Northern Lights (Christmas Card Tutorials 2015)

This week's was a new technique - Northern Lights type look with ink blending...

Materials:

Paper: Mis. Bazzil cardstock and Neenah - Solar White

Stamps/Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, TH Distress Ink - Dusty Concord, Faded Jeans, Black Soot, Squeezed Lemonade, Evergreen Bough, Iced Spruce, Scattered Straw. HA Shadow Inks - Red Royal, Wet Cement, Field Greens. Verve - Joy to the World. Waltzingmouse - Alpine Christmas.

Happy Birthday, Annie!

I have been playing with my new zig clean water brush pens, and it's been fun. A little bit of a learning curve for me - but I'm not great at watercoloring, in general. These were made for a friend celebrating a birthday (belatedly) today!

Here they are:

Materials:

Paper: TH Distress watercolor paper, misc. Bazzill cardstock

Stamps/Inks: Versafine - Onyx Black, WPlus9 - Doodle Buds, Mama Elephant - Happy Everything, SSS - Handwritten borders, TH Distress Ink - Salty Ocean

Misc.: Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens, moonshine sequins

Christmas Card Tutorials 2015

This week's theme - Subway Art....

I really only have one stamp that works for this theme...

Materials:
Paper: Neenah - Solar White, Misc Bazzill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Fresh Squeezed Stamps - Subways Series - Holiday, HA Shadow Ink - Tide Pool, HA Ombre Ink - Mint to Green, Repeat Impressions
Cutting/Embossing: SSS - Stitched Circles
Misc.: Lawn Fawn Sequins, Copic Markers

And a little knitting...

Cascade 220 Superwash, size 6 needles, Go Pack Go

Christmas Card Class 2015

Week 11 of Christmas Card Tutorials (Justine Hovey's class)... amazing. I love seeing the stash of Christmas cards that I'm tucking away for December grow and grow. Every week, we get a new lesson/challenge. It's been great!

This week's topic: Let it Shimmer

Materials:
Paper: Misc. Bazzill cardstock, Neenah - Solar white
Stamps/Inks: Versamark, Waltzingmouse Stamps - Alpine Christmas
Cutting/Embossing/Misc.: Perfect Pearls, Silver Pearl Embossing Powder

A little summer...

I have been enjoying some new stamp sets, so I thought I'd play a little bit today...

Here's the end result:

Materials:

Paper: Neenah - Solar white, misc. Bazzill cardstock

Stamps/Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, MFT - Penguins in Paradise and Happy Pandas

Misc: Dimensional adhesive, glossy accents, Zig wink of stella clear glitter pen, copic markers

Hero Arts Tic Tac Toe Challenge

I participated in the Hero Arts Flickr Group's 90 minute challenge, and my card will also work for the Tic Tac Toe Challenge --- watercolor, circles, and background stamp.

Here it is...

Materials
Paper: Tim Holtz watercolor paper, misc. Bazzill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Versamark, Memento - Paris Dusk, TH Distress Ink - Picked Raspberry and Peacock Feathers, Hero Arts - Best of the Best, Large Solid Flower, Small Solid Flower, Collage Background Stamp, and Best of the Best
Cutting/Embossing: PTI tag die, ranger superfine clear embossing powder
Misc: SSS moonshine sequins, dimensional adhesive, seam binding ribbon from Verve

A little bit more watercoloring...

I wanted to try something a little different than my first card, so I thought I'd use a pretty Penny Black stamp in the stash...

For the Pretty Pink Posh watercolor blog hop....

Here's mine:

Materials:

Paper: TH Distress watercolor paper, misc. Bazzill cardstock

Stamps/Inks: TH Distress Ink - Antique Linen, Penny Black - Tiger Lily, Versafine - Onyx Black, Just Rite Clear Large Fancy sentiments

Cutting/Embossing: Ranger superfine clear embossing powder, SSS - stitched rectangles

Misc.: Watercolors (Kuretake Gansai), SSS moonshine sequins, dimensional adhesive