Party Like a Flock Star

Good Morning,

 Today I am here with another fun challenge for The Color Throwdown blog. Color throwdown #586.

 The challenge is to use Pink, Purple, and White with neutral colors as needed. Please head on over and check out all the awesome entries.

 This is the card I made for this challenge. I went with  a fun and bright flamingo theme. I used several stamp sets that are in my stash that had not been used or not used in a long time.

Painted Stripes By: Essentials by Ellen

Fa la la la Mingo By: Maymay Made It

& 

Flamingo Together By: Lawn Fawn 

  

The flamingo on the left, palm tree, foliage at the top, and sentiment come from Fa la la la Mingo stamp set. The flamingo on the right  comes from Flamingo Together and  you guessed it the stripes come from Painted Stripes stamp set.

Here in this picture below you can see how I used my stamp platform to line up my stripe stamp . It's not perfectly even, and I'm ok with that; because I used oxide ink I had to stamp each stripe several times. This is where a stamp platform really comes in handy. I would not want to try this with just a clear block.

  

 My flamingos were stamped and heat embossed then cut out with the Brother N Scan  Dx225. I love this machine but that is for an other blog post. I also heat embossed the sentiment and used foam tape behind the frame. As a finishing touch I used small black gems and sparkly clear sequins. Once you do the stripes this card goes together fairly quickly.!

Easy Faux Watercolor Cards

 Good Morning,

I am entering this card  into a challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches blog. There is lots of inspiration over there. Please go and check out all the entries. Here is the sketch

 Today I have some easy faux watercolor cards for you. All you need is some Oxide Inks or water reactive ink, stamps of your choice,  black ink, clear embossing powder, heat gun, shimmer spray optional, black paint, glass mat or craft sheet  and a spray  bottle with water.

 My stamp sets are from Technique Tuesday.  I used Bowl Bouquet, Delightful Daisy and Lotus for the sentiment. The doily die is from In Love Art shop and is a set of 3.

                                                 This is what the finished card looks like.

The colors I chose to use are Broken China, Peacock Feathers, Fossilized  Amber and Lucky Clover.  You can see them in the 2 pictures below. The second picture is how I put them on my glass mat. You'll want to use a craft sheet or class mat for easy clean up.

Then I spray the ink with water to make it puddle.  Make sure the colors you pick don't  make a muddy  brow color when they mix. You may want to test this first.Then I put my paper down in the puddle to soak up the ink. You can see that in the picture below.

Then l take my paper up and look at it to see if I like it or want to add more color. I use my heat gun between layers to dry it. The Oxide inks layer well with bottom colors showing through.  I keep doing this step until I'm happy with the out come. The next picture shows the way my doily looked when done. I did this step for my background panel too.

Next I heat embossed my image and sentiment, and added black paint splatter to the background panel. Shown in picture below. I did these assembly line style. I did all die cutting,  then the ink smushing  technique, the the black paint splatter,  the heat embossing and then assembly of  the cards.

                   One more picture of the final card with a different image for you to look at.

Thank you for stopping by.

Have a crafty day.

Lisa

Galatic Friends

 This set is called Galactic Adventures the Sequel, and it comes from Kindred Stamps. The bottom card is from Pinterest and was my inspiration card using this same set. The top 3 pictures are my own card. I used Seedless Preserves, Broken China and Faded Jeans Oxide ink along with  blending brushes for the background. I also used a Jelly Roll #8 white gel pen to make the stars and added a few white enamel dots

I colored the images with Arteza colored pencils and blended with Gamsol. I then used my Brother Scan it cut to cut the images out. I used  #110 lb card stock size 4.25 x 11 scored at 5.5. This makes an A2 size card when folded. To get this cut your 8.5 x 11 card stock on the 8.5 side at 4 and you will now have 2 cards.

I mounted a grey panel 4.25 x 5.5 on the black card stock and my ink blended panel on top of that. I then added my stamped images. The sentiment comes in the stamp set and is heat embossed on white card stock. I then matted the on black. I add foam tape to the back and adhered to front of my card.

CAS Card Inspiration and Challenge

Here is my March challenge card for the Scrappin Stampers group over on Facebook. Once a month Jamie has a challenge for a $10 gift card to her shop. This month it is a one layer clean card. No foam tape or embellishments. The bottom card is the one Jamie made. The top one is mine along with the die set. The set is from MFT stamps. I wanted to show this set is not only for fall projects, but can be used all year round.

I used Catherine Pooler inks in Polished and Tutti Frutti,  for the ink blended background. I colored my stamped image with colored pencils by Arteza.  I used Gamsol for the blending.  I used a stamp from Maymay Made It set called Flowers for a Friend. I stamped the heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  I added the border detail with a black pen.