Swirling Snow

Still playing at the Hero Arts Challenge this week which is to use unexpected colors for a holiday card.

I had to purchase a re-inker for my broken china and at the same time I picked up a re-inker for my purple inkpad too. This background started from mixing those two together.

1. Drip blue and purple re-inker onto acetate/transperancy.
2. Spritz with water.
3. Stamp snowflakes onto white cardstock using versamark. Heat emboss with clear embossing powder.
4. Lay stamped background into inks. Lift and see if any spots need color added.
5. Create additional backgrounds to use up the ink. :)
6. Stamp swirls using versamark onto the stamped background after it is completely dry.
7. Heat emboss using incadescent embossing powder. (You can't see it in the picture but there is a beautiful incandescent sheen on the background).

The rest is very straightforward. I stamped the swirls on the plastic snowflake using StaZon ink.

Products:

• Hero Arts - Stunning Snowflakes
• Impression Obsession - C-A-C Fluff
• Lime green - Pearls
• Snowflake - Hobby Lobby Christmas
• Stamp N Stuff - Kaleidescope Embossing Powder
• StaZon - Royal Purple
• Versamark

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a blessed day.

Suzz

Trees in Moonlight

We had the biggest orange moon the other night... My DD and I were admiring it as we ran to a meeting together.


It looked very similar to this:

Of course the sky was a little darker here than I put in this card. :) The sentiment on this was something I ordered. Usually I buy stamps when I see them, but my LSS was having a special on Verses stamps and I love their stamps. So I went through the catalogue and ordered this one. I have so many birds stamps and make so many scenes I knew this would work well.

The trees are from Stampers Anonymous - Tim Holtz Reindeer Flight. (I actually have the wood block but wish I had bought the set.)

The sentiment is from Verses and the rest is Ranger Distress Inks Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed, Broken China. I stamped the trees with Versafine Olympia Green.

My favorite birds are from the B Line Birds Cube.

Have a fabulous day. I am off to clean.. aack!

Suzz

Raspberry and Lime

Unexpected Colors for holiday cards is the Hero Arts Challenge this week. This is a simple little card.

I started with this fabulous ribbon from May Arts. I had some of this ribbon awhile ago and used it all up. Just purchased some more and decided to use it for my inspiration point.

Love the little penguin in his pink and green outfit. Hand me downs from his older sister I am sure. :)

Have a fabulous fall day...

Suzz

Tag Tuesday Challenge #24

This weeks tag challenge from Louise is a tough one... No paper!!

I created two tags but found it so challenging not to use paper.

Every time I went to do something I realized no can't do that...

The tag on the left is the back of a patterned paper pack. The cardboard used to keep the paper from buckling. I used that with some paints from ranger sponged on the background and stamped with versamark and embossed. The edges were touched up with a Krylon gold pen. The stamps are from Tattered Angels (tree), Hero Arts (Sentiment), and Stampers Anonymous (bottom half of tag).

The tag on the right was stamped on aluminum foil with a cardboard backing. I stamped using StazOn and ended up embossing with clear embossing powder. I added the touches of color using the new Smooch paints. I was fortunate enough to be given a few of them by a friend. They didn't dry on the foil very well.

The stamps are from rubber stampede and inkadinkado.

Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz

Plums & Buttercream

Cathy over at Moxie Fab World issued a plum challenge.. Love plum colors... Don't have any. :)


Lucky for me, Jacqueline did her challenge first and used the gorgeous Basic Grey Wisteria papers on her card which reminded me that I have a few sheets of that lovely paper too.


So here is my plummy card:

Products:

• The Crafters Workshop - Orchid Template - (Love these)
• Hero Arts - S5135 Outline Flowers
• PaberBag Studios - PBS-038-C Beauty
• Versafine - Imperial Purple
• Versamark
• Basic Grey - Wisteria
• Marvy Uchida - Butterfly Punch
• Pearls - Unknown
• Light Yellow Embossing Powder
• Ranger Stickles - Purple

Thanks for stopping by... Have a beautiful day...

Suzz

Silent Night

I hope you are having a great day...

Just sharing something I played with yesterday. Still felling a little blah so I pulled out this card from my scrap pile that had the trees stamped across the front. I decided to use a little white crayon resist on the tree branches.

Sorry about the color. I took the pictures 3 times and it still looked like this. My lights must have been at the wrong angle. Anyways...

I sponged the background using 4 different Ranger Distress Inks. (Faded Jeans, Broken China, Peeled Paint, Shabby Shutters)

The sky was the most fun as I added snow using my gel pen.

The trees (Hero Arts) and sentiment (Hero Arts - Silent Night) were stamped using Versafine Vintage Sepia. I added color to the tree trunk with my colored pencils.

So simple and easy. Felt like I should have mounted the picture but I was using it as an entry into the Hero Arts Blog challenge which was simple holiday cards.

Thanks for stopping by... Have a wonderful day!

Suzz

Tag follow up

I think you might recognize that bird... From my tag on Friday. I actually stamped and embossed it twice when I was creating my tag.

The second bird was sitting there and I decided to turn it into a circle and create a card. Still not feeling my mojo so it has been slow going.

Came back to add the products:

Products:

• Stampers Anonymous - Tim Holtz Collection Artful Flight CMS069
• Penny Black - 3886J berry branch
• Penny Black - 3932K Japenese Maple
• Judikins - Background Cube #1
• Impression Obsession - D6973
• Versamark
• Stampendous Pearlustre Garnet Opaque Embossing Powder
• Versafine - Vintage Sepia
• Ranger Distress Ink - Mustard Seed
• TCP

Thanks for stopping by..

Suzz