Warmer Inky Dylusions

Decided to change my colour palette to warmer tones and to try for a cosmic magical background. This background started life like the last two, but I remembered to use my blender tool with the paint and stencils this time!

Lots of splatters of Dylusions white linen ink and some Heidi Swap Gold Spray, doodling with a white paint pen and black ink pen and some distress inking and crayoning to finish the background. 

I topped this card off with a watercoloured little unicorn from The Greeting Farm stamps.

Hope your day has a bit of magic!

Challenges:

Craft Rocket Challenge #40: Animal Kingdom

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Splatter It

Unicorn Challenge #24: Mythical & Magical

Supplies:

Distress Ink
Distress Crayons
Distress Paint
Dylusions Sprays

Heidi Swapp Gold
Primary Elements Powder
Stamps: Lawn Fawn Year Two; The Greeting Farm Magical Friends
Stencils: THMS070; Dylusions Large Arrow Border; Finnabair Alpha, Dots&Stripes
Paint Pen, Black Ink Pen, Graphite Pencil

Week 4 Summer of Creativity

Archival resist technique on glossy paper for Week 4 of the Summer of Creative Chemistry. Having lots of fun with this one and it's my first time using glossy paper. The background is stamped with archival ink and coloured with distress inks. The main image is stamped with Jet Black archival ink and I've used the mini ink blender to stamp distress ink over the blocks for a touch of colour. If you look closely you can even see some faux second generation stamping around the top edge.

Don't look too closely or you'll see my fingerprints, where my heat gun missed a tiny bit of the ink and I promptly put my finger there. Advisory: make sure you fully heat set!

Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Add Some Shimmer
Virginia's View Challenge #22: All About Colours

Supplies

Stamps: Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Childhood Blueprint, Prima Finnabair Honey Comb, Vintage Vanity Notes, Harlequin

Dies & Stencils etc: Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles

Ink: Ranger Archival Jet Black, Forget-Me-Not, Tea Rose, Buttercup, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Abandoned Coral, Fossilized Amber, Mermaid Lagoon, Ground Espresso, Hickory Smoke

Paper: Gloss & black card from stash

Highlights: Stickles, glossy accents

 

 

Hope you had fun and see you again soon.

 

 

Distressed Frog Prince

I love these old patterned papers from Lawn Fawn and had scraps left over from an old project, so here they are with a new lease of life. All they needed was some distress inking around the edges and some faux stitching.

Distress inking the lily pad has created great texture and colour with distress stickles adding to the lily's sparkle and the ink colours the stickles.

Challenges:

CAS(E) this sketch #178

Lawnscaping Challenge #132: Distress Maniacs [distress inks] [Honorable Gnome]
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Use Patterned Papers

Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Critters Ever After, Birthday Tags

Dies & stencils et al: Spellbinders Nestabilities Ovals, Xcut Heart dies, Daisy punches

Ink: Ranger Archival Jet Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Mowed Lawn, Peeled Paint, Peacock Feathers, Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed, Squeezed Lemonade

Paper: White card from stash, Lawn Fawn Bright Side Petite Paper Pack

Highlights: Stickles, googly eyes, Posca white pen

Colouring: Promarkers & Distress inks

Hope you've enjoyed your visit!

Summer of Creative Chemistry Week 3 (ii)

The Summer of Creative Chemistry and Perfect Splatter Distress Technique - oh so much fun! I made two backgrounds at once so no ink or perfect pearls were wasted. Initially I wasn't too sure about them but when I came back to them the next day I was thrilled with them. I love the shimmer.

The background made me think of sky and baby girls, so I pulled out my Lawn Fawn stork and set to stamping and watercolouring. I  raised parts of the images up with foam tape for dimension and used Retrosketches for the layout. 

Challenges:
Lawnscaping Challenge #132: Distress Maniacs [lots of distress products]
Retrosketches #219
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Animal Magic [stork] 
The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #25: 2nd Year Celebration [MMMC #23 Dimension]

Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Plus One

Dies & Stencils etc: Lawn Fawn Tag It You're It, Tim Holtz Rays Stencil

Ink: Ranger Archival Jet Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Abandoned Coral, Fossilized Amber, Mermaid Lagoon, Hickory Smoke, Dusty Concord

Paper: White card from stash

Highlights: Stickles, embossing paste, sequins

Colour: Distress markers & ink

Hope you've had a fun visit and see you again soon.

Week 3 Summer of Creative Chemistry

Week 3 of Summer of Creative Chemistry and time for Perfect Distress! I love this shiny stamping technique. I wanted the distress ink to wick and colour the teddy in, so I didn't dry those bits immediately. Here's a close up of the perfect pearls just after application.

 And a final close up of all that shimmer!

Challenges:

Craft for the Craic June Challenge: Something Masculine

CASology Cue Card: Masculine

Lawnscaping Challenge #132: Distress Maniacs
Summer of Creative Chemistry Week 3: Perfect Pearls & Distress Inks 

Supplies

Stamps: Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Childhood Blueprint, Lawn Fawn Birthday Tags, Sally's ABCs

Dies & Stencils etc: Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles

Ink: Ranger Archival Jet Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Abandoned Coral, Fossilized Amber, Ground Espresso, Hickory Smoke, Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain, Antique Linen

Paper: White & kraft card from stash

Highlights: Perfect Pearls, Posca white pen

Colouring: Distress Markers Picked Raspberry, Frayed Burlap

Hope enjoyed your visit and see you again soon.

Week 2 Summer of Creative Chemistry

Week 2 and stamping with stains. I started out using the marbled stains technique to create the background, layering up the colours until I achieved something I thought would work. This technique has been on my to do list since I first watched the video, but I've just been brave enough to give it a go! Why did I wait?! It's so much fun!

Stage two was stamping with picket fence distress stain and then archival ink.

Stage three distress inking and colouring the piggy bank with distress markers.

Some more stain for a quick pop of colour.

Challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #197: Make Your Mark [Distress markers, white pen, graphite pencil, inks & stains]

Stamping Sensations June Challenge: Feature A Creature  [pig] 

Summer of Creative Chemistry Week 2: Stamping with stains

Virginia's View Challenge #22 Summer Challenge: All About Colour [Layers of background colour stains, ink blending, distress marker colouring/highlighting ]

Supplies

Stamps: Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Childhood Blueprint

Dies & Stencils etc: Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles

Ink: Ranger Archival Jet Black, Tim Holtz Distress Stains Peacock Feathers, Picked Raspberry, Picket Fence, Ripe Persimmon, Distress Ink Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain, Black Soot

Paper: White & black card from stash

Highlights: Stickles, Heidi Swapp Gold, Posca white pen, graphite pencil

Colouring: Distress Markers Picket Fence, Picked Raspberry, Black Soot, Frayed Burlap, Squeezed Lemonade

Hope you had fun and see you again soon.

Week 1 Summer of Creative Chemistry

I decided to take up the Creative Chemistry Challenge this summer. I've used the 2015 colours for this blended spritz and flick background.  In order to let the background take centre stage, I've kept it very CAS with some simple stamping and negative diecutting. 

This anniversary card has a masculine recipient in mind, but I'd love to get it too! Adding the darker distress ink around the panel intensify the colours and highlight the stitched border.

Challenges:

CAS Mix Up June Challenge [Stamping + Diecuts + Sponging]
CASology Cue Card: CAS

Craft for the Craic: Something Masculine

Summer of Creative Chemistry Challenge 1 [5 colours of distress ink]

Supplies

Stamps: Paper Smooches Good Gab

Dies & Stencils etc: Lawn Fawn Cole's ABCs, Stitched Rectangles

Ink: Ranger Archival Jet Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Cracked Pistachio, Blueprint Sketch, Mermaid Lagoon, Twisted Citron, Ground Espresso

Paper: White card from stash

Highlights: Stickles

Hope you had a fun visit and see you again soon.

Happy Birthday Little Mermaid

Dimension is the word this week so I've pulled out my pop dots and dies! I've used lots of layers, there are seven different heights on this card from card base to gem and a glitter paste that is very dimensional giving lots of sparkly texture.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge is celebrating a birthday this month and so are we. Birthday season has officially started with the old new year!

I've distressed both backgrounds with Cracked Pistachio, Salty Ocean and Chipped Sapphire. I love this mix of colours especially with a misting of iridescent Glimmer mist. The upper background and happy diecut was created with the smooching technique and the lower one using emboss resist with a distress inking tool. I found the glitter paste while browsing my local-ish online store and it jumped into my cart & arrived the next day- I'm so glad. I love all the glittery dimension it gives.

Challenges:

Lawnscaping Challenge #103: Dimension

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Happy Birthday

Virginia's View Challenge #14: Layers and Dimensions

Supplies

Stamps: EK Success Disney Collection, Hero Arts Magical Background
Dies & Stencils etc: Lawn Fawn Cole's ABCs, Quinn's 123s, Simon Says Stamp Happy die, Corner rounder

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Distress Ink Cracked Pistachio, Salty Ocean, Chipped Sapphire

Paper: White & watercolour card from stash

Highlights:glimmer mist, wink of stella, Simon Says Stamp blue gems, white embossing powder, stickles, label maker, Bo Bunny Double Dot Silver & Gold Glitter paste.

Colouring: Promarkers & Flexmarkers & red colouring pencil

Hope you enjoyed your visit and see you again soon.

WMS Pajama Party Wrap Up Warm

I love this textured cardstock, it always puts me in mind of the linens I used to embroider in my teens. I've used the tree tops from Teeny Trees as my embroidery pattern, I think it looks like lots of french knots. After heat embossing and distress inking I used my envelope maker to create this box. The perfect wrapping for a special gift.

Challenges:

Waltzingmouse Stamps November Pajama Party: Wrap It Up Warm

Supplies

Stamps: Waltzingmouse Stamps Teeny Trees
Dies & Stencils etc: Envelope Punch Board

Ink: Versamark, Tim Holtz Distress Inks Salty Ocean, Peacock Feathers, Chipped Sapphire, Pumice Stone

Paper: White textured card from stash

Hightlights: clear embossing powder, ribbon

See you soon for Part 3!
If you missed the first part here is the link to my first Pajama Party entry:

1. WMS Scandi Tags

Distressing Birthday Colours

Lawnscaping are exhibiting distress mania for their latest challenge and I had to join in! I've used lots of distress inks to create a cosmic background and diecut the birthday boy's name from it. The letters are stacked on lots of white diecut letters and some stars & stickles finish it off. I forgot to photograph the card before I left the house, so I've used the car as a makeshift studio and used some tips about blurring the background I read on Chelle's Creations and pinned onto my Digital Tutorials Board.

Iron Craft Season 2 is in full swing and I've been enjoying the interviews so thought I should take up the challenge. I've used Inspiration 3: Difficult Colours from Sarah. Purple came out top of the list followed by green. Peacock Feathers may not be a kelly green and it is one of my favourite colours, so I hope it still counts. When I started to think of purple I kept seeing all the constellation photos tweeted by NASA and want to recreate some sort of nebulous space for  my first birthday star (also known as my nephew!)

Allsorts Challenge Blog is celebrating their 5th birthday with a Happy Birthday Challenge! Laurence is only one, so we'll have to multiply the birthday wishes for Allsorts!

Challenges:
Allsorts Challenge Blog Wk #260: Happy Birthday
Iron Craft Challenge Week
Lawnscaping Challenges #82: Distress Mania

Supplies  
Stamps: Lawn Fawn Quinn's 123s, Paper Smooches Spectrum
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink Chipped Sapphire, Picked Raspberry, Peacock Feathers, Seedless Preserve, Encore Silver,  Memento Tuxedo Black
Dies/Embossing: Cole's ABCs Lawn Cuts, Spellbinders Stars
Paper: White & silver  card from stash 
Highlights: Stickles, Wink of Stella

Hope you enjoyed your visit and catch you next time I get some crafting time!