Altered Playing Card Challenge Week 26

Oh my gosh, only one more week to go for The Altered Playing Card Challenge, Wow. How fun has this been? I've had a great time and I can't believe it's almost over

We are now onto week 26 of this challenge

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This week I wanted to focus on something called Monochromatic which basically means creating something with one color in many different shades. You can also use white or black in a monochrome project. 

I am no good with monochrome and it's a tough concept for me so this week will be a sort of challenge for me as well.

I started out with two different printed papers, one was a light teal color and the other was purple

I then grabbed some stencils, both of these are by Dylusions

For the next step I used acrylic paint but feel free to use inks if you choose

I did the purple card first and used a slightly darker shade of paint along with the stencil

( I like to use sponge dabbers with paint and stencils, you don't want too much paint on your dabber, I usually dab in the paint and then dab onto the craft sheet a few times and then begin to work)

For the second teal card, I did the same

Working with the teal card first, I first added a bit of ink around the edges

I then used my fine tip Bic marker and doodled a bit 

I then stamped Roc Nicholas's stamp called Screaming Bunny onto white card stock and colored him with copics

I used several different shades of teal for this

I then cut my bunny out

I used a different color ink to stamp Bla Bla Bla by Jill Penney and Daniel Torrente onto my background, then adhered my bunny and my words Even Silence Speaks By Jo Capper-Sandon

Here is my finished card

For the purple card I first used ink to edge my card

I then used my white gel pen to created some doodles here and there

I added some wash tape, I like to tear my washi tape and then add it to my backgrounds

I stamped  Mervynboy and Hat onto white card stock and colored them with several different shades of purple

I added the Goody, goody gumdrops sentiment last

Here is my finished card

and here are my two cards together

I hope that you will try this monochromatic theme this week. You don't even have to do yours like I did mine, as long as the concept is the same. The same colors in different shades.

Have fun this week, next week is out last and we will have a huge giveaway!! So come back!

Cheers!

Week Four of Stampotique's Anything Goes

Good morning everyone, I hope you all had the Merriest of Christmas' yesterday. 

I'm online for a bit to tell you that this week is week 4 of the Stampotique Designers Challenge over at the blog. Although this is the last week you can enter again to win a 30.00 gift card for the Stampotique Originals Store. 

For the challenge this week, I made a festive ATC for the holidays.

For this ATC I used a stamp called Goat Monster by the wonderful Kira Nichols

I colored my goat monster with colic markers and cut him out.

I used stencils along the edges and then went around them all with a white pen. For the bird I used a die to cut him out and then colored him with Smooch ink. I also used smooch inks for the holly and the words Ho Ho Ho.

Thanks again for stopping by and we hope you will join us for the last week of "Anything Goes" over at Stampotique Designers Blog

A Few Christmas Ornaments - Take One

I have been getting into the Christmas mood lately and have been working on several ornaments this week and last week and the week prior haha!! 

I have several to show you over the next three or so days.

For my first ornaments these will be entered into the 

Stampotique Designers Challenge

This week Nellie is asking us to do something with a Christmas theme in mind. A card or a Christmas Project.

For my ornaments here, I chose to use a really cute Stampotique stamp by Maryse Carrier called Wow.

I used some plastic flattened ornaments that I bought at Michael's. I took the tops off and set that aside and then sanded them a bit and then applied two coats of gesso over each one.

I made my first ornament by applying old torn book pages to the surface after applying gesso first. I used Glue and Seal to apply the book pages all over the ornament. The Glue and Seal worked like a charm.

I then stamped my image onto a piece of distressed paper and colored her with Copic markers.

I wrote my sentiment in black marker and then added everything to the ornament. I also added some ribbon around the top and will add a gift tag for the person this one is going to.

For my second ornament I also painted this with two coats of gesso. I also added two coats of green acrylic paint and splattered some red and white paint across it.

I then used tissue paper to stamp my image and write out my sentiment. I colored my image with Copic markers again and used glue and seal to apply them to the ornament. I added a little ribbon to the top of this one as well.

I then went around the edges with of my image and my sentiment on both ornaments with black Faber-Castell oil pastel crayon.  I love how you can smear the colors around the edges and then it's also permanent so I can seal everything. 

Here are my finished two ornaments.

Thanks again for coming by and if you didn't catch my last post, I made the announcement that I am honored to be on the Stampotique Design team for 2014.

You can check out the official post 

HERE

So excited!!!

Hey!!

Today's project is based upon the challenge over at Stampotique's Designers Challenge, I always love the fun challenges over there and this week is no exception. This time they are challenging us to "Create From and Envelope"
This tutorial is short but sweet today.....

I started by cutting some polka dot embossed paper from the Tim Holtz Pocket Envelope Die, this die is so fun and I love using it, I really need to get it out more. It's also the perfect size for your ATCs. 
I used three different colors of distress stains to color the envelope.

I used Daniel's Tree Topper image from Stampotique, designed by Daniel Torrent and Jill Penny.

I colored the guy with copics and embossed the heart with pink embossing powder. I embossed another heart and cut it out so that I can have two hearts. The second I floated above Daniel and added deminsionals behind it to make it 3D.

I also cut two flowers from white card stock to add to the front. These are Memory Box  

I also added the word Hey (also memory box) and the word Hello to the card insert

Here is my finished product....

Heading out today to my daughter's violin concert. Her last one before we move. You all have a great day, thanks again for stopping by.