POV: when you unpacked all your stuff at a craft event but doesn’t know where to start. 🤷♀️ Here’s the solution!
- Type of project: Card
- Occasion: Christmas
- Style: classic
- Techniques used: ink blending, die cutting, hot foiling, stamping, ink staining
- Decoration: none
- Main colour: red
- Media used: distress oxide spray, distress ink, patterned paper, metallic cardstock
- Equipment used: stamps, dies
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I am blessed with many crafty friends with lots of ideas of how to get your creativity flowing. A couple of weeks ago my friend invited me and a few other crafty girls over for a day of cardmaking. And you know how it is; you brought all this stuff full of ideas, but when it’s time those ideas are nowhere to be found. This is when my friend says: I prepared a challenge!
First we draw a card sketch together with a hot foiled print, and a small piece of silver metallic cardstock from from her hand. Then she put a few stamps and dies at the center of the table and said: “Colors and papers are free to use hut you can only use these stamps and dies. You babe forty minutes to finish a card!”
This is the sketch I draw from her hand:
This really got my crafting mojo going and this is how it turned out:
After this it was easy. I got a whole bunch of Christmas cards done. Here’s two of them:
We had so much fun! I recommend you try this method either for your self or together with your friends. It’s easy to find card sketches on internet. I often use Pinterest so search for them and pin those I like, just search for “card sketch”. Pull some dies and stamps from your collection and maybe some left over pieces of paper or a decoration and get started. Have fun!
Karin Åslund is from Sweden. Karin has been writing for TPC since 2020. Karin started paper crafting in 2005 and she makes cards, mini albums and do some Art Journaling. Her paper projects are often made in traditional Vintage or in a Whimsical style.