Shadow stamping

The next challenge is the one that I had us do. When I saw this Video at Papertrey ink I thought that was so pretty, now I usually try to use pattern paper in my cards since I have so much of it, but every now and then it is nice to do our own backgrounds too :)

I like the look of tone on tone backgrounds, so I used green ink on green card stock, this card stock has a little bit of texture to it so I was happy to have my Misti stamping tool so that I could line them up and stamp a few times to get a nice solid stamp.

This set of butterfly stamps were in a cardmaking magazine I believe, I can't remember if I found it at the yard sale at my stamp store or in a magazine, but I love all the different sizes that were in this set, think it worked great for this background.

Butterfly stamps - cardmaking magazine
Hot off the press - Floral Greetings stamp set for sentiment and flower, colored w/markers
Spellbinders - Mosaic Vine die
Me & my big ideas - gems

We had out last day of temperatures in the 50's yesterday, we are heading in the 40's for the next 7 days with lows below freezing, oh my.  He did say that even though we are below normal now we may be above normal for Thanksgiving which will be nice :)

Hope all is good where you are, thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today and say Hi,

Connie

Crayon Scribbling

The next challenge was to scribble crayon onto white cardstock in either circles or straight lines, leaving plenty of white space, then go over the whole background with ink, take a paper towel and rub the whole background and the ink will lift off of the crayon since the crayon acts as a resist.

I tried circles at first didn't like that at all, then I decided to do straight lines but do them like a basket weave look, I used yellow, orange and a reddish brown crayons, then went over that with dark brown ink.

The paper had a glossy feel to it after it was done, since the background was so dark I went with this stamped image that had a dark background to it, but colored it with pencils to lighten the card up a bit. I will have to say I wasn't really thrilled with my results on this one, showed it to my hubby and he thought it was so cool, I guess you never know, LOL!

The top pick is how the coloring is in real life, this side view had a bit of glare on it, but thought you could see the stamp better.

Inky Antics - Pumpkin Scenes stamp, colored w/ pencils
Scribble background made with orange, yellow and red brown crayons, then inked over with chocolate ink
Mama Elephant - Blessed sentiment stamp set
Pilot gold marker around sentiment
Spectrum noir sparkle marker- sunshine yellow on lantern

When was the last time you played with crayons?  Luckily I still had ones left over from when my daughter was in grade school :)

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

Connie

White pencil coloring

The next challenge in the group was to try an embossing technique we hadn't done before and she had a list to chose from, I went with this one to color an embossed image with white pencil on dark cardstock. First you stamp your images with white ink, color the image in with white pencil and then emboss with gold embossing powder when done, let's just say that lining the stamps back up afterwards didn't come out perfect. It would be so much easier to use one background stamp or many different stamps that you apply to a stamp positioner that you can restamp with your versamark ink when done coloring then everything would be lined up correctly, but you know I just had to do it the hard way.... I hope that doesn't all sound too confusing, anyway on to my results.

I also added an embossed sentiment and I had some left over paper that I had applied mega flakes to so I punched out a butterfly to add to it.

It was so hard to get a good picture, the dark brown cardstock had a shine to it no matter how I would take the picture. I am not thrilled with my coloring, I was trying to get the look of texture in the petals didn't want it to be solid white, I am sure you ladies that really know how to color could do a much better job and make a beautiful card with this technique :)

Hampton Art - SCO 747 stamp set
Hero Arts - It's your day sentiment stamp
Martha Stewart - Butterfly punch
Sequins

Today is not only Election day and need to get out to vote but it is also a day it is not raining and is going to be in the 50's so we are going to get out in the yard and get all the last minute stuff done before the 40's come in a couple days, that is the high's for the 10 day forecast, brrrr.

Thanks so much for stopping by, have a great day!

Connie

Dangle

Last week my stamp group had our Fall challenges week.  This was a fun card to make, although I had a hard time finding something to dangle that was a stamp and die combo, the other girls stamped and then cut out with circle dies, of course I didn't think of that so that would be a good idea :)

I used papers and stamps from Heartfelt creation. I like how this set can be for guys or girls, this one is going to my hubby's sister.

Can you see that tiny mouse or chipmunk on the tree stump, too cute.

On the inside you were to dangle 3 objects, I picked the butterflies in the set.

I used a border punch to hand them from, that paper is from Tim Holtz shabby paper.

Heartfelt Creations - Woodsy Wonderland and Woodsy Treescape papers, stamps and dies, colored w/markers
Hot off the press - Life happens greetings stamp
Martha Stewart - Swirling lace border punch

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today, hope you have a wonderful week ahead!

Connie

Sent with a prayer

My girlfriend lost her mother a few days ago, I was heading over to her house and wanted to take a card with me so I reached for a Sticker image so that I could get the card done quickly. The tag is also a sticker, I stamped a sentiment onto it.  To make the doily look a little more antique I added a little bit of distress ink.

Penny Black - sticker
K&co. tag sticker
Webster pages - Petite papers
Provocraft scisosors to cut frame around sticker
Our Daily Bread design - Mini tag sentiment stamp
Doily w/distress ink
Sequins

Here are the last of the pictures from our trip, we came home through Wisconsin and the Northern half was just as pretty as Michigan.

We took all back roads on our trip, very little highway driving, so we went through a lot of small towns, when we hit this one the sun came out and you could actually see some blue skies!

But mostly there were a lot of farms :)

Hope you are enjoying a nice creative weekend,
Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and say Hi :)

Connie