Paper crafting is works of heart

Paper crafting is works of heart!

Saturday, April 30, 2011

technique: grid scoring

Through Paper Wishes message board for the April 2011 card swap, we were challenged to use a grid-style scored/embossed section of cardstock. We could ink it, put embellishments on it, put a background and/or border around it, leave it plain, use either side, etc.

For each item I've made recently, I've chosen to ink. Several of the grids have 3 inks on them (light blue, light turquoise, and royal blue). I've mostly used the scored side, but at least one time I've used embossed.


Note: for the umbrella, I used a scalloped edge template to create the grid (baby shower card); look on anniversary card for 2 grids (scalloped border and heart behind the blue heart brad; look on the baby tag for heart behind the heart punch-out

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

3rd card-making topic for today: black on black theme

Confession: the card is not all black, but I tried to used a majority of my supplies from Paper Wishes/Hot Off the Press. My nephew's high school graduation is about 5 weeks away and I thought this would be the perfect occasion to use the challenge of black on black.

His school colors are green and gold with black and white as accent colors. PW/HOTP items are: Paper Pizazz card punch-outs of grad cap and balloons; black metallic paper (used for the 4 stars-one for each year of high school), both patterned papers shown behind the scrolled star, Tonic Studio vine scroll punch (used punch 2 times at each ray of the star on cover, 1 time each on the inside layout star), HOTP 1,000 card quote CD (for the wishes and dreams sentiment strip), black paper (triangle piece on inside), the argyle-looking border paper strip, the paper tab, and the foam square adhesives. The gold glitter cross was received from a fellow crafter from a March PW message board swap.

Other supplies used were: different black lettering stickers, metallic green colored staples, gold gel pen, graphic design borders (thin line and stars), NIV Scripture passage, and black ink pad.

For a card with lots of black, I'm thrilled with how this turned out! The texture differences help tremendously!

card-making: using a sketch

Papercrafts magazine March/April 2010 issue's sketch 1 on pages 20-21 was my inspiration for the Easter card featured for this post. To me, it is a very good springtime sketch because it reminds me of a sunrise.