RobsCreations

All you need is: a ruler , colored markers (I've used the Stabilo Swanos), white card stock and lot of patience 😅. It's a cheap and funny way to create card backgrounds and I find it interesting because you can match the color of the stripes with the image or embellishments you already have and not the other way around that usually implies buying more expensive crafting paper (not sure I'm explained myself properly.... 😔😕) Anyways, I made diagonal stripes for three different cards, but you can choose the pattern you prefer: vertical, horizontal and, if you have a curve ruler, you can go for something even fancier! For my own sake, I changed color every 4 or 5 lines. For example, I drew 4 or 5 parallel lines with the yellow marker and then moved to the orange one and so on. If you are brave and patient enough, you can try the one line/one color approach (good luck with that! 😂) This is totally optional, but once you're done making the stripes you c...

These cards have been created in the same spirit as the last bookmarks series ( HERE ): creating without spending too much! Some details on the techniques used to create the background of 'Let's eat cake' and 'Ciao' cards. 'Let's eat cake' card background Upper part : made with the bubble wrap stamping technique. Materials: bubble wrap, white ink and white embossing powder for the bubbles and beige ink for the non-embossed surface. I really like to use this technique, as you can also see from this Xmas project with candles( HERE ).  Here you have a couple of nice videos  from Dawn's Stamping Thoughts  and  from Jan Brown  explaining how to bubble wrap stamp Bottom part : is made with a technique I wrote about just few days ago ( HERE ): marbling with  watercolours and saran wrap .   'Ciao' card background It's simply created with watercolors.  To splatter-paint  the paper either scatter ...

During the last two months I challenged myself to create cards and bookmarks without buying too many crafty tools! It's easy to make nice cards when we buy fancy die cuts, colorful scrap paper, flowers and enamel dots, expensive markers or lovely stamps...  For this project I wanted to rely on my creative side only and realize new pieces mostly with things I already had at home (especially in the kitchen 🤣). I made a minimal investment of less than 30 Euros and bought a box of 24 Stabilo Swano markers, 1 Xcut alphabet die and a  Ranger Glossy accents bottle (small size). Let's start with the bookmarks ! I'd like to spend few words on the first and third bookmark from the left. For the marble background I've used watercolours and a funny technique which relies on the use of saran wrap... For this and other funny watercolour techniques please refer to this interesting  VIDEO Cards will follow in the next blog post 😚 GOO...