technique class cards

Hi friends.  As promised, here are the cards from today's technique class. 

The first technique is a ribbon frame.  I just never get tired of this stamp set - natural beauty.  The background is from Cornish Heritage Farms.  I colored the image with Derwent Inktense pencils and a blender pen. 

 

The second technique is paper embroidery.  I found this idea here.   The flower stamp is a new one I picked up last weekend at Endless Creations. 

The third technique is frosted embossed acetate.   It was impossible to get a decent picture on this one, since the acetate reflects the light, and because of the frosted technique, you can't see through the acetate clearly.   However, I can assure you that, in reality, the card is pretty awesome.  The lace and sentiment is from Rubbernecker and the flowers are from roses in winter, another SU set I won't get rid of. 

Thank you so much for stopping by. 

flowers and inspiration

Hi friends.  Tonight I noticed that the inspiration challenge on SCS had been posted, so I decided to play along.  I was inspired by this halter dress that is all in brown flowers.  I knew right away which stamp I was going to use.  It's a flower (A Muse) just like those on the dress. 

I stamped the flower randomly in tea dye, gathered twigs, and vintage photo distress inks and then sponged tea dye and vintage photo over to darken the card stock.  I layered this on chocolate chip and an ivory card base. 

For the main image, I used the same stamp, but used salty ocean distress ink.  I added the sentiment (Endless Creations) in jet black stazon.  The sponging around the edge is vintage photo.  I again used chocolate chip as a layer. 

I used my crop-a-dile to punch a hole for the ribbon, and added dimensional tape to raise the image piece up off the background. 

This was a really easy card to make and will also be my entry in Robyn's flower challenge on facebook. 

Thank you so much for stopping by. 

21 cards - #24

Hello again.  Here's another card for the monthly challenge at Motley Soul Mixed-Media Art.  This post shows how I made the base for my cards. 

My inspiration jar words were: rainbow, flowers, and leaves.

Since the coffee filter is somewhat translucent and doesn't completely cover the words on the boxes I used for the base, I painted on a coat of white acrylic paint.  Then I used watercolor crayons and a water brush to make a rainbow background. 

I stamped the flower (which does have a couple of leaves kind of hidden in there) from Local King Rubber Stamps with tuxedo black Memento ink on white card stock and colored it with Copic markers.  Then I cut it out, using a craft knife to cut out the inner portions. 

The lace borders, from Gina K, were stamped with jet black archival ink on white. Then I sponged ruby red ink all over them to match the flowers.  I cut along the scallops. 

I have this sentiment on a stamp from Endless Creations, but it was too big to fit on the card, so I typed it up on the computer and printed it.  I cut apart the words so they would fit bordering alongside the flower. 

Thank you so much for stopping by for a visit. 

My first DT release

Exciting! Hi my friends. Today is the first release for me as a Squigglefly design team member. All of their images are digital, so they can be any size you choose. You can also flip them so they face the opposite direction. I'm sure there are other manipulations that you can do, but my computer savvy is pretty limited, so I haven't figured out anything else yet.

My first card uses two images - 'flower tag' and 'love is friendship set to music'. I printed them together. The image is colored with twinkling h2o's.

For the background, I ran a piece of white cardstock through my Alegro embossing folder and then spritzed lavender lace ink on it with my color spritzer tool.

I added some velvet and grosgrain ribbon to the tag and attached it with dimensional tape.

The little heart is made with an embosslit, which cuts and embosses at the same time. I ran a marker around the edge to define it a bit and sponged it lightly.

The purple rhinestone completes the card.

My second card is (are you ready?)... tangerine... again (haha -- see last post)!

I printed three of the tags in a smaller size and again colored with twinkling h2o's. Then I punched out a portion with a 1-3/8" square punch and backed them with black.

I used a flourish stamp from Inkadinkado, which I stamped in both tangerine tango and certainly celery. A strip of tangerine and black accent the flowers.

The sentiment is from Endless Creations.

Head on over to Squigglefly and check out the images.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Have a wonderful day.

Hi my friends. Whew! Another blustery day. I went to the grocery store today and the wind was so strong, I had to use my body to hold the car door open and hold the cart with my foot while I put the grocery bags in the car.

I made a very simple card for today's Hope challenge on SCS. It's just one layer. I stamped the background stamp with versamark and then brushed forever green perfect pearls over it. Then I colored the flower image with markers and stamped right on top of the shimmery pearls. I added the sentiment and then used my scor-pal to do some simple line embossing. A few sticky back half pearls completed the card.

My 2nd card today is for the sketch challenge. I stamped Lady of Grace (Stampington & Co.) in jet black stazon on some designer paper and colored it with prismacolor pencils and gamsol.

The butterfly is die cut & embossed with an embosslit and then sponged some ink on it to bring out the embossing. The background is an old retired SU stamp called filigree, stamped in baja breeze.

Thanks for stopping in. Be blessed.

Happy Saturday

Hi, my friends. I made two cards today. It's a wallyball night for the rest of the family, which meant I could leave my stuff out longer, allowing me more stamping time. Since I was teaching classes yesterday, I didn't get a chance to do any creating, so I was playing catch up today. I did double challenges on both cards.

The first card is for yesterday's Hope challenge on SCS (handmade embellishments), as well as the ways to use it challenge of using fabric. On the card base, I stamped my denim background (Cornish Heritage Farms). The background image on the next layer is silhouette grass (Hero Arts) stamped in cherry cobbler.

I die cut a denim flower and then crocheted the center. Then I embossed a paper fastener with dark denim embossing powder to put in the center and hold the flower layers together.

The leaf is a new set I bought last weekend at a stamp expo in Milwaukee. It's a set from Heartfelt Creations called Open Falling Leaves. This is one of their stamp sets that has matching dies you can get. I didn't get the die set to match these stamps, but I will probably get it sometime. But for now, I just cut out the leaf. The diagonal strips are navy and cherry cobbler. The sentiment is from Endless Creations.

The second card is today's Hope challenge and this week's sketch challenge. We had to use 3 different pieces of designer paper. I seldom use dp, because I guess I'm intimidated by all the different patterns and colors. I really shouldn't be, since I use that kind of thing in quilting all the time. I guess the difference is that each piece of fabric is just a very small part of the whole quilt, but on a card, each paper is a large section of the card. But every so often, a challenge like this forces me out of my comfort zone. I used a 6" pad called Indian Summer by Basic Grey. It helped to have papers that coordinate well with each other.

The flower image is from Local King Rubber Stamps. I stamped it in tuxedo black memento ink and colored it with copic markers. I've been trying to use those more often, but I'm finding that I am seriously lacking a nice variety of colors. I decided that I should buy a few every month or so, slowly building up my collection. So today I went out and bought five more. Not so many when there are over 300 colors.

This challenge also required two different embellishments, so I added some brads and pearls. The last requirement was ribbon, so I tied a small piece of black grosgrain ribbon around one panel.

Thanks so much for stopping in for a visit. Have a wonder-filled weekend.

split image

Hello my friends. Over on SCS, there are some special challenges this month in honor of breast cancer awareness called Hope You Can Cling To challenges. SCS started the lineup on Saturday, World Card Making Day, with three challenges, and are presenting one more each day all month long.

A LOT of PINK is involved. Can you tell? Well, you may know I'm not a lover of pink, but I really wanted to play along with as many of the challenges as I could. So far there have been five, and I've done each one.

Along with making the cards, there are going to be prizes, and it is recommended that we send all our cards to the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, so that they can use them to encourage cancer patients.

Today, I combined the Hope challenge (4 layers & 4 embellishments) with the technique challenge, which involved stamping an image and then cutting it up into two or more parts. I decided to use colors other than pink. At first, I was going to use a kaleidacolor ink pad and stamp a silhouette image over it, but changed my mind.

I decided to pull out one of my favorite flowers -- Penny Black's blush. I inked it with markers (tangerine tango, cherry cobbler, certainly celery & always artichoke) and then spritzed it with water before stamping. I did that twice. Then I cut it apart, distressed the edges, and mounted the pieces on black. I chose tangerine tango for the card base. Trying to decide what to use for my fourth layer, I picked up one of the pieces I had brayered with the kaleidacolor ink. I really liked the gradation of color, but didn't want to glossy paper.

Since I had used tangerine and cherry on the flowers, I picked those colors, just swiping them down the cardstock, one on either side with some overlap in the center. I added board lines & 'nails' and sponged and distressed the edges. This was exactly what I wanted for this layer.

But now, I realized that the white cardstock was a bit too bright, so I added some color by stamping canvas in creamy caramel and my favorite stamp from itty bitty backgrounds in chocolate chip.

A couple of black brads in the corner and some taupe hemp wrapped around were the first two embellishments. I needed two more, so I looked through my crochet flowers and found one I thought would work. Of course, I needed some leaves, and a black button finished it off. The sentiment is from Endless Creations. I really love this card.

Thank you so much for stopping by today.

inspired by a bag

Hey everyone. Are you having a great weekend. Yesterday my daughter moved out and I'm pretty stiff and sore today from helping her move.

I was going to work on my card for the inspiration challenge on SCS this morning, but got sidetracked a bit because I needed to move some things in order to get to my stamps. Yesterday, we moved some things out of the way so furniture could be moved. I really needed to put them somewhere else anyway, so that meant I needed to do some rearranging. I did just enough so that I could get to my stamp supplies and stamp a card. There is still much more to be done in the cleaning/rearranging area.

I chose this bag as my inspiration. I love the design and colors. I decided to use a couple of stamps that had not yet seen ink. The main floral image is called weed patch from Endless Creations. I stamped it in chocolate chip on a cool caribbean cardstock circle which was die cut with a nestabilities circle from Spellbinders. The chocolate chip frame is a nestabilities dahlia (Spellbinders). I did some faux stitching and sponging.

The background and strip in the front are damask panel (Rubbernecker) stamped in cool caribbean on naturals ivory. They are also sponged in chocolate chip and the border has some doodling on it.

I added some tiny brown pearls and popped up the main image with dimensional tape.

Thanks so much for stopping by to visit today. Be blessed.

One more for VSN

Hey bloggers. Today was nice and sunny, although the temps are still not very warm. I think it was around 40 today. Not that I'd be outside in the snow anyway.

I decided to get one more card done for VSN, so I tried some tea bag folding. I went to the site listed that had instructions on folding and there was a link to another site that had free papers to print, so I copied a couple and printed them 8 times. I tried two different ways of folding. The other one was more complicated, but I liked that the final piece was smaller. Unfortunately, since I wasn't all that sure on what I was doing, I messed it up, so had to go with this one, which is called a kite fold.

After folding, I glued the pieces to a scrap piece of cardstock and then mounted that on black and pale plum, with a tempting turquoise card base.

I punched out a black flower with my boho blossoms punch for the center and added a rhinestone.

I recently bought a small photo corner punch (EK Success) that added a nice frame to the corners.

The sentiment is from Endless Creations. I added a bit of knotted black grosgrain ribbon for balance.

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

an old favorite

Happy Wednesday. Since I have been struggling so much lately with anything creative, for the sketch challenge today on SCS, I decided to pull out an old retired set that never fails me. Natural Beauty has been one of my all time favorite sets.

I stamped the images with black stazon and colored them with colored pencils and gamsol. I added some highlights with white gel pen. I cut out the butterfly and popped up the wings with dimensional tape.

The edges of the white are all sponged with pacific point ink. The largest panel is embossed with my CB Swiss dots embossing folder and cuttlebug. Some of the panels are raised. I added some colored rhinestones from Michaels.

What's in it?
stamps: natural beauty (SU), sentiment (Endless Creations)
ink: jet black stazon, pacific point
paper: pacific point, basic black, whisper white
other: prismacolor pencils, gamsol, sponge dauber, cuttlebug, cb Swiss dots embossing folder, white gel pen, rhinestones, foam tape.

Thanks so much for visiting today. Be blessed.

I didn't do any stamping today, except for designing a card for an upcoming class, but I don't have it finished yet. So I thought I'd show you a few of the cards I made for last weekend's VSN. If you want more details on the challenges, check out this link.

In order as you see them, the cards are: challenge A, B, F & E. Enjoy! Thanks for stopping by.