Starry Evergreen

Stamps:  Hampton Art Hot Fudge "Holiday Stamp Set"

Inks: Staz-On Jet Black, VersaMark, Distress Scattered Straw, Shabby Shutters and Peeled Paint

Markers: Copic Black

Other: DecoArt Pixelated stencil, Sakura white gel pen, Recollections Snow embossing powder

Challenges: Stamps & Fun = Creativity Challenge #355 , Sweet Stampin' Christmas Anything Goes Optional Stars, Ellibelle's Corner Christmas Challenge

1.  Stamp Christmas tree square on white cardfront. Use second stamping to stamp a mask and reverse mask on a Post-it note. 

2. Use reverse mask to sponge inks onto tree square, starting with lightest near tree.

3. Use the square mask to stencil dots around tree square. 

4. Stamp stars on scrap white cardstock and apply.

5. Emboss phrase on black cardstock with VersaMark and white embossing powder. Apply to cardfront.

6. Use black marker to black in tree thoroughly, and white pen to draw swirl lines whiter.

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Live Simply Flower

To get the stamen heads to show up better, I first applied white gel pen, and when that dried I colored over them with yellow marker.

Stamps: Stampendous "Garden Background" 2012 (#R137), Stampin' Up! "Trust God" set

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Staz On Stone Gray

Markers: Copic

Other: Sakura white gel pen, Stickles Worn Lipstick

1. Use Post-Its to mask background stamp and apply grey ink; remove Post-Its.

2.  Stamp image in corner of card.

3. Stamp sentiment in open area (I say this from experience - if you color everything in and THEN stamp the phrase wrong it's all over LOL)

4. Use markers to color in the image (using white gel pen or acrylic on the stamen heads will help the yellow to show up better). 

5. Use the yellow marker to add dots around the flower head, white gel pen to add highlights, and Stickles highlight center of flower.

Challenges: The Flower Challenge #38 "Add Spots or Stripes" , Addicted to Stamps and More #336 Anything Goes , Retro Rubber 123 Anything Goes , Dream Valley #213 All That Glitters

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Winter Wonderland

 During coloring one of the blue markers burped ink onto the panel and I was forced to add more spots or start over. Card is pure white IRL.  

1. Stamp children image in black ink, and make a Post-it note mask of them with the second stamping. 

2.Color the children in with markers, and place mask over them.

3. Use Post-its to form top and bottom borders. 

4.Used fingertip daubers to apply blue inks, lightest to darkest. 

5.Unmask children and use acrylic-inked snow stamp on blue panel. 

6.Stamp phrase with black ink.

Stamps: B Line Designs children (#HO140D), Stampin' Up! snow dots background, A Muse Artstamps phrase Road to Friend (#9-8230C)

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Distress Faded Jeans, Broken China, Tumbled Glass

Markers: Copic

Other: Apple Barrel Matte White Acrylic paint, fingertip sponge daubers

Challenges: CAS Christmas November 2019 Warm and Cozy, Creative Inspirations Winter Blues Challenge , Christmas Kickstart Challenge #23 - Snow! , Shopping Our Stash #408 - Here Comes Suzy Snowflake , Ellibelle's Corner Christmas / Holiday Challenge

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Tag and Colors Challenges

Manilla tag base. Stamped all elements in grey ink, masking as needed.  Used a mask of the border to swipe chalkboard white acrylic with a foam brush onto manilla cardstock in the triangle areas and along the side. Bird and phrase are pop-dotted.  Hat was made by swiping markers and cutting triangle shape.  Eggs were stamped on white cardstock with black ink, colored in with markers and taped down. White gel pen was used to highlight flower buds and eggs. Swished blue Distress ink onto sides with a waterbrush.

Stamps: Stampin' Up! "Nature Walk" & "Trust God", Stamper's Anonymous border (#U4-1147)

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Staz-On Stone Gray, Distress Stormy Sky

Copic Markers: (On eggs) E97 Deep Orange, E99 Baked Clay, B95 Light Grayish Cobalt, B97 Night Blue, BG72 Ice Ocean, G09 Veronese Green, G85 Verdigris, G99 Olive, BG75 Abyss Green (On bird) YooooYellow Fluorite, YR31 Light Reddish Yellow, YR21 Cream, R02 Flesh, E33 Sand, E44 Clay, W3 Warm Gray No.3

Other: Waverly acrylic Chalk white, Sekura Gelly Roll 08 white pen

Tools: Foam brush, waterbrush pen 

Challenges: Tag Tuesday Anything Goes , Color Throwdown # ctd567

(Inspiration photo/colors)

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Circles and Silhouettes Challenges

I have always loved this image of these birds hanging out together.  When I saw it last night at Joann's and I had a good coupon I could not resist. Very happy with it!

Stamps:  Hampton Art phrase (#PS1103), Inkadinkado birds (97855 DD)

Inks: Distress Ink - Weathered Wood, Scattered Straw, Versafine Onyx Black

Copic Marker: Black

Other: Waverly white chalk acrylic, Sakura Gelly Roll white pen

1. Smooshed blue and yellow Distress Inks on an oven liner mat and misted with water.  Rested white cardstock on inks, pressing down, then allowed to air-dry.

2. Stamped birds and phrase in black ink, and also on a large post-it to use as a mask (I used Versafine but it was not fine - it smeared LOL). I used a Copic black marker to color the birds in thouroughly.

3. Used white chalk paint and a foam brush through a section of the metal ribbon shown.

4. Smooshed the yellow ink into white cardstock and punched a circle.

5. Sponged blue ink around top edges.

6. Added the ribbon (easiest to apply it flat and tie a separate knot on).

Challenges: Moo-Mania Challenge #203 Circles , Double D Silhouettes Challenge

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CAS Winter Flora Challenge

Used a stamp positioner to align the individual letters.  Foliage was covered with gloss medium.

This card was all about imperfection and what to do with it.  I didn't realize when I stamped the berries how dry the ink pad had gotten so the letters ended up "distressed" and THEN I didn't catch a bit of ink on the edge of the upper left bordering rubber of the H  and had to draw in 3 holly berries there to cover; to balance the extra berries it was necessary to draw in another on the stem above and to the left where there were 2. But in the end I'm happy with it LOL

Stamps: Stampin' Up!"Watercolor Winter", letters unmarked/unknown

Inks: Stampin' Up! Gumball Green, Real Red

Other: Ranger Glossy Accents

Challenge: Less is More Challenge #407 CAS Winter Flora

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