hello

 hello stampers!

I have been inspired lately by the cas cards of Shayne Eddie and Chris Stokes and have been trying out some of their techniques on my cards recently. This weeks cas colours and sketches challenge #469 provided the perfect opportunity to practise some more.

I began by die cutting a square from a panel I had from a previous project where I used the leftover ink on the stencil, sprayed it and smooshed it onto a card. This gives such wonderful, soft forms and gentle colours. The seahorse was stamped in my Misti 3 times - onto scrap card, onto the inked square and onto the card panel. The scrap card was die cut with the coral shape.

The edges of the square were inked then it was adhered in place over the seahorse, the die cut was popped up on thin foam squares to allow the shape to sit up over the twine, with the other die cut tucked under the twine. The sentiment was stamped in a coordinating colour and the panel was finished with a few droplets.

I do love this Chris Stokes eclipse technique where the die cut is stamped and laid in place - it gives such interest and dimension!

Thanks so much for spending some time with me today! 

• stencil: paper rose small drops
• stamps: darkroom door under the sea, altenew ornamental bliss
• dies: mft flower silhouettes, hero arts infinity squares
• inks: tumbled glass, blueprint sketch, shaded lilac distress oxides

thanks

 hello stampers!

It's been a while since I played along with freshly made sketches so thought I would join in this week with challenge #534 where the awesome Cecile has a sketch for inspiration.

I began by die cutting the feather and then used the die cut negative as a stencil to ink blend the 3 colours. Then the die cut feather was adhered and the sentiment die cut 3 times, layered up and adhered on top. 

I think these are my new favourite colours!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

• inks: salvaged patina, pumice stone, stormy sky distress oxides
• dies: paper rose feather trio, altenew fancy thanks

hello

 hello crafty stampers!

I'm playing along with the talented team at cas colours and sketches #468 colour challenge.

I was inspired by a die cut overlay technique shown recently by Chris Stokes and thought I'd try it. The technique involves multiple copies of layered stamping then die cutting select parts for an overlay effect. 

The die cut butterfly is popped up on teeny tiny foam bits. The die cut hearts are adhered to the card for a more subtle effect.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

• stamps: altenew beautiful day, altenew ornamental bliss (sentiment)
• inks: tea dye, abandoned coral, vintage photo distress oxides
• dies: paper rose amaya butterfly, mft cool day

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

hugs

 hello lovely stampers!

The talented team at the card concept have a new inspiration pic to use for their latest challenge and I couldn't resist joining in.

I wanted to do a cas card for this one - life is a little busy atm and all those glorious flowers in the pic, while stunning, kept sending me off on tangents with a million ideas! So I went with a very simple layout. I was inspired by the window, the soft blue and bright green colours, and the beautiful fluffy Queen Anne's Lace flowers.

I began by white heat embossing the flowers using SU Queen Anne's Lace stamp set. Then the window was stencilled with distress oxide using Scrapmatts windows stencil. The stems of the flowers were then stamped. I decided the flowers needed more oomph so I white heat embossed them again, slightly offset to make them look bigger. 

The sentiment from Paper Rose Hugs Fine Script die set was die cut 3 times, once from ink blended card, stacked then adhered to the card.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!