Happy Halloween!!

I thought I would share this wonderful tag my friend Dana sent me. I LOVE the distress inks she blended here in the background along with that spooky glowing moon! And the Cat is sparkly!! Thanks Dana for letting me share this here on my blog!! As I did not get one Halloween card made this year!

If you can believe it I still have photos from our trip to share!! Since Ive been home I have not created anything to share here on the blog :-(  I have been trying to create something using some of these photo's as inspiration but I just can't do them justice! I guess my Mojo is still on vacation, lol.

I never knew there were so many types of clown fish....I felt like I was finding Nemo.

Thanks for stopping by!!! And Happy Halloween!!!

Hugs!!



Another Inspiration Showcase...

Inspired card. I'm having so much fun with Jennifer McGuire and friends over at Inspiration Showcase. Each day is another new video with lot's of inspiration and ideas.

I'm looking at the Tim Holtz Rosette die in a whole new light. For this card I cut a piece of double sided patterned paper out using the small and medium rosette die. It cuts both sizes at the same time. Then I flipped the smaller one over and adhered it onto the larger strip using glossy accents. I trimmed 2 pleats off the larger strip so the length would be the same and accordion folded it, adhered the ends and glued it onto a circle. By overlapping the smaller strip onto the larger strip it created a wider strip which then created a larger rosette. You could also cut the strip down to make it smaller. So many options.

Here are a few other Rosette's I did.

For this one I stamped and inked white strips and layered them.

This was a white strip that I added tissue tape to and Stormy Sky Distress Stain.

This is Distress Cardstock ran through an embossing folder then sanded before assembling.

Thanks again for stopping by. If you are enrolled in class I hope you're having as much fun as I am!

TTFN!

2nd Post of the Day

Well I'm back with another post. Another card from my inky weekend. This also falls into the embossing category for CAS-ual Friday's. And since I couldn't decide which one to enter into their challenge I decided to enter both!



For this card I started off again with a white piece of cardstock that I stamped and heat embossed with Hero Art's CG330. Next I applied a generous amount of Spun Sugar distress Stain onto my craft sheet, added some "Pearl" Perfect Pearls and laid the embossed cardstock into it. Once it was dry I used my Spellbinders Label die to cut the shape. Added a bit of ribbon and a button. I love how much coverage you can get with the stains!!

Thanks for stoppin by!

TTFN!

CAS-ual Fridays

Well my inky weekend is paying off. I checked out the CAS-ual Fridays blog yesterday and saw that the challenge this week is Embossing. So I too a couple of pieces I inked over the weekend and here is one of the cards I came up with..

If you saw yesterday's post you will notice the die cut flower is from one of the pieces I did over the weekend. For this one I applied Antique Linen distress STAIN on my craft sheet, added some Sunflower Perfect Pearl to it. I had already white embossed the image on the background (Hero Arts Dot Flower Background CG330) so I just laid it into the stain mixture. I wish you could see the extra gold sparkle in it. Next I just did a dry emboss on my Vagabond and wah-lah! The pearls are Kaiser Craft Latte.

Thanks for looking and have fun playing with your inks!!! And Dana, I would love to see what you create!

TTFN!

Hello Friends!

I've been playing around a bit this weekend with my Distress Stains. I watched a video on the Tim Holtz blog this past week, so I thought I would jump in and try some of the techniques he shared. Here are some of the pieces I created and I'm working on turning them into cards.

I just started out with some white paper, mostly Bazzill. I just cut 81/2 x 11 pieces into 4's (4.25x5.5) and started trying the different techniques. I really would like to find some other cardstock to try as well. In the video he uses his tags and there are a few things that didn't work out as well on the Bazzill. Anyway you can see one of the cards I came up with  below.

For this I just heat embossed the Lg Lotus pattern in White and then swiped the distress stains across. The colors I used here are Antique Linen, Wild Honey, Faded Jeans and Vintage Photo. This was so easy!! I have a few more colors on order and can't wait to get them. Especially the Picket Fence. He shows some really cool stuff with that. I finished another card tonight with another piece in the photo so I will get it photographed and uploaded tomorrow. Sometimes it's just fun to play and get inky! It's one of my favorite things to do!!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs!!!!