Grid card tutorial

Hello Craft Friends,

I hope you have enjoyed my previous grid cards.

I got some questions on how this card came about,

so here is a tutorial:

What do you need:

cardstock for your card base

design paper

and the grid printed out (you find it HERE)

a square paper punch

(mine is 6/8 inch or 1,7 cm)

glue

scissors

double sided tape

foame tape

About the paper punch: see what you have

and you can ajust the grid to the punch you have.

I printed out several grids, to find the right size

for mypunch.

Punch out 18 squares to fill the grid.

Use glue to add the squares to the grid.

For the border you have to cut the squares diagonal 

before adding them to the grid.

           

Next I used Michael Strong's large dragonfly stamp.

I stamped with versamark and then I embossed the image with white embossing powder. Then I cut out the dragonfly. For decoration I used a few sticky gemstones.

Assemble all the layers and leave the wings to fly free.

If you do not like to make square cards, you can cut the grid to a rectangular size.

Here the result of a rectangular card.

The 4 corners are a little smaller than half a square,

but after glueing, it is easily cut of.

For decoration I used Michael Strong's mini

dragonfly stamp. I also embossed these.

Here the finished card with the dragonflies with

their wings free from the card. I decorated all the 

dragonflies with one dark purple sticky pearl.

Hope you got some inspiration for

 some cards of your own design.

Thank you for looking,

stay safe and

keep crafting!

Saturday sketch card: dragonfly

Here is my card for the

CAS(E) this sketch blog.

Of course there is a little coloring for

The Daily Marker color challange day 18.

Here you find all the details about the sketch challenge.

So for my card I used Michael Strong's dragonfly

rubber stamp. I embossed the stamp with black embossing powder

and then i took out some distress markers for coloring.

When I finished the coloring, I took out the matching

metallic die to cut out the dragonfly.

For the background I used a stencil and a little

peeled paint oxide distress ink.

This is the stencil I have used.

This time I also decorated the envelop.

I used a multi colored inkpad.

And as this dragonfly set also has a little stamp,

I used tose to give a little surprise to the inside of the card

with the same multicolored inkpad.

The sentiment is a digital stamp from 

Create with TLC. The card is finished

with a few sequins.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Dragonfly Pocketletter

I was making some atc's (cards of 2,5 inch by 3,5 inch) for trayinding and had so much fun that 3 cards suddenley were 9 cards and I had enough to make a pocketletter. You see them quite a lot these days. All the stamps I used are by Art Neko.  The main stamp I used on all the cards is the dragonfly background stamp. All other stamps I used are the large winged dragonfly pair, dragonfly medallion, dragonfly triplets, flower and sentiment.

Here a little close up of the first 3 cards. I started with stamping the dragonfly background stamp on different surfaces in the blue color (salty ocean distress ink). Next I stamped the dragonfly medaillion on yellow paper with black ink and colored the wings with light blue glitter glue. On the middle one I sponged yellow ink as the moon through a piech of a 1 inch punched out circle. On top of the blue I stamped the set of 3 dragonflies with black ink. On the left card I used a left over gold embossed piece of the dragonfly stamped background. On all the 3 cards I added tiny red sticky pearls.

For the center cards I first used two pieces of black paper and embossed the background stamp with white embossing powder. The center piece of these cards are a stamped flower and paper cut out with a honeycomb dye. The middle card is totally different. Here I stamped and gold embossed the background stamp on brown paper. Then cut out a circle with a die and used a crumpler. With the black strips on top and bottom it looks like a chinese lantern. The dragonfly on top is punched out with one of those handheld punches.Top and bottom of this card are glittery washi tape.

And the bottom cards are different again. Stamping the background stamp on various papers. Left to right: regular cardstock colored in blue ink and dragonflies stamped in black, middle watercolor paper, first backgroundstamp in blue and next larg winged dragonfly pair in black and right the background stamp on top of a piece of bookpaper. On all these cards i used the dragonfly sentiment.

Hope you get some ideas. For more info about what  exactly is a pocket letter go HERE.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day.

Tim Holtz August tag: Dragon Fly

After all the Creative Chemistry

it is now time to make mAugust tag for 

the 12 tags of 2016 on Tim's Blog.

This is also the place were you can find all 

the technique tips on making this tag.

Here is my tag and this time I used stamps 

from ART NEKO.

I love the more brighter colors that I chose this time.

For the background of this tag, 

festive berries and mustered seed 

distress stains are the colored.

On top a Asian text stamp with archival black.

Then with vintage photo and

waterdrops the background is finished.

After die cutting the honeycomb from a piece of 

bookboard (and colored with festive berries stain)

these Asian papers were also die cut with the honeycomb

die. This time the insides are used and distressed with

vintage photo distress ink.

On top you see the dragonflies.

They are embossed with Judy Kinns Chamaleon

embossing powder. This gives a blue glow and

that is exactly what you see when they fly around you.

As a text i used a poem that you can find here.

Stamped with archival black and  cut into lines.

Finished of with a little sewing after punching some holes.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Blog Candy

Neem eens een kijkje op mijn knutsel blog:
http://craftchaos4kidz.blogspot.com
en maak kans op het winnen van de libelle stempel van Michael Strong door een berichtje achter te laten voor Moederdag.

Take a look at my craft blog at:
http://craftchaos4kidz.blogspot.com
and you can win the dragonfly stamp by Michael Strong.
Leave a comment befor Mother's Day.

Watercoloring

Vandaag heb ik een filmpje gekeken op het blog van Hero Arts en daarna heb ik deze kaart gemaakt. Hieronder is het filmpje en uitleg van de techniek. Ik heb voor de kaart de libelle van Michael Strong gebruikt en een tekst van Hero Arts.

Today I watched a tube on the blog of Hero Arts and than I made this card. You can see the technique explained here on the tube and the card i made with the dragonfly by Michael Strong and a text by Hero Arts.

Technostampers sketch #56

Hier is mijn weekelijkse schetskaart voor het Technostampers blog.
Alle stempels zijn deze keer van Michael Strong. Here is my weekly sketch card for the Technostampers blog.
All stamps are by Michael Strong.

Scrap met libelle/ with dragonfly

Je kan ook scrappen met die geweldige stempel van Michael Strong! You can also scrap with this great stamp from Michael Strong.

Libelle/ Dragonfly

Vandaag gespeeld met de libelle van Michael Strong. Hier zie je de voorbeelden. Heb stempels en papier van Club Scrap erbij gebruikt, maar ook papier en een stempel (fluitekruid) van Stampinback. Mocht je vragen hebben over bepaalde technieken, dan kun je me gerust een mailtje sturen.

Today I played with the dragonfly stamp by Michael Strong. Here you see some of the samples I made with Club Scrap papers and stamps, but also with papers and stamp from Stampinback.

If you have any questions about techniques, feel free to email me.