Father's Day Card

Hi Friends,

Its Father's Day on 17th June. I am here with a masculine card that you could make for your father on this special occasion.

Supply List:

• Bielo Smooth Card stock
• Ranger Distress Oxide Inks – Iced Spruce, Broken China, Faded Jeans, Vintage Photo 
• Ranger Distress Ink – Black Soot
• Colour Box Frost White Pigment Ink
• Archival Jet Black Ink
• iCraft MDF gear embellishments & Metal watch embellishments 
• Inka-Gold Jade Green
• Sentiment Stamps from Peek-A-Boo
• Fine paint brush, Foam tape, Mini-mister, Glue, Blending Tools

Steps to Create:

• Cut and score card stock to create 5 by 7" card base 
• Using a blending foam, blend Distress Oxide inks on 5 by 7” white card stock.
• Add white and black splatters on the card panel using Black Soot and White ink. 
• Distress edge of the blended card panel with Black Soot Ink and colour gears with same.
• Add highlights to gears by rubbing and buffing Jade-Green Inka-Gold.
• Adhere gears and metal watch on card panel using glue.
• Blend Distress Oxide Broken China on a small piece of card stock and mist with water. Stamp the sentiment with Black ink and adhere on the card panel.
• To finish the card, adhere the card panel on prepared card base.

Hope you liked this card.

(PS. This article was 1st published in the June 2017 issue of "Our Idea Book" Magazine)

Love,

Dr. Neha Sanwalka Rungta,

Crafty Flirtations 

Gears & Sweet Memories - A Mixed-media layout

Hi friends,

I am sharing today a mixed-media layout with a vintage feel that I made for my sister-in-law sometime back. As I wanted a gender neutral project, I used MDF gears to embellish my project.

 The MDF gears are from iCraft by The Craft Studio. iCraft has one of the widest range of gears and lots of other designs in MDF cut-outs with appropriate thickness and clean cuts for any mixed-media project. 

For the base, I coloured a 12 by 12 MDF with Wild Honey Distress Ink in the edges and sealed the ink using Distress glaze. I than tore a pattern paper on edges to give a distressed look and gave it a wash with diluted purple and blue. Once the paint was dry, I adhered pattern paper to coloured MDF base. I added some texture using Ranger texture paste and stencils

I mixed black Fevicryl acrylic paint with Ranger texture paint and used it through Tim Holtz stencil to add texture at places. I also dusted some Perfect Pearls on the textured areas to add the gold touch. 

I used gold, silver, blue and purple Fevicryl acrylic paints to colour the gears.  

This is a metal embellishment that I coloured using similar acrylic colours as MDF. I cut the clock from a pattern paper and pasted it on center of the embellishment. I added some micro-beads and Mod-Podge dimensional to finish it.

Sweet Memories is also an MDF from iCraft and it was heat embossed with Ultra Thick Embossing Powder from Ranger 

I hope you liked this layout.

Love,

Dr. Neha Sanwalka Rungta

Crafty Flirtations