Happy Father's Day

Welcome

Today we celebrate Father's Day.  

What a great way to let our Dad's know how much we care about them. 

Here is a card I made for my husband to celebrate this special day.

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

I began with a piece of heavy white cardstock.  I decided to use my Gel Plate to make a quick easy card since it was already out on my desk.  I rolled on some green and blue acrylic paint that I picked up at the Dollar Tree and brayered it all over my Gel Plate.  You can use just about any kind of acrylic paint on your plate.  This kind is more watery which I like as I get those little bubbles on my print.

Next, I laid the Big Leaf Stencil onto my plate and pulled a print with the stencil left in place.  I then removed the stencil and let the print dry.  The stencil will leave an impression on your plate.

While the paint dried, I ripped a piece of copy paper as I wanted to use that as a mask.

When the paint was dry on my plate, I brayered on some vanilla acrylic paint, laid on the torn paper mask and then pulled the print that would become my card front.

After pulling the print, there was just enough room on the masked area to stamp the greeting.

I mounted the panel onto a piece of matching green cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers- T FOR TECHNIQUE

Watercooler Wed.- ANYTHING GOES/MASCULINE TWIST

Southern Girls- ANYTHING GOES

Creative Artiste- ANYTHING MIXED MEDIA

Here  is the stencil I used:

A Colorful Life Designs

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

Supplies

Stamps- Greetings Galore (IO)

Inks- Versafine Clair

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Big Leaf Stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); brayer; Geli Press; 

Acrylic paint (Dollar Tree); black dots; printer paper

Dad's Day

Happy Father's Day!

Celebrating with this card for my husband and the fun of trying a new technique.

The technique I used on this masculine card is called 

Sanded Pencil Background

For this technique, you first lay a stencil over your paper.  They suggest using watercolour paper but I just used a heavy weight cardstock for mine.  Next, spray your paper with water then using a piece of sandpaper, rub the sharpened tip of a watercolour pencil over the sandpaper above the open areas of the stencil.  It will drop shavings from your pencil into the wet paper and leave you with wonderful blend of colour.  I used a stencil that was tiny so not all the open areas got colour on them but when I lifted up my stencil, I noticed there was still a lot of colour left on the top so I gave it a quick spray of water, turned it over and pressed that onto my paper creating a Monoprint with the stencil.
(STENCIL MONOPRINTING is when the stencil is inked, sprayed with water and pressed onto the paper)
Great....2 techniques with one process!!  Gotta love that.

When that was all dry, I stamped the clock face and the sentiment using Memento black and clear heat embossed it.  I added a small black gem to the center of the clock face for interest.
I sponged the edges of my piece with Distress inks to help pull all the colour together.

Thanks so very much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:
Simon Says Wed.- EMBOSS

HLS June CAS Challenge- SMOOSHING
(I smooshed my stencil onto my paper)

Open Minded Crafting Fun- JUST ABOUT TIME

Monochrome Magic- ANYTHING GOES


Supplies
Stamps- Weathered Clock (Hampton Arts); By the Sea 2 (Gina K)
Inks- Tuxedo Black Memento; Prismacolor Pencils
Paper- heavy white cs (local store)
Accessories and Tools- Mini Tile  Texture (TCW); clear EB powder; black gem; heat tool,
sandpaper, mister (TH)

Watercolour for Dad

Father's Day is quickly approaching so I wanted to get a jump on it by having a card all ready to go.

I am really loving the Tim Holtz watercolouring paper.  I had a scrap of it on my desk so I inked up my acrylic block with Salty Ocean and Broken China Distress ink, sprayed with lots of water and pressed it onto my paper.  I let the puddles of ink dry then stamped the silhouette trees.  I love how the puddled paint looks like clouds in the sky.  I mounted the panel with pop dots and stamped the sentimen.

I am adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says- ANYTHING GOES

Simply Create Too- FATHER'S DAY

The Male Room- TREES

Always Something Creative- MEN

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies:  stamps- Flonz, Gina K/ Distress ink/ Watercolour paper/ pop dots/ Memento Bl/ pop dots

Father's Day

Today's card is a fun one.  We are enjoying a long wknd here in Canada so more time to play....yeah!

This am, I saw the challenges at Splitcoast so decided to combine them.  One had a water them and the other was to use the Embossing Folder Stamping technique on your card.  Well you all know how much I love having a new use for my embossing folders so I was off to make a card.  

(for those of you that want to see how it's done go HERE)

I began by cutting a circle mask and attached it to my cardstock.  I pressed my paper into the wet ink and then when I removed the mask, the imprinted circle was left.  I love the wet looking splashes of colour it leaves behind when the colours blend together.  It reminded me of a planet so I added the little robot from Birdie Brown and the sentiment for The Alley Way.

I think I will give this to my hubbie for Father's Day.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Addicted to CAS- OFF THE EDGE

CASology- SPLASH

Brown Sugar Challenge-FATHER'S DAY

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies:  stamps- digi, The Alley Way/ eb folder/ Distress ink/ Copic markers/ pop dots

The Great Outdoors

Welcome to the weekend and I feel like I am scrambling to get everything done, so a quick card for the Inspiration Challenge at Splitcoast today.   Great site to be inspired by (photo below) and since I had a piece of angle cut cardstock sitting on my desk leftover from the card I made the other day, I made a quick and easy card with it.  

I stamped the trees so some would be on the angled piece and some off.  I sponged Distress inks onto my piece then mounted it with pop dots for a rustic looking card.  

Happy Father's Day to all the Dads out there.  

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies:  stamp; Mark's Finest, Northwoods/ Distress inks/ pop dots/ Memento black/ twine

Happy Father's Day

With Father's Day quickly approaching I went looking for some inspiration and found the challenge at Splitcoast from the Emma Bridgewater site and saw the plate below.  I was ready to stamp as I love the repeated script and here is what I came up with.  Simple and masculine and easy to do with the clear stamp.  I am adding this to the challenge at Simon Says Stamp; Masculine/Father's Day.  

Supplies:  Stamps; Impression Obsession/ Memento ink/ pop dots/ Scorbug