Handmade Flower

I just had to make another card using another handmade flower that I learned to make this weekend. I just love them! We used the Rose Creations Spellbinders die to cut the flowers. Then we spritzed them with water and painted Twinkling H2Os on both sides. We let them dry and they curl up. I then layered the different sizes to make the whole flower. I am going to see how the Tim Holtz Tattered Flowers die does to make these. I also used this beautiful vellum that I found in Pigeon Forge a few weeks ago when visiting with my aunt. We went to a fabulous Scrapbook Super store. Not only do they have a huge store, but they also have a huge clearance store right beside it. What fun!

Flowers Everywhere

I had fun this past weekend stamping and learning with some stamping friends! I learned to make these beautiful flowers. Thanks, Bonnie. I love them! I am entering this card in the Just Rite color challenge 055. The colors are light-medium blue, ivory and kraft. I used a flower stamp form the Just Rite -- The Greatest Joy set. I had this lovely paper from K&Co. and decided to make a window card. I used my new Sew Easy tool to make the swirl design on the right side of the card and then I covered the piercing marks with pearls that I colored with alcohol inks to make them a kraft color. You can click here to see the challenge -- http://justritestampers.typepad.com/

Kissing

Here is another old technique that is fun to do. It is called "kissing" since you ink up 2 stamps and "kiss" one stamp to the other. You will need a solid stamp -- I used a pear from Posh Impressions. Ink it up with a lighter color of pigment ink -- I used an aqua color. I took 2 more smaller solid flower stamps, inked them in another color -- I used red pigment ink on one and yellow pigment ink on the other. Take the smaller stamps and stamp them onto the large inked stamp in several places and turn the stamps each time you stamp so as to have enough ink to stamp on the first stamp. THEN take the large solid stamp and stamp it on your card stock. I hope this sounds clear enough to you! LOL!

Happy Mother's Day

I want to wish all you mothers a very special and blessed Mother's Day!

Crayon Resist

I have been making Father's Day cards and they have been such a challenge for me! I guess after all the frills of Mother's Day cards these cards seem so plain. Anyway, at the Two Peas in a Bucket stamping board, we have been discussing old techniques, so I decided to use the crayon resist technique on this card. I used torn paper to mask where I wanted color on my card. I then made a collage using different stamps and then took a crayon to highlight areas. You can see white on the areas I highlighted. You can use any color crayon because the wax is what resists the ink color. I then brayered over the collaged piece using the Waterfall Big and Juicy ink pad. When this dried well I took a kleenex and rubbed over the colored piece to rub off the wax so that the white areas would show up.

Easy Watercolor Technique

I really like techniques and I hope to be putting up more on my blog. Some are old techniques, but I haven't used them in a long time and they seem new again! Maybe these will be new to some of you and to some you will remember these and try them again. On this card I stamped the pear using the Kaleidacolor stamp pad -- Creole Spice. I then spritzed the inked stamp with water to blend the colors and then stamped the pear onto my card stock. The background is a cuttlebug folder that I ran through using color core paper with green under the  black. I then sanded the core paper to have the green show through. I hope you will have fun trying this easy technique!

Lattice Card

At Joan's Gardens the challenge this week is to show a lattice on your card. I had one of those stencils that you can make a lattice look with, but I haven't used it in a long time and have forgotten how to use it! LOL! So I made my lattice with strips of paper. We were to use lime green and pink, leaves and butterflies. I made the flowers using Tim Holtz's Tattered Flower die -- using the smallest flower. This was a fun challenge and so summery!