Paula's Studio

Wednesday, June 5, 2024

CRAFT Challenge Blog #722: Male

Hi friends!
This week's CRAFT Challenge Blog's theme for this week is: male.

The sponsor is: Colour of Love and the design I used is: Harry Boo Knight.

Harry Boo Knight is the character shown and I used the castle and the sentiment from a Brutus Monroe set, found in supply list.

I started off use Silhouette Design Studio to trace and size the design and had my Silhouette Cameo cut it out once I printed it.

I used colored pencils to color him.

I stamped a castle with black ink. I then colored it with colored pencils.

For the background, I used Distress Oxides to color the sky and grass. I also drew in and colored stepping stones from the castle to the knight.

I colored the white border around the castle to match the background. Most people don't do this. I don't really like white borders on the die cuts so if I can easily color them, I will. I also colored the white spaces on the knight the color of the grass. I know the spot by his helmet really makes sense to color gray like the castle but it's too close to the color of his helmet so i opted to keep it green. It's fine.

I cut the background card panel with a die to frame it.

I glued the castle in place.

I attached the knight with 1mm adhesive foam.

I stamped and die cut a sentiment and attached with 2mm adhesive foam.

I drew in some grass strands with green colored pencil and added some green sparkle gems.

I glued the card panel to a card base.

~Paula

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Father's Day Card with Fifi the Papercrafter papers

Hi friends!

Today I am sharing a Father's Day card I made using a page from Fifi the Papercrafter's new kit called Grungy Mixed Media Backgrounds Kit 3. As soon as I saw this page I knew it could become a card for Father's Day.

I simply printed off this page from the kit on cardstock. I cut it down to 4x5.25" for a card panel. I cut the remaining part to other sizes that seemed to make sense to use in a future project and set those aside.

I tinted the edges with oxide ink to give it a more aged look.

I used this distressing tool to scuff up the edges.

I used a stencil to add some arrows with a blue tone. I think these arrows go nice with anything transportation.

I use baby wipes to clean my stencils and work table. I use a baby bottle drying rack to dry my stencil before I put them away.

I added the sentiment by first dusting the panel with an anti-static powder. This really helps with embossing especially when you want a crisp finish as with sentiments.