Faux Cyanotype Christmas

Hi everyone.  I made a Faux Cyanotype card using a Christmas image this time.  I just love this technique and you can use it for any occasion.  I followed this video by Understand Blue.

I placed a mask over my card front and lightly sponged the center rectangle in Blueprint Sketch Distress Ink.  I then stamped the Lavinia Christmas Night image several times overtop with the same ink to get lots of contrast.  I added a skinny silver metallic frame and stamped  the sentiment from a long retired stamp set to finish the card.

Sending this card to:

Rudolph Days May Challenge

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Stamps:  Christmas Night (Lavinia); Snowglobe Sayings (My Favorite Things)

Paper:   White card stock (Neenah 110 lb.);  Silver Metallic cardstock (SU!)
Ink:   Blueprint Sketch Distress Ink (Tim Holtz)
Accessories:   Mask, Thin Frames Rectangle die (Simon Says Stamp)

Challenges:

Rudolph Days May Challenge

Christmas Ornament

Hi everyone.  Sharing a quick and easy card using my stash of alcohol ink backgrounds.  I found this pretty background and diecut it with Ornament & Shadows dies (Gina Marie).  I used satin silver metallic paper (SU!) for the top layer.  Because the piece is quite small, you don't really get to see how pretty the red and silver alcohol inked paper is.  

I cut an oval from my card front and added an embossed panel (Geometric Embossing Folder - Penny Black) in the background.  I added a silver cord to the ornament and glued it between the card base and popped up front card panel.  A simple setiment (Banner Sentiments - Penny Black) is stamped in red ink to finish this CAS Christmas card.

Sending this card to the following challenges:

Darnell's IDEAS Calendar - Week 3 - Embossing

SCS Christmas Card Challenge - CCC26MAY

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Stamps:  Banner Sentiments (Penny Black)

Paper:   White card stock (Neenah 110 lb.); Mixed Media (Strathmore 140 lb.); Silver Satin Metallic Paper (SU!); Yupo
Ink:  Candied Apple DOX Inks (Tim Holtz); Alcohol inks
Accessories:   Ornaments & Shadows dies - Gina Marie Designs, Geometric Embossing Folder (Penny Black), Silver Metallic cording, Oval die (Temu)

Challenges:

Darnell's IDEAS Challenge - Week 3

SCS Christmas Card Challenge - CCC26MAY

Watercoloured Tree for Jer

Hi everyone.  I experimented with watercolouring following a video link on the Wednesday Watercolor Challenge from a few weeks ago on Splitcoast Stampers.

I do not know how to draw, but I thought with all the cards I've made over the past 25 years+ using stamps and ink, that I could watercolour.  It's a lot different watercolouring your own image. :)  The video relied on a fan brush, which I couldn't get to work for me.  But the video did help me create my own way of watercolouring this tree. :)  In the end, I used distress re-inkers, along with a round brush and flat brush on cold press watercolour paper.

I'm hoping with lots of practice, I will improve.  I was happy with my first tree, so made it into a card for Jeremy's birthday. :)

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Sending this card to the following challenges:

SCS Watercolor Wednesday WCW308 - 60 second tree (video link - short)

SCS CAS Card Challenge CAS898 - Anything that Grows

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Stamps:  Happy Birthday stamp (Cavallini & Co.)

Paper:   Cold Press Watercolour paper (Arches 140 lb.)
Ink:   Distress Re-inkers:  Gathered Twigs, Mowed Lawn, Rustic Wilderness (Tim Holtz)
Accessories:   Watercolour Brushes

Challenges:

SCS Watercolor Wednesday WCW308 - 60 second tree (video link - short)

SCS CAS Card Challenge CAS898 - Anything that Grows

New Home

Hi everyone.  My son's friends are moving into their first place.  It's an exciting time. :)  He asked me to make a custom card.

I started with a fun die I bought quite a while ago (Rickety House - Memory Box).  I bought because I saw these wonderful cards made by my friend Leslie.  Linking shows that I saw Leslie's cards in Oct. 2022!  Yikes ...I didn't realize I had been sitting on this die for so long. 

Anyways, it was released as a Halloween die, but it made an adorable house (customized in the new owner's colours) for a "Congratulations on your new home" card.  I add sponging on all die pieces, and also the background.  And I stamped with some leafy branches behind the house.  It's all contained behind a sweet rectangle die-cut aperture with double stitched borders.  The sentiment is from an very old stamp set (A Little Sentimental - Clearly Besotted - retired). 

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Sending this card to the following challenges:

Darnell's IDEAS Calendar - Week 2 - Dies - I used die-cuts for the house and the frame.

NBUS Challenge #86 - First time using this die. :)

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Excited to announce the re-start of the CAS Christmas Challenge!!

First challenge starts on June 1st.  Hope you'll join us!

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Stamps:  A Little Sentimental (Clearly Besotted); leaf stamp (Kittie Kits - Master #1)

Paper:   White card stock (Neenah 110 lb.); Mixed Media (Strathmore 140 lb.); Night of Navy, Sahara Sand (both SU!)

Ink:   Distress Inks:  Chipped Sapphire, Pumice Stone, Squeezed Lemonade, Mowed Lawn, Mustard Seed, Peacock Feathers (Tim Holtz)

Accessories:   Rectangle Stitched small frame (AliExpress); Rickety House die (Memory Box), sponges

Challenges:

Darnell's IDEAS Calendar - Week 2 - Dies

NBUS Challenge #86