Kristina's Color Challenge # 37

Kristina's Challenge http://kwernerdesign.com/blog/2009/01/color-inspiration-37.html is from these pencils....

What wonderful colors... I decided to pull out some die cuts and layer different shapes. I started with circle card. This actually is 2 circles and I folded the back circle a little and attached it to the front to make a card. (A tip picked up from Lisa S) I then used several other shapes. The butterfly is stamped using pigment ink on vellum. The butterfly is embossed using Ranger Distress Embossing powder (Vintage Photo). I love it as it leaves a beautiful texture which actually emulates the texture on a butterflies wings.


Products:

• Floradoodles - Flowers (I love how realistic the texture is on these flowers.)
• Spellbinders - Scalloped Circles, Labels
• Bazzil Ribbon - (This was a deal 1.99 at Archivers for 15 yards)
• Inkadinkado - Butterfly Stamp
• Ranger Distress Embossing Powder - Vintage Photo
• Versamark Watermark Ink
• Prismacolor Color Pencils
• Gems - K&CO
• Making Memories - Letter Stickers

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Suzz

Glimmer Mist Leaves

The olive green glimmer mist from Tattered Angels is such a beautiful color. It combines a very pretty green with a sheen of gold. I also purchased this beautiful stamp from Hero Arts and decided to use it as the background.

The recipe for this is very simple. The background was made by stamping the leave image repeatedly on white cardstock using Versamark Watermark Ink. Heat emboss the images using clear embossing powder. Spray the Olive Green Glimmer Mist across the entire image and wipe with a paper towel to smear the excess across and get an even color. Buff the embossing to remove any excess color. Just a couple of hints working with the glimmer mist. 1. Shake Shake Shake... The gold will settle on the bottom and you will know when you have shaken it enough as there will be no settling on the bottom. 2. If you can't get anything to come out of the spray bottle run it under some warm water. This will loosen up anything that is clogged in the sprayer. After you run the warm water make sure you spray on scrap paper until you get an even spray again.

The only other thing to mention is the stamped image on the circle was a green ink and brown ink mixed together.

Products:

• Hero Arts - Black and White Flower, Elegant Flower
• Hero Arts - Clear Design - Birthday Messages
• Hero Arts - Petite Birthday
• Tattered Angels - Glimmer Mist Olive Green
• Fiskars Circle Cutter & Circle Template
• Versafine - Olympia Green, Vintage Sepia

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Suzz

Busy Busy Busy...

I had a really busy weekend and have been working on typing up instructions for cards. So I have made a few odds and ends but nothing too significant. I worked on multiple things yesterday which are now scraps to be pulled out at a later date I am sure... The Hero Arts Challenge this week is layers. http://heroarts.com/blogs/club/2009/01/05/motivation-monday-layers/

Here is what I pulled together.... The inspiration for this was a picture of two wall panels that were wooden cut-outs of a white trees mounted on a pink wall.

Recipe:

1. Smear Worn Lipstick and Vintage Photo on transperancy and spritz with water until they blend together. Lay white cardstock on ink. Pull up and lay flat to dry.
2. After the background is dry stamp image using Versamark and emboss using white embossing powder.
3. Cut into 3 panels.
4. Mount on multiple layers of cardstock.
5. Stamp writing on flower using Pigment Ink.
6. Stamp sentiment on cardstock and cut out with punch. Cut slightly larger circle half to mount sentiment.
7. Tie ribbon and attach flower with button center and attach sentiment to top half of flower.

Products:

• Ranger Distress Inks - Worn Lipstick, Vintage Photo
• Versamark Watermark Ink
• Ranger Seafoam White Embossing Powder
• Hero Arts Design Block - Butterfly
• Prima Flower
• Hero Arts - Sandra's Letter
• Versafine Vintage Sepia
• Ribbon Unknown
• Kaisers - Pearls

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Suzz

Pink Elephants on Parade

There is something about pink elephants... I bought one of the new Hero Arts Sets with the elephants. I love pink elephants! Add some polka dots and you have very cute... This card was made to allow the pink elephants to parade across the hills. My sister also likes elephants so I will save this card for her.

I stamped the trees and grass using another Hero Arts stamp as a background. Everything else is stamped and cut out. For me that is an easy task when I am watching something on T.V. I think I was watching Christmas in Connecticut with Barbara Stanwyck... (I had tivo'ed it over the holidays and just got around to watchign it)

Products:

• Hero Arts - Clear Design Elephants
• Hero Arts - Sparkle - Love That
• Hero Arts - Three Designer Leaves
• Ranger Distress Inks - Shabby Shutters, Broken China
• Versacolor - Opera Pink
• Letters - Making Memories - Stickers
• Prismacolor - Colored Pencils

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Suzz

Small share today...

Here is a little card I did for the Hero Arts Challenge of thanks. I was busy yesterday typing up instructions to send off some projects. I also played around with some little pink elephants who haven't made it on a design yet.


I found this snowflake in an after Christmas sale. There was a little pack of 3 plastic iredescent snowflakes in the ornament aisle. I immediately thought accent for a card and bought them. I stamped the writing on them using the StazOn ink.

Products:

• Basic Grey - Wassail -
• StazOn - Royal Purple
• Fiskars Threading Water Punch
• Versamark Watermark Ink
• Clear Embossing Powder
• Button, Ribbon - Unknown
• Hero Arts Sparkle Clear - Simple Messages
• Hero Arts - Three Holiday Messages
• Hero Arts Clear Design - Warmest Winter Wishes

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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

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Suzz