Top Dog Dies – Die Cut Card

Posted in August 2015, Thank you by Kreative Kymona

Hello everyone!!! I’m here with Top Dog Dies!! I’m here showcasing one of their new dies that was released 3 weeks ago!!

Lets jump right in!

Today I’m working with the Top Dog Dies Onesie Dress Die Set!! It’s a super doper cute die set and the possibility are endless!!

Take a look at my card that I created with this die:

This card is all about die cutting and no stamping. I just die cut all of the pieces then I needed.

I die cut the card base using Top Dog Dies Onesie and retired Stampin Up! Peach Parfait cardstock.

Then I cut the dress pieces from Top Dog Dies Onesie Dress Die Set and retired Stampin’ Up! Just Add Cake DSP and Micheal’s Heavyweight White Cardstock.

Then I used a Plus Glue Tape Runner to adhered all of the pieces to the card base. Super easy if you needed to create tons of these cards.

So what do you think? Can you see yourself creating cards like this? Let me know below.

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Thanks for stopping by!!

~Kymona

1May2015

So Suzy Stamps May Challenge!!

Posted in May 2015, So Suzy Stamps Challenge, Thank you by Kreative Kymona

Second post for today

If your looking for the CS Take It Make It post, click here

Hello everyone again!! I’m here with So Suzy Stamps and our May Challenge!!

Have you seen the new stamps that were released today!! Simply amazing!! Head on over to the store and see for yourself. I also included a link up above for you. All of the stamps are super cute and adorable. Perfect for our new challenge this month which is Thank You!!

Check out the card I created for this challenge:

This is just the beginning!! The rest of the Design Team created some amazing projects featuring some of the new stamps as well. Check out Suzy’s blog.

Creating this card was rather simple. It’s a matter of layering the cardstock and pattern paper.

The amazing thing about this particular stamping is the repetitiveness of the it. To achieve that I used my Misti tool!! I have to say, this tool really comes in handy for me when doing stamping like this.

Take a look:

I used So Suzy Stamps Dress Form to create this repeated stamping.

I used So Suzy Stamp Thank You to stamp my sentiment using Hero Arts Ombre Butter to Orange Ink.

I attached my layers with adhesive. I added Pretty Pink Posh 4mm Sparkling Clear Sequin and 6mm of Sparkling Clear Sequins to my card front.

I rounded the corners of my card panels with my We R Memory Keepers Corner Chomper.

Nice and easy!!! Now its your turn and I can’t wait to see what you come up with!!!

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Thank you for stopping by!

~Kymona

14Aug2014

Striped Thanks

Posted in August 2014, Papertrey Ink Make It Monday, Thank you by Kreative Kymona

Hello everyone! I’m here with Papertrey Ink Make It Monday #176: Backgrounds with Embossing Paste. It’s been a while since I’ve played along with them. So, I’m glad I had a chance to play today.

Laura Bassen showed us how to use our dies to create stencils so that we could make pretty backgrounds using embossing paste.

I’ve done this before so it was nice to do this technique again.

Here is my card:

Here is how I create my card:

1. I used Papertrey Ink’s Stripes Horizontal Cover Plate to create my stencil. I just ran the cover plate through my big shot twice for some thickness.

2. One at a time I mixed my distress reinkers with Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste. I mixed the paste and Mustard Seed Distress Ink and spread my paste on the top of my stencil thick. Then I mixed Peacock Feathers Distress Ink and spread it in the middle of the stencil, thick. The last I mixed Picked Raspberry and spread it on the bottom of my stencil, thick.

3. I lightly spread the paste upwards from the bottom to mix the colors going up. Once I removed all of the excess paste, I removed my stencil to reveal the colorful stripes.

4. I set my card panel to the side and die cut my middle Papertrey Ink Circle Scribbles Die out of Stampin’ Up! Vellum.

5. Then I die cut Lawn Fawn Scripty Thanks out of Basic Black Cardstock.

6. I adhered the vellum scribble to my striped card panel with Glossy Accents. I added my scripty thanks to the vellum scribble with Tombow Multipurpose Glue.

7. I rounded my corners with my We R Memory Keepers Corner Chomper (which by the way broke today, I’m so sad, I have to buy another one.).

8. The “thanks” looked to plain so I added Glossy Accents for a little shine.

That’s how I created this card!! Oh by the way, my card size is 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 scored at 5-1/2. My card panel measures 4 x 5-1/4.

So what do you think? Let me know.

Supplies used:

Thank you for stopping by!

~Kymona

13Jul2014

Are You A Square?

Posted in Thank you by Kreative Kymona

Hello everyone!!! I have such great news to share.

I received AAA Cards CAS Honors today for my Love you watercolor card. Just in case you missed it here it is.

I am so grateful to the lovely women who voted for me. This really made my day!! Such a nice way to start the week.

I’m back again with AAA Cards Game #11 Enjoy challenge and Virginia’s View Challenge #5 Die Cut this week.

AAA Card Games #11 is looking for a “window box pattern”, 4 up squares, 4 up matching embellishments, 4 up holes you name it.

Virginia’s View Challenge #5 Die Cut are looking for cards that contain die cuts.

I decided to have one large square with 4 up squares with 4 smaller squares attached at the center. Confused, don’t be.

Take a look at my card:

Doesn’t the smaller squares look like leaves? Take a closer look.

I die cut 8 squares (4 big ones and 4 one size smaller) with Stampin’ up!’s Square Collection Framelits Die and my Big Shot out of Lawn Fawn’s Into the Woods pattern paper.

I used my We R Memory Keepers Cropadile Corner Chomper to round the corners of two corners on each square.

I used my Stampin’ Up! 1″ circle punch and my 3/4″ circle punch to create the circle in one of the squares, the circle behind the button and the white circle behind the orange square.

I used Simon Says Stamp Giving Thanks Stamp set for the sentiment and the heart with Stampin’ Up! chocolate chip ink pad.

I added a retired Stampin’ Up! button and linen thread in the center.

What do you think?

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Thank you for stopping by!

~Kymona

6Jun2014

Can You Have To Much Watercolor?

Posted in Blog Challenge, Die Cut, Freshly Make Sketches, June 2014, Thank you, Watercolor, Watercolor Backgrounds by Kreative Kymona

Hello everyone, I’m here today with a watercolor card {my favorite} for Freshly Made Sketches #139.

Today’s sketch was created by Rita.

When I say this sketch I knew I wanted to create a watercolor background. I couldn’t help myself. Watercolor makes everything look pretty. I wanted a pretty card with a pretty tag that you could take off of the card and use on a gift.

Take a look at my take on Rita’s sketch:

To create the watercolor background:

For this card I applied 3 different distress ink’s to my craft sheet in a random order very close to one another.

I spritz water on the colors to activate the color to mix them a bit.

I took my watercolor paper and gently placed it on top of the ink to create my watercolor background.

I let the paper dry completely before I added it to my card base.

If you take a closer look at my watercolor paper you will see I scored it for added texture.

For the flagged banners, I used vellum and window sheet to create them. I didn’t want to complete cover the background because it was so pretty so, I used them to create a see through look.

For my tag, again I wanted the viewer to somewhat see through it, as to not take away from the background.

I created an inlay die cut with the word thanks. Added a few black enamel dots for contrast and the rhinestone for some bling.

I adhere the watercolor piece to black cardstock and then to the white card base.

I had fun creating this card. I created another card using the same technique.

Like I said many times over, Water-coloring is my favorite.

Let me know what you think!!

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Thanks for stopping by!

~Kymona

11May2014

You Can Never Have To Much Watercolor on Mother’s Day

Posted in Blog Challenge, One Layer Card, Online Class Homework, Thank you, Watercolor by Kreative Kymona

photo credit

Happy Mother’s Day to All of YOU Mothers!!!

I hope all of you are relaxing like myself. Wait, I’m not relaxing. I’m making breakfast and doing laundry! A Mother’s job is never done.

What I want to do is play with my watercolors some more. I have some time right now between the spin cycle to create a card for the Less is More: One Layer theme challenge this week. Day 2 of my Watercolor for Card Markers Class, Jennifer McGuire, taught us how to use Liquid Frisket to mask of an area of the card so that the watercolor will not penetrate the image.

This technique is soooo cool!!! I will create a PDF for this technique later and share it with all of you.

You use this cream color liquid and paint over the image you want to stay color-free. Once it dries, you do your water-coloring without worrying about messing up the image. You MUST let the watercolor dry before you can lift the liquid mask off of the paper. I simple used my finger and rubbed the mask and WALA! Your image is embedded in your watercolor!

Here is my card!! The colors are beautiful, perfect for a flower.

So you see on the bottom right side of the flower some of the color seeped onto my flower. That is because I didn’t put any of the mask on that area. I missed it, I guess. I actually like it like that because water-coloring isn’t suppose to be perfect and this flower definitely isn’t perfect so it’s a perfect match!

This card can be given to any women in your life that isn’t your mother who really cared about you in one way or another!! I have a couple of mothers in my life that I want to thank for steering me in the right direction.

I hope you like my new creation. My younger brother told me today that my “cards are getting better and better”, thanks Garrett!

Let me know what you think.

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30Apr2014

Watercolor Embossed Thank You

Posted in April 2014, One Layer Card, Online Class Homework, Thank you, Watercolor by Kreative Kymona

Second Post for the Day

I’m back again today with a card that I made with my new Koi Watercolors. In my last post, I introduced that set of watercolors and the colors that I used to create this card.

I stamped the “Thank You” with VersaMark and embossed it with clear embossing powder. By doing that, I created a watercolor resistant area. Which means the watercolor will roll off the embossed area. It is so cool to see. It took me awhile to create this effect but I finally got it.

Take a look:

I just love it. I love how the thank you has small splotches of watercolor on it. I could have wiped the color off the sentiment but I really loved how it looks. I used the colors that I said I loved in my last post. Numbers 15, 19, and 23. They combine so pretty.

I decided that I wanted to add a border around the card mask before adhering it to the card base. I used Papertrey Ink’s Stitching Lines Die. I love them. The die made it easier to add dimension to my card.

Please let me know what you think? I would love to hear from you.

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-Kymona

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