I had my craftstore order this hilarious set from Art Impressions (catastrophy), mainly because of this stamp..I'm a lamp...rofl
Luckily my cats never had to wear one of these, my vet doesn't like them and neither do cats/dogs ;-)
So for my card I stamped the image onto 140lbs watercolor paper from Schut with Simon Says Stamp intense black ink. Colored him in with Talens ecoline, a fluid watercolor.
My panels are always slightly narrower because I cut them from a bigger sheet. So I mount the panel with foamtape and fill the gap on the cardbase with a similar colored washi tape.
For more information on the Cat lover's blog hop, see this
For today's card I'm revisiting a card I made a few weeks ago for the Less is More challenge, but different ;-)
I loved the intense blue sky against the white diecut panel.
I used Talens ecoline in a variety of blues (505.506.507.578) on Schut classic watercolorpaper 300grams/140lbs.
I wet down the paper first apply a range of colors in an ombre like effect.. Few layers heat setting in between.
If your paper curls up, just heating from the back as well, that will straighten it right back out.
Then I splatter Dylusions spray white linen and Distress spray stain brushed pewter and Talens white ecoline (100).
For the diecut this time I used a Craft Emotions die, but any you have will do, as well as the sentiment, I used a Crealies one,with Versafine onyx black ink.
I love the contrast and the white trees really looks like snow covered trees to me.
I used carpet double sided adhesive for the watercolor paper and foamtape for the cardpanel.
For my card I cut a black panel, And stamped the eye ball from Create a Smile (big time) multiple times with Versamark ink, and heat set them with Wow! embossing powder (opaque bright white), same with the sentiment.
I did contemplate to use one of the monsters, like a snail/slug thing, crawling, or is that slithering off the sentiment, but it didn't quite fit and I kinda like the eyeballs in the night.
For some color I added a few enamel dots.
For more information on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, see this.
For more information on the Less is More Challenge, see this
That's the challenge theme over at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, it's about to run out, so I better get a move on ;-)
I've used my dog stamps from Katzelkraft (les Chiens) and the Merry Christmas stamp from Simon Says Stamp. I stamped them both with Versafine onyx black ink and used Spectrum Noir aquablend pencils to color him in.
To add the fairy lights, I first drew them in pencil, then traced them with a black Sharpie.
I wanted the dog to have been mischievous and naughty, he has been playing with the decorations.
Mounted the panel onto a cardbase with taperunner.
For more information or to play along the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, see this
I have a bin I put cards in, usually I'm not too happy with, or I didn't finish, or I don't know how to finish just yet. But once in a while I go through the bin, I trash stuff I still don't like, or gift it/donate it to people who do.
Others might just be unfinished, like ,my purple roses I ran out of color in my ice cube trays. I do take coloring things to my volunteering work as sometimes it';s really, really quiet and I pass time coloring, again those add to the pile.
I recently ordered a bunch of enamel dots from Ali Express and although small sheets, they are only 75 euro cents, like 90 dollar cents, compared to 4-5 dollar I think it's good value and I esp love the ones with glitter, of course ;-) And I did go back to order all the other colors and some with heartshapes
So i make piles with the ones that are colored, ones that need finishing and start pulling them together into cards.
I did stamp the sentiments last night, but I forgot to record that bit, making a decision on what kind of card it will be is usually the biggest hurdle for me.
Some cards have smudges and inky things so I try to erase them, if that doesn't work I add some of enamel dots and or rhinestones.
Where needed a bit of washitape and foamtape, but mostly simple layers with tape runner.
I hope this will inspire you to go through your unfinished or rejected work and do something with it :-D
I made recipes for Distress inks about a year ago, or a bit longer. Today I thought I should do the same for Memento inks. As I blend with them quite often it would be handy to have a view of the recipes I came up with, rather than reinventing the same recipes over and over.
So I looked at my color chart and picked colors I thought would go well together. Some didn't work as well, but most of them are OK, if not super.
I had four colos of ink left after I made all the strips I had thought of and, well, I had to include those four too, right?
To make the cards, I cut up a sheet of paper (in this case old logo paper from a company I was given), not my regular cardstock, and it doesn't blend as well, but well enough for this.
I mean these are just to give you/me an idea, I won't be using these on a card!
I cut 3cm strips, a little over 2 inch as our paper is 21cm, so it would give me 14 swatches out of one sheet.
Then I started the inkblending, most are with three, some have four colors, so some swatches have a white bit at the bottom, feel free to inkblend all of the strips if you want.
My hands are aching now, so I hope you can still read my rheumatic handwriting ;-)
If you prefer you could print the ink names and then attach the swatches, but I found it hard to position it.
My scanner has made high contrast scans, that's not how my inkblending looks!, but again, it's just for reference, I would urge you to make your own, if you're interested.
Remember Memento reacts with water, much like the Distress inks. the smooth out wonderfully, better than Distress inks to be honest. If you're new to stamping and need good stamping inks and blending ink and can't buy both, get these first ;-)
I haven't tried them as watercolors yet, not sure if they'd work for that, we'll see.
Today I'm using a digi stamp from Digistamp Boutique. It's an UK based company and I paid through Paypal.
I'm using one of the images from cute penguin set and one of the sentiments.
I sized it in Photoshop with three others to fill one sheet of Crafter's Companion Neenah paper and printed it with my inkjet printer. One of my cartridges is a pigment ink, there's two black ones, not sure which is used when, but it seems to work with my Spectrum Noir markers.
I cut the image to size, then decided to make it into a Polaroid style and then I decided to chop off the sentiment and place it underneath the image instead....
Colored the penguins with Spectrum Noir lol.
markers, added lashes to the penguin on the right, so it's now a couple. I used blue and green on the scarf for the boy penguin, but you could use girlie colors on the scarf and add lashes to the left penguin too, so versatile
Mounted the panels with foamtape and used my triangle ruler to make sure it's all lined up straight.
