Mixed Media Poinsettia Card Tutorial

As promised, here is the tutorial for the Poinsettia card I shared earlier.

Supplies Used:

• The Craft's Meow's Holiday Poinsettia and Inside Christmas stamp sets
• Imagine Craft's/Tsukineko's Versafine Onyx Black, Versamark and Memento Love Letter inks
• Ranger's Distress Inks in Worn Lipstick, Fired Brick, Evergreen Bough and Crushed Olive 
• Stampin' Up's Watercolor Pencils
• Scrapbook Adhesives by3L EZ Runner
• Want2Scrap Silver Rhinestones strip
• Kraft A2 card base
• 2 Patterned papers
• Lace
• Seam binding
• Watercolor Brush
• Blending sponges
• White Embossing Powder
• Heat Gun

Stamp image with waterproof ink.

Sponge different hues of red Distress Inks onto the image. Use the darker ink in the center.

Sponge Olive ink in the upper part of the background and Evergreen on the bottom background.

Highlight the shadows and lights on the image using watercolor pencils.

Highlight the poinsettia image with a dark brown watercolor pencil.

 Color wash and blend the water color highlights using a brush.

 Stamp image onto a patterned paper. Cut out a few of the petals and adhere onto the corresponding part of the watercolored image.

Heat emboss partially the image with white embossing powder. It's okay if it's not perfectly aligned. That way it creates a shadow effect.

Stamp sentiment inside box. Adhere patterned paper on the left side of the card base. Embellish the center of the flower with rhinestones.

Stitch top and bottom edges of the combined panels. Adhere lace, seam binding bow, white flourish sticker and rhinestones.

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Inspired by Moxie Fab World: Mixed Media Bird Cards

One of my first paper crafting highlights was winning Moxie Fab World's Value of Vintage Challenge a few years ago. I had just started my paper crafting journey, so the win was a definite push to keep going with my hobby. I appreciate Cath's daily posts on the Moxie Fab World Blog that inspire creativity in my paper crafting. Today's post is one example of that happening. As soon as I saw this photo on the MFW, my mind started visualizing lots of ideas.

Image Credit

Here are my cards. The first one is clean and simple. I made my bird template by die cutting the big bird from Spellbinders Bird Sanctuary set. I then sketched the legs and branch and cut those out free hand using a craft knife. Using Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L's EZ Dots Repositionables, I adhered the negative die cut, to act as a template, to a sturdy white card stock. The corner die cut is from Spellbinders Moroccan Accents, which I accented with a Want2Scrap pearl.

I stamped Penny Black's Tweet Tweet flowers with Versafine ink inside the bird then blended watercolor inks. I traced the bird with a fine black marker. By the way, I used cheap watercolors here. They were left overs from my kids' school art supplies last year. To create balance, I added white lace and button to highlight the sentiment, which is from Penny Black's Dahlia. I mounted the finished bird onto a card base using SA by 3L foam squares.

Here is my second card. I used the same bird template flipped over. I did the same thing as above with a few additions. I paper pieced (from Prima) a leaf from Penny Black's Foliage Fancy on the back of the bird and stamped the lace from PB Lace Delights on the branch. I decided to make this more typical mixed media and added backgrounds and other elements.

I put watercolor straight on the image leaf from Penny Black's Foliage Fancy and stamped on the corners. The text is Penny Black's Letter Background. The cancelled stamped image is from TCM's Holiday Poinsettia. I flicked my watercolor brush with ink to create the blue splatters. Being an amateur that I am with mixed media, I messed up my paper with too much water. Solution: hide it under a pretty paper flower! :).

I am not done yet with this Moxie Fab inspirational bird. I'll share more later, including a cut file that I made myself. Have a great weekend!

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The Craft's Meow's October 2013 Release Blog Hop

Welcome to The Craft's Meow's October Release Blog Hop. Thank you for joining us today. If you came from Mindy's blog, then you're at the right spot. To see the full list, make sure you visit the TCM blog. I have 3 cards to show you today.

The first one uses my new Holiday Poinsettia set. I colored the main image wtih Copic markers. The polka dot background is from a stash.

Here's a close up of the poinsettia. I added some Want2Scrap rhinestones on the center of the flower. This card appeals to those who like the elegant style.

My next card is CAS. I wanted to show how easy it is to make mass-producible card with this set. If you want to see how I used this set in a shabby vintage style, please see yesterday's post.

My next one uses Clare's Christmas Lantern set. I went all vintage shabby on this one. It's more than I usually do, but I had all these little scraps of paper laying around that seemed perfect to use on my card. The lantern was colored with water color pencils. I added some Want2Scrap blinged SAby3L photo corners on the frame (negative cut of the Spellbinder die cut I used on a previously posted card) to create balance. The papers are Pink Paislee.

The Craft's Meow is giving away all the new sets. One random commenter will win all six of the newly released stamp sets by leaving comments on the blogs on the hop. You have until 8:00 pm Pacific on Friday, October 23rd to enter. The winner will be announced the next day on the TCM blog.  And don't forget the FREE set with $60 purchase is the Inside Christmas set.

Your next stop is my friend -->> Sharri<<--.

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TCM Previews: Holiday Poinsettia and Inside Christmas

Welcome to day four of  The Craft's Meow's October previews. Today we're showing two sets. One is by yours truly called Holiday Poinsettia. It includes one big Poinsettia stamp with a frame and several sentiments that you can stamp inside the frame. 

I colored my flower with my long neglected Stampin' Up Watercolor pencils. I like that I don't have to stay within the lines as I do with Copic marker coloring. :) I'm having so much fun with this stamp. I'll show you an elegant Copic colored card, along with a CAS card, tomorrow for the release. I also created a mixed media inspired card that I'll post soon after.

My second card uses the new FREE set with $60 purchase by Karen Baker called Inside Christmas. These sentiments are great for inside, but also on the outside, as you see below. I added some Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Photo corners on the top to create balance.

I used two of my Spellbinder dies designs, Frosty Forms and Labels 28. I also used the Bird Sanctuary dies. I stamped my Poinsettia image inside the Label after it was sponged with Distress inks. Want2Scrap pearls were adhered in various places for added elegance.

Make sure you go to the TCM blog for more info on today's previews, including a chance to win today's sets! Enjoy your Sunday and see you tomorrow for the Release Hop!

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