Fun with Wreath Builders

Here are a couple more cards that Tabby and I made together using Gina K Designs' wreath builder stencil and the most recently released Holiday wreath builder. We used a variety of ink cubes (Gina K, Altenew, Hero Arts, Reverse Confetti) and Gina K's pure luxury white cardstock. It's so handy that Gina K even sells the paper pre-cut to fit the stencil. I especially like that if you goof (heaven forbid...), the paper is thick enough that it can be just flipped over, without any ink bleeding through, for a second try.

Sarcasti-chicks

Sarcasti-chicks don't have to be snarky...

The moon is a circle that's been inked and splattered with shimmery watercolors from Taylored Expressions.

Close up of my foiled background the coloring of the sarcasti-chick. I caved and ordered more outfits for the sarcasti-chick. I think they arrive today... Stay tuned on that! 😂 

Materials:

Paper: Misc. Bazzill, Neenah -  solar white

Stamps/Inks: Gina K - Amalgam, Taylored Expressions - Sarcasti-chick and Sarcasti-chick's Halloween Closet, Newton's Nook - Halloween Trio, TH Distress Ink - Spice Marmalade and Squeezed Lemonade

Cutting/Embossing - Coordinating Newton's Nook and Taylored Expressions dies, Spellbinders Circle Nesatability

Misc: Transfer gel, deco foil, Newton's Nook - Flying Bats stsencil, dimensional adhesive, TE Liquid watercolor - shimmer mixed with water and splattered on the moon, copic markers

Auction Baskets

Just an impromptu post on a project I've been working on for church - made a couple of baskets with soaps, napkins, coffee gift cards (and holders - Honeybee stamps), dish towels, candles, and some handmade cards featuring Lawn Fawn and Gina K. Really enjoyed playing with Gina K's Wreath Builder at Junkiefest, so I ordered the Autumn set, and I was on my way...

Here are some photos of the baskets....

And the cards....

Thanks for peeking!

Inky Paws Color Challenge

The Inky Paws Challenge over at Newton's Nook is a color challenge... made even more challenging, because I didn't want to use the same set that I used in the most recent challenge, and I have more Newton's Nook holiday stamps than anything else! The colors for the challenge are: magenta, yellow, tangerine, and teal.

Here's what I came up with:

Close up of that pretty stencil and the foil...

Materials:
Paper: Misc. Bazill cardstock, Neenah - Solarwhite
Stamps/Inks: Gina K - Amalgam Ink, Memento - Teal Zeal, HA - CL611 Many Birthday Messages, Newton's Nook - Newton's sunflower
Misc.: Copic markers, DecoArt Transfer Gel, Newton's Nook - Confetti Stencil, Deco Foil,dimensional adhesive

August Essentials Challenge

I just received some new goodies, and happened to catch Justine Hovey's alcohol ink blog post over at Ellen Hutson's blog, so I decided to play along with the August Essentials Challenge. The focus is on alcohol inks, which I love... and have been thinking about getting the alcohol ink lift pad, so the series of posts on the inks has been really fabulous. I highly recommend checking them out. The actual challenge is just to share a project using alcohol inks for the chance to win a $50 gift certificate to Ellen Hutson.

This is what I came up with - I actually created a bunch of alcohol ink backgrounds at a class I took at an expo at the MN State Fairgrounds earlier this summer. I usually try to make a ton of backgrounds all at once, and then I can pull them out for future projects, when needed! What made these unique (to me), was that I used a gelli plate and a vellum yupo paper. Super fun!

Love this stamp/die combo from Pinkfresh studios. I bought A Day in the City, too, and I can see using these sets to make a bunch of boxed card gift sets year-round.

Materials:
Paper: Neenah - solar white, misc. Bazzill cardstock, vellum yupo
Stamps/Inks: Gina K- amalgam ink, misc. ink cubes, Adirondack alcohol inks, Pinkfresh Studio - Home for the Holiday
Cutting/Embossing: Pinkfresh Studio - Cityscape die
Misc.: Gelli plate, copic markers

MFT Summer School: Focal Point

The last assignment for MFT Summer School! Final challenge.... Focal Point. The challenge in this was finding a good image to make the focus of the cardfront.

Close up of my first attempt of no-line coloring. The fadeout ink really made it pretty simple! I used a combination of zig clean color markers and arteza markers to color the bear.

Materials:
Paper: Memory Box notecard, gold foil paper, Strathmore Bristol paper
Stamps/Inks: Ink on 3 - Fadeout Ink, MFT - Polar Bear Pals
Cutting/Embossing: MFT - Merry Christmas Circle Frame
Misc.: Zig Clean Color and Arteza watercolor markers, Mister Huey's Opaque white mist, dimensional adhesive, copic multiliner

MFT Summer School: Visual Triangle

Four down, one to go.... this card was designed with the MFT Summer School Visual Triangle challenge in mind. The triangle is the moose, snowman, and sentiment.

I had some fun coloring the moose with copics and doing some ink smooshing with watercolors and sheer shimmer mist for a fun background... hopefully giving the impression that the moose is looking out at a snowy scene.

Materials
Paper: Misc. Bazzill cardstock, Neenah - Solar white, watercolor paper
Stamps/Inks: MFT - Merry Christmoose, Gina K - Amalgam Ink,
Cutting/Embossing: MFT - Snow Drifts, Stitched Dome Stax, Scenic Snow Globe
Misc: TE - Cookie monster watercolors, Sheer shimmer Mist, Dimensional Adhesive, white gel pen, copic markers, black copic multiliner