Visible Image "Live In the moment" Dragonfly Card

I'm still in Visible Image mode today, making this dragonfly card.

I started by stamping the dragonfly (part of the Visible Image "Live in the moment" stamp set) in two colours of Versafine Clair" inks, "Twilight" for the body and "Warm Breeze" for the wings.  I then coated the stamped area in Wow! Clear Embossing Powder and heat set. The sentiment, also by Visible Image, part of their "Happy Birthday" stamp set was also stamped in "Twilight" and heat embossed in the same way.

I then started on the background, using a paint brush and different strengths of four shades of Distress Oxide Inks:  Tumbled Glass, Salvaged Patina, Cracked Pistachio and Mermaid Lagoon, fading the colours out towards the top left corner.  I then used a heat gun to dry the surface.

Next I used the Visible Image "Ripples" stencil with two shades of Archival Inks:  Garden Patina and Shadow Grey.

I then used the dots in the Visible Image "Two Tone" stencil with a gold shimmer pen to add tiny shimmery sparkles.

Next, I painted the wings of the dragonfly.  I created a beautiful shimmer look by painting green Cosmic Shimmer "Iredescent Shimmer Water Colour", which although green also has a hint of gold to it too.

Now I added the finishing touches to the card.  I used Ranger "Glossy Accents" to stick some flat backed beads to the surface of the card.

I used a metallic gold pen along the right hand and bottom edge of the card. I then added green dots using a unibal Signo pen.

#thedailymarker30day colouring challenge - Day 6 using Stampin' Up "Winter Memories" stamp set

This is my card for Day 6 of #thedailymarker30day colouring challenge.

I've used a Stampin' Up "Winter Memories" stamp, stamped in Versafine Ink and coloured with Distress Oxide inks.

I've used a Simon Says Stamp "Tiny Words - Christmas" stamped in Versafine Clair "Morning Mist" grey ink.

Funky Fossil "Antler Background" Stencil - Male Birthday Card

I've been playing with stencils this afternoon, creating this card.

I started by covering some white card with "Shabby Shutters" Distress Oxide Ink.  I used "Brushed Corduroy" Distress Oxide through the Funky Fossil "Antler" stencil, taped on top of the green background to create the over all pattern.

To create the central sentiment, I used an off-cut of the "Shabby Shutters" Distress Oxide background and stamped "Have A Wild Birthday" using stamps from the Funky Fossil clear stamp set called "Wild Things" stamped in Versafine Clair "Pinecone" brown ink.

I die cut the sentiment into a rectangle and then edged it with "Brushed Corduroy" Distress Oxide Ink before adhering it to the middle of the card.  I then edged the whole inner image with the same ink.

Celebrate - Inkylicious Stencil Card

I had used the Inkylicious shell stencil with a Distress Oxide ink for a previous project, but while cleaning the stencil with a wet wipe, I had a piece of card below, the colour on the stencil transferred onto the white card giving a lovely shell pink colour.  This was too pretty not to use.  As I needed to make a congratulations card, I thought this would be ideal as the main feature.

I stamped the Spellbinders (STP-004) in a brown Versafine Clair ink called "Acorn".  Then mounted the cut down image onto brown and then a similar coral shade of card.

Finally, using a Sakura Gelly Roll Pen in a soft glittery gold shade, I went around all the edges of the shell image.  It doesn't show up very well on the flat photograph, so I took a little video to show it to you.

Shades Of Green Shoal Of Fish Tag (Funky Fossil)

This evening I had a play with a new stencil called Shoal Of Fish by Funky Fossil making this tag.

I created the background using Distress Oxides in shades called Tumbled Glass, Twisted Citron and Broken China.

Once dry, I secured the Funky Fossil "Shoal Of Fish" stencil over the tag using low-tack masking tage and used another Distress Oxide ink called "Faded Jeans" through the stencil.

I used the Hobby Arts Ltd sentiment from their "By The Sea CS038D" set, stamped in Versafine Clair Medieval Blue shade of ink.

I had a small bubble stamp that came free with a magazine which I stamped in a Memento Ink called "London Fog".

Finally I inked the edges using the Versafine Ink I had stamped the sentiment in, then added silver glitter high-lights to the edges of the tag and to some of the bubbles to give it a more water/shimmer look using a Signo Pen

Forget Me Not "Flamingo" Birthday Card

Today I have played with another stamp by The Forget Me Not Kraft Kabin, using their Flamingo stamp set.

I used my stamping platform and stamped the flamingo image in a Colorbox ink in a coral colour.  Then coloured an area of the beak in black.  Leaving the image and the stamp in the same position on the platform.

I cleaned the stamp and then coated it, using a Wow! Clear Embossing ink pad and stamped over the image already on the card.  I removed the card from the platform and applied a generous amount of clear embossing powder and heat set.  This gives a nice raised look, which is ideal when using a water colour type wash for the background as it is less likely to leak into areas where you don't want it to be.

Using my Prima Water Colour Confections paint set, I coloured the flamingo in coral/pink shades.

I then painted the wash background using Distress Oxide Inks.  I used Tumbled Glass, Cracked Pistachio and Salty Ocean with water to create the pale wash backgorund.

Once the background was dry, I stamped the "Happy Birthday" sentiment (which was in the same set as the flamingo) using Versafine "Stormy Grey" ink.

Artist Trading Coin - Simply Cards and Papercraft Magazine Issue 186

It must be the sunshine that has sent me into a spin of tidying this morning.  I decided to tackle my craft desk as it was starting to get difficult to find space to work.  But then I got distracted.  This often happens as obviously everything is far more interesting than tidying and cleaning.

I was sorting through my craft magazines.  Storing the free stamp sets, saving the odd article and then popping the rest of the mag in the recycling.  

While doing this I came across a tiny little stamp on a sheet of goodies that came with Issue 186 of Simply Cards and Papercraft magazine.  Although the stamp was small, the sentiment actually packed quite a punch, reading "If it doesn't make you feel fabulous, don't do it, don't buy it, don't keep it!  Which made me smile.

That is the point that I became distracted.  I grabbed an off cut of oxide background, stamped the sentiment.  Also with the stamp came a cute little triangle stencil, so I popped some ink through that and then die cut the circle.  I layered the front, middle and back with glue and then inked the edges.  

See how easily I'm distracted?  I can't face the remaining pile of magazines, so I may take heed from the sentiment and pop them in the recycling - minus the freebies, obvisously.