Faux Watercolouring

Good Morning.

Meet today's card.

Super simple one and a great way to get more mileage from your embossing folders.

I love the look of watercolouring and this is such a simple technique that helps to achieve that look especially when using my Distress Oxide inks.

I began by inking up my Darice Embossing folder called Henna, sprayed with a generous amount of water and pressed a piece of heavy weight cardstock into the wet ink.  I rubbed gently then removed my paper to reveal the print.  Love how all the colours blended together.

I dried it with my heat gun then placed the piece inside my Misti to stamp the sentiment with black ink.  I clear embossed the sentiment as well, to help make it pop against the colourful bkg.

I mounted it simply on a piece of coloured cardstock and then added one black gem to the center of one of the flowers.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- BRIGHT AND CHEERFUL

International Art and Soul- ART NOUVEAU

Dare 2B Artzy- BRIGHT COLOURS

Supplies

Stamp- Art Soul (Hampton Arts)

Inks- Tuxedo Black (Memento); Peacock Feathers, Faded Jeans, Cracked Pistachio, 

Seedless Preserves, Wilted Violet Distress Oxides (TH)

Paper- heavy white

Accessories and Tools- Misti; EB folder- Henna (Darice); clear eb powder; heat tool; black gem

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)

Thankful Heart

Meet today's card.

I think it feels so good to have a 'thankful heart'!

I am so thankful and blessed to have all of you that come and visit my blog to see what I have been up to. 

A big thanks for that.

Here's what I did to create my card.

I love this embossing folder from Carabelle.  It has a bit of a graffiti/grunge feel to it.  I wanted to use it to do some Embossing Folder Inking.  

I cut a heart mask from printer paper and used the negative part to mask my piece of cardstock.  I inked up the embossing folder with Distress Oxide inks, sprayed with water and pressed over the masked area.  I removed the mask right away and dried with my heat tool.  I love the watery impression it left behind.

Using scissors, I fussy cut out the heart leaving a slight white border around the edge.

Next, it was onto my card front.  Using my ScorPal, I scored 3 lines where I wanted the heart to be placed and to help break up the embossed background.  Then using the same embossing folder as I had for the inked heart, I embossed the top of my panel up to the scored lines then the bottom portion stopping before the scoring.

I used the new sentiment set from Penny Black called Grateful Heart to stamp the center of the heart and then pop dotted it over my embossed card front.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More- CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Addicted to Stamps- THANK-YOU

The Corrosive Challenge- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Grateful Heart (PB)

Inks- Tuxedo Black Memento; Distress Oxides (Picked Raspberry, Candied Apple TH)

Paper- heavy white (local store)

Accessories and Tools- Misti, EB folder-Texte Grunge (Carabelle); Mister (TH);

pop dots; paper for mask; Cuttlebug

Non-Traditional Christmas

Meet today's card.

Playing around with inking an embossing folder again to create a quick and easy card.

You can see some of the other cards I made using this technique here and here.

I just love the look of this EB folder from Carabelle and decided to make a card using it.

I inked the inside of the folder with Candied Apple Distress Oxide ink, sprayed with water and pressed onto my paper.  Be sure and let the inks dry or use you heat tool as they take a bit longer to dry and will smear.

When dry, I placed the piece inside my Misti and stamped the sentiment with black ink.

Next I punched out a circle then stamped the snowflake onto it using the same DOX ink.

I added a Nuvo drop to the center of the snowflake then pop dot mounted it to the side of my card front.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:
Crazy 4 Challenges- FAVORITE SKETCH (373)
Time Out- INSPIRATION HOME SWEET HOME
Dragonfly Dreams- Non-Traditional

Supplies

Stamps- Snowflakes (Recollections); Joyful Greetings (Paper Smooches)

Inks- Tuxedo Black Memento; Candied Apple DOX (TH)

Paper- heavy white (local store)

Accessories and Tools- Misti; Autumn Red Nuvo drops; pop dots; EB folder-Texte Grunge (Carabelle);

Mister (TH)

Snowy Fun

Good Morning and Welcome.

Another quick card I made using this new Embossing Folder I just picked up.

As you have seen in some of my past posts, creating a background using an embossing folder is a simple way to have an instant card. 

Here is a video to show how to do this.

So I inked the EB folder with Peacock Feathers DOX, sprayed with water then pressed my paper into the wet ink.  After it was dry, I added the die-cut snowflake and stamped the sentiment.

The finishing touch was to add the blue buttons to the snowflake centers.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look especially at such a busy time of year.

 Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- STITCH IT

(snowflake)

The Male Room- CHRISTMAS/WINTER

The Rubber Buggy- CHRISTMAS/WINTER

Paper Creator- CHRISTMAS/NEW YEAR

Supplies

Stamp- Season's Greeting (Studio G)

Inks- Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide (TH); Tuxedo Black Memento

Paper- heavy white (local store)

Accessories and Tools- Tiles eb folder (Kaisercraft); Mister (TH); blue buttons (YNS); 

Stitched Snowflake (Lawn Fawn); Snowflakes (SSS)

Holly Jolly

Good Morning.

Do you need some ideas for simple cardmaking as the big day gets closer.

This card fits that bill.

I used the Embossing Folders inking technique to do the background.  

Rub a water based ink onto your embossing folder, spritz with water and press your paper into the wet ink and remove.  The Peacock Feather DOX gave such a lovely impression.

When that was dry, I played the piece into my Misti and stamped the sentiment from MFT.

Added the SSS die-cut snowflake and popped up the center for interest and added drops of Nuvo to finish off my card.

Wishing you a happy day as you get ready for the holidays.

Thanks so much for the visit.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Monday- WINTER/CHRISTMAS

Use Your Stuff- CHRISTMAS IS COMING

Craft Stamper Magazine- ANYTHING GOES STAMPING

Crafting By Design- DECEMBER ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamp- Handlettered Holiday (MFT)

Inks- Tuxedo Black Memento; Peacock Feather Distress Oxide (TH)

Paper- heavy white (local store)

Accessories and Tools- Misti; Snowflake eb folder (Echo); snowflake die (SSS);

Caribbean Ocean Gloss Nuvo; Mister (TH); pop dots

The Flower Challenge Reminder

 Morning.

We are half way through December and it's time for another card for The Flower Challenge.

This month our challenge is to use an older stamp, stencil or die.

 I am using my older stamp from Unity again today to create this anniversary card.

I began by creating the background using the Embossing Folder Inking Technique.  I rubbed Distress inks over the front part of my embossing folder, sprayed with water and pressed my paper onto the folder.  It is a great way to get more mileage from something you already have in your stash too!

I placed the flower stamp from Unity inside my Misti and stamped with black Memento ink then stamped the sentiment from Rubber Stampede and done.

Please come and play along with us!!


 Adding my card to these challenges:

Brown Sugar- ANYTHING GOES

Crafting With Friends- ANYTHING GOES

Creative Artiste- ANYTHING GOES MIXED MEDIA

Simply Papercraft- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies:  stamps- Unity, Rubber Stampede/ inks- Memento, Distress/ embossing folder/ mini mister/ MISTI