Treats on Tuesday at Magenta

Hi Everyone I'm over at Magenta with some stamping on Yupo, I hope you head over and check out how I created my background.

 
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Card Recipe
Stamps: Magenta
Paper: 110lb white, Black, Yupo
Ink: Stazon Black
Accessories: MISTI, Lindy's stamp gang powdered inks
Techniques: Stamping on Yupo, Powdered inks

It's Christmas tree time at CAS Christmas

Are you ready for CAS Christmas August challenge? if so it's time to pull out those Christmas trees and get stamping.

This we are happy to welocme Barb (Barb's Studio Creations) as our Guest Designer,  so pop over and check out Barbs amazing cards.

We also have some exciting news, Colleen (One Smile Lifts the Sprit) and Linda (Lin's Craft Corner) are joining the design team with their wonderful CAS creations. 

Hideko is our challenge host for August, great choice Hideko 😄

Don't forget you all have until August 24th to join in.

Here is my card for the Challenge. The background is a piece of Yupo with alcohol inks and gold foil detail, you  can see the beautiful flecks of gold which stuck to parts of the tacky alcohol ink. The moon is a small circle stamp with Alcohol Lift used to remove the ink, I love the partial colour removal, it really looks like the moon. The trees are die cut out of white cards stock and layered over the Yupo and the whole image is popped up on foam. I created a 7" X 5" card because I couldn't cut down such a pretty piece of Yupo.

This is a close up of the foiling and the ink lifting. I hope you like the card.

Card Recipe
Stamps: Stampin Up, Simon Says Stamp solid circle
Paper: Yupo, 110 lb white
Ink: Ranger Archival, Alcohol inks, Alcohol ink lift
Accessories: Foil, Sizzix tree line die
Techniques: Alcohol inks on Yupo with foil, Alcohol lift.

NBUS (Never Before Used Schtuff) #10

This is the third and final challenge for Darnell's 5th year Anniversary challenge NBUS challenge #10 which has an optional theme of bubble wrap.
What a great way to pull out all that never before used schtuff we all have. Personally I have some that I sell or give away before it's ever used, what a waste (don't tell my husband 🙊), so thanks Darnell for the nudge.

For this card I used  Alcohol inks on Yupo, a mix of gold and greens and blues.  I let it dry and used bubble wrap spritzed with Alcohol blending solution and pressed it onto the AI covered surface.  You can see the imprint of the bubbles in the background.  I let it dry again and then did some stamp layering with my NBUS text stamp from Bo Bunny and a stitched circle by LimeCitrorn.  I'm also adding my bubble wrap to my NBUS list as I've had it for almost a year waiting to be used because I've seen some awesome mixed media and gelli prints with bubble wrap imprints.  Finally I used my brand new leaf die by Gina Marie designs with some dull gold cardstock. The sentiment is from Rubbernecker.

I hope you like the card and would love to hear from you.

Card Recipe
Stamps: Bo Bunny, LimeCitron, Rubbernecker.
Paper: 110lb white, black, Yupo
Ink: Archival Black
Accessories: Alcohol inks, Bubble wrap
Techniques: Alcohol inks on yupo, layered stamping, die cuts, CAS

Alcohol inks and Blending solution

Loll from stamping with Loll just finished a new video on alcohol inks and blending solution.  While there at the weekend Susan of Cardmaker's Garret and I got a pre go live tutorial on using the technique..  Loll has now posted her tutorial so I can show you some of my backgrounds.  It was so much fun to squirt and spritz with alcohol inks and blender solution.  When I came home I made more Yupo and alcohol backgrounds.  Loll use a mix of browns and golds which looked spectacular, so i couldn't resist CASEing them.  I hope you like my take on Loll's technique :) working with the blender solution is so easy, fine spray and big droplets give an amazing artistic image.
In the first image in addition the bird image I used a squiggle edge with a fine pen to make the separation of colours more distinct.
Image 1

Image 2

Image 3

Image 4

Card Recipe
Stamps:image 1 and 2 have stamps from Katzenkraft in Holland, image 4 has a sentiment from Rubbernecker
Paper:110lb white, black, Yupo
Ink:Ranger Archival, Delicata Gold
Accessories:copper foil,Ranger, Stampendous leaf die, Ranger alcohol inks, Ranger blender solution.
Techniques:copper foil, alcohol inks, die cutting,  spellbinders wood grain embossing folder.

Welcome to my Blog

I'm so excited to have my blog up and running, although I don't think it would have happened without the expert help of my friend Loll Thompson of Stamping with Loll.  Loll has become a whiz with blogs and has an amazing eye for detail   So thank you Loll for your encouragement and help.

Here goes for my first card post on It's a card days night

Sunday Loll, Susan and got together for our monthly craft days.  We usually spend the day checking out new (to us) techniques, and by the end of the day we all have a number of backgrounds that can be used for future cards or as technique pages.  This weekend we worked with alcohol inks on Yupo, the inks blends to create such pretty patterns.

I used a few blue alcohol inks and a touch of silver., and then added a little blending solution.  I loved the effect and thought it would look great as the centre piece for the Sizzix tree set.  I had enough Yupo  to make two cards. the second one has an inlaid die with Sookwang tape on the back, I used  ultra-fine glitter over the Sookwang.  It is hard to see but I layered 2 of the die cuts and placed them on the white.

Card Recipe

Stamps- Old Island Stamp company

Ink- Delicata silver

Paper- 110lb white, black, Yupo

Accessories- Sizzix Die, Sookwang tape, Ultrafine glitter, Ranger Alcohol inks

Technique- Alcohol inks on Yupo, Inlaid die cutting