Be Yourself

Welcome.

Meet today's card.

I just picked up this great image from I Brake for Stamps from the set called The Old and New and wanted to get a chance to play with it. It's such a wonderful, iconic image and I wanted it to shine on my card.

I began by die-cutting some heavy white cardstock using the Wonky Frame die.  I masked the edges to contain the image to the framed area, then placed it into my Misti and stamped.  I added the sentiment....it just seemed to go perfectly with the image.

Next, I looked through all my 'hoarded' backgrounds and found this one.  

I had created it by inking up a piece of heavy white cardstock with some DOX inks, then stenciled over it with some black ink.  It is very dramatic looking and I thought it would work great with this image.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Here is the stencil I used from A Colorful Life Designs called Lace Doily

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Adding my card to these challenges:

Use Your Stuff- ANYTHING GOES

Craft Stamper Magazine- TAKE IT/MAKE IT

Supplies

Stamps- Sentiment (Daisy Bucket, no longer in business); Old and New (I Brake for Stamps)

Inks- Versafine Clair Noir, DOX (TH)

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Lace Doily stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); inking tool;

Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Wonky Frame Die (Avery Elle); pop dots; painter's tape

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)

Cityscape

Hello and Welcome.

Playing with my Brushos to create this card.  It is not only fun but you can achieve great results using them as they are so highly pigmented.

So onto my card details.

I placed my heavy white cardstock into my Misti and positioned this New York stamp over my paper.

Next, I sprinkled some Brushos onto my palette, diluted it with a bit of water and picked up the ink with a paintbrush.  I painted it directly onto my stamp, adding different colours in various areas of my stamp.  I pressed onto my paper and repeated that process for areas that didn't get enough of an inking.

I took a wet paintbrush with just water and painted over the image, blurring the look.

I painted in the sky with some diluted blue ink as well.

When it was nice and dry, I placed it back into my Misti and stamped the sentiment from PB.

I mounted it onto a piece of light blue cardstock then onto a heavy white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Challenge Up Your Life- ANYTHING GOES

A Vintage Journey- WE'RE ALL GETTING OLDER

Brown Sugar- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- New York (Technique Junkies); Birthday (Penny Black)

Inks- Brushos; Versafine Clair Noir

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook); blue cs

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); paintbrush

Shaped Cards- The Flower Challenge

Good Morning

Today is the first new theme this year at 

The Flower Challenge

This month we are using some of the gorgeous images created by 

Alex Syberia

She is also our Guest this month and has offered a prize of two of her lovely digital designs for our lucky winner!  She has some really beautiful designs in her store.  If you click on her name above, it will take you there.

Our design team will be using some of them for their shaped cards this month too!

So onto my card details.

I needed some thank-you cards for some of the wonderful gifts I received at Christmas so

I began by printing out this beautiful digital frame from Alex, onto a piece of heavy white cardstock.  

Next, I cut it down into the shape I wanted and coloured it using my Copic markers.

The shape I chose was a pretty simple one.

When I was done colouring, I placed the piece inside my Misti and stamped the sentiment using some Versafine Clair ink.  I mounted the piece onto some matching green cardstock that I cut into the same shape as my inked piece and then onto a heavy white card base.

Here are some of my favourite card from last year, created for The Flower Challenge.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Digital (Alex Syberia); Scripted Bold Sentiments (Pinkfresh)

Inks- Versafine Clair Noir; Copic markers

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- printer; Misti (My Sweet Petunia)

Cool Colours- CAS Watercolour Challenge

Hello and Welcome.

First card of the New Year and a new challenge at the 

CAS Watercolour Challenge.

This month we are creating using Cool colours.  

Here is a sampling of them:

We also want to welcome our Guest Designer this month:

Guest Designer:  Chrissie (Simply One of a Kind)

So onto my card details.

I began with a piece of heavy white cardstock and placed it into my Misti.

I positioned the Peacock Feathers stamp from Technique Junkies over my paper then I painted directly onto the stamp with some diluted Brushos in purples, green and blues.  I pressed onto my paper and added more ink where needed.  It helps to spray your stamp with some water as well to help the colours blend.  The Brushos give such rich colour.

When it was dry, I stamped the sentiment and simply mounted it onto a heavy white cardbase.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

I hope you will come and play along with us.  We have some great challenges to offer you this year.

Supplies

Stamps- Peacock Feathers (Technique Junkies); Scripted Bold Sentiments (Pinkfresh)

Inks- Versafine Clair Noir; Brushos

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); paintbrush

Happy New Year!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2020!!

Sincere thanks for all your most wonderful, kind and generous comments this year.

I am so grateful.

Wishing you everything good for the New Year.

xx Karen