WWC 306- Michelle's Challenge: All About Occasions

 Hello there, it’s time for another Watercooler Wednesday Challenge.  Michelle is our hostess this week with an All About Occasions challenge

Today I am sharing a Birthday card I made.  

This is a very CAS card.  I used Gina K Master Layouts to cut my panel and the layer.  It's a dark grey layer.  I had stamped the Altenew "A Gift for You" set to have a practise at using grey Copics to colour.  As it turned out okay, I cut out the panel.  I added a sentiment from another Altenew set (Happy Bloom) and a few pearls to finish the card. 

Come and join in the fun at  Watercooler Wednesday Challenge and check out the projects from the other designers.  Then take our challenge and link up your project to the challenge post.    We'd love to have you join us.  You have until Monday at 5 pm Mountain Standard Time (Tuesday at 12.00 noon NZ time) to link up your project.

Take care out there people.

Alcohol ink blending...inspired by Jennifer

I really enjoy watching Jennifer McGuire's videos and techniques as she always has something fun to try.  Her Alcohol blending technique is no exception.  It involves using a special alcohol pen to "lift" the alcohol ink from your background.   I have had two of these pens - had them for years but haven't used them much so this afternoon I got to try out the technique.  I had made some backgrounds last weekend and a few more this afternoon.  I took one of my pinky red backgrounds and a Hero Arts stamp.

I stamped the background piece first with Versamark and white embossed it.  Then used Rose Gold powder to emboss the same image onto some white card.  Unfortunately I took my stamp off my MISTI before remembering that I wanted to white emboss again once I had lifted the ink.   And as it was a red rubber stamp, it was too difficult to re-align.   I also added a bit too much of the Alcohol blending solution to my pen and it splattered a few times...   I added the "lifted" ink to the white card.  I also coloured up the Dovecraft diecut with some ink from the rest of the background I had created.   I used a stacked diecut (cut 3 times) on my coloured background.  And added some gold Wink of Stella on top for a bit of sparkle.

I'm entering the first one into the Monochromatic Challenge at A Blog Named Hero and the second one in to the CAS challenge at A2Z Scrapbooking and Use punches or dies over at the Sweet Stampin' Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.  Hope you get to have some fun crafting this weekend.

Monochromatic Flower card

I was blog hopping tonight through my favourite blogs and saw that over at The Flower Challenge it was a monochromatic theme.  My good blogger friend Betty had made a gorgeous card (HERE) that got my mind churning.  I was in my craft room making a last minute masculine card, but had to wait for glossy accents to dry, so pulled out some Patterned Paper, my favourite Altenew Beautiful Day stamps and some Altenew inks and made this,

I wanted a bold sentiment so pair my flower with a Catherine Pooler Design sentiment.   The Altenew inks, Mountain Mist, Volcano Lake, Lagoon and Emerald matched my PP perfectly. 

Well the packing is 99% done and everything else is in order, roll on Thursday morning (albeit 4.00am) so we can get the show on the road.   Half day tomorrow at work, then afternoon tea with Hubby's niece and her family, over here from Canada followed by an early night.... Excited Much!

Some Monochromatic Inspiration

As  I've mentioned I'm a new member of the team over at Chalk N Stock and today I shared a Monochromatic inspiration card.  I have a few VersaMagic Chalk ink teardrops pads I got when I first started stamping and which have been sadly neglected for a while.   Yesterday I picked up a new Couture Creations stamp set.... They are only $6.99NZ (available HERE)  and I though it would look great done in a monochromatic look

I pulled out my VersaMagic Turquoise Gem and stamped the flower corner.  I added the sentiment from the set with VersaFine Onyx Black.  Once I'd trimmed the panel I went looking for some card to mat it with.  But nothing I had looked good.  Light bulb moment.... use the ink to colour some white card.  The ink went on like chalk!!!!  sorry about that~ couldn't resist.  Truly it was so easy and went so smoothly.  And it matched perfectly.  So once I added it to a 13cm x 13cm base I decided that it didn't need any other embellishment. 

I am really pleased with the CAS look I achieved, and I hope I've inspired you to look at your chalk inks and give them a play with and join the challenge over at Chalk N Stock

It's a wintery rainy sort of day here so I'm spending some time in the craft room catching up with some DT cards and playing