Enjoyable & Humorous Handmade Playing cards Utilizing the Spellbinders “This Is Life” Collection

Welcome, artful buddies! Marie right here, from Marie Nicole Designs, and I’m so excited to be again on the Spellbinders weblog to share just a few enjoyable playing cards.

I used to be in a position to create with the This Is Life collection. This assortment is filled with such enjoyable and humorous units! There’s one thing for the pickleball lover, in addition to just a few different units so as to add some enjoyable to a few of the extra mundane components of life. Just a little laughter can at all times loosen up most conditions. Let’s take a better look!

For my first card, the sentiment is the entire present. This massive “UGH” is such a focus, and I really like the font! I lower this out a number of occasions, as soon as from black cardstock and as soon as from pink, after which I layered them collectively. I selected so as to add the pink to the again as a shadow as a result of I needed the black font to pop in opposition to the intense ink mixing I needed to do.

I went forward and lower a diagonal strip out of my card entrance, and made positive to maintain the 2 corners so I may add them again on with foam adhesive later. Then, I grabbed a card base, penciled within the space that wanted to be ink blended, and started working.

I used Distress Ink colours for the colour within the diagonal strip. From left to proper, the colours used had been Scattered Straw, Worn Lipstick, and Festive Berries. This gave a yellow-to-red ombre mix that has a pinkish hue to it. Perfect to pair with the daring black of the sentiment!

I then stamped the supporting sentiment, “adulting is hard”, and added the corners again on with foam adhesive. The UGH is glued down, with slightly foam behind the tail of the “g” for assist. I additionally thought there wanted to be slightly texture, so I added black splatters alongside the perimeters of the diagonal. I’d advise doing this BEFORE adhering every part down, however since I didn’t, I simply lined the areas I didn’t need splattered with a rag earlier than including the colour.

I actually love how my second card turned out! I used the Born to Dink set and created slightly pickleball scene on the entrance. Now, I don’t play pickleball, so I needed to lookup what a few of these phrases imply, however the card was nonetheless enjoyable to create, nonetheless.

There is a little bit of hidden engineering to this card that’s onerous to see on picture. The blue space behind the online is an acetate window, and the pickleball freely strikes inside. That approach, it might appear to be the paddles are bouncing the ball forwards and backwards as you tip the cardboard. It’s very like a shaker!

The inexperienced space is the courtroom that I masked off traces for after which ink blended with Mowed Lawn ink.

The body, the inexperienced pickleball courtroom, and the online are all adhered down with foam adhesive to make the raised-up entrance layer. Then, there’s a sheet of acetate earlier than the entire entrance is adhered to the blue background with the froth. And after all, the intense yellow ball is positioned contained in the shaker space earlier than adhering every part collectively.

For the paddles, I used navy blue, orange, and an orangish-yellow coloration. I added them to the perimeters of the cardboard after which trimmed the overhang so it might be completely lined up with the sting of the cardboard.

I actually love how the ball strikes so easily forwards and backwards on this card. It actually gives the look of taking part in pickleball!

This last card simply makes me snicker.

We’ve all been there- the sensation that every part is only a dumpster hearth. Adding slightly laughter into the state of affairs can actually lighten the temper, although!

I lower out this dumpster character from the Dumpster Fire set and assembled him. I saved the colours to greens, oranges, and yellows.

Then, I believed if we’re gonna burn, we’d as properly crash, too. So I set our dumpster buddy on an angle on the backside nook of the cardboard, and added coloured stripes behind him. The stripes give an phantasm of motion throughout the cardboard, so it appears to be like like he’s dashing downhill.

I additionally added splatters to this card, however this time BEFORE adhering every part collectively. I believed the splatters over the gray cardstock appears to be like just like the pavement the dumpster is flying over. Then, I added the stripes and the dumpster.

The sentiment is stamped in black and in addition simply makes me snicker.

And, as a completion, I added some sparkles to the hearth. Because for those who’re gonna crash and burn, you would possibly as properly be fabulous via it.

So that’s it! A fast have a look at the This Is Life collection. I hope it places a smile in your face prefer it did mine.

Until subsequent time, Marie

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Colored cardstock, foam adhesive, liquid adhesive, acetate, Distress Inks, black ink, scissors, paper trimmer