FLOATING TORTOISE

Hello!

TECHNIQUES

colored pencils, stenciling, pop-dotting

the white-tone strip across the center is vellum

STAMPS

turtle square - Stampin' Up! "Nature Prints" set

starfish, text, vegetation - unmarked rectangular cube (looks like Stampington style to me...)

Playing along with the following Challenges:

Lil Red Wagon #616 Stencil Power (ends 8/31)!

Ike's World Challenge #147 Anything w/Animal Option  (ends 9/5?).

Cardz4Guyz - Things with Tails  (ends 9/5?)!

Hobby Vision #112 Beach/Sea  (ends 9/17?)-

Use Your Stuff #429 Water / Beach  (ends 8/28)-

Thanks for coming by today!

SO MANY HEARTS

Hello  :o)

TECHNIQUES

ink blending

heat embossing

shimmer spray

STAMPS

hearts background - Dawn Houser #106 by Inkadinkado #91079

sentiment -  Hero Arts Hello Stamp & Cut #DC151

SUPPLIES

mini heart punch - random unmarked

banner die -  Stampin' Up! Bitty Banners

shimmer Spray - Avery Elle Clear Shimmer Spray

white gel pen - Sakura Gelly Roll

Playing along with the following Challenges:

Rainbow Card - #31 Charmingly Cherry  (ends 7/31).

 

Great to have you here!

Colorful Beauties

I recently picked up a pack of 2 Ranger Distress Oxide Spray inks the other day and I am nearly in love LOL 

If I could afford it I would go buy the entire line immediately!!

Also, something else I am amazed and inspired by is Tracy Evans work. 

Following these CHALLENGES:

Sweet Stampin Make Your Own Background

UPDATE: this card made Top Three!  Thank you!!

STAMPS: poppies - Stampin' Up! "Pleasant Poppies" background stamp, dots - Stampin' Up! "Extreme Elements" set, phrase - PSX (#D-2611)

INKS: Stampin' Up! Melon Mambo, Memento Tuxedo Black, StazOn Stone Gray, VersaMagic Cloud White, Distress Oxide Sprays in Spiced Marmalade & Picked Raspberry

MARKERS: Copic

OTHER: Sakura Gelly Roll white pen, white paint pen, Micron #03 black pen, Ranger foam blender, Stampin' Up! circle punches

1. Spray white cardstock with sprays and allow to dry.  Spritz lightly with water.

2. Ink tiny circles stamp with pink ink and stamp randomly.

3. Stamp partial poppies with black ink and color in with markers.

4. Punch circles from scrap cardstock, saving negative mask as well.

5. Using circles punched out and foam blender, brush pink ink onto circles and away from the edges. Remove all but large circle.

6. Leaving large circle over poppies, overstamp section of poppy stamp in gray ink as shown. Remove large circle mask.

7. Using reverse mask (the cardstock you punched circles from) ink tiny dots stamp with white ink and stamp within small circles.

8.Use black pen to draw dots around circles.

9. Stamp phrase in black ink.

10. Use paint pen or gel pen to draw in white dots across image on a diagonal.

Thanks for stopping by!

May you be blessed, and may you be a blessing... :o)

One Layer Challenge Card

Stamped flourish corner in brown ink, stippled over with yellow, then orange, then Cajun inks. Used paint pen to add white dots. Stamped tag in brown ink, coloring in/over words and reinforcement circle with black marker. Used fussy-cut masks to sponge sky around main bird, etc and top edge of card. Colored images with Copics and added white accents. Shadowed side of tag for faux-dimension with grey marker.

Bird colors inspired by the Flicker:

STAMPS: Invoke Arts "Flight Tag" (#5306-E3), Impression Obsession "Flourish 2" (#H5575)

INKS:  Stampin' Up!: Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze, Early Expresso, Bordering Blue, Basic Black marker.  

COPIC MARKERS: W3 Warm Gray No.3, BG72 Ice Cream, B95 Light Grayish Cobalt, YG95 Pale Olive, YG67 Moss, E71 Champagne, E44 Clay, E25 Cariba Cocoa, E07 Light Mahogany, YR21 Cream, YR24 Pale Sepia

OTHER: Judi-Kins Color Dusters, Sakura Pen-Touch 1.0mm Opaque/Permanent paint pen

CHALLENGE: Tuesday Throwdown #443 One Layer Wonder

 Thanks for stopping in!

May you be blessed and may you be a blessing...  :o)