Beautiful Background

Good Morning and Welcome.

Yesterday over at Splitcoast Stampers, we were challenged to use our background stamps to create a card.  What great incentive that was for me to re-visit my small collection of background stamps that have gone untouched for so long.

When I saw this one from Serendipity called Jen's Zen, it inspired this card.

I began by masking off my card front with some Post-It tape.  I placed the stamp into my Misti and inked it up with grey ink and stamped.

Leaving the mask in place, I stamped the thistles by coloring them with my Tombow makers, spraying with water and stamped over the bkg.

I removed the masks and mounted my card front onto a piece of soft lavender cardstock.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

I hope you get a chance to take a look at your background stamps and get inspired.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Artistic Inspirations- ANYTHING GOES/ USE FLOWERS

Corrosive Challenge- ANYTHING GOES

Cute Card Thursday- ONE WORD SENTIMENT

Supplies

Stamps- Jen's Zen (Serendipity); Nature Flowers (Art Journey)

Inks- Tuxedo Black, London Fog (Memento)

Paper- heavy white (local store)

Accessories and Tools- Misti; Post-It tape; Mister (TH); Tombow Markers

Zentangled

Zentangles.

For those of you that are scratching you heads right now wondering what they are this is my first attempt (I need to practice more!) at creating a card using the technique.  

Basically, it is doodling on paper and drawing designs with a black fine tip marker leaving some areas open and some coloured in.  There are many great video to watch online and trust me, it is easy and relaxing too and something I have wanted to try for a long time.

I began by stamping the leaves from the Simon Says set- One With Nature with black Memento ink.  Then, I picked up my fine line black marker and started doodling away.  I tried to repeat the patterns I chose to doodle on each leaf placing them in a different position each time.  It was fun.

I did add some pencil shading to some of the areas for interest as well.

I kept the background clean by just mounting the leaf panel over a scored edge in the background which is hard to see at the bottom due to the shadow I got when taking the photo.

(one of my lamps is broken!)

Added the sentiment from Paper Smooches for a simple, monochromatic looking card.

 IDEA:  I don't travel but if you do, this would be a great thing to take along to work on while traveling.  All you would need are some open stamped images, a fine line black marker

and some Zentangle examples to refer to.

 Adding my card to these challenges:

CASology- CIRCLES

Little Red Wagon- HAPPY FALL

(leaves) 

CAS on Sunday- POLKA DOTS

Creative Fingers- ANYTHING GOES

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies:  stamps- Paper Smooches, Simon Says/ fine line marker/ Memento bl ink/ pop dots/ ScorPal