Peace on Earth

Hello and Welcome

Meet today's card, Peace on Earth.  

I think we are all praying for that this Christmas season. 

I had fun creating this card.  I began by inking up the background using the Splash Watercolour technique and Distress Oxide ink.  It made a quick colour palette to stamp onto.

When it was dry, I placed the inked background into my Misti and stamped the trees first in black then again using the same colour ink as I had used on the background.  I find by using a colour already on the background, it gives a great shadow effect and adds to the depth and interest.

Next, I die cut the piece using a stitched frame die then distressed the edges and added a snowy feel by rubbing a Versamark ink pad along the edges and then heat embossed with white powder.

I stamped the sentiment using my Misti again then mounted it onto a piece of blue cardstock.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look and wishing you Peace.

Adding my card to these challenges:

The Male Room- CHRISTMAS/WINTER WISHES 

Addicted to Stamps and More- ANYTHING GOES

Christmas at Sweet Stampin- ANYTHING GOES

Craftaholics R Us- CHRISTMAS

Supplies

Stamps- Hand Lettered Christmas (MFT); Trees (Mark's Finest); Tree (Northwoods)

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

Versamark; Tuxedo Black Memento

Paper- heavy white (local store)

Accessories and Tools- Misti; white eb powder; Stitched die (Avery Elle); 

white acrylic paint

Woodland Scenery

Happy Saturday!

This morning I am playing along with the Inspiration Challenge at Splitcoast where we are being inspired by the China Online Museum.

Here is the lovely painting that I used as inspiration:

lin-fengmian- Mountain Forest

I began with a piece of heavy watercolor paper I got from a friend so not sure what the weight is.

Using my MISTI, I inked the trees stamp from Mark's Finest by coloring it with Memento and Crayola markers.  After spraying with a generous amount of water, I stamped, added more colour, sprayed with water and stamped again.  The rest is a watercolor wash.

I cut the piece into panels and pop-dot mounted it to my card front.

I stamped the sentiment from Paper Smooches under one of the panels.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says- ANYTHING GOES

Little Red Wagon- THEY SAY IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY

Just Add Ink- JUST ADD NATURE 

Crafty Girls- ANYTHING GOES

Addicted to CAS- HOLIDAY

 

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look

Supplies:  stamps- Mark's Finest, Paper Smooches/ watercolor paints/ Memento and Crayola markers/ pop dots/ watercolour paper/ Mini Mister

Oh Baby!

New babies smell amazing .  

This week my special friends welcomed a baby girl into their family so I needed a card.

I began by stamping the booties from Serendipity Stamps onto white cardstock using black Memento ink.  I then coloured them using Copic markers, fussy cut them out and glued a tiny pearl onto the bow.

To create the circle, I cut a circle mask using a Spellbinders die and sponged on pink Distress ink.  To help define the circle, I used my Copic markers and a technique called Pointillism to add interest.  

Pointillism is basically little dots of colours blended using a clear blending pen.

The finishing touches were to add the piercing and stamp the sentiment.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Serendipity Stamps- MONOCHROMATIC

CASology- PRECIOUS

Addicted to Stamps- ANYTHING GOES

Brown Sugar- ANYTHING GOES

Use Your Stuff- ANYTHING GOES

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies:  stamps- Serendipity, Mark's Finest/ Copic markers/ Distress and Memento ink/ piercing tool/ die for mask/ sponging applicator/ pearls

By the Seaside

It's Sunday and who doesn't want to be by the water feeling the cool breeze on their face?  I can just smell the air now.  Anyways, I am playing along with a few challenges today, the Featured Stamper at Splitcoast, the Addicted to CAS challenge-water and the Little Red Wagon-CAS.

I started my card by first stamping the pier from Gina K then masked off the bottom part where the sand would be then rubbed on a brown Distress ink.  I moved the mask then applied blue Distress inks to the top portion of my piece.  I went back and splashed some water on the sand as well to add some texture.  When dry, I cut it into 3 pieces, mounted with pop dots and finally added the scoring lines.

Hope you have a great day and I appreciate that you came by for a visit.

Supplies:  stamp; Gina K, Mark's finest/ Distress inks/ Scorbug/ pop dots/ twine

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

Masculine Christmas

Hi there....just me playing with my Distress inks again.  I started by adding ink to my acrylic block, spraying with water and stamping.  Next, I added the trees from Mark's Finest Papers, the sentiment and lastly the polka dots behind to perk it up for Christmas. 

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.  Hope you have a good week.

Supplies:  stamps; Paper Smooches, Mark's Finest/ twine/ acrylic block/ Distress inks/ pop dots