Seashore

Hello and Welcome

Some simple stamping today.  

I decided to just leave my card in black and white.

I think going to the beach is on a lot of minds especially when the weather is sunny and warm.

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

• I began by cutting a piece of white cardstock and placed the Fishing Boats stamp into my Misti and stamped with some black. 
• I cut out the stamped image and glued it onto a piece of black cardstock, then set it aside.
• Next, I die cut a frame from some white cardstock using a die from Penny Black.
• I glued the white frame to an A2 card then popped the image inside the frame.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Little Red Wagon- STITCHING SENSATIONS

Addicted to CAS- NAUTICAL

Supplies

Stamp- Fishing Boats (ISC- discontinued, company gone)

Inks- Versafine Clair

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Zig Zag Stitch die (Penny Black);

foam tape

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

Re-visit

Ok.....don't know if life is just too busy right now or I have lost my 'mojo' but I am not getting around to creating anything this week so I am posting a card I made for a challenge at Splitcoast last year before my blog started.  It was a simple one using one of my favourite techniques...colouring a stamp with waterbased markers and spraying with water before stamping.  I used one of my all time favourite stamps from Innovative Stamp Creations, drew in the black line after adding the sentiment.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies:  stamps:  Innovative Stamp Creations, Studio G/ Memento markers/ mini spray bottle

Best of Friends

Wow...can't believe it's Friday already!  Must be all this fabulous warm weather and all the time spent outside this week.  LOVED it..next week, back to frost.   Today's card is all about the warm weather and being in the garden.  I so love this hollyhock stamp from Innovative Stamp Creations.  It is a solid stamp and just works so perfectly with my favourite technique; watercolouring with markers.

I coloured the flowers using my Memento markers, spray with water before stamping.  I really am surprised with the effects I achieve, it is different every time.  Added the score lines and kept the whole thing really CAS (clean and simple). 

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look today.  Hope you enjoy a wonderful weekend.

Supplies:  stamps:  Innovative Stamp Creations, Studio G/ Memento markers/ score pal/Spellbinders