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

Blue Skies- The Flower Challenge

Good Morning.

Time for a new theme at 

The Flower Challenge.

Add acetate or vellum to your flower card.

I began creating my card by die cutting the Delphinium Circle onto my heavy white cardstock and stamped on my sentiment.

Next, I got out a piece of acetate and cut it to size to fit behind my flower circular window.  I applied alcohol inks and blended them using Ranger's Blending Solution.  It left me with a rich, blue background for my flowers.

Since I am using this as a sympathy card, I wanted to keep it very simple so glued the finished piece onto white cardstock.

I hope you will come and play along with us.

Thanks for the visit.

Use Your Stuff- FREE WEEK
Craft Stamper Magazine- ANYTHING STAMPED GOES
A Inky Mess- ANYTHING MIXED MEDIA GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Difficult Time ( Hero Arts)

Inks- Tuxedo Black Memento; Alcohol inks Aqua (Ranger); Pinata Baja Blue, Passion Purple

Paper- heavy white (local store)

Accessories and Tools- Misti; acetate sheet; Cuttlebug; Delphinium Circle (Memory Box)

Majestic

Happy Saturday!

The other day I picked up this die by Recollections for half price so time to make a card.

I wanted to make a simple masculine card and this is what I came up with.

I began with a piece of acetate again (the kind you get from you stamp pkgs), inked it with Distress Oxide ink, sprayed with water and pressed it onto the paper.  The nice thing about the acetate is that you can manipulate and bend it and place the ink exactly where you want it to be.

When the ink was dry, I stamped the sentiment using my Misti and die-cut the deer head and the leaves.

To add extra texture to the deer head, I dry embossed it to give it lots of texture.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Have a great wknd.

Adding my card to these challenges:

CAS Watercolour- HOLIDAY

 Simon Says- FURRY FRIENDS

CASology- SHARP

Addicted to Stamps and More- HOLIDAY

Supplies

Stamps- 'Tis the Season (PTI)

Inks- Tuxedo Black Memento; Salty Ocean, Seedless Preserves, Faded Jeans DOX (TH)

Paper- heavy white (local store)

Accessories and Tools- Misti; acetate sheet; eb folder (TH); deer die-Recollections; Cuttlebug;

Mister (TH)

Queen Anne's Lace

Good Morning.

Meet today's card.

I made this one using a very fun technique called Tissue Paper Watercolour.

Please check out the great video my friend 

Loll Thompson made here.

So I began by re-inkers directly onto my non-stick craft mat, sprayed with water then pressed the tissue paper into the wet ink.  

It is good to have some wrinkles and bumps in it, they add interest.  

I then set it aside to dry.  That's the hard part, the wait.  You could also help it along by drying it with a heat tool but I decided to be patient.

When it was dry, I glued it onto a piece of acetate and let it dry.

** I didn't have any regular acetate on hand but I do own a laminator, so I laminated one of those sheets together and used that.  It was nice and sturdy and great to use!! ** 

I die-cut the flowers from the TH Wildflowers and glued it over the acetate side.

Lastly, I die-cut the Wonky Stitched frame, mounted my piece behind the frame and pop-dotted it onto my plain white card front.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look!!

Adding my card to these challenges:
Crazy 4 Challenges- Bright and Cheerful
CAS on Friday- EXOTIC
Crafty Creations- ANYTHING GOES
Paper Minutes- SUMMER


Supplies
Stamps- none
Inks- Re-inkers- Peeled Paint, Faded Jeans, Peacock Feathers (Ranger)
Paper- heavy white (local store); tissue paper
Accessories and Tools- Wonky Stitches (Avery Elle); Wildflowers (TH); laminator; 
laminating sheet; Tombow Mono Aqua glue