KristinS Takomis Designs
Memory Box birthday card
My mom wanted me to make a birthday card for her friend Mary. I had this idea in my head, but it took me about 100 hours to execute. Well, only 8, but still. Mary is going to be 99 or 100 years old this year, so the time and energy was worth it. Love the end result, but won’t do this again! I just got the memory box dies dancing tulips and tulip petals on Thursday, and the tulip petals dies has already become my most used die ever. I think I punched it over 55 times. I definitely need a Vagabond, or Grand Calibur as this was blister inducing on my Spellbinders Wizard machine! I cut a bunch of strips and colored each strip with combinations of distress ink and randomly cut pieces and less randomly glued tulips together. Favorite combinations of ink were the coral color from a mixture of dried marigold and worn lipstick, the teal which was a combination of tumbled glass, mustard seed, and milled lavendar. I like the mustard seed with the rusty hinge as well. I liked them all and was definitely having fun mixing my distress inks. The cat hiding in the flowers was cut out of silver wedding paper using the small cat die from Cheery Lynn. The dancing tulips die was cut too many times to count using a light green tsugami crepe cardstock—cut with the grain so the texture looks like leaf veins. Texture was highlighted with varying amounts of evergreen bough distress ink. The small leaves were actually the piece from between the crossed stems of the dancing tulips. You can see some unopened tulips that are still green. All of these leaves and stems were glued and pop dotted and curled at random and placed on light blue cardstock and outlined with a Krylon silver leafing pen. Super fun.
Memory Box birthday card
My mom wanted me to make a birthday card for her friend Mary. I had this idea in my head, but it took me about 100 hours to execute. Well, only 8, but still. Mary is going to be 99 or 100 years old this year, so the time and energy was worth it. Love the end result, but won’t do this again! I just got the memory box dies dancing tulips and tulip petals on Thursday, and the tulip petals dies has already become my most used die ever. I think I punched it over 55 times. I definitely need a Vagabond, or Grand Calibur as this was blister inducing on my Spellbinders Wizard machine! I cut a bunch of strips and colored each strip with combinations of distress ink and randomly cut pieces and less randomly glued tulips together. Favorite combinations of ink were the coral color from a mixture of dried marigold and worn lipstick, the teal which was a combination of tumbled glass, mustard seed, and milled lavendar. I like the mustard seed with the rusty hinge as well. I liked them all and was definitely having fun mixing my distress inks. The cat hiding in the flowers was cut out of silver wedding paper using the small cat die from Cheery Lynn. The dancing tulips die was cut too many times to count using a light green tsugami crepe cardstock—cut with the grain so the texture looks like leaf veins. Texture was highlighted with varying amounts of evergreen bough distress ink. The small leaves were actually the piece from between the crossed stems of the dancing tulips. You can see some unopened tulips that are still green. All of these leaves and stems were glued and pop dotted and curled at random and placed on light blue cardstock and outlined with a Krylon silver leafing pen. Super fun.