October Swap

Hello crafty friends!

Today I have a card I made for an art swap.

The "parameters" were

Color: Use green or blue

Technique: Stencil, stamping, collage

Product: stencil paste, ink, magazine page, 

paper napkin/tissue paper

Theme:  nature, peace/calm, women

Finished piece:  card,  ATC, frameable/hangable art piece

Color: I used blue and green

Technique: I just realized that I failed on this one,

I didn't use any of them. 

Product:  I used ink and tissue paper for the background "water"

I also used magazine pages for the fish and seahorses

I covered them with packing tape, then soaked them in water

and rubbed the paper off.  This leaves the image on the tape.

I then glued some of them to plain white card stock and fussy cut them.

The larger seahorse was easy to cut and glue down 

with out the card stock.

I went with the nature theme in the over all card,

as well as in the "sea weed" which is actually

pressed and dried pieces from one of our plants

that we had in a planter this summer.

I just heard from my friend that she had received 

the card and loves it.

Thanks for stopping by to see what I've been up to.

I hope you'll come again soon.

Until then,

challenge yourself!

 

I Challenged Myself

Welcome blog friends!

One day I wanted to craft and didn't really 

have any set plans for what to do.

I decided to challenge myself to make some 

cards with images and backgrounds from my

stash.  These are three of the cards I made.

I had this image all colored and in my stash for a

long time.  It's not my usual style of image, but

I like it a lot, so I fussy cut it.

Then I went to my box full of backgrounds

that I have made and picked out this one. 

It was made with alcohol inks.  I simply adhered

the image to the inked panel and then added

it to a card base and I had it done.

Next I found this poppy image, which is one of my

favorite flower images.  I fussy cut it leaving a bit of a

white border around the image.  I think this really helps

set it out from the background.

I chose this background, which was also made 

with alcohol inks.  It's hard to see, but it also

has areas of gold foiling.  While the ink was still a

little bit sticky, I pressed the foil to the ink and then pulled 

it off.  This leaves the foiling anywhere that it could 

stick to the ink.  
I used foam tape to adhere the flower to the background panel,

then adhered it to a card base.

For this card, I pulled out a tag and 

covered it with the alcohol inked background

piece.  I had a totally different idea in mind,

but then the silver and pink flocked animal 

print caught my eye and I added that.

I then used a stamp and 

Alcohol Lift Ink
to stamp the sentiment.

If you haven't ever used 
Alcohol Lift Ink, I encourage you to

give it a try.  I love using it.

Now I had a tag, but what to do with it?

I actually tried a couple other things and ended

up taking them apart, nothing seemed to be working

for me with this.
Then I decided to mount the tag on a piece of 

silver card stock, then black, then a card base.

As you can see, I trimmed each layer out as I went.

I really love how this turned out in the end.

I'm glad and grateful that you stopped by today.

I hope you have learned something or been inspired

in some way and will come back again.
Until then;

challenge yourself in some way.

Note the links are only to give a reference so you can

see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.