creative chemistry 101 -day 8

Hello, my friends.  Did you ever have one of those duh moments that make you feel really dumb?  Watching Tim's video last night for Creative Chemistry 101, when he was talking about paint dabbers, he says, "Another thing about the dabbers is you can unscrew the top and use a paintbrush in there."  Well, DUH, that never even occurred to me!

And speaking of paints, I painted my pajama top this morning.  Not on purpose - I opened some crackle paints and most were very thick or worse.  One was so dried out that the brush stayed in the paint when I unscrewed the cover.  (I'll be contacting Ranger on that one for sure.)  On a couple others, I thought I'd try to thin them out and see if I can salvage them with a bit of water before giving up on them.  I was mixing one with a craft stick and some of the paint flicked right out and onto my pj's.  It's a good thing I don't care what my pj's look like, because I don't think the paint is going to come out.

So on to my tags.  The first technique is dabber resist.  We used sticky back canvas as our surface and I really love how this one turned out.  I'll definitely be using this technique again.

The second technique is crackle paint resist.  I like the tag, but I don't really like working with the crackle paint.  I'm too impatient to wait for it to dry.

The third technique is shattered stains.  Again, this one used crackle paint and after a couple of hours, I still needed to help it along with my heat gun.  And mine certainly doesn't look as nice as Tim's tag.

Thanks for stopping by on my continuing journey.  
 

creative chemistry 101 -day 5

Hello, my friends.  I have more tags from the creative chemistry 101 class by Tim Holtz for you today. 

I started off my first technique (stained kraft resist) with some creative substitution.  I don't have any kraft resist paper.  So I grabbed a piece of kraft card stock and a bunch of stamps.  I inked the stamps with versamark and then stamped a collage over the entire sheet of card stock.  After coating it with clear embossing powder, I heated it, so now I had something to work with.  I do realize that it's not quite the same as the kraft resist paper, but to try the technique, I figured it would suffice. 

The picture is rather dark, since I didn't use flash because of all the reflection from the embossing and it's also a rather gray, dreary, rainy day here today.

The next technique was stamping with stains.  I tend to use lighter and brighter colors than Tim, so when I stamped the white over the background, it really didn't show up very well.  You have to look really close and get the light reflecting at the right angle to see it.  But I like the tag anyway.

Here's a closeup of some of the words, just so you can see that they really are there. 

The last technique was marbled stains.  Another fun technique.  I guess I'm not quite as generous with my inks as Tim.  I thought I had enough on my craft sheet, but apparently not, because I ran out of ink before the tag was completely filled with color.  There are some spots that are almost bare, but I think it turned out pretty anyway.

Thanks so much for joining me on this creative journey.  Have a great weekend.

born to be beautiful

Hello, my friends.  I felt like being creative tonight, so I worked on another art journal spread for my Word Play book.  You can probably guess from the title that the letter I did is 'B'.  I decided to go with butterflies.  That's a good 'b' word - don't you think?

These are watercolor paper, coated with gesso.  Layers include old book pages, stencils with acrylic paint, pattern paper, sponged acrylic paint, stamping, and doodling.  After the pattern paper was glued down, I sponged more white paint to blend it better.

The large letter B is hand drawn and doodled, cut out, sponged with blue ink and then some white gel pen highlights were added.

The blue butterflies are colored with copic markers and then lightly sponged with white acrylic paint, which gave then an almost foggy look.  The smaller butterflies are painted with twinkling H2O's.

I stamped all the flowers with black archival ink and then used markers to add some color.  The sentiment is printed on my computer.

I'm really enjoying creating art journal pages.  They are so different than card making, even though there are some similarities.  I think one of the things I like about this is that there are really no rules.  And if there is something I really don't like, I can just add more layers of paint or paper, or cover it over with gesso.  Lots of room for experimentation and trying new things.

Thank you so much for stopping by.  Have a wonderful weekend.

something to work toward

Happy Sunday, my friends.  Do you make new year resolutions?  I know that we're already a week into the new year and half the people who make them are probably already missing their goals.  I never make new year resolutions.  I guess their too intimidating and since I tend to be a live-in-the-moment type of person, I think making resolutions is just setting myself up for failure. 

With all that being said, I decided to set some goals to work toward.  I'm not resolving that I will do them; maybe I'll accomplish them and maybe I won't, but I do think they are some things I can try to do. 

One of them is to start an art journal.  Will I work on it everyday?  Not likely.  But I think it's something that will push me to try some different things with my art.  So I made a page.  It's taken me all week to get from start to finish.

I started with a piece of watercolor paper and glued on some scraps of newspaper and designer paper and then proceeded to cover it all with gesso.  I just played around adding paint, stamping, doodling and added some images and die cuts that were just sitting in my stash waiting for a home.  I used sharpies and gesso to color the quilt.

A couple things I learned.  I'm still terrible with a paintbrush in my hand (but brushstokes leave a lot of texture) and gel medium smears ink (at least water based ink anyway).  I may have to use pigment inks from now on. 

As far as those goals go?  I just worked on two of them.  I started an art journal and I tried something new.  Finishing a quilt should be attainable.  Organizing my studio?  Who knows.  I haven't been very successful in that.  But I think it's a good goal to work toward.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

let your heart soar

Hello again.  This is my second post today.  My daughter urged me to stamp, so I decided to make a card for the inspiration challenge on SCS.  Rather than spend time searching through the chosen site, I just picked one of the samples that had been presented. 

I picked out some stamps to work with that were similar or at least representative of the sample.  For the bird (elements of style - SU), I stamped in tempting turquoise craft ink on watercolor paper and then embossed with clear EP.  The flower (fabulous florets - SU) was stamped in barely banana craft ink and then again in bravo burgundy craft ink and both embossed with clear EP. 

The next step was the most fun.  I used distress inks in spiced marmalade, fired brick, aged mahogany, and vintage photo and swiped them across the paper till I had some pretty good coverage.  Then I took a water brush and spread the ink across the paper, blending and softening the look.  Being a bit impatient, I dried it with my heat gun.  Then I moistened a paper towel and wiped the ink off the embossed images. 

I added a couple of flourishes (Inkadinkado) and the sentiment (Innovative Stamp Creations) with jet black archival ink. 

The black grosgrain ribbon is attached with some copper brads.  I also added some piercing before attaching the piece to a black card base.  I really love the way this turned out, but it was hard to photograph with the embossing.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Your comments are always welcome and appreciated. 

CCC #34

Hello my friends. I have a very different card to show you today. It's very 'collagy', which is a style I rarely use. This is my card for the Compendium of Curiosities challenge found on Linda's blog. This week is challenge #34, Dimensional Collage Fragment technique, found on page 63 of Tim's book.

Since I didn't have any fragments, I improvised by cutting a piece of clear shrink plastic, shrinking it, and using it in place of the fragment.

For my background, I stamped several images on a piece of Basic Grey paper. All coloring is done with sponges. Stamps are Hero Arts, SU, and Innovative Stamp Creations. The butterfly is clear embossed with UTEE, but the camera did not pick that up at all.

I used a Spellbinders labels four die and fancy photo corner punch. The beads are from an old necklace found in a rummage sale, except for the long thin one, which is rolled up paper.

The sentiment was stamped and then cut apart. I sponged the edges and popped each piece up with dimensional tape.

I'm not sure I like this one, but it is what it is.

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great weekend.

a $22,000 chandelier

Hi everyone. I managed to fit in another card tonight. I checked the site that is listed for the inspiration challenge on SCS for this week and came across a beautiful Segovia Chandelier priced at more than $22,000. That kinda blows me away. You can buy a car for less than that. I just can't see paying that much money for a light fixture. Anyway, that's what I used as the inspiration for my card.

I got an idea and ran with it. Sometimes (or I should say most of the time) I have a hard time doing that. I keep second guessing myself and keep wavering about what I want to do on a card. But tonight, I decided to just get it done and it came together quite easily.

I stamped the flourish (Inkadinkado) in night of navy and then again in brilliant blue on white cardstock. I even used my stamp-a-ma-jig to make sure I got a nice double image.

Then I stamped the butterfly (Innovative Stamp Creations) three times -- once on the card and two times on scrap paper, which I sponged, cut out and then embossed with clear embossing powder. I added a couple tiny pieces of dimensional tape under the wings to make them pop up.

I put a lot of blue jewels all over the flourish.

Thanks for visiting. Have a wonder-filled weekend.


The sentiment is from a set called vintage butterflies from Cornish Heritage Farms.

A wall of butterflies

Hi, my friends. I think fall has officially arrived. I had to turn on the heat this morning.

Yesterday, about mid-afternoon, I decided that I was going to do a card for the inspiration challenge on SCS, using the sample on the right given in the post. I finished the card just before we were headed out to an Indian restaurant for dinner, so I didn't get it posted last night.

I used a tiny butterfly (a muse) to randomly stamp in black on white and then I embossed the piece with my new bricked embossing folder (Tim Holtz/Sizzix). I really like this folder. I used a flower stem (Lizzie Anne) and a flower & butterfly (Innovative Stamp Creations), which I stamped in black, then sponged with tangerine tango, cut out and sponged the edges with cherry cobbler. A sentiment (SU), some black layering and a bit of dimensional tape and I was finished.

Thanks for stopping by today. May your day be wonder-filled.

black and white and red

Happy Saturday, everyone. One of those really hot and humid days today. I went out to pick asparagus and could just smell the humidity coming off the grass - UGH!

When I checked out the inspiration challenge on SCS last night, I searched and searched for something that sparked some interest. I finally found this dress and knew it would work for something black & white with a splash of red. I ended up with less white and more red, but I really like my card.

I started by stamping the leaf stem from Wonderful You (SU) twice in versamark on black and embossing with white EP.

For the flowers, I stamped a flower from Friendship (Innovative Stamp Creations) in black stazon ink on shimmery white cardstock a number of times. Then I spritzed water on it and added real red and yoyo yellow ink refills and let the color spread in the water. I just love the color variations you get with this technique. I suppose this is just a slightly different version of reinker spread, but since I didn't emboss the image, the color spread outside the image lines. After allowing the ink to dry, I cut out the flowers. This is a bit putzy, because of the shape of the flowers, but I really like this flower cut out. I attached the flowers in sets of two, somewhat offset, with the front one raised with dimensional tape.

The red edging is also shimmery white cardstock colored the same way as the flowers. I punched both the black and red with my eyelet border punch.

The sentiment is stamped in versamark and embossed in white.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope you're having a wonder-filled weekend.

It's VSN Olympics

Hey bloggers. Yesterday was a sewing day and a stamping day. I think I accomplished much.

My niece is expecting a baby in a couple of weeks, so I wanted to make some bibs for her. I had them all cut out and pinned, so yesterday I sewed them up.

Since the Basement Fabric Shop didn't have anything even remotely resembling cute little bunnies, chicks, and lambs, I went with completely non-traditional colors and fabrics. Here are a few of them. I made twelve altogether and they are all reversible. I hope she likes them.







This weekend is virtual stamp night (VSN) with an olympic theme on SCS. The challenges started last night with 5 challenges, and there will be 11 more today starting at 11:00 CT. My family was at the athletic club playing wallyball, so that meant I could stamp without interruption and managed to get all FIVE! (Yay!) challenges completed and uploaded. If you've never played VSN, you should give it a try. It's fast-paced and fun. You have 45 minutes to complete each card, which, for me, forces me to stop dithering and get something together. Given that time frame, you know these are not going to over the top kind of cards, but it is still possible to make something acceptable.

I was definitely in a blue mode (not mood, just in case you're wondering at my spelling), since 4 of the 5 cards is blue or turquoise. You can find all the challenges here.

So with that being said, here are the five cards I made last night. Enjoy and thanks for stopping by.

Two weeks!

Wow. I can't believe it's been two weeks since I've posted. I don't know how that happens. Hi everyone.

Yesterday was the inspiration challenge on SCS. I searched through the selected web site and found several pieces that I thought I could use, finally settling on The Key to the Butterfly Garden Assemblage Skeleton Key Brooch as my inspiration. How could I not pick something with butterflies? I really enjoyed making this card, although it did take me a long time to do it. I had it partially done, but had to stop and get lunch ready for the family and then I had my bobbin lace guild meeting, so I didn't get to finish the card until I later in the evening.

I knew the lattice pendant die from Spellbinders would be perfect for this card. I used it to die cut and emboss some brushed copper cardstock. I also used Spellbinders paper cut snowflakes die for the piece in the front. The butterflies are from Innovative Stamp Creations set called friendship. I stamped them with black stazon on white and sponged tempting turquoise on them and then cut them out.

The layers on the card are white, cool caribbean and tempting turquoise. The corners of the caribbean layer are punched with square steps corner pocket punch. I hadn't used that punch in a long time, but realized that it matched the lattice die quite well. The little circles in the corners are just punched from the copper cardstock.

The wings on the butterflies are all popped up.

The sentiment is from a retired SU set called noteworthy.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Be blessed.

with joy

Good morning. Happy World Card Making Day! Hopefully today I'm going to be able to get some stamping done. SCS is having challenges all day. I did make a card already, but not for those challenges. This one is for the inspiration challenge and a Gina K release party challenge. For my inspiration, I actually combined two of the pieces from the web site, this one and this one. Gina's challenge was a single layer card. That sure made for a quick card.

The process:
I stamped two flourishes from Rubbernecker's Flourishes Set in black stazon on whisper white cardstock. Then using a ruler, I ran my real red marker across the card. I placed some post-it notes down, just covering the red line and leaving a 1/2" space and filled in with black marker.

Then I stamped the butterfly from Innovative Stamp Creations' Friends set and colored it with a prismacolor pencil and gamsol.

Finally, I added the phrase from Fundamental Phrases (SU) and I'm done.

Thanks for stopping by today. I will probably have more posts later. Have a great day.

play day

Hi everyone. Today was another play day for me and my sister. I was able to finish one card and do a couple of other partials. I'll try to get those done tomorrow. The one I finished is for the ways to use it challenge on SCS. The challenge was to make a crinkled flower. I checked the challenge before I left for my sister's, so I knew I would probably need at least one button. So I reached into one of my button jars and grabbed a handful -- definitely limits your choices, but at the same time makes it easier to choose.

The tutorial showed a round flower, but I really didn't like that, so I freehanded some curves on my 'circles'. I cut them from some designer paper. The leaves were cut freehand as well. I did some crinkling, some sanding, and some sponging. The button is sewn on using crochet cotton. I raised the flower using several layers of card stock.

I might have used regular brads, but didn't have them with me, so I used some of the tiny squares from the border punch as faux brads.

What's in it?
stamps: butterfly (A Muse), sentiment (Innovative Stamp Creations)
ink: jet black stazon, chocolate chip
paper: close to cocoa, basic black, dp (Black Market Paper Society)
other: diamond border punch (Fiskars), button, black crochet cotton, sponge dauber

Thank you so much for stopping by today. Be blessed.

A lot of Red

Good morning. I didn't realize it's been a whole week since I blogged. So you get to see double today. I spent yesterday stamping with my sister and cousin, and only took two stamp sets with me, since I had looked at the inspiration challenge on SCS and had an idea of what I wanted to do. I meant to grab a background stamp and forgot, so what I had in mind was a bit different. I may start with an idea, but I am really a 'design as I go' type of stamper, so I don't usually like to limit myself quite so much. But this time, I think the limitations actually worked for me. I ended up making two cards, a little bit similar and yet quite different.

Both cards use stamps from SU's embrace life and Innovative Stamp Creations' friendship. I finished the second card after I got back home, since I wanted to use my white gel pen, some glitter, and a different sentiment.

On the first one, I started by stamping a few flowers on the white circle. I had three flowers that were already colored with a copic marker and cut out, but I could see right away that wasn't enough, so I just kept stamping, coloring and cutting flowers and stacking and arranging them until I liked it. I really have no idea how many flowers are on this. I kinda like having the one falling off. The butterfly is also stamped twice and layered. All the piercing is faux.

I hadn't planned on making this second card, but I had finished the first, also made another for my Tuesday class and cut all the kits, and still had time, so I just started playing and ended up with a second card. Easy watercolor on the blue flower (stamp with stazon on watercolor paper, outline a bit with marker and use waterbrush to spread the ink around - I love it). The red flowers are just colored by scribbling the marker back and forth, not worrying about staying in the lines, since I was cutting them out anyway. I cut the piece of kraft card stock at an angle and then played with my new scalloped border punch from SU. I love how easy it was to use.

supplies card 1
stamps: embrace life (SU), friendship (Innovative Stamp Creations)
ink: jet black stazon, sahara sand, read red, Copic marker (R29)
paper: sahara sand, bashful blue, whisper white
other: coluzzle, black marker, dimensionals

supplies card 2
stamps: embrace life, warm words (SU), friendship (Innovative Stamp Creations)
ink: jet black stazon, read red, ballet blue
paper: basic black, kraft, ballet blue, whisper white, watercolor
other: waterbrush, coluzzle, crystal effects, dazzling diamonds glitter, white gel pen, piercing tool, scalloped border punch, dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great week.

butterfly blues

Happy Saturday. Today is one of those gorgeous summer days where the temp. is about 75, a nice breeze, mostly sunny. It's so nice to have the windows open and feel the breeze.

Today I made a card using my favorite color - BLUE! This is actually a triple challenge card. I incorporated yesterday's limited supplies challenge and today's inspiration challenge on SCS, as well as a sketch challenge on the Innovative Stamp Creations blog.

Yesterday I went to a local art supply store and bought a bunch of prismacolor pencils to fill in the missing colors that match SU's color palette. So it seemed like a good idea to use them on my card today. I started by stamping the butterfly from the ISC friends set with black stazon ink on a piece of vanilla card stock and then coloring them with prismacolor pencils and gamsol. Then I sponged the edges with brilliant blue ink and mounted it on a black card base.

For the strip across the center of the card, I scored the vanilla piece every 1/2" on my scor-pal, sponged the edges and mounted it on black. Then I added some black brads on one end, and mounted this piece on the card.

For the main image, I used my cuttlebug with a butterfly die on a piece of cereal box chipboard. I painted this with broken china distress crackle paint. When it was dry, I sponged over it with brilliant blue ink, because the paint wasn't the right color of blue. I then edged it with silver Krylon leafing pen. The build-a-brad in the center uses an image from flair of summer (ISC). I punched a scalloped circle with a giga punch from Marvy Uchida and edged the scallops with the silver leafing pen. The circle and the butterfly are both attached to the card with dimensional foam tape.

Supplies:
stamps: friendship, flair of summer (Innovative Stamp Creations)
ink: brilliant blue, jet black stazon
paper: basic black, very vanilla
other: prismacolor pencils, gamsol, piercing tool, black brads, build-a-brad, crop-a-dile, cuttlebug, cb butterfly die, giga scalloped circle punch (Marvy Uchida), silver Krylon leafing pen, dimensional foam tape, scor-pal, sponge

I'm so glad you stopped by today. Enjoy your weekend.

double inspiration

Happy Saturday. It still feels like Friday, but it is after midnight. If you haven't seen Michelle Zindorf's blog lately, you really need to check it out. She's been posting some awesome stuff with tutorials on how she created each project. This week's inspiration challenge on splitcoast was posted a bit early and when I saw it, I knew that I wanted to try Michelle's technique. This is the card I came up with. It also fits the limited supplies challenge.

I started by stamping the flower in adirondack pitch black ink and coloring it with copic markers. Then I went over it with a versamarker and clear embossed it.

Next, I stamped the large swirl from nature silhouettes I (Innovative Stamp Creations) in really rust craft ink and clear embossed it.

Then I stamped the squiggly line from bold basics with garden green craft ink and clear embossed it.

I then sponged over most of the card with sage shadow, then added some really rust, chocolate chip and garden green.

Using a black pigma marker, I outlined the left and under sides of all the images. Using a white gel pen, I outlined the upper and right sides of all the images.

Next, I tied knots in some black hemp and attached them to the card with copper brads.

I then mounted this piece on a black base. It seems like a lot of work, but actually didn't take me that long.

Supplies
stamps: oriental gardens, bold basics (SU), nature silhouettes I (Innovative Stamp Creations)
ink: versamarker, sage shadow, chocolate chip, garden green classic & craft, really rust classic & craft
paper: basic black, very vanilla
other: copic markers, clear ep, heat tool, white gel pen, black pigma marker, copper brads, black hemp, sponge

I'm so glad you took the time to stop by today. Have a wonder filled weekend.

Featured Stamper

The Sunday challenge on splitcoast is the featured stamper. Basically you get to case a card from the featured gallery, but change at least two things. I don't usually get a chance to play with my stamps on Sunday, so it was fun to do a card for this challenge. I chose this card to case.

I started by stamping the shady daisy backgrounder from Cornish Heritage Farms on apricot appeal card stock with purely pomegranate ink. Then I cut a portion of it into 1-1/4" squares and glued them to a piece of black. I covered the whole thing with versamark and embossed it with clear ep.

The flower stamp from Innovative Stamp Creations was stamped with pitch black adirondack ink and colored with copic markers and cut out. Then this was also covered with versamark and clear embossed.

The sentiment from SU's noteworthy was stamped in black on apricot and then punched with my small oval punch, so that it would fit in the hardware. I used a strip of black grosgrain ribbon across the bottom underneath the sentiment and attached the hardware with brads.

Supplies:
stamps: noteworthy (SU), shady daisy (Cornish Heritage Farms), flower (Innovative Stamp Creations)
ink: purely pomegranate, pitch black adirondack, versamark, copic markers
paper: certainly celery, apricot appeal, basic black, white
other: hardware, clear embossing powder, small oval punch, black grosgrain ribbon

I'm so glad you stopped by today.

Happy Saturday! Are you enjoying your weekend. It's mostly sunny here, but still a little on the chilly side. We haven't had many days over 60 yet. This morning I decided to make a card for a challenge over at the Innovative Stamp Creations blog and it also worked to combine it with this week's sketch challenge on Splitcoast.

One of the requirements for the blog challenge was that all the stamps are from ISC and another requirement was that there was a tag included.

I started by stamping a silhouette stemmed flower in artichoke ink on vanilla card stock. I then punched the corners with my ticket corner punch and sponged the edges with chocolate chip ink and layered it on a piece of chocolate chip, which I also punched the corners on. Then I stamped several single flowers with pitch black adirondack ink on another piece of vanilla and colored them with copic markers. I decided to use just two of them, so I cut them out. I glued one flower directly on the card stock and the second one I adhered with dimensional foam tape. I added some crystal effects and dazzling diamonds glitter to the flower centers. I wanted to do something a little different with the ribbon, so I used my crop-a-dile to punch two holes on the left and one on the right, but centered between the two on the left side. I added blush blossom eyelets to run the ribbon through The ribbon criss-crosses behind the panel.

I used the same flower as before and stamped it repeatedly in really rust on the card base, to completely fill the space. The I sponged chocolate ink around the edges.

The two side panels are stamped in guava with a swirl stamp and the edges are again sponged with chocolate.

I decided to use an oval tag and tie it to the ribbon. I don't know where my linen thread is and really didn't want to spend time looking, so I used a piece of thin string and colored it with a copic marker, so it wasn't bright white. I thought there was still too much open space, so I added some brown brads. The main panel and the tag are both popped up on dimensional foam tape.

Supplies:
stamps: flair of summer, friendship, nature silhouettes (Innovative Stamp Creations)
ink: groovy guava, chocolate chip, really rust, always artichoke, pitch black adirondack
paper: really rust, chocolate chip, groovy guava, very vanilla
other: brown brads, chocolate grosgrain ribbon, ticket corner punch, small oval punch, crystal effects, dazzling diamonds glitter, blush blossom eyelets, crop-a-dile, piercing tool, foam dimensional tape, sponge

I'm so glad you stopped by today. Have a great weekend.

Yay! I stamped today!

It's hard to believe that over a week had gone by without any stamping! I think I have spring fever, although I'm not really much of an outdoors type of person. I really didn't feel like stamping. But I've gotten a bunch of new stamps and today I really needed to put some ink and paper together. All the stamps I used today are from Innovative Stamp Creations. They come as sheets of unmounted stamps. Since I really prefer my stamps on wood mounts, that meant I had to add mounting foam and wood blocks. I still have a few that are waiting for blocks from my brother-in-law. (Thanks, Bob.)

I created this card for the ways to use it challenge on splitcoast. For the main image panel, I started by wetting a piece of watercolor paper and then dragging ink refills across it and letting the color bleed. I love sunsets, so I used yellow, orange and red. After it was dry, I stamped my image twice in black stazon. Parts of the image didn't cover well on the texture of the watercolor paper, so I used a black Copic marker to fill in where needed. The sentiment was also stamped in black stazon. I mounted this on a layer of black and then, using a piece of plastic canvas for even spacing, I added a column of black brads.

The smaller panels on either side are orange, sponged with red ink, and layered on black. For the card base, I used summer sun and randomly stamped a butterfly all over in orange, which toned down the yellow a bit.

Supplies:
stamps: all stamps (Innovative Stamp Creations)
ink: real red, only orange, yoyo yellow, jet black stazon
paper: summer sun, only orange, basic black, watercolor
other: piercing tool, sponge, black brads, foam mounting tape

I'm so glad you stopped by.