Stone Soup...

The stone soup story tells how you start with a stone in a bucket of water and keep adding things until you get soup. Well this card started like that. :)



This started from an inked background which I honestly don't remember if I used my glimmer mists or ranger dye re-inkers on acetate to make.

1. Apply bleach on acetate and ink(bleach?) a flourish stamp and stamped randomly over the background.
2. Ink flower stamp and dragonfly with StazOn and stamp over the background.
3. Sponge green dye ink randomly.
4. Versamark the entire surface and emboss using incadescent embossing powder.
5. Repeat the process for the sentiment background.
6. Stamp sentiment on vellum.

Products:

• Stampendous - Retro Happy Birthday
• A Stamp in the Hand - Tall Poppies
• Stampabilities - Dragonfly 02
• StazOn - Azure
• Ranger Distress Ink - Shabby Shutter
• Paper Inspiration - Floral Flourish

Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz

Art Creations Friday Challenge # 7

Art Creations Friday Challenge http://artcreationsfriday.blogspot.com/2009/01/7th-challenge.html is to use this beautiful background:


There is a range of beautiful colors in this background. I decided to use the corner which contained the beautiful rust colors.
The background was so lovely I only stamped the branches with orange and brown and the butterfly, sentiments with black and embossed the flourish using the Ranger Vintage photo embossing powder which not only gives it color it also has texture.

Products:

• Ranger Distress Inks - Spiced Marmalade, Vintage Photo
• Versafine Black Onyx
• Versamark Watermark Ink
• Ranger Distress Embossing Powder - Vintage Photo
• Lace - Unknown
• Inkadinkado - Flourishes
• Stampabilities - Matthew 7:7 02
• Paper Inspirations - Leafy Stem
• Stampabilities - DragonFly 02
• Ranger Stickles

A side note...

I started with a 6 3/4" x 4 3/4" piece and had a vintage photo to the right.

I didn't like how the image looked after I finished everything else so it was chopped off. That left a little of the sentiment still stamped on the image I had left.

So what you see with the sentiment now is a cover up of the remnant of the sentiment from my original design.

I am really pleased with what I ended up with but wanted to share because I find myself designing to fix my mistakes in some cases.

Does that ever happen to you?

Suzz

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year and I hope it brings you and your loved ones a blessed year!

Yesterday I worked on Kristina's Color Challenge... http://kwernerdesign.com/blog/2008/12/color-inspiration-36.html

Here are the colors:

I loved this color combination. I immediately die cut some hearts in red and green thinking I would emboss them. I ended up using the cut out as a mask instead. Here is my main heart.

I stamped the pretty floral/flourish stamp on white cardstock and embossed using light pink embossign powder. I then took the cardstock where I had cut out the hearts and used that as a mask and sponged on the red ink to make my hearts.

I purchased these charms with sentiments. I thought this was an appropriate sentiment.

Products:

• Paper Inspirations - Floral Flourish
• Creative Beginnings - Pastel Pink Embossing Powder
• Martha Stewart - Doily Lace Border Punch
• EK Success - Red Adornments
• Sizzix Heart Die Cuts
• Ranger Distress Inks - Fire Brick
• Plaid Enterprised - Fresh Metal Charms - Love

Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz

Chalk & Versamark

I love using versamark and clear embossing powder to pump up the volume on my colors whether it be colored pencils, chalk, glimmer mist or distress inks. I saw a technique that I had never tried using versamark and chalk. This technique was used by a stamper on 2 Peas embee. Here is the link to her picture: http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/pg.asp?cmd=display&layout_id=1396451 .

She describes it as covering the background in chalks and then stamping an image on top with Versamark and heat embossing with clear embossing powder. I combined this technique with using masking as Jennifer McGuire has a video on masking and is hosting a challenge. http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/mb.asp?cmd=display&thread_id=2682492

Here is my card:

I purposely left it very simple to highlight the trees and the colors. I also had to photograph it on a different background to show it was a white card base.

Recipe:

1. Apply chalks in various colors to the background. I used eyeshadow applicators to rub on spots of color and my finger to blend them together. I used yellow, blue, and green in various shades.
2. Stamp the tree on a post it note to make my mask. Cut it out.
3. Stamp with versamark the tree multiple times using the mask to overlap the trees and give the effect of the forest. (I did have some blue left on the stamp from the mask I created. I think it came through on a few of the trees faintly which I think helped with the overall effect.)
4. Heat emboss the trees with clear embossing powder.
5. Using a white gel pen I added dots of white to give a snowfall in the background. It doesn't show up very well in this picture but added a nice touch IRL.
6. Stamp the sentiment on a scrap piece of the chalked background. Mount with the twine and tag holder.
7. Layer with teal cardstock and mount on white card.

Products:

• Pebbles Pearlescent Chalks
• Versafine Olympia Green
• Signo White Uni-Ball Gel Pen
• Tag Holder Unkown
• Twine - EK Success Adornments
• Penny Black - 3738B wondrous
• Paper Inspirations - G10198 Art Brush Pine Tree
• Versamark Watermark Ink
• JoAnn's Clear Embossing Powder

Thanks for wandering over...