Our Site for inspiration was The Blue Peony. The challenge can be found here.
I colored the flowers and leaves with Copic Markers. Then I dragged the pecan pie ink pad across the flowers and leaves. I added soft succulent for a card base and the same color for the sentiment piece which was stamped with pecan pie. This will go on a patient dinner tray at a local hospital.
The hardest thing about coloring this was distinguishing what was leaves and what was petals. It looks pretty obvious here, but when it's just embossed white paper, it's difficult. I had to keep turning the image over to double-check what color I needed to use.
I don't think I'd have made pink sunflowers if I hadn't seen this picture. I think of sunflowers as yellow or an orangish color, not pink.
Here is the inspiration for my card.
I have to tell you, sometimes on these Pinterest pages, I get side-tracked with the ads and pictures that have nothing to do with what I'm looking for.
It happened again today. I was looking at how people used a new stamp set I got. More and more though what I saw were items for sale, ads and lots of things to distract me. I actually saw some of the cutest animal ornaments and was considering buying them and trying to decide who would get which cute animal. LOL
I realized what was happening and I laughed, then got back to looking at samples of cards people had made.
Here is a picture of the cute ornaments I saw. They look so real. Now you can see why doing a challenge could take a bit more time than you'd think. Sometimes you just can't help it. Does that happen to you?
We're making cards following prompts using the alphabet. This week the letter is L-stained glass or oil lamp. I chose to color my stained glass lamp with pastel Copic Marker colors. I used my Jellyroll gold pen to trace the lines between the glass pieces. I used the Zig brush in gold, to color the lamp and the top of the lamp. I used gold paper and dry embossed it to help make the lamp look more old fashioned. I like it much better with embossing on the gold paper than plain. I added the lamp with dimensionals. The gold was added to black and the black was added to petal pink.
Accessories: SU Country Floral embossing folder, Zig gold brush marker, jellyroll gold pen, Copic Markers
Techniques: dry embossing, coloring
This wasn't an image that was stamped. I downloaded and printed a line drawing from the internet and colored it with multiple tools and I like how it turned out. I really enjoyed working with the pastel colors and gold.
The background looked so plain so I used dry embossing on it and I really love how it turned out.
This card will go on a dinner tray at a local hospital.
Have you needed to make a card for something and you didn't have a stamp to make it? What did you do? That's when I look online for line drawings that I can trace or otherwise manipulate.
This weekly alphabet challenge is really a challenge since all of the things are antiques. Do you have stamps for any of these items which were challenges?
quill
ink well
butter churn
gramaphone
ink well
hat pin
I didn't either, so I had to try to figure out what to do for these. Here are some of the cards I made for those.
Ink Well
Jam Jar
Hat Pin
Gramaphone
Doily
So, for me this is the hardest challenge I participate in weekly. I do enjoy trying to find something I want to use. For the last card, I had the doily stamp and knew I had a tea cup and tea bag to use.
So that's a look into what I do for these weekly challenges. Maybe you have some ideas of what I can use for some that are coming up.
straight razor
vanity bowl
xylograph
zenith radio
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Today's card is a color challenge given to us by Mary. Check it out here. Our colors for this challenge are, Pretty in Pink, Bubble Bath and Mossy Meadow. Dessert this week is to use gold dots or sequins.
I stamped this little guy and colored him with Copic Markers and fussy cut him. I edged his wings in metallic gold marker. I used a gold pen to add dots to his wings. I added clear wink of stella to his wings then curved them forward a little bit.
I did the polished stone technique the added gold dots with gold stickles and a big of gold paint. I used washi tape to mask off a border and used a neutral, misty moonlight to make a border for the card. The little mouse and the sentiment were added with dimensionals. This will go on a dinner tray at a local hospital.
Accessories: Copic Markers, Pilot gold marker, Gelly Roll Gold metallic pen, clear wink of Stella, Gold stickles for dots, washi tape border, scissors, dimensionals, bubble bath, pretty in pink and mossy meadow reinkers, rubbing alcohol, cotton ball
If you haven't done the polished stone technique, here is a video.
What's fun about this technique is that you can use any colors, you can add a metallic ink if you want, and because you use rubbing alcohol, it dries very quickly. It smells a bit so use it in a well ventilated area. Sometimes I put a fan on so I'm not breathing it in for long.
This technique doesn't have to be used just for backgrounds. It can also be used with your dies. You can cut shapes and letters for your card from the cardstock you've colored with this technique.
Well, what do you think? Is this technique something you've tried? If not, is it something you will try? I hope so, I love the varied results you get with it.
You'll need: glossy cardstock, a cotton ball, and several reinkers. You can add a metallic ink too if you like. You can stamp on this as well.
Here's a different kind of card. It's called a corner flip card.
Beverly's challenge was to make a Corner Flip card. Check it out here.
The tutorial for this can be found here.
After I cut my card front for the flip card, I dry embossed it with the Tim Holt leaves embossing folder. Then I cut the Gathering Together designer series paper for the outside and inside. For the inside I added designer series paper which was 4" x 5 1/4". I added a square of white paper to write my inside sentiment on which was 3 1/4" x 3 1/4". I die cut my images and added cajun craze to the yellow images and early espresso to the cajun craze image with sponge daubers. I used glue dots to put the Amber Autumn die cuts together then added them to the front of my card.
This card is for a mixed media challenge. You can find the challenge here.
I dry embossed my white cardstock with a Tim Holtz leaf embossing folder. Then I pulled pumpkin pie, crushed curry and poppy parade ink pads across the embossed side of the paper. Then I used My Derwent watercolor pencils to add bits of color around the leaves and on the leaf veins. I used a blender pen to blend the watercolor pencil on the leaves. I cut out soft suede and so saffron for my Hugs die sentiment and layered them. This will go on a patient dinner tray at a local hospital.
Our challenge today is to use sunflowers and kindness. Here is the challenge.I embossed my white cardstock. Then I colored the sunflower petals and leaves with Copic Markers. I colored the sunflower centers with two different colors of brown Derwent watercolor pencils.
I used a blender pen to blend the pencil together. I used direct to paper to drag early espresso across the top if the panel. I added pecan pie to soften the color of the flowers. I stamped my sentiment in early espresso then used the key tag punch. I added the sentiment with dimensionals.
This is the beautiful embossing folder I used. This is such a popular embossing folder that it is once again out of stock.
This is the type of card that would be considered mixed media art. I used Copic alcohol markers and watercolor pencils as well as an ink pad added directly to the card.
Techniques: dry embossing, coloring, direct to paper
This embossing folder has been fun for all sorts of techniques. This is one of the very few embossing folders that I colored the images after embossing. Usually I use the embossing to enhance my card background.
Well, that's all for today. Thanks for stopping by. I'll see you again real soon.
