Penny Black Snowman

I just received my Penny Black Christmas stamp order, I was so excited because I fell in love with this guy.

The base is texture paste on coated card using the Tim Holtz Christmas sentiment stencil, once I applied the texture paste I sprinkled powdered inks (Lindy's stamp gang and Paper artsy infusions) and spritzed with water. I did this while the paste was wet that way the inks cling to the paste.

I no line watercoloured him using Zig pens and Ranger Antique Linen for the no line base and then fussy cut him. I added a little Nuvo sparkle to his had nose and berries. 

I used some prismacolour pencils to add some definition to his nose and scarf.

I'm entering this for 

Scrappy Mo's Rudolf days

The Merry Christmas Challenge

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge

Jinglebells Challenge

Card Recipe
Stamps: Penny Black Snowman
Paper: 110lb White, Coated Card, Watercolour
Ink: Ranger distress Antique Linen
Accessories: Zig watercolour pens, Tim Holtz stencil, Texture paste, Lindy Stamp Gang Magicals (Shabby Turbine Teal), Infusions (In the Navy), Nuvo sparkle pen, Prismacolour pencils.
Techniques: Stenciling, powdered inks, watercolouring

CAS Christmas mid month reminder

It's wreath time at CAS Christmas Card Challenge and here is my card for the challenge. Our host this month is Nance of and our Guest Designer if Birgit.

The challenge is open until the 24th of the months so please drop bye and see the inspiration from the DT and we would love to see your cards.

For my card  I watercoloured the the wreath and Robin, applied some Sookwang tape to the card and covered the sticky surface with Martha Stewart glitter. 

I used the Sissix wood embossing folder to create the wood grain background and die cut the circle with a Simon Says Stamp stitched circle.  I didn't notice I had a little ink in the grain from a previous project, in the end I quite liked the speckles of colour. The sentiment is stamped on dark brown card stock in Ranger Liquid platinum embossing powder. 

Card Recipe
Stamps: wreath magazine freebee, Sentiment Serendipity.
Paper: Watercolour, 110 lb white
Ink: Versamark, Distress Weathered wood.
Accessories: Sizzix wood grain, Simon Says Stamp  stitched circle, Sookwang tape, Martha Stewart Glitter
Techniques: Watercolouring, glitter, Embossing.

September CAS Christmas Time to hang that Wreath

It's time for CAS Christmas Card Challenge and the Theme for September is Wreath.

Nance is our Host for this month and our Guest Designer is Birgit (Rapport fran ett Skivbord) along with the rest of the the DT there are some great cards for you to check out.

For my card I used pencils on Kraft card with white embossing and a little Wink of Stella.

The colours I chose are gold, silver and blue.  

I stamped the image in white SU kraft in, heat set it then used my pencils to colour in the shapes making the wreath.  Once coloured I put the card back in the stamp positioner and re inked with the white and used white embossing powder.  The white embossing powder was brighter than the white  ink. I added a few sequins for some extra sparkle.

You have until the 24th of the month to join in the fun.

Card Recipe
Stamps: JOFY, Paper Smooches
Paper: 110lb cream, Kraft
Ink: SU white
Accessories: white embossing powder, sequins, Prismacoluor pencils
Techniques: Heat embossing, pencil colouring

Under the sea Art Board

Back in May during our crafting retreat we had a session on making an art board.  I had put it to one side for a few months and last week finally got to finishing it.

I started by using gesso the board to prime it and then adding some pan pastels. I sealed the pan pastel surface and then stamped the Jelly fish, seahorses, turtles and fish. 

I used Crackle paste through a stencil over the background to give an impression of bubbles.

I stamped the jelly fish and one of the turtles again on card stock coloured and cut them out.  I added Vintage Beeswax embossing powder to give more of a 3D effect for the images and also with the Jelly fish I wanted a liquid effect. The jellyfish tentacles are a mixture of black fine liner, white fine liner and ART Alchemy blue gold acrylic paint.

I also used the encrusted jewel technique on the remaining sea horses and small turtle.  The embossing powders were all from Emerald Creek. I used a mixture of their Baked Textures and the Allure embossing powders.

I glued the shells to the board using a hot glue gun, gesso them and used some Art Alchemy paints in black, blues and gold. Once dry I used a versamark pad to smoosh over the edge of the board and the shells and added some embossing powders.

I'm entering this for the following challenges

Craft Stampers anything goes

Emerald Creek the great outdoors #ECAUG2018

Moore mixed media anything goes (optional brights)

Paper Artsy 14 Baked Textures

Card Recipe
Stamps: Local King Sea life (5), Visible image Dare to swim, Katzelkraft Seahorse.
Paper: Art Board (7X8)
Ink: Ranger archival
Accessories: Sea shells, Carabelle stencil, Ranger crackle paste, Emerald creek embossing powders - Dirty Sand, Weathered Wood, Burned Copper Leaves, Patina Oxide, Ancient Amber, Banff Slate, Charred Gold, Northern lights, Art Alchemy acrylic paints sparks- Raven Black, Dragons Eye, Magical Pond, Opal Magic- Blue gold, Glitter, sequins, prills.
Techniques: Mixed media art board

CAS Christmas Mid month Reminder

It's time for CAS Christmas mid month reminder, our guest designer is Barb (Barb's Studio Creations) and of course the team has some amazing eye candy for you to peruse.

Her is my card for the challenge, I recently purchased a Gerda Steiner Christmas Puppy set and stamped this adorable little pup all tangled in the Christmas lights. The tree is from a Paper Artsy Set by Jo Firth-Young (JOFY) which I coloured in the same way as the stamp set example (sooooo easy).

I used pencils to colour the tree as I stamped the tree straight on the base card stock, the puppy was stamped on watercolour paper and watercoloured.

A funny thing happened to my bauble at the top, it started out gold pencil and now looks blue after putting gloss on the baubles and lights. I'm not sure what happened😕

I hope you like the card and , pop over to CAS Christmas and join in.

Card Recipe
Stamps: Gerda Steiner, JOFY, Tim Holtz Sentiment.
Paper: 110lb white, watercolour
Ink: Ranger archival
Accessories: Water colours, Prismacolour pencils, Viva decor clear pen, Foam tape.
Techniques: Water colouring , pencil colouring

Christmas Geli print UFO

I found a great winter background in my UFO box. It's a gelli print with acrylic paints and an embossing folder impression.  I used blues and a gold on the plate and then pulled off the colour using a snowflake embossing folder.

The treeline was stamped in Black Versafine Clair and embossed in clear embossing powder. The sentiment is from Paper Smooches and was stamped in clear Versamark ink and embossed in pearlized navy embossing powder

Here is a close up of the gelli print.

I'm entering this for the following challenges-

CAS Christmas challenge

Sweet Stamping Christmas

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge

The Holly and the Ivy.

Card Recipe
Stamps: Memory box tree line, Paper Smooches sentiment
Paper: 110lb white, Black, Mixed media
Ink: Versafine Clair
Accessories: clear embossing powder, acrylic paints, Hexagon die,
Techniques: Geli print, heat embossing

Stencil mono printing and UFO's

For my card I used this Carabelle stencil and Lindy's Stamp Gang Magicals to create my monoprint background.  You can't see the shimmer but I'm sure you all know it's there IRL.

I cut the background using a stamplorations wonky stitch die and mounted it on white foam.

The  butterfly is a Tim Holtz (Sizzix) die, it's so perfect for using up those really bright bold backgrounds that you almost throw out because you used way too much ink.

the sentiment is from a retired rubbernecker set 😠

Here is the Mixed Media piece that the back of the butterfly was die cut from, it almost made it's way into the garbage, and yes there's a second card to appear soon.

About a year of so ago I used way way too much ink sprayed on Mixed media paper. That amount of colour was perfect for this die cut. The black outline tones down the amount of colour on the sheet.. 

I sprayed the butterfly with Imagine sheer shimmer spray which made it very sparkly.

I'm entering this card for the following challenges

CAS MIX up (stencil mono printing stamping and my Choice die cut)

the Butterfly Challenge (F- Fuchia and French blue)

I hope you like my card and I'd love to hear from you 😀.

Card Recipe
Stamps: Rubbernecker sentiment
Paper: 110lb white, Black, mixed media
Ink: Ranger Archival black
Accessories: Carabelle stencil, Lindy's Stamp Gang Magical Powders, Ink sprays, Tim Holtz butterflies, Stamplorations wonky stitched die, Imagine sheer shimmer spray,  White foam
Techniques:

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.

Another Pan Pastel Poinsittia

While I had my pan pastels out a few weeks ago I coloured my larger poinsettia die cut. For this card I use the Tim Holtz Christmas stencil and distress inks to create my background, the colours blend from a deep blue to gray.

I use my Viva Decor Pearl pen to put the silver flowers at the centrel

I hope you like the card, I'm entering it for the following challenges-

Jingle Bells Rock

The Merry Christmas challenge

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge

Rudolf days

Addicted to stamps

Sweet Stampers

and

Dragonfly Journeys

Card Recipe
Stamps: None
Paper: 110lb white, Mixed Media
Ink: Ranger distress inks
Accessories: Blending foam, Stencil, Memory Box large poinsettia, Viva Decor Pearl Pen, Pan Pastels
Techniques: Stenciling, Pan Pastels

Pixelated dress

I was inspired to try this pixelated technique by Crafted By Jules after seeing her beautiful flower I just couldn't wait to try it. 

For the squares I used  retired stamp by stamping up and the image of the runway model is from Stampin back both were stamped using Shadow Gray Archival ink.

The squares are watercoloured in muted tones for the background and shades of blue for the dress.

This was a fun technique and one I definitely want to try again.

I'm entering this for the following challenges

Crafting with attitude Anything goes

The  Paper players CAS 

A Bit more time to craft #72 Anything goes

 

Card Recipe
Stamps: Stamping Back, SU background
Paper: 140lb watercolour, 110lb white
Ink: Ranger archival shadow gray
Accessories: Watercolours, SSS Stitched Rectangle die
Techniques: Pixelate, watercolouring