Typography Birthday

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Yes....you guess it!!  

Another inked background from my stash became a card today.

This one had some faint stenciling done with embossing powders and my Distress Oxide inks.  

You can see some hints of the stenciling in the background done with a resist technique.

I will do my upmost best to remember what the heck I did since I didn't write on the back of this one!!  I need to get better at doing that.

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

• Background- Like I said, I will try my best to remember what I did with the layers.  I inked the panel with Broken China and Shaded Lilac Distress Oxide inks.  I laid on the Floral Stencil from Tim Holtz over the inking and pressed on some Versamark ink and then clear heat embossed it to create a resist.  I inked over that with some Dusty Concord DOX ink and rubbed away the ink over the embossing to reveal the flowers.  I splattered with water to lift some of the ink too. I added some stamping with some Salty Ocean DOX ink along the edges with the Reverse Squares from AALL and Create.  At that point, I didn't know what I wanted to do with it, so threw it into the basket where it sat until today.  
• I just recently picked up this embossing folder called Typewriter by TH and if you saw my post from Monday HERE, I decided to emboss and then sand off the top layer of the colour to reveal the letters....love the look!!
• I die cut a circle that I wanted to use for the sentiment and stamped on the sentiment with some Versafine Clair Noir ink using my Misti.  I clear heat embossed that as well to help make it pop.
• I die cut the flowers called Dandelion Posies from some white cardstock and set aside.
• I glued the inked background onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base, then glued on the flowers and pop dotted the circle greeting over onto the other side. 

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Little Red Wagon- BIRTHDAY

A Bit More Time to Craft- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamp- Everyday Circle Tags (Avery Elle); Reverse Squares (AALL and Create)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX inks; Versamark

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ontario)

Accessories and Tools- Typewriter eb folder (TH); Floral stencil (TH); Wow clear eb powder;

heat tool, Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Dandelion Posies (Creative Expressions); 

sandpaper, pop dots, circle die (Spellbinders)

Stand Proud

Welcome

So happy to be celebrating Canada Day this long weekend and grateful to be living in such a great country.

Meet today's card

Just a simple, fun card using 4 different stencils and 4 Distress Oxide inks.  Great way to get more mileage from your stencils too!

So, I began by measuring out my card front so I would have equal sections.  I used a light pencil to mark it all out.  I knew I wanted a bit of white space between the panels so I measured for that too.

All stencils from A Colorful Life Designs.

Next, I masked then stencilled the pink; (Picked Raspberry DOX) using the Flowers Gone Wild. I move the mask and using yellow; (Fossilized Amber DOX) and the Retro Star Grid stencil repeated the process.  The bottom left corner is done with some orange (Carved Pumpkin DOX) and the Chain Weave stencil and lastly the bottom corner is done with blue; (Peacock Feathers DOX) and the Lava Blooms stencil.

I removed all the masks and using my ScorBug, I scored between the panels to better help define the areas.

I die-cut the dandelion twice and glued them onto my card base then added two black gems to help the flower pop against the colourful bkg.

I simply mounted it onto a plain white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Addicted to Stamps and More- MAKE YOUR MARK

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

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

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- stencils (A Colorful Life Designs); blending brushes; Dandelion (Poppy Stamps);

 ScorBug; Post It Tape for masking; black gems

Something New- The Flower Challenge

Good Morning

Time for a new theme to play along with at 

The Flower Challenge

Please check out the wonderful creations from our DT's this month.

Where did January go?

Time just flies by but we are hoping that maybe? you got some new goodies for Christmas or picked up a few new things at the 'Boxing Day' sales and are ready to use them.

So onto my card.

I got this great Dandelion die from my son for Christmas and wanted to feature it on my card.  I decided to create an alcohol inked background to help best feature the beautiful design of this die.

I began with a piece of Yupo paper and dropped some blues and purples over the paper.  I helped move the colours and blend them using some Ranger Blending solution, a straw to blow air over the piece and a Q-tip dipped in the solution.

When I was happy with the way it looked, I set it aside to dry a bit.  

I wanted to add some extra interest to the background, so I searched in my stamp stash to find a similar stamp that would match the die.  I then placed the piece inside my Misti, inked up the stamp with some TH Alcohol Lifting ink and pressed onto my inked background.  I let that dry, then rubbed off the ink with a clean cloth.
I stamped the sentiment using some Archival ink and then glued on the Dandelion die.
The finishing touch was to add a drop of Nuvo drops to the flower heads.
I simply mounted the whole piece onto a white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:
Little Red Wagon- WINTER BLUES

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies
Stamps- sentiment from the Sketched Flowers Set (SSS); Wildflower (Unity)
Inks- Archival Black (Ranger); TH Alcohol Lifting ink; Alcohol inks (Ranger)
Paper- Yupo; heavy white for base
Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Dandelion die (Poppy Stamps); Blue Lagoon 
Nuvo Drops; Cuttlebug; Ranger Blending Solution; straw; Qtip

On another note....
I want to thank Craft Stamper Magazine once again, for publishing one of my cards.

You can find it in this new February issue and it comes with a very cute free heart stamp.