Case This Sketch #206 with video

Hello fellow cardmakers. Today I am playing along with Case this Sketch and their challenge #206. Here is a look at this week's sketch...

Today I created a standard A2 top folding card. I used some new-to-me stamps from Sweet Stamp Shop to create my card. I used Wizards and Grand Wizard stamp sets together. I used my Prismacolor pencils to color the focal image and even created a color map to go with it. A photo of my project, the color map I created, as well as a link to my youtube video and a full list of supplies are below.

Supplies:

Stamps: 

Sweet Stamp Shop, Wizards and Grand Wizard

Hero Arts, Sparkle Background (old)

Ink:

Hero Arts, Black

Versamark

Distress Ink, Stormy Sky, Chipped Sapphire, and Faded Jeans

Cardstock:

Papertrey Ink, Soft Stone

Bristol Smooth White

Embossing Powder:

Simon Says Stamp, Detail White

Other:

Nuvo Crystal Drops, Ebony Black and Oyster Grey

Prismacolor Colored Pencils

Thank you for visiting my blog today,

Kori 

Mid Century Thanks

Hello fellow card makers. Today I am sharing another card and yes, another video. I'm still learning, but I am enjoying myself and to me, thats all that matters. My card has a mid century feel to it. I used some pattern papers I have been hoarding for a few years. this pack of 6x6 patterned paper is by Basic Grey and it's called Hipster. I used the colors from these papers to pick my ink colors for the stamping. I love stamping. I mean, stamping with no coloring, I need to do more of this. I am using Simple Flowers by Altenew. Here is my card and a full list of supplies are listed below.

Supplies:
Stamps:
Altenew, Simple Flowers

Dies:
MFT, Thanks

Ink:
Taylored Expressions, Dijon, Potato Chip, Sweet Basil, and Poppy Seed
Hero Arts, Neon Red, and Wet Cement
PTI, Aqua Mist

Cardstock:
Taylored Expressions, Poppy Seed (card base and sentiment)
Stampin' Up! Speckled (front panel)

Patterned Paper:
Basic Grey, Hipster

Thanks for visiting my blog today,

Kori

Guest Star Stamper for The Color Throwdown #427

Hello fellow card makers. I am so excited because today I am the guest star stamper over at The Color Throwdown #427. The color palette for this weeks challenge are mint green, pink, and aqua. Click here to get to there most recent challenge. Here is a look at the color palette and inspirational photo.

I love these colors. They really are some of my favorites, but I found it hard to create with them this week. I'm not sure why. Somehow, I managed to come up with this...

This is my take on this weeks challenge. I love the look of dipped feathers, it is just so beautiful to me. So, awhile ago I bought this stamp set from Stampin' Up! and its coordinating dies. I die cut my feathers out of some aqua cardstock. I them stamped them with detail images in Versamark just to give it a slight detail. To create the dipped look, I used a foiling technique. I used a toner marker to draw where I wanted my foil to adhere. I found that the toner marker was kinda hard to work with. This was my first try at foiling and I'm going to keep trying other methods. I found this method not only to be messy and inconsistent, but I wasn't real happy with the way it turned out. I used my laminating machine to heat up the foil. Maybe it was a combination of toner coverage and not enough heat on the project. I will keep trying because I love the look of foil and I want to be able to use it on future projects.

Once I had my feathers "dipped" I then wrapped some mint colored embroidery floss around the quill of the feather as if it actually where dipped into paint or dye. I knotted them together to hang them on my card, to create the focal image. I molded them to appear more like they where free hanging and 3 dimensional.

The front panel was created from a light pink cardstock. I blended some Distress ink, in Worn Lipstick, around the edges to create the vignette around the feathers. I adhered the front panel directly to a gray top folding card base. After adding some sequins and a sentiment that seemed more than fitting, my card was done. A complete list of supplies is below.

Supplies:
Stamps:
Stampin' Up! Four Feathers
MFT, Adorable Elephants (sentiment)

Dies:
MFT, Blueprints 1 Die-namics (front panel)
Stampin' Up! Feathers Framelits

Ink:
Distress Ink, Worn Lipstick, Spun Sugar
Versamark
Hero Arts, Unicorn White

Cardstock:
Avery Elle, Aquamarine, Pixie?
PTI, Soft Stone (card base and sentiment)

Embossing Powder:
SSS, Detail White

Other:
DMC 6 strand embroidery floss, 3817
Hedi Swap Minc Foil, Rose Gold
Darice, Iridescent Clear

Thank you for visiting my blog today and Good Luck with the Challenge!

Kori

Ink Cube Storage

Hello fellow cardmakers and crafters. Today I am sharing with you my new ink cube storage.

I buy ink cubes for a few reasons. First, I like to have ALL the colors and I don't have a room completely dedicated to ink storage. I like to have other supplies in my craft room. Second, I like to take my ink pad to my stamp for inking. I can do this easier with a small cube instead of the larger full size ink pad. Some inking techniques lend itself to the smaller ink cube, but that is for another blog post. Lastly, they are so stinking cute, come on, look at those little cubes, aren't they adorable? It all started with Stampin' Up! and their Stampin' Spots- they were my first ink purchase about 13 years ago. They have since been replaced with newer brands.

I know what you're thinking, more ink is better, and the cube doesn't have enough ink. Well, thats why I buy the re-inker.

re-inker storage

So, my craftroom is made up of many pieces from Ikea, Target, and office furniture stores. My ink, is stored in an Ikea Alex drawer unit (the short gray one). I searched high and low for the best way to organize them, so that they can stay in this unit which lives under my work surface, in close range, and easy to grab.

First, I found a plastic bead storage container. I got the idea from kwcarddesign. You can click on that link to find her blog. I originally stored my ink cubes this way. But I found it irritating to have to get out the container, open the container, grab the color I want... It just got in my way. So, I started looking for another option.

original method

 I found these foam inserts at Close to my Heart. They are made for their plastic storage container systems, but I didn't want another plastic container, so I ordered them to just sit in my drawer. So far, so good. I can open the drawer, grab what I want and not have anything else in my way.

new foam insert

The insert measures 10 3/8 x 14 3/8 and it holds up to 40 ink cubes. It is rigid enough to pull out on its own. I plan to stack 3 in a drawer. One on either side and one to stack on top of whichever one isn't being accessed at the moment. That is 120 ink cubes per drawer!!! Ya'll better start making more ink cubes!!!

thick foam rigidity

blending foam storage

The bad part is that my Distress Inks, that I use to ink- blend, well, I store the Ranger foam pads under those ink cubes. When this occurs, the ink cube does not sit down into the little square as good as without it. I haven't decided how big of a deal this is to me or not at all. I just thought I would mention it. If I come up with a solution for this, I will let you know.

If you have any questions or need additional photos, just let me know, I would be happy to share.


Thanks for visiting my blog today,

Kori

PS. I ordered directly from Close to My Heart online. I do not have a CTMH Consultant.

Thanks, for all you do

Hello fellow cardmakers. Today I am sharing a project I created using Altenew stamps. I have been trying my hand at no line Copic coloring and this was one of my first attempts. I stamped the flower images using Altenew's Hennah Elements stamp set on PTI Stampers Select White with Memento Desert Sand ink. I picked markers that I thought would blend well together and just tried my best. I wanted to keep the shape of the stamp by using the darker colors first around the outline of the image and blend them out with the lighter colors. I don't think it turned out too bad considering I haven't tried this technique much.

I used Hero Arts Black dye ink to stamp the "thanks" from halftone thanks. Then I used Versamark to stamp the rest of the sentiment from the same set on SSS Black cardstock and embossed it with Hero Arts White embossing powder. I popped up the second part of the sentiment with some foam tape. I adhered my card front flat onto a Stampin' Up! Sahara Sand A2 size card base. The additional elements on the card are also stamped in Hero Arts Black. A complete list of supplies are below. 

Stamps:

Altenew- Hennah Elements

Altenew- Halftone Thanks 

Ink:

Memento- Desert Sand

Hero Arts- Black

Versamark ink 

Cardstock:

PTI- Stampers Select White

SSS- Black

Stampin' Up! Sahara Sand

Embossing Powder:

Hero Arts- White

Coloring Medium:

Copic Markers

Thanks for stopping by,

Kori 

The Paper Players #285 "Rain or Shine"

Hello fellow cardmakers, Today I am playing along with The Paper Players on Challenge #285 "Rain or Shine.  I created this colorful card using the stamp set "Spectrum" by Paper Smooches. I stamped the unicorn on PTI Stampers Select White cardstock using Memento Desert Sand then masked it and stamped the rainbow also using Memento Desert Sand. Then I masked the rainbow and stamped the sun using Hero Arts Butter Bar. I ink-blended Butter Bar around the sun and Hero Arts Pool around the unicorn and rainbow.

I used Copic markers in shades of warm gray to color the unicorn and used Copic Spica Atyou Glitter pens to color in the rainbow and hair. The clouds of the rainbow are colored in shades of cool gray. A bit of R20 was used to color in the unicorns ear. I stamped the coordinating clouds from the set on PTI Vellum in Brilliance Starlite Silver and clear embossed them with Hero Arts clear embossing powder. The sentiment was stamped using Versamark Onyx Black. I adhered the clouds using a glue pen just around the rim under the embossed edge. The panel was trimmed and popped up using a sheet of craft foam and placed on some patterned paper from the Fancy Pants pattern paper pack "Beloved".  The card base is standard A2 size using PTI Stampers Select White. The list of supplies is below.

Stamps:

Paper Smooches - Spectrum

Ink:

Hero Arts- Pool, Butter Bar

Memento - Desert Sand 

Versafine- Onyx Black

Brilliance - Starlite Silver 

Embossing Powder:

Hero Arts- Clear

Coloring Medium:

Copic Markers

Copic Spica Atyou Glitter Pens

Cardstock:

PTI- Stampers Select White

PTI- Vellum

Pattern Paper:

Fancy Pants- Beloved

Thanks for clicking on my card,

Kori

Color Throwdown # 379

Hello fellow cardmakers, today is very exciting... not just because I'm playing in this week's Color Throwdown, but also because I made my very first card making video today. It's something that I've wanted to do for a long time, but never conjured up the courage to do it. Oh yeah, and Happy Valentines Day! As I mentioned in the video, I have been obsessed with rainbows lately, and as such, I have pretty much colored rainbows on every card I've made in the past few weeks, so why not this one too? I made two cards with the same layout but using different techniques for the rainbow die cut. The first using fun foam and the second using an inlaid die technique, which I showed in the video.

Today I am playing in Color Throwdown #379. This weeks colors are Pink, Purple/Mullberry, Metallic Gold, and Hot Pink. My supplies are listed below.

Constructive criticism number one, better lighting. Oh and I need to turn off my TV when filming, hahaha!!  Enjoy!

Cardstock:
PTI- Stampers Select White and Plum Pudding
Avery Elle- Magenta and Pixie
Stampin' Up!- Gold Foil
Simon Says Stamp- Black
Ink:
Versamark
Hero Arts -Black Dye Ink
Embossing Powder:
Ranger- Liquid Platinium
Stamps:
PTI- Beautiful Butterflies and Beautiful Butterfly layers
Dies:
PTI- Beautiful Butterflies
Paper Smooches- Rainbow

Have a wonderful week and stay warm! Thanks for being here.

Kori

Simon Says Stamp Monday and Wednesday Challenges: Best Friends and Critters

Hello fellow cardmakers, today I have a project that fits both Simon challenges this week. The Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Best Friends and The Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Critters.  I created a scene using a masking technique with both stamps sets perfect for Valentines Day. The clouds were also punched and masked to create them. My supplies are listed below.

Stamps: My Favorite Things, Ewe are the best and Adorable Elephants
Dies/Punches: My Favorite Things, Blueprints 1 (front panel), and Blueprints 8 (heart), Fiskars, Cloud
Ink: Memento, Tuxedo Black, Distress, Tumbled Glass, Versamark
Embossing Powder: Hero Arts, White
Cardstock: Simon Says Stamp, Black and Fog, Neenah, Solar White (110 lb.), Stampin' Up!, Real Red
Coloring Medium: Copic Markers, Marvy Snow Pen
Other: White Fun Foam, Foam Tape, Glue Dots, Heat Tool, Fiskars paper trimmer, Tonic Mini Guillotine trimmer

Thanks for clicking on my card,

Kori

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Simon Says: Ombre

Hello fellow cardmakers, todays card is a Valentine's Day card, and it was made for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Simon Says: Ombre.  The card background was made with 110 lb. Neenah Solar White cardstock. I used a Heidi Swapp triangle stencil and an embossing pen to draw the triangles in sticky ink. I then used Ranger, Liquid Platinum embossing powder to heat emboss the triangles pattern. I then used Distress ink blending to create the ombre background effect.

I used Hero Arts, Christmas Crystals to create the heart featured on the front of the card. I stamped it twice creating the heart in VersaMark Ink on Simon Says Stamp, Black Cardstock and heat embossed it using the Ranger, Liquid Platinum embossing powder. I used the love sentiment from the same Christmas Crystals set and stamped it on Neenah Solar White in VersaFine, Onyx Black and used Hero Arts, Clear embossing powder to heat emboss it. I cut out both the heart and the sentiment and popped them up with foam adhesive on the front panel. The card base is also made of SSS Black Cardstock.

Thanks for clicking on my card and I hope you come back soon,

Kori

*Neenah Classic Crest **110 LB** SMOOTH SOLAR WHITE Paper Pack 25 Sheets	Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# BLACK Black8	Hero Arts Clear Stamps CHRISTMAS CRYSTALS cl802 Holiday	Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad FESTIVE BERRIES Ranger TDP39969	Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad WORN LIPSTICK Ranger TDP40309	Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad SPUN SUGAR Ranger TDP40194	Tsukineko VersaFine ONYX BLACK Ink Pad VF-82	Tsukineko Versamark EMBOSS INK PAD Watermark VM-001
*Ranger Inkssentials EMBOSS IT PENS Embossing EMP20653	Hero Arts EMBOSS CLEAR EMBOSSING POWDER PW104	Ranger Embossing Powder LIQUID PLATINUM EPJ37484

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Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Design Team Call

Hello fellow card makers. For 2016 I decided to start blogging again and sharing my creations with the online card making community. I am entering my projects today for the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Design Team Call. It is so much fun being on a design team and interacting with all the participants. I have been involved with design teams before and I would love the opportunity to do it again. 

Here is my first card, using My Favorite Things Adorable Elephants stamp set. I decorated my panel using a masking technique. I tried to make it appear as though the butterflies where flying around the elephant. I stamped the images with Memento Tuxedo black ink on Neenah 110 lb. cardstock and colored him with my Copic Markers. I used a Copic multiliner to draw the trails behind the butterflies to match the stamp already given in the set. The clouds where masked and inked using versa magic Sea Breeze pigment ink. I used Versa Fine Onyx Black ink to stamp the Happy Birthday Sentiment and then heat embossed it with Wow, clear matte Dull embossing powder. I also coated the butterfly that is popped up with a glue dot with glossy accents. 

My second card I am sharing today uses the same set and the same masking techniques to develop the scene on the front panel. I used Versamark ink to stamp both white sentiments and embossed them with Hero Arts White embossing powder. For both cards I used fun foam to pop up the panels on a standard A2 size card base made of Simon Says Stamp Fog cardstock. A touch of wink of stella was used on the butterflies above and the balloons below. 

Thanks for visiting me today and I hope you come back in the future. A list of products used on this project are listed below. The link takes you to Simon Says Stamp Online Store where I purchased most of these products. 

Kori 

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