Watercoloring for fun...

Decided to try a couple of watercolor techniques that were new to me... been seeing a lot of really pretty watercolor cards out and about! 

Materials:
Paper: Watercolor paper, Neenah - Solar White, misc. Bazzill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Lawn Fawn - Many Thanks, Versafine - Onyx, TH Distress Ink - Antique Linen, Just Rite Clear - Large Fancy Sentiments, Impress - Outline Poppy
Cutting/Embossing/Stencil: Ranger superfine clear embossing powder
Misc.: Watercolors, Distress markers, dimensional adhesive, ribbon

Clean and Simple 3: Days 3/4

Days 3/4:

Topic: Masking and Stamp Layering

Materials:
Paper: Neenah - Solar White
Stamps/Inks: Neat and Tangled - Party Dots, Verve - Treasured Words, Impress dot stamp, Onyx Black Versafine, TH Distress Ink - Tumbled Glass, HA Shadow Ink - fresh peach, green hills, tide pool, and stone wash
Cutting/Embossing/Stencil: Spellbinder's Nestabilities - Standard Circle

Card Set #5 and a Thank You Notecard

The finale of card sets...

Materials:
Paper: Misc. Bazzill cardstock, Neenah - Solar white
Stamps/Inks: TH Distress Inks - Salty Ocean
Cutting/Embossing/Stencil: Inky Antics Cloud stencil, Memory Box: Adorable Posies and Hayden Twigs
Misc.: White Liquid Pearls

And Thank You...

Materials:
Paper: Neenah - Solar white
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Rhubarb Stalk, HA Shadow Ink Midtone - Butter Bar, Impress - Mom and Baby Giraffe Combo, Verve - Treasured Words
Cutting/Embossing/Stencil: Stampin' Up heart punch
Misc.: dimensional adhesive, zig wink of Stella clear glitter brush

Summer Card Class 2 - Pre-Class Challenge 1

Here's a little preview for Summer Card Camp 2... it's not too late to sign up, if you haven't!

I opted to use the coral, dark grey, pool, and white for the color challenge.

Here's mine:

Materials
Paper: Neenah - Solar white, misc. Bazzill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Hero Arts Shadow Inks - Tide Pool, Soft Pool, Pale Tomato, Soft Granite; Impression Obsession - My Little Chickadees, Hero Arts - Sentiment Sampler, Impress rubber stamps - Solid poppy and Outline Poppy
Cutting/Embossing: Coordinating die for My Little Chickadees, Spellbinder's Nestabilities - Standard Ovals
Misc.: Dimensional adhesive

Holiday Card Class - Day 6

Over halfway through the class, because now we're on the sixth day!

Topic: Cards with Inking Techniques

Technique 1: Masking and Ghost Stamping

Materials:
Paper: Neenah Solar White, misc. Bazzill cardstock, American Crafts - Christmas Snowy Sidewalks
Stamps/Inks: Colorbox - Frost White, TH Distress Inks: Salty Ocean, Peacock Feathers; Hero Arts - CL 343 Holiday Sayings and background stamp
Cutting/Embossing: Memory Box Frostyville Border
Misc.: Dimensional Adhesive

Technique 2: 

Materials:
Paper: Neenah Solar White, misc. Bazzill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Versamark, Impress - Raindrop Tree, Memento - Love Letter, Hero Arts - CL343 Holiday Sayings
Cutting/Embossing: Zing white embossing powder, Sizzix embossing folder
Misc.: TH Distress markers, dimensional adhesive, pearl embellishments

DeNami Color Challenge #11

Here's this month's challenge over at DeNami Designs....

For this challenge, there are only two requirements:

1) Create a card/project featuring Chocolate Brown, Desert Orange, Leaf Green and White/ Cream.

Slight color changes for each color is permitted, but please try to keep the colors as close to the swatches as possible.

2) Use at least one DeNami Design stamp. If you have some DeNami products, we'd love to see you use them too, although it's not required.

Here's mine:

Materials:
Paper: Misc. Bazzill cardstock, Neenah - Solar White, kraft cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Hero Arts - Shadow Ink Mid-tone Cup O' Joe, Impress Fresh Ink - Mango, DeNami stamps -  D125 Turkey, PF49 Thanksgiving Chickies stamp set, and PF50 Ornamental Flowers, Impress circle stamp
Cutting/Embossing: Spellbinder's Nestabilities - Standard and Scalloped Circles, EK pumpkin punch
Misc.: Dimensional adhesive, twine from The Twinery

National Stamping Month Challenge #2/Theme Challenge #11

September (Stamp-tember) is national stamping month, and DeNami is hosting weekly challenges...

Here's this week's challenge over at DeNami Designs...

The details:

1.) Create a card that captures the look and feel of fall. Must use at least one DeNami Design stamp.
2.) Send DeNami a photo of your card (or a link to your photo on a blog or online gallery). Include your name, state or province, and include challenge title in the subject line ("Fall Theme Challenge").

Challenge entries will be accepted through September 10, 2012. Finalists will be posted on Facebook. Voting will take place September 11-16, 2012. Winner will be determined by highest number of "likes" a photo receives. DeNami Design reserves the right to change the rules at any time.

I've also decided to include it in DeNami's monthly challenge...

Here's mine:

Materials:
Paper: Misc. Bazzill cardstock, Neenah - Solar White, Kraft Cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Rich Cocoa, Desert Sand, and Tuxedo Black, Impress - Large Solid Dot, DeNami - D136 Wheat Stalks and PF49 Thanksgiving Chickies Stamp Set
Cutting/Embossing: Spellbinder's Nestabilities - Leaves
Misc.: Copic markers, Dimensional Adhesive

Stretch Your Stamps - Day 7

Day 7 of Stretch Your Stamps - Floral Stamps

 

Technique: Pieced and Layered Stamping

Materials:
Paper: Neenah - Solar White
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Paper Smooches - Word Salad, Impress - Outline Poppy
Misc.: Copic markers, dimensional adhesive


Technique: Nested Stamps Background

Materials:
Paper: Neenah - Solar white, misc. Bazzill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Katie and Co - unknown name rose stamp, Memento - Tuxedo Black, Versamark, Just Rite clear - Large Fancy Sentiments
Cutting/Embossing: Zing Embossing Powder - Lavendar
Misc.: Copic markers, ribbon, dimensional adhesive

Stretch Your Stamps Day 3

How did I get behind so quickly?! A big part was being in Oregon over the weekend. Here is a photo...

Spruce Goose!!

And, back to STETCH YOUR STAMPS ----Day 3.... Alphabet Stamps

Technique: Embossed window and masking with Alphabet Stamps

Materials:
Paper: Neenah - Solar White, misc. Bazzill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Lawn Fawn - Quinn's ABCs, Impress - Solid Dot, Hero Arts Shadow Ink - Pool (mid-tone), Soft Blossom, and Butter Bar (mid-tone), Memento - Tuxedo Black
Cutting/Embossing: Spellbinder's Nestabilities - Standard Rectangles

Technique: Second Generation Stamping

Materials:
Paper: Neenah - Solar White
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Love Letter, Summer Sky, Paper Smooches - Sentiment Sampler
Cutting/Embossing: Spellbinder's Nestabilities - Standard Rectangles
Misc.: Jewel Embellishments, dimensional adhesive

More Playing with the Light Tent

Here are some more cards that I whipped up yesterday, mostly just to have some more fun in the light tent...

Some are obviously with better light than others.

Materials: 
Paper: Misc. Bazill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Impress Fresh Ink - Peach, Hero Arts Shadow - Faded denim, rosie posie, cup o'joe, Memento - Tuxedo Black, Lawn Fawn - On the Mend, Impress - Poppy

Clean and Simple Day #10

Simple Card Sets

Belated final post for the class --- was waiting for the stamp and ink to come in the mail!

Here's the first card of my card set...

I finally got the light tent out and started to play. This is the first card in a series, with different shadow ink colors.

Materials

Stamps/Inks: Hero Arts Shadow Ink - Midtone - Stone Wash, Lawn Fawn - Many Thanks, Impress - 5127G Solid Poppy  

And a little knitting:

This sweater was a little large for the light box. Still fun to try, though. 




Tiny Tea Leaves Cardigan, Sz 2 yrs, Needles sizes - 6 and 7. Yarn - Limited edition Hawk Ridge Three Irish Girls Colorway, Springvale Super Merino