Hogs & Kisses

This week’s color challenge at Stamp TV is to use onyx black, bubblegum pink and sweet mango. I used the GKD set Funny Farm for this card.

The black fence was made with a MS border punch. For the mud puddle under the hog I used a versamark pen with detail clear ep, under the farmer is just plain versamark. The hogs were stamped on pink paper and cut out. The farmer was stamped on the mango paper, and on white. I colored the white with prismacolored pencils and goo gone, and then cut it out. I stamped the boots two more times, for one layer the whole boot colored and cut out and glued to the white image, then I just cut the toe part out of the other set and attached to the other layers. Thanks for looking and would love to hear your comments.

Mini Cabin

Here is another card for the Clearly Inspired Challenge for February at Clear Dollar Stamps, find out more about it here.

For this card I chose the CDS set Mini Silhouette Scapes (another unused set) and the sentiment is from a CDS set Terrific Little Tree.

In trying to figure out how to work this I first cut the small oval with a Quick Kutz die called Nameplates, with white cardstock, I had already decided to use the blue checked dp, the dark blue paper and vinyl ribbon, but hadn’t decided what else to use with it. Next, the moon was stamped with versamark and I embossed with clear detail ep, then the tree line was added, by stamping with versamark and embossing with detail black ep, then the cabin was added the same way. Next I chose to add some clouds by the moon, they were also stamped with versamark but this time I used detail white ep. The sky was sponged with stormy sky distress ink, and for the ground a combination of old paper and pumice stone distress inks.  By this time, I had a decision to make on my layering color, it was a toss up of white and beige. I cut my second oval with the nameplate die in white, then decided to layer the other with beige. I had a hard time picking out something to go with the rest, finally I settled on the dp  with the twinkling stars, added three beige brads, stamped the sentiment with onyx black versafine and punched with a SU small oval punch. I think it turned out kind of blah, I guess it was my color choices. Thanks for stopping by, and would love to hear your comments.

Shoe Fly

Here is my second card today for the Clear Dollar Stamps February challenge,

find out more about it here.

I chose another unused CDS set called Shoe Fly. The main image was stamped on white cardstock, with versamark ink and embossed with detail black ep, the body parts of the fly was colored with metallic gel pens and a watercolor brush, the wings with a clear glitter pen. The mushroom, boots, what I am assuming is a sleeping bag, bedroll and map was colored with prismacolored pencils and goo gone. I made a mask and stippled wild honey distress all over the white, then cut and embossed with a nesties circle die. I added crackle accents to the glittered wings, and since I didn’t have any googly eyes the right size, I sort of made my own, they don’t move though. I used a hole punch (I think it’s 1/8”) and punched two holes in a scrap piece of black cardstock, picked up the punched pieces and glued them in place, waited a couple minutes for the glue to dry, then covered the area with crystal lacquer, I then laid this piece way off to the side, cause I generally wind up laying something on top of or dropping something on pieces I am waiting to dry. I had already picked out my dp from my scrap pile, I had to decide on what colors to go with it, so I decided on a yellowish orange color for the card base, and brown for layering. I cut the brown with the scalloped circle nestie, then cut the brown for the layer behind the polka dot dp. I forgot to pick another color so the brown kind of went on top of brown, so I punched the corners of the polka dot dp and the brown layer for that dp with a corner punch (I don’t remember what it is called). The top right corner striped dp was paper piereced the bottom left corner of the striped dp has three green eyelets. The ribbon is orange with white polka dots. The brown scalloped circle is paper pierced on each scallop, and for the image circle paper piercing I used one of those round plastic canvas thingys for the template to pierce, the holes are more square or rectangle instead of round, but I stuck my piercing tool in the top left part of the hole and worked my way around, placing the piercing tool in the same location for each hole, and I avoided piercing the image. The sentiment is from the same stamp set, stamped with onyx black versafine on the yellowish orange paper, and punched out with a SU window punch. Thought I'd add a closeup of the eyes and wings.

Thanks for stopping by and I’d love to hear your comments.

Nestled Love

Clear Dollar Stamps has a new challenge for this month,

you can view all the details here.

For the sketch, I chose an unused CDS set called Nestled Love and did my own version of the black magic technique.

The main image was stamped on black with versamark ink, embossed with detail white, colored with prisma colored pencils, then cut out and embossed with nesties ovals. For the image layer, I only ran the clear glitter gel pen around the top part of the oval. The rust colored layer was also cut out with a nestie oval, and after the image layer was attached, I used a white gel pen to outline it, all the way around. The ribbon is something I picked up at a yard sale, it’s rather fancy, it reminds me of a wedding dress. I don’t know if you will be able to see it very good in the picture, but it has some sparkle to it. The dp is out of my scrap bin, I have been trying to use scraps up, before getting anymore new stuff out. The layering for the dp is the same rust color as the layer for the image and the base card. The layer between the base card and the little star dp is black. I used a cuttlebug tiny tag die to cut out the tag for the sentiment, and three rust colored snaps to finish it off. Thanks for looking, and would love to hear your comments.

Double Embossing

Ok, I think I found my mind that I completely lost earlier today! I finished another card, this time starting out to be for the sketch challenge at Stamp TV, with double embossing, and this is how the card turned out using a GKD stamp set Purrr-fectly Delightful by Theresa Momber.

I also got out the sewing machine I bought after I saw the GKD video about sewing machines back in 2009, and haven’t used until today. I am, and always will be a tomboy, and sewing isn’t one of my prerequisites. I don’t really remember, but I think I failed the sewing part in home economics. I should have had a video camera rolling, I’m sure I could have made America’s Funniest Video. I know this probably isn’t the best sewing anybody has ever seen, but for the first time using it, I am satisfied, except where the machine skipped a couple stitches on the bottom row of the ribbon on the left side. Maybe you wouldn’t have noticed if I hadn’t pointed it out.

The kitten was stamped on gray cardstock with versamark and embossed with detail black ep. Then I used my prismacolored pencils and added some pink for the nose, ears & pads of his feet, and some white in a couple places, used a green glaze pen, and a dot of white gel pen for green eyes. Afterwards, I used a versamark pen colored in the whole kitten and embossed with detail clear ep. Cut the image out and embossed with oval nesties. The brown layer behind was cut out with a scalloped oval nestie, and each scallop pierced. The dp name is Deja Views – Cat’s Life Collection – Small Polka Dots (I just used it on a card for the last sketch challenge at Stamp TV with the same kitten) it is layered on the same brown as the scalloped oval. The base card is a bright green, the same as the sentiment tag and ribbon.  So the first time using the sewing machine on the card was attaching the dp to the brown layer, I think that went pretty well, I really tried hard to keep it going straight, kind of looks like I was drinking though. I'm just glad the thing already had thread and a bobbin in it. So I got the brilliant idea to sew the ribbon on too, that was going smoothly also, until I almost finished. I sewed the top part first, then back across the bottom, that’s where it started skipping stitches, right at the end. I used my cuttlebug fanciful label die to cut out the tag, stamped the sentiment from same stamp set with versamark, embossed with detail black ep, then used the versamark pen around the edges and embossed with clear detail ep, attached it with two brown mini brads. I picked out some matching colors to the polka dots on the dp and punched some butterflies with a MS border punch to frame the kitten in the oval. After attaching ribbon, ovals and sentiment, looks like the rust color in the dp kind of got covered up. Thanks for stopping by and I would love to hear your comments.