Fan-Freakin-Tastic!

I've got a card today that I'm entering into 2 challenges:

• Paper Girls Challenge Blog #36 - Watercolors
• CAS-ual Fridays - CFC#111 - Buttons

I'm totally into this watercoloring thing. I still have no clue on proper shading to make my images look real, but when I get over the novelty of watercoloring stamped images, I'll move on to the shading thing. Ha!

I used watercolors to color this fan image from Sweet Stamp Shop's Spin Me set. Cut it out, pop it up on a background stamped with those fun windy arrows, and there you have it. I added a button to the fan center to bring out the yellow in the card.

 

Thanks for stopping by today! I'm back tomorrow with a post for Sweet Stamp Shop.

Happy Birthday!

The Pinspired Challenge blog has inspired me again. Here's the pin this week:

That's a lot of color, so to tone it down to fit my own style better, I stamped on white cardstock, and kept the design simple. I wouldn't normally pair up orange and this bright pink, but it totally works, that's the great thing about challenges like this! I added some gold trim to bling the card up a little bit.

The CFC101 challenge at CAS-ual Fridays this week is to stamp on designer paper, so I'm also entering this card there, since I stamped and then fussy cut the images.  Thanks for stopping by today!

 Patterned papers: Kaisercraft, Echo Park
Stamps: Unity Stamp Co.
Ink: Memento  

Tuning in

I made this card for the Two Peas Winterfest 2013 stamping event also, the challenge was to use two types of masking, regular and mortise.  It just so happens to use black, white and yellow so it's my second entry at  CAS-ual Fridays this week.

To make it, I first stamped the TV image, then masked around the TV screen (mortise masking). I then stamped a chevron background stamp on the TV screen to look like a television out of tune. Next I stamped the TV on scrap paper and cut it out, then placed this over the whole TV set to mask it (regular masking). Finally I stamped my sentiment by inking it once, and stamping it 5 times (gradient stamping).  The idea is that the sentiment is slowly coming into focus. Clever, right?  Well, I thought so, at least.  I had tons of fun making it, and what I love about masking is that you really have to plan out what you do before you do it.

Patterned paper: Cosmo Cricket Twenty-Three

Yellow Cord: Lawn Fawn

TV and sentiment stamps: Lawn Fawn

Chevron stamp: Unity Stamp Company

Bee your best

I've got a cute little card I made this week with 2 different challenges in mind.  Members over on the Two Peas General Stamping Forum hold a couple of stamping events each year, with challenges created by the members.  One challenge was to make a scene using stamps.  Since I don't really own any traditional scenic stamps, I made a simple black and white scene with some pops of yellow. And that worked out just perfectly because the challenge at CAS-ual Fridays this week is to use black and white plus one other color (keeping it CAS - Clean and Simple).

Patterned paper: Pink Paislee "She Art"

Flower stamps: Unity Stamp Company

Fence, bee and sentiment stamps: Fresh Squeezed Stamps

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black and Dandelion

Stay tuned (ha!) because I have one more card to share in my next post.