Eureka! Stamps masculine/grunge challenge

Hello crafty friends!

It's time for another Eureka! Stamps Challenge

This weeks theme is 

"Masculine or Grunge"

I decided to make 2 projects for you with this theme.

For my first project I made a card using

"Celtic Background" (#31601) from Eureka! Stamps

 and

"Happy Birthday" (#36314) from Biblical Impressions

a sister company of Eureka! Stamps.

I stamped Celtic Background onto white card stock with VersaMark ink

 and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.

I then applied Distress Ink to the entire surface.

The embossing resists the ink leaving a beautiful background.

The Happy Birthday was stamped onto white card stock,

then was cut to size and inked with Distress Inks also.

For my 2nd project, I decided to go outside the box for me

and made a tag.

For this tag I used

"Fern Background" (#58401)

"Feather on Side" (#6303) and 

"Tree Losing Leaves" (#34502)

all from Eureka! Stamps

I used the same technique for the background on the tag of

heat embossing and inking.

I then stamped the Feather and Tree onto 

hand made paper and tore pieces 

and adhered them to the tag.

I haven't yet decided how I will use my tag.

I may use it as part of a card

or on a scrapbook layout

or just as a tag on a gift.

I hope you have been inspired in some way and will join us 

for the Eureka! Stamps Challenge this week.

Hop over to the 

Eureka! Stamps Blog

for all the details and more inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by today,

leave a comment if you will

and come again soon.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

I love this feather!

When I made the card that I showed you a couple weeks ago 

with the feathers, I didn't use all the feathers that I had stamped. 

This one was left over,

so I colored it, fussy cut it and used it on this card.

This is "Feather on Side" (#6303) and

"Just a note" (#6405) are both from Eureka! Stamps.

For the sky background,

I punched scalloped circle from a scrap of card stock. 

I laid the circle onto white card stock and inked over it with Distress Ink. 

I moved the circle randomly around the card stock piece

 and continued to ink until

 I had a beautiful sky with clouds.

This is a very simple technique and makes a lovely background.

 

I hope you have been inspired, maybe you'll try making a sky for a card using this technique.

Leave me a comment if you will and feel free to ask questions if you have them.

Thanks for stopping by today!

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Feathers

Hello crafty friends!

Today I have a card to show you using

"Feather on Side" (#6303) and

"Thinking of you" (#7706)

from Eureka! Stamps.

Feather on Side was stamped randomly

 onto white card stock and colored with water color crayons.

Honestly, I don't know if there are feathers in these colors,

but I sure had fun coloring them.

I used a rubber stamp, but this is also available as a digital stamp. 

The Thinking of you is a digital stamp, it is also available as a rubber stamp.

Personally, I like to work with the rubber stamps, but the digis are so convenient, since they can be re-sized to whatever size you need.

So, take your pick.  Eureka! Stamps has wonderful images available in both.

 

Thanks for stopping by today!

Leave a comment if you will and come again soon.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!