Sending lots of Love.

 My sister-in-law is going through a horrid time health-wise at the moment.   Not good news for her... so I made her a card to let her know we are thinking of her and sending her prayers. 

This card was inspired by a You Tube video from Natasha Foote - I masked off the panel and used some Distress Oxide inks with a torn edge scrap to make the blending.  Once the ink dried, I added some glue (Tombow Mono Multi) - Natasha used a Zig glue pen, but of course, I couldn't find mine till after the I finsihed the card.  I let the glue go tacky and then add some silver foil.  You just rub the foil over the glue - works a charm!  I stamped the Hero Arts Poppy stamp on the card and then onto some white scrap.  I clear embossed both stampings.  Used the Distress Oxide colours to add colour to the second stamping and fussy cut the poppy flower and the leaves and added them over the other stamped image.  Added some black dots and some foiled dots on the flower.   I unfortunately dropped my ink pad and got a splotch on my panel so had to cut it down a bit.   But it turned out ok.   Added as stamped sentiment. 

Playing along at Woodblock Wednesday challenge.

 Once a month over on Amy Tsurata's blog (Tsurata Designs) Amy runs a challenge - Using Woodblock stamps.    Very timely for me as yesterday my latest purchase - Penny Black's woodblock stamp - Snowy- arrived.   This stamp was originally designed and produced in 2008 and is still available.   After many years of wanting this one... I finally went and bought it!  

So today was a working from home day and I used my breaks to start this card and then after I did my required hours, I finished it off.

I started by adding the sentiment on my card.   It's from the Penny Black stick and shine series.  I added the stick and shine and then used silver foil.  Hard to photograph.  It looks black here.  I then used Broken China Distress Oxide to blend on the background.   I took a Montaga snowflake stencil and added random snowflakes with Nuvo Glimmer Paste.  I used a Lawn Fawn curved die to cut some snow banks.  I stamped snowy and using the stamp as a guide, used some smooshed Distress inks to paint him.  I used Candied Apple for his hat and scarf and Wilted Violet for the white shadows.  

As this was Snowy's first outing as well as using the Stick and Shine sheets... I'm entering this into Darnell's NBUS challenge

I am happy that I bit the bullet and finally got this stamp (and all the other goodies I got when I was ordering it!)   Well worth the 21 day wait for it to make it's way here.

Hope you get to do some weekend crafting.  

Shades of Purple.

 

This challenge is just me!  Purple is my favourite colour.    Lately I've been struggling with my crafting... ideas galore, but just wanting to get started has been hard.  About a week ago I took some of my purple scraps and an Altenew flower die cut and made a couple of flowers.   They sat there as I really didn't know what I wanted to do to showcase them.  Last evening, I was rummaging around in my WIP pile and found a background I had done some foiling on.  

My foiled panel is an Altenew stamp that I had stamped, then photocopied with a laser printer so that I could foil it with some silver foil.    As you can see I had covered my flowers with Wink of Stella.  The sentiment is from another Altenew set.  I seem to be using my Gina K Master Layouts on just about every card I do... they make it so easy to layer panels.  

And talking about Gina K... do you watch her live Facebook/You Tube posts?  She has some fun techniques and ideas.  This week's earlier live used a technique called Black Magic.  Basically using white pigment ink to stamp on black card and then once it dried, used pencils to colour in the image.    Today I was feeling unwell in the morning so spent time in bed resting.  I got up at lunch time and decided I felt a bit better and wanted to try out the technique. 

I used the same stamp set that Gina used.. one of my few Gina K stamps.  My white pigment ink is very old so had to use my MISTI and stamped each image twice to get a semi-reasonable amount of ink down.  Once it dried, I used Prismacolor pencils and one Jasart pencil to colour the image in.  Added some white gel pen dots on the centre of the flowers.  I used the same purple card as my layer, to die cut the Hero Arts sentiment - 3 times to add dimension.  So pleased with the results.  

I'm entering both of these in the flower challenge.  

Thanks for stopping by... I've been watching the New Zealand sailors racing here in Auckland and today they won the 7th race to win the 36th America's Cup challenge.... a very exciting few days with racing against Luna Rosa Prada Perelli.   We were defending the cup so exciting to keep it here in NZ for the next few years. 

Love in the Air - at Sweet Stampin' Challenge

 Hi there.  It's time for a new Challenge at Sweet Stampin' Challenge blog today.  Our theme is challenge is Valentine/Love.

Valentine's Day is not a huge thing here in NZ as it is in the US in particular, so I've gone with a Love themed card. 

I stamped the Altenew Striped Circle stamp and took it to my work to photocopy onto some cardstock and as it is laser printed, I was able to foil it through my laminator.   I used a little stamp set from Altenew called "A Gift for You" to make my focal flower.  I used various Grey Copic markers to add a little bit shading.  I used some Winnie & Walter stamps and die to make my sentiment. 

Do come and play along with us (here) 

WWC#260 Karen's Challenge - All About Occasions

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

 Today I am sharing a card I made a few weeks ago while I was crafting with my friend Suna.  I borrowed her Go Press and Foil machine and a foil die to make the sentiment.  I used a gold Holographic foil.

 I had taken a piece of pink watercoloured card with me and used this to make the flower with the Floral Fantasy 3D die set.  Luckily the paper was a bit ombre which allowed me to layer a few different tones of the pink.  Add a layer of Spectrum Noir clear sparkle pen.  I cut the leaves from some green striped paper which I edged with some green ink.  I matted the panel onto some pink card and then onto a white base.  A few clear gems finished the card.  I did have a bit of a opps with it... the green ink pad accidentally got onto back of the card and went through the bottom layer.  I was able to save the card by trimming off the top layer and adding it to another base.

Come and join the fun.  Check out the projects that the other artists at Watercooler Wednesday

Challenge have created.  Then take our challenge and link your creation 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.