You Are So Special Card with Suzi

Good Day All, Today I'd like to share with you my latest creation, which is a Greeting Card using some of the left over papers and diecuts from my previous post, along with a Poly Plate and Sentiment Stamp from Crafty Roo Designs.

Here's my card;

Now let me show you how I made it;

First I took one of the Brusho Crystal Colour Powders coloured Book pages and some of the diecut leaves and arranged the leaves in groups on my page.

I then took the Mini Circle Poly Plate from Crafty Roo Designs, some clear embossing, and ultra thick embossing powder and added them to my page.

I then heat set the embossing powder.

Then using some Raw Umber Eco Acrylic Paint I sponged over the whole page, rubbing the paint away from the embossed circles. Once dry I trimmed the paper to fit my card.

Unfortunately I forgot to photographer the next step, but all I did was take an A4 piece of Kraft Card Stock and fold it in half to create my card base.  Then using the Raw Umber Eco Acrylic Paint and the Mini Circle Poly Plate I add a few circles to my background.  I took another book page and trimmed it a little, them added both book pages to my card base.

After trimming away the excess paper, I took the Raw Umber Eco Acrylic Paint and sponge, and sponged the edges of the card.

I took another piece of Kraft Card and using the Paint and Sponge; Stamped my sentiment onto the card, trimmed the card and sponged the edges before adding it to my card base.

I had great fun creating this card, I love being able to use up extra papers I've created.  I also love using different techniques, so using the poly plate and embossing powder for a resist technique was a lot of fun.  The Poly Plates work beautifully with whatever medium you want to use, so are perfect to team up with both Brusho Crystal Colour Powders and the Eco Acrylic Paints.

If you want to see the Poly Plates in action along with the other stamps from Crafty Roo Designs make sure to watch Hochanda at 4pm tomorrow, the 19th September to see Kym and her lovely products.  If Mr Postman has been good you'll see a few sample I've created for the show along with this card.

Thanks for visiting with us today, 

Bye for now

Suzi

xxx

Computer Bug Cards with Suzi

Good Day All, Today I'd like to share with you a set of 3 cards I've made on the theme of 'Computer Bugs', Sounds a little weird, but hopefully you'll like them.  For my cards I used Eco Acrylic Paint, DesignIt Paste,Metallic Acrylic Paint, Metallic Acrylic Ink, Progresso Aquarelle Pencil and ExpandIt Paste.

The Backgrounds for my cards where all created at the same time, so I'll show you how I created them first before going on to show you each separate card.

First of All I took some Greyboard and gave it a couple of coats of Eco Acrylic Paint in Phthalo Green;

I then took a couple of circuit board stencils and using a palette knife added a layer of Gold DesignIt paste through them.

I left the backgrounds to dry a little before adding some ExpandIt paste to the bottom right hand corner of them both, I add just a little to one, and more to the other one.  I then heat set the ExpandIt with my heat gun.

I decided to cut the second background in half and use it to create to smaller cards.  I then added some Dark Green Permanent Ink to the Edges of the backgrounds, and swipe it over the raise areas of the ExpandIt.

That was my backgrounds finished, so next it was time to create my focal points and put the cards together.

For the first card I took one of the smaller background pieces and layered it onto a card blank  I'd created from a piece of Gold Mirri Card;

I then stamped some bugs onto Gold Mirri Card using the same permanent green ink, I also die cut the bugs.

I then added the bugs to the card with some foam pads for dimension.

As as finishing touch I added a little Gold Metallic Acrylic Paint to some of the background.

For the second small card I took a Steampunk Beetle stamp, stamped it in green permament ink and then added some gold details with Gold Metallic Acrylic Ink.

Before adding this beetle to the background I added a thin wash of dilute Phthalo Green Eco Acrylic Paint to the beetle and some areas of the background piece.

I then added this background piece to a Gold Mirri Card Blank I'd created, I added the beetle with a double layer of foam pads to give extra dimension.

As as finishing touch I added a little Gold Metallic Acrylic Paint to some of the background.

For my final card I die cut some bugs out of greyboard, aswell as die cutting a larger bug out of gold mirri card.  I painted the greyboard bugs with Phthalo Green Eco Acrylic Paint.

Before adding the bugs to the background I added some shading with a Progresso Aquarelle Pencil.

I added some shading in Progresso Aquarelle Pencil around the edge of my background piece before adding it onto my card.  I'd created my card blank from a piece of A4 card, so I had an A5 card, onto which I added a layer of Gold Mirri Card before adding my background piece.  I then added my painted die cut bugs.

As as finishing touch I added a little Gold Metallic Acrylic Paint to some of the background and the bugs as I felt they needed a little more contrast.

Here's a couple of close ups of the finished card;

I had so much fun with this project, especially creating the backgrounds, I love the combination of Phthalo Green and Gold.  The DesignIt Paste goes through stencils beautifully and dries to a wonderfully shiny finish.  I love how the ExpandIt looks like some sort of mould has started to grow on the circuit board.  I also love those Computer Bugs I created, I hope they make you smile, they did me!

I hope you've enjoyed seeing how I created these cards, It's a pleasure as always to share my creative process with you all.  Thank you for talking the time to read this post, I know it's a little long.  I hope i've inspired you get creating too.

That's all from me for Today

Bye for Now

Suzi

xxx

Mixed Media Card with Suzi

Good Day All, Today I'd like to share with you my latest creation, A Mixed Media Card using Eco Acrylic Paints, my large Gelli Plate and Coloured Pencils.  You might want to grab a cuppa, as this is going to be a rather long post, as I show you how I created my background paper and then my card.

Here's my Card;

Now I'd like to show you how I created my background. Here are the supplies I used;

8 x 10 inch Gelli Plate
Eco Acrylic Paints in Cerulean Blue, Cadmium Yellow Deep Hue, Prussian Blue, Titanium White and Magenta
Assorted Stencils
Sponges
Brayer

The First Step is to start adding paint to your Gelli Plate, through assorted stencils, letting the paint dry between layers;

You want to fill your Gelli Plate until you end up with something like this;

Next you want to add a thin layer of paint over the whole plate, so you can pull your print;

Now Add a sheet of paper, rub all over and gentle remove from your Gelli Plate.

Here's the pile of papers I created after repeating this process a few time, using assorted stencils, but the same paints.

As you can see I ended up with lots of wonderful papers, plenty to choose from for this project and more for later projects.

Here's the piece of paper I decided to use, trimmed down to fit a 5 x 7 inch card blank, layered onto a piece of contrasting card stock;

Then it was time to create my focal image, I chose Boho Anya; I stamped her in permanent ink, then coloured her face and arms with Koh-I-Noor  Polycolour Coloured Pencils.

I decided to Paper Piece her hair and outfit, so I stamped her a few more times onto the background papers I'd created, and cut out sections from each one to create her outfit and hair;

I then glued all the pieces together with pva glue, and add some shading with the coloured pencils, and redefined the lines with a black fineliner pen.

I then diecut some Sun shapes from one of the yellow papers, sponged the edges with Prussian Blue paint and added to the card.  I also stenciled the words 'With Love' using Prussian Blue paint.  I added a doodles border around the whole card and around some of the patterns with White Paint Pen.

Finally I added Boho Anya to complete my card.

I love how the finished card looks, the colours all tie together as I kept to the same limited colour palette throughout the whole project.  The Eco Acrylic Paints are great fun to use with the Gelli Plate, and have lots of pigment in them, so you get really strong colours.  The Koh-I-Noor PolyColour Pencils blend beautifully together, so you can create wonderful definition by layering them over themselves and the acrylic paints.

I hope you've enjoyed seeing how I created my card.  I certainly had lots of fun creating it for you.
That's all from me for today
Bye for now
Suzi
xxx

Thank You Card with Suzi

Good Morning All, Today I'd like to share with you a Thank You Card I've created using Acrylic Inks to colour some die cuts, along with Brusho Background papers I created for a previous project.

Here's how I made my card.

First of all I die cut two boots from white cards stock, and an assortment of flowers and stems from Brusho background papers i'd created previously.

Next I started to create my plaid/tartan pattern on the boot cut outs.  The first step was to add some lines of Yellow Acrylic Ink with a Bamboo Pen,

I then added some lines of Turquoise Acrylic Ink,

I finally added some lines of Bottle Green Acrylic Ink.

I then created my card base.  I used a 5 x 7 inch card blank, to which I added some dark green card followed by a layer of white cardstock.  To the white card stock I added some green ruffled paper from my stash along with a strip of green brusho background paper.  I then added the boot die cuts and the greenery I'd die cut.

I then added the floral die cuts.

To finish my card I added a stamped and die cut sentiment, along with a strip of blue brusho paper to tie the sentiment to the rest of the card.

Here's a close up of the finished card.

I had great fun creating this card, I love creating plaid/tartan patterns and love how these boots turned out.  I also love how you can create the main focal point of a card from leftover bits of pretty papers. I hope you've enjoyed an insight into my creating process, I love sharing my work with you all.

Happy Crafting

Bye for now

Suzi

xxx

Embossed Lustre Cards with Suzi

Good Day All, Today I'd like to share with you a set of cards I've created using the gorgeous Aztec Lustre Paints on Black and White Paper, some stamps and embossing folders from my stash.

Here's one of the cards;

Here's how I created my project.  First of all I took Aztec Lustre Paints in Pink, Yellow, Blue and Purple and added some onto sheets of Black Paper with a brayer.  I created 3 different sheets;

I then decided to start work on the focal images for my cards.  I stamped a selection of Hearts onto mixed media paper;

I then added a layer of Yellow Aztec Lustre Paint to the whole page;

I then added some stamping to the background with a distressed stamp.

I then stamped some hearts onto the patterned papers I'd created;

I then cut out the hearts and glued them to the yellow paper.  I then cut the page up into 6 pieces to create the focal images for my cards.

I took the rest of the black patterned paper, trimmed it to fit 5 x 7 inch card blanks then embossed each sheet using a selection of embossing folders from my stash.

I then started to put my cards together, I added a piece of black paper behind my embossed papers to add a nice border, then added the pieces of yellow paper to the cards.  Here's what I ended up with;

I stamped a couple of extra hearts onto the leftover yellow paper and added them to two of the cards.  I may add sentiments to the rest of the cards at a later date, I'm not sure yet.  But for now they are all finished.

I hope you've enjoyed seeing how I created my cards, you can find the Aztec Lustre Paints on offer at the moment, so it's the perfect time to treat yourself to a set of them.

That's all from me for today

Bye for now

Suzi

xxx