Another Faux enamel ornament

I just couldn't resist making another faux enamel ornament with my embossing powders.

For this card I mixed gold blue and white embossing powders with a little gilding flakes and before it set I embedded some gems.

I used a stencil and some distress inks for the background and Alison Bomber Christmas typed sayings for the background

I'm entering this for the following challenges

CAS Christmas April Ornament

The Holly and the Ivy Christmas Challenge - Anything goes

The Merry Christmas Challenge - Anything goes

I hope you like the card, I'd love to hear from you.

Card Recipe
Stamps:, Paper Artsy sayings (Alison Bomber), Rubbernecker Sentiment.
Paper: 110lb white, thin chipboard, mixed media
Ink: Ranger distress, Ranger archival
Accessories: Embossing powders, Stencil, blending tool and foam
Techniques: Faux enamel, stenciling

New Penny black birds

This is one of my recent purchases which I thought fun to ink up.  I love playing with the Penny black watercolour stamps, althoughI'm certainly no pro at these but I still have fun.

I used a mixture of markers and zigs to paint up the stamps, spritzed with a little water and then blend with a watercolour brush.  Once everything was dry I added some coloured archival ink on the branch and carefully over the flowers and bird using the mini archival ink pads.

I've started to really like touching up my watercolouring with coloured archival inks as they allow you to move some of your watercolours after they are applied.

The background has a blue wet on wet watercolour wash to simulate sky.  Wet on wet watercolour causes pooling of colour which is great for the sky.

I'm entering this for the CAS Watercolour challenge - birds

I'd love to hear what you think 😊

Card Recipe
Stamps: Penny Black
Paper: 110lb cream Linen, 140 Lb watercolour, Black
Ink: Ranger archival
Accessories: zigs, Distress inks, water spritzer watercolour brush.
Techniques: Direct to stamp, watercolouring

More Rubber band exploits

This technique can be quite addictive, for this card I put multiple size bands on a stamp block and versamarked the bands.  I heat embossed clear versamark and sponged distress inks into the mixed media paper.  I love the big splashes of versamark from the larger rubber bands.  I framed the background using a MFT rectangular frame die and inlaid the frame back into the white card.  I die cut the flowers from one of the Tim Holtz wild flower collection and tucked it into the frame.

I'm entering this for the following challenges

CAS Mix up Rubber band, stamping, stamping and my choice is die cut.

Craft Stampers Make it Take it challenge

Card Recipe
Stamps: Purple Onion sentiment, Rubber band
Paper: Water colour, 110lb White
Ink: Ranger Distress inks, Versamark
Accessories: Die cut frame (MFT), Die cut flower Tim Holtz, blending tool, clear embossing powder
Techniques:, distress blending, stamping with Rubber band, die cutting

Faux metal ornament

It's time for our Mid month reminder cards over at CAS Christmas.

Drop by and see all the wonderful ornament cards by the Design Team and all the challenge entries, there's so much inspiration to get you going on your Christmas card stash.

You've probably seen a number of Faux Enamel cards posted recently so this is my version.  You can either use a hot plate or a heat gun  but I found the hot plate was the easiest method to melt the embossing powder for me, this video by Scrap Time gives a great how too tutorial.

My ornament is die cuts from Memory box and after I layered my embossing powders I embedded some pearls across the middle.  My background stamp is JOFY from Paper Artsy which I used coloured pencils in blue and silver tones of the the ornament, and sentiment is from Rubbernecker which I stamped in Ranger archival blue.

I'd love to hear from you😊

Card Recipe
Stamps: JOFY, Rubbernecker sentiment
Paper: 110lb white, Mixed Media
Ink: Ranger archival
Accessories: Memory Box die, Embossing powders, Pearls, Hot Plate, Coloured pencils
Techniques: Pencil colouring, Faux enamel

Lindy's Magicals through a stencil

It's been a while since I played with powdered inks and stencils so it was time to pull them out.
I used the Tim Holtz blossom stencil with Lindys magicals spritzed with water, when the ink was dry I used a blending tool to blend around the edges into the centre.  A little background stamping with the Tim Holtz flowers and ledger script stamp.  The quote is from a Local King set (still life) which I think has now been discontinued.  I threw my paint on the canvas and this is what I got 😉 I hope you like it.

I'm entering this for:-

Craft stampers Take it Make it challenge Anything goes

A bit more time to craft challenge Anything goes

and 

Addicted to Stamps and more - Make your mark

Card Recipe
Stamps: Ranger Tim Holtz background stamp (ledger script) and flower stamp, Saying Local King (still life)
Paper: Watercolour
Ink: Ranger archival Black, Distress Oxide
Accessories: Tim Holtz stencil Blossoms, Lindys Magical powders, water spritzer
Techniques: Stamping, Stenciling with powdered inks.

Rubber band stamping

I forgot all about using rubber bands for stamping until CAS Mix up reminded me.
I used Versamark and Pan Pastels for the background and a Magenta stamp for my focal image.
the sentiment is from Purple onion.
The layer were die cut using the Stamplorations crazy running stitch.

I'm entering this for 

CAS Mix up Rubberband, stamping, and Die cutting
Inkspirational Challenge #158

Card Recipe
Stamps: Magenta flower, Purple Onion sentiment
Paper: 110lb white, Black
Ink: Versamark, Ranger Archival
Accessories: Masking tape, Pan Pastels,  Stamplorations wonky stitch die.
Techniques: Rubberband stamping, Pan Pastels