What is Texture?

Posted in Addicted to CAS Challenge, Die Cut, May 2014, Textural Effects by Kreative Kymona

Happy Friday everyone!!! Today couldn’t get here fast enough. The week was dragging and cold. To keep my cool, I joined Addicted to CAS Challenge this week. Their code word is Texture. How interesting!! How often do you get a card with texture on it. Think about it.

So, the question is what is texture?

According to Webster, texture is the visual and especially tactile quality of a surface. For example a rough texture.

Well that is interesting, who wants a card with a rough texture. When you think of cards, you think pretty, smooth, subtle, funny, and bright. So how does texture play apart on a greeting card.

I will show you, take a look at the card I came up with.

Can you say texture? Yes, you can!! Guess what, it is rough!!! It’s a pretty rough card!!

You can see the thickness of this textured butterfly.

I saw Laura Bassen create a card like this and I wanted to give it a try.

1. I die cut 4 butterflies from Papertrey Ink’s Life is Beautiful die cut to create a butterfly stencil.

2. I attached the stencil to my white cardstock.

3. I mixed two distress inks colors with embossing paste.

4. I spread a thick coat of the color embossing paste over my heart stencil.

5. Once I was done applying the paste, I lifted the butterfly stencil and WALA!!

Have you notice that one of my butterfly antenna’s are missing. I think that is the beauty of this card and that is why I use the sentiment “Life”! Life isn’t perfect and sometimes neither are we.

I hope you like my card just as much as I like it.

BTH: My seven year old daughter made a card for this challenge as well, take a look here.

Supplies used:

Please leave me a comment below and let me know what you think.

~Kymona

26Mar2014

Clean & Simple Card Class – Day 10 Textural Effects Part 2

Posted in Birthday Card, Clean and Simple, March 2014, One Layer Card, Online Class Homework, Textural Effects by Kreative Kymona

So, I’m back again with another post on textural effects by Stephanie Klauck. This second technique combines sticky embossing powder, glitter, and masking with a very clever twist. I had fun trying out this technique.

Take a look:

To create the clean frame, I used washi tape to mask off the edges of the cardstock.
To create the shiny balloons, I used the heat and stick powder and a mask to add the different colors of glitter.

Let me know what you think of my embossed card.

Supplies used:

Classic Crest Solar White CS

Worn Lipstick
Distress Ink

Birthday Balloons

Coastal Cabana
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Strawberry Slush
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Blending tool

Heat and Stick Power
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I also used random glitter, washi tape and a black pen for the balloon strings.

25Mar2014

Clean & Simple 3 Card Class – Day 9 Textural Effects

Posted in Clean and Simple, March 2014, One Layer Card, Online Class Homework, Textural Effects, Thank you by Kreative Kymona

In today’s class we learned a couple of different techniques that had textural effects. The first one was Dry Embossing. I’ve seen this technique before but haven’t really played around with it until now. My card features a variation on selective dry embossing that leaves a portion of the design flat, while the remainder is embossed.

I was so excited about starting this technique, but quickly became discouraged because the embossing wasn’t coming out clean and crisped. I tried at least five times before giving up. Take a look at what I mean.

When you look at the above picture you can see where the embossed image fades out and it isn’t suppose to. The embossed image shouldn’t fade, it should only be in the area you actually want the embossed image. So, I turned to my fellow classmates and teachers for some suggestions on what I’m doing wrong. After trying again, I finally got it right. Take a look.

You can see exactly where I wanted the embossed dots and where I wanted a clean clear circle with no dots. That’s dry embossing. I’m so glad I was able to get this technique down pack.

What do you think?

Supplies used:

Classic Crest Solar White CS