A Mixed Media Color Challenge #3

Hi everyone!  How's your summer going?  I spent most of the day with my mom at the mall to stay cool!  I don't mind the heat, but I hate the humidity!  Does nasty things to my hair!  LOL!

 

But I did squeak some time in my cool basement to make a card for A Mixed Media Color Challenge. 

I started with some water color paper and Distress Stains in Faded Jeans and Broken China.  I spritzed it with water and then let it dry.  I did use a heat tool to make the ink travel around a bit.  I like the look...kind of like marble.  Then I used my new find...Modeling Cream.  I used it before in a pearl color, and I found it in gold at Hobby Lobby.  I used it with a stencil I also found at Hobby Lobby.  The sentiment (which is not centered now that I look at it!) was stamped with Delicata Golden Ritz ink.  The stamp is from Hands of Time by Papertrey Ink.  The rose is from Prima.  I wanted the gold to match the sentiment, so I took a piece of cardstock and inked it with the gold ink then cut it into strips and glued them next to each side.  Jennifer McGuire does this all the time to save on paper!  

I used the CAS(E) This Sketch for my layout.

 

Thanks for stopping by today!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Hands of Time (PTI)

Paper:  Vintage cream, water color paper

Ink:  Delicata golden ritz, Distress inks:  faded jeans, broken china

Accessories:  Gold modeling cream, stencil, prima flower, dimensionals

Just Us Girls #197 - Technique Challenge

Hi everyone!  It's technique week over at Just Us Girls and Maria chose a challenge that really intimidated me until I sat down and tried it!  This week we are using Mixed Media as our challenge.  She found this great video over at Splitcoast Stampers for you to watch and to be inspired.

I watched this video along with several others, including videos from Tim Holtz and Jennifer McGuire.  Jennifer did a flower similar to this and I loved it and stared there.  The flower is from Papertrey Ink's Delightful Dahlia set.  I stamped it in Versamark on watercolor paper then heat embossed it with white ep.  I applied Spiced Marmalade and Worn Lipstick distress stains, and spritzed it with water to help move and puddle the inks.  I let it sit for a while to dry.  I did the same for the leaf, however I only had Peeled Paint distress ink and no other green inks to get some dimension.  Then I took a Ranger manila tag and applied the Spiced Marmalade and Worn Lipstick inks on the tag and spritzed it with water too.  I heat set it and let the inks move around while heating it.  This is where I stray from the video.  I was supposed to apply Gesso or white acrylic paint to the tag, but didn't have either, so I left it.  I then used a Dylusions stencil (from Ranger) and some pearl Modeling Cream to create this border.  I used an old credit card to spread the modeling cream into the openings of the stencil.  The results were so cool!

 

Since the Modeling Cream was pearl, it really shimmers!  Here's a side view of that.  The sentiment is from PTI's Stylish Sentiments:  Birthday and was stamped in Versafine Onyx Black.  I added some seam binding to the hole.  I'm entering this tag into our county fair in August.

I was so excited about this technique that I decided to make a card for my friend's upcoming birthday.  I did the same technique for the flower, leaf, and background paper.  Except this time I covered the background paper with Picket Fence distress stain.  It lightened it up and muted it a bit.

Again, here is a shot of the shimmer of the Molding Cream.

Here are the two side-by-side.  You can see how the background on the card is more muted.  Love this technique!

You have to check out these blogs to see what the JUGs design team did with this technique.

 

JUGs blog

Elise Durenberger

Maria Levine

Marisa Ritzen

Nancy Leppek

Tangii Crain

Vicki Dutcher

 

ETA:  I'm also entering this in Moxie Fab World's Birthday Tags and Wraps Challenge!  Perfect fit for my tag!

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Delightful Dahlia, Stylish Sentiment:  Birthday (PTI)

Paper:  Neenah white, pear pizzazz, Ranger manila tag, watercolor paper

Ink:  Worn lipstick, spiced marmalade, peeled paint, and picket fence distress inks, Versafine onyx black, Versamark

Accessories:  Delightful Dahlia die (PTI), white ep, Modeling Cream (Creative Imagination), Dylusions stencil diamond border (Ranger), dimensionals

 



10 Minute Dash x 5!

Like my title?  I'm taking the Summer Card Camp 2 from Online Card Classes and the challenge today was to create a card in 10 minutes or less.  Well I failed miserably!  I had my timer on and was on my way, but I hit the 10 minute mark and probably would have finished in about 12 minutes, but then the phone rang (my iPhone which is what I was using as my timer).  Well, I forgot all about the challenge and kept on talking.  When I hung up, I remembered the timer.  It was at about 51 minutes!  Hence the 10 x 5 in my title!  Oh well!

 

Here's my 51 minute card!  I made this for my father-in-law who had some minor surgery this week and is in some discomfort.  I like this sentiment from a Paper Smooches set called First Aid Kit.  I stamped the bandage on Blush Blossom cardstock in Versamark then embossed it in white ep so that it looked like a bandage.  I stamped the heart (from Verve's Hearts on Fire set) in the middle with Dusty Durango ink.  I cut it out and mounted it on the panel with dimensionals.  The sentiment, from the same PS set, was stamped in Memento cocoa ink.  The dp is Basic Grey's Life of the Party.  I added a piece of ribbon and a button threaded with some twine.  The main panel and the base of the card are Cajun Craze.

 

I don't always finish off the inside of my cards until I need them so here is the finished off inside.  I used First Aid Kit and Sentiment Sampler for the sentiments.  The "and" is from PTI's Fresh Alphabet set.

 

I used this Retro Sketch for my layout.



Thanks for stopping by!

 

Retro

Stamps:  First Aid Kit and Sentiment Sampler (Paper Smooches), Hearts on Fire (Verve), Fresh Alphabet (PTI)

Paper:  Vintage Ivory, Cajrun craze, Life of the Party (Basic Grey)

Ink:  Memento rich cocoa, dusty Durango, Versamark

Accessories:  White ep, button, ribbon, twine, dimensionals, corner rounder

Happy 5th Birthday Color Throwdown!

The Color Throwdown challenge blog is celebrating their 5th birthday!  I think they are they are the longest running challenge blog around!  I have the honor of being part of their celebration because I was a guest during October 2009.  All past alumni and guests are celebrating this momentous occasion.  You can see all the participants on the Color Throwdown blog.  While you are there, you can also see a list of prizes you can win if you play along this week!  I'm told the list is very long!

 

These are the fabulous colors chosen for this week.  Love them!  And when I saw the inspiration photo that the colors came from, I knew exactly the direction I was going with my card!

It just so happens that I recently purchased PTI's Flipping Out stamp set and dies.  Bingo!  I die cut the flip flops and stamped them in melon.  I cut the thong part in Bermuda and added a flower stamped in saffron.  I added pink bling for the flower centers.  I placed them on dimensionals on crumb cake (to mimic sand), and added a button threaded with baker's twine.  The dp is DeLovely from Cosmo Cricket.  The horizontal pieces were cut into banners on one side.  The sentiment is from the same set and was stamped in Versafine Onyx Black.  Lastly, I added some more pink bling.  When I staged the picture, I was thinking that I wished I had sea shells but didn't have any.  So I used some embossing powder to mimic sand instead!

I used this week's Mojo Monday sketch.  I haven't played in their challenge in a while!

So make sure you stop by the Color Throwdown blog and say happy birthday and then play along!  You can't win if you don't play!

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Flipping Out (PTI)

Paper:  Neenah white, melon mambo, Bermuda bay, so saffron, crumb cake

Ink:  Bermuda bay, melon mambo, so saffron, Versafine onyx black

Accessories:  Oval nesties, Flippin Out die (PTI), button, baker's twine, bling, dimensionals

 

Weddings and Fireworks

Our friends got married yesterday and had a pig roast at their home.  It was a casual wedding.  Here is their wedding invitation.  I thought they were very cool, and I loved the poem on it.  I also loved those fireworks!  This invitation was my inspiration for their wedding card.

 

I used a Lawn Fawn set called Happy 4th for the fireworks.  I stamped them in Versamark and embossed them in red and gold.  I thought I had blue ep, but I didn't, so I added navy pearls to the centers of the fireworks.  The sentiment, from SU's Heard from the Heart, was also stamped in Versamark and embossed in gold.  I added a sheer gold ribbon to separate the sentiment from the fireworks.  The white paper is actually a shimmer white from PTI and it's mounted on navy cardstock.

 

On the inside, I added this sentiment (I didn't write down who it was from) and more fireworks.

That's it from me!  Thanks for stopping by!

Just Us Girls #196 - Sketch Challenge

This week is sketch week over at Just Us Girls, and Nancy gave us this great sketch! 

I recently purchased this new set from WPlus9 called Sweets and Treats.  It's got all these cute cupcakes in the set, so I colored up these three and added them and the sentiment in the circles.  I colored them to match the paper from October Afternoon called Cakewalk.  So many pretty designs to choose from in this paper pack!  I added some Star Dust Stickles to the cupcakes and then some baker's twine and a button to finish it off.

Stop by these blogs to see what the JUGs design team came up with.

 

JUGs blog

Elise Durenberger

Maria Levine

Marisa Ritzen

Nancy Leppek

Tangii Crain

Vicki Dutcher

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Sweets and Treats (WPlus9)

Paper:  Vintage ivory, aqua mist, X-Press It Blending Card, Cakewalk (October Afternoon)

Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, copic markers

Accessories:  Circle punch, corner punch, baker's twine (the Twinery). button, star dust stickles



Happy 16th Birthday!

Hi all!  Hope everyone had a nice 4th of July (if you are in the US!).  We had a nice relaxing day at our cabin.  A little rain in the afternoon, but it cleared up for the beautiful evening!

The card I made today is for our neighbors' son Kevin who turned 16 today.  By 10:30 this morning he already had his driver's permit!  Remember those days?  So I had to make a special card for him that was driving-themed.  The paper I chose is Basic Grey's Wander.  It had this cool collage paper with all sorts of road signs and such.  I thought it would work well for my theme.  The numbers are from PTI's By the Numbers dies and the sentiment is from Sentiment Sampler from Paper Smooches. 

I originally used Handsome Hunter cardstock for the numbers, then changed my mind and went for the Cherry Cobbler instead.  So instead of wasting the numbers, I put them inside.  The car paper is also from Wander.

I used the Clean and Simple sketch for my layout.



Hope you are enjoying your summer!  I know I am!  Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe

Stamps:  Sentiment Sampler (Paper Smooches)

Paper:  Naturals ivory, cherry cobbler, handsome hunter (all SU), Wander (Basic Grey)

Ink:  Riding hood red

Accessories:  Circle and pinked nesties, WPlus9 flag die, By the Numbers dies (PTI), pinking scissors, Prima wood star