Today's card features Hero Arts stamps and the Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens. I used regular cardstock, even though I prefer to use them on watercolor cardstock, and it seemed to work quite well. I finished them off with gold splatter!
I will link up the supplies below, but I will show some pictures below of my supplies. I used premade card bases just for convenience sake!
To start off with, I masked off the top of my card with some post it tape. This is so when I stamp the ornament stamps, the strings won't cover the back of the card, and it will look crisp and professional. Also, I used the lines on my grid mat to help me line it up straight.
Next, I took the stamps I wanted off of the backer sheet and placed them on my project. I did this because I wanted to see how they would fall out within the card front. I knew how I wanted it to be, but since I used this stamp set first here, I didn't know how they would turn out.
I then stamped the images in Versafine Onyx Black ink. This is my favorite black ink for watercolor. It stamps them very crisply and I know it won't smear when I go to use my Zig markers with it, because it is waterproof when it is dry.
The ornament on the right didn't stamp well the first time, so I just stamped it over. It didn't match ip perfectly, but I kinda like this look. Looks more whimsical and organic. I just left it because, partially, I didn't want to stamp the whole card over again! Anyways, while I had the stamps out, I stamped another card front using the same stamps and ink, just in another way.
Next, I colored in the images. I used the Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens. These are meant to use on watercolor paper, but I wanted to use them on the cardstock to experiment, plus I just wanted the card to be a one layer card! They actually seemed to color quite well! I can't remember which colors I used for which, I just used the colors in the 24 pack! :)
You may notice some gold splatter on the front. I used some Perfect Pearls (in the color Perfect Gold) and just mixed them with water, and scraped them off the edge of an acrylic block, with a paint brush. This finished the cards for me , this way they didn't seem too plain.
I stamped on the envelopes from the little sentiment set from Michaels. This was a last minute decision, but I think it was so worth it, because it finishes the envelopes off.
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That's it for the cards. Now I want to share how I will be sharing these cards!
The lovely Jennifer McGuire is sponsoring a card drive to send cards to people in the nursing homes all over the world. I want to support this, so I will be sending in these and 4 other cards. There are also prize giveaways!! You can find out more about the drive by clicking here.
Thank you so much for coming to view this blog post. I will be posting more cards in this series, so stay tuned! I hope you are having a great day wherever you're at!
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