Much Loved

Morning

Hope you had a Happy Valentine's Day.

So meet today's simple card.  

I wanted to ink this stamp up with some non-traditional colours and give it a bit of a different look.

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

• Like I mentioned above, I wanted to give these little hearts a more unique look, so I rubbed some Distress Oxide inks (Twisted Citron, Dusty Concord, Peacock Feathers, Mowed Lawn) onto my TH Glass mat, sprayed with a bit of water and used that as my stamp pad, dragging the stamp through the wet ink
• I pressed the stamp onto my piece of white cardstock and left it there for a bit to give the inks time to soak into the cs.  I loved the look of the hearts when I lifted the stamp off.
• When it was dry, I stamped the sentiment and clear heat embossed it.  I find the embossing makes for a bolder, better look to the sentiment.
• To give the panel more interest, I die cut it using this scalloped and stitched edge die.
• I glued it onto a piece of purple cardstock, then onto a white card base.
• Lastly, I added 3 black gems to match the black sentiment.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- BE MY LOVE/VALENTINE

Simon Says Wed.- EMBOSS IT

Get Creative- HEARTS

My Time to Craft- ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE

Supplies

Stamps- Hearts All Over (Penny Black); Happy Val Day (Printworks)

Inks- Versafine Clair; Distress Oxide 

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

Accessories and Tools- Glass mat (TH); Scalloped Frame die (YNS); Mister (TH); 

black gems; Lawn Fawn cl eb powder; heat tool

Summer Sunset

 Morning.  

Meet today's card.

I am playing along with a challenge at Splitcoast this morning called Summer's End.  

It feels sad to think that summer is coming to an end already and that soon the kids will be back in school.  Where did the time go?  

Anyways, I decided to showcase one of my most favorite times of summer, the sunsets especially if you are at the beach to watch them.  

I began by die cutting a circle using a Spellbinder die, then I stamped the trees from Flonz in black Memento ink and clear embossed them.  The embossing acts like a resist which is especially good when you are applying inks over and around the image.  Next, I cut another small circle to use as a mask for the moon and placed it over the image.

I sponged Mustard Seed, Ripe Persimmon, Fired Brick and Vintage Photo Distress inks to add the colour in the bkg.  I then removed the small circle and rubbed just a touch of the orange on the white masked area to add a glow to the moon.

Some of my embossing powder went astray at the bottom but I left it as it reminded me of waves crashing up onto the rocks.  I mounted that onto a larger stitched circle and stamped the sentiment from Penny Black.

 Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- SURF'S UP

 CASology- DREAM (of being at the beach!)

Simon Says- MAKE FOR THE BORDER

Addicted to Stamps and More- MAKE YOUR MARK

The Sisterhood of Crafters- CLOSE TO NATURE

Thanks so much to all the well wishes...so appreciated.

My dental surgery went well and I have a swollen face and 6 stitches in my gums but I'm not in pain!

Hopefully, this will clear up this ongoing problem.

Thanks for taking a look too!

Supplies:  stamps- Flonz, Penny Black/ dies- Spellbinder, MFT, My Next Stamp/ inks- Memento, DI/ Cuttlebug/ sponging tool/ clear eb powder/ heat tool

Exciting Marbling

It's Saturday of our long Thanksgiving Weekend here in Canada.

 I am feeling very thankful and I needed to play.

  I am so excited to share my card with you as I tried out a 'new to me' technique called Alcohol Ink Floating for my background.  So fun and so easy and I just used my regular heavy weight cardstock to do it.  My friend Loll Thompson sparkled my curiosity when I read her blog.

Here is the link to the Alcohol Ink Floating video.

My inspiration began today when I saw the challenge at Splitcoast and this beautiful photo from a Pinterest board:

If you watch the video, you will see exactly what I did using Ranger Alcohol inks.

The hardest part is being patient while waiting for it to dry.  I let it dry a bit then I like to press it in a book so it will dry flat.  I found this technique so exciting because you never know what you will get after you remove your paper from the water bath.  

So, when it was all dry, I grabbed my MISTI and stamped the flowers from Magenta and the sentiment from My Favorite Things using black Memento ink.  It needed something more, so I stamped the script from Penny Black, randomly in the background using Grey Memento ink.  I was much happier with the illusion of depth it added.  Lastly, I inked the edges with Versamark and embossed with white.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Craft Stampers- TAKE A TECHNIQUE

Crafting with Friends- ANYTHING GOES

Simply Papercraft- ANYTHING GOES

Crafting with Attitude- ANYTHING GOES

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

Supplies:  stamps-  Magenta, PB, MFT/ Ranger Alcohol inks/ Memento inks/ MISTI/ wh eb powder/ Versamark