Polished stone

Hi everyone! It's my turn to host the project of the week over at The House That Stamps Built. Today I'm going to be doing an old technique but twisting it up with pigment inks.

First of all, gather your supplies. You will need:

1. Pigment inks - I used colorbox petal point inks which I think most of us have.
2. Rubbing Alcohol (that is what is in the purple spray bottle below)
3. Cotton Balls/Pads
4. Glossy paper (I also tried this out on some photo printer paper that was glossy and it worked just fine.)





I did this on my craft mat so that I could go over the entire surface of the paper.


Using two of the colors in the container I randomly stamped it onto the glossy paper. Then I took cotton pad and saturated it with alcohol and blended it together. I tended to pounce the pad around instead of rubbing so that it wouldn't become a muddy mess.

 Below is what I ended up with.



 

Once dry, I adhered it onto a white card base and finished my card.

Here is the final result. I used Repeat Impressions 8503-U, Moments Quartet stamps to create this card. Butterflies are stamped three times and colored with Copic's. One of them is fussy cut out and I also added a bit of craft wire for the antenna.

That's it, pretty easy and you don't need to drag out your alcohol inks do this either. I love the results you can get using the pigment inks you have on hand.

Thanks for stopping by!

Shiny hello

Hello. Here is my take on the recipe week over at Less is More. They want something shiny and over at Simon Says Stamps, they don't want us to use designer paper. OK, here is what I did with these two challenge.

I used one of the smaller flower stamps from Wplus9 (spring blooms) and stamped it in canary ink from Colorbox. I went back and stamped the centers then cover it all with clear embossing powder and heat set it. Gives it a really nice shine.

The "hello" die is from Savvy Stamps and I cut it out of shiny gold paper. Used the new Stick it! adhesive on the back to get it to stick to the paper.

Added that to a black card base and called it good.
That's it for now. Thanks for stopping by!

Ruff day?

Hello! Two posts in one day. WooHoo! I combined the freshly made sketch with the furry friends challenge over at SSS to come up with this one.

Stamps are from Paper Smooches and stamped in Chocolate brown colorbox ink.

Dusted off the sanded back ground stamp from Stampin Up! to use in back ground as it plays real well with the sentiment, tongue in cheek.

Brown gingham ribbon is from Offray and all other cardstock is from PTI. 

Off to have dinner out! Thanks for stopping by!

thanks a bunch

Hello everyone.  Here is my take on this weeks Less is More challenge which just so happens to be a sketch.

Stamps and dies are from Clearly Besotted. I used colorbox inks to stamp the flowers and vase with.

The little red bow was once white until I colored the ribbon with lipstick red Copic marker and then tied it with the bow easy. A little dab of glossy accents glued it right where I wanted it. Tiny yellow pearls added for the flower centers.

The flowers and vase are popped up with tiny squares of foam tape and so are the sentiment and main panel. I used linen cardstock from Papertrey, Ink for this sketch.

Obviously, I kept this very clean and simple with lots of white space as per the directions! (grin) and really like how it turned out. Our heat wave is melting us here in the Pacific Northwest. We are so not used to these 90 degree days. Time to turn on all the fans! Thanks for stopping by. 

Ombre thanks

Hello everyone! Here is my take on the CAS.ology cue card of Ombre.

I due cut the word Thanks from WPlus9 and left it in the cardstock. I used some post it note tape to mask it off so that I could ink it up in several shades of blue ink from Colorbox.  The stamped sentiment is also from WPlus9.

The tag die is from Mama Elephant and is layered with a dark navy cardstock from Bazzill smoothies. Used the largest die from Lil' Inkers to apply the stitching around the card base.

Lastly, I took a piece of white satin ribbon and used B93, B95 and B97 Copic markers to create an ombre effect on it. Tied it on with some white scrappers floss.

The challenge over at Simon Says Stamp is clean and simple and this is definitely that.

Thanks for stopping in to take a look see. 

You are so loved

Hello everyone! I used this weeks sketch Saturday and linked a few other challenges with it as well.

Just us girls has a photo for inspiration (picture below) that I went with. Liked the color combo of pink, white and gray and the circles drew me in too.

The pink heart is cut from a die from Simon Says Stamps. I used a pink ink pad from Colorbox to color it after cutting it out of white cardstock. Then to get some shine, I heat embossed it using clear embossing powder. I also cut out another one and using a few pieces of foam tape in the 1/16 size, I doubled it up to give it further dimension.This is for showCASe your style; use a die cut.

Banner die is from Papertrey, Ink and the sentiment stamps are from Wplus9. The circle stamps are from My Favorite Things that I took a pair of scissors to. There were 3 all together and I just had to separate them.

That's it for today. Back to the Seahawks game. I had to take a break as it was just too nerve wracking for me! LOL. Thanks for stopping by!

Just because

Hello everyone! I'm so happy to be home from my business trip to San Diego! It was beautiful but didn't see a lot since I was in meetings for 9 hours a day! Glad to be able to get back into the craft room and get inky today!

This card is for three challenges. The sketch is from FMS#153, the leaves are for The Friday Mashup #177 (sketch is pretty close too) and lastly CAS-ology cue card is three.

Leaves are die cut and stamped using Papertrey, Ink leaf prints dies and stamps. Sentiment is also from PTI using the simple sentiments set.

Inks are from Colorbox petal chalk inks in earths and regal from SU.

Burlap paper is from DCWV and cut using the scalloped die from spellbinders nesties. I had to run it through the cuttlebug a few times to get it to cut completely.

I used the biggest rectangle stitched die from Lil' Inkers to and my tan embossing mat to do the stitching between the sentiment.

Well, that is it for today! Thanks for stopping by! I'm off to enjoy the 80+ degree weather we are having today!

Delphiniums

Hi everyone! Real quick post today to show you a card I did using a Memory Box stencil.

This stencil is called delphiniums and comes in two parts. The flower heads and the stems.

The used colorbox inks in lavender and thistle to create the flowers using daubers. The stems are done in Fresh ink Limeade. Thanks sentiment is from Verve.

I did take a Copic Multi-liner black pen and very carefully outlined the flowers to give them a bit more depth. I just thought they needed to stand out a bit more.

Spellbinders label die used to cut out the flower panel. The purple layer in back was done using a white piece of designer paper from DCWV woven paper pack. The thistle ink was just sponged on and then layered in black using my mini perfect layers tool. MFT fishtail banner die used on the purple cardstock in back.

Thanks for stopping by!

Birthday fishes

Hi everyone! what a week it's been! Here's a card I did last weekend playing around with some new stamps from Paper Smooches. This is from the set Birthday Buddies.

Please click on the picture to see this better!!! I must come up with a better way to take pictures of my cards!

I used the borders 1 die (also from Paper Smooches) to create the waves and then I highlighted them with a bit of white pigment ink.

Fish is colored with Copic's and cut out using a circle nestie. I decided to use the dot technique with the Copic's around the fish - I've never done this since I haven't been a real big fan of the look. I think I've changed my mind, however it has to be very subtle.

Thanks for stopping by!

Winter wishes

Ok! Here is the Holiday version of yesterdays sketch challenge!

Stamps are from the Winter mittens set from Verve.

Mittens are colored with B93, B95 and B97 Copic markers. I used colorbox white pigment ink to stamp the heart onto the mittens.  I also used the white ink to stamp the sentiment then to make it a bit darker used some white embossing powder and heat embossed.

The light blue snowflake designer paper is from DCWV. The snowflake embossing folder is a 5 x7 one from provo craft. Blue cardstock on the left is from HOTP and the blue for the circle is from PTI. Skinny white grosgrain ribbon which measures a 1/4 inch used behind the main image. It was a challenge cutting the ends with that small of ribbon! ;-)

Thanks for stopping by and I'd love to hear what you think of this one!

Black and white

Hi everyone! The sun is out and the temperature outside is starting to feel like summer! WooHoo! Here is one of the last cards I made using the new Hello Sunshine Stamp TV kit from Gina K.

The flower is stamped in Colorbox White pigment ink onto black cardstock. I used a die from Memory box to create the white scalloped border and glued it onto the flower panel.

The black and white gingham paper was purchased at my local stamp store. I cut it so that you can see the white cardstock I used for the base of the card.  White satin ribbon used to create the bow, which was made using the Bow Easy.

I love the classic look of this card! What do you think?

Thanks for dropping by!

Black, white and lime green

Hello everyone! I just loved the inspiration photo of this month's blog hop from PTI and decided to join in! I actually got to make two cards!

 

I unearthed the Green Thumb set because I really wanted to use that rubber boot with this yummy lime green cardstock. It's from the Bazzill smoothie line.  The dots embossing folder is from Provo Craft and I used the bigger one to match the polka dots in the boot. Green ink is from Colorbox and Ranger archival ink in Jet black. Black rhinestones added to the bottom left corner and gingham ribbon added across the top completes the look.

I just got my newest stamps in the mail today and as you all know, you immediately pull them out and start to play and create. I cut the flipflops out using the die from PTI using that lime green cardstock. I stamped the polka dots in Versamark and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder. They are popped up on the card using foam tape as is the white thong part. Border die is from Memory Box and the black gingham paper is from Impress Rubber Stamps, which is a LSS for me. =) 

 

So, which one grabs you the most? I like them both, but for very different reasons!

Have a great Memorial Day weekend!