Happy Birthday

Hello all. I'm playing in the Freshly Made Sketch today with this card.

I started out with a large piece of watercolor paper and distress spray inks in stormy sky and antique linen.  I used a brayer to even out and spread the colors.  The dots are done using a stencil from The Crafters Workshop and embossing paste.  Then I stenciled on jumbled numbers using stormy sky distress ink.

The script words is a stamp from Darkroom Door, which I stamped in hickory smoke archival ink.  Added white and black splatters all over too.  Once everything was dry, I cut out the rectangles using a deckled die.  Added stormy sky distress ink to the edges with a dauber and popped them up using foam tape on the card base.  The birthday sentiment and die are from Waffle Flower. 

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Thank you - SSC383

Hello and welcome back to another challenge over at Sunday Stamps.

The big bee stamp is from Park Lane. I stamped it in Versafine, heat embossed it and colored it with Copics.  Used a glitter brush pen from Scrapbook.com to add some sparkle to its wings. 

Ink blended the honeycomb with Simon say stamps pawsitively saturated ink in yellows through a stencil.  The sentiment is from Jillian Vance Designs.

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Spread your wings

Hello. Playing in the Freshly Made Sketch challenge today with this card(s).  

The designer paper is from Unity stamp company.  The border die is from Globeland (Amazon) and the butterfly is an old one from Cloud 9 Designs.  I heat embossed it and colored it to match the dsp with walnut stain distress ink.  The sentiment is from My Favorite Things. 

I added an eyelet to the file tab just to be different and stuck it between the two dot rectangles. The swirl behind the main panel is from the same butterfly set, I just masked off the sentiment just to get the swirl.

I thought this was a bit plain, so after I took the photo above, I went back and added a bit of walnut stain distress ink around the perimeter of the card.  Which do you like better? 

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Heartfelt thanks - TSOT692

Hello and welcome back to another sketch over at TSOT.

The stamps I used on the panels in the background are from Stampin Up!  The sentiment is from Altenew's press plates sentiment series. I recommend checking them out, they are an investment, but well worth the money.  

Here is the link to join in on the sketch challenge.

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ETA: Adding this into the following challenge.

Be true

Hello. I'm playing in the tic-tac-toe challenge over at The Paper Players today.

The flower stamp is from Unity stamp company.  I stamped it in Versafine ink and heat embossed it so that I could watercolor the flowers. Then cut it out using a deckled die and highlighted it with distress walnut stain ink. 

The side "be true" sentiment is from Tim Holtz ideaology rub on pack. I actually used a label cut from die tucked behind the main panel to create the tab.  The No. 4899 is from Field Notes. 

The left-hand side is made up of folded khaki packing paper that I recycled. Added a bit of lace and glued it behind the main panel.  

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Congratulations

I'm playing in a few challenges today with the following card.

I started with the stencil in the background from The Crafters Workshop.  I used tumbled glass oxide ink and a blending brush to get the stained glass look from the stencil.  Then I cut two skinny strips of black cardstock to frame it out. 

The tulip stamp is from Papertrey, Ink and colored with Copic markers.  The congratulations sentiment is from Altenew. 

Challenges:

Just Us Girls - anything goes stencil week

Freshly Made Sketches

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Sending hugs - SSC382

Hello and welcome back to another sketch challenge over at Sunday Stamps.

I ink blended an oval for the background and raised the sentiment panel a bit for this one.  I used Simon Says Stamp marine blue ink and stenciled through a die cut oval first.  Then I stamped the flower branch through it as well.  The stamp is from Alison Bombers Paper Artsy collection, and I used Tombow markers and huffed on them to stamp. 

Sentiment is from The Stamp Market.  The little banner die is from Technique Tuesday.

Hope you join us for this sketch challenge. Thanks for stopping by.