Two Cards for Avocado Arts!

Good Morning!

I'm guest designing this month for Avocado Arts- a great company offering lots of fun stamp sets, printables, digital die cuts, card kits and a stamp club! They sent me their latest release, Future's So Bright to play with- it's lots of fun!  I created two cards to share with you today featuring this set.  Here is the first:

For this card I started by stamping the rays using Versamark in the background of my kraft card base.  I went over the image with my clear Stardust glitter pen to give it a little shimmer.  Next, I added my tag and paper strip and created the faux stitching. I stamped my light bulb and my sentiment onto colored cardstock and cut them out.  I adhered the sentiment first and finished my card by adding the light bulb with foam adhesive dots for dimension.

I so wish it had been sunny out when I took this photo so that you could really see the sparkle from that glitter pen!  At least you can see the other details. :)   I chose Jet Black Archival Ink to stamp the lightbulb and sentiment.  This ink is the blackest of blacks and I love the way it looks on colored cardstock!  I used a Signo White Gel pen to create the faux stitching.

For my second card, I used the little camera image as well as the photo frame.  I thought it would be fun to use the frame to create a window in my card:

I created a card base out of red cardstock and adhered a strip of striped cardstock to the bottom.  To create the window, I stamped the frame onto my cardfront and cut out the center.  Next I stamped the frame and the camera onto white cardstock and cut them out.  I cut the center of the frame, this time leaving a little bit of an edge.  I adhered it over the other stamped frame, covering up all my lines.

You can see that I did add a little bit of color to the camera- I used some markers to color the stripes and grabbed my Stardust glitter pen again for the center of the camera lens.  I adhered the camera using foam dots.  I stamped the sentiment onto the frame and added just a bit of twine to finish off the look. 

   

On the inside, I stamped the frame again, this time adding a picture of my sweet nephew and his trophy to the center.  I added a little sentiment to finish it off.  I can't wait to write a little note in this one and send it off to my nephew!  He recently won this trophy for having the fastest little pine derby car around!  I think he'll get a kick out of seeing himself on the card!

I really enjoyed creating these cards for Avocado Arts!  If you'd like to see what other products they offer, check out their online store- there are lots of cute stamps including the Future's So Bright set that I got to use.  I'll be back on May 8th with another post featuring this fun set, as well!

Thanks for stopping by today!

-tessa