crazy

 hello lovely stampers!

I have a sweet card for you today. I'm playing along with the sisterhood and their latest challenge #209: U is for Underwater.

I've had this stamp set for a little while now but this is the first time using this meece stamp. And yes, it was more than a little fiddly to stamp cleanly 😏. I ended up stamping the meeces in 3 different colours in my MISTI finally settling on black soot oxide ink for a slightly washed out black look (they are underwater after all!). 

The background is ink smooshed with 3 different blue hues of oxide ink. I think it was about 6 layers of inking and drying! I watercoloured their hats with abandoned coral oxide ink which really popped against the blue. The sentiment was popped up on tiny foam strips. The panel edges were ink blended with black soot and also chipped sapphire.

I'm entering this in Darnell's fabulous NBUS blog too! Hope you're doing well, Darnell! x

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

• stamps: stampendous birthday splash, darkroom door under the sea
• inks: tumbled glass, chipped sapphire, blueprint sketch, abandoned coral, pumice stone, weathered wood, pine needles, black soot distress oxides
• sentiment: Tim Holtz snarky small talk sticker

live it up

 hello crafty stampers!

I'm thrilled to be the guest star stamper for this week at the color throwdown. I was lucky to be chosen as featured stamper with this card, so I have done a card for challenge #687 with the colours lime green, aqua and gold.

I began by doing some ink smooshing onto white cards with twisted citron and salvaged patina distress oxide inks. Then I die cut from them using Hero Arts Hexagon Infinity die set. I also die cut from some gold card. I stamped using Carabelle Studio Citron stamp with twisted citron distress oxide ink onto some white card and clear heat embossed it for shine. This was then die cut into a hexagon. I applied a mask to the stamping and ink blended the lower portion using salvaged patina distress oxide ink and splattered water. Here's a closeup of the shiny citron.

The card base was ink splattered with twisted citron distress oxide ink on the upper portion, then the hexagons were adhered some with glue, some with foam squares. The sentiment from Stampendous Birthday Splash stamp set was stamped in memento tuxedo black.

Thanks ladies for the shout out! I had such fun making this card, the colours were inspired!

We can't wait to see what creations will be in the gallery this week. Thanks for stopping by!

life is tweet

 hello again stampers!

I'm playing along today with justusgirls challenge #625 where it's photo week for inspiration.

I began using MFT Radiating Rays stencil with mustard seed distress oxide ink.  A scrap of white card was stencilled using MFT Rolling Clouds and a birdhouse from Paper Rose Bird Houses die set was cut from it. The birdie was also cut using the same die set. The MFT In Focus Florals die was die cut 3 times and stacked, then watercolored. The sentiment is from Stampendous Tweet Birdie stamp set.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

age

 hello again stampers!

The lovely sisters over at the sisterhood of snarky stampers have as their theme this fortnight #202 G is for Gel Printing. Well there's always a first time...!

I made the gelli print using distress oxide inks as I don't have any paints, but I used the same gelli printing technique. The first pull was the 3 background colours, and I thought it looked like a tall treed forest, so I continued with that theme. I added images using a Stampin Up Woodland embossing folder, Darkroom Door Wildflowers Vol 1 stamp set, and Darkroom Door Woodgrain texture stamp with different distress oxide ink colours. The sentiment from Stampendous Birthday Splash stamp set was adhered to black card and mounted on foam tape. The panel was lastly adhered to a black card base.

My technique needs improvement for sure but I certainly ended up with quite a few lovely card panels which will need more embellishment for future cards, and such fun!

Thanks for stopping by!