Two more cards!!!

Well here are two more cards I made this week. One is for a challenge and the other one is a Thank You card.

This is a card where I first worked the background with colour wash inks and then sprayed it with Gesso.  

This is the inside of the card.  Same background but no Gesso this time.

This card is a Faux Bleach Technique.  Hard to see but I think it is because of the colours I used.

I am on a roll . . .

or is it too early to say.  I just joined a challenge to use at least one stamp from every stamp set or single stamp I own.  I doubt that I will be able to use all of them this year but I will try to use a lot of them.
This would be my first try at it.  I did not only use a stamp but also a Spellbinder die, inks and a couple of  punches I own.
I got this idea from Bonnie Mountford's blog - http://bonniescreativeplace.blogspot.ca/

My butterflies are a bit bigger but I could not find any small ones in a hurry.   On to the next 'stamped' card.

My first card of the year!

I joint a Hybrid Challenge on Design House Digital as I have so much paper and stuff that I just cannot do everything digital.  And I do feel that I like to make my cards the old fashion way but I may just do this hybrid stuff more in the future.

It is not the best picture but I also took the challenge of using Lightroom to process this photo.  I use a banner from Audrey Neal's tribal elements and printed Happy Birthday on it.  Next I used some design paper and printed the flowers from Karla Dudley's Taupa collection on it and then put it all together.  I sponged the butterflies and masked the banner.  A bit of baker's twine and done was the card.

Certainly not difficult and a good way to use up some of my paper and embellishments.

On to my next project.

Happy New Year!!!

Yes it has been a long time since I posted so now is as good a time as any.

First my Christmas cards I made for different people.  As you can see same style of cards for the first 4 and then I made a couple of different ones. Of course I made more than one of each card.

Now on to 2013.

Time to do an update!!!

It is time I do an update on this blog.  I have several blogs and sometimes I just update the one and not the other.

This card I made in July already and really like the technique.  This was shown by Stamp TV and can be seen on YouTube.
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The shiny paper used for the butterfly and the mask is actually a paper shopping bag.

Next is a card using the wax paper resist method.  You can find on how to do this here.

This is the full version of the card.  I first gave the cardstock 'resist' with the wax paper.  Then I used distress inks to work the card.  I then stamped the stamp with versamark ink and embossed with black embossing powder.  I did forget to 'wipe' my card stock first to get rid of the static cling so next time I know better.

 This is a close up of the 'resist' and the stamp.

Again a close up of the resist but as you can tell it is 'fading' away a bit but I like it.  Most likely because I did not keep the iron on that part long enough.

Quicker than I thought

Yes this is much quicker than I thought for my new card.  But I was experimenting with my new punch and trying to create the 'lacy' border.  I discovered you need a certain punch and a certain size card.

Where I punched the border the card is 5.5 inches long and the punch cut is 2.5 inches.  So 2 cuts with the punch fits really nice.  This is the end result.

 Close up of the 'lacy' border.

 This is the punch I used it is an EK punch.

Please feel free to email me with any of your questions.

It is about time

I posted a new creation.  I do have to say I have been in a non creative mood the last little while but I got a few new dies and they got me going again.  This is the end result.

Tried out a new technique with my new punch.  The card is a 5 x 5 card and my punch is 2.5" wide so I could not get the small end edges like I wanted but solved it by placing the blue piece of card stock behind it.

The butterfly is a new die by Memory Box and the card itself is a new Sizzix Mover and Shaper die.

Again a Memory Box die for the centre.  

Hope not to stay away this long again.  Thank you for looking at my card.