Reflection

Good Morning.

Meet today's card.

I felt inspired to create a card using a partially inked piece I had in my stash.  By finishing the inking and adding the stamping, I was left with a great card.

So here's how my card was created.

I began with a piece of heavy white cardstock and using a small sponge, I dabbed some Versamark ink across the panel, then heat embossed it using some white eb powder that created a resist and gave it texture.

I rubbed on some Peacock Feathers DOX ink onto the panel then just left it at that and put it away as I didn't know what I was going to do with it.....until now with this great bird image.

I added more DOX inks; Tumbled Glass, Blueprint Sketch, Stormy Sky and Faded Jeans, then did a bit of watercolouring with my Memento markers.  I generously splattered the piece with water to lift the inks then placed it inside of my Misti to stamp the bird with black Memento ink and clear heat embossed.  

I mounted the dry piece another piece of white cardstock then over a piece of purple then onto a plain white card base that I scored along the middle for interest.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Have a great weekend, a long one for us here in Canada!

Adding my card to these challenges:

The Male Room- ANYTHING GOES

Addicted to Stamps and More- ANYTHING GOES

The Artistic Stamper- TEXTURES

Supplies

Stamp- Reflective Blue Heron (Magenta)

Inks- DOX (TH); Memento markers; Versamark

Paper- heavy white- Scribes Nook

Accessories and Tools- white and clear embossing powder; sponge; sponging tool (TH); heat tool; 

paintbrush; ScorPal

Birthday Bunny- CAS Watercolour Challenge

Hello and Welcome.

It's time for another card for the 

CAS WATERCOLOUR CHALLENGE

I have the pleasure of hosting the challenge this month with the theme I chose.

I thought it would be fun to add some cards for a child to our stash.  I hope you get a chance to check out the happy, inspiring gallery and what our DT's have created.

We also welcome our Guest this month, Bobby from Bits and Pieces.

So onto my card details.

I began with a plain white piece of cardstock.  I rubbed some Worn Lipstick and some Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide inks onto my non-stick craft sheet, sprayed with water and slapped my paper into the wet ink.  My friend Loll Thompson has a great video showing how to do this technique here.

I took another piece of heavy white cardstock and die-cut the Diamond Cut from it and glued that over the inky background.  I stamped the bunny and the banner from the  PB Special Friend set with more of the Picked Raspberry, fussy cut them out and then pop dotted them over the inked bkg.  The finishing touch was the little white pom-pom I glued onto the rabbit's tail.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Special Friend (Penny Black)

Inks- Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry DOX (TH); Tuxedo Black Memento

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- die- Diamond cut (PB); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); pop dots'

white pom-pom

Thank You- The Flower Challenge

Good Morning and Welcome.

Time for another card for 

The Flower Challenge

This month we are being sponsored by Altenew and you still have time to play along for the chance to win a lovely stamp set from them. 

So onto my card.

I began with a white piece of heavy white cardstock and rubbed on some Mermaid Lagoon, Wilted Violet and Seedless Preserves Distress Oxide inks, blending the colours together until I was happy with the coverage.  

**My camera refused to show purple, so sorry if your think the colours look different from the ones I have listed!**  

I dried the inks with my heat tool then rubbed over it with an anti-static bag to help with the embossing.

I placed the piece inside my Misti then stamped the Sketchy Florals with some Versamark ink and embossed with some white powder.

Using a Versamark pen, I coloured in the flowers and added some clear embossing powder and heat set those.  You can't see from the photo the amount of shine they have, but it's really lovely.

I splattered the whole piece with water to lift the ink.  As you can see from my card, the ink was only lifted in the bkg and not over the flowers where they had been embossed.

I die cut the sentiment 3 times and glued them together so they would be raised up over my card front then glued them over the flowers.

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:

Shopping Our Stash- MAY FLOWERS

Addicted to Stamps and More- ANYTHING GOES

Just Us Girls- BOLD LETTERS

Supplies

Stamps- Sketchy Florals (Altenew)

Inks- Mermaid Lagoon, Wilted Violet, Seedless Preserves DOX (TH)

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); white and clear eb powder (HA); 

heat tool; Thank You die (Altenew); Cuttlebug; Anti-static bag (SU)

Vintage Elegance

Good Morning and Welcome.

Today, I am playing with a beautiful stamp from Penny Black called Blossom Branch and some Weathered Wood Distress Oxide ink.

I began by placing an acrylic mask from A Colorful Life Designs over my white cardstock as I wanted to be left with a clean, white border.  I placed the stamp inside my Misti, inked it up with some Weathered Wood DOX, sprayed with water and stamped.  I dried the piece a bit, then I coloured directly onto the stamp with some black and a hint of blue using  Memento markers, sprayed with more water and stamped again.  The blue and black added some great detail to the flower petals.  I sponged the edges very lightly with some more Weathered Wood.

Before I cut the piece down, I used my ScorPal to score a border around the edges to help define the stamped area.  I glued the piece onto some grey cardstock and pop dotted that over a dry embossed background.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

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

Adding my card to these challenges:

Craft Stamper Magazine- MAKE IT/ANYTHING GOES

The Flower Challenge- EMBOSSING HEAT/DRY

Always Fun- EMBOSSING FOLDER

Simon Says Wed.- FOR A SPECIAL LADY

Supplies

Stamp- Blossom Branch (PB)

Inks- Weathered Wood DOX  (TH); Memento markers

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook); grey cs

Accessories and Tools- ScorPal; Mister (TH); Plaid eb folder (Echo Park); Cuttlebug;

pop dots