Tag: Digital

Have you ever made a hybrid card before? If you have made a card, you probably have but didn’t even think about it when you did. It is a card combining digital and physical elements in the creation. I am on the Emerald Creek Design Team the June theme was “Tiny joy, simple things.” I’m sharing the details of this card creation below including a supply list for the materials used in the creation.

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Creating the Hybrid Dream Card

First, I started with the Dreams Live Here PNG by Pam Bray and brought it into Silhouette. I only wanted to use the Dream part of it, so I used the knife to cut the design apart. Then repeated the pattern to fill the size I wanted for my card front. I did play around with a couple different layouts with this as you can see in the photo below.

While I could use the Silhouette machine to cut around the design and even set it up as a print and cut, it is sometimes easier just to use a paper trimmer, especially when it’s straight lines.

Next, I used a stencil that I cut with my Silhouette from a mixed media design by Sarah Hurley in a recent Crafting Creativity project, and drew in the stencil with embossing pens.

Then added the Magical Mysteries Kiss of the Fairy Emerald Creek embossing powder and heated that up to melt the embossing powder onto the Dream background. Next, I cut a larger background from the Lemoncello Paper by Pam Bray for the card base and inked the edges of it.

And then adhered the Dream background on top of the blue background.

I then used the Providence Florals – Prairie Crocus Stamp with Ranger archival black ink on mixed media paper. The flowers were colored in with watercolors and the edges of the paper inked using Lisa Horton Cloud 9 Color Shifting inks. I cut another piece of the Lemoncello papers in yellow for the mat and inked the edges of that too.

Then added a layer of Simon Hurley Pity Party Solar Paste on top of the watercolored flowers and it gives it a bit of shimmer and shine.

Then I adhered the Dream background onto the card base and then used foam tape to adhere the matted flowers to the bottom right. For a bit of dimension, I added some pink twine behind the flowers before securing it down. Then I cut just the word Dream from the other pattern I had printed and matted it on black cardstock. I used foam tape on the left side to keep it even with the flower elements.

And the final step was to add 3 clear rhinestones in the top left of the card.

Here are some close up looks at the finished Dream card.

The embossing powder is so cool when it reflects the light.

I love how this card turned out combining digital elements with physical stamping, watercoloring, and inking.

Hybrid Card Supply List

• Dreams Live Here PNG by Pam Bray (used the Dream part)
• Providence Florals – Prairie Crocus Stamp
• Magical Mysteries Kiss of the Fairy Embossing Powder
• Lemoncello Paper and Ephemera Pack by Pam Bray
• Paper Trimmer
• Ranger Ink Embossing Pens
• Heat It Craft Tool by Ranger
• Acrylic Stamping Block
• Ranger Archival Ink – Black
• Mixed Media Paper
• Lisa Horton Cloud 9 Color Shift Inks
• Finger Dabbers
• Adtech adhesive tape runner
• Foam tape
• Pink Twine
• Clear adhesive backed rhinestones
• Stencil material
• Mixed Media design by Sarah Hurley
• Silhouette Cameo
• Silhouette Autoblade
• Silhouette Cutting Mat
• Solar Paste Pity Party by Simon Hurley
• Black Cardstock
• Neenah Cardstock for card base
• Glassboard Magnetic Craft Mat & Magnets
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I hope this post on the hybrid card I created gives you some ideas of what you could create. See what supplies you have on hand and what you can combine to create a unique card, tag, mixed media creation and more!

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