Happy Trails - Purple Onion Designs

Another Valentine's card today for Purple Onion Designs and this time I'm using the cute T-Bird (Bear in Plane) image from the Happy Trails collection illustrated by Stacey Yacula and the bear is throwing out X's and O's amongst the clouds.   I thought this one might work well for a guy.

First task was to grab a slimline panel and mask the edges off equally and then ink blend using Distress Oxide Ink in Peacock Feathers.   I then carefully removed the mask.

The T-Bird image was stamped on Copic friendly cardstock and coloured with Copic markers, points were highlighted with a white gel pen.  I used BG09 and BG49 together with W5 and W7 for depth shading for the plane's body, such a delicious colour combo!  This was fussy cut and backed with foam tape and applied to the scene.

I die cut several white clouds using a die in my stash and applied those either directly or with foam tape. On one of them I stamped the sentiment using red ink.

For the X's and O's I used the Oliver Alpha die by Hello Bluebird Stamps.  I die cut each letter 3 times with white cardstock and a 4th time with red.  I layered these together with glue and when adding the red top layer I slight offset it to the right so a little more of the white beneath it was visible.  I adhered these to the scene.

At this point I decided there was room for more cuteness so I stamped and coloured the bird, fussy cut and applied.

For the finishing touches I used a teal gel pen to add dots and I applied two different sizes of sparkling clear sequins by Pretty Pink Posh.

The whole panel was adhered to a white cardstock base and then the card was complete.

Happy crafting!

Happy Trails - Purple Onion Designs

I have a new card for Purple Onion Designs today that features stamps by Stacey Yacula.   Here I've used the cute VW Bus from Happy Trails.



To create this slimline card I first ink blended a panel that I masked off the edges on first.  I applied a die cut and ink blended grassy edge and clouds at the top with ink blended cardstock and pearlised vellum.



The BEEP!  BEEP! was created with letters from Hello Bluebird's Charlie Alpha stamp set.  I die cut the letters 3 times each, glueing each one to the next and the top layer was die cut from a polka dot pattern I stamped and heat embossed first.

I stamped and coloured the VW Bus image with Copic markers then fussy cut, backed it with foam tape and applied it a jaunty angle .

The speech bubbles are from Carnival/Fair Blurbs.



Finally a few sparkling clear sequins were added as finishing embellishments.

Happy crafting!

Nicky x

Happy Trails - Purple Onion Designs

A new card for Purple Onion Designs today that features stamps from the Happy Trails collection as illustrated by Stacey Yacula.



I wanted a slightly masculine feel to this card but to keep it still very much in my style so I grabbed a brick wall stencil from my stash and ink blended it with two distress kinks and then splattered on some Peacock Feathers Distress Ink to add a little texture.



On Copic friendly cardstock I stamped the images using Memento Ink in Rich Cocoa.  I used Copic markers to colour and then points were highlighted with a white gel pen.  The images were fussy cut, backed with foam tape and applied to the scene.

I used a simple stitched frame die from my stash to frame out the scene which was popped up on foam tape to keep the dimension going.



To finish I stamped the sentiments and used some toning coloured Liquid Pearls to add some fun for a sweet urban look.  The entire decorated panel was attached to a sturdy 110lb cover weight white cardstock base.

Happy crafting!

Nicky x

Happy Trails - Purple Onion Designs

I'm back with another card for Purple Onion Designs using stamps illustrated by Stacey Yacula.  Images used here are all from Happy Trails.



To create this card I stamped the background scene and coloured it with Copic markers.  I stamped the sentiment which you can find HERE.   I highlighted a few points with a white gel pen and added some shimmer to the glassy windows.



I die cut the frame from white cardstock.  Frame is from my stash of Mama Elephant products and was backed with foam tape and applied to the background which in turn was applied to a 110lb white cardstock base.



I stamped the image of the hedgehog riding the moped on to Copic friendly cardstock and also coloured and highlighted it, then fussy cut, backed with foam tape and applied it to the scene.

Thank you for visiting my blog, happy crafting!

Nicky x

Happy Trails - Purple Onion Designs

My slimline card today features images from the Happy Trails stamp collection as illustrated by Stacey Yacula for Purple Onion Designs.



A slimline card has a finished size of 8 1/2 inches x 3 1/2 inches.  I also created a panel of this size and masked off the edges with washi tape and then stamped the sandy background from the stamp collection.   I masked that and ink blended it and also masked a line to form the horizon. For the background the colours used are Distress Oxides in Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean (just call me Captain Obvious), Foissilzed Amber and Tea Die.



I wanted to texturise and add interest to the sand, so I covered the sea and sky and splattered on some Tea Die ink loosened with a little water and some white acrylic paint.  Once dry, I removed the mask, the white wave pattern was hand drawn with a white gel pen, I adhered the panel to the card base and set this to one side for the time being.



On Strathmore Bristol Smooth cardstock I stamped my images from Happy Trails using Ranger Archival Ink in Potting Soil.  I watercolour painted them using the following Kuretake Zigs - Carmine Red, Yellow, Cobalt Blue, Oatmeal, Mid Gray, Light Gray and Light Pink.  All images were then fussy cut and adhered to the scene using dimensional foam tape.  One or two points were highlighted with the white gel pen again.



Time for those finishing touches and for this card I kept it simple.  I stamped the sentiment (also from Purple Onion Designs) and backed it with foam tape and found the perfect stop to adhere it.  I also just grabbed a few Sparkling Clear Sequins in different sizes by Pretty Pink Posh and glued these down with Ranger Multi Medium Matte.

Hope you enjoyed my very summery card.  Happy crafting!

Nicky x

Happy Trails - Purple Onion Designs

I have a new card for Purple Onion Designs today using all Stacey Yacula illustrated stamps from the Happy Trails collection.  We're off to the beach!



This is one of my slimline cards with finished dimensions of 8 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches.  Cards with these dimensions fit a standard Size 9 envelope.  I created a card base and set it to one side and then created a panel.  I masked off the edges of the panel and then ink blended using Distress Oxides in Tumbled Glass, Fossilized Amber and Tea Die.  I put a piece of kitchen paper over the water portion and splattered up the sand using Tea Die with a drop of water.  I also splattered on a little white acrylic paint.   I took some of the same white acrylic paint and used my finger tip to dab it along the line where the water meets the sand to make a frothy edge.  This was set aside to dry.



On Bristol Smooth cardstock I stamped all the images I was using from Happy Trails using Ranger Archival Ink in Potting Soil.   I watercolour painted using Kuretake Zigs in Cobalt Blue, Yellow, Carmine Red, Beige, Mid Gray, Light Pink, Warm Gray (2), Mid Brown and Light Green.



All images were fussy cut and backed with foam tape.   The background panel was now dry and I could carefully remove the masking tape from the edges.  I used a little Stickles glitter to make the frothy edge sparkle in the sun and I used a gold gel pen to dot in a little sparkle to the sand. 

I stamped the sentiment using Versamark Ink and heat embossed in white and applied the panel to the card base.



I finished up by just highlighting a few points with a white gel pen and I felt no other embellishment was required since this one has plenty of sparkle when card is handled and moved.

Hope you're inspired - happy crafting!

Nicky x