Not a usual Christmas project

Hey everyone,

I thought I'd share some Christmassy inspiration, even if it's not a classical project. We are all facing a Christmas that might be less merry than usual and even the Santa on my Memorydex card is advising to stay home.

I die cut my memorydex card layers from different papers. The base is a simple black card stock, for the middle layer I chose a metallic green one and the top is from watercolor paper.

My background is made with some of the Distress inks that have been released this year: speckled egg and rustic wilderness. I put some color onto a piece of foil, sprayed that with water and added the color to my top layer. Between each layer (I did three of them) I dried my project.

Once the inking was done, I added some stamping to create light visual texture and interest. Therefore I chose the music sheet as a more classic Christmas element and the illustration of the corona virus for the contemporary aspect.

Next, I stamped my waving Santa and colored him with some ZIG markers. After cutting him I inked the edges to make the image blend better into the background later. As I'm not a very passionate Christmas crafter, I never searched actively for Christmas stmaps at VLVS. This one here I got from a pound of rubber and I thought it might be a good idea to give him a go. 

For the quote I used one of the pandemic ones from the last release. "Stay the fuck home" seemed to be the right one, and it also had the perfect size to cut it with the speechbubble die I had.

Now it was time to assemble everything. I glued my three layers of paper on top of wach other and attached Santa. For the speech bubble I decided to do something special and added an action wobble for a fun effect.

 

 

 

 

Stamps used:
Waving Santa (4820)
Stay The Fuck Home (20536)
Coronavirus (20547)
Sheet Music Background (19557)

Other material:
- black cardstock
- Tim Holtz metallic cardstock
- Canson watercolor paper
- Studio Light die for memorydex
- Xcut die (speechbubbles)
- Versaclair ink (nocturne)
- Distress ink (speckled egg, rustic wilderness)
- Archival ink (library green, potting soil)
- ZIG real brush pens
- action wobble (small)

See you soon with another project!

If this is reality...

Hello everyone,

I'm Natalie and new to the design team. Hope to inspire you with my upcoming posts. Here's my first project to share with you. I recently started creating Memorydex cards and got kind of addicted with that. So I made one where I used the Banksy Dali stamp as my focal image.

To start I die cut the layers for the card from different paper. My base is a black cardstock, the middle layer is a gelli printed background I found in my stash and for the top layer I chose watercolor paper. I also stamped the Dali stamp on watercolor cardstock and cut it out.

To create the top layer of my card I smudged some Oxide Inks to a non-stick craft mat, added water and swiped my paper through the ink. I dried it between each color. I also did some background stamping with 'mesh texture' and 'writing triangles' in the same Oxides colors that I used before. 

I found this fantastic quote stamp which says "if this is reality I'm not interested". It had the perfect words but not the right size for my project. So I masked parts of the stamp and stamped word by word to rearrange the shape.

As a final step I glued my card layers on top of each other and added the Dali image that I cut out earlier.

I used the following stamps:
Banksy Salvador Dali Street Artist (19941)
If This Is Reality (19884)
Mesh Texture (19569)
Writing Triangles (19571)

Other materials:
- Studio Light Die cut stencil 153 (for Memorydex)
- Paper: black cardboard, gelli printed kraft paper, Canson watercolor paper
- Distress Oxide Inks: Cracked pistachio, Abandoned coral, Broken China
- Versafine Ink Onyx Black

See you soon! :)