Washi Tape Background

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I'm stopping by with a just for fun card I made last weekend! It's for a2zScrapbooking's Monthly Challenge! The challenge is Anything Goes and you have to use a Hero Art product. This challenge is perfect because I've had some new HA stamps waiting to be used!

I started with Enjoy the Journey stamp set and stamped the bottle, then started stamping my scene with the ship and different elements in the set all inside the bottle. Off to the side, I stamped the cork and the Oh Ship! word bubble.

With my Spectrum Noir Illustrator Markers I colored the images, I used: AB1, AB3, CR11, EB1, EB2, EB4, EB7, GT1, IG2, MB1, MB2, and Blender. I used IG 2 to shade the sails and the blender to lighten it up a bit. I also used a light blue Spectrum Noir ColourBlend pencil for the back ground. It's super light, I just wanted a hint of color in the sky, but the photo light washed it out!

Next, I fussy cut out the bottle, sentiment, and cork. I added sentiment bubble and cork to the bottle with foam tape.

Then on some tourquoise-y colored card stock, I added a few rows of different Washi Tape, very easy but lots of impact. I picked up this Washi Tape at Micheals it's a cool mermaid theme set! Next, I added the bottle to the card with foam tape and last stamped the I Forgot Your Birthday below the bottle.

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Dana

Supplies
Stamps: Hero Arts - Enjoy The Journey
Washi Tape: Recollections - Enchanting
Spectrum Noir Illustrator Markers
Spectrum Noir ColourBlend Pencils: Denim Blue

Coffee Loving Cardmakers - Texture

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This is my second post today, click here for my Art Impressions post! I'm also on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog today with some Texture ideas for your cards! I hope you'll stop by, here is a little sneak for you!!

Dana

Art Impressions Challenge #213 - I'll Text You

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There's still a week left to play along with Art Impression Challenge #213. The challenge is called I'll Text You and the challenge is to use text only!!

For my card, I kept it some one simple!! It definitely helped that I had a MISTI!! So much that I had enough sentiments to make two cards!!

So I pulled a few colored card stock from my scrap bin and then pulled a ton of AI birthday stamp sets!! I can't find my list of sets used, but really just go to your AI stash and use as many as you can for this challenge!!

I stamped the sentiments on the scraps with watermark ink and then embossed them in white. The MISTI helped stamp multiple sentiments at once along with stamping them on different colored card stock too!

Then I just used some scissors and trimmed the sentiments into squares and rectangles. I pulled out two white card bases and started adhering the sentiments on the cards. Some hung over the edges and some didn't, I trimmed any that hung over.

Since my card fronts were all sentiments I decided to do a basic image on the inside of each card. So I stamped an AI cake and sentiment below. With my Spectrum Noir markers, I colored the cake, making sure my colors matched my colored cardstock! I just trimmed the stamped panel to a rectangle and adhered it to the inside of both cards!

Super easy and a great way to use up those scraps!! I hope you will play along with us at the Art Impressions challenge!!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Dana

Too Long to Recover

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I'm on the Art Impressions blog with a sweet and easy card featuring the new Doggy Kisses stamp set! Some times I just feel like coloring, so I usually pick a set, stamp all the images and color!! The hard part is getting around to making cards with all the images!! LOL!!! 

This card was fast and easy because I already had the image colored, it was just about making a card layout for it. I colored the image with Spectrum Noir Markers: BP1, CR4, PP1, TN3, TN5, TN7. The image was fussy cut out with a little bit of a white border.

I used some pretty pink pattern paper for the background, trimming it about 1/4 smaller than the card base. Then I trimmed a wide strip of white card stock and stamped the Hope It Won't Take Too Long To Recover sentiment at the bottom middle. 

Before adhering the pattern paper I wrapped black twine several times around the panel. I added the sentiment strip above the twine with double sided tape. 

Next, I added the cute doggy to the card above the sentiment with foam tape. Last I scattered 3 black enamel dots around the card.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Dana

Supplies

Stamps: Art Impressions - Doggy Kisses

Spectrum Noir Markers

Pattern Paper: Pebbles - Garden Party

Enamel Dots

Twine: May Arts - Black

Word Dies & Masked Background

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I'm sharing a card I made this weekend for Neat & Tangled Challenge - Masking. I have a few new stamps that I won and I finally got around to creating with them and today's card features one of those sets: N&T's Calathea.

The challenge is masking so I decided to do some masking with a sentiment die that I've had forever but only used the first time for this card! I cut the Thank You die many times from Simon Says Stamp Masking paper and then added them to a panel of watercolor cardstock.

I created the background in two main steps, after adding the masking thank yous I used Lindy's Stamp Gang Flat Fabio Ink spray's: Tears on My Pillow Tangerine.  While that was drying I stamped 4 leafs from the Calathea set. Then I fussy cut out each of the leafs for later.

For the second background step I stamped the leafs many times over the masked thank you's I used many different inks for the multi stamped leafs. I inked each row several times, using my MISTI to make sure they stamped in the same place.

I removed the thank you masks and wrapped some black twine around the panel. Then I added 3 of the 4 leafs directly to the card, the 4th was added with foam tape. Over the weekend I played around with some Nuvo Crystal Drops, they were dry when I was making this card so I added a few of the best one's I made. To finish off the card I just added the panel to a card base.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Dana

Supplies
Stamps: Neat & Tangled - Calathea
Ink: Papertrey Ink - Ripe Avocado, Pine Feather, Simply Chartreuse, Spring Moss, New Leaf. Hero Arts - Forever Green, Field Greens, Green Hills.
Lindy's Stamp Gang - Tears on My Pillow Tangerine Ink Spray
Nuvo Crystal Drops - Pale Gold
Die: Heidi Swapp - Thank You
Masking Paper: Simon Says Stamp

Heartfelt Gratitude

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I'm on the Art Impressions blog today with a little watercolor scene I created with Wooden Chair Mini Set, WC Sentiments Set, WC Cats, and WC Flower Set 2, WC Foliage Set 1.

I started by stamping the chair and the flower pot, then the cat. To stamp and color, I used lots of Distress Markers, I'll list them out at the end.

To color the images I also scribbled the colors on a palette and used a paint brush to color the images. Going back over areas with more color to add depth and shading. As I stamped the flowers and foliage I used water and a paintbrush to get the watercolor look.

I added just a little bit of blue to background for a sky. Then I stamped the Heartfelt Gratitude stamp in brown ink. I cut the panel with a stitched rectangle. From my stash, I found some green paper and added it to a white card base. I added the stamped panel with foam tape and last rounded the corners of the card base.

Thanks for stopping by!! Happy Stamping!!

Distress Markers: Black Soot, Pumice Stone, Rusty Hinge, Gathered Twigs, Tea Dye, Bundled Sage, Worn Lipstick, Spiced Marmalade, Tumbled Glass, Aged Mahogany, Shaded Lilac, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss, Vintage Photo, Wilted Violet, Squeezed Lemon.

Coffee Loving Cardmakers - Inking

Hello!!

This is my second post today! Click here for my Art Impressions post! I am also on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog today with some Inking ideas! I hope you'll stop by, here is a little sneak for you!!