Black magic kickstand

Wow! I can't believe almost a week has gone by since my last post. I guess that means I haven't been stamping. Well, I did stamp today - oops, make that yesterday since it's already after midnight. This card is for the limited supplies challenge on splitcoast, which I am hosting this week. The challenge is to use only circle stamps, except for a sentiment, and circle embellishments. I used big flowers, which are almost all circles and alphadots, which are also circles. I love the black magic technique so much, I decided to use it on this card. And I thought the kickstand card would work really well with the circles. My white gel pen was brand new and really juicy, so my lines got rather messy. The row of circles at the top and all the letters are popped up.

Supplies:
Stamps: big circles, alphadots (SU)
ink: white craft
paper: cool caribbean, tempting turquoise, ballet blue, basic black
other: brads, piercing tool, 1-3/8" & 5/8" circle punch, circle nestabilities, cuttlebug, giga circle punch (marvy uchida), white gel pen, prismacolor pencils

I'm so glad you stopped by.

Kick stand cards

Happy Wednesday! Today I have two cards for the sketch challenge on Splitcoast, which was to make kick stand cards. These are fun to make. Can you tell I like birds? On the first card, the background was stamped using sage shadow, elegant eggplant, and regal rose ink, with stamps from Carte Postale, A Beautiful Thing and Itty Bitty Backgrounds. The stitching is faux.

The circles on both cards are cut with my circles nestabilities in my cuttlebug.

The 2nd card is stamped with a brand new set of acrylic bird stamps, which weren't in the house more than a half hour before they were in the ink. I saw these birds on Amy Westerman's blog and just had to have them - Thanks, Amy! The flock is stamped with eggplant craft ink and the large bird is stamped with rose coral chalk ink, but out and sponged around the edges with groovy guava ink. The swirl from Priceless is stamped on the circle in creamy caramel ink. The brads are made with the mat pack and eggplant marker, and then highlighted with white gel pen.

supplies card 1 - stamps: Carte Postale, A Beautiful Thing, Itty Bitty Backgrounds
ink: elegant eggplant, sage shadow, regal rose
paper, whisper white, elegant eggplant, sage shadow
other: cuttlebug, circles nestabilities, eggplant grosgrain ribbon

supplies card 2 - stamps: Polka Dot, Small Script, Priceless (SU), Birds Galore (Inkadinkado)
ink: sage shadow, elegant eggplant, creamy caramel, groovy guava, rose coral Colorbox chalk ink (Clearsnap)
paper: groovy guava, elegant eggplant, sage shadow, very vanilla
other: cuttlebug, circles nestabilities, eggplant grosgrain ribbon, crop-a-dile, mat pack, ticket corner punch, white gel pen, sponge

Thanks for stopping by. Have a wonderful evening.