The Joy is in the Journey

Posted in AAA Cards Challenge, Blog Challenge, July 2014, One Layer Card, Papertrey Ink Make It Monday, Watercolor by Kreative Kymona

Hello everyone!! I’m here today with Papertrey Ink’s Make it Monday #171: Pop Up Die Cuts, AAA Cards Game #10 Watercolor techniques and Virginia’s View Challenge #5

I’m so excited about this weeks challenges because they combine my two favorite things. Water-coloring and my all time favorite die, Life is Beautiful Butterfly die.

Yayyyyy, I get to use Watercolors for this challenge!!

Besty Veldman showed everyone how to use our dies to create partial cuts!!

Die Cut, perfect!

Take a look at my card:

I created a card like this in the past, when I was taking my Online Card Class on Water-coloring. It was fun so I decided to do it again with different colors, die, and sentiment. You can see my original card here.

To create the watercolor dots, I used a new pencil eraser to transfer the ink from the pad to the paper.

Then I die cut the butterfly over the dots. I only placed the cutting plates over the wing section of the butterfly. That way the body of the butterfly will stay in tack.

I stamped the sentiment and added some heart enamel dots.

Can you say pretty!!! I can!!! Creating this card was very easy and everyone should try water-coloring and partial die cutting.

So what do you think? Please leave a comment letting me know if you like my card creation today.

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Thank you for stopping by and visiting me!

~Kymona

20Jun2014

Pop of Color!

Posted in Blog Challenge, CASology Challenge, Clean and Simple, June 2014, Watercolor Backgrounds by Kreative Kymona

Third Post for the day!

Hello everyone! I’m back again today for the third time. Can you tell I’m having fun!!! Yes, I was up late last night playing around with my stamp supplies in my little stampin corner. I created a couple of watercolor backgrounds and I knew I need to use one of them for my next card.

I’m here this evening with CASology. They are celebrating their 100th challenge and all of the friendships they’ve made throughout this time. I wanted to join in on this celebration so I created a card celebrating them!

So the cue word is CELEBRATE!! So fitting for this great accomplishment.

Here is my clean and simple card:

I love how the gold matches the watercolor background. I decided to use black ink for the sentiment because I wanted it to stand out from the background.

What do you think?

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I also used Stampin’ Up!’s Retired Primrose Petal re-inkier to create my watercolor background.

Thanks for stopping by!

~Kymona

20Jun2014

Forever Elegant…

Posted in Butterflies, CAS(E) this sketch!, Clean and Simple, June 2014 by Kreative Kymona

Hello everyone! It’s been 4 days since my last post. I’ve been so busy that I haven’t been able to sit and talk to all of you.

I’m here today with CAS(E) this Sketch #81. They have done pairing up with Fusion this week for an amazing joint challenge that is very pretty and elegant to me.

I decided that I wanted my card to be elegant and very clean and simple. I’m so glad to see a butterfly in this sketch because PTI Life is Beautiful die is my favorite die to work with. The butterfly is very elegant to me.

Take a look at my interpretation of the sketch:

So what do you think? I just love how my card came out. The gold is and white looks great to me.

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Thank you for stopping by!!

~Kymona

11Jun2014

Are You One Of A Kind?

Posted in Blog Challenge, May 2014, Papertrey Ink Make It Monday by Kreative Kymona

Hello everyone! I’m back again today with another Papertrey Ink Make It Monday #168: Baby Wipe Stamping!! I’m so excited about this Make It Monday. Ashley taught us how to use baby wipes to do our multicolor stamping. I had a blast with this technique today.

Take a look:

First I added Stampin’ Up!’s new in colors to my baby wipe. I randomly added the ink to the baby wipe.

I wanted to make sure my card looked a little different then Ashley’s, so I stamped my sentiment using the same baby wipe. I used this piece of card stock as my scrap to make sure my stamps were inking up properly. I love the colors on this butterfly and the sentiment. Can you see how each stamp has different colors. No two stamps are the same.

Closer look at my butterfly. The colors are awesome!

Closer look at my sentiment. These colors are delicious.

I absolutely love how my card turned out. This was such a great technique to try. The look reminds me of water-coloring, which everyone who knows me, knows I LOVE water-coloring.

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So tell me what you think. I would love to hear from you.

~Kymona

30May2014

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.

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

~Kymona

25May2014

Simply Beautiful….Papertrey May Blog Hop Challenge

Posted in 3-D, Blog Challenge, Color Combo, Die Cut, May 2014 by Kreative Kymona

Hello everyone, I’m back again for the second time. I’m here joining Papertrey Inks BIG monthly Blog Hop!!!

I’m so excited. I’ve never been on a blog hop before!

I must say it was exciting to create a card in a matter of minutes for the world to see. Ok, so it took me more than a minute, I started making this card an hour and a half ago. But the results are amazing, to me at least.

The challenge was to use two colors: Aqua and Melon!!!

That should be easy, right, wrong!!

I had a Aqua Mist ink pad but I didn’t have any melon color. No ink, paper, embellishments, nothing.

How was I going to participate if I didn’t have melon. I started to fret. I knew the colors for a little while but I procrastinated on buying the melon ink that I needed.

So what is a girl to do????

Ding, Ding, Ding…..the bells went off in my head. Water-coloring is my favorite so why not create the color yourself!!! OMG, I can create the melon color that I need. That is what I did!!

So this is what I came up with first. It looks so close but it was too light so I decided to go at it again.

Much better!! I love how it turned out. I feel like a true artist now, LOL!! I used my Winsor & Newton Water Colours! The colors that I mixed were Burnt Sienna, White and Alizarin Crimson, respectfully.

I took my time and mixed one color at a time, cleaning my brush in between. When it was to red I added Burnt Sienna and when it was to white I added a little red until I got the color you see above.

I was jumping up and down because I can participate in the hop!

So enough with the long talking, here is the card I came up with!

What do you think? Does my butterfly past the Aqua and Melon test? I love WATER-COLORING!!!!

For the butterfly, I attached the out butterfly to the body using foam adhesive so that the wings would stand out.

For the card base, I just sponged the edges with the Aqua Mist and then I used my mini ink blender tool and bought the softer color towards the center.

I stamped the sentiment and Wala!! My card is complete.

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