DT Project Happy Dad's Day with Gansai Tambi Watercolors

By    May 23, 2018 // 1 comment
Today's project is so fun and so easy to do.  Sometimes you just need a fast and simple card that packs a punch!  And these Kuretake Gansai Tambi  watercolors are so great.  The richness of each color is so beautiful.  I started with placing the color down on my watercolored cardstock in both the green and blue.  To achieve this look, it only took two layers of paint.  Then I heat embossed both the grill and sentiment from the Hero Arts Dad's Day set, and finshed off the card with filling in the grill with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers.  BAM! Done :).  Thanks so much for joining us today!


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Foiling Without Heat feat Gina K and Hero Arts Sun Die

By    May 19, 2018 // No comments

Hello everyone!  Today's card features a few different techniques.  I used Gina K Foils without heat, and a Hero Arts Sun Die as a stencil.  It's so great when you can find alternate ways to use things in order to get more from what you have.  I started ink blending some Distress Oxide Ink in the colors Wilted Violet and Picked Raspberry through the stencil of the Hero Arts Sun Die stencil.  Once I'm happy with the blend, I sprayed it with my new shimmer spray by Tattered Angels  in the pearl color.  I absolutely love the affect this gives.  So soft and pretty.  My final touch to the card are these foiled hearts.  I placed the foil over a Stick-It sheet and then cut it out with various sizes of heart dies.  I love that I didn't have to use heat for this technique.  I hope you give it a try!! Thanks so much for stopping by!



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DT Project feat Prima Marketing - 2 Ways to Color Background Stamps

By    May 12, 2018 // 1 comment

Hello everyone!  Today's Design Team Project features this beautiful background stamp from Prima Marketing.  It was so fun to color and I will show you two different ways to do just that; one very simple and fast, and one more therapeutic!

I started off by stamping the background stamp on some watercolor and Bristol smooth paper so that I can do some easy watercoloring with my Zig markers.  Once heat embossed I dipped the watercolor panel into Distress Oxide Ink to get the blend of colors I prefer.  That was the easy coloring and I highly recommend it. 


The more time intensive coloring came with the Bristol smooth paper because I chose to color each individual flower.  SO FUN!

I finished off the cards with some sparkle using both the Nuvo Mica Mist in Silver Smoke and Tattered Angels in Pearl.   Thank you so much for stopping by!

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Two cards for kraftgali first birthday by Noga Shefer

By    May 10, 2018 // 4 comments


Hi Crafty Friends! I’ts Noga and today I'm here to share two cards that I made for kraftgali first birthday :)


In the first card the image was stamped  from the stamps set Critter Campout Stamps- Sunny Studio Stamps on smooth white cardstock using Jet Black Ink and  colored in with Copic Markers.



With Claritystamp STENCIL BRUSHES Set of 4 I made clouds with stencil.

The balloon was stamped from the stamps set Birthday Balloon Stamps- Sunny Studio Stamps on smooth white cardstock using distress oxide ink.


In the second card the images were stamped  from the stamps set Critter Campout Stamps- Sunny Studio Stamps on smooth white cardstock using Jet Black Ink and  colored in with Copic Markers.



With Claritystamp STENCIL BRUSHES Set of 4 I made the background using distress oxide inks.

Happy crafting :)

XOXO,
Noga Shefer





Hero Arts Dad's Day Set with Distress Oxides

By    May 05, 2018 // 1 comment

We are back with this ultra fun, Distress Oxide resist card design.  I absolutely love playing with Distress Oxide inks and for this project, I'm using the newest bundle!  How awesome are these colors???
I started off by stamping out the tools from the Hero Arts Dad's Day Stamp Set.  I used Versamark ink and stamped them out first in a symmetrical pattern and then much more randomly on the second card.  I then covered them both in white embossing powder and heat set them.  THIS is where the fun comes in.  I then got to play play play with these inks. I smooshed a few colors on my craft mat and spritzed with water.  Then I dipped the watercolor cardstock into the inks and watched as magic happened.  I then heat set them and added some brown to make them look "worked on" as this card is a fix-it, handy man, type card.
I made two cards while I had all my supplies out. They both had very similar layouts.  I used some silver cardstock in my stash and dry embossed them with a folder that reminded me of a peg board.  I adhered my cards using Nuvo glue.  These cards were so much fun to do!  Thank you so much for hanging out with us today!!!
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Kraftgali Card Challenge #3 Winner

By    April 30, 2018 // No comments
Hello!!
Thank you so much for playing the Kraftgali Card Challenge #2. So much creativity! We were blown away!!

Here is the winning entry for this month by hollyshandmadecards. Please click on the image to view the entire post.



Congratulations to the winner! Please email us at kraftgali@outlook.com before Saturday, May 5th, 11:59 pm PST to claim your prize, or it will be passed over to next person.

Remember... The May challenge is cancelled but we have some amazing giveaways for you tomorrow. Don't forget to come and join us!

Thank you so much for stopping by!
Have a great day!!

Hero Arts Safari and Watercoloring with Distress Inks

By    April 28, 2018 // No comments

Hello crafty friends!  Buckle in for a super fun card where we get to be artists of sorts.  We are going to be playing with this incredible sun die, and these two amazing sets from Hero Arts:





This card came together so easily.  I used a few different pieces of watercolor paper and started first by taking Distress Oxide colors in Wild Honey and Squeezed Lemonade.  I smooshed them on my craft mat, spritzed with water and then dipped my watercolor paper in them.  I thought that they may have blended too much (I know...how dare I say that...) so I added a bit of Fired Brick to them.  That was just the trick, since I was using this panel for the Hero Arts Sun Die.  Once that was done, I started working on the other watercolor paper.  Pulling out some good old Distress Inks in Mustard Seed, Salty Ocean, and Candied Apple, I did some light watercoloring. It was absolutely therapeutic; I love watercoloring simple things like this background.  


I then stamped out the grass line, followed by a little bit of ink blending to make the sand color at the bottom of the panel.  Lastly, I stamped out my tree, the sentiment, and the birds in Versafine Onyx black ink and the elephants in gray.  I assembled the card using Nuvo Glue. (love that stuff).
That will do it for the card.  Thank you so much for stopping by and crafting with us today!  We had some much fun and hope you got inspired to take out any medium you have and get to painting! 
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