Awww! "We need each other". By the looks in these little guys eyes, they DO need each other.
"Let's eat!" and "I'm so Egg-cited" are part of my bacon & eggs stamp and cutting die set from this month's club kit by The Stamps Of Life - Stephanie Barnard. You've probably seen a couple days prior of bacon and eggs themed cards, as you'll see some more in today's blog. Many similarities but yet everyone of them are different. Let's start out with some eggs.
In one of the prior blogs I explained how I painted about 20 eggs and 20 bacon ahead of time. I made a little assembly line and just painted each of the colors on with my watercolors or Tim Holtz Distress Alcohol inks. In some cases I popped the egg yolk off the page by applying Glossy Accents to the circular shape yolk and filled it in. The ending result is a clear bubble over your image. Like the black checkered yolk pictured above.
Here's the inside of that card. "Eggscellent!"
I stamped one of the egg stamps onto the grey background page and used three of the same die-cut eggs. The blue and grey background page completely changed the look from some of the other cards that happen to say the same sentiment. Another way to give similar cards variances is to make some landscape (held horizontally - long sides on top and bottom) and some portrait style (held vertically -long sides on left and right).
Placing a "Happy Happy Happy" stamp in the lower right corner gave me the idea for the inside. Although it's not a part of the club kit set all the other stamps in this blog are from, it went perfectly with "Show your sunny side".
"I'm so Egg-cited for you!". What a great way to express that "Happy Happy Happy" feeling. Then just for fun I stamped two eggs behind the sentiment block, leaving plenty of room to write a personal message.
Although the phrase is different...and I just love this one "Have an Eggcellent Birthday"...this card has a VERY familiar design to some of the others. Changing the ribbon is another quick way for a different color theme too.
"Even if you are fried let your sunny side show". Notice the ribbon on that one is white and yellow...like an egg!
"You're bacon me crazy" and "You must be yolking" are clever ways of putting it!
And lastly, I'd like to show you another "Don't go bacon my heart" card (a few others were posted in prior blogs over the past couple of days).
The eyeballs! Thanks to Nuvo Crystal Drops I can make these types of eyeballs. Just drop a little white onto your image and while it is still wet, dab the black onto the surface and it creates the pupil.
For the inside of this card I stamped a slice of bacon with my black StazOn ink. I thought the "We need each other" stamp was a perfect sentiment to go with the front of the card.
Written by Jennifer Quilty for Tamm's Marketplace. Published for 1/16/18.
This is such a cute and clever bacon and egg themed card. If you've been following along with my blog, you'll know that I've been having fun with my latest stamp and cutting die set by Stamps Of Life. Check out the past couple of days blogs to see all the other cards I've designed so far.
Let's do breakfast (or lunch). Love the invitation idea. I of course couldn't personally send this to my family or friends without getting a weird look...I don't eat either bacon or eggs!!! lol.
Daydreaming about bacon. I know lots of people that do this. My brother and his wife for example. They have an annual party solely in honor of bacon. "Bacon Armageddon" is what they call it.
Here's a close up to show that you can pop up the whole image like the bacon or you can chose to pop up just a part, like the yellow yolk.
Written by Jennifer Quilty for Tamm's Marketplace. Published for 1/14/18.
I'm so Egg-cited for you! Today's blog has more than just one card and is in continuation of yesterday's blog where I explained I had just gotten my new club kit Stamps Of Life set by Stephanie Barnard and was making a whole bunch of bacon and egg themed cards (with multiple occasions).
That black skillet was cut out of black cardstock and then edges were drawn on with a silver metallic pen.
Of course there has to be a birthday card. And it has to use the word "Eggcellent"!
Don't forget, when you want to pop your image off the page, use an adhesive foam strip or dot.
So, enough about eggs for today...onto bacon.
Oh, I just love the inside sentiment. Makes me laugh.
Written by Jennifer Quilty for Tamm's Marketplace. Published for 1/12/18.
Today's blog has a set of bacon and egg themed cards using my new stamps and cutting dies from Stamps Of Life by Stephanie Barnard. I loved the set that came with my monthly club kit so much that I ended up purchasing the add on sentiments stamp set. This way I can make many different cards, for many different occasions and all with bacon and eggs on them.
"We go together like bacon & eggs". There are many different ways to show that you can say the same thing.
Change the papers. When you don't have any that match the theme...stamp some up and design your own, like this orange background above. I randomly stamped eggs and bacon to fill the page.
To pop up the bacon or an egg, I stuck a foam adhesive strip or dot behind the image.
These next two have a plate designed into their look. I drew a border of squiggles around the plates rim. I also shaded the plates with distress inks.
I switched the plate from the left to the right to give it a different look. I also used strips of paper on one for the sentiments vs. stamping it directly onto the background paper.
And in case you are wondering how I started it all...I had to make all those little bacons and eggs. Here's a look at my workspace assembly line while watercoloring them all.
First I stamped them with my StazOn black ink, then proceeded to paint.
If you want to find out how any of these cards were made, using which supplies or how I possibly could design a card for you, please contact me. Leave me a comment too and let me know what you think about today's cards of my daily "Different Card, Different Day" blog series.
Written by Jennifer Quilty for Tamm's Marketplace. Published for 1/11/18.