~ Welcome Little One ~
March 14th, 2010 by Holly McMillen
Hi Friends 🙂
I have been asked numerous times over the last week or so about how I make the bows on my cards. Â I keep forgetting to let my secret out, but I think now it a good time. Â I have two words: Bow Easy. Â Â If you are not familiar with the Bow Easy, I cannot recommend it enough. Â I use to struggle to make bows until Sharon at Stamp Simply sent me one. Â At first I was a little scared of it as it is a weird looking contraption. Â Along with the Bow Easy, she sent me several links for tutorials. Â I broke down and watched one video and that was all it took. Â Now I make perfect bows, every time! Â Â Go get one, if you don’t have one already!!
I can’t express too many times that having the perfect designer paper for a project or card is important to most of us. Â Many times I let the colors of a project be dictated by the paper I have on hand. Â I would rather it be the other way around! Â So, for today’s Technique Lover’s Challenge, we are making our own designer paper.
For my card, I took the baby stamp and randomly stamped it on white cardstock. Â Then I took a ruler and BOO1 copic and drew diagonal lines. Â I used the same BOO1 copic and made tiny dots as well. Â Then I colored the babies with raw silk copic and the BOOOO and BOOO1 copic.
I created a crossover with the designer paper (which is adorned with scalloped eyelet border punch) and used lift tape around the edges to create a pocket.
The insert is simply my image stamped and colored with the bow popped up. Â I stamped the sentiment “It’s a boy” below the image and matted it on black.
Here are my deets:
Stamps: Artful Inkables‘ Newborn Blessings
Colors: Basic Black, GP White, Bashful Blue
Ink: Versafine Black Onyx, copics, bashful blue
Accessories: Ribbon(From Sharon Johnson’s Stamp Simply Ribbon Store), circle punches, embroidery floss, candy dots, swiss dots, corner rounder, eyelet border punch, dimensionals
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Thanks for stopping by! Â I hope you’ll pop on over to the TLC forum on Splitcoaststampers.com to play along! Â Blessings all.
Hugs,
Holly
Absolutely gorgeous Holly. Love the bow and that cute image.
So Sweet! Love the idea of making your own background paper. I understand perfectly about the designer paper dictating what colors we use – you are so clever!!!
This looks terrific Holly! I love the light blue/brown combination (they are my alma mater colors). I have a Bow Easy, but haven’t taken it out of the package and don’t know exactly how to use it yet (blushing).
Hope your Aunt is doing okay.
~Meredith
YOur BOW is Fabulous!!! Gorgeous Card!!!
Vicki
Is THIS darling!!! I totally love this baby card — those babies are SO, SO cute and your bow is JUST scrumptious!!! Sweet, sweet card that will evoke tons of *oohs and aahs* as my DH would jokingly say!!! LOL!! But it truly will!!! Love it!!!
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