Anniversary Love!

Your soul mate can only be one of a kind, right?  This card will tell your significant other that, yep you are definitely one of a kind. As I was making this card, I thought that this would be an awesome anniversary card. But I soon realized that you can probably even give this card on your wedding day to your loved one. Of course because of my South Asian background, I chose bright and bold colors like red and gold to accentuate it. 

The Image is from our Lady Beans friend Annie Collins. You can find the image here: 

https://theladybeans.blogspot.com/2020/06/good-luck-best-wishes.html

This is a couple image, however I only used the groom on my card. The designer paper is something that I found in my stash, matted with black and then on a Whisper White A2 card base.  Random dots were placed with Nuvo drops for a little dimension to this card. My groom's "skirt" was colored with the same Nuvo drops and a paint brush. Hope you enjoy this card. Make sure you give some love to your "One of A Kind" 

Wedding Season Is Upon Us

The more elegant the wedding, the more elegant the cake.  This Digi file from Anne Ingram was sponged in Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Wilted Violet, Picked Raspberry, and Wild Honey Inks. The design on the cake is an image from Simon Says Stamp's Thankful Flowers stamp set, heat embossed in Caramel Cosmic Semi Transparent Embossing Powder from Sparkle and Sprinkle. Glitter Peel Off Stickers from Love from Lizi.  Sentiment from Simon Says Stamp's Congratulations stamp set, heat embossed in the same Caramel embossing powder.  The mats are gold mirror, peach colored, and designer card stock on top of Whisper White A2 card base.  Had a lot of fun making this card.  

Pink Perfume

Hello all!

I am back with another craftroom Creation featuring Coffee Bean Design digital stamps, For my cards today I played with the perfume jars collection.

To start off you'll need to print your images out I recommend on card stock, I used 80 pound white card stock but you can use whatever you have. I find coloring relaxing so I choose to use my Copic markers to color in these images. I am working on improving my pink blends (RV/R) since I struggle with them a bit and practice makes progress.

Heart Jar: RV11, R83, R85, RV34, R59, W1, W3, W5

Tear Drop Jar: RV02, RV04, RV06, RV19, N2, N5,C7 C9

I find with the RV/R color family I need to use more colors to get the blend I want. I tried 3 and 4 marker blends and they work but I wasn't getting the depth I wanted. I added another marker to my blends and got much better dimension. I notice with the RV/R color family the lighter colors pick up  more of the darker color than with other color families. When coloring I went lightest to darkest then back out but didn't color over the previous area just blended out the edge. After my images were all colored I added details with my white gel pen and a small “kisses” stamp.

These images are easy to fussy cut out but even if it's not perfect just run a water based black marker along the edge to cover the white core of the paper and it will look perfect.

If you are anything like me you have plenty of pattern paper hanging out in you craftspace, so use it! I pulled out scraps from the “Me and You” collection by “Me And My Big Ideas” to created 3 cards, you can find the bonus card over on my blog. I cut my scraps down to make layers for an A2 card (4 ¼ by 5 ½ inches) and uses foam tape to pop up my colored jars. Once I had the placement for my heart jar I colored in a shadow on the pattern paper to ground it.

Using digital stamps along with pattern paper scraps is a great way to make easy beautiful cards. I hope you enjoyed these cards. If you want see more of my craft room creation you can follow me on social media @TheCraftBean.

Happy Crafting

Brandi M.

The Craft Bean