Happy Birthday, Happy Camper

Posted: January 31, 2024 | Author: | Filed under: ...is coming, campers, Penny Black, trio of trees | Tags: | 3 Comments

Today’s card has already travelled to a girl who just turned 8! It’s not my usual style but it was definitely fun choosing the colours and cardstock to put this one together. The die sets are both from Penny Black and although they weren’t released at the same time, they are the same scale which made this cute little scene possible. One set is called ‘Campers‘ and the other ‘…is coming‘

The blue card base and the pink, yellow and orange cardstock was all from my stash so I couldn’t say what the colours are but the cool lined silver is from Tonic Studios. The trees are also a PB set called ‘Trio of trees‘ and I cut them from an alcohol ink gel print.

I tore a post-it note edge to mask some clouds as I blended broken china ink over the base. I’ve used the little truck/van a couple of times before; you can see those cards here and here. Today’s post features affiliate links to the following companies. If you buy through these links I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. The Foiled Fox & Scrap’n’Stamp.

Green Truck in the City

Posted: May 6, 2022 | Author: | Filed under: ...is coming, Dies, gel press, Metropolitan, Penny Black | Tags: , , | 4 Comments

This little green truck card was made on request, and probably not a focal point I would have come up with myself. The end result however made me very happy and all but the kraft buildings and road sign were cut from gel prints.

I could have cut all the components from coloured cardstock but I chose instead to use gel prints and mixed the green and blue paints on the gel plate in order to match the green of the truck requested. I love the added texture a gel print gives. The sky is very textured because it was printed on my damaged gel plate. I use it mainly as a palette where I mix colours or roll off excess paint. I pull prints off it now and again during a session and the patchy blue and white print made a perfect sky. I don’t have a truck die but I did some mods to a van die-cut and ‘ta-da’ I had a little green truck on its way to graduation!

Would this be a good time to mention there are a couple of spaces left in next Friday’s gel printing workshop?

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Flower truck…is coming

Posted: February 8, 2021 | Author: | Filed under: ...is coming, A2 layers, Additional A2 layers, buckets of flowers, hanging planters, Penny Black, pretty picket, silver linings, Waffle Flower | Tags: , | 3 Comments

Not my usual style, you know I don’t often take the cute route (pun intended) but this little truck really appealed to me. As I worked on this card and looked through my dies for flowers I realised I could also turn it into an icecream truck or a pumpkin truck and maybe a postal delivery truck.

My initial plan was to die cut everything from kraft cardstock except for the flowers but once I’d done the truck and flowers I decided to add more colour with a picket fence and some clouds on a bright blue background. I used a blending brush to add ‘brushed corduroy’ distress ink around all the pieces of the truck and ‘mermaid lagoon’ around the blue panel. I’ve listed all the dies below; as you can imagine the fiddliness factor on this card was high but I persevered and the satisfaction factor is also high.

I haven’t added a sentiment but feel that it could be good for many occasions so I will wait and see. I’d be happy to see a truck bursting with flowers in my driveway right about now when everything is covered in snow.

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