Teen Birthday

I needed a teen birthday card for my great nephew and I had bought these star dies awhile back and have never used them, they come in a stack of them and they cut all at one time, so I took every other one and put one inside the other and added them with this birthday stamp.

Stampabilities -- Birthday subway art stamp, colored w/markers
Crate paper-- Party day paper
DCWV -- Mat stack earth prints paper
Spellbinders -- Lg. Deckled Rectangles dies
Poppystamps -- super stars dies

We had thunderstorms yesterday morning, it is so weird to hear thunder in the winter time, it is just crazy weather, yesterday 70's today in the 30's, quite the roller coaster.

Hope your week is going well, thanks so much for taking the time to drop by and letting me know you did!

Connie

Stamp with Dies

I love finding new ways to use my dies and I love this idea of changing our dies into stamps, using those foam sheets we find at our craft stores.

I used the Memory Box, Bella Bouquet die today to use for my stamp, and I ended up with 3 cards. On this first card I also used the Poppystamps Colonnade Corner, they don't seem to have this particular die in right now but they did have some other corner dies in the Poppystamps new release section. Memory Box - Country stitches dies where also used on this card and my second card.

First I cut the bouquet from fun foam.

My tip for you is to just run it through your machine one pass.  I tend to cut my dies by running it through and then back again but I noticed that when I do this the foam tends to shift and you don't get a good cut, so just run it through one way and it will cut fine the first try.

As you can hopefully see in this photo I added double stick tape to the back of my foam cut die and adhered that to my misty. You can use what ever you normally use for your stamping of clear stamps.

This next photo shows the ink applied to the foam, here is where I was happy to have my MISTI tool because it took a few stampings to get a good coverage but I also used Memento dye ink, I am thinking if you try a pigment ink it may be a bit juicier and you may be able to get good coverage in one stamp, I did not try any other inks.

Now after stamping I sprayed my foam stamp with water and got a great idea to try and stamp again onto watercolor paper this time to see what kind of watercolor look I could get, and this is what I ended up with.

This is the card I made with the watercolor panel.

Now as you see after stamping the watercolor panel there was still a touch of color onto the foam stamp, and it ended up being almost a soft purple and I thought wow I could make another card out of the foam stamp and that is when I came up with my last card. I also used the Memory Box, Fresh foliage die and the Poppystamps, Lovely gift bow die, whidh I love how it gives you a bow but not all the thickness that a real bow gives.

Here are pictures of the dies I used.

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Stamp and Stencil

The next challenge one of the ladies in my group had was to Stamp a background stamp and then stencil over in another color and I went with this vine leaf stamp (sorry I don't have the name) and a crackle stencil in gray over it. This was going to my brother in law so I was going for a more masculine feel to it.

Stampin up -- Leaf background stamp from 2000, w/ bundled sage and mowed lawn distress inks
Prima -- Crackle stencil, w/ Hickory smoke distress ink and gray chalk
K&co. - Flora and Fauna Die cut cardstock
Purple Daisy Designs -- Dragonfly stamp
EK Success -- dragonfly punch
Spectrum Sparkle pen -- Olive Jade and clear on dragonfly

I am really enjoying those sparkle pens to add a bit of color and sparkle at the same time and the clear pen is nice with them.

On Monday I will be sharing a Dies R us post and it will also be the challenge I had for the ladies in our group to try, so I hope you will stop by then and see what I came up with for a Challenge and maybe you would like to try it too :)

Have a wonderful weekend!

Connie

Color Challenge

The stamp group I am in just had a week of challenges and this first one was to make a card using only Black white and yellow colors.

I embossed the background and inked it with Scattered Straw distress ink, I embossed the stamp with black embossing powder.  Added the butterfly with some enamel accents in black and a few gems were scattered.

Paper Studio -- Honeycomb embossing folder
Our Daily Bread designs -- Sisters stamp embossed w/black embossing power and Mini tag sentiment stamp
Spellbinder -- Classic Oval and Big Scalloped ovals sm
Kaiser -- Yellow Rhinestones gems
Enamel accents -- black
Martha Stewart -- butterfly  and tag punches
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Ribbon

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today, I appreciate you letting me know when you do, love hearing from you,

Connie

Sparkle markers

The last time I shared my new sparkle markers I got for Christmas I used them to color a full background, this time I used them to color these flowers, hopefully you can see the shimmer. I first colored the areas I wanted darker with the chosen color marker and then I took the clear sparkle pen to do the lighter shading and I think it worked pretty good.

The background of the flowers were done by sponging distress ink with my homemade cloud stencil and then stamped the stems, cut out each of the flowers by hand and popped them up with foam tape.

Autumn Leaves -- Flower stamps
Spellbinders -- Labels 20 die
Echo park -- Fine and Dandy paper
Spectrum Sparkle markers -- Tea cup, Macroon and Peony
Recollections - gems

We had a great time of crafting, well a lot of talking Monday evening and everyone is looking forward to getting together once a month.  It's good to have some time together like that and see what everyone is working on.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today!!

Connie