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Retarte 116 – Anything Goes

Posted by on February 27, 2018 in 3D, Cards, Coloring, Die Cutting, Imagine, Recent Works, Retarte Challenge | 1 comment

Retarte 116 – Anything Goes

Bienvenidas a nuestra cita de los Martes con el Equipo de Diseño de Retarte! Hoy tenemos un challenge especial y diferente porque tenemos un sponsor que gentilmente nos ha dado sus images, imagenes que ustedes pueden conseguir gratis en su portal para su uso personal. Se trata de Jade Draggone y creanme que ustedes adoraran todo lo que tiene para compartir pero recuerden que debemos siempre respetar los derechos de autor y compartir y usar las imagenes tal y como los creadores nos lo requieren.  El equipo de Retarte esta muy agradecido por su...

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Ombre Look with VersaFine Clair

Posted by on February 23, 2018 in Cards, Die Cutting, DieVersions, Imagine, Joy Clair Designs, Recent Works, Techniques, Tutorials | 0 comments

Ombre Look with VersaFine Clair

Blending and mixing colors with VersaFine Clair is very simple. You can create an ombre effect too. If you combine the family colors, just like a mix and match, you can obtain the perfect look and love what you have.  Take a look at my card: Directions: Start stamping the distress image over crumb cake card stock. I began with the VersaFine Glamous color and continue with Purple Delight and Clair Charming Pink.  My best tool during this process was the MISTI because I just have to move the cardstock a little every time I re-stamp the image....

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Chain Breaker and Scriptures of Love my Bible Journaling Pages

Posted by on February 21, 2018 in Cards, Imagine, Journaling, Joy Clair Designs, Recent Works, Tutorials | 0 comments

Chain Breaker and Scriptures of Love my Bible Journaling Pages

Welcome crafty friends, today I want to share another Bible Journaling Pages that I made using of the new stamp sets from the Color by Faith Collection of Joy Clair Stamps. For the first I used the stamp set called Chain Breaker and I used a watercolor technique to create the layout of the page. Take a look of this: Color the left side column of my bible using a selection of tones yellow and blue. I used the watercolor paints of Kuretake Gansai and I applied the paint with a paint brush or aqua painter. Stamp the chain images on both parts of...

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Designing with Rinea Paper Foil

Posted by on February 20, 2018 in 3D, Cards, Die Cutting, Recent Works, Rinea, Techniques, Tutorials | 0 comments

Designing with Rinea Paper Foil

Hello everyone, Martha Lucia here to share another model of flower created with the  3D Rolled Star Wafer Thin Dies  and Rinea Foiled Paper Foil.  Designing with Rinea Foiled Paper is a real pleasure because you can mold with the paper and give different forms to your designs. This month we are using these 3D Rolled Star die cuts to show you how to make more that one star and I decided to make flowers. Take a look to this decorated gift bag that I made: I made the bag using a Cricut design and textured card stock in pretty pink. After...

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You are one in Minion

Posted by on February 19, 2018 in Cards, Coloring, Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps, Die Cutting, Gina Marie Designs, Recent Works, Tutorials | 0 comments

You are one in Minion

Hello everyone, do you like the Minions? I love these boys and today I have a fun card to share with you using their images.  These images are part of the most recently release of So Suzy Stamps and you will love the entire collection of Minions. Let me show you my card and how easy was to put this together: Using my MISTI tool I first stamped the images of Minion with Memento Tuxedo Black ink over Whisper White card stock. I used from the left to right Kevin, Carl being Happy and Bob. Then I colored the images with Premium Colored Pencils...

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Beautiful Blooms- Hydrangea in watercolor

Posted by on February 15, 2018 in Cards, Coloring, Die Cutting, Kennedy Grace, Recent Works, Techniques | 0 comments

Beautiful Blooms- Hydrangea in watercolor

Hello dear friends! Martha Lucia here to share with you my creation using the mood board of Kennedy Grace Creations as inspiration! I decided to use the Beautiful Blooms – Hydrangea stamp set with watercolors, one of my favorites mediums. Take a look at my card: This month the inspiration book suggested us some colors and I selected the pink and yellow and the tones in between. I stamped the beautiful hydrangea several times over a piece of watercolor paper using Versafine Onix and colored the flowers with Kuretake Gansai and aqua...

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Mardi Gras Event with Joy Clair

Posted by on February 13, 2018 in Cards, Joy Clair Designs, Recent Works, Techniques | 0 comments

Mardi Gras Event with Joy Clair

Hi crafty friends, today over at Joy Clair Stamps , we are having a stamp celebration with Mardi Gras theme. All the designers are posting their cards using Mardi Gras colors to inspire you for Carnaval Season. This is my card: I created this over a perfect plum card stock using a fantastic sheet of foil mate background from Therm-o-web. It give me the possibility of create the gold flower design using sparkling gold a new color available very soon. After create the foiled design, I pasted it over the perfect plum card stock and then pasted...

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Retarte 115 – Anything Goes

Posted by on February 13, 2018 in Cards, Coloring, Die Cutting, Recent Works, Retarte Challenge, Techniques | 1 comment

Retarte 115 – Anything Goes

Bienvenidas a nuestra cita quincenal con Retarte! Empezamos el mes del amor con un sponsor fabuloso que nos viene acompanando desde hace ya tiempo y con quien nos gusta trabajar mucho porque sus imagenes son realmente especiales. Se trata de Picklet Potpourri Designs y hoy como siempre le estamos muy agradecidas! Pickled Potpourri Desings entregará a la ganadora de esta edición de Retarte 115 a gift card por $7.00 para usar en su tienda. Las participantes solo tienen que crear un proyecto, es decir hacer uno totalmente nuevo y enlazarlo aqui...

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I mean Coffee

Posted by on February 9, 2018 in Cards, Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps, Imagine, Recent Works, Techniques, Tutorials | 2 comments

I mean Coffee

Hello everyone, I was counting the days to share with you my creations with the new images from So Suzy Stamps. I am crazy with the new release and I think it has images for all type of designers and all styles of creativity. Today I have a card that I made specialty for coffee lovers and and inky lovers like me.  Take a look at my clear and simple card: To create this card I used the technique called Basic Pulled of color, that you can easily made with the ink pad. The ink pad that I used is one of my favorites types for this technique...

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Washed by the Blood Bible Journaling

Posted by on February 8, 2018 in Cards, Journaling, Joy Clair Designs, Recent Works, Techniques, Tutorials | 0 comments

Washed by the Blood Bible Journaling

Welcome crafty friends, today I want to share a new Bible Journaling Page that I made using of the new stamp sets from the Color by Faith Collection of Joy Clair Stamps. It is called Washed by the Blood and the best part is that you can use this set not only for journaling, you can use it also to create cards or another type of projects. I made this Bible Journaling page using a paint bubble technique. With this technique you can obtain a soft touch of color over your pages or a dramatic texture depending of the color that you use or the...

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