Enjoying the Moment

Hello and Welcome

Meet today's card.  A real throwback for sure.

I made it for a challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers; What's Old is New Again.  We were to find some of our oldest stamps and use them in a new way.

I looked through my stamps and came across these hollyhocks that I still love.  They are from a company that I did some work for years and years ago but are no longer in business.

The sentiment is also from a long gone company but I love it.

So here's what I did to create my card.

• I began with a piece of white cardstock and my Vicki Boutin Art Crayons.  Her crayons are very highly pigmented and are so fun and easy to work with.
• I took out a piece of acetate and rubbed the crayons onto it.  I sprayed with a generous amount of water, then pressed the wet ink onto my card panel.  I repeated that process a few times until I was happy with the inking.
• I rubbed some more of the Art Crayon onto my acetate sheet and sprayed with water, then using a stencil brush and the Diagonal Weave Stencil from A Colorful Life Designs, I added more of the ink.  There was a bit of ink left on my acetate sheet, so I pressed one of the stamps from the Faded Text stamp set by Tim Holtz  into the wet ink and added it to the background to give more interest.  I dried the panel completely before going onto the next step.
• I placed the panel into my Misti and inked up the Hollyhocks from Innovative Stamp Creations with some Versafine Clair ink.  I had to repeat stamp them so they would ink over the Art Crayons.
• I stamped the sentiment from Daisy Bucket and then splattered using my black Posca pen.
• I mounted the piece onto some matching cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base.

Here is the stencil I used.

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Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Garden (Innovative Stamp Creations-OUT OF BUSINESS); 

Enjoy (Daisy Bucket- OUT OF BUSINESS); Faded Text (TH)

Inks- Vicki Boutin Art Crayons; Versafine Clair

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook, Waterloo, Ontario)

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Diagonal Weave stencil (ACLD); 

Posca pen; acetate sheet