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Ask 5 years

Posted on 01/06/2015 by Cecilie

On Saturday Ask turned 5 and of course I had to send him a birthday card. Since I recently received a shipment of Clearly Besotteds Stamps, I wanted to try out the Ahoy Matey! set for Ask’s card. It is a really fun set for birthday cards and my only complaint is that it doesn’t include a “birthday girl” stamp only “birthday boy” – can’t girls be pirates too? I was inspired by a card by Stephanie Wincott for my card.

Since I am still working with the techniques from Online Card Classes’ Mask-erade, I did some masking using masking paper: I stated by stamping the masts and sails, the cut out masks for the sails before I did the ink blending that constitutes the sky.

The waves are made using a die from Clearly Besotted and I can see myself using it for many scenes using eg. Lawn Fawn or Create a Smile stamps. I underlined the water theme by randomly dropping some tiny glossy accent spots around the ship.

I liked that Stephanie Wincott had tied some twine around the card because it adds some dimension – so I did the same. Only I didn’t using baker’s twine but just plain read thread. I added Ask’s name using some stickers from my stash and kept those red as well – there’s something very pirate-y about the colour red.

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OCC: Mask-erade masking paper

Posted on 27/05/2015 by Cecilie

I’ve once again joined Online Card Classes for their latest class on masking: Mask-erade. Yesterday was the very first day and we dealt with ways of using masking paper. I have wanted to add some masking paper to my stash for a long while but now I finally got around to buying it. Thankfully, it arrived in time for class to begin.

I started by creating my version of a technique presented by Debbie Hughes and I stayed fairly close to her design although I did alter the colours somewhat. I will say that I love how different the three cards turned out – all from just changing the colours.

Because my circle was a little larger than Debbie’s, I felt a need to add a little more flowers and length to the flower arrangement. This was easily done because the flower set has lots of little flowers too.

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OCC Stretch Your Dies: Border dies

Posted on 27/03/2015 by Cecilie

Jeg har fået leget med lidt flere af teknikkerne fra Online Card Classes, og jeg var ret begejstret for Laura Bassens idé om at bruge en simpel die to at lave en stencil med. Jeg har brugt den samme die og de samme farver (næsten) som Laura, men jeg har ændret teksten og kortbasens farve. Det var en fornøjelse at se regnbuemønstret udvikle sig, og jeg er ret glad for, at jeg lavede stencillen i plast, så den kan genbruges.

Teksten er en kombination af diecuts lavet med Simon Says Stamps Happy Birthday die og en stemplet del lavet med Winnie & Walters The Big, the Bold and Party. Jeg har pyntet med nogle enkelte gennemsigtige pailetter.

Selvom det er noget af et mas, så bliver det altså flot, når man limer flere udstansninger ovenpå hinanden. Ordet får dimension, og det ville ikke være muligt at opnå det med 3d-puder, fordi det er så tyndt en diecut. Fordelen ved at lime udstansninger ovenpå hinanden er også, at man får lag i samme farve.

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Julekort i marts

Posted on 25/03/2015 by Cecilie

At det i går var den 24. marts, kom noget bag på mig. Tror bare, at den her måned er gået en del stærkere, end jeg var klar over… Den 24. betyder jo, at jeg skal være klar med endnu et julekort til OSH-bloggen. Heldigvis står jeg tidligt op, så jeg nåede at få lavet et kort til bloggen. Pyha!

Inspireret af flere forskellige teknikker på Online Card Classes Stretch Your Stamps kurser lavede jeg et kort, hvor jeg udstansede bogstaver i et stykke karton, satte glimmerpapir bagved og dekorerede lidt. Enkelt og hurtigt at få lavet men forhåbentlig alligevel et julet kort.

Naturligvis kune jeg bare have udstanset bogstaverne i glimmerpapiret og limet på forsiden, men jeg synes, der er noget fint over at bruge det negative område i stedet.

Til et projekt som dette er det super at have Sizzix’ magnetiske plade, fordi det holder ens dies på rette plads. Jeg bruger både den magnetiske plade og en lille smule washi tape for at være helt sikker på, at bogstaverne ikke flytter sig.

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