CASology 161: Plaid

Posted in August 2015, CASology Challenge by Kreative Kymona

Hello everyone!! It’s CASology Tuesday!! We are back with another Cue Card for you!!!

This week’s cue card is:

Take a look at my card:

Now that plaid section on my card came from this panel I create weeks ago in the Background Check Online Card Class.

I never go to use the piece so I thought it was fitting now.

So I used Simon Says Stamp Stitched Circle die to cut a circle piece and adhered it to my card panel.

Then I die cut the Simon Says Stamp Thanks twice and adhered it to the center of die cut circle.

Super doper easy!!

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

For more inspiration, check out my fellow Design Team members blog for more awesome work.

Kymona Tracey ←Me

Our Guest Designer this week:

Karen

No Sponsor this week.

Supplies used:

Thanks for stopping by.

~Kymona

22May2015

Top Dog Dies Release and Sale

Posted in May 2015, Top Dog Dies New Release by Kreative Kymona

Hello everyone!! I’m here with Top Dog Dies and their new phenomenal release.

They release 7 new dies on yesterday and I want to share all of them with you today!!

Pocket Pages Banner Die

Pocket Pages Summer Die

Pennant Banner Die

Pretty Petals 2 Die

Pretty Petals 3

Leaves Die

Wedding Die Set

Aren’t these dies fantastic!! This release is such a great release!

Here are some of my cards that I create for this release.

For this card, I used the Top Dog Dies Pretty Petals 2 Die and die cut the card panel and a watercolor panel.

I adhered the watercolor flower to the card base. Then I used foam adhesive to attach the card panel.

I used Papertery Ink Enclosed: Apple Mini Stamp Set to stamp my sentiment in My Favorite Think Hybrid Black Ink.

I added a retired Stampin Up large rhinestone in the center.

For this card, I used the Top Dog Dies Pocket Pages Banner Die Set and Top Dog Dies Hello Die Set to create this card.

I die cut all of the pieces out of Snap Studio Just the Basics pattern paper and adhered them to my pocket page card.

To create this card, I just die cut my white cardstock using the two biggest die to create my card front and used only the biggest die for the back panel.

I attached the teal pattern paper behind the front card panel.

I scored a line to the top of the back card panel and added tape to attach the front and the back panel. Since I added a score line the card can open.

I used Simon Says Stamps Lila’s Heart Stamp Set to stamp my sentiment.

Super cute. Cute for a pocket page scrapbook too.

Now this wedding card is the center of my giveaway which ends May 24th, 2015 at 11:59pm.

I created this card using Top Dog Dies Wedding Die Set and Top Dog Dies Pocket Pages Summer Die Set.

I’m giving away the Wedding Die to one lucky person who leaves me a comment on that blog post.

I die cut all of the pieces and adhered them to my card front using tape.

I used Simon Say Stamp Congratulations Stamp Set and stamped my sentiment.

I attached retired Stampin up clips to the top of the frame.

So what do you think? I hope you enjoy what you see.

Guess what?

On top of my giveaway, Top Dog Dies is having a sale!!

You don’t want to miss this. Here is your chance to get your hands on all of those dies!!

Supplies used:

Card 1:

Card 2:

Card 3:

Thank you for stopping by!

~Kymona

22Mar2015

Online Card Class Homework – Day 2

Posted in March 2015, Online Class Homework by Kreative Kymona

Hello everyone!! I’m here today with another card I created for my Stretch Your Dies homework!!

Kristina Werner taught us how to die cut within larger dies. I thought this was totally awesome.

Take a look at my card:

For this technique:

1. I die cut our leaves out of watercolor paper.

2. Then I arranged the leaves the way I wanted them to appear on my card.

3. I covered the arrangement with masking paper so that the leaves stay in place.

4. I ran the masked leaves through my big shot to cut out a circle.

5. Before moving the mask, I added foam tape to the back of each leaf.

6. I placed my masked piece down and then took my time and lifted the mask.

7. I die cut my thank you, added Wink of Stella to all of my piece and my card was done.

Super easy and fun.

Supplies used:

Thanks for stopping by!

~Kymona

13Feb2015

Papertrey Ink 8th Year Celebration: Blue Skies

Posted in February 2015, Papertery Ink Celebration by Kreative Kymona

Second Post for the day

Looking for CS Take It Make It Post, click here

Hello everyone! I’m here again today with Papertrey Ink’s 8th Year Celebration! They introduced their new Blue Skies line.

For this challenge they wanted us to create a blue ombre card using all of our favorite shades of blue. It could be an ombre background, several of the same image stamped in shades of blue, ombre inking of a bold stamp or whatever else we could dream up!

For my one layer card I decided to go with an ombre background, take a look:

I love how this card turned out. So what do you think? Let me know.

Supplies used:

Thank you so much for stopping by!

~Kymona

31Aug2014

Thanks…

Posted in August 2014, Blog Challenge, CASology Challenge by Kreative Kymona

Hello everyone!! I’m here today with CAS(E) this sketch #90! Today’s sketch was created by Chrissy Larson.

I’m also here with Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes Challenge.

I’ve noticed recently that I’ve ordered stamp sets and do not use them. So, I decided that I will start creating cards with stamps sets that I’ve never used.

So, today’s card was created with Papertrey Ink’s Fancy That stamp set. I also wanted to use some cardstock that I haven’t used in a while. So I decided on Stampin’ Up! new in color Blackberry Bliss and Lost Lagoon cardstock.

These two colors together really look so nice together.

Take a look at my card:

Take a look at my rhinestones. I colored them with the same colors that’s in the medallion.

The colors in the medallion are Blackberry Bliss, Lost Lagoon and Hello Honey all from Stampin’ Up’s new in colors markers.

I die cut the Simon Says Stamp Thanks die from Lost Lagoon card stock 4 times for dimension.

I cut white cardstock using Avery Elle’s Custom Panels Die to get that odd shape.

What do you think?

Supplies used:

Thanks 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

9Aug2014

First for me…….

Posted in AAA Cards Challenge, August 2014, Blog Challenge, Muse Challenge, Watercolor Backgrounds by Kreative Kymona

Hello everyone!! I’m here today playing along with AAA Cards Challenge and the Muse Challenge #79.

I wanted to take this time to say Thank you so much to the ladies over at the Muse Challenge for choosing my card for Honorable Mention. I really appreciate it. If you missed the card you can find it here.

Now on to this week’s challenges. I had a lot of fun creating my project for these challenges.

Both of these challenges used Water-coloring, which happens to be my favorite. I decided to do something a little different then what your use to seeing.

I created a TAG!!! Yes, a tag and its not on a card. This was a bit of a challenge because my working area was smaller then a normal card size. I wasn’t sure if I needed to fill all of the space or should I leave some empty areas. It took me one hour to decided just on that. LOL!!!

Take a look at my TAG:

To create this tag:

I used a piece of watercolor paper and my Koi watercolors to create my background.

I cut my tag using Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Duo 1 Dies.

I cut my thank sentiment using Simon Says Stamps Thanks Die out of Bazzill Marshmallow cardstock 4 times from some dimension.

I used my Stampin’ Up! Bitty Butterfly Punch and Elegant Butterfly punch to punch out four butterflies, 2 from my scrap watercolor piece and 2 from Bazzill Marshmallow cardstock.

I added My Mind’s Eye White Enamel Dots to the center of the butterfly for detail and more contrast.

I punched a hole in the top of my tag using Stampin’ Up! 1/8″ Circle Handheld Punch.

I added 2 pieces of retired Stampin’ Up! ribbon and tied it with Stampin’ Up! Whisper White Bakers Twine.

Thats all! Very easy and fun to do!! I hope you give it a try. I will be making more tags from now on.

Here’s a close up:

Supplies used:

Thanks for stopping by!

~Kymona

11Jul2014

Giving Thanks

Posted in Blog Challenge, Clean and Simple, July 2014, Less Is More by Kreative Kymona

Hello everyone! I’m here today with the Less is More Week 179 Challenge. I haven’t played with them in awhile so I decided to join them with their Earth Tone Color Challenge.

So, you guessed it, it’s the tenth hour and I have to hurry to submit my card. So, no long talking today.

Take a look at my card:

I just received my new order from Simon Says Stamp Kelly Purkey’s sale. I ordered the feathers die and thought it would work well with this challenge.

I die cut the four feathers from Lawn Fawn’s Into the Woods pattern paper.

Then I attached them to each other using a Stampin’ Up! glue dots.

Then I added Stampin’ Up! linen thread to a retired Stampin’ Up! naturals button, tied a bow and adhered it to the top of my feathers.

I stamped my sentiment giving thanks from Simon Says Stamp Giving Thanks Stamp Set with Colorbox Chestnut Roan chalk inkpad.

Nice, clean and simple card with a lot of white space.

What do you think?

Supplies used:

Thanks for stopping by!

~Kymona

16May2014

The Art of Window Dressing

Posted in Blog Challenge, May 2014, One Layer Card, Online Class Homework, Watercolor by Kreative Kymona

When was the last time you window shopped? Isn’t it amazing how the items in the window really stand out! You can’t help but to steer that much longer. The outfit or the furniture that you see, draws you in for the buy!

photo credit

This display at Macy’s Broadway Store in NYC gives the feeling of power. The women stand out from their background which screams, “You will see me amongst the cluster background.

Well today’s card should give you the same feeling!! I’m participating in Papertrey Ink’s Make It Monday#164: Cluster Stamped Sentiment challenge.

I used the “thanks” from Papertrey Ink’s Wet Paint stamp set. I stamped it with Versamark ink and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.

Watercolor is my new favorite medium so I created my clusters using distress inks, water and a sponge dauber. It was cool. This technique is called stamp emboss resist. The ink will not attach itself to the embossed area. I learned that in my Watercolor Card Makers online class that’s still going strong.

The more ink spots I added to the thank you area, the easier it was for the thank you to stand out from its background. It reminds me of window dressing! You will see me amongst the clustered background!!!

I am pleased with how my card came out. I hope you like it too.

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