Sentiment as the main image

It is May and Mother’s Day in the US is coming up so I chose to make a mother’s day card for the new challenge over at Creative card Crew. We are sponsored by Simon Says Stamp so this is your chance to win a gift card at a very well stocked online store :-)
The challenge this time is to use a sentiment as the main image. I found a saying about mothers after a quick online search. The sentiment was written using my new fountain pen (Pilot Namiki Falcon) with a flexible tip. I was able to make the words look similar to Copperplate calligraphy script, but it is not quite there. It is best to use proper nib and ink. The background text says Love and Mother (in English and Norwegian) and the words were written in clothesline lettering. This is a fun and quick way to write decoratively. It looks as if the letters have been hung on a clothesline.
I hope you like our new challenge and join us!

Birthday cake

 

This card was made by folding a paper lunch bag. All edges were distressed by using Tim Holtz’ edge distresser. The girl (Magnlolia) were colored using Copic markers. These markers were used to put som ecolor on the lettering as well. The heart on the last page was dry embossed and sanded/distressed (Core’dinations paper).

Challenges:
Creative Craft World – square card
Pink Gem – bow, brad
Creative inspiration – distress

Belated Valentine

 

This card was made by folding a paper lunch bag. All edges were distressed by using Tim Holtz’ edge distresser. The girl (Magnolia) were colored using Copic markers.

Challenges:
Creative Craft World – square card
Pink Gem – bow, brad
Creative inspiration – distress

Cobweb heart

Last weekend on our monthly meeting in the Houston Calligraphy Guild we learnt how to make this card. We were told that it is one of Martha Stewart’s design, but I have not yet searched online to find the source.

You print a specific pattern on the backside of the paper and cut along the printed lines with a sharp hobby knife. It takes some patience, but the result was fun!

Brush markers

 

I recently learnt that the Copic markers work very well for brush lettering as well as for coloring stamps. Both of these were made by layering three colors and adding small gold lines at the top of the letters.

Bungalow lettering

I am completely hooked on this lettering style. It is called bungalow. The stamp is from Sarah Key and was colored using Copic markers.

Halloween Tilda

This card was made for the Totally Tilda – Halloween challenge.

The card was made from a brown lunch bag. The Tim Holtz edge distressing tool was used on every layer of paper.

Supply list:

• Tilda – witch stamp from Magnolia
• Brown lunch bag
• Brown string
• Pumice brown distress ink – to make papers vintage colored on the edges
• Distress ink to color Tilda
• ATC card covered with scull stamp and lettering
• Metal flower
• Tiny staples
• Metal “bling”
• Edge distressing tool
• Paper: Haunted Spiders by My mind’s eye
• Paper: Hallowe’en Wonderland Collection – The Mad Hatter by graphic45

Autumn colors

This autumn card was a gift for my secret pal this summer. She sent me three lovely cards with envelopes this summer and her calligraphy and lettering was very inspiring.

This is what I used:

• Leaf patterned paper and orange dotted paper
• Leaf patterned ribbon
• Orange ribbon
• Digital stamp
• Distress Ink for coloring
• Paper leaf
• Clear glitter stickles
• White chipboard label
• Brown ink for edges of label
• Green Tim Holtz stickles for border around stamp

This card is part of these challenges:
Stamp with Sarah Kay #112 – autumn
Anything goes - week 20 - ribbons

A birthday card only with writing and water color!

My cards usually have layers of paper on them. This card was made the day I bought a book about lettering. This was fun.

White Christmas

It is that time of year again. This is my first Christmas card this season. It is part of these challenges:

Going round in circles – make it round
Jolly Holiday Greetings Challenge in the Moxie Fab World – holiday card
Sukkersott # 95 – white on white with a colored stamp or image
Carisma Cards #39 – Christmas card

I hope you like it!

Here is the supply list:

• White embossed paper with text about family
• Magnolia stamp colored using Distress Ink (it went crazy on her cheeks!)
• White ribbon
• Red ribbon
• Heart punch from Creative Memories
• White paper flowers
• White and “glittery” brads for the flowers
• Pearl Glimmer Mist for flowers and hearts
• Red brush marker and black pointed pen for lettering
• Crystal Stickles for edge around card
• Candy Cane Stickles for red letters
• White/pearl beads “bling”

Decorative edge

Father’s day is coming up in Norway and here is a card for my father. He usually does not visit my blog, so hopefully he won’t see it ahead of time. ;-)  I am publishing it already now in order to contribute to the Kazan's sketch 62 challenge. The challenge was to make a card with a decorative edge.

The decorative edge was cut using a Cricut cartridge on Core’dinations cardstock. A vertical border was dry embossed. Then the cardstock was sanded to show more of the blue core of the paper.

The sentiments was written with a brush marker and outlined in black. ‘Pappa’ means ‘daddy’ in Norwegian. The sentiment inside the card says ‘Have a great father’s day. Hugs, your daughter’. :-)

Valentine 2010 – Post 1

I love these papers. The Valentine collection at Archiver’s was great 2010!

On this card I used the clothesline lettering that I discussed in this post.

The dark grey cardstock is from Core’dinations. Small flowers were embossed on it. The embossed area and the edges were sanded.

 

The hearts were also embossed using the Sizzix texture boutique.

 

Hmmm… Seems like my blog contains free advertisements.

Clothesline lettering

All you need to create this kind of lettering is to draw two parallel lines (your clothesline) and draw playful letters. You can color the gaps between the letters. It is a good idea to draw it all with a pencil and finish it with a thin marker afterwards. Also, note that the clothesline is drawn between letters and not within letters.

The two examples below are from envelopes. (The street names and numbers have been removed for anonymity.)

Lettering styles

Two quick and easy lettering styles for cards and envelopes. My secret pal this summer at the Houston Calligraphy guild taught me these. You don’t need to be steady on your hand or accurate to produce good results. I find that the road to success consist of two parallel lines to ensure equal letter height. Apart from that: Scribble away!