T-Shirt inspiration

Hi everyone! I purchased the T-Shirt below (Christopher and Banks) and love the design so much that it inspired me to CASE it using mixed media on canvas.

The canvas is a thin piece measuring 5 x 7 that I picked up on sale at M's.

I just used regular ink pads to stamp the different designs onto the canvas. The purple dragonfly is heat embossed with clear embossing powder and highlighted with glitter pen and pearls.

I used stamps from the following companies to create this collage:

The Angel Company
Cornish Heritage Farms
Papertrey, Ink
Hot off the Press

The bottom plaid is done using a stencil, black ink pad and a dauber.

Here is the inspiration picture. What do you think, did I get close enough to the original design? I had a lot of fun searching through my stamps for images that were close to the designs on the T-shirt.

Thanks for stopping by!

Black magic leaves

Hi everyone! I was looking through all the resources available over at SCS and decided to play around with the black magic technique for a change.

I used the leaf stamp designed by Kim Hughes for Cornish Heritage Farms and stamped it onto black cardstock using palette fresh snow ink. Using colored pencils, I added some subtle color. The white dots are done with the distress picked fence marker.

The leaf die cut is cut from Bazzill cardstock using the new Memory Box die. I added some tiny pearls onto it to match what I did on the black magic piece.

The sentiment is from Verve as is the die I used to cut it out with. Lastly, I used the lattice embossing folder on the white cardstock to add a bit of texture.

What do you think? Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!

Digi Shack Sneak Peek images!

Hello! Great news for those of you who like digital stamps or for those of you who are curious about them! The Digi Shack is having a Grand Opening on March 6th - with a new design, new digi stamps and a lot more fun planned!

In the mean time, I'm excited to announce that I have been chosen to be on the Digi Shack Design Team!

Here are a few sneak peeks for you!

Sentiment is from The Angel Company.

This sentiment is from collage elements 1 from CHF.

All the above images were colored with Copic markers.

There are some really fun images coming to the Shack soon! So stay tuned for more exciting announcements, a blog hop and a link to the new site!

Thanks for stopping by!

Card Sketch Tuesday #168

Happy Tuesday! Here is sketch #168. Measurements are below.

Card base - 4 1/4 x 5 1/2

1 = 4 x 5 1/4

2 = 2 x 4 1/2

3 = 2 1/4 x 5 1/2

4 = Rectangle nestability or 2 3/8 x 3

The flower stamp is a retired one from The Angel Company called Pretty Posies and colored with Copic markers in B63 and BV13.

The polka dots are done using the BV13 marker on the stamp (Collage elements by CHF) and then misted with rubbing alcohol. I also colored the white satin ribbon with the same marker. To tie the double bow I used the Bow Easy tool.

All shades of purple cardstock are from Bazzill.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful week! 

Card Sketch Tuesday #167

Happy Tuesday! Here is sketch #167! Measurements below.

 

Card base is 4 1/4 x 5 1/2

1 = 4 1/4 x 1 1/4

2 = 4 1/4 x 1 5/8

3 = Labels 1 die 3 1/4 x 3 1/4

Sentiment is stamped on a circle diecut

Boxwood stamp is from Cornish Heritage Farms Kim Hughes designs. I stamped it in Memento Bamboo ink twice and then embossed with clear embossing powder.

The light green card stock was ran through the argyle cuttlebug embossing folder. All cardstock is from Bazzill. I decided to add a bit of bling, even though this is suppose to be a masculine card. The five gold nail heads are really called studs and are from Prima.

Sentiment is from the "Enjoy Nature" stamp set from The Angel Company.

I hope you have a wonderful week and thanks for stopping by!

Card Sketch Tuesday #141 - Recycle

Happy Tuesday! Here is sketch #141, which uses a bit of recycling on it! It's finally raining here, which we desperately needed. Autumn is right around the corner and inspired this card.


The recycled part is the left panel and tag. It originally came off a top I bought at Coldwater Creek. It was one piece, but had to cut it apart to get rid of the logo.


The base of the card is a piece of rust card stock from Bazzill. Dark brown card stock from American Crafts is used next and for layering the panels. The designer paper is from K&Company that just hit the major craft stores. I stamped the leaves (retired from TAC) in versamark and embossed with Glacier White Embossing Powder (CHF). The sentiment is from Stampendous and stamped in Palette True Black and also embossed with clear. Three yellow brads were added to the bottom and twine is used in the top portion of the tag.

So, here's the challenge this week, not only make a card with the sketch, but add on something that you have recycled. Us stampers/scrapbookers are always saving things that we think might work on a card or project. Show me what you have saved!

Have a great week and thanks for stopping by!

Color combo inspiration

Hi everyone! A while back, Nicole Heady had a feature on her blog about inspiration and where to look for it. I thought that her insight was fresh, thoughful and right on target. I periodically watch the shows on HGTV (love House Hunters) and found myself on their web site recently. I ran across this picture and thought that the colors were a really interesting mix. Well I just had to try my hand at seeing if I could duplicate it on a card.

Well, this is what I came up with.

I really liked the putty or gray color of that one wall and used a gray card stock as my base. I dusted off my linen back ground stamp and inked it up with a warm wheat color and layered it with black. The lime green accents came into play with the circle nestabilites. I've had this piece of green polka dot paper in my scrap pile for about two years and finally found somewhere to use it! I tied a black satin ribbon with my new Bow-easy (this tool is a must have) and called it good.

So, what do you think?

Supplies:

Gray, black, white and lime card stock

Circle and scalloped circle nestabilities

Enjoy sentiment from Studio G stamps

Linen BG stamp from Cornish Heritage Farms

Palette Noir ink, Wheat chalk ink from Versamagic

Black Satin Ribbon

Card Sketch #37 - Make a Wish

Here is sketch #37. I decided to get out of the Christmas card making stretch with this one, and went totally in a different direction.

First of all, use your embossing buddy and go over your card stock. Stamp images with versamark and sprinkle with embossing powder. I just love the Glacier white EP I bought from CHF, it's the best on the market in my opinion. See link below. Anyway, I had a little bit of the EP left on the card stock when I heated it up, but thought that it looked like someone had blown on the dandelions to make a wish! I didn't plan it that way intentionally, but it worked out great in the end!

I cut the main panel in three separate equal parts and mounted it on white pearlized glimmer paper. Then popped that up on the yummy designer paper! I added the gray ribbon and cut out the sentiment with the window word punch and attached it on the ribbon!

Supplies:
Stamps by Heidi Grace
Black card stock
Versamark
Glacier White embossing powder by Cornish Heritage Farms
Pearlized white paper by paper accents
Designer paper is from the luxury stack by DCWV
Gray ribbon