Rather Blustery Day

 Hi!  Time for another challenge at The Funkie Junkie Boutique Challenge blog.  This time I am hosting and I am inspired by our windy spring weather and have called it "Rather blustery day".  Don't panic it isn't about the weather. :)  The challenge is: 

"I am inspired by Pooh Bear's quote from A A Milne of "It's a rather blustery day."   Pooh Bear struggled against the windy day and you can share something you struggle with in your art!  It can be a technique, color palette, tools, or supplies that you find difficult to use.  Share them with us along with your story on what you struggle with!  I can't wait to see your blustery day!"

So bring on your difficult techniques or things that challenge you!  I am afraid of white space. :)  Being a grungy, shabby, and collage inspired artist that white space or negative space is very hard for me. 

It takes me 4 or 5 times to get a simple card done.  When it has to be clean and neat I always have a smudge or cut that causes me to redo it.

I thought I would highlight the wildflower die cuts as the focal point with a soft quiet background.

I also had the new embossing folder with the doily and love the texture it provided behind my simple bouquet. 

I hope this has you inspired to come show what you struggle with in your crafting.  The overall winner will be offered the chance to be a Guest Designer at a future date at The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog, and everyone who enters and follows the rules will go into the drawing for the chance to win a $25.00 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique. There are also Top 3 Badges for three additional outstanding entries, chosen by the Design Team.

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Products: 

• Sizzix Thinlits Tim Holtz Wildflower Stems 3  
• Ranger Distress Oxides - SaltWater Taffy,  Walnut Stain,  Mustard Seed 
• Sizzix Chapter 1 Tim Holtz 3 D Embossing Folder Doily
• Stampers Anonymous Tiny Text Rubber Stamps
• Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Field Notes
• Stampers Anonymous - Faded Type
  

Dream Big

Howdy!  I have been busy playing with the new Darkroom Door Dream Big sentiment strip. 

 

The Dream Big strip of sentiments are all focused on dreams and encouragement. 

I played around with inking up the strip with a light color and then coloring one of the sentiments with  a pop of color.  I then used a softer ink to stamp over and added a hint of color with a water color pencil.

I used it in a background repeating pattern:

I partnered it with some  pop outs of the sentiments to go with the pretty flowers from the new Warm Wishes set. 

I re-did my card from the previous post and shared the cloned version here:

 I finished with another set of flowers stamped over the repeated background.

I am sensing a theme here with all the flowers.  I am waiting not so patiently for the weather to change and spring to start!  :)


Thanks for Stopping by!

Suzz

Products:  (Linked to the Darkroom Door Store)
Darkroom Door Sentiment Strip - Dream Big
Darkroom Door Rubber Stamp Set - Lots of Labels
Darkroom Door Rubber Stamp Set - Buzzing Bees
Darkroom Door Rubber Stamp Set - Bold Blossoms
Ranger Archival Inks - Plum, Watering Can, Leaf Green, Violet
Ranger - Wendy Vecchi Blendable Dye Ink - Watering Can, Leaf Green 

ATC Collection

Hi!  I have been playing with new stamps! I love the new farm animals from Stampers Anonymous and started playing around with them on a series of ATC's.  A Vintage Journey challenge is the Magic of Three  which had me thinking of a trio of ATC's. I overshot that by one and ended up with four.  

I have a few more scraps of cardstock that I started and have to finish up in my series of ATC's.  The tamps are all Stampers Anonymous and the inks are the new Ranger Distress Oxide Inks.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Suzz

Merlot Flowers

Hello and another week started.  I decided to pull out my Ken Oliver powders this morning as I wanted to try masking and layering with the powders.  I ended up with two cards using both pieces from my masking.

I have been wanting to play along in the CAS Mix Up Card Challenge as it mixes the Mixed Media with the idea of a cleaner design.  Dirty but clean?

Here is the mask I created by cutting a rectangle from white cardstock in the middle of a piece of cardstock.

 I laid this over the card front on this card:

I then sprinkled Merlot and Ochre Powder over both the frame and the center of the white cardstock. After I sprinkled my mix I used a brush to spread it around and paint the powders (dry) over the inside of the frame.  I then sprinkled a little more and pushed it around.  I used a tiny spray bottle to squirt water onto the mask and opening. I kept it on through the whole process until I was done squirting the water on.  I then lifted the mask (frame) and dried them with a heat gun.  After that I re-sized the frame to fit on the card front.

I stamped text onto the frame using Archival Ink (Green Leaf).  I then spread more of the Merlot onto my craft mat and spritzed the wildflower stamp(Stampers Anonymous) with water and dragged the stamp through the powder to ink it  up. I stamped the flowers onto the front of a white card base. I repeated with a smaller flower stamp.

I then attached the frame over the stamped images and added a small sentiment(memory box) in the same green ink.

For the second card I used the same mask (I flipped it over to not mess with my powder effect) and laid it off center. I also took the center piece and masked my powders to protect them from my sponging of the distress ink to create a shadow effect for my main panel. I repeated this twice once with fossilized Amber and the second time with Abandoned Coral.

I then stamped my wildflower and sentiment using black ink.  I added a sprig of holly die cut(Memory Box) over the top. 

Have a wonderful Day!

Suzz

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Flowers

Hello! It's Saturday and we are having some beautiful spring weather.  What better inspiration than that to create a spring bouquet of cards?

Both cards are simple and easy to create. This takes me back to when I first started stamping with the Hero Arts stamps.  I was happy to see the new silhouette wildflowers form SA along with the doily stamps.

I used versamark in the background with the doily stamp to create a very soft shadow with a hint of mist sprayed from the bottom right corner. 

I inked up the flowers with two dye inks and stamped them over the background and added one of my many Verses Rubber Stamps sentiments.

These flowers are so lovely in their silhouette that I didn't want to distract from them other than a few glossy accents as dew drops.

My second one was a scrap from playing with a lovely flower stencil and blending the mists across the stencil.  I just added a few pearls and a tiny sentiment and a lovely card created quickly.

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz