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Zenspired Holidays Inspiration | Just Believe Card with Alexandra Suta
Hi everyone! Alexandra here today from Made by Alexandra sharing with you my final card as a guest designer using the gorgeous Zenspired Holidays collection by Joanne Fink. For my card today I started by stamping this amazing tree from Christmas Joy stamp set using Versa Mark ink and white emboosing powder. I really enjoy watercoloring lately so i took my Winsor &Newton watercolours and coloured the stamped image. I started by adding water to the image until the paper was saturated. Here I used Canson Mix Media paper (but you can use any watercolor paper). After adding water I started adding color to the tree and as I shared…
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Zenspired Holidays Inspiration | Merry Christmas Card with Mona Toth
Hello everyone, it’s Mona Toth here, and today I am sharing with you my last post featuring Zenspired Holidays collection by Joanne Fink. I hope you enjoyed my previous posts, if you missed them you can find them hereand here. I started working on my project by stamping. I stamped many candy images from Christmas Candy Canes stamp set with red dye ink. I used the same ink as a watercolor and colored or painted stripes on them. While they dried I made the card base. I used the Spun Sugar and Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide inks and blended them together. Then I sprayed and splattered on it with white ink…
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Video: Creating a Spot Light for Holiday Card with Kelly Latevola
Hello Crafters! Normally, I’m all about the Copic coloring but today’s technique actually focuses on the background. With the holidays just around the corner I think you’re going to find this one pretty fun and useful! When I first saw the Joyful Season Angel from the Zenspired Holidays collection I though she looked like she was descending. That’s what gave me the idea to give her a bit of light to carry her. I started ink blending one layer of various blues. Since I wanted a night sky look I used medium to darker blues and a black. Once I had the first layer down I added a few splatters of…
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Zenspired Holidays Inspiration | Season’s Greeting with Mona Toth
Hello everyone, it’s Mona Toth here, and I am excited to share with you my second post featuring Zenspired Holidays collection by Joanne Fink. Winter is my favorite holiday season and I love the Christmas themed cards very much. I hope you enjoyed my previous post, if you missed it you can find it here. I started working on my project by scoring. I Scored my card diagonally then I Stamped the Season’s Greeting sentiment from the Christmas Sentiment stamp set with Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide Ink and I made colored pencil detailing on it. Next I made the bow from the Christmas Candy Canes stamp set with the same technique,…
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Zenspired Holidays Inspiration | Beautiful Ornaments with Alexandra Suta
Hi everyone! My name is Alexandra and i blog at Made by Alexandra. Today i am going to share another card featuring the fabulous Zenspired Holidays collection by Joanne Fink. I started by cutting a cardstock panel and then ink blend it using Antique Linen, Cracked Pistachio and Peacock feathers distress inks. When I ink blend I always make sure to tap off the excess ink from my ink blending foam, and using a very light hand to add the ink to my panel. Once the ink blending was done I added some drops of water and let the panel dry. Till the background dries I went ahead and stamped…
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Zenspired Holidays Inspiration | Magic of the Holidays with Mona Toth
Hello everyone, it’s Mona Toth here, and I am excited to share with you my first post featuring Zenspired Holidays collection by Joanne Fink. Winter is my favorite holiday season and I love the Christmas themed cards very much. I started working on my project with coloring. I used the Wilted Violet, Mermaid Lagoon and Cracked Pistachio Distress Mini inks as watercolor on Distress Specialty Stamping Paper and while it was wet I salted it. That gave me a cool spotted effect. When it was done I stamped the text from the Christmas Sentiments stamp set with Watermark Ink and heat embossed with Gold Embossing Powder. Next, I stamped the…
