TAC Savvy Projects for People on the Go

Guest Designer Kim Sears and A Card A Day in the month of May

 
 
 
 
 
Hello! I hope your having a FABULOUS Weekend... Thank you Mischelle for allowing me to share today! I have really enjoyed seeing how each of you interpret Heather Scott's Sketchs each week and come up with so many different cards! These are my takes on the sketch. Hope you have a chance to play along! I have included links to my eccomerce site so you can view the stamps,but please support your local Angel if you have one. You can find more sketch samples on my blog  .                                     

Blessings, Kim  

Life is Short

 Supplies:

• White Ultra Smooth Cardstock, Black Cardstock, Scarlet Cardstock
• Tuxedo Black Memento, L'Amore Red Palette, Cognac Palette
• Fleur De Lis Accents Shapeabilities, Circle & Rectangle Nestabilities 
• T-2895 Life Is Short, T-3224 Vintage Backgrounds, T-3279 Fly Fairy  

Happy New Baby

Supplies:

• Ivory Cardstock, Black Cardstock, Angelee Cardstock, Black & White II FREE Download
• Tuxedo Black Memento, Malted Mauve VersaMagic, Cognac Palette
• Circle Nestabilities, MS Border Punch, Ivory Crinkled Ribbon, Lemonade Blossoms & Buttons
• T-3203 Just Bee-Cuz, T3193 Vintage Santa

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My Retiform Cards for the Retiform Blog Hop

 

So this is my first RETIFORM card in YEARS!  It took me a LONG time to finish ~ I started it months ago and wrapped it up months later.  {smiles}  I knew there wasn't a hurry so it got set on the back-burner for quite some time.

I wanted to use this set (when I started this card it was football season) and make a card with our school colors which are Texas Orange and Black!  YUM!  I decided to add in some gray because it goes with everything right!

I hadn't intended on stamping in every box around my image but I forgot what I was doing and before I knew it ~ almost every inch of this card had 'KICK OFF' stamped on it somewhere.  Oh well.  I don't think it's terribly awful!

 

I really like adding layers on top of the RETIFORM.  I don't know why but I need a more distinct focal point.  So I added one and applied it to my card with pop dots.

 

Here are the inks I used ~ Tangelo, Potters Clay, London Fog and Tuxedo Black Memento Inks.  I also used these foam make-up sponges to get a smoother finish.

 

So ~ I TOTALLY forgot I had already made a RETIFORM card and prepared this blog post ... and it was only like 2 days ago I did this!  Oh my!  LOL!

So ~ I thought I needed to get a RETIFORM card made because I hadn't crossed if off my list yet.  I have 2 more cards that I was going to feature but you can't see the RETIFORM in them so I'm posting them later.  Here is the card I created and following is how I got to this point!

 

So ~ time to get started.  I wanted my card to look as good as this one by Heather Scott.  So I placed it on an easel in front of my workspace.  My inspiration piece:

 

Then I decided to try something I've NEVER done before.  I pulled out my cardstock and looked at palette's that I wanted to work with.  Then I looked for ink to match.

 

 

 
I cleaned up my work area and surrounded myself with the supplies I was using.  I opened up my Inspiration Book so that my main stamp set was in front of me.  WOW!  Look at me go!

 

 

I gathered up some scratch paper, ripped it up and put some glue marker on the back of it to try and hold it in place while I worked.

 
I am using these makeup sponges because all of my hydra sponges are designated for other colors and I don't have any others on hand. 

 

 

 

My paper slipped off so I stopped and called the pink good!

 

 
Yep.  It's about now that I realize I've done it wrong.  Oh well.  As tempted as I am to start over I'm not going to.  I can make this work! 

Notice on Heather's card that she has TWO really crisp lines for the ripped cardstock.  I don't.  Saddums.

 

 

 
I wanted to show you which adhesive I use for this tiny frame.  I LOVE this Tombow Mono Glue!  LOVE IT!

 
I used Copic Markers R11 and R20 to color in my bird.  And then added more color and stamping.

NOTE:  The flat tone of my bird.  Look specifically at its eye ...

 

I later took a brown marker and started to add some dimension myself.

 

I think this card may have looked better had I left off the 'hope perches in my soul' HOWEVER that was one of the parts I just COULDN'T leave off!  This girls soul needs HOPE perched in it!

 
So here's my card next to the masterpiece.  You notice I placed my watermark signature under the masterpiece!  Ok ~ it really did look best there.  It is funny though!

Heather's card is certainly more striking and one of the reasons is because of her color palette.  She is working with two strong colors and next to each other they are BAM!  PERFECT colors for her card and her images.  The entire package Heather selected works well together! 

I choose two colors that to me read more feminine, soft, delicate and worked sweetly with the images I had chosen.  These are all details that set the tone for the final result.

 

Guess what ... I didn't use ... Glossy Accents ... even though Heather did!

 

Here you can really see the brown I added to the image.

 

I also decided to emboss on a couple of layers because the card seemed so one dimensional to me.  Now it's busier than I'll get out!  LOL!

 

This is a technique that just requires you to go for it!  If you just can't seem to get started then find a card you like that is done with this technique and recreate it using your own palette and images. 

Additional Supplies for Hope card:  Pixie Dust and Spanish Olive VersaMagic Ink, Transcendence Emboss Powder, Nesties Dies, brown marker

Happy Paper Crafting!

Mischelle

.... now let's go make another card!