Using Patterned Paper

Hello,

I love using patterned paper, however with all the learning that I have been doing, stamping and creating my own backgrounds is now my new favourite.

I recently purchased the Illustrated Faith Paper collection and I am so in love with it. I made some beautiful cards with it. I tried my hand at another card this week.

Here is the card I made using those papers and lots of foam tape:

Illustrated Faith Card

The next new set of paper that I purchased was the Kaiser Kraft Sea Breeze Collection and I made this card. The topper for the card is not a stamp, it is a piece of paper from a paper design in the collection.

Kaiser Kraft Sea Breeze Collection

Thank you for visiting. Until then, learn new things and be a kind human.

Yours in papercrafting,

The Girl with a Tape Runner

Water Colour Emboss Resist Technique

Hello,

I love water colouring my backgrounds, what I love more is the emboss resist technique on water coloured backgrounds!

Here are two cards that I made this week.

Supplies used:

• Big Shot for embossing
• Kaiser Kraft Sea Breeze Stamp
• Black Embossing Powder
• Ranger Distress Inks

 

Thank you for visiting. Until then, learn new things and be a kind human.

Yours in papercrafting,

The Girl with a Tape Runner

Making Cards using Illustrated Faith

I love the Illustrated Faith paper collection with all my heart!

These cards were made in one sitting! Can you believe that?

I embossed the background card tops with several different embossing folders then used Ranger Inks to water colour the backgrounds. I used spray mists to do a few splatters too!

The sentiments were from the Illustrated Faith paper collection.

To finish it off, I used flowers and stones.

Thank you for visiting. Until then, learn new things and be a kind human.

Yours in papercrafting,

The Girl with a Tape Runner

 

Making cards, staying happy

Lately, I have made a few technique cards. I loved learning how to use water colours and emboss resist techniques. I loved playing with different colour combinations with distress inks – colours that I won’t usually use.

I have recently purchased the BoBunny Believe, Kaisercraft Cottage Rose and Sea Breeze paper collections and I loved making cards with them. I tried to copy/CASE/scraplift the Kaisercraft cards (You are beautiful inside and out/You are the reason I smile)  from their inspiration blog post, but I really could not get it to look exactly like theirs! Their designers are perfect and I can only aspire to be like them. But try I will.

If you are following my journey, you will notice my growth in cardmaking, I am happy.

Thank you for visiting. Until then, learn new things and be a kind human.

Yours in papercrafting,

The Girl with a Tape Runner

Mixed Media Class with Svetlana Austin

Oh the excitement.

Svetlana is one of THE MOST talented mixed media artists that I have ever know. She has an eye for detail and she is super creative. It was my greatest pleasure and honour to be taught by her. I must admit, I was not her best student, but she was the best teacher EVER.

Her classes are small and very indept, she leaves nothing unturned! She taught me to make this beautiful printers tray. It was an EIGHT hour long project! I loved every minute of working on it and while I was scared at the beginning of the class, I really learnt a great deal and was introduced to great projects.

Here’s what I made in her class. Will I make one like this again? Maybe. Yes. When she has another class!

Thank you for visiting. Until then, learn new things and be a kind human.

Yours in papercrafting,

The Girl with a Tape Runner

Easter

Easter is such a special time for me. I love the season and I love that I have Saviour who thought that I was worth dying for.

To celebrate this special occasion I made these beautiful cards and a wreath.

I loved working with stencils and distress inks and spray mists!

Mixed media products are so fun to use on cards and I am hooked.

Hope everyone had a beautiful Easter season

Thank you for visiting. Until then, learn new things and be a kind human.

Yours in papercrafting,

The Girl with a Tape Runner

Celebrate Life. Today

On February 17, 2014 my dad’s soul went home to the God who gave us life. Dad was an artisan. He was a perfectionist in his trade and this year on his second death anniversary while going through a range of emotions, I decided that to honour his life, I will do what I know best. Create.

I created these cute little cards as a reminder to celebrate today. Light those candles. Don’t save that dress. Use those embellishments and foam tape. Tomorrow is never promised.

These cards are so simple and super easy to make. The supplies used for these cards are shown in the image above.

Want to give this a try?

Using Ranger’s Distress Inks, carefully blend the cardstock from dark to light.

Stamp your sentiment towards the bottom of the card. In this card, I stamped the Paper Smooches Celebrate stamp using Docrafts Artiste Black Dye Ink.

Use strips of patterned paper to add a fun twist to the card. You can also use washi tape. Here I have used both patterned paper and washi tape.

Life is precious. Take each day and relish it! Love the people in your life and make every moment count. Celebrate, Today and everyday.

Thank you for visiting. Until then, learn new things and be a kind human.

Yours in papercrafting,

The Girl with a Tape Runner

 

I’ve never met a calorie I didn’t like!

I am a Docrafts stalker! I refresh their Twitter feed a few many times a day.  I recently saw a tweet about their Let’s Bake Free Paper Downloads and lost my mind! Firstly, I couldn’t believe that I missed that download on their website. Secondly, I was going insane thinking about all the cards and tags and printer trays that I can make with it!

So needless to say as soon as I left my day job [which I will one day quit so that I can craft all day] I went home to my craft corner and put some ideas I had [for now] into two cards. I absolutely love the outcome!

These are the first two [of so many to come] cards:

You can visit the Docraft website here and download these delicious papers.

If you have downloaded these papers, show some love to the Docrafts Team via social media or on their website.

Tips and Tricks

• Mix and match these papers with plain coordinating cardstock to get trendy combinations.
• Create dimension, these papers are graphic heavy [Yay!] so use lots of foam tape to create dimension.
• Look for images that you can fussy cut to use as single elements/embellishments for your cards.
• Add other coordinating elements to your cards like paper dollies and/or sequins.
• Most of all remember that this is not a race, but a beautiful journey, don’t ever be afraid to try new things and explore the possibilities.
• Make some cards with these papers and give them as thank you tokens to the person who bakes for you and/or your local bakery. It will knock the whisks off their hands!

I am so happy with the outcome of these cards. I will surely create more of these cards. So go on, download these papers and create something beautiful today.

A very special woman Faeema Sader who is the blogger owner of Fay in the Maze was on my mind when I made these cards. She celebrates her birthday today! Happy Birthday sweet woman!

Thank you for visiting. Until then, learn new things and be a kind human.

Yours in papercrafting,

The Girl with a Tape Runner

 

 

New year, new techniques? I’ll take that!

January 2016 felt like part two of December 2015. Towards the middle of the month, I was in hospital undergoing surgery, so January was my recovery month. So when February came, I hit the ground running – not literally but you get it right?!

I love the trend of water colouring, so many papercrafters are creating exceptionally beautiful water colour backgrounds and I am in love. So keeping up with the trends, this is what I created.

Supplies use: 

• 200g White Cardstock
• 240g White Watercolour Cardstock
• Washi Tape from the Washi Bug
• Thanks ever so much stamp from Paper Smooches
• Sequins from a local fabric store
• Foam Tape
• Flowers from a local craft store
• Docrafts Stick It Glue
• Docrafts Artiste Watercolour Markers
• Docrafts Dye Ink Black
• Pentel Aquash WaterBrush Pen

Method: 

These dual tip brush markers are a dream to work with, they glide onto your acrylic block so easily. With various different colours in a pack, you are spoilt for choice for colour combinations. Using my water brush, I picked up gorgeous radiant colours and applied it to my water colour paper in no particular order – creating a beautiful mess. I left this beautiful mess to dry over night. Once dried, I cut them to 1/3 size of my card base and used the most delightful stamp, Thanks ever so much, from a leading stamp company, Paper Smooches together with the Docrafts Artiste black dye ink to stamp my sentiment. If you are following my blog, you are aware that I am terrified of direct stamping, but this stamp and ink is so pleasant to work with and it really boosted my confidence to direct stamp more often. I hoard collect cute washi tape. I am addicted. So I chose washi tape closest to my watercolour to use in these cards. Once my washi tape was stuck onto the cardstock, to create dimension, I used a generous supply of foam tape to stick the watercolour background panel onto the card. To finish of the card I added some paper flowers and scattered some sequins.

I absolutely adore the finished product! I loved the comments I received on social media about these cards and I am so grateful for seasoned papercrafters who take time to do YouTube tutorials so that I can learn about these beautiful techniques.

Thank you for visiting. Until then, learn new things and be a kind human.

Yours in papercrafting,

The Girl with a Tape Runner

 

 

Santa is coming to town

Hey, Santa is coming to town.

I loved the Quick Cards Made Easy Issue 145! The beautiful Christmas Tim Craft Helz Cuppleditch paper pack and the stamp was a crafter’s dream even though clear stamps scare me! I am terrified of colouring with Copic Markers. I have watched several videos from experienced Copic Certified Tutors and I am still terrified! However, I was very enthusiastic about this stamp, I stayed focussed! This card, was from a tutorial in the magazine.

For this card I have used:

• Card base made from solid white cardstock
• Printed papers from Tim Craft Helz Cuppleditch paper pack, a free gift with the Quick Cards Made Easy magazine.
• Christmas stamps
• Gold sequins
• Clear flat snowflakes
• Tim Holtz Fired Brick Distress Ink
• Stazon Black Ink
• Copic Markers
• Spellbinders Circle Die Set
• My Xyron Tape Runner, some Ranger Matt Medium and Foam tape held this all together.

I covered the card base with the red polka dot patterned paper. I trimmed the reindeer pattern paper and cut a circle in the centre from the Spellbinders Circle Die Set. Then the nerve wrecking best part: stamping and colouring! I used black Stazon ink to stamp the image, a gold pen and some copic markers to colour in the image and I think I nailed it! I was quite pleased with my effort. The image here does not do justice to my shading! Better image next time? I think so! I fussy cut the image and popped it up with some foam squares. I cut a fish tail banner for the Merry Christmas sentiment and popped it up with foam tape too! I finished off this card with beautiful gold sequins and clear snowflakes.

I really loved how this card turned out after following the tutorial in the magazine and I certainly will make more cards similar to this.

So this is what the girl and her tape runner has done!

It is the most wonderful time of the year!