.

    第1張卡片我選了Yana 的作品。Yana是一個非常棒的彩印人，同時身兼好幾個品牌的設計團隊，像是大家熟悉的Hero Arts, Spellbinders, Simon Says Stamps 及Altenew等。她的用色很摩登，非常具有現代感，我常覺得歐洲的彩印人使用的配色很有特色，相比起美國的彩印人來說，用色通常偏向大膽，鮮豔，具有強烈的現代感的配色; 我個人很喜歡這種配色，去年剛接觸到Yana的作品時簡直太開心了。說到配色的大膽，同樣是喜歡使用黑色的Amy Tangerine，她的作品裡的黑色是溫柔的，有童趣的感覺，而我非常欣賞的另一位歐洲彩印人Nanant的作品呈現的黑色便非常有強烈的視覺衝擊，但又不具攻擊性，很有畫龍點睛的效果   (歪樓了......囧)

   我用了mama elephant的印章蓋了花朵和樹葉，用copic markers上色，然後剪下來備用 (係地，人客妳沒看錯，用剪刀剪下來的，這組印章有搭配的刀模，但我沒買到......囧，只好回歸原始的手工剪)。選個字章用Simom最淺的灰色 fog印台蓋滿整張卡紙，然後把剛才剪下來的花草樹葉拼貼在卡紙上，再貼到底紙上就完成了。

    第2張卡片是看了這個作品之後依樣畫葫蘆case了一張卡片。我用了Wplu9同系列的番茄印章蓋在卡紙上，然後一樣挑了幾個字章直接蓋在番茄上，然後貼到A2尺寸的卡紙上就好了。很簡單的設計，但是非常漂亮! 這張卡片的重點是自製的背景紙要用實心的印章(Peggy老師說咱們要有文化一點，這種實心的印章叫做陰刻章)，然後蓋在上面的字章不要太複雜，我試了幾種顏色之後，個人覺得字章用黑色的印台來蓋效果最好。 PS: 我case的這張卡片還有另一個版本，也非常漂亮喔!

    最後一張卡片是從這張卡片得來的靈感。我挑了兩種藍色用海綿刷棒刷色，然後用MFT的購圖小物21#裏的長方形縫線刀模切出逢線邊框，再用WRMK的凹凸版壓出山形紋路。用MFT的星形縫線刀模切美編紙和水晶卡，再用Studio Calico的字形刀模切黑色的卡紙，最後把剛切好的小物拼拼湊湊，再點綴幾個亮片，完成!

    

    題外話，不知道大家有沒有這種經驗啊，很多彩印產品和技法都是從國外來的，在紀錄卡片製作過程的時候總會碰上不知道如何翻譯和稱呼的情況，搞得po個文還要到處去翻找有進這些產品的國內一些商家的平台，免得產生雞同鴨講不知所云的烏龍，難怪我的po文老是難產啊~~~~~~~

Card making and Gift wrapping / More Handmade Challenge 7#

    I bought an air therapy fragrance set as a birthday gift for one of my girlfriend. And I need to made a birthday card for her as well. Here's what I came out with.

I wrapped the bottle with brown paper and sprayed some white spray on it to add some interests and texture to the paper.  

And then I wrapped it with ivory satin ribbon and tied a bow on the top.

I also made a tag to go with it.

To make the tag, I first used some pink hue watercolors to hand draw some stripes, Set aside to let dry. Then I stamped some stars with gold metallic ink on a vellum.  

I died cut "Happy Birthday" 3 times from Brushstroke Birthday Greeting from MFT using black cardstock. I saved the negative of the die cut and used it as my birthday card card front. 

I stacked the die-cuts together to add some thickness and glued it on the tag. To finish the tag, I put a flower on it. Pretty! 

My birthday card is so simple. Just glued the negative part of the cardstock to a A2 size card base. Trim the excess part off. Finishing with some star sequins and wink of stella. Oh, the biggest star is a punch out from a gold cardstock.

The trickiest part of this card is......glue every tiny piece on the card base. It took me some time, but worth it. 

This card is also for July's More Handmade Challenge. 

This month's challenge is Stars!

XOXO

Summer

Supplies:

stamp: Scenery: Big Bang Confetti from Winnie and Walter

card: Stamper's Select White Card Stock, True Black card stock from PTI, vellum card stock and gold card stock from my local shop

ink; Golden Glitz Delicata Ink, Wedding Dress irRESISTible spray

die: Brushstroke Birthday Greeting from MFT

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    過幾天是一個好朋友的生日，剛好前一陣子好友提到想買水氧機放在辦公室，昨天去百貨公司逛了一圈，水氧機的價位實在不便宜，考慮再三，最後買了一組伊聖詩的室內香氛組作為生日禮物，因為自己也喜歡動手調一些精油來淨化空氣和消毒殺菌，所以我想竹枝擴香的香氛是個不錯的選擇，做了點簡單的包裝，並作了一張生日卡。

    首先量好香氛組的尺寸，裁好牛皮紙備用，如果想在牛皮紙上做一些裝飾的人，在開始包裝之前就要先處理牛皮紙，因為自己是先包裝好之後覺得太單調，事後才作了裝飾，要是大家也想動手自己包禮物的話，這個步驟就可以拿一些喜歡的印章來蓋印了。如果手邊沒有印章的人，也可以拿市售的圓形或愛心，或星型的標籤紙貼在上面，這樣也是簡單大方的自製包裝紙喔!

    包好禮物之後，接著來做禮物小卡(本來是沒打算作生日卡片才想到附一張小卡就好，卡片完全就是個意外! 哈! ) 我用深深淺淺的粉紅色水彩畫了一些線條在卡紙上，放到一邊等乾。然後拿星星印章沾金色印台蓋在水晶紙上，等它乾(一定要等乾啊!不然不小心星星就毀了!別問我怎麼知道的....囧)，

    趁水彩和蓋印乾的時間，拿出生日快樂的刀模和黑色的卡紙過大人物，我切了三次的字模，然後把字組合在一起，這樣看起來比較立體。最後將剛剛的水彩線條和蓋印的水晶卡紙裁出想要的大小，打個洞，加上紙繩和花作裝飾就完成了!!

    黑色的生日快樂卡是拿剛剛過刀模剩下的卡紙貼在白色卡紙上，剪掉多餘的部分，然後用星星打洞器打一個金色的星星貼在卡片上，最後再用星星型的亮片裝飾；我還用了wink of stella稍微點綴一下卡片。  這張都是星星的卡片剛好就被我拿來參加本月份的魔力手作挑戰了! 

    

Card Making / MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge - Sketch 238

I made a shaker card today for My Favorite Things' blog challenge.

Wednesday Sketch Challenge - Sketch 238

Let's Party!

    To start off, I died cut my card front by MFT Blueprints 21#.  I then used the long stars stamp from PTI's Around and About stamp set to make my card base. I banded the stamp with a curve and inked with couples of inks: Sweet Blush, Hibiscus Burst, Raspberry Fizz, Harvest Gold, and Melon Berry.

And then I died cut my stamped cardstock with MFT Peek-a-boo Circle Windows.  I also cut a piece of fun foam to raise my card so that it added some thickness to my sequins.  After pouring some sequins and beads, I closed my window with a piece of pattern paper from Dear Lizzy Neapolitan collection for American Craft.

Then I stamped a couple of images on another piece of white cardstock using Studio Calico stamp set, Just for you stamp set by Neat and Tangled, and then I fussy cut them out.  I put some foam dots to raise the cat and the yellow balloon. I glued the card front to a A2 size Kraft cardstock.

Isn't it cut? I love the cheerful colors and images.

XXOO

Summer

Supplies:

Stamp: Around and About from PTI, Birthday by Lizzie Mackay for Studio Calico, Just for you from Neat and Tangled.

Inks: Sweet Blush, Hibiscus Burst, Raspberry Fizz, Harvest Gold, and Melon Berry from PTI; Sunshine, Lemongrass, Fresh Mint from mama elephant; Archival Ink Jet Black from Ranger.

Cardstock: Stamper's select White cardstock, Kraft cardstock from my local shop.

Dies: Blueprints 21#, Peek-a-boo Circle window all from MFT

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參加了這個星期的MFT構圖挑戰

剛好這兩天在做魔力手作挑戰的星星卡，就以星星為背景做了一張搖搖卡

首先將PIT的長條形星星印章彎出一些弧度貼在水晶塊上，然後挑幾個顏色可愛的印台蓋幾條星星，有點像派對上裝飾用的花環

然後用MFT的刀模切出圓形的缺口，我切了一片手工藝用的泡棉卡貼在卡紙後面

這樣等一下放亮片和珠珠的時候就不會貼在卡片上面

我發現用手工藝泡棉比用雙面泡棉好用多了

第一，省! 

(哈哈~ 手作這個坑可是很燒錢的，要想盡辦法省，感謝珍妮佛小姐的巧思)

第二，用泡棉的話不用擔心亮片和珠珠黏在雙面膠上面

我之前做搖搖卡時常發生這個問題，用了泡棉之後珠珠和亮片一個個都很獨立

第三，大面積的泡棉可以支撐整張卡面，不會出現沒有雙面泡棉的地方會凹下去的情況

等搖搖卡做好後，剩下的就是裝飾啦

我用Studio Calico和Neat and Tangled的印章蓋了貓咪和氣球

用剪刀剪下來後貼在卡片上面

是不是很有party的fu啊!

Tag Making / Cupcake Tags

Hello, blog friends, I hope you'll have a wonderful weekend.

I would like to share a couple of tags I made today.

Since I made a tag as my entry to More Handmade Challenge #4 last week, I'm in love with these tags.

I made 4 tags in total.

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 This one is a duplicate of my last tag (see HERE). 

One of my friends loves the tag, so I made another one for her.

I added "enjoy" die cut from Papertrey Ink's die called Wet Paint Die Collection.

CｆｒａｆｔｉｎｇＦｕｎ　Ｄｅｓｉｇｎ

The second tag is actually a Thank You tag.

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I used the stripe stencil by Heidi Swapp, inking with sweet blush ink pad by PTI.

Then I used a Thank You stamp by PTI  to stamp on the bottom of the tag several times.

And then I stamped the flower image on a watercolor cardstock, gold embossed and watercolored it. 

I fussy cut it out and put a foam dot to pop it out on the tag.

The third & forth tag are using the same layout.

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The chevron pattern on the background is a stencil by Heidi Swapp as well.

The blue ink is Hawaiian Shores ink pad by PTI.

The cute strawberry is a die by PTI called Strawberry Patch. 

It's such an adorable die set.

I cut the image using felt from my local shop.

The pear and the coordinating die are both from Wplus9.

I spritz some gold color shine to add some shimmer.

The "enjoy" die-cuts are colored with my copics.

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Supplies:

Paper: Stamper's Select White Cardstock by PTI, watercolor cardstock, and Neapolitan 6x6 paperpad by Dear Lizzy for Amercian Craft

Ink: Sweet Blush, Hawaiian Shores, Hibiscus Burst by PTI: watercolor; buttercup, bubblegum, lemongrass by mama elephant; Gold color shine by Heidi Swapp; Copics: YG11, YG41, E93, E95

Stamp: Love lives Here, Sew Simple Borders by PTI, Carnival Cupcakes by mama elephant, Serendipity from Dear Lizzy by American Crafts, Pears by Wplus9

Die: Tag Sales #3, Strawberry Patch, Wet Paint by PTI,  Carnival Cupcakes by mama elephant; Pears by Wplu9

Others: pink and green craft felt from my stash

Card Making / You Are My Sunshine (MHC#4)

Todays' last project!!!

This is a challenge I take from More Handmade Challenge. 

In this challenge, you have to combine at least 3 items that can line up as a line, just like Bingo cards.

I chose colors, stripes and sequins.

MHC#4

And here's what I came up with.

ＣｒａｆｔｉｎｇＦｕｎ　Ｄｅｓｉｇｎ

ＣｒａｆｔｉｎｇＦｕｎ　Ｄｅｓｉｇｎ

I started off with stamping my card front. I used PTI's Watercolor Wonder stamp set, inking up with Hibiscus Burst ink pad.

Then I layered up with some die cuts with foam tapes, added some gold spay, then finishing with some gold sequins. 

I love this card.

It's so vibrant and cheerful.

And I made a tag as my second entry to this month's challenge.

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I stamped the cupcake image on a watercolor cardstock, using some pink and yellow butter ink pad as my paint.

Set aside to let dry. 

Then I cut a piece of cute pattern paper to layer on my tag.

After the cupcake image was dried, I died cut them with  the coordinating dies.

Then I used my black sharpie to outline the image.

Here's point, it's just a free hand outline, no need to be exact.

Then I sprinkled some colorful sprinkles on the cupcake. 

Isn't it cute!!

ＣｒａｆｔｉｎｇＦｕｎ　Ｄｅｓｉｇｎ

Supplies:

Ink: Hibiscus Burst ink pad by PTI, Butter Cup ink pad from mama elephant, Gold color shine by Heidi Swapp

Stamp: Watercolor Wonder, Love Lives Here and Sew Simple Borders by PTI, Carnival Cupcakes by mama elephant, Serendipity from Dear Lizzy by American Crafts

Die: Phrase Play #1 die and Tag Sales #3 by PTI,  Carnival Cupcakes by mama elephant

Others: Neapolitan paper pad from Dear Lizzy by American Crafts, gold sequins from my stash

Card Making / Thank You

Here comes the third card that I would like share today.

It's a one layer card with lots of embellishments on it.

I started off with making my card base. I used a large cling stamp inking with some distress inks, spritz with some water and then stamped on my A2 card base directly. 
Then set aside to let dry. Of course, if you're impatient just like me......
Please use your heat tool to fasten the process :-)

I layered with some cut files cut by my cameo using Wilna's cut files, 
paper flowers, some die cuts by PTI. 

Then I brushed some gesso on my flower to tone down the bright red color.

Finally, I spritz some perfect pearl mixture on the card to give it some shimmer as my finishing touch.

Supplies

Paper: Stamper's Select White cardstock

Ink: Broken China, Squeezed Lemonade, Worn Lipstick, Shabby Shutters

Stamp: Papillon by Tim Holtz

Die: Scribbles, Wet Paint by PTI

Others: flower, strawberry from my stash

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我今天有夠勤奮的

這張卡片寫完之後還有第4張卡片

這一張很簡單，用了單層卡片，上面堆疊一些小物做裝飾


首先先準備底卡
拿一片比較大的印章或背景印章，我是用Tim Holtz的Papillon印章
拍上不同顏色的復古印台
然後噴上一些水，不要太多，免得印章的圖案糊掉
然後把印章蓋在卡紙上，放到一邊等它乾

當然啦，妳要是沒耐性等它乾，那就吹乾吧



裝飾的部份我用了好些刀模和設計
首先是花朵與葉子
這是之前用卡密歐一次切好，用水彩上好色，用不完的收起來以後用


背後圓圈圈的圖案和文字是用Papertrey Ink家的刀模
圓圈圈圖案切好後用水彩上色
文字是用copic marker上色的，特意上成漸層的感覺
因為是用馬克筆上色的，可以控制漸層的效果


然後加一些紙花增加效果
紙花用gesso刷白，這樣才不會太紅跟其它的顏色搭不起來
又可以增加不同層次的顏色


最後，噴上用perfect pearl和水混合的噴瓶
給卡片增加一點閃亮亮的低調美感



本部落格裏除了另外註明照片或影片來源的資源，其他使用在部落格中的照片或影片均為我自己拍攝及製作的，版權所有，請勿任意使用或拷貝。

Card Making / Thanks

Hello, me again. In this post I'm sharing another card I made.

In this card I used Betsy Veldman's Technique called "smooshing" . 

I saw the technique on Papertrey Ink's Monday Challenge Vedio on youtube.

Betsy is a super talented paper crafter. I love her designs for Papertrey Ink. 

I really admire her uses of color and tastes on card making.

If you don't know her, you should definitely head onto Betsy's blog.

It's a very fun technique to make your own background.

Combining with some Maggie Holme and Heidi Swapp's products, the card was done.

Supplies

Paper: Stamper's Select White cardstock from PTI, watercolor cardstock

Inks: Wild Honey, Spun Sugar, Shaded Lilac and Salty Ocean from Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Others: Ephemeras from Open Book by Maggie Holme and September Sky by Heidi Swapp, sequins, gems.

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今天要跟大家介紹一位我超喜歡的彩印人: Betsy Veldman。

她是印章公司 Papertrey Ink 的主力設計師之一

在去年一年裡更是推出了好幾套限量的印章和刀模

我最喜歡的是她對色彩的運用

她的卡片常呈現出一種溫暖，愉悅，多采多姿的感覺

她跟另一位PTI的設計師 Danielle Flanders是我最喜歡的三位設計師之中的兩位

另一個設計師 Laura Bassen會在以後介紹

Betsy Veldman 和 Danielle Flanders兩人的卡片風格都是簡單乾淨，明亮

但是在媒材的運用上又有不同

Danielle很會運用美編紙和一些圖卡，刀模來做簡潔的卡片

她的卡片有時候甚至不需要用到印章

而Betsy則是運用印章和印台的組合搭配出很多超棒的卡片

她對刀模的運用也很有創意

也喜歡Clean and Simple卡片風格的人可以點上面的鏈接去看看喔!

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話說回來，好像漏了什麼??

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忘了跟大家介紹一下這張卡片的作法了

哈哈哈哈哈哈

(別K我啦~~~)

這張卡片就是用了Betsy Veldman的水彩技法

其實也不是多新的技法

但是看她在運用的時候就會覺得很簡單，很容易上手

首先準備一張透明塑膠片，塑膠袋，壓克力塊什麼的都可以

經過幾次試驗之後，我個人比較喜歡Betsy示範的作法

拿一張跟水彩紙大小一樣或大一點的透明塑膠片

拍上幾個喜歡的復古印台，水性印台也可以

然後噴一些水在透明片上，水分不要太多，只要讓顏色充分沾濕就好

然後蓋在水彩紙上

因為是把透明片蓋在紙上，所以可以清楚看到色彩的流動

比起Tim Holtz把顏色擦在矽膠墊，然後把卡紙覆蓋上去的作法更清楚

這時要注意顏色的流動

如果水分噴得不夠多，顏色就不會流動

但是水太多的話，顏色就會融在一起變成不乾淨的顏色了

背景準備好後放一邊晾乾

係地，人客哪系某耐性，耶賽嘎吹風機，不是，熱風槍客踹吹吼搭

(這句看得懂否?)

最後選一些搭配的圖卡，紙花，亮片，水鑽......  堆上去就是了

很有美感地排列

卡片就完成啦!!!

系恩系揪甘丹耶!

Card Making / Our Happy Place (MHC#3)

The Tomb Sweeping Day holiday is coming to the end.
With strong sunshine outside and the temperature comes to a high level of 33 Celsius degree.
 Can you believe that?! It's April!


Okay, let's calm down and see some cards.
 I'm sharing a few cards that I made in the next following posts.

The first card is for March's More Handmade Challenge.
It's a photo challenge. You can use colors, sketch, photo in this challenge.

I enrolled a online card classes called Lovely Layers, Textures and Embellishments taught by Danielle Flanders on Craftsy. Danielle is one of my favorite crafters who designs for several companies that I love as well.

I just LOOOOOVE her projects and style that I had to join her class.

So this card was one of the "homework".

I used Heidi Swapp's products, washi tape, some gems to make this card.

It came out pretty! I'm not good at combining pattern papers, so it's a chance to learn how to use them.

Supplies

Paper: Stamper's select white cardstock, September Sky pattern paper by Heidi Swapp.

Others: washi tape, gems, baker's twine from my stash.

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清明節連假不知不覺就來到尾聲了(蝦會? 怎麼這樣!!)

才進入四月天，天氣就熱得像是夏天一樣(但是妳別以為現在就可以把冬衣收起來)

台中已經攀上33度的高溫了(是的，溫度計沒有騙妳，妳也還沒有老花)

不知道過了端午以後是不是會熱得像烤箱(這還用說嗎? 全球暖化啊!)

讀者: ......................

請無視我內心的OS(汗)

我真的沒有要走諧星路線(請看我的認真眼)

接下來幾篇文會放一些最近做的卡片(總算要幹正事了)

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第一張卡片是參加三月份的魔力手作挑戰的作品

結合不同的美編紙，搭配一些簡單的小物

我很喜歡美編紙的設計，但不太會用，所以還在學怎麼搭配美編紙

最近我很喜歡的一個設計師在網路上開了卡片教學的課

課程內容就是教如何使用美編紙來做卡片

所以我就屁顛屁顛地跑去上了

(其實也不用勞動我的雙腳，繳錢就可以點滑鼠進去上了)

給大家科普一下這位我超喜歡的彩印人  Danielle Flanders

(是個美女喔!!)

她是好幾家設計公司的設計群，包括之前介紹過的 Papertrey Ink(PTI)

Elle's Studio, Gossamer Blue Kit Club

她本身也熱愛旅行和攝影

她的風格 簡單, 明亮, 乾淨

簡直就是我的菜啊!!!!(大心)

Danielle 最擅長的就是結合不同的美編紙和圖卡重新組合出新的設計

尤其是大量使用水晶紙(vellum)在卡片上

她對顏色的選擇也很棒

她的作品常會有讓我驚艷的感覺

如果也喜歡這種風格的話，建議一定要去她的部落格看看

也可以去上她的網路課程，點上面的鏈接

一定不會失望的!

好的，各位捧油，接下來還有3篇的文

請不要現在就把滑鼠移到右上角那個紅色的X

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