Thinking Pink Ink & More

I was on a scraps binge again... I dug through my scraps and came up with a pile of pink scraps and this weeks challenge over at the Hero Arts Blog is monochromatic cards. http://heroarts.com/blogs/club/2009/07/20/monochromatic-monday/

This was my first card using some of my scraps and creating some new scraps...

and here was my second card using up some other pink scraps I had laying out..

The card opens up under the heart and the ivory circle is for the sentiment and signing.

Products:

• Fiskars Corner Punch
• Cuttlebug Embossing Folder - Textile
• Hero Arts - Old Writing
• Hero Arts - Antique Brocade
• Hero Arts - Heart Winged Butterfly
• Hero Arts - Anytime Messages
• Hero Arts - Elegant Flower
• Memento Rose Bud
• Light Pink Embossing Powder
• Versamark Watermark Ink
• StaZon Fuschia
• QuicKutz - Labels
• Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Folder
• Blue Moon Beads - Lost & Found Charms (Cameo & Heart Charm)

Thanks for stopping by..

Suzz

Another One Layer Card...

Yeah! I was selected for an Honorable Mention in last weeks challenge for window cards! It is always an honor to be selected as there are so many fantastic artists submitting to each challenge.

Here is another one layer card for the Hero Arts Challenge... It is really fun to sit and think about how to recreate a design with masking instead of paper layers. Althought I really do miss the actual physical layers you would find on the card from a texture perspective.

I used a circle and scalloped circle punch to mask for the effect seen above. I also cut along the edges of the scallop using an exacto knife to pull the ribbon under.

The bottom border is a stamp from hero arts which I cut around and I sponged on the inside with a brown ink to match the flowers.

Products:

• Hero Arts - Clear Design - Scallop Borders
• Cornish Heritage Farms - Grid Paper
• Kaisers - Pearls
• Adirondack Lights - Lemonade
• Versafine - Vintage Sepia
• Ranger Distress Inks - Shabby Shutters
• Memento - Rich Cocoa, Rose Bud
• Hero Arts - Petite Birthday
• Hero Arts - Card Art - Thinking of You
• Hero Arts - Screen Shadow
• Blue Moon Charms
• Ribbon Unknown

Thanks for stopping by... Oh and that snow almost all melted away.. Just the piles from the snow plow are left. Spring is coming.. Yeah! We can see the tulip leaves peaking out of the ground determined to come even after sitting under another 7 inches of snow for a few days!

Suzz

Wild Flowers (AKA Weeds)

I just recently used a set of stamps from Chapel Road Artstamps. They inspired me to make my new banner and another card. I forgot I had purchased 2 sets when I went to my LSS along time ago. They are called Thistle Etc (B) and Teasel Etc (B).

I started with a background made from smearing Ranger Distress inks on acetate. (Weathered Wood and Tea Dye) I spritzed water on the ink until it was very runny and then I put a piece of white cardstock on top of the wet ink.

Stamp the words using the weathered wood and stamped the other images randomly on the distress ink background.

Products:

• Versafine - Olympia Green, Vintage Sepia
• Ranger Distress Ink - Weathered Wood, Tea Dye
• JoAnn Fabric - Lace Trim
• Blue Moon Lost Charms - Butterflies (These are all clearanced at Michael's)
• Buttons - unknown
• Raffia - (After Christmas sale of raffia and kraft wrapping paper)
• Chapel Road Artstamps - Thistle Etc (B), Teasel Etc (B)

Thanks for stopping by....

Suzz

Joy to You

This is my final entry in the colors challenge for HA weekly challenge. The colors were Magenta, Paprika, Brown, Green, Taupe. I liked this set of colors as I thought they were more earthy tones.




Recipe:

1. Take a glossy piece of cardstock. Drip 3 drops of Lettuce Alcohol Ink on the felt applicator and add 3 drops of blending solution. Drag the felt applicator across the 8 1/2 x 11" glossy cardstock in a straight line. Repeat all the way across the sheet of cardstock. Change the felt and do the same with the caramel color. The green stripes will have a darker area where you have overlapped. start your caramel rows in the lightest part of the green.


2. I used a new stamp from Hero Arts which has a chicken wire look to it. I wanted to try a new technique I read about where you take the color off by using the blending solution on stamps. I did that but didn't think I got enough of an image. So I reversed it and applied rust mixed with blending solution on the rubber stamp and stamped it on the script piece of background on the card. It was interesting but a very muted effect. After my background dried I stamped the french script using my StazOn brown ink.


3. The sentiment was stamped on the alcohol ink background using StazOn Green ink.


4. Stamp the tree on white cardstock. Sponge the edges with a tan ink. Sponge orange and brown around the edges.
5. Cut and mount all the pieces.
   

Products:

• Hero Arts - Slanted Tree
• Hero Arts - Old French Writing
• Hero Arts - Three Holiday Messages
• Hero Arts - Screen Shadow
• Hero Arts - Shadow Ink - Soft Sand
• Ranger Alcohol Inks & Blending Solutions - Lettuce, Caramel, Rust
• StazOn Solvent Ink - Timber Brown, Olive Green
• Blue Moon - Lost & Found Charms
• EK Success - Adornments - Red
• Martha Stewart Border Punch - Doily Lace
• Adirondack - Sunshine Orange
• Memento - Rich Cocoa
• Ranger Distress Ink - Aged Mahogany
• Gems - Unknown

Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz

Wax Paper Embossing

For the Resist This! challenge on SOF... I took some regular wax paper that you use in the kitchen to do a resist on glossy paper. I took the wax paper on some of the pieces and ran them through the Cuttlebug embossing folder. After I finished using the embossed wax paper for the resist I thought the embossed wax paper looked like vellum.

I decided to use two of the embossed wax paper sheets. I colored on the reverse side in the embossed surface on one. On the other I tried to brush my versamark ink pad on the raised surface and heat emboss.

I am sharing a card I made from the heat emboss technique.


The recipe on this was so simple. I did cuttlebug emboss the wax paper and the brown carstock it is mounted on. I heat embossed with enchanted gold embossing powder after I smeared versamark on the ridges. I also heat embossed my butterfly to match.

Products:

• Verses - Sentiment
• Gems - K and CO
• Cuttlebug Embossing Folder Textured Textile
• Blue Moon - Lost Charms
• Ribbon - Michael's

TFL!