Peace on Earth

I'm entering another card at Craft Stamper Magazine's November challenge.

Craft Stamper Magazine is my favorite stamping/mixed media magazine!  This month, they're sponsoring an anything goes challenge and I'm submitting a card created with Bisters.   The die cuts are from an  unknown source since we had a die cut exchange at one of our stamp club meetings this past summer.  I distressed the tree and deer die cuts with vintage photo distress ink.  The background was created by sprinkling black and brown Bisters on water color paper and then spritzing with water.  Once dry, the Tim Holtz trees from Stamper Anonymous were stamped with black ink.  The dies were then layered over the top of the background.  The sentiment is another vintage stamp.  Having fun creating holiday cards!

November Challenge at Craft Stamper Magazine.

I'm posting my Brusho creation at Craft Stamper Magazine's November Challenge - Anything Goes.

The stencil is from Tim Holtz and the dies are from Impression Obsession.  The sentiment is a vintage stamp, stamped on vellum and embossed with glitter embossing powder.  The stencil is taped to water color paper and Brushos are sprinkled onto the open areas of the stencil.  Spritz with water, blot if necessary with paper towel, and remove stencil to dry.  You may speed along drying with a heat tool.

Magenta is offering reduced shipping if you place an order with them this month.  I would love to try their Nuance pigments.

Color Burst and Alcohol Inks

Had this idea but not sure that I like it......color composition and the mix of Color Burst and alcohol inks but still want to share.

The Dee's Distinctively hummingbird die was cut from white Modeling Film.  The die was not sharp or deep enough to cut through the Modeling Film so had to trim by hand.  I then colored the hummingbird with various colors of alcohol inks.  And remember - you can apply heat to modeling film and bend it to your liking.  Hard to see in this photo but I bent both wings.

I then took a 5 x 5 piece of water color paper and stamped Ryn's hibiscus stamps with black archival ink.  I used Ken Oliver's Color Burst by tapping out a LITTLE red, green and yellow onto the flowers and leaf and spritzed with water.  I mounted this piece to dark green card stock and added some sequins.  I think I like both components to this composition but just not together.  Fun to play and experiment:)

September Stamp Club

Our stamp club has been experimenting with paper napkins and what a fun technique!

You take apart a napkin until you're just left with the decorative side.  Place card stock on top of scrap paper, then plastic wrap and then your napkin with another scrap paper on top.  With your iron on medium hot, iron this sandwich until the napkin is adhered to the card stock.  Be careful not to get plastic wrap on your iron.  

I die cut a Memory Box butterfly from card stock along with the matching cut out die from 40# vellum.  The sentiment is also a die cut from Memory Box.  

August Sketch Challenge for Stamp Club

Hello!  Noticed I haven't posted here in a while.  I will be sharing this post on the Scrapyland Blog challenge.

All the stamped images are from Fiskars.  The flowers are colored with Copics.  The sentiment is cut from Spellbinders' Circles Nestabilities.  I added little pearls around the entire card.  Hope you're having a fantastic August.

July Sketch Challenge

I can't believe I almost followed our stamp club's sketch for this month!

The sketch is fairly clean and simple.  The strips are from a piece I created at a recent Ken Oliver class using Color Burst.  The paper flower pieces are from Prima and sprayed with Prima's new spray which I love!  It is a gun spray instead of the typical pump spray.  The sentiment is from Flourishes.

Playing with Brushos

Lovin' playing with my pigment powders and in this case, Brushos.

I created this card for our stamp club.  This is a very basic approach to using pigment powders.

Sprinkle and spritz as Ken Oliver says.  I was very fortunate to take classes from Ken, and of course, his product is Color Burst.  They were two of the most inspirational classes I have ever taken.  The classes really stretched my creativity.

The main image stamp is from Stamper's Anonymous - Tim Holtz and the sentiment is from Dyan Reaveley.  I recently purchased some of Dyan's color sprays and look forward to playing with them along with some newly purchased stencils.