STAMPlorations CAS Card Challenge - Mid Month Reminder

It is halfway through the month of October and time for a reminder of the STAMPlorations CAS Card Challenge - Anything Goes with an option to use ORANGE.

I used one of my favorite ARTplorations stencils: Happy Flowers and did some reverse image stamping with Distress Inks. So the negative (solid part of stencil) part is the inked part of the image on the card.

The sentiment is from Winnie and Walter.

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OCC:Background Check - Day 1 Card 2

This is my second card from class.  It uses some techniques that Jennifer demonstrated.

After blending the distress inks I applied a Heidi Swapp stencil that was misted with a mix of water and Perfect Pearls.  After it was dried I heat embossed the sentiment from Winnie & Walter and the hearts from PaperTrey with silver embossing powder.  I love this color combination together.

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Online Card Class: Background Check

I'm taking another Online Card Class this week and the subject is Backgrounds.  Here is the first card I created using techniques from both Jennifer's and Kristina's lessons.

The poppy flower is a stencil from Penny Black. I used Distress inks on the flower.  Then with the stencil in place I overlaid a Heidi Swapp stencil that was misted with water and perfect pearls to remove some of the ink.  Then I watercolored the background with distress inks and lots of water and a paint brush, drying the ink in between layers.

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Wishing You a Happy Birthday

This card was created for a few challenges.   The PaperTrey Make it Monday (MIM) challenge is to water color with die cut stencils.  I used the PTI Happy Birthday cover plate to cut out freezer paper to use as the mask.  In the video Lizzy shows how to use removable labels to make the mask.  I ironed on the freezer paper to the water color paper to create a seal so the water color wouldn't seep under the mask. I used the wet on wet water color technique to paint over the die cut using the colors from today's SCS color challenge.

I am also submitting this card to Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes:

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Visual Art Journal Days 4 and 5 - Shabbat

Our fourth day was Friday, July 3 and the camp gets ready for Shabbat (Sabbath) which starts at sundown.  We don't have work or classes on Saturday because the Sabbath is a day of rest.  But after services on Saturday morning we had free time so I opened up the art room to those campers that wanted to relax and play.  Their journal prompt for Friday's journaling was to display through watercoloring and journaling how Shabbat makes them feel. Another prompt was what colors represent how they feel about Shabbat or how Shabbat makes them feel.  Below are my journal entries:

The first page was watercoloring with markers directly onto a Penny Black stamp, misted with water and then stamped.  The next page was watercoloring with a stencil - I applied distress inks right onto a stencil, misted it with water and then "stamped" with it onto the page.  The two pages with the Clearly Besotted tulip image was demonstrating watercoloring in the lines and then no line watercoloring.  Lastly I created a background using Color Bursts and Brushos and then stamped the Rubbernecker flowers with Versafine Onyx Black ink and used washi tapes to adhere the panel to the journal page.

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Sketch Challenge #9 and NBUS Friends Challenge

I just got back from visiting my stamping friends in Iowa.  This was our 8th year that we have met to stamp, shop, eat and laugh.  We share stamps, dies, stencils, etc and share different techniques with each other.  I wanted to post two cards that I made using my friends' stuff so I could submit them to Lesley's Sketch Challenge #9:

                            

and to Darnell's NBUS/Friends challenge:

                      

The large butterfly is from Memory Box.  I used glittery paper from Michaels for the background of the butterfly.  The background panel was made by blending Distress Inks on a white piece of cardstock and then misting a butterfly stencil with water and laying it onto the Distress inks.

For the NBUS / Friends challenge I used the same technique for the background - blended Distress Inks and a misted stencil laid on top.  I used a MB wreath die and cut it out from green cardstock and also cut it out of white cardstock and replaced the green die cut in the white card stock after embossing the white cardstock with an embossing folder.  I used a SU! image for the inside of the wreath.  The entire top panel was adhered with foam squares.

I will post more from my fun time with my stamping friends soon.  I just wanted to get these two cards posted so I can enter the challenges in time.

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Happy Anniversary

This is for the Time Out Challenge to case Donna Mikasa's card:

I changed some of the ink colors and used the same technique as Donna did where after the distress inks were applied with a blending tool I laid a wet stencil down onto the dried ink.  It removes the ink and shows the design of the stencil.  I used a different stencil and I embossed some hearts and changed the sentiment slightly.

The stencil I used is from Heidi Swapp.  The sentiment is from Winnie and Walter and the heart is from a PaperTrey stamp set.

So Smoky and Slushy Cards

Weird title for a post!  So Smoky and Slushy refers to the colors for this week's color challenge on SCS.  I am guest designing there for the month of June.  The colors this week are: So Saffron, Smoky Slate and Strawberry Slush.  The first two cards were created using the watercoloring with stencils technique that Tim Holtz taught in the online Watercoloring for Cardmakers class.  I wasn't happy with the background on the first card so I made another one.

After making the first two cards I remembered that I have a few MME 6x6" patterned paper pads that had these colors.  So I made the following two cards:

The above card uses the sketch from the Stamplorations blog.  The sentiment is from Winnie and Walter.

This card uses the sketch from Seize the Sketch:

I didn't put a sentiment on this one - I hated to cover up this beautiful patterned paper.  

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