Tone on Tone Background Card

Hi friends. I am sharing a card that I made as a Guest designer for Mudra Craft Stamps in September this year. This card has been made using the Gerbera Blooms stamp set.

Here's a detailed step-by-step process of how I made this card:

1. For this card, I took a 4 by 6 inches top folding white textured card stock.

2. Took a sea green card stock piece and stamped 'Love You' repeatedly from Brushed Alphas Stamp set. I used Ranger Archival Viridian ink to create this tone on tone background. 

3. Then I took a plain white CS, slightly smaller than the sea green piece, and stamped the Gerbera flower, leaf and stem using only one layer of the stamps.

4. On a strip of vellum, I heat embossed the 'Love You' sentiment with Ranger Liquid Platinum embossing powder. 

5. Glued the white stamped piece on the sea green one, and wound the vellum sentiment strip around it.

6. Lastly, I attached this piece onto the white card base and glued few sequins for an added interest.

Tiled Flowers Card

Hi friends. I am sharing a card that I made as a Guest designer for Mudra Craft Stamps in September this year. This card has been made using the Gerbera Blooms stamp set.

Here's a detailed step-by-step process of how I made this card:

1. I started by cutting four 2 by 2 inch tiles with white card stock.

2. Stamped the flowers randomly on the tiles to have a different placement on each of them.

3. I used Memento Tuxedo black ink to stamp the outline and Ranger Archival Plum ink for the inner layer. 

4. I wanted a matting for the tiles that matched the color of the flowers, so I smooshed the same Plum ink on white CS.

5. I glued the tiles on this matting and then adhered that on another black piece of card stock.

6. Then I took a golden 5 by 5 inches top folding card base and added the stamped piece on it.

7. Finished off by adding a gold embossed sentiment from Linen Blooms Stamp set and cut it out in the shape of a tag.

8. Added the same golden CS at the back of the sentiment to match the card base.

Sending you some sunshine Card no. 2

Hi friends. I am sharing a card that I made as a Guest designer for Mudra Craft Stamps in December this year. This card has been made using the Gerbera Blooms stamp set.

Here's a detailed step-by-step process of how I made this card:

1. I started off by cutting a semi circle from white CS and then stamping and heat embossing the sentiment on it.

2. After that I took a watercolor CS and placed the semi circle on it to get the placement for stamping the flowers.

3. Before stamping the flowers, I smooshed various shades of yellow distress inks to get a watercolored background. 

4. Then I stamped the flowers with Memento Black ink and allowed it to dry a bit.

5. Splattered a few drops of black and gold water droplets here and there for added effect.

6. Matted the colored front on two black triangle pieces of CS and adhered the entire piece on a white card base.

7. I finished off the card with black and gold sequins.

I am glad this card came up as I had envisioned..... a rising sun with a backdrop of flowers.

Double Gatefold Card

Hi friends. I am sharing a card that I made as a Guest designer for Mudra Craft Stamps in September this year. This special fold card has been made using the Gerbera Blooms stamp set.

Here's a detailed step-by-step process of how I made these cards:

1. For this card I started out with a 6 by 12 inches white card base.

2. Scored it at 2", 4", 8" and 10". 

3. Mountain fold the 2" and 10" score lines, and valley fold the 4" and 8" score lines.

4. Then I stamped the flowers and leaves from the Gerbera Blooms Stamp set on white CS.

5. I first stamped the outline pieces with VersaMark ink and heat embossed it with Ranger Gold embossing powder.

6. For the base layer of the flowers I used Rose Madder ink and for the innermost layer I used Plum ink from Ranger.

7. For the base layer of the leaves I used Leaf Green ink and for the third layer I used Fern Green ink from Ranger.

8. Next, I picked up a few pattern papers from Papermania Blueprint collection and adhered them on to the card base. 

9. I fussy cut all the stamped elements and adhered them on the front panel of the gate fold.

10. The two flowers were glued on the two panels of the gatefold in such a way that they overlapped the other panel on closing.

11. I added two metal brads on two sides of the gatefold to wind the string around it and to create a closure for the card.

12. The twine has to be unwound to open up the card.

13. I stamped the custom sentiment from Brushed Alphas Stamp set on a tag die cut and attached it to one of the brads.

14. Lastly, I added a metal embellishment on two corners of the card front, and glued a die cut in the middle part of the card to have space for the message."

Sending you some sunshine

Hi friends. I am sharing the cards that I made as a Guest designer for Mudra Craft Stamps in September this year. These two cards have been made using the Gerbera Blooms stamp set.

The cards are similar but for some change in elements and design here and there.

Here's a detailed step-by-step process of how I made these cards:

1. I took two 5.5 by 5.5 inches top folding pastel card stocks in pink and green for the card base.

2. Then I stamped the sentiment from Gerbera Blooms Stamp set on a 5 by 5 inch white card stock.

3. Thereafter, I stamped the design around the sentiment with inks matching the respective card bases. I used Ranger Archival Viridian and Rose Madder inks here.

4. For the pink card I stamped the leaf image while on the green one I stamped the outline flower image.

5. To make the 3D flowers, I stamped two sets of flowers on pink and green card stock with Rose Madder and Viridian inks respectively. I used the same ink to stamp the outline and the detailed image of the flower. 

6. To make the 3D flower embellishment, I adhered the two stamped flowers on top of one another.

7. I cut off a few petals from the top stamped image and embossed it with an embossing tool. Then I popped it up with foam dots.

8. Finished off the cards by adding few sequins.

Guest Designing at Mudra Stamps

Hi everyone! I am Guest Designing at Mudra stamps blog today. Hop on here to see the 5 cards I made with the Gerbera Blooms stamp set....