Birthday Cake

Hello Crafters!

I hope everyone is doing well. My family and I have been spending a lot more time outside since the weather here has been beautiful. Today’s craftroom creation is a Birthday card featuring the “Wedding cake” digital stamp by Coffee Bean Designs.

The great thing about digi stamps is you can resize them to fit your project. For this card I printed my cake larger so it would take up most of the card front. For the Card I made for the Coffee Bean Design’s blog I printed it smaller.

I had a ton of fun turning this Wedding cake image into a rainbow Birthday cake I used the dotting technique to create rainbow sprinkles at the bottom of each cake layer. To add more depth to the cake I used light gray Copic makers to add shading.

I have been stamping for over a decade now, many years ago big box craft stores sold small clear stamp images in the 50 cent bins. well I have a ton of them in my stash so I dug through them and found a rainbow that was perfect to make a cake topper. It is very satisfying to use thing from my stash that haven’t been used in years.

I trimmed out my cake and rainbow with my favorite fiskers scissors and like always when fussy cutting I ran a black water base maker around the edge to hide the white core of the cardstock. I stamped my “Happy Birthday” sentiment on the bottom cake layer. lastly glued my two images together and add foam tape to the back.

I kept the background simple I add light blue clouds with tumbled glass distress ink and my cloud stencil by Kindred stamps. I popped my cake onto my A2 card base and was done.

I hope you enjoyed this card and I will be back soon to share more craftroom creations with you.

Thanks

Brandi M.

@TheCraftBean

Perfume Bonus

I have another craftroom creation bonus for you all today! I was playing with the perfume jars digi stamps from Coffee Bean Designs and made this fun foiled slim line card.

The inspiration for this card came from the paper scraps I had been digging through while making my other two card for the Coffee Bean Design’s blog. I loved this 12 x 12 sheet that Said ” Truly madly deeply” at the bottom center, it made me think “love potion”. However I was unsure how to use it, so I set it a side and worked on my other two cards.  In the middle of creating them I got an idea for this card that I just had to try.

I printed the digi on white 80 pound card stock then I traced over the image lines with a deco foil adhesive pen. Well sort of… the tip on my glue pen was clogged, so I pulled the top off and poured out the glue onto my glass media mat and used  a small paint brush. But feel free to skip all that if you actually remember to put the tops back on to your glue.

I heated up my laminating machine and folded a piece of  standard printer paper in half to make a carrier sheet. I place my glue covered image face up inside the carry sheet, then added my silver deco foil shiny side up on top of my jar image, then closed my carrier sheet and ran it thorough my laminating machine.

Since the paper was 12 X 12 I decided to make a slim line card (3 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches)  I cut the patter paper down to be an 1/8 of an inch smaller then the black card base. To fill in some of the white space and play of the love potion idea, I made smokey potion by ink smooching watered down fired brick distress ink onto the pattern paper with left over clear stamp packaging.

The now potion bottle was fussy cut out but this time I left a white boarder around the image. Popped it up on an bit of foam tape and this card was done.

I hope you have enjoyed spending time with me and if you want to see more of my craft room creation follow me on social media @TheCraftBean.

Brandi M.

The Craft Bean

May Flowers Bonus

Hello! I hope everyone is enjoying all the extra crafting time quarantine has allowed.

Today’s craftroom creations is a bonus project made with the Coffee Bean Design’s “Daffodils” digital stamp. To see my guest design team creations check out their Blog.

I recently watched a Kristina Werner video where she showed how to water color a digital stamp image and knew I needed to try it.

I created a light box out of a light and a large rectangle plastic container. I place my printed image down first then laid my water color paper over top.

Then traced over the digi images with a pencil. If I were to do it again I’d either use a water color pencil or trace over my line with a waterproof black pen because some of my pencil lines got trapped under the water color.

I wanted the no line look so I traced over the lines with a yellow and green water color pencils by Arteza. I used my Daniel Smith water color dot chart to paint the daffodils. (Mayan yellow, Indian yellow, Raw sienna, chrom. green oxide, Duochrome mauve) it took me a bit to find the right yellow

Things I learned along the way:

Less is more when it comes to water coloring. You don’t need a lot of water.

Start with the darker shade and add water to lighten as pull it out to the edges of the flower.

Paint one section at a time so you don’t end up with color blobs instead of petals.

Paint in layers to get more dimension and contrast.

To finish my card I trimmed it down to be a 1/4 inch smaller than an A2 card base. added a sentiment strip and pretty pink posh 4mm clear droplets. 

Even though I am not a water colorist and have more to learn I really enjoyed playing with this technique. If you are inspired to create please share and tag me on social media @TheCraftBean

If you want to see more of my craftroom creations follow me on social media @TheCraftBean.

Happy Crafting

Brandi M.

The Craft Bean