For these tiny cards I used the 4 Bar cards from Simon Says Stamp with the Tiny Things stamps from Tim Holtz and the coordinating dies from Simon Says stamp.I made a short video showing how I made these cards.
The first tiny card I made represents a hot air ballon safari I took over Masai Mara when I loved in Kenya for a year.
I stamped the background of all the cards with one stamp in different positions and stamped with Hickory Smoke Distress Archival Ink. Then I colored the shaped in with Pumice Stone Distress Ink and a Waterbrush.
This made nice backgrounds for each of my three cards, and although simple backgrounds, they were competing with the stamped and die cut focal points. So I embossed a few pieces of 2x3" vellum and attached those to the center of the background.
The second card has an Eiffel Tower in the background and a globe as the focal point with the sentiment See the World.
Each of the backgrounds are colored with a Blending Foam and Speckled Egg Distress Ink. I wanted to keep the background light, but interesting and something that supports the theme of the card.
I did color in each of the focal stamps with Distress Inks: Peacock Feathers, Rusty Hinge, Walnut Stain and Peeled Paint.
For the last card I used the birds and the birdcages. I wanted the bird cages to be in the background and the birds in the focal point to be free.
I stamped all of the sentiments and focal points in Hickory Smoke to begin with, but they were too light and looked really washed out. So I re-stamped all of the sentiments and focal points in Ground Espresso Distress Archival Ink and then watercolored them with the colors posted above.
I finished each card by machine stitching around the embossed 2x3 vellum and the outside edge of the background. I really felt like that detail was what the cards needed.
Thank you so much for stopping by to check out the details. I hope you give your own Tiny Cards a try. they make it very easy to whip up several little notecards that can be popped in the mail to a friend.
Have a creative day,
Tami
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