We are so thrilled to welcome our friend Amy Yang for her first guest post in The Classroom! Amy's amazing use of color always brightens our day and we know you are going to love what she has created today with Distress Oxides!
Make sure you head over to Amy's blog, Handcrafted Cards Made With Love, to see more of her amazing work! While you are visiting her, share some love by leaving a comment on her blog! And if you do it before April 18th, you will have a chance to win a $50 coupon to use in our store!
Thank you so much for sharing your talent with us, Amy! We hope you can come visit again very soon!
Hello crafty friends! I am so happy and excited to be in the Classroom today sharing two cards featuring the awesome April Leading Ladies stamp sets: Everyday Hero Lady and Hot Mess Lady. On both cards, I used Distress Oxides to create fun backgrounds that let the ladies shine.
For the first card, I stamped the leading lady from Everyday Hero on smooth white cardstock and colored her with Copic markers. These larger stamps are so fun to color! I used the coordinating die to cut her out.
List of Copic markers I used:
Skin: E000, E00, E21, E04
Hair: YR21, E35, E37, E57
Pants: B93, B95, B99
Top: YG05, YG07, YG09
Cape: R24, R37, R37, R59
Sneakers: N0, N03
Crown: YR13, YR19, R35, R59
I decided at this point to add one of the sentiments on her T-shirt. So fun, right?! I love wearing T-shirts and sweaters with sentiments, so when I realized I was able to to replicate that on the leading ladies, I was elated! I applied the T-shirt with antistatic powder and stamped the sentiment with Versamark Ink. I set the white embossing powders with a heat tool.
To create the sunray panel, I first inked trimmed Bristol cardstock with Squeezed Lemonade Distress Oxide using a blending tool. Then, I laid the sunray stencil on top, taped the sides, and inked it with Fossilized Amber.
For the second sentiment on the card, I inked a small area with Wild Honey Distress Oxide. After the ink dried, I applied antistatic powder, inked the sentiment with Versamark Ink and set the white embossing powder with a heat tool. Then, I used the burst die to cut out the sentiment from the Everyday Hero Lady Designer Dies.
To assemble the card, I adhered the sun-ray panel to a top folding A2 sized card base. On top of the panel, I mounted a strip of white cardstock to the bottom to ground the image with foam tape. To finish, I adhered the leading lady and the sentiment with foam tape as well for dimension.
For the second card, I stamped and colored the leading lady and the travel coffee mug from Hot Mess Lady set with Copic markers, and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I added the sentiment on the sweater the same way as I did on the first card.
List of Copic markers I used:
Skin: E000, YR000, E01, E11, E04, R20 (cheeks)
Hair: E11, E15, E17, E19
Skirt: B91, B95, B99
Sweater: V01, V12, V15
Coffee Travel Mug: T0, T02, T04, T07
To create the rainbow circle background, I made little circles on a Bristol cardstock with Distress Oxides using Worn Lipstick, Fossilized Amber, Cracked Pistachios, Spiced Marmalade, Mermaid Lagoon, Seedless Preserves) with finger daubers. I started in the middle and inked my way out. To add texture, I spritzed it with water and blotted it dry with a paper towel. Then, I die-cut the panel with a stitched rectangle die.
To assemble the card, I mounted the inked panel to a top folding A2 sized card base with foam tape. To finish, I mounted the images with foam tape as well.
I had so much fun making my cards with these totally loveable and relatable leading ladies. A big thank you to Ellen for having me as a guest and thank you for stopping by today. Have a wonderful day and happy cardmaking!!
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