Floral and Plaid Card

Hello everyone! It's Cheryl with the Inkon3 Creative Team here to show you a fun and quick card that mixes beautiful magnolia flowers with a masculine patterned paper!

First you'll need the following pieces prepped, feel free to adjust the colors and patterns to whatever you'd like or have available:

- A2 Card Base

- 5.5"x 4.25" Blue paper 

- Black die-cut rectangle (I chose a scalloped rectangle die)

- Buffalo Plaid Patterned paper cut down to fit into black rectangle

- Black paper cut down to 2" high and whatever width is needed to fit into the rectangle

- 2"x 0.5" small black rectangle for sentiment 

- White card stock that's 1.5" high and whatever width is needed to fit into the rectangle

On the white card stock, randomly stamp images from the Big Bold Magnolia stamp set using the Blackout Hybrid Detail Ink. Color with coloring medium of choice. 

Then on the small 2"x 0.5 " black rectangle, stamp the sentiment "Have a Happy Birthday" from the BeYoutiful clear stamp set, using Juicy Clear Embossing & Watermark Ink, then sprinkle some Arctic White Ultra Fine embossing Powder and heat set!

Assemble the layers and components of the cards as shown in the picture above and that's it! This is a super fun and quick card!

Products Used:

Big Bold Magnolias Clear Stamp Set

BeYOUtiful Clear Stamp Set

Blackout Hybrid Detail Ink
Juicy Clear Embossing & Watermark Ink
Arctic White Ultra Fine Embossing Powder

Copics Used:
Greys: C3, C1, C0
Greens: G19, G14, G05
Blues: BG00, BG000, BG000
Yellows: Y19, Y15, Y11

Bright Magical Unicorn No-Line colouring with Erica

Hi everyone! *waves excitedly*

Erica here with my first blog post on the Inkon3 blog as part of the design team! I’m so, so excited about working for this fab company. I’ve been such a fan of Fleurette’s magical Fadeout No Line Coloring ink since I first got my hands on it and to be asked to join the Inkon3 DT was a dream come true.

Right, I’m going to dive right in with the details of my card for today’s post! I’ve used the Magical Unicorn stamp set, paired with Fadeout ink and Zig Clean Color markers to create a bright and sparkly unicorn.

To start with, I stamped up the image with the help of my Mini MISTI. I use the MISTI whenever I stamp anything, just in case I feel it needs another stamp or two. To make sure I could really see the outlines of this stamp, I stamped it three times with the Fadeout ink.

Then it was colouring time! As I wanted a bright and vivid look, I added hardly any water to the Zig’s. Especially on the mane-bit. I did have to use some on the ears and the face and body, but that’s one of the brilliant things of the Zigs. You can get so many different looks just by adding water or just blending them without any water at all.

As the mane is so bright and colourful, I decided to keep the flowers all white and only add Liquid Pixie Dust to them. This is some serious sparkly stuff! If you are looking for something that will add sparkled to your projects, don’t look any further!

I used the dropper to get a couple of drops out, I use a tile as a palette as it’s easy to clean off, and then used the medium water colour brush to fill in the flowers. Once throughly covered I set this aside to dry to overnight to avoid any colours or Pixie Dust to get where it’s not supposed to. I’m over-cautious after having had one too many projects ruined by smudging ink, colour or something else because it wasn’t fully dry.

Coming back to the card the next day, I settled on a sentiment and heat embossed that with Chrome Ultra Fine embossing powder. Before I did anything embossing wise, I used my anti-static tool all over the image, except over the Pixie Dust flowers. I figured if a few stray silver bits went on them it would only make them more sparkly.

With the help of my Mini MISTI again, I stamped up the sentiment ‘Hugs, Kisses and Unicorn Wishes’ with Embossing ink and then sprinkled the embossing powder over it. A quick swish with the heat gun and a card base later, the card was done!

I have a video of the colouring coming to my YouTube channel soon, so keep your eyes peeled if you want to see how I coloured the Magical Unicorn.

That’s it from me this time. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have found some inspiration here today! See you soon again!

Lots of love and happy crafting from Erica







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Mermaid Cat Stamp Set, Card - Watercolor Embossing Techniques

Watercolor and Embossing Techniques, using the stamp set "My Little Catfish"

I had so much fun making this card as it is one of my favorite stamp sets. It always brings back sweet childhood memories for me.  When I was a little girl about 8 years old, I got my first pet cat and I named her Catfish.  Why Catfish?  Well, I had a big love for all creatures of the sea and lakes I guess, lol.  She turned out to be my very best friend growing up and I had her all the way though college.  So every time I use this set, a little piece of her comes back to life.   I hope you will get as much joy out of creating with this little mercat set as I do, after all who doesn't like mermaids and their pets of course. 

Here is quick video showing the watercolor and embossing techniques I used to create this card. 

Thanks for watching <3 

How I created this card:

• First I used the seahorses and sea shells and Chrome Ultra-Fine Embossing Powders to create a fun background.  Then ink blended the blue over the top to give it that deep blue sea feel.

• Then I die cut a stitched circle, inked it up with some Juicy Embossing Ink, and poured on the Chrome embossing powder.  The combination of this ink and ultra fine powder is amazing, it is such a smooth, shiny finish.  It truly looks like metal! :) 

• For the Mercat or "Catfish" lol, I embossed it in the Arctic White Ultra-Fine Embossing powder then used watercolors to color it in. To add some deeper tones I accented it with some colored pencils. 

• Lastly, I created a banner tag and stamped the sentiments Sea You Soon, with the Blackout Waterproof Detail ink. 

Happy Crafting!