I hope you are enjoying your Memorial Day.
This is another card I slapped together before leaving for non-stamping land. Sadly for me it is the last card I have to show until I can return to my stamps.
The image was a pre-stamped and colored piece I had done for another card and wound up not using. The image is from a MFT set called Owls of the Season by Stephanie Fizer. The owls, and limb stamped with Onyx Black Versafine, the leaves stamped with Peeled Paint Distress Ink. The owls were colored with Prismacolored pencils. The image was then cut out with a Nestie circle die, and before the die was removed sponged with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. The next layer of yellow was cut with a Nestie scalloped circle die, each scallop pierced.
The sentiment is from a CDS set called Thoughtful Notes, stamped with Onyx Black Versafine on a piece of yellow cut with a Quick Kutz Label die.
The background is using pieces of scrap paper, something I saw on a video by Gina K at Stamp TV. I cut my scrap pieces to size, layered onto a piece of yellow cut to size. Cross-stitched between the two alternating dp papers, and a zig-zag stitch around the edge, all of it done by hand. I have given up on my sewing machine, it would have taken me two to three times longer to sew on this card using it. The base card is a light turquoise blue.
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judy
This is another pre-stamped colored image, I had lying around, so I slapped it on a card. I just realized I can enter it in the challenge at Clearly I Stamp for CIC28.
The image is from a CDS set called Something to Crow About, stamped on white cardstock with Onyx Black Versafine, then watercolored using cheap metallic gel pens and a water brush. The metallic gel pens, give the image lots of shimmer. Cut out with a scalloped circle Nestie, then each scallop paper pierced. The next layer of orange was cut with a circle Nestie, and also paper pierced.
The sentiment from the same set, stamped with Soot Black Distress Ink, was set up just like the main image, but paper pierced a little more. The dp layer is from a DCWV Fall Stack, layered onto a piece of orange cut to size, with a dark brown base card. The ribbon is wrapped around and behind the dp/orange layer and a small button brad is holding the bow, made with a bow easy in place.
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judy
Today’s card isn’t for any challenges, it just one of the cards I threw together before returning to non-stamping land.
Yes, it’s another acrylic distress card, this time I used the Cuttlebug Textile folder with an Adirondack Acrylic Dabber in Gold with Walnut Stain Distress Ink. I do love this technique, and I’m still trying new colors together. I even did snowflakes with a Silver Dabber and Dusty Concord Distress……but don’t be distressed, I didn’t make anything with it yet.
Since I was pressed for time, I didn’t want to stamp & color, so I looked through some pre-stamped colored images and found this one. The image is from a SU set called Knobbly Gnomes. I don’t remember what ink I used to stamp it with, but I can tell you it was stamped on watercolor paper and colored with Twinkling H2o’s.
I cut the image out and picked out some cardstock to finish the card. The layer behind the image (lt. brown) was cut and embossed with a Nestie Label Four die. The next layer cut with a Nestie Scalloped Oval (dk. brown), a piece of grosgrain ribbon runs behind the top three layers, and wraps behind the next two layers. Next is the acrylic distress layer, backed with a dark brown layer, and the base card is the same lt. brown as the sentiment layer and the Labels Four layer.
The sentiment is from the same stamp set, stamped with Walnut Stain Distress Ink. Since the sentiment is so long, it didn’t fit on anything I had punch wise. So I tried using an EK Success punch Journal Plate, cutting a piece of paper to size, and running it up through the bottom to snip off the edge. Then layered it onto a piece of dk. brown cut to size and the corner snipped with a corner rounder punch.
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judy
Another Football Frenzy card for challenge #96 at House Mouse & Friends.
This was actually the first image I stamped to go with the acrylic distress background on yesterday’s card, but right in the middle of making yesterday’s card a new idea popped into my head and I switched images.
The main image for today’s card is a HM stamp called Chewable Aspirin. It was stamped on white cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, colored with Prismacolored pencils, then cut out. I added stickles to the ice cube and drips. The aspirin bottle cotton is a combination of two MS flocking powders (swan & pewter). The eyes were colored with a black glaze pen, and one dotted with a white gel pen, then laid aside to dry.
I started looking for sentiments to go with this image, and that is when the switcheroo of images came about, and when yesterday’s card came about.
The sentiment is from a SU set called Always In My Thoughts, stamped on white with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, then punched out with a circle punch. I decided to specify even more, so I chose the SU set Alphabits, stamped on white with Memento Tuxedo Black, then punched each letter out with a 1/4” hole punch. For this Faux Sympathy card I used Steeler colors (black, gold & white).
The footballs are from a CDS set call Accessory Fun, stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black and sponged with Vintage Photo Distress, cut out, and placed in each corner.
My Raven fan husband loved this card, it even got a chuckle out of him. I am back in non-stamping land now, and I am having withdrawal. I can’t wait to get back to my stamps.
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judy
Are you ready for some football? Challenge #96 at House Mouse & Friends is a football frenzy challenge.
When I went to check on what the challenge was today, I had a great surprise….I won the last challenge! After that shock the next one was that the challenge is a football frenzy, I was lost, in more ways than one. I don’t have any HM football stamps, I don’t really like football, oh I’ll sit and watch a game with my husband every now and then, but I don’t have the slightest idea what is going on half the time. As far as a favorite team, I picked the Steelers just because my hubby doesn’t like them…..he is a Ravens fan. I have always said football is just a bunch of over paid and overgrown men running around jumping on top each other, I sure can’t see sitting around yelling at the TV when a game is on, I won’t mention any names, but his initials are husband
. I do like the Super Bowl…..for the commercials and the half-time show. So for my card I sort of went with the green & yellow, but threw in the black & gold too.
Yes, I did yet another acrylic distress technique card, but I did try something new with it. All along I have been using the Adirondack Acrylic Dabbers, I have a whole rack of the little acrylic paint bottles like Folk Art and Apple Barrel, now call me stupid, but I was wondering if they would work too. DAH! I guess acrylic paint is acrylic paint no matter what they say. I definitely won’t have to buy anymore paint for a while. So I picked out a bottle of Apple Barrel yellow, that I thought would match the Packer color and painted my paper with a paintbrush, that I had embossed with a Cuttlebug folder from the Heritage Collection.
I know they sell the dabber tops, I have four brand new ones, that I have had for a while, I guess I’m saving them for a rainy day. Anyway, I used the heat gun to speed up drying, then sanded the paper and sponged with Peeled Paint Distress, and wiped with a damp paper towel. I am happy to say it worked like a charm. I looked through my HM stamps to see what image I could use and came up with a couple. I even made a second card, because half way through the project, another idea hit me, and I switched the original image I had for this card to this image.
I will be leaving here tomorrow and returning to non-stamping land, and won’t be able to make any new cards for a while, so the past two nights I have been up half the night trying to crank some extra cards out.
Ok, back to this card. The base card is black, the next layer is gold cut to size (the Steelers lost, so their colors in under the Packer colors) . I chose the HM stamp Mudpie Tells 02 for this card. He was stamped on white with Memento Tuxedo Black, colored with Prismacolored pencils & Goo Gone, then cut out. A black Glaze pen was used on his eye.
All three white circles were punched, then sponged around the edges with Peeled Paint Distress Ink. In my warped little brain, I chose circles for spotlighting. Doesn’t Mudpie look like he wants to giggle? Hence the sentiment from an SU set called Warm Words stamped with Peeled Paint. The letters on the big circle are brads I have had forever, and never use. The numbers were punched.
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judy
