Glitzy challenge

The next challenge we had was to add some glitz to our cards with stencils and glitter, we could use any medium we wanted through a stencil to add our glitter too.  On this first one I used Goldens molding paste along with some yellow glitter, thought it would look pretty against this blue paper.

Going through my sentiments I found this one and thought it would be perfect, I mounted it onto some silver foil and since I had a lot of shimmer already I used a butterfly plain to go with it.

You can see a bit more of the shimmer in this close up.

Fun Stampers Journey - Starburst lines stencil, with Golden Molding paste and Bananan Art Glitter
Spellbinders - Noble Rectangle
Sentiment from cardmaking and papercrafts magazine
Sizzix - Adhesive foil sheets
Tim Holtz - Botanical layers (butterfly)

We were asked to do a couple and when looking at the blue cardstock I had out I thought that would make a pretty sky background but didn't have any good stencil so I made my own by cutting out a background die I had out of thick card stock.  One of the suggestions to use through the stencil was PVA glue, I started looking through my glues and found one had dried up, more room in my drawer now :)  but my Fast Grab Tacky glue was still good, so that is what I used here, adding some cool diamond glitter to it.

I ended up turning it from a night scene to a winter scene card.

Memory Box - Starry night Background die, with Aleene's Fast Grab tacky glue and Elizabeth craft designs, cool diamond glitter
Cardmaking & paper craft - Christmas capers stamp, colored wmarkers
Zig 2 way glue pen to add glitter to my stamped image

yes I have glitter everywhere but it is fun to get it out and use it every now and then.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend and thanks again for all your prayers and well wishes for my eye.

Connie

Vintage

I made a card using the other background from yesterday's post. Since Tim's stencils don't cover the whole A2 card I had to figure out what to do with the other side, I went with adding a border die and some ribbon, it needed some extra color I thought and used a tea bag for the doily under my flower ephemera.   I wasn't sure about the background until I finally made it into a card and now I like it :)

Tim Holtz - Gothic Stencil and Botanical layers ephemera(Rose)
Spellbinders - Floral Doily Motifs die cut from used tea bag
Die'sire - Beautiful borders die
Our Daily Bread design - Mini tag sentiment
Martha Stewart - tag punch
Offray - ribbon

I went to see the eye doctor yesterday, he said the scratch on my cornea is healing well but the ones (yes I have multiple) in the white of my eye are not healing, so he took out the contact to see how it felt and I had the stabbing feeling once again, so he went and got another contact and put it in my eye and we are to wait another week and see if it heals, I was too afraid to ask what if it doesn't.  We are finally seeing the sun today after so many gloomy days but the sun or any bright light is still bothering to my eye, so that's a bummer.  I appreciate your prayers.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by,

Connie

Adding depth

I was actually doing better last night so I have started some of the challenges from my stamp group.  I wasn't very clear on my post, my sister called and let me know, I had scratched not only the cornea of my eye but also into the white area, forgot what he called it, so bad that he wasn't sure if the contact would cover it all, but it did enough to take the pain away, I am still very light sensitive but doing much better.  Thank  you all for your well wishes and prayers I am so thankful for them all, you are all so sweet.  My hubby has turned down the background of my computer so that I can work on it and so I am hoping that my pictures will look ok on your computer :)
You can find Beth's challenge HERE on her blog.  

Hubby said that these stencils I chose to use weren't the best for this technique but he looked through all I have and said yeah you don't have any that would really show this technique well, so I just went with what I had :)

The color marker I came up with to give depth to the rays was almost a match but the only other color I had was the orange and I didn't like that at all. You can see a touch of it at the bottom of the rays, I tried covering it up with the sentiment.

Here is a close up of the rays with the marker adding depth.

Tim Holtz - rays stencil, w/ Distress inks, Carved pumpkin and fossilized amber
Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine sentiment
Sparkle confetti

Here are the two together after adding using markers and on the brown one I used colored pencil on the light parts as I didn't have a marker that color and I want to make a vintage card out of that one.

Thanks for stopping by,

Connie

Celebrate

Wow I had quite the weekend, well it started last week like I felt I had something in my eye, which happens often so I didn't think much about it but while in the shower on Saturday I itched my eye and that was the wrong thing to do because the pain was unbearable, finally went to urgent care, they washed it out, numbed me up and sent me to get some antibiotic drops.  By Sunday it was all swollen on that side of my face and blood shot red.  I can't even go into what happened on Monday trying to get an appointment with my eye doctor but leave it to say yesterday afternoon he put a contact in with some medicine and said that should lesson the pain and it has done that it is bearable now but hard to look at screens for too long, even turning down the light and I also put a patch on my eye which puts strain on my other eye, just to say I feel like a big mess.  So I will be visiting your blogs a little at a time so it may take me some time to catch up with everyone.

Thought I would share a quick card.

Avery Elle - Critter Crew, colored w/markers
K&co. - Basics Radiant paper pad
Martha Stewart - Border punch
Hero Arts - It's your day sentiment
Spellbinders - Labels trio die
Confetti from other dies

Thanks so much for stopping by today,

Connie

Embossed Vellum

My stamp group is having a week of challenges and it starts today, I am sharing the challenge I had for everyone to try and that is a dry emboss technique on vellum by using stamps as your pattern.
I found the idea on this blog HERE.

You pick a stamp that doesn't have to much detail, I think that would be a bit hard to trace.  You stamp your stamp using versamark ink, then you go over those lines with your stylus using a mat or mouse pad, I used a piece of craft foam I had.  Going over it once again helps bring the lines out better.  I used the same stamp to stamp my flower onto pink cardstock.  I put some adhesive behind the flower and sentiment but also used brads in the corners to attach my vellum to my dark piece of pink card stock behind the vellum. Topped it off with pearls.

Inkadinkado - Nature stamp set
Vellum
Versamark ink to stamp onto vellum
Dark pink card stock under vellum
Flower stamped again onto pink card stock, using distress oxide candied apple 
Sentiment from cardmaking and papercraft magazine
Brads 
Forever in time - pearls

Let me know if you give it a try, would love to see what you come up with!

Have a wonderful and creative weekend!

Connie