21 cards - #15

Hi friends.  Wow!  I'm on number 15 already for the monthly challenge at Motley Soul Mixed-Media Art.

Please refer to this post to see how I made the base for my cards.

I used my Inspiration Jar again and pulled out the words - tissue paper, corrugated cardboard, and doodles. 

I used faux silk technique.  I started by stamping a piece of white tissue paper with stamps from SU set greenhouse garden.  I used real red and rich razzleberry ink.  Then I crumbled up the tissue, flattened it out but not completely, and then glued it to my card with gel medium.  I also coated gel medium over the top of it, using a minimum number of brush strokes to keep the ink from bleeding too much.  Then I dried it with my heat gun, because I didn't want to wait for it to air dry. 

I spritzed one side of a piece of corrugated cardboard with water, so it was easier to peel off the outer layer and let the ridges show.  I die cut the dress form (Tim Holtz sewing room die) out of the corrugated cardboard.  I painted it black, leaving some of the original color to show through.  When that was dry, I tied a red grosgrain ribbon around the waist, trimmed out part of the stand and glue it to my card. 

I used a black pigma pen to add some doodling along the edges and in the flower centers. 

The sentiment was computer generated. 

Thank you so much for spending some time with me today.  Have a wonderful weekend. 

tissue paper

Hello my friends.  I got lots of goodies today. The mailman, the Fedex man and the UPS man all brought boxes to my door today.  One package had some Crafters Workshop stencils in it, so I decided to play.

I used cherry blossom on my background with scattered straw distress stain.  Then I crumpled up some tissue paper and spread it over the stenciling with a glue stick.  The technique is called faux silk, although normally you stamp on the tissue rather than behind it.

I used another stencil for the stem and then stamped the leaves with an old SU set called paint prints.

The flower, colored with mustard seed and fired brick distress inks, is hero arts and is two layers, with dimensional tape between.  The button is from my stash.  I cut a very thin strip of black card stock to use as a 'thread' in the button holes.

The sentiment is one of my newest Tim Holtz' stamps.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  Have a great weekend.

coffee anyone?

Hi my friends.  It's been another hot day here today.  At least the past several nights have been cool enough to turn off the A/C and open the windows. 

Tonight I made a card for a challenge on the Blockheads facebook fan page to use a faux fabric technique.  For mine, I used faux silk, but instead of using tissue paper, I used a coffee filter.  After emptying the grounds, I washed the filter and dried it.  Then I did some stamping using distress inks and Hero Arts stamps. 

I colored a piece of card stock with spiced marmalade distress stain and then stamped the large Hero Arts flower on it, cut it out and added white gel pen to the center.  The leaves are cut with deckle scissors, folded and crimped.  Then I sponged peeled paint distress ink on the ridges.  The black strip is punched with a Fiskars border punch.  The sentiment is SU.  Both the flower and sentiment are raised on dimensional tape. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  Have a great weekend.