Thinking of you

Hello. Playing in the Addicted to CAS challenge of Leaf today.

The small leaf image is from The Stampin Place. I used Rubbernecker fuse inks to blend colors with a finger dauber onto it before stamping it. Sentiment is from WPlus9. Card base is a deep green.

ETA: also entering this into the AAA cards #198 challenge.

Masculine birthday

Hi all,

Playing in a few challenges today. I started with the color challenge over at Sunday Stamps (went with all but the gold) and made it a masculine card (the paper players) with the harlequin and leaf print.

You can just barely see the harlequin stencil bottom lower left - spritzed it with water after blending oxide inks in the following colors: Fired brick, antique linen and cracked pistachio.

Skeleton leaf stamps is from the stampin' place and the birthday sentiment is from Poppy stamps. Splattered some burnt umber copic marker using the Tim Holtz spritzer bulb thingy. I didn't like that, it was coming out too fine, so I switched up to watering down some vintage photo oxide ink and picking it up with a very small paint brush to splatter. Much better! 

I got lucky matching the light teal cardstock with the cracked pistachio that I lightly blended onto the bristol card stock.  

That's all for today - thanks for stopping in.

 

Thanks - FMS451

Hello. Playing in the Freshly Made Sketch challenge #451 today.

Leaf stamp is from The Stampin' Place and I stamped it randomly in Jardin Moss onto Neenah solar white cardstock. Cut it up and layered in in dark green. 

The butterfly is from Magenta. I stamped it in versafine ink, heat embossed with clear powder then colored with copics. I fussy cut it out, put tiny foam squares on the back and bent the wings so that it looks like it's flying. I added some wire antenna as I cut the original ones off when fussy cutting.  Added the thanks in the same green cardstock (stacked 3x) and then added some gloss to it. Pierced panel in the background is from The Stamp Market.

Have a great labor day weekend!

Pink Peony

Hi there. Here is my take on this weeks Freshly Made Sketch.

I have to say that this sketch gave me fits today.

Peony stamp is from The stampin place. I stamped it in Versafine ink, hat embossed with clear embossing powder then colored with Copic's.

Green cardstock is from MFT and the pink and black is from PTI.

I used Fabrika Decoru in dark night to create the tiny enamel dots. You can find all the different colors of these at Kat Scrappiness - link to the right!

That's all for now, thanks for stopping by.

Snowflake

Hi everyone! Decided to create a card with this weeks theme of snowflakes over at CAS-ual Fridays.

Snowflake is a die that came in three sizes, this is the middle one. I cut it out of some back ground papers that I created a white ago. I did the smooch method on a craft sheet with Fresh Ink reinkers from Impress rubber stamps and water. These are pigment inks, so you know they took a while to dry. I also ended up using some fixative on it so that the ink wouldn't rub off.

Anyway, I layered three snowflakes together and inserted them back into the negative space of the white card base. Added the sentiment. Which by the way, I was enabled to buy through FB from The Stampin Place.

Added the whole thing back onto one of the back grounds I created and adhered to a white card base. Lastly, I added a bit of clear wink of stella glitter onto the snowflake so it would sparkle.

Thanks for stopping in.

Card Sketch #60 - Delight

Sketch #60 is simple with lots of layering for you to play around with. Sample measures 4 1/4 x 5 1/2.

The background is done with an old BG stamp from The Angel Company called stripes. It's done in gray pigment ink from Colorbox on white card stock. The medium gray cardstock is layered with a darker gray and are both from Bazzill. I had this yummy 5/8 grosgrain ribbon that I added to the corner of the main panel and across the bottom layer, then embellished with light gray brads. I stamped the sentiment in Palette Noir at the bottom of the panel.

The main image is stamped in Palette Noir and I used white Liquid Applique to add dimension to the pussy willows. This is the third and final image that I did with the LA. I did one first without heating the LA up to make it puff....looked OK, but didn't have the WOW factor I was looking for. The next time I added some brown chalk to the puffed up LA to give them a realistic look...they just looked dirty to me, and aren't pussy willows gray in color anyway? So, I ended up leaving them naked. So, how do you think they came out?

Supplies:
Background stamp - TAC
Sentiment - TAC
Pussy willows - The Stampin Place
Grosgrain ribbon in light gray
Gray Brads
Bazzill card stock
Liquid Applique