HS Handmakes: April 2017

We mermaid for each other - My Favorite Things

by Hanaa - Monday, April 17, 2017

Hello,

I have a bunch of stencils in my daughter's old clear zip bag ( it was used for her nappies, she's now 3 so she doesn't need it right?) and whenever I'm feeling stuck, I rummage through it and see what inspires me.

The cascading scalloped one from My Favorite Things caught my eye and immediately, I thought, MERMAIDS!

I grabbed - literally - a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" Neenah Solar white card panel and taped down the stencil over it. Looked for various minty/turquoise, green inks and started blending, light all over and then adding the shading. With the darkest shade, I swept it along the stencil, diagonally, as to deepen the shadows on the "scales", mainly focusing the shadows on the bottom left side of each scallop.

I found this vellum that has these little scalloped pattern in my vellum folder and it was a no brainer to use this.

Using the Well-Connected alphabet stamps from MFT, I white-embossed the word mermaid and to complete the sentiment, I used Milo's ABC's from Lawn Fawn.

After cutting the vellum into a thick strip, I adhered it to my card panel by wrapping and gluing the two ends behind it.

For a cute touch, I added a gold heart at the end of the letter D to make it like a mermaids tail.

As you can see- I didn't plan the spacing too well and ended up squeeezing FOR EACH OTHER. 😞...

Never the less, I completed the card with sequins from Little Things by Lucy Abrams and coloured every other row of the scales with Spectrum Noir sparkle pen (except behind the vellum).

I do hope you liked this card and thank you for swimming by !

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Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 2 : Interactive!

by Hanaa - Wednesday, April 05, 2017

Hi!

Lawn Fawnatics second challenge is already here and it's interactive! I got a tag to share with you:

I diecut 4 tags from the Tag, You're It Lawn Cuts;

- 3 from white card

- 1 from acetate

The 1st white card was used as backing. I ink blended and misted with water the 2nd tag; also cut a rectangle from this tag to create a window.

With the positive (the inner rectangle) I stamped some waves from Float my Boat and bubbles from Octupi My Heart; this piece I adhered to the 1st blank tag.

The 3rd white tag I also cut out a frame as I wanted to make sturdy the tag that was going to be on the top (I hope this makes sense ! )

After gluing the acetate to the tag with the window (2nd tag), I stamped the sentiment with Staz-On ink and put a frame of double stacked foam tape around the rectangle panel (1st tag). Filled the inside with clear beads and sequins and...

Here's where I improvised; I didn't have any sea animals except for an octupus but it was too large. So I saw the star from Shooting Star dies and used the smaller one to create a starfish. Lawn Fawn has plenty of faces in their stamps so I grabbed one and turned a plain star into a smiling star fish.

Coloured it with Spectrum Noirs and added details using a white gelly roll pen. It came out super cute!

...put the top piece on and it's done. Finished it off with an anchor tied on to grey trimmings.

The anchor is stamped in Hippo ink and heat embossed with grey metallic embossing powder. The ink partially dried so only some parts embossed but it came out nice and rusty. I die cut 2 anchors to stack on top of one another to make it stronger.

weathered look on the anchor

I left it to move around to make it even more interactive.

A video of the tag in action (plus a surprise) :

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I really hope you like this as much as I do :)

Head over to the Lawn Fawnatics blog to join the challenge!

Supplies used:

Lawn Fawn: - Float my boat stamps and coordinating die

- Tag, You're It die

- Octupi My Heart (bubbles and smiley face)

- Shooting Star die (star)

- Yeti pigment ink (bubbles)

- Hippo dye ink (anchor)

- Fish tank (waves)

- Grey twine

Distress inks: Salty ocean and mermaid lagoon

Little Things by Lucy Abrams sequins: pearl necklace and ocean

Neenah solar white 116gsm

Acetate

Black Staz on

Clear beads

Metallic grey embossing powder

Spectrum Noir: GB8, CT2, CT3, CT4 (starfish)

White gelly roll pen

Misti tool

EK Success powder tool

Anchors aweigh!

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Welcome Ramadhan - Ramadhan Series

by Hanaa - Wednesday, April 05, 2017

Hello

Ramadhan is about 2 months away and I thought it would be a great idea to do a series on just Ramadhan cards.

My inspiration for this card came from the time we break our fast; which is at SUNSET. The sky turns all different shades of oranges and it's just beautiful.

I combined both these stamps set from Altenew. Love them!

From the Eid Ul Adha set, I used the buildings to create a mask and also to stop along the bottom of a white cardstock. There are no dies that come with these so I fussy cut.

The mask I cut from card, otherwise it would have been to flimsy; I also put a bit of glue along the back to make it tacky.

Next, using the Hexastar stencil, I blended 3 colours in a gradient to get a sunset effect. This stencil has these little sunbursts which goes so well with my inspired theme.

I die cut 5 welcomes from black cardstock to create dimension, once stacked, I dipped it into black versafine ink and clear embossed it.

To complete this card, I trimmed down the panel to smaller than the card base and attached to an orange paper leaving a frame on either side then put the whole thing on a top folding rectangle card base.