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Birthday card with some sparkle

February 26, 2015February 27, 2015 ~ Kamila Routsis ~ 13 Comments

Hello !

Today I would like to share with you a birthday card with some golden embossing and watercolours done using Distress Inks since I do not own any water colour paint yet.

I went with the same colour combination as my last card, pink and green/blue so Picked Raspberry and Peacock Feathers. I just love this colour combination! On top of all that we have gold embossing powder which I think looks fantastic against these two colours! I did emboss resist technique, I embossed the flowers – you might call them flowers I guess 😉 and heat embossed them and then applied the inks with water.

I hope you like it, let me know what you think by leaving a comment 🙂

I am entering this card in the following card challenges:

Little Tangles – challenge #53 – watercolour

Happy Little Stampers challenge – Embossing

Dream Valley Challenges – your favourite colour combination challenge #100

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Kamila

Blending Distress inks over golden embossing

February 25, 2015February 26, 2015 ~ Kamila Routsis ~ 7 Comments

Hello again!

I have another card I wanted to quickly share with you guys!

This time it is a very simple design with gradient effect of my two favourite colours of Distress Ink pink (Picked Raspberry) and blue (Peacock Feathers). I blended the colours on a piece of white cardstock and sprayed it heavily with water – you might have noticed this is my favourite thing as of late 🙂

I just love that pink and blue together with the gold embossing powder – I think this combination looks super cool! I got inspired by one card from the 3rd day of Hero Arts blog hop by Virginia Lu. It was just gorgeous! I then added some vellum with sentiment that I heat embossed using black Ranger embossing powder, I added some punched out stars with Wink of Stella and glossy accent and I few golden stars on the edges of the design. Hope you like it:)

Here is the version of the card that I originally wanted to go with, but then changed my mind and used navy blue card base and some golden stars instead:

How do you like the change?

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Dream Valley Challenges – your favourite colour combination challenge #100

Happy Little Stampers challenge – Embossing

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See you again soon!

Kamila

Two technique watercolour cards

February 25, 2015February 25, 2015 ~ Kamila Routsis ~ 12 Comments

Hello fellow crafters!

i hope you are having a great day!

Today I would like to share with you two similar card made with two different techniques.

I used once again Distress Inks as my watercolours, with some water. I like this colours combination a lot 🙂 Still finding new ways of implementing my one and only background stamp and embossing folder combo , which I just love!

First card is stamped with the background stamp and heat embossed with Wow white opaque embossing powder, then I blended Distress Inks on it and spayed it thoroughly with water, I really like the effect. My watercolour paper was not super good so that is as much as I could get out of it. but if you would try this technique on a thicker paper I found that the inks don’t bled the same way, it is better to just go in with your ink on a paintbrush instead.

The second card was made by inking the embossing folder with all the Distress ink colour then spraying them with water THEN putting the regular cardstock in and running it through the die cutting machine. This is the effect. It s hard to get a perfect affect with that technique. The ink moves around and so your project is messy as an effect, but I think it still looks pretty cool! It actually looks a bit 3D.

There is also another technique which I will present in another blog post, where you heat emboss the background using some stamp, then use watercolours or inks, and after all is dry you put it in the same pattern embossing folder and you will get that raised effect but without colour leaking over the embossed area. I tried to make that card for you today, but I was too tired and messed it up 😉 I will try to post it tomorrow since it is a really fun technique, but you need the same pattern stamp and embossing folder to achieve that effect though.

I hope you will stick around to see the result!

I am entering this card in the card challenge:

Card Concept challenge #29 – Get well soon

Little Tangles – challenge #53 – watercolour

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See you tomorrow!

Kamila

Dry embossed and distressed card for you to get better

February 24, 2015 ~ Kamila Routsis ~ 11 Comments

Hi there

Today I managed to squeeze in 2 blog posts. I made so many cards the other day! I love these creative days, when ideas just keep coming! Luckily I had time to use all of the inspiration and made the cards 🙂

I made this card when I was trying out some techniques with embossing folders and watercolours, you should see the other side of that front card haha Anyway I did not want to throw away this beautifully dry embossed card so I decided to go in with my Distress Inks! I went for a rainbow-y look and I made it a “feel better” card. I do not think I have enough of those. I decided to adhere the front of the card on the edge of the card base which I also chose to be this natural brownish colour. I die cut some banners with my Avery Elle Dotted Die set and used Gina K. design sentiment from One in a million stamp set, then added a few white accents with my gel pen and voila here it is, I hope you like it!

I am entering this card in

CAS on Sunday – challenge #52 Chevrons

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Take care and I will see you again soon!

Kamila

Chevron stencilling with Distress Inks + tutorial video

February 23, 2015February 23, 2015 ~ Kamila Routsis ~ 24 Comments

Hi there!

Welcome to another blog post and this time two new cards!

This time I am using some Distress Inks to create two different cards, but the same technique.

The colours I am using is Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed, Mowed Lawn and Salty Ocean. I used the mini blending tool from Ranger to apply the inks. They blend so easily and I just love how they combine and create new colours in between! Fantastic!

I used Memory Box Chevron Chic stencil, such a pretty pattern and created two of the same colour combination stripes. I used the first one vertically to create a Thank You card. I decided to go with the vellum stripe across the card with some gold embossing – I do not use that enough that’s for sure! I think it adds elegancy to the card on that vellum.

The other card front with chevron stripes I used horizontally to make a Happy Birthday card. This time I went with black background, additional colour matching stars and clear embossed, black sentiment.

Here is the video of making the two cards. I hope you will enjoy it!

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I am entering these cards in the following card challenges:

Thank you card:

Addicted to stamps – challenge #132 – Make your mark

Seize the Birthday – Anything goes challenge

Happy Birthday card:

Addicted to CAS – mask challenge #57

Thank you so much for visiting! I hope you like what you saw and I inspired you to maybe try something new!

See you again soon!

Kamila

Embossed swirls on a softened watercolour background

February 22, 2015 ~ Kamila Routsis ~ 15 Comments

Hi there!

Welcome to yet another blog post with a new card idea!

Today I would like to share with you this colourful card with shiny embossed swirls. I really like how the card turned out, but when I started working on the background I was not satisfied haha

This card was actually supposed to be similar to the previous card I made in the same colour combination (without the black) that looked like an eye cream leaking all over. I used a different watercolour paper, a much thicker one here and distress ink just did not want to cooperate so well, so I ended up picking up al that water with my baby wipe or tissue… I did not so many time that the colour you see here is a it washed out – pretty neat technique actually. I like how with crafting you can always find something new – unexpectedly 😉

Having that background for a few days, I decided I should do something with it! I like the colours and so I decided to use my background stamp by Hero Arts and Sizzix and heat emboss it in black. I love that black on rainbow kind of a look. I then added the banner from Avery Elle – Dotted Dies, I made it a little bit shorter and heat embossed best wishes using Wow – white opaque embossing powder. I then added a few sequins that would coordinate with the background and that was it. I used black card base to kind of “blend in” the swirls.

I hope you like it!

I am entering this card in the following card challenges:

Seize the Birthday – Anything goes challenge

Addicted to stamps – # 132 make your mark

Happy Little Stampers challenge – Embossing