Marble paper

The next challenge in the group was to crunch up a thinner card stock into a ball, (she mentioned that copy paper didn't work very well, and you want your paper to be bigger than the piece you will use for your card) and then open it and crunch into a ball again the other way. Flatten it out, Ink up your paper with Distress oxide ink or other ink that won't dry quickly and place another card stock onto that paper, rub over the paper with your hand to transfer the ink onto your piece of card.  Do this 3 times using different colored inks and moving your paper each time so that the pattern won't be the same.

Your finished results with be a marbling effect.  This is how mine turned out. I will confess that I spritzed it with a bit of water to make the lines stand out they were a bit too thin for my taste.

I think that really helped to make the lines pop a bit.  I stamped my flower on the card and using two of the inks I shaded around the edges.

Distress Oxides - Fossilized Amber, bundled sage and rusty hinge
Inkadinkado - Flower sentiment stamp set

These are pics of the backgrounds.

We were to make a card with the paper that we crunched too.

Distress Oxides - Fossilized Amber, bundled sage and rusty hinge
Spellbinders - A2 distressed edges and deckled rectangle dies
Artistic Outpost - The outpost stamp set, stamped with same inks as above
David Tutera - sentiment

I made another set of backgrounds but haven't had a chance to get them made into cards yet, this was an interesting technique.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop in today, hope you are staying warm, another very cold night and morning today, but they say tomorrow we should get above freezing again!!

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by,

Connie

Gift card holder

This challenge came at just the right time because I have a surprise birthday party to go to and they suggested a lot of different gift cards to give to the birthday man.

We went with the measurements and design you can find HERE.

This is the perfect size to fit a gift card.The girl in my group that had the challenge used a closure to keep it shut but I just put some removable adhesive on the inside to hold it shut, but will be easy to open.  On the flap you fold up from the bottom so that it will hold the card I added some washi tape.  I found this stamp that fit perfectly on the card and colored it with pencils and used mineral spirits to blend.

PSX - F-762 stamp, colored with pencils
Tim Holtz - Rose design tape
Technique Tuesday - Happy Birthday sentiment stamp

These little cards are great for using your smaller stamps and makes the giving of the gift card a bit more special!

We had a very frigid start to our morning but nothing like the people up north of us are having, wishing everyone in the cold areas stay warm today.

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Connie

Curtain Call

I have heard this fold called many things but in my group challenge she called it Curtain call.  The link I looked at that she provided I messed up the first card and cut the drape wrong, but I didn't think it looked to bad if you didn't know how it should look, LOL! So I made it anyway, another thing I did wrong was I used a coloring calendar image and I was supposed to use a stamp, so I had to make another card, this time I decided to use a butterfly all over print but once again cut it wrong and the butterflies would be upside down so I still had to use the green polka dot side of the paper as I used in my first card.

Here is a link to the measurements, I have spent the last 20 minutes trying to find the youtube I found since I am a visual learner and I can not find it.

I used a scrap piece for my background and to stamp the butterfly onto.  I don't know the maker of the butterfly it is a very old stamp and I threw away the packaging.  I think the sentiment is from a cardmaking magazine but there is no name on that either.

Echo park - Find and Dandy paper (green polka dot)
Butterfly and sentiment stamps, unknown
Recollection- Lace
Fashion bead paint - pink

I thought I would share my boo boo card.

 I guess it gave me more room for a bigger sentiment in the opening. I used a Cheerful Journey coloring calendar image and used markers on it.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, Hope your week is off to a good start,

Connie

Embossed Resist

Our stamp group is having a week of challenges and ever since I watched Jennifer McGruire's post HERE, I have been wanting to give it a try since I didn't know you could use Alcohol inks on anything but glossy surfaces, I kind of liked the matte finish it gave to this card.

I first embossed the tree and all the leaves with with embossing powder. I embossed on the smoother side of my watercolor paper for the main image and then embossed the extra leaves that I wanted to cut out and pop up on the rough side of another sheet of water color paper.  I will have to say I liked the outcome on the smoother side so was very glad I did the main images on that side, you really can't tell with the ones that I cut out.

I used 3 inks and a gold mixative, I must not have put my cap on tight enough last time on the mixative and it was dried up, I added some blending solution to it and it seemed to revive it just enough for me to get some out and add it to it, you can see it a little better on the side view.

Next time I would like to try it with some lighter colors and flowers, but I was in need of a masculine card so I went with this. There was a little more color left on the embossing than I liked so I put a little blending solution on a Q tip and went over the embossing lightly to remove some of the color.

Water color paper
Alcohol inks - Meadow, stream and Latte with gold mixative
Papertrey ink - Might Oak stamp w/ white embossing powder
Die Versions - celebrate die cut twice

Our week is starting off rainy and gloomy with very cold temps coming.  I can't really complain after seeing the temperatures that they will be getting north of us.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

Sketch challenge

My cardmaking group starting up their weekly sketch challenge and this week we are doing the Sweet Sunday sketch challenge #268.

I was limited on time so I used some flower stickers for my main image and a sticker for my sentiment.

Miss Elizabeth- pansies glitter sticker
Cardmaking and papercraft magazine papers.
Spellbinders - A2 matting basics A and Curved Rectangles die
SRM - thinking of you sentiment sticker
Gems

Wishing you a fun and creative weekend!
Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and say Hi,

Connie