Pretty Pastels- The Flower Challenge

Good morning.

Time for another card for 

The Flower Challenge

This month, we are also happy to be giving away a lovely stamp set from Uniko.

We are also welcoming our Guest Designer Michelle Lupton.

We are playing with pretty pastels this month which has been a lot of fun.

I started to create my card by rubbing some DOX ink (colours listed below) onto a piece of plastic wrap, sprayed with water and pressed my heavy white cardstock into the wet ink.  The wrinkled nature of the plastic wrap leaves such wonderful textures and designs to a card base and it super easy to do too!

Next, I placed the dry piece into my Misti and stamped the flower with black Memento ink.  I stamped the flower head again onto a piece of white cardstock as well and fussy cut it out.

Using the same colours of DOX inks I used in the background inking, I watercoloured in the flower and then splattered with some white acrylic paint to add interest.

I stamped some extra interest on the bkg using a variety of stamps (listed below), then stamped this great sentiment from Penny Black.  I pop dotted the flower head over the one stamped onto the card front and then mounted the piece onto some soft pink then onto a plain white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

I hope you will come and play along with us.

Adding my card to these challenges:

AAA Birthday- FOR THE GIRLS

Always Fun- PAPER PIECING

Crafting Happiness- PINK

Just if you are interested....I am being published in the August issue of the 

Craft Stamper Magazine using this exact flower stamp set.

Supplies

Stamps- Creative Chaos (Visible Image); Beautiful Heart (Penny Black); Grid Bkg (SSS); 

Friendship Script (HA)

Inks- Tuxedo Black Memento; DOX inks- Worn Lipstick, Tumbled Glass, Shaded Lilac, Spun Sugar

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook); pink cs

Accessories and Tools- kitchen plastic wrap; Mister (TH); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); 

white acrylic paint; paintbrush; pop dots

Craving Some Green

Hello

I have to say that the title of this card reflects how I'm feeling these days!

Can't wait to see the ground covered with fresh green again.

This card was just me having some time to play around....something I haven't had much time to do these days.  I also wanted a chance to play with this SU set I picked up for $2.00 at the Thrift Shop.

Thanks to my friends over at SCS, I now know that it is called All the Best.

So, I began by placing a mask from A Colorful Life Designs over my piece of white cardstock.

I created the background first by inking up my sheet of acetate with some green Oxide inks, sprayed with water and pressed onto my paper.  When I was happy with the ink coverage, I stamped the leaves with a darker shade of green using my Misti.

I added some stenciling down one side using the Curly Q stencil from A Colorful Life Designs. I really like the extra texture it gave to my collage design.  The lines around the edges is also a stamp from that same set.  I stamped the sentiment then cut the piece down a bit.

Next, I cut a frame using a Spellbinder die and scored a border along the edges using my ScorPal.  I pop dotted the piece inside the frame; I like the look.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- All the Best (SU)

Inks- Peeled Paint, Lucky Clover, Evergreen Bough DI (TH); Tuxedo Black Memento

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Mask (A Colorful Life Designs);

 Rectangle Mask (A Colorful Life Design); acetate sheet; Mister (TH); sponge dabber

Curly Q Stencil- A Colorful Life Designs

Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on stencils and masks.

Birthday Boy

Good Morning

I needed a card for a young man and this is what I came up with.

My starting point was this great silhouette from Flonz Stamps and my favourite blue Distress Oxide inks.

So onto my card.

I wanted to create a collage style background in a monochromatic style, leaving the image to be the star of the show.  So I inked up a piece of acetate with some Distress Oxide ink, sprayed with water and pressed it onto my white cardstock, letting it drip and run.  I find it helpful to dry the colours as it helps to layer them when using this technique.

To see my picture tutorial go here.

When that was all dry, I placed the inky piece inside my Misti and stamped the Graffiti along the one side and down along the bottom using some of the same colour I used for the bkg.  It gave me a nice edging and added interest.  I added some circles using a plastic cup I had sitting on my workspace and a small checked design to resemble a flag at a race.  

When I was happy with it all, I stamped the image and the sentiment with some Tuxedo black Meemnto ink and heat embossed them with some black embossing powder.  

I simply mounted it onto a white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

The Male Room- ANYTHING GOES

Craft Stamper Magazine- ANYTHING STAMPED GOES

2 Sisters on the Blog- NUMBERS

Supplies

Stamps- Silhouettes (Flonz); Happy Birthday (Studio G); Graffiti (Kaisercraft); 

Texture Mini (Carabelle)

Inks- Memento Black; DOX- Blueprint Sketch, Mermaid Lagoon (TH)

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); plastic cup; black EB powder; heat tool;

acetate sheet; Mister (TH)

Good Times- Collage Stamped Backgrounds

Welcome.

Today, I have the pleasure of hosting the TLC (Technique Lovers) Challenge at Splitcoast Stampers.  I am calling my challenge Collage Stamped Backgrounds.

I love that I can use multiple stamps to create such interesting backgrounds for my cards.  I like to challenge myself to see how many different stamps I can actually accumulate on one card!!

I began by taking a piece of white cardstock and masked the edges using some Post-It tape.

I really like the look of a nice, clean white border.

I stamped images, grunge elements from many different sets all listed below using some Fossilized Amber and Dried Mustard Seed Wild Honey Distress Oxide inks and my Dried Marmalade Distress inks.  Really fun to see what kind of combinations I could come up with.  When I was happy with the background stamping, I sponged the edges with some Dried Mustard to help define the main area.

I placed the stamped background into my Misti, then stamped the sentiment and the flowers to finish my card off.  I scored a border around the sponged area using my ScorPal and then simply mounted it all onto a white card.

I ended up using 12 stamps on my card today!!

I made the picture extra large so you could see the details I stamped.

I challenge you to create a 'collage stamped background'.  Pull out your stamps and play.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says- ANYTHING GOES

Just Us Girls- PHOTO INSPIRED

Crazy 4 Challenges- HOPE/SYMPATHY

Supplies

Stamps- Weathered Clock (Hampton Arts)= Faith Hope (Paper Inspirations)= Collage des Rond (Carebelle)= 

Dots (Impression Obsession)= Grunge Elements (TH)= Graffiti (Kaisercraft)= Mixed Media (STAMPlorations)= 

So 80s (WPlus 9)= ABC (Carabelle)= Tape Meausre (Darkroom Door)= Meadow (Inkadinkadoo)= 

Treasure Moments sentiment (IO)

Inks- DOX- Wild Honey, Fossilized Amber DI- Mustard Seed, Dried Marmalade (TH); Tuxedo black (Memento)

Paper- heavy white (local store)

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia)= Post-It Tape= ScorPal