Art Impressions "Girlfriends"

I recently got two different Art Impressions "Girlfriend" stamps and have a couple of friends turning 60 and 61 in the near future.  So I got stamping and colouring.

My first one I stamped and coloured with Copics.  I used sentiments from StampNation's Young at Heart collection.  This was for Alice who turned 60 on the 26th.  I'm entering this into the Anything Goes Challenge at Simon Says Stamp. 

Next one is a little tag I made with some watercolour paper to try out a colouring technique I saw on You Tube (here)  The idea is to leave some white areas near the top of the head and around the shoulders etc.

Need a bit more practice with the watercolour pens.

Next I tried the same stamp and technique with Copic markers

I messed up the colouring on the first girl, so added a heavy layer of Kindyglitz and salvaged it.  In fact, quite like how it turned out in the end.  Again I used sentiment from the StampNation collection.

I have a few more birthday's for friends coming up, so will be doing a few more of these.

I've been getting lots of updates and pictures of Archer... They are now settling into being home and I'm counting down the days till I can get to cuddle him.

More wax paper embossed backgrounds....

I had so much fun making the wax paper embossed backgrounds.. I used two different folders... one piece of wax paper and one folder gives two background pieces.  I used different colours of distress ink to sponge on the wax backgrounds.  See my post from yesterday to see the first two card I made...
and now onto the next two cards.

For this first one, I used Wilted Violet distress ink to sponge the background.  I finished my card with stamps and dies from StampNation Young at Heart collection. 

On this one, I used Weathered Wood distress for the background and used a Simon Says Stamp die cut flower with a Hero Arts Sentiment.  I didn't have any black sequins so I used a Mama Elephant die (which I bought off Lisa Haines) which had some little sequins included.   I cut them with black textured card. 

I really enjoyed trying out this technique.   If you haven't seen Gina's video, you can see it HERE.

Thanks for stopping by.  Hope I have inspired you to try out this technique 

National Craft Month Hop

Nicole at Right at Home is having a blog hop to celebrate National Craft Month and as well as following the hop, she wants us to add a card using our favourite items.   I'm  really enjoying using my StampNation Young at Heart Collection and I've made a card using them together with the latest trend of Plaid.  Over at StampNation,  Kristie did a Trends Article about Plaid.  She also showed how to make some of your own.  Some one on the forum also suggest a way to use your computer to make some of the lines.  And that's what I did.... combined some hand made plaid with SOA stamps and dies

My double lines are done on the computer and the rest of the lines are done with Copics.  The cake was stamped in pale blue  VersaMagic and overstamped with Memento ink then die cut.  Stamped the sentiment and stars and added a die cut 30.   This is for my son-in-law who turns 30 on Sunday.  

Enjoy National Crafting Month!

March Birthdays

There are a few birthday's in March that I've made cards for.

First up, my great-niece turns 10 on the 15th March. 

 

I used a cute little Tiddly Inks digi image.  I added a few extra hearts die cut with a Simon Says Stamps heart dies.   The sentiment is from Hero Arts.  

My second card is for a guy I work with.

My colleague is a fun guy and I'm sure he'll appreciate the idea behind this one.  I CASE'd a card from Linda Lucas (here)  Love the design and colours she used, so I've copied them.  I used my computer to type the sentiment.    Inside it says "Happy Birthday to you"

and number three is for a friend with a birthday later in the month. 

This is another one using Stamp of Approval dies and stamps and my handmade plaid.    

thanks for stopping by today. 

More birthday cards from SOA Young at Heart

Two more cards using the StampNation Young at Heart box.  I really want to get my money's worth from the box

First up

A fun card using the Winnie & Walter stamps for most of the stamping and the little stars from the Sugar Pea set.   Used Hero Arts Ombre inks to stamp each circle.   I used the scalloped die from the kit as well.  Entering into the Words challenge at Southern Girls Challenge

2nd card

I ended up ruining this one by spritzing too heavily with Sparkle spray.  I might just have to redo it.  The background was four distress inks (just got the set 15 - Wilted Violet, Candied Apple, Lucky Clover and Carved Pumpkin) and then used Texture paste through the stencil.  The ink wasn't quite dry so picked up some of the ink colour.  Coloured the seam binding with the same inks.  Sentiment is the Winnie & Walter set I used on the other one.   Was disappointed that I didn't just leave it as it was!

Thanks for stopping by.