Under the Sea

Just a reminder that the Stampendous Monthly Challenge is summer and is still open this week to play along.

This card started from gauze that I had pulled  for another project.  I never got around to using it for the other project but decided  I would distress it with some brown dye ink. The brown dye ink was smeared onto my craft mat and spritzed with water until a nice puddle of brown ink was there.  The gauze was thrown into the puddle and smooshed around until it was a lovely shade of brown. After that I decided it looked like something you would see on the bottom of the ocean floor and that inspired my card.

I set it aside to dry.  I then took some little shells and covered them in versamark and used my craft tweezers with the rubber handle to dip the shells in Stampendous Aged Bronze Embossing Enamel and heat embossed them.  While they were still warm I quickly dipped them into the Gold Glass Glitter. 

Next up was to stamp the beautiful Stampendous Mermaid and color her.  I added some Mica Flakes to the bottom of the scales and colored them with copics to give a greenish copper color.

The background was stamped in brown using the Stampendous Calligraphy Sampler on white cardstock. The surface and edges were distressed with brown dye ink.

The gauze was attached to the background with white kraft glue and while it was wet the crushed glass glitter and mica flakes were sprinkled over the surface.

The main image was mounted onto ivory cardstock sponged with brown dye ink.

The Stampendous DT is joining up with the Clearscraps team all this week and sharing awesome artwork. Go here to find out how you can win prizes from Stampendous, Tsukineko, and Clearscraps!

Have a lovely day!

Suzz

CR84FN57 - Thinking of You

It is with a sad heart I share that the CR84FN57 colors will be my last challenge with the CR84FN Design Team.  I am going to miss playing along with the fabulous Design Team.  Thanks to the fabulous  Mona for allowing me to be part of this wonderful team! I will be sharing a card this week and next with the beautiful inspiration colors to finish out my term. 

Lisa Somerville is also ending her term with the team so make sure to stop by her blog and give her a warm farewell. 

Onto my card: 

This week I chose to share a sweet image of  a little girl holding out her flowers in her pretty pink dress.  I added a hint of the tan on her shows and stockings.  I never was able to keep my party dresses clean when I was little. The sentiment and the image are from Stamping Bella. The little girl is drawn by Mo Manning.

The papers are from Memory Box paper and Crate paper. 

Here are the beautiful inspiration photo and colors:

For all the details on the challenge this week go to the CR84FN blog. 

For more inspiration the CR84FN Design Team:

Deborah Frings * Sue Lelli  * Andrea Matthews *  Suzanne Czosek (me)  *  Heather Jensen * Mona Pendleton  * Lisa Somerville * Shannon White* Pauline Pollington

Thanks for stopping by! 

Suzz

Edges of Time

I pulled a card from the archives today.    I am busy working on something on my desk that is just for fun and taking longer than I thought to create. We will see if I can figure out where to go with it! 

The background on this card was created by inking up the Hero Arts stamp with brown and green dye inks and spritzing them with the Perfect Pearls Mister.  The edges are distressed with the distressing tool and sponged with brown dye ink.

Stamp the fern from Hero Arts with brown ink. Add a hint of green along the edges of the fronds.  Stamp the Verses Rubber Stamps Lightly Dance in the corner using brown ink. 

To finish it off I added a few drops of glossy accents to add drew drops and the burlap ribbon with brad accents.

Have a wonderful Saturday!

Suzz

ATC Swap

Happy Friday!  Another long week and so looking forward to a cooler and relaxing weekend. ;)  Today I have a few ATC's to share.  I am part of a swap group and this swap didn't require anything specific. I decided to pull out my scrap box and some new Crafty Secrets Creative Scraps Sheets.

The girls were so cute and I needed something to put behind them.  I had this paper that worked perfectly with their outfit.  I then added a die cut and turned it into a mirror. The sentiment and girls came with the Crafty Secrets sheet.

The next one started with a butterfly die cut sent to me from another friend. 

I thought how fun it would be to make a Mardi Gras type of mask on one of the images. The background is a scrap stamped with a the same shade of purple.  The stamp was a lovely gift from Lesley. The image a gift from Jacqueline.  The sentiment (Artistic Outpost) was stamped on the same background.  I cut the butterfly in  half and placed it over her eyes. I had this little scrap of a gems flourish left and it worked perfectly on the middle.

The last one uses a bit of heart doily over some beautiful butterfly paper(Thanks Kim).  The image was another one from Jacqueline(Thank You).  The sentiment is from Crafty Secrets Creative Scraps Heartwarming Vintage sheets.

The best part of all of these ATC's are they are going off to friends and a good portion of them are bits and pieces from friends. :)

Have a lovely Friday!

Suzz

Happy Birthday

Yeah it's Thursday!  A really busy week again and I am so looking forward to the weekend. :) 

My card today is for the Mojo Monday Sketch #246 and for the Stampendous Monthly challenge of Summer.

I struggled a bit with the Mojo Monday sketch #246 but I think this CAS card works with the sketch:

I used the Stampendous Jumbo Cling Iris with a flourish from the Cherub Wishes set.   The lines are hand drawn and a touch of water with yellow dye ink.

The flower is colored with dye inks and waterbrush.  The flourish is stamped with the coordinating green dye ink.

The sketch:

Don't forget, the Stampendous summer challenge!  Simply make a summer themed project of some sort and add the direct link for your project on the Stampendous blog no later than Thursday, June 28 at 11:59 PM EST .   As an extra incentive for playing along, one lucky crafter (drawn at random) will receive this fabulous new Friendly Phrases Perfectly Clear stamp set.  As an even bigger incentive, if you use Stampendous products on your project, that entry will count twice, which increases your chances of winning!  Due to shipping restrictions, the winner must have a US address.  We hope you have a chance to play along with us (you an enter as many times as you'd like!) this month...

Have a wonderful Thursday!

Suzz

Artistic Outpost Monthly Blog Hop

Welcome to the June Artistic Outpost Blog Hop!   Today the Artistic Outpost Design Team  is sharing projects featuring either Apothecary or Gatsby.
I decided to use the Gatsby plate to create a Father's Day card for my dad:  

I used a piece of Basic Gray paper for the background. I added several strips of black cardstock over the background.  I stamped the handsome gentleman in black on ivory cardstock.  I placed him on an oval from an old book.  I layered that over a stamped background using gray ink on white cardstock and distressed the layers.  I finished off with some stickers spelling out Happy Father's Day and feather and button.

To see all the other fabulous projects from the design team:

 Gerrie Johnnic

Lisa Somerville 

Suzanne Czosek 

Tracy Evans 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Suzz

Time after Time

The City Crafter Challenge this week is Time after Time.  I used up a lovely piece of vellum scrap which already had the clock (Hero Arts)  and flowers (Stampendous)  stamped on it.

The rest was fairly simple:

1. Cut Prima paper to fit background. Distress edges with distressing tool and sponge with brown dye ink. 
2. Stamp bees (Impression Obsession) onto ivory cardstock using black ink. Cut out. 
3. Highlight parts of the images using white gel pen. 
4. Accent flowers with gems. 
5. Add lace trim to edges. 
6.  I then used the same sentiment from yesterday's post (Verses Rubber Stamps - Flowers that Bloom) and stamped and embossed using brown embossing powder. 

Hope your week is going well...

Suzz