Art Soul

Welcome

I hope you are all safe in your part of the world.

It's the weekend, so that meant I had some time to play...yeah!

I played with my Distress Oxide inks and a paint brush this time, inspired after watching a live from Vicki Boutin.  

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

• I cut a piece of heavy white cardstock to use as my card front and pulled out my Distress Oxide inks.  (Picked Raspberry, Carved Pumpkin, Abandoned Coral and Mustard Seed)
• I pressed the Mustard Seed Distress Oxide onto my non-stick craft mat and diluted that with some water.  Using a paintbrush, I painted some onto my card base in a circular motion, creating the small circles.  I made sure to dry the first layer of colour using my heat tool before painting on the next colour.  
• I continued in the same way, painting circles around circles using the other colours mentioned above.  It helps to have the paper a bit wet and the ink very diluted.  
• When all the circles were painted and I was happy with the design, I stamped in some details in the background with the same inks as the circles.  I used some of the wet ink left over on my non-stick mat and dipped the large script into that and stamped with it to give a more diluted look to the text.
• I stamped the sentiment from Hampton Arts and clear heat embossed it.  
• The panel looked so flat, so I doodled around the circles and then splattered using my Posca pen.
• I glued it onto a piece of yellow cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- FAVORITE TECHNIQUE

(watercolouring, just one of the many)

Creative Artiste Mixed Media- ANYTHING GOES

Just Us Girls- RAINBOW COLORS

Supplies

Stamps- Art Soul (Hampton Arts); Faded Text (TH); AALL and Create (338)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX inks

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook Waterloo, Ontario)

Accessories and Tools- paintbrush; non-stick mat (TH); Posca pen; Wow clear eb powder;

heat tool (Ranger); Pigma Micron pen

With Sympathy

Welcome.

I needed a sympathy card, not always an easy one to create.  I usually use muted colours for that type of card, but this time I decided to go brighter and celebrate the life well lived.

I haven't played with this stencil from Altenew for so long, so it was time.

So onto my card details.

I began with a piece of heavy white cardstock and masked the edges as I wanted a crisp white border.  The stencil I used is a 2-part, so I placed the first one down and rubbed some Carved Pumpkin DOX ink over the top.  I removed that stencil and positioned the over lay (it adds the flower petal details) stencil on top and rubbed it with some Fired Brick DOX ink.  These 2 colours looked great together.

I dried the piece then placed it into my Misti to stamp the sentiment.  

I removed the mask and doodled in a framed line.

I mounted the piece onto a contrasting piece of brown cardstock then onto a heavy white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Scripted Bold Sentiments (Pinkfresh Studios)

Inks- Versafine Clair Noir; DOX (TH)

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook); brown cs

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); fine line marker; stencil brush; Layered Dahlia (Altenew)

Plaid Christmas

Good Morning.

Meet today's card.

My first holiday card made!!

 It all happened while playing with this fun new stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called Watercolor Stripes.

Very simple card but I love the effect I was able to create.

So here's what I did.

I began by inking up my stencil with some Peacock Feathers Distress ink, sprayed with water and pressed onto my heavy white cardstock, giving me a Stencil Monoprint. I love the irregular lines and inking it had so I inked it up again the same way, sprayed with water and pressed the stencil in the other direction.  Voila....my plaid bkg was born!!

When the stripes were dry, I placed the piece into my Misti and stamped the branches and then stamped the simple sentiment.  To help pull the whole design together, I doodled in a border and mounted it onto a heavy white card base.

Thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas- ANYTHING CHRISTMAS

Crafty Calendar- ANYTHING GOES

CAS on Friday- USE A STENCIL

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

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

Supplies

Stamps- Valley Berries (Memory Box); Many Merry Stars sentiment (SU)

Inks- Peacock Feathers DOX (TH); Tuxedo Black Memento

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

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

Mister (TH); Micron Fine Liner Pen

Celebrate Your Day- CAS Watercolour Challenge

Hello and Welcome.

It's time for another card for the 

CAS Watercolour Challenge.

Fun theme this month:

I began by inking up my embossing folder using my Distress Oxide inks.

I started at the top with the lightest colour and worked down to the darkest.

When it was all inked, I sprayed it with water and pressed it onto my white cardstock.

I love the print it created.

Next, I placed the inked piece into my Misti and stamped the sentiment using black ink. I clear heat embossed it to make it pop.

As a finishing touch, I doodled a blackline border around the edge.

Simple, fun looking card.

I hope you will come and play along with us.

Thanks for stopping by.

Adding my card to these challenges:
Seize the Birthday- IT'S JUST A NUMBER
Artistic Stamper- BACKGROUNDS
The Creative Crafters- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Birthday Letter It (Ranger) 

Inks- Tuxedo Black Memento; Distress Oxides- Fossilized Amber,
Candies Apple, Peeled Paint, Evergreen Bough, Peacock Feathers,
Salty Ocean, Faded Jeans, Blueprint Sketch, Wilted Violet (TH)

Paper- heavy white (local store)

Accessories and Tools- Misti; clear eb powder; heat tool; Numbers Embossing Folder (Darice)