CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge #182 Woot I made it another week! For this week's sketch Challenge I used a new stampset I got today! It's from Penny Black and it's called Buddy and Duck and I obviously used Duck(ie) ;-)
I stamped him on watercolor paper (Schut 300grams) with My Favorite things hybrid black ink and coloured him with Ecoline watercolor makers, Spectrum Aqua markers and Distress inks for the splatter. Raied the watercolor panel with foamtape and as it's narrower than the cardbase a strip of Washitape to fill the gap and pick up the blue in the balloon. Enamel accents from Ranger for the dots on the balloon. For more information on the CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge #182, see this
what? already? ....yep it's not liek were having any kind of summer here in the netherlands ;-) lol.. Actually it's the Monday and Wednesday challenge over at Simon Says Stamp that prompted this card. Monday's challenge is about flora and or fauna and Wednesday is to create a scene (with Newton Nook, but I sadly have none). I used watercolorpaper for my panel and a Memorybox stencil (garden birch trees) and a Dutch stamp company (marianne design Eline''s xmas ec0148) I made a mask with Inkadinkado maskingpaper and Aleene's tack it over and over as it wasn;t sticking to this paper, at ll :-(. I then placed the stencil and used the mini blending tools and Distress inks for the background (Chipped Sapphire, seedles preserves and mustard seed. I made a snow bank as well from masking paper and used tumbled glass and mermaid lagoon on those.
I don't remember exactly which colors for the imagaes and tree shading, but Walnut stain for the tree stump and vintage photo for the bunny, the scarf and apple are Ecoline brushmarkers. The shading on the trees are a few colors combined. Stamped the sentiment and image with MFT hybrid black ink. I thought the image, although not Newton's Nook, looked similar to their work. As the panel is smaller than the cardbase I added gold glitter washi tape to the side and I mounted the panel with foamtape. For more information on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, see this For more information on the simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, see this
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge had a moodboard, similar to the Lawnscaping one. I don´t really have beachy themed stampsets. I do have the mermaids for you and the happy days from SSS, I´ve been thinking about how to use the colors with the images I have. In the end I chose to use the Simon Says Stamp 3x4 birthday celebration set and ditch the Lawn Fawn ones, but I used a strip of Lawn Fawn paper ;-) There´s a grey in one of the mood boards and blues and yellows, not my favorite colors so that could be why I found it hard to be inspired. The grey is perfect for an elephant and a yellow balloon and blue tinted hat seemed logical. I stamped everything with Memento tuxedo black ink on Neenah solar white ultra smooth card and colored with Spectrum Noir and Copic markers. I masked off the elephant´s trunk to stamp the
balloon. Usually I use greys to ground images, but now I used the blue tones from the mood boards. I cut the panel naroower than the cardbase. Attached the grey stiped Lawn Fawn paper (let's polka 12x12) to the cardbase with tape runner and added a strip of yellow paper too, to repeat the color of the balloon, covered the strip in Wink of Stella clear and the balloon with glossy accents. Mounted the panel with foamtape on the cardbase.
For more info on the ALwnscaping challenge #133, see this
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Use one, two or all three colors for the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. I've use white and blue ;-). Well, a few blues from the Distress ink line to brush on the background ( if I remember correctly, faded jeans, chipped sapphire, salty ocean and maybe mermaid lagoon). I started by partially diecutting the stitched circle die to get the window. I then transferred the position of the window onto the cardbase and masked an area off, slighlty bigger, but as the panel is slightly smaller I had to make sure none of my ink blending would peak out from underneath. I then used the Simon Says Stamp Falling snow stencil and embossing paste for the snow, the stencil shifted a little making the perfect round shapes look more like drops, which is OK! I used a die from Leane creatief for the trees and house scene, I bought it second hand so I'm not sure if it's old, new or discontinued etc. I used my newly discovered method for embossign the die, see video, home made embossing or tan mat ;-) Mounted everything with one or two layers of foam tape to adhered it to the cardbase. I didn't stamp a sentiment before I mounted all the foam dots, forgot and I didn't want to risk it. So my sentiment is on the inside. Also rather like the serene look of the front now. I love big bold black sentiments, but somehow I don't see it fitting this card. See the card I made a few weeks ago, I used different blue Distress ink and glittery dots from Papermania and a sentiment! I think it's because the challenge is blue and white ;-)
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Today my card is for two challenges: Addicted to CAS with the code word Stripes and Cas Colour and Sketches for the color combo I've Used Distress inks Dusty Concord, mowed lawn and frayed burlap to match the SU colors. Because of the colors I immediately thought purple flowers, green stem and brown dirt/earth, but then I thought everyone might have that idea ;-) So I came up with fading stripes. For the card I cut a panel the same size as the cardbase, masked off the base to get three stripes and applied the Distress inks with my brushes. Dark on the left and fading into white on the right. I use normal paintstore brushes, I made a video about it earlier this week trying a few of them out, see below. I then applied Ken Oliver's Stick it to the back of the panel and diecut the Simon Says Stamp from the panel (birthday wishes frame).
Applied Stick it to both front and back to another panel and diecut the frame again. I wanted it to be raised by just a hair, and I contemplated craft foam, but that usually gets squished and distorted, not good with intricate dies like this. And I also only wanted one layer to keep the card flat for mailing, but this might just have been too flat ;-). You can feel the dimension but barely see it..lol. Attached it all back and pieced all the little bits and bobs back in the die and then added a few how made dew drops/enamel dots.
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge form last week is: tic tac toe. It took me a while to decide on whic row, and I think I ended up using two by chance, I mixed them up in my head.
I used the top row and the middle vertical row For my card I sprayed glue through a stencil and then foiled it with Wow! fabfoil and a laminator. I doodled around the leaves, more at the bottom and fading towards the top, I hope you can see that. I heat embossed the sentiment with Wow! gold embossing powder, the stamp is from Viva Decor (Sprüche). I diecut the sentiment with a stitched border die and mounted it with foam. By chance my scissors were entangled in a piece of blue embroidery thread I was working with earlier this week and so I used it behind the sentiment panel and that decided on which color sequins to use. I cut the foiled panel smaller than the cardbase (1cm) and also mounted it with foam tape to the cardbase. I like the result with the spray glue, in some areas it's really sharp and in others it went under the stencil I guess and you can see the spray pattern, also the foil was a bit damaged by nails I think, so it all adds to the vintage look..by mistake lol ;-) For more information on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, see this.
Some of you might remember my entry from a few weeks ago, based on a sketch, and to honour the sketch I stamped a bunch of hearts above my stringart heart. I didn't like it as much as some of the commenters on the blog, so I thought I should make another version, more my style. Also I sued all red thread now and that defines the heartshape more than the bakerstwine in my opinion. So bigger heart and on a matte. The Less is More Challenge #283 is: use the colours of your kitchen. I also used the cabinets as inspiration for the raised element. I once collected everything Coca Cola, although I used to drink Pepsi ;-) But I liked the red in the Coca Cola stuff... so I painted one wall red and adhered these metal signs, some have faded since they went up 13 years ago or so, but as they're glued to the wall I ain;t taking them down lol.
The rest of the kitchen is a mess, I mean standard rental unit white cabinets. I had a do at our allotment and as I organized it, all the washing up is in other pictures haha...also all the bags with drinks, cutlery and so on. These windowed cabinets are actually Billy bookcases from IKEA, but hey that won't stop me. Half glass to display pretty stuff, mostly vintage crockery and half the doors are blinded to hinde all the usual kitchen utensils, you don't really want to see.
So onto the card: I used a heartshaped die and traced the shape onto heavy weight cardstock, pierced it and then used DMC embroidery thread to do the stringart. I cut the panel into a square and mounted it on foamtape. The sentiment is from Technique Tuesday and I stamped it with Versafine black onyx ink on the cardbase. Old card:
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