August Release | 3 Unique Quick Cards | Joy Clair Designs

 Hi Everyone, Renee' with Delaney Jane Cards Blog and YouTube channel. Today I'm part of a hop to showcase the newest release from Joy Clair Designs. I had the pleasure of working with one of the newest sets called Prized Life. I decided to do something a little non traditional and manipulate the images to work for me and my design. I also wanted to do minimal work to create maximum impact.

I printed the images onto some Tonic Studios Cobalt Velour Satin finish Cardstock using my Canon Laser Printer and I foiled the images. These images were manipulated and resized first using my Silhouette Software  and if I needed it, I used a program called paint.net and it can be downloaded for free at getpaint.net 

I wanted three very quick cards so I focused on simplicity. The first card features an ink blended background and a cover die. The sentiment panel is popped up over the background and is simply foiled using my laminator and some deco foil.

The second card is simply foiled and layered onto a scalloped rectangle die and placed directly on the white cardbase. This frames the foiled image nicely. The bird nest image is the reason I picked this set and when I was working with it I wanted a bit more tree and branch around the nest, easily changed up in my free programs. I liked how this filled the panel a little more.

For the third card I also ink blended but I created my own patterned paper and then, you guessed it, foiled the background. I fussy cut the sentiment and two of the leave branches and popped them up on top of the card panel. All framed with a thin black border. I also added a few confetti to this panel for more interest.

You can check out the video I have up on Joy Clair's channel here:

https://youtu.be/16F0mRhZQXw

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Growing In Unity Day 5 | Creating a One Layer Collage Card

Hi Everyone, It's Renee' with Delaney Jane Cards YouTube and Blog. Today I'm sharing my day 5 project for my guesting week for Unity Stamps called Growing In Unity. I decided to use this fantastic stamp called Jo {Fashionista}

This is the stamp I won in October of 2013. This is the stamp that made me fall so deeply in love with Unity Stamps and this is the stamp that made me invested in them as a company. I couldn't believe someone would be so giving. Over the past almost 7 years, their giving has only increased.

I wanted some supporting images and a sentiment for this card and decided on Frankly Said {June 2015 Sentiment Kit}

I used several of my favorite techniques which include paper piecing and stenciling. I also needed to experiment with something I had seen on YouTube, alcohol inks on regular cardstock. I share all the details in my video for today.

Video Tutorial

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-Give Cards Generously!
-Renee'


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Frankly Said
Jo Fashionista

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Growing In Unity Day 4 | Cure Girls on Colored Cardstock

 

Hi Everyone, It's Renee' with Delaney Jane Cards YouTube and Blog. Today I'm sharing my day 4 project for my guesting week for Unity Stamps called Growing In Unity. I decided to use this fantastic stamp called Cure Girls. I've had this one for several years and I have made hundreds of cards with it from super simple to very intricate.

I sent cards of HOPE to cancer patients for several years and this one was the 5th card in the series I would send. It was never colored the same and I could personalize it for the person and the cancer, but I always sent this one.

Video Tutorial

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P.S. I heard there is a HUGE sale going on over at Unity too.

Thank you For Stopping by and as I always say,
-Give Cards Generously!
-Renee'
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Growing In Unity Day 3 | Enhancing Watercoloring with Copic Markers

Hi Everyone! It's Renee' with Delaney Jane Cards Blog and YouTube Channel.

Today, I have my day 3 share of my Growing In Unity Guest Spot. I wanted to share a fairly quick project with you today using the You Have Made A Difference set by Unity Stamp Co.

I decided to make a super soft background with a watercolor technique and enhance the water-colored floral with Copic Markers.

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Video Tutorial

Thank you For Stopping by and as I always say,
-Give Cards Generously!
-Renee'


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Unity Stamp Co. You Have Made A Difference
Distress Ink Worn Lipstick
Distress Ink Speckled Egg
Distress Ink Faded Jeans
Distress Ink Bundled Sage
Distress Ink Dried Marigold 

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Growing In Unity Day 2 | An Easy Way to Create Definition in an Image SOFTLY!

Hi Everyone! It's Renee' with Delaney Jane Cards Blog and YouTube Channel.

Today, I have my day 2 share of my Growing In Unity Guest Spot. I wanted to share a fairly quick project with you today using the Radiate The World Stamp set by Unity Stamp Co.

I heat embossed the globe in white onto some very light grey cardstock called Grout Gray by MFT. This is a super light neutral gray cardstock. The white is visible on the cardstock but it maintains a very soft delicate look.

Ink blending over the embossing with Speckled Egg Distress Ink by Ranger using a blending brush and adding stormy sky and faded jeans helped add a soft background to the embossed globe image.

I colored a few of the florals in with some Copic markers in a very simple color pallet, orange, pink and green for the foliage. Nothing special, just filled them in. Because this was done on the light gray cardstock the colors maintain a muted soft look.

This stencil by A Colorful Life Designs called Circular Motion Stencil was perfect to reinforce the radiating circular feel of the entire image and scene I was creating.  I used only the speckled egg to stencil this around the globe. I did it softly to maintain that really soft look.

The globe was still fading into the background a bit too much. Using the B90 series Copics, B99, 97, 95, and 93 along with the colorless blender, I added this glowing shadow or halo around the globe and in between the white embossed images. This gave the globe definition but kept the image very soft.

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Video Tutorial

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-Give Cards Generously!
-Renee'

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Growing In Unity Day 1 | Graduation card

Hi Everyone! I have the pleasure of sharing a few projects this week for Unity Stamp Co. They do this thing every week where someone else shares projects for the week and you know what they do? They give things away! Yep, free quality stamps. LIKE Completely FREE! To enter, you comment on this blog or my YouTube channel. The more posts you comment on the better your chances of winning the sweet prizes Unity offers.

The first project I'm sharing this week is a custom graduation card. The young man was adopted when he was young and now lives in the United States with his family. He recently graduated high school and I wanted to make his card really represent him. 

Unity stamps has so much to offer as far as selection. I'm a huge fan of this graduation stamp set and used it for this card. 

 

Here is a closer look at that globe! 

 

Video Tutorial

Stamps Used: 

You Did Good

The World Is Yours 

 Big Numbers

Copic Markers:

Blick Art Supplies

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Thank you for stopping by and as I always say,

GIVE CARDS GENEROUSLY!

-Renee'

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