Is the Wednesday Challenge over at Simon Say Stamp, featuring SSS products. Now I don't know if it means the card needs to be square or just square elements on it. I would have liked to accomodate both, but the Simon Says Stamp Trie square die, really needs the space ;-), It would have been a giagantic card to make this square, not impossible ofcourse, but big! So I'm sorry if I didn't understand it the right way. I cut the tri square out of a panel the same size as my cardbase. Traced the openings on the cardbase, so I know where to ink. Stamped the Sentiment from Simon Says Stamp Birthday Balloons with Versafine black onyx ink and set it aside to dry. Masked off the windows, erased pencil and swiped Ranger dye inks to fill in the space (Carribbean coast grape soda and cheese puff). I stamped the oval balloon from the same stampset with an ombre feel. Sadly in my stamp there's a pit, or dip and it always shows, tried to camouflage it, but it didn't work well, still I thought I'll go ahead and fussy cut them, I don't have the dies for it. I have Simon Says Stamp celebration dies and ended up switching to them although I do prefer the elongated shaped balloons, they feel more elegant to me, but these are more fun! I swiped more ink onto cardstock and then diecut them with the middle sized balloon. Covered them with Wink of Stella clear gliter and then added the reflection with a white Sharpie. Mounted the diecut panel with foamtape to the cardbase. I meant to only put one of each color enamel accents on the card, but the Carribbean coast didn't agree ;-) I used Caribbean coast, grape soda and classic cherry. I didn't get the cheese puff (yet). I thought it would look ok as I did you classic cherry on the ombre balloons, but then I switched tactics, midway... Mounted the balloons as if they're escaping their little windows. Still like the card a lot, though, the vibrant happy colors. just sing For more information on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, see this
watching the tide roll away...? I don't remember haha ... The Monday Challenge over at Simon Says Stamp is: go fish. Now I happen to have this Crafter's Companion rubber stamp: Popcorn the Bear and he's fishing with his little mate. I thought it to be quite fitting for the challenge, although I just checked and I can't find any Crafter's Companion stamps on SSS. I used Talens ecoline to watercolor the image. I stamped it on cold pressed 140lbs watercolor paper this time (usually hotpressed) and I used Versafine black onyx ink and my MISTI. Was planning to use another sentiment at first, but wasn't quite sure where to put it, so I left it until the end. Then I had to mask off the bear's head so I could stamp the Happy Birthday from Impression Obsession, to make it look like it's behind the bear. I could have stamped it on the inside, was contemplating it too, but I do much prefer my sentiments on the outside and all nice and blanc paper to write on on the inside ;-). Mounted the panel with foamtape and as it's narrower I filled the gap with washi tape on the cardbase. Bit of Wink of Stella on the fish so the shimmer. For more information on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, see this
Yes, cookie cutters, as I don't have a cat silhouette and a pig shape die. I traced the cookie cutters onto cardstock and fussy cut them. In the video you can see how. I then embossed them in multiple layers to get the shiniest finish, the pig almost looks like glass! I got the idea from a video from Wow! embossingpowders, they used it on a heartshaped diecut and chipboard. I love the glass like finish on the pig. It's brittle though, use sturdy cardstock or go for the shattered look ;-) it will crackle if you bend the shap too much, like caramel sugar .
For the pig I mixed Wow! primary marshmallow and primary fuchsia fusion, as one was too light and the other too pink. Start with the lightest as your base color as you can go darker, but not lighter. these embossingpowders are translucent, which gived it the shiny glass look. I sometimes layer up silver and gold, to get a really nice and smooth covering (see the feathers) but the shine is different. For the cat I used also Wow! black twinkle embossing glitter, it's magical, and mandatory for Halloween or if you have two black cats ;-). For the background I used open of my recipes od Distress ink blending (black soot, chipped sapphire, faded jeans and stormy sky) on watercolor paper. I prefer to blend on normal cardstock, for the intensity of color, but for an easy blend watercolorpaper is your friend. This is Schut aquarelpapier 300gram coldpressed. For the Moon I used Squeezed lemonade and Mustard seed, To make the mask I diecut a circle a little bigger than the cat from 80lbs ardstock (160grams) the same size as a cardbase. I place the outer mask and then placed the "moon" back, lifted the outer one and started blending from the middle with the lightest color. Be careful with your fingers, they will lift color off the paper and probably dump is somewhere else on the card you don't want it. I used a teflon non stick coated baking sheet, it's from the bake department of our chain called Blokker, but I'm sure you can get it elsewhere, Aldi or Lidl have them sometimes too. €2.99 much cheaper than some other craftmats ;-) I've also made the same blend on my normal cardstock (laser printer paper from Canon or Mondi, whatever I can get, and I'm not sure which this was, I think Mondi but I'm not sure anymore. ) The make the stars and milky way I splattered Distress inks brushed pewter and Dylusions spray picket fence, but later switched to white Talens Ecoline as it's much more opaque. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn's Monster mash. I like Halloween, but it's not really celebrated in the Netherlands. I make a special menu every year. and decorate the house a little, I don't get dressed up though...one step too far for me haha. For the birds I used Joy! crafts Noor design6410/0067 The tree stamp is from Avery Elle Let it snow set and I stamped it with the MISTI as it's watercolorpaper, I used Versafine for a nice black print, but still had to ink it up three times, yay for the MISTI. I masked off the the branch to make it fit better, somehow my card went from portrait to landscape as I was fitting the trees. I added a branch with the black Spectrum Noir marker. I mounted the panel with foamtape and the cat also. As the watercolor panels are always smaller, I used Washi tape to fill the gap.
The theme for the new challenge over at Addicted to CAS is: silhouette. I used a silhouette stamp from Joy! crafts: 6410/0067. the Sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp: friendship blooms I made a panel with Schut aquarel paper and Distress ink refills. I tried to make it look like the treebranch is in front of other trees where the blue skies still shines through...dappled shade ;-)...Does it make sense? I liked the color combo (mermaid lagoon and mowed lawn) and I wanted to keep the colors down to a minumum because of the occasion. It may have turned out a bit darker/brighter than I envisaged, but that's why I used the reinkers, for the vibrancy, so I should have known lol. Still like it though ;-)
I stamped both the branch and sentiment with Versafine black onyx ink. Mounted the panel with foamtape and added a few Ranger enamel accents to connect the two For more information on the Addicted to CAS challenge, see this
The Less is More Challenge is: something tropical. I went through my stash and found these palm trees from lawn fawn (critters from the past) and a bear stamp from Marianne Design (sf 1109 stampfairy designs). The bear is actually planting a flower, but I masked that off, so now it looks like he's playing on a (tropical ) beach and the plantingpots have become pails, which in hindsight i colored pot like instead of red or green...oh well... I stamped everything with Versafine black onyx ink onto Schut watercolor paper. I then used Distress inks to watercolor the image. Mounted the panel with foamtape to adhere to the cardbase. The sentiment is from Pink fresh studio (good sayings) and I thought it goes well with the holiday theme...creating sandcastles...holidays in the sun..memories...see how my brain works? lol For more information on the Less is More challenge, see this.
The Wednesday Challenge over at Simon Says Stamp is: make for the border with Memory box products. I started with the speech bubble, I used the Big word pop scalloped edge die from Memory box. I got it as a gift from SSS in Diecember last year, how nice was that? :-D Then I used the Worn out stencil, also from Memory box to fill the bubble. I thought they could be all the ideas, speeches, homework etc. My first attempt ended on my second card. I sponged Distress inks through the stencil (Peacock feathers, Twisted citron, shaded lilac and picked raspberry). Then covered it with Wendy Vecchi translucent embossing paste. For the image I used a new to me stampset from Simon Says Stamp (back to school), now I got it on sale, so it might be retired now, but similar stampsets are available across the industry. I stamped the girl and sentiment onto Neenah solar white cardstock with Memento tuxedo black ink. Heat set it for a moment as we have the dampest day, just to be sure. Colored her with my Spectrum Noir markers. As I was coloring her I really wanted red shoes and backpack, the jeans just made sense and to match it all up I used greens for the jacket. It didn't really match the colors in the bubble anymore, especially as I would have to chop off the upper bit with the greens. Whilst typing this I think I went for the colors on the girl subconciously, primary colors, primary school....I don't know but it makes sense ;-) So I made another bubble with the same die and stencil, only sticking to more neutral tones (black soot and hickory smoke). Added some Ranger enamel accents to match her clothes (classic cherry, electric lime and Caribbean coast) For the colored one I used: Caribbean coast, electric lime and wild orchid. Mounted the speech bubble panel with foamtape to the card. For more information on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, see this
The Monday challenge over at Simon Says Stamp is: Summer fun. I used to do some scuba diving in summer when I was younger, I think swimming in the sea and diving is the ultimate summer fun. Unless you have the merky North sea so swim in ;-) Anyway...the card. I used the Penny Black set Adventures, stamped in Memento Tuxedo black in on neenah solar white and I did Spectrum Noir coloring, that's video one. Then I fussy cut the images and went on to the assembly of the spinner/slider card. I stamped the seaweed from Hero Arts color layering set goldfish with Ranger dye inks (lily pad and emerald isle).
I used the MISTI as I wanted them to be in the exact same position for the foreground and the background of the slider opening, so the seaweed isn't interrupted. To made the slider opening I used a popsicle stick, that just happened to be on my desk and to be the right size, how lucky was that? Otherwise I punch two holes either side and connect them, as I did in other videos. I mounted two layers of foamtape, making sure to leave enough room. I cut a disc of the same blue paper (although you won't see it) and adhered one small button on the disc (I used Aleene's fast grab tacky glue) and then positioned the panel over it and the girl panel, also adhered it with the same glue.
The other panels are mounted flush on the cardbase with tape runner (ATG gun). The waves were made with the My Favorite things snowdrift die.
I stamped the inside, as there wasn't enough room on the front in my opinion. I used Joy! crafts seashore stamp set and Versafine black ink for that. Heat set it to be sure ;-) For more information on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, see this
Masked off the windows, erased pencil and swiped Ranger dye inks to fill in the space (Carribbean coast grape soda and cheese puff).
