By Bird on
Monday, February 08, 2010 1:38 PM
I've have a couple of digi basics for you today, I often think 'oh some grass would come in handy here' or 'I need a basic tree shape' so I have started with those and will hopefully be building on the basic idea to create a group of images that will have many uses.
I am going to try to keep these basics as simple as I can and therefore as versatile as I can so that they can be used for as many themes as possible, for example, the tree is just the trunk and branches so it can be printed out and have leaves or flowers etc added with rubber stamps, punch outs, sequins, buttons or any other embellishment.
As with all digital stamps they can be used as they are or you can change the colour using methods such as this.
If you have any suggestions or things that you would like me to include in this basics theme just leave a comment or email me bird@birdscards.com and you may well see it pop up here :)
I've made a valentine's day card with todays digis, my sentiment on the inside reads "Our love keeps on growing". I changed the colour of my tree to brown and my grass to green and printed them out. I coloured in my grass with pencils and punched out lots of small hearts and sponged them with pink ink. I made a little basket by punching an oval of brown card which I embossed with a basket weave pattern trimmed to the shape I wanted and added a handle with some spare card and a circle punch, I sponged both pieces with some brown ink and stuck them together. I carefully cut around some of the grass with a craft knife and tucked my basket behind it and filled with some of the hearts. I stuck the rest of the hearts to my tree with a couple on foam pads to add some dimesion and finished with a scalloped edge, some ribbon and a little heart button.
Here are your digital stamps (click on each and expand before you save them)
 
Stuff & Things: Spellbinders Long Scallop Rectangle, Pink card base, Rangers Sandal Ink, Colorbox ink, Green card, Brown card, White card, Pale green 1/4" ribbon, Heart Button, thread, double sided sticky foam pads, big shot, Fiskars Basket Weave texture plate, Woodware 2" Oval punch, 1" circle punch, Fiskars paper trimmer.
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By Bird on
Friday, February 05, 2010 2:35 PM
I've been playing with bleach today which I didn't think was working to begin with until I realised that not all paper/card stocks can be bleached lol, you certainly know it when you find one that can as it is so quick! It is a really fun technique.
I tested bleach on several papers and settled on this handmade one which bleached instantly. I printed my image onto my paper then filled an aquapainter with bleach and a little water and 'painted' my image trying to keep within the lines. This kind of paper soaks up liquid ultra fast so I dried my brush on a piece of kitchen paper frequently and made sure that my brush was damp rather than wet. I created the water effect by lightly brushing over the high spots of the texture in the paper. I printed a sentiment and glued it behind a frame and added some eyelets, I added some more eyelets to my card blank and strung the two together with brown embroidery thread to add a faux rope detail.
Here's todays digital stamp (click to expand before saving)
Stuff & Things: Spellbinders Labels One, Aquapainter, household bleach, blue handmade paper, We R Memory keepers Crop A Dile II Big Bite, We R Memory Keepers small eyelets fashion front & subtle set, white card stock, brown card blank, sentiment frame, embroidery thread.
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By Bird on
Thursday, February 04, 2010 11:05 AM
Good Morning :)
I have a little girls birthday coming up and thought that a Cinderella's Castle card would be just the trick so I've whipped up a lil' digi for you :)
I printed my image onto white card and cut out with a circle die and lightly sponged with blue ink before removing the die to give a white border. I paper pieced some grass and a path then coloured my image with markers. I printed Happy Birthday onto some card, I cut around it with a 'V' at the end and manipulated it until I was happy that it had a flag like wave to it then attached it to the top turret. I layered my image with some spotty backing paper and some bright pink card and added a huge bow, some little butterflies and a dash of glitter for good measure.
Here's your digital stamp (remember to click and expand before you save )
Stuff & Things: Spellbinders Circles Small and Large, Promarkers, Papermania Sweet Nothings, Pink Card Blank, Bright Pink and White Cardstock, 1 inch Satin Ribbon, Crystal Glitter, Ribbon Butterflies, Big Shot, Paper Trimmer.
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By Bird on
Tuesday, February 02, 2010 5:34 PM
I printed my image onto watercolour paper to add some texture, I roughly drew some brick shapes onto the background to make it look like a wall and coloured in the image with markers. I cut a piece of brown card into a window box shape and added some leaf and flower shapes then added to my image with some sticky foam pads. I chose some green backing paper that had a vine pattern the layered some brown narrow ribbon onto so some wider green ribbon with some very narrow double-sided sticky tape to tie the colours in the card together.
Here is the digi (click to expand)
Stuff & Things: Spellbinders Ribbon Tag trio, Promarkers, Watercolour Paper, Papermania Olive Esence Creative Tones, 1/4" & 1/2" Ribbon, Sizzix Decorative Strip Flowers & Stems
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By Bird on
Monday, February 01, 2010 4:08 PM
Nothing says that Spring is on the way to me like seeing a carpet of Daffoldils spring up ( unintentional pun alert! ) so I've made a Daffs digital stamp (below) for some cheery spring time projects.
I used the top part of the digi for todays card and a bright apple-y green colour, I wonder if I had the fact that I am going to make a pork and apple casserole for tea tonight in mind when I made it, lol. I printed my image onto some card stock and cut out the section I wanted with a rectangle die. Before I removed the die I sponged the edges lightly with some blue ink which left a white border then coloured in the image with markers. I threaded my velvet ribbon through my sentiment tag and backed it with a woven fibre panel to add some texture.
Here's your digi (click to expand)
Stuff & Things: Spellbinders Long Rectangles Small & Large, Spellbinders Fancy Tags, Promarkers, Velvet Ribbon, Woven Fibres, Mini Gems.
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By Bird on
Saturday, January 30, 2010 4:24 PM
I've been getting alot of questions about different products I've been using on cards so I will do my best to include a list of products used called 'stuff and things', the ones I can remember anyway ;) It is difficult sometimes as I tend to source alot of my stash from end of line sale lots or from ebay, old packaging, flower wrappings etc but where possible I will list what I can :)
I've made a card for LilyBean Paperie's Inspirational photo challenge, the photo by A Creative Mint is so pretty and girly I just had to have a go. Here it is:
...and here is my card:
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Stuff & Things: Spellbinders Fleur De Lis Border, Spellbinders Fancy Tags, Fiskars Punch Asymmetric Heart, Colorbox Rose Petals Chalk Ink, We R Memory Keepers Scrapboard Alpahabets, We R Memory Keepers Snaps, We R Memory Keepers Big Bite, Summertime Designs paper download, Vellum, Ribbon, Heart Brad, Crystal Glitter, Lace, Heart Gems.
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By Bird on
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 2:19 PM
Remember me mentioning that I had a brain wave yesterday? Well my idea was use an easel card as a stand to hold calendar pages or photographs. I made it and was so pleased with the results and afterwards double checked on Splitcoast Stampers to see if anyone had had the same idea and of course they had! lol. My design is slightly different from the ones I looked at and is a very easy diversion from Beate's original tutorial.
You can find Beate's excellent tutorial here, I followed all of the dimensions but instead of decorating the card front I added a 1.5 inch panel along the bottom of the front which has double-sided sticky foam pads along the bottom and down both sides to form a pocket. The pocket will hold a 3.25 inch square perfectly which happens to be the same size as the largest die in the Spellbinders nestabilities classic squares small, cool huh? :)
I made a document of this years months and I've included it as a pdf
clicky here for the 2010 Months pdf ( this is my first ever pdf so I hope it works ok )
This picture shows how the same project can be used as a photo stand, how good is that?
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By Bird on
Monday, January 25, 2010 3:39 PM
I've been wanting to use this love hearts backing paper by Papermania but havent been sure what to do with it so I made myself sit down and make something, I'm not sure that this is the best way to get creative as I'm not 100% happy with this card but we live and learn :)
I've had a brain wave today about a project I 'do' want to do however so I'm excited about that and I should be able to post it in the next day or so.
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By Bird on
Sunday, January 24, 2010 9:03 AM
A quick digi for you today. I added some detail to yesterdays bottle template to make it into a digital stamp, I left the label blank so that a message could be added there.
 (remember to click and expand before saving)
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By Bird on
Saturday, January 23, 2010 12:29 PM
I needed to make a 50th birthday card for a man and was a bit stuck for what to do so I had a look on Splitcoast Stampers and found this card which I thought was great and have used as my inspiration.
I made my own Template, I sized it to 8" tall and 4" wide in Word to ensure it would fit into a DL sized envelope then printed it out onto printer paper. I cut round the shape then placed it onto my Card with the dotted line along the score line in the card, drew around it with a pencil and cut along my pencil line.
I decorated the front of my card with different gold card pieces cut from various Spellbinders dies, I added his date of birth in the lower panel which I followed up with 'A rather good vintage' on the inside and printed 'Oldus Manus' on the top oval to inject some humour :)
Here's your template (click to expand)
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