Set of Nature Inspired Cards by Dutt Preety

Hi friends :)

Good Morning !

Preeti Datta (aka Dutt Preety) here.

Today, I'd like to share a Set of Nature Inspired Cards. 

These are fairly simple to make & great for giving to friends & relatives during happy occasions like birthdays and anniversaries. 

For these cards, I've distressed the edges of the papers and added flowers, pollens & sisal for texture. I hope you'll join the January Challenge where the theme is to "Use Texture". We have awesome prizes on offer. All the details about the challenge can be found HERE & you can add your textured creations on facebook, HERE. 

 Set of Nature Inspired Cards 

Card 1: Beautiful Day

Card 2: Make A Wish

Process:

I've used some pretty decoupage papers from my stash (by Bob n Betty), you can use which ever scrapbooking papers you like best, Art & Soul Studio has a huge collection of pretty papers (I will link some below in the products list), cut them to 4.25 inches by 6.25 inches in size and distress their edges using a paper distressor tool, this creates a subtle textured look. Then applied clear gesso on this paper. After that, I created 2 mats for the panel, each 0.25 inches bigger than the last one, distressed their edges as well. The card is 5 by 7 inches in size, I scored it using a Bone Folder. Then adhered the panel to the first mat using foam tape & all the other layers too using liquid glue. For the floral clusters, I used flowers, pollen & sisal adhered down with gel medium & in the end, I added sentiment stickers. 

Products Used from Art & Soul Studio:

Finnabair Art Basics Mixed Media Essentials- Clear Gesso

Aleene's Tacky Glue

Soft Gel Medium

Inkssentials Paper Creaser Folder & Burnishing Tool

 Flowers Marina

Flowers Blue

White Flowers

Blue, Green Flowers

Kaisercraft Smooth Cardstock- Pebble

Watercolor Paperpad 

Pretty nature inspired scrapbooking papers- Here, Here & Here. 

Tim Holtz Metallic Stickers

Tim Holtz paper distresser

Foam Tape

Please don't forget to join Art & Soul Studio's January Challenge. There are awesome prizes on offer & we have a stunning mood board every month. For inspiration, please check out the gorgeous projects made by my talented team mates. 

January Moodboard:

Lastly, please do share your beautiful work with us on our Facebook group- Soul Sisters, we would love to see what you create with supplies from the Art & Soul Studio Store.

Thanks a lot for your precious time :)

Stay Blessed! 

Preeti

Set of Clean & Simple Cards for the Holidays by Dutt Preety

Hi friends!

Good Morning :)

Preeti Datta (aka Dutt Preety) here.
Since Christmas & New Year are upon us, firstly, I'd like to wish everyone a blessed holiday season :) 

For today's post I've prepared a Set of Clean & Simple (CAS Style) Cards for the Holidays.
These are fun & easy to make and great for giving to loved ones.  

Set of Clean & Simple Cards for the Holidays

 Card 1- Happy Holidays

Card 2- Season's Greetings 

Card 3- Merry & Bright

Card 4- Merry Christmas 

Process:
1. Die cut watercolor paper panels using a stitched rectangle die
2. Cut out frames in the centre of the panels using Memory Box's Double Frame Die.
3. Stamped images using Tim Holtz Cling Stamps onto the die cuts
4. Lightly watercoloured the images using Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers
5. Adhered the panels onto A2 sized grey card bases
6. Foam mounted the framed panels at the center of the cards
7. Adhered Tim Holtz stickers for sentiments and small silver bows as embellishments.

Products Used:

Stampers Anonymous: Tim Holtz Cling Stamps- Mini Blueprints

Memory Box Die: Pinpoint Double Frame

Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers 

Aleene’s Clear Gel Tacky Glue Pens

Tim Holtz Idea-Ology Small Talk Stickers

Inkssentials Watercolor Paper 

Kaisercraft Smooth Cardstock: Elephant Ears

Please don't forget to join Art & Soul Studio's December Challenge. There are awesome prizes on offer & we have a stunning mood board every month. For inspiration, please check out the gorgeous projects made by my talented team mates. All the details about the December Challenge can be found HERE.

December Moodboard:

Lastly, please do share your beautiful work with us on our Facebook group- Soul Sisters, we would love to see what you create with supplies from the Art & Soul Studio Store.

Thanks a lot for your precious time :)

Stay Blessed!

Preeti

Challenge Inspiration - It's a Card - by Tanyalee Kahler

Hello everyone and welcome to the blog! It's Tanyalee here with a challenge inspiration post for you. This month I have made a card! This isn't something I make very often, but it was great fun to make.

To start off, I taped down my card because I wanted a crisp, clean edge on the front. I used plain masking tape and left a 5mm border.

 Next, I mixed a few Impasto paints to get the right colours to match the mood board. I love theJade and Azure paints, they are my favourite colours right now.

 I let the paint dry thoroughly and then started working on some abstract florals.

Lastly, I got out some Black Liquitex Acrylic Ink and hand-lettered 'Happy Birthday'. And finished it off with some ink splatters.

This was a super quick, and cute little project that you could do yourselves in about 10 minutes (minus drying time of course).

  

I hope you consider participating in the challenge this month. All of the details are below.

Supplies:

White cardstock

Impasto Paints (Azure, Jade, Raspberry, White)

Liquitex Acrylic Ink (Black)

The Moodboard Challenge Rules are easy, 

use our mood board as inspiration to create an

art journal page, a card or a scrapbooking layout. 

Use the mood board however you want but you 

must add flowers and as these challenges 

are sponsored by Art and Soul Studio

please make sure that you use at least one
product that is available from the store. 

You can enter any type or format of art you like, 

but you cannot win all three.

There are 3 x $50 vouchers to be won.

You have until the 11:59pm on the 31 August 

to enter and then the Design Team will vote to 

determine the lucky winners. 

Please note that the vouchers can only be won 

by residents of Australiabut if you are from overseas and 

win the challenge you will be offered a Guest Design Team spot.

https://artandsoulstudio.com.au/

Join our FaceBook group - Soul Sisters 

and put your creation in the challenge album

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1724295737880764/

Moodboard Inspiration - Music was my first love by Jane McNally

hi all

Today I return with another inspiring creation. Created with love, from the

 Moodboard Challenge for February 2018.

My speciality is Cardmaking. 

My Canvas is Cardstock 5 x 7 

I have used Dusty Attic Stencil Script to create 3D effect. My backgrounds are from 49 and Market Vintage Autumn Collection. Cardstock from Art Deco Creations. 

49 and Market, 49 and Market Vintage Artistry, antiquing cream., 
https://artandsoulstudio.com.au/


I hope I have inspired you to create please come and  Join our Challenges 
I love seeing creations and amazed at the Talent entered..


Yours in Craft. 

Jane McNally Designer for Art & Soul Studio 

Music is Silence Coloured in by Karen Arribas

Hello and welcome to my next lesson. It will be based on this months Scrapbooking/ Card Challenge.

I decided to do a card challenge using the above colours and stencils by Dina Wakley and 7gypsies.

I tried to get the correct green/grey colour by using a mixture of different colours. I used Dina Wakley Heavy Body Acrylic paint - Black, KAISERcolour Acrylic paint - Pistachio and Decoart Media fluid acrylic - Phthalo Turquoise. I'm thinking I needed to add a bit more green to the mix. I covered the entire card in the colour.

I used the 7gypsies stencil 'Triangle Grid' and sporadically covered it with Dina Wakley heavy body acrylic paint - Chedder (mixed with white)

I then used small bits of music paper and placed it in a few areas on the card and then used Decoart media - Titan Buff and covered a thin layer of paint over the stenciling so you could see some of the areas coming through.

I then went over it again using the darker colour and used the 7gypsies stencil and Dina Wakley Media Stencil- Scales.

I then used 7 Dots Studio 'Dreamscapes' collage paper as the background for the heart and butterfly wings. The stamp is from the Finnabair cling stamp collection 'Trust the magic' and the butterfly wings are from a napkin I had.

Materials used: 

Dina Wakley Heavy Body Acrylic paint - Black, 

KAISERcolour Acrylic paint - Pistachio 

Decoart Media fluid acrylic - Phthalo Turquoise

Dina Wakley Heavy Body Acrylic Paint - Chedder

Decoart Media Fluid Acrylic - Titan Buff

7gypsies stencil 'Triangle Grid'

Dina Wakley Media Stencil- Scales.

7 Dots Studio 'Dreamscapes' collage paper

Finnabair cling stamp collection 'Trust the magic' 

All the materials used can be purchased at: https://artandsoulstudio.com.au/

Thanks for looking and I hope this lesson has inspired you to create from this months moodboard. see you soon. xx