Sanded Snowflake

Welcome

Today's card was truly a fast one to make using a piece of cardstock that I rolled my brayer off onto while Gel Plate printing.  I find it's so great to have them on hand and I always keep some scrap paper nearby when I've got my plate and brayer out.

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

• I began by pulling this inked background out of my stash.  I had rolled my brayer off onto it while Gel Plate printing.
• I placed it into this Snowflake Embossing Folder and ran it through my machine.  
• Next, I took out my sanding tool and sanded off the raised areas to reveal more of the design.
• I did some second generation stamping around the edges of the panel by inking up my stamp with some Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide ink, stamping off onto a scrap paper and then stamping on the card panel.
• I splattered with my white Posca pen to give a more snowy look.
• I glued that onto a white A2 size card base.
• I used some foam tape to add the sentiment strip across the middle of the snowflake.
• Lastly, I added some silver gems to add interest.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Can You Handle the Pressure?-  Anything Goes Embossing With A Twist of Wreaths

Creative Knockouts- ANYTHING GOES

As You Like It- NON-TRADITIONAL COLORS

(love the blues, so calm and soothing)

Supplies

Stamps- Friendship (Hero Arts)

Inks- DOX

Paper- Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.

Accessories and Tools- Snowflake EB folder (Stampin Up); sanding block; 

white Posca pen; Christmas Sentiment strips (SSS); foam tape; silver gems

Joyous Season

 

Welcome

Meet today's card.

Super simple and came together so quickly using what has become one of my favourite embossing folders this year.

So here's what I did.

• Once again I went looking through my roll off sheet I did with acrylic paint while taking the Gel Plate printing class this past summer.  I found this one with blue and purple and thought it would work well.
• I placed the paper into the Perfect Poinsettia embossing folder and ran it through my die cutting machine.  It does help to give the paper a light spritz of water before embossing for a deeper impression.
• After I embossed it, I used a sanding block to gently sand off the raised areas....so simple but gives great results.  I splattered with my white Posca pen.
• I die cut the Celebrate 3 times and glued them together.  Using some Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide ink, I inked up the bottom of the sentiment to add more detail.  I glued that into the bottom corner.
• I stamped the sentiment strip and pop dotted it over the celebrate.
• I glue it onto a heavy white card base, then added some shiny gems to the center of the flower.

Thanks so very much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- HAPPY HOLIDAYS/CHRISTMAS

Addicted to Stamps and More- ANY OCCASION

The Flower Challenge- CHRISTMAS

Supplies

Stamps- Simple Strips Christmas (TE)

Inks- DOX, Versafine Clair, acrylic paint

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Perfect Poinsettias eb folder (Altenew); Celebrate die (MFT);

inking tool; shiny gems (Dollar Store); foam mounting tape; sanding block, Posca pen

Noel

 

Welcome

Meet today's card.

Couldn't be more simple to create using a piece of cardstock that I rolled excess paint off onto while Gel Plate printing and an embossing folder. 

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

• I began by looking through my stash of inked pieces, found this one and thought it would make a pretty card.  It was a piece of white cardstock that I had rolled paint off my brayer onto while Gel Plate printing.  I like to keep my 'roll offs' just for this reason.
• I took the panel and placed it into the Perfect Poinsettia embossing folder and ran it through my die cutting machine.  This folder from Altenew is a 3-D and gives such a wonderful impression.
• Next, using a sanding block, I sanded the paper carefully to remove some of the pink paint on the panel.  I love how it looked.
• I splattered with my white Posca pen to add more interest and to give a snowy feel to the flowers.
• I made sure to keep one of the little pieces that I cut from the paint roll off to use as the sentiment flag.  I placed the small piece into my Misti and stamped the 'Noel' onto it with some Versamark ink and then white heat embossed it.  
• I glued the sanded panel onto a heavy white card base, then pop dotted the sentiment at the top.
• Finally, I added a few clusters of some tiny white pearls.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- MAKE YOUR OWN BKG

My Time to Craft- TEXTURE

Allsorts- ONE FOR THE GIRLS

Supplies

Stamps- Noel (Impression Obsession)

Ink- Versamark

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Perfect Poinsettias (Altenew); acrylic paint; brayer; sanding block;

pearls (Dollar Tree); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Lawn Fawn eb powder; Posca pen

Feeling Blue

 

Hello and Welcome

Meet today's card.

I called it Feeling Blue because of the colour and not because of the way I feel although we are in another lockdown as the third wave here in Ontario is proving to be the worst so far!

I always try and stay positive and look ahead to happier days.

So onto my card details...here's what I did.

• I began with a piece from my stash. I had inked and stenciled it I think.  Since I'm always using my Distress Oxide inks, I'm guessing I used some of my favourite colours....Peacock Feathers, Salty Ocean and some Blueprint Sketch.  I placed it into the Letters Embossing folder from Carabelle and ran it through my Cuttlebug.  I sanded off the letters to give it a more unique look.
• I set that aside and got out my Misti.  Using this new to me stamp called Fragile Foliage, I inked it up with some more of the colours of Distress inks mentioned above, then I die-cut it out.
• I die-cut the 'Thinking of You' sentiment 3 times on some heavy white cardstock and glued them together for stability.
• I glued the sanded background onto a heavy white card base, then glued on the flowers and the sentiment.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

A Bit More Time to Craft- ANYTHING GOES

The Crafter's Cafe- FLOWERS

Daisy Chain- MONOCHROMATIC

Supplies

Stamp- Fragile Foliage

Inks- Distress Oxides (TH)

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

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Thinking of You die (Echo Park); 

Letters EB Folder (Carabelle); sandpaper; Cuttlebug

Wee One- Sanded Embossed Background

Hello and Welcome

It's my turn to host the TLC Challenge (Technique Lovers) over at Splitcoast Stampers.

I like to try and think of some challenges that would be accessible to everyone and this is the one I came up with.  

I've been going through my background pieces that have been inked or painted that I haven't used for cards or that I just went 'yuck' after I was done.  You know those scenarios don't you?

Well instead of throwing them away, I put them in a bin and keep them for die cutting or for who knows what.  That is how this card started off.....and I watched a video by Jennifer McGuire a few weeks ago too so that helped.  

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

• I went through my bin of discarded backgrounds and found this one that was blue and green.  Since I wanted to make a generic baby card, I figured this one might work.  It was a blue and green paint roll off from one of my Gel Plate printing sessions.  (For those unfamiliar with a Gel Plate, you roll paint or ink onto it with a brayer.  Many times, while rolling smooth with a brayer, there is too much paint, so to remove some of it I roll it onto scrap paper.  I keep those scraps for future whatever.)
• I placed the painted piece into my Cozy Knit embossing folder and ran it through my Cuttlebug to emboss.  I removed the piece and then used a piece of sandpaper to remove the ink from all the high points of the embossing.  It totally transformed the look of the background.  (I wish I would have taken a picture of the before and after....especially since I hated the before!)  I set that aside.
• Next, I die cut the scalloped circle using a Spellbinder die and placed that into my Misti.  I stamped the Baby Bunny from Impression Obsession with some Versafine Clair Noir ink.  I clear heat embossed it as I wanted to watercolour the bunny and the embossing helps contain the wet ink. 
• Using some Peacock Feathers and some Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide inks, I watercoloured in the bunny.  I just press the ink pad directly onto my Tim Holtz Glass mat, spray with water to dilute and use a paint brush to add colour.
• Next, I stamped the sentiment from the Little One Animals from Photoplay onto some white and fussy cut it out.
• I glued the sanded background onto a piece of white cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base.
• I pop dotted the scalloped bunny circle over the background, the glued the sentiment banner over the circle.

 

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

I hope you get a chance to try it out.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- SPRING/EASTER MOOD BOARD

Animal Friends- BUNNY

The Crafting Challenge- PASTEL COLOURS

Supplies

Stamps- Baby Bunny (IO); Little One Animals (Photoplay)

Inks- Versafine Clair Noir; Distress Oxides

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook-Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Cozy Knit eb folder (Fun Stampers Journey); Cuttlebug, sandpaper;

acrylic paint (Dollar Tree); pop dots; Scalloped circle die- Spellbinders; paintbrush; TH glass mat;

Misti (My Sweet Petunia), clear eb powder (Wow)