Mojo #293 - Cupcake

Hi everyone! I had a bit of time tonight and decided to play with this weeks Mojo Monday sketch.

 Stamps are from Verve. I colored the cupcake with Copic's and added just a bit of bling in the small star with a yellow Sakura glitter pen.  Well, that prompted me to hunt around for a small star to balance out the circles. Half an hour later, what you see is what I ended up with out of a bunch of starts and stops.



It's a grunge board pre-cut shape from one of Tim Holtz packages of shapes. I painted over it with white Gesso and then took a yellow Copic marker to it. Then I really had to bling it up with some diamond skickles.

Brown designer paper is from Hot Off The Press and the pink polka dots is from DCWV. Brown and white cardstock is from PTI.

Thanks for stopping by!

Trio of hearts

Hey everyone! Here's a Valentine's day card I created using the Mojo Monday #174 sketch.

The designer paper is from Making Memories. The light pink dp panel in the back was ran through the Textile embossing folder.

The big heart is chipboard covered in designer paper from over a year ago that I've had lying in wait for me to do something with. It's kind of a big button, which is why I tied a piece of black cording through the holes.

The two smaller hearts are grunge board (TH collection of plain elements) colored with lipstick red Copic marker. I then stamped the swirl (TAC) and the French script (Inkadinkado) in fresh snow Palette ink over the top of them.

The sentiment comes from Papetrey Ink Sweet love set. Black grosgrain ribbon is tied into a bow with the bow easy.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you had time to be creative today!

Victorine Originals Challenge #5 - Tag it

Hello everyone! Today begins a new challenge over at Victorine Originals blog with a chance to win some new stamps! The challenge is Tag it! The designers were to come up with a card, tag or project that incorporated a tag. Here is my card.


The tag is cut using the Quickutz die template with white cardstock and layered in black. The die includes different cut options for covering the hole. I chose to cut it out of red cardstock and tied on a white and red polka dot satin ribbon.

The red heart is grunge board from one of the Tim Holtz collections that I colored red with my Copic markers. I stamped some white (Palette fresh snow) distressed dots from Savvy Stamps and attached it to the tag.

The sentiment is from Victorine Originals and stamped in Palette Noir then cut out using the long rectangle die from Spellbinders. The scalloped die was used on the black cardstock to layer it.

Designer paper is from my "I have no clue who made it" stash.

Please drop by VO's blog (link in side bar) to see what the rest of the designers came up with and get inspired to play along for a chance to win. Thanks for stopping by!

TDS Showcase Showdown

Hi everyone! Happy Wednesday - here is the latest Halloween image that is available over at The Digi Shack.

The image is colored with Copic Markers and a silver metallic gel pen. The long rectangle nestabilities were used to cut out the main image and the purple.

The swirl is from Tim Holtz grunge board pack and colored with a black Copic Marker. I cut it in half in order to fit it onto the card. A black button from American Crafts is used with some scrappers floss (colored with a Copic) tied on.

So, what do you think?

Holly using Grunge board

Hi everyone! I made this clean and simple Holiday card out of some grunge board!

I have an old Sizzix die called Holly and Berries that I used to cut the grunge board out with. They are both colored with alcohol inks in Willow and Cranberry. I got a little creative on the edges and colored them in with a blending stump dipped in the alcohol ink.

Scarlet jewel cardstock was used as the base for this card. I glued the die cuts down with some Mono Adhesive and then paper pierced around the perimeter. The sentiment is stamped in Memories Chalk ink in delicate rose, which sounds like it wouldn't even be close to matching that scarlet cardstock, but does! No other embellishments needed on this one!


Have a great weekend! I'm off to do some Holiday baking!

Supplies:
Grunge board
Alcohol inks in Willow and Cranberry
Blending stump
Memories chalk ink in delicate rose
Sentiment stamp - The Angel Company
Cardstock - PTI

Congratulations card with a twist

This card uses a different piece and a quick technique that's quick and simple.
The design on the left side of this card is done using a scrapbook template. It's called Alpha Doodles and is made by The crafters workshop. I used a dauber to sponge on the design.

The swirl is grunge board from Tim Holtz that I colored with a Copic Marker. The black really soaks into the crunge board and covers it nicely. I added a wide strip of grosgrain ribbon to seperate the sections and stamped the word congratulations on the right side.

Supplies:

Stamp - TAC (retired)

Grunge Board

Template

Palette Noir ink

Black and pure poppy card stock (PTI)

Black Grosgrain Ribbon

Card Sketch Tuesday #132

Good Afternoon! I got a little behind yesterday and didn't get this posted on Monday night like I usually do.

Here's sketch #132 which measures a normal A2 size.

This sketch actually came about as I was playing around with some different techniques, ala Tim Holtz.

The tag is kraft paper (lighter than card stock) and is crumpled up to get it good and wrinkled. I added some distress ink in vintage photo (direct to paper) and then spritzed with water. Using my mini iron, I ironed out and dried the tag and got a really cool looking tag. Using a variety of stamps and inks this is the end result of my collage tag.

Next I decided to get out my grunge board and found a key that would work as an embellishment. It's colored with a black Copic Ciao marker (which worked really well) and then I decided to add a bit of design to it. Using copper embossing powder, versamark and a swirl stamp - this took on a really interesting texture. Very cool in real life! I used the copper embossing powder around the sentiment label to tie things together.

I very rarely do anything grungy, but this was fun to experiment with! Have a great week!

Supplies:
Kraft paper
Black card stock
Distress ink - vintage photo, black soot
Versamark
Copper Embossing Powder
Stamps - Swirl on key is from TAC, sentiment from Stampendous, dotted line stamp from Savvy stamps, All stamps used on the tag are from Limited Edition.
Extra large eyelet - We R memory Keepers
Grunge board
Twine