Feather- Photo Paper and Baby Wipes

Hello and Welcome.

Trying out something new today using my Distress Oxide inks.

A friend of mine gave me a stack of HP photo paper that she couldn't use.  I wanted to try and use it for my card and after watching a few videos on YouTube I was off to try this fun and simple technique.

So like I said, I began with a piece of photo paper.  I inked up a sheet of acetate with my Distress Oxide inks, sprayed with water and pressed onto the paper.  You are left with a chalky looking inking.  I let that dry for a moment, then placed the piece inside my Misti.  These feathers are one of my favs from Technique Junkies so I inked it up with more DOX and stamped it over the bkg.  

Now for the magic part......I took a baby wipe and wiped over the surface of the whole card.  Amazing, it just all wiped away the chalky look and revealed wonderfully bright colour. 

So simple yet effective.

I then stamped the sentiment and done.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Seize the Birthday- ANYTHING GOES

The Male Room- ANYTHING GOES

Use Your Stuff- MAGIC (wipe and see the magic happen)

Supplies

Stamp- Peacock Feathers (Technique Junkies); Birthday Letter It (Ranger)

Inks- Peacock Feathers, Salty Ocean, Faded Jeans, Seedless Preserves DOX (TH);

Black Archival (Ranger)

Paper- Photo HP; heavy white for base (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); baby wipes; acetate sheet; Mister (TH)

Cheers

Good Morning.

Meet today's card inspired by the challenge at Splitcoast Stampers this morning; to create a card using your birthstone colour.  Fun, right?

Since my birthday is January 1st, (yes, I'm a New Year's baby) so my colour is Garnet.  For those of you that don't know, Garnet is a deep shade of red.

So onto my card.  I do love playing around with my Distress Oxide inks.  I did some acetate inking along the side of my card front using Fired Brick and Candied apple DOX ink.  To see a pictorial of this technique go HERE.

Next, I took out my Circles Make Circles stencil and added some stenciling along the side of my card using more of the Fired Brick.  Next I randomly inked up my Graffiti stamp and pressed that over the inked area just to add some more interest and texture.

I placed the piece inside my Misti and stamped the sentiment and the silhouette and clear heat embossed to help make them pop against the bkg.

I mounted the piece onto some black cardstock then onto a plain white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

The Male Room- ANYTHING GOES

Addicted to Stamps and More- CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Seize the Birthday- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Rock Silhouette (Impression Obsession); Graffiti (Kaisercraft); Birthday Letter It (Ranger)

Inks- Distress Oxides- Fired Brick, Candied Apple (TH)

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Circles Make Circles stencil (A Colorful Life); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); 

acetate sheet; Mister (TH); clear eb powder; heat tool

Circles Make Circles stencil- A Colorful Life Designs

Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on stencils and masks.

Crisp Morning

Meet today's card.

A very simple CAS one layer card created using this great stamp from Serendipity.

Here in Ontario, we have the day off so I was happy to have some time to stamp.

This morning at Splitcoast, the challenge was to create a 'thirds' card, stamp just on a third of your card base. 

So here's how I created my card.

I began with a plain white card base and masked an area top and bottom with some Post-It tape.

I then inked up the scene with black Memento ink and stamped.  Using some diluted DOX inks, I adds some colour to the buildings then using a small sponge dabber, I coloured in the sky.

I removed the tape used for masking, then scored a line on the edges of the inked area using my ScorPal then added a perforated line on either side of those.

 Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

ScorPal- MORE THEN ONE SCORE

Not Just Cards- ANYTHING GOES

The Creative Crafters- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Winter Homestead (Serendipity)

Inks- Memento black; Tumbled Glass, Festive Berries, Evergreen Bough (DOX-TH)

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- ScorPal; ScorBug; paintbrush; mini sponge dabber

Being You- CAS Watercolour Challenge

Welcome.

Time for another card for the 

CAS Watercolour Challenge

We have a colour theme happening this month. 

Please check out the amazing projects created by our talented team and our special guest this month Darnell from djkardkreations.

So onto my card.

I began with a piece of heavy white cardstock and my Distress Oxide inks in pink and red.

I rubbed my DOX inks directly onto my non-stick craft mat, sprayed with water and then using a credit card, I dragged the wet colour onto my cardstock.  

When the background was dry, I took my Curly Q stencil from A Colorful Life Designs and added some detail to the side of my card using more pink.

Next, I then placed the piece inside my Misti and stamped the flowers and the sentiment in black.  I added some red lines using the edge of my credit card, again dipping it into some wet red DOX ink.  

Since I had some wet ink still left on my mat, I used a paintbrush to splatter over the entire bkg.

I simply mounted the finished piece onto some heavy white cardstock and then over an embossed card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Curly Q Stencil- A Colorful Life Designs

Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on stencils and masks.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Just Us Girls- RED, WHITE, PINK

Just Add Ink- PINK, RED, BLACK

Craft Stamper Magazine- ANYTHING STAMPED GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Just Be YOU (Daisy Bucket CLOSED); Floral Silhouette (Magenta); 

Meadow (Inkadinkadoo)

Inks- Tuxedo Black Memento; Distress Oxides- Candied Apple, Worn Lipstick, 

Festive Berries (TH)

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- old credit card; Misti (My Sweet Petunia); non-stick craft mat;

Curly Q stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); sponge dabbers; Mister (TH)

A Single Rose- The Flower Challenge

Good Morning.

Here is another card for 

The Flower Challenge 

We have a fun theme this month- Use Something New.

I hope you get a chance to check out the wonderful creations by our DT's.

I decided to create a cas card (clean and simple) with this great collage style stamp from STAMPlorations called Framed Solitary Rose that I just picked up not too long ago and have never used.

So, I stamped the image onto some white cardstock using some black Memento ink in my Misti, sprinkled on some clear embossing powder and heat set.  I stamped the image again in the same way as I wanted to cut out the flower head and add it as an overlay.

Next, I cut the first stamped piece out just along the black framed area, leaving a bit of a white border.  Using my Zigs, I watercoloured the leaves and stem of the flowers and set it aside to dry.

I took the second stamped piece and watercoloured just the flower head, again using my Zigs.

I fussy cut out the flower and pop dot mounted it over the first stamped image to give the piece some dimension and interest.

I took a piece of plain white cardstock and cut out a rectangle frame and scored along the edges for interest (sorry that's hard to see in the photo).  I simply glued the stamped image inside the framed area and added the whole piece to a plain white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Craft Stamper Magazine- ANYTHING STAMPED GOES

Crafting With Attitude- ANYTHING GOES

STAMPlorations- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Framed Solitary Rose (STAMPlorations)

Inks- Tuxedo Black Memento; Zig Waterbrush Markers

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); ScorPal; Rectange Die (Spellbinders);

paint brush; pop dots

Medallion

Hello and Welcome.

Meet today's card.  I love how it turned out and it was so super simple to create using a mask, stencil and some Distress Oxide inks.

To begin making my card, I placed a circle mask from A Colorful Life over my heavy white cardstock.  I am loving these masks as they are so easy to use with great results.  

Next, I inked up my Bo Ho Medallion stencil with some Distress Oxide inks, sprayed with water and pressed over the mask. I placed a piece of scrap paper over stencil and rolled over it with my brayer to create a monoprint.  I have had good luck transferring the ink that way.

When I removed the inked stencil and the mask, I was left with this beautiful impression.  

To help accentuate the circle detail, I simply die cut a circle and framed the impression under that.

I stamped the sentiment in more of the same colour ink, added a drop of blue Nuvo to the center of the medallion and pop dot mounted it onto a heavy white cardstock base.

Mary Kay from A Colorful Life Designs  is offering a discount on stencils and masks.

Just use the code KarenFan10.

Thanks so much for the visit today.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More- MAKE YOUR MARK

Tinker Dream- DIE CUT/ STENCIL

Love to Scrap- option MONOCHROME ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Being Unique (Technique Tues.)

Inks- Distress Oxides- Faded Jeans, Peacock Feathers, Salty Ocean (TH) 

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Bo Ho Stencil, Circle Mask (A Colorful Life); circle die (Spellbinders);

Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Nuvo Drops

Something New- The Flower Challenge

Good Morning

Time for a new theme to play along with at 

The Flower Challenge

Please check out the wonderful creations from our DT's this month.

Where did January go?

Time just flies by but we are hoping that maybe? you got some new goodies for Christmas or picked up a few new things at the 'Boxing Day' sales and are ready to use them.

So onto my card.

I got this great Dandelion die from my son for Christmas and wanted to feature it on my card.  I decided to create an alcohol inked background to help best feature the beautiful design of this die.

I began with a piece of Yupo paper and dropped some blues and purples over the paper.  I helped move the colours and blend them using some Ranger Blending solution, a straw to blow air over the piece and a Q-tip dipped in the solution.

When I was happy with the way it looked, I set it aside to dry a bit.  

I wanted to add some extra interest to the background, so I searched in my stamp stash to find a similar stamp that would match the die.  I then placed the piece inside my Misti, inked up the stamp with some TH Alcohol Lifting ink and pressed onto my inked background.  I let that dry, then rubbed off the ink with a clean cloth.
I stamped the sentiment using some Archival ink and then glued on the Dandelion die.
The finishing touch was to add a drop of Nuvo drops to the flower heads.
I simply mounted the whole piece onto a white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:
Little Red Wagon- WINTER BLUES

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies
Stamps- sentiment from the Sketched Flowers Set (SSS); Wildflower (Unity)
Inks- Archival Black (Ranger); TH Alcohol Lifting ink; Alcohol inks (Ranger)
Paper- Yupo; heavy white for base
Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Dandelion die (Poppy Stamps); Blue Lagoon 
Nuvo Drops; Cuttlebug; Ranger Blending Solution; straw; Qtip

On another note....
I want to thank Craft Stamper Magazine once again, for publishing one of my cards.

You can find it in this new February issue and it comes with a very cute free heart stamp.

Red and Pink- CAS Watercolour Challenge

Hello and Welcome

Time for more fun at the 

CAS WATERCOLOUR CHALLENGE

Please check out our colour theme this month and all the fantastic cards created by our team.

We also welcome as our guest this month, the most talented Darnell from djkardkreations.

So onto my card.

I began with this fun plaid embossing folder as I wanted to use it to create my background.

I inked it up with some pink and red Distress Oxide inks, sprayed with water and pressed onto my heavy weight cardstock.  I then dried it with my heat gun and placed it into my Misti.

Using my Memento markers, I scribbled over the Valley Berries stamp with some pinks first, then some reds, sprayed with water and pressed onto my inky background.  

I stamped the sentiment using some Tuxedo black ink in the top corner.

Keeping with the simple look of this card, I pop dot mounted it onto a plain white card base.

Hope you will come and play along with us and thanks so much for the visit.

Adding my card to these challenges:
Craft Stamper Magazine- ANYTHING STAMPED GOES
Addicted to Stamps and More- ANYTHING GOES
Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Valley Berries (Memory Box); Grateful Heart (Penny Black)

Inks- Tuxedo Black Memento; Fired Brick, Worn Lipstick, Festive Berries DOX (TH)

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Plaid eb folder (Echo Park); Mister (TH);

Tombow Markers