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May - Love to Scrap Challenge Blog #121

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Hi everyone! It's May 1st and that means another challenge is up at the Love to Scrap Challenge Blog.   This month is Anything Goes Challenge featuring Cas-Ual Fridays Stamps. Please join us and link your creations for a chance win a $25 store credit to Cas-Ual Fridays Stamps.                                        ENTER HERE------->>>>  Love to Scrap Challenge Blog I made two cards using the Cas-Ual Fridays Little Birdie stamp set. I used Zig markers to color in the birdies for both cards. I love how they blend so easily on Bristol Smooth card stock. For my first card I was in a rainbow mood. I used Bristol smooth card stock with the MFT cloud stencil and distress oxide inks. I had fun with this 😂. The little birdies are so cute. You can't see it in the pictures but the sentiments have little hearts in the O's. I added clear Nuvo drops to finish off the ca...

March - Love to Scrap Challenge Blog

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     Hi all.  Welcome to the March Challenge on the Love to Scrap Challenge Blog .  This month's challenge is Anything Goes sponsored by  DRS Designs .         To join this month's challenge ------->> CLICK HERE      This month I used this stamp from DRS Designs called  Dogwood Branch .  I wanted to do an ink smoosh technique and a watercolor technique with Distress Oxide Inks. I like the control of placing the watercolor myself.  The ink smooshing came out a little to abstract for my taste, LOL!! Which technique do you like best?      For both cards I used Canson XL watercolor paper.  For the distress oxide inks I used Picked Raspberry, Salty Ocean, Crushed Olive, Mowed Lawn, & Aged Mahogany. Neenah Solar White 110lb for the card base. I topped them off with Studio Katia iridescent sequins.   I hope you like my proj...

Blessings for a New Year

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Happy New Year everyone.  I am wishing all of you the best for 2019.  I wanted to start the year off with a monochrome color Blessed card I made with the fabulous Erin Lee Creative products using the  Wreath Stencil . I started with SSS Mint  Card stock . I used distress ink in Cracked Pistachio to add color to the stencil.  It was a little darker than the card stock which turned out nice. I then used applied a light shading of the same ink to a white card stock and cut out the SSS Blessed die cut twice to make it more dimensional.  I embossed a sentiment in white from the MFT Anything But Basic Friends Stamp Set . Finally I added some clear droplets from Pretty Pink Posh . I added my card panel to a white Neenah 110lb card base. For my second card, I did the same process but left the Blessed die cut white to make it pop more and added the card panel to a Neenah Desert Storm 80lb card base. I love the way this one look...

May - Kind Heart card kit from Simon Says Stamp

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Hi there.  Hope everyone is having a great week.  It's Friday and the weekend is finally here! I thought it would never come. Today's post is about the beautiful May card kit from Simon Says Stamp called Kind Heart.  It is full of so many amazing goodies.  There are two stamp sets.  The Everything Together stamp set is 6x8 with gorgeous lettering. The picture above shows an A2 sized card and how the largest stamp fills up the card.  It's truly stunning! I used emboss resist technique on the card front.  I added VersaMark ink and then embossed using a glitter embossing powder to give it a sparkly effect.  After that, I used Wild Honey Distress Oxide Ink  to cover most of the card front and then wiped away the ink to reveal the prettiness. I love using this technique when I want a solid background for bold lettering stamps. I used one of the sheets from the Pinkfresh studio paper pack that was included in the kit and cut ...

Distress Inks and Block Smooshing Technique

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Hi there.  Hope everyone is having a good weekend.  It's my daughters 9th birthday during this weekend and I had a house full of giggling girls.  And, it was a sleepover party.  Lord help me! But, my daughter loved it and she had so much fun, so I guess that's all that counts. This week I'm using an ink smooshing technique with an acrylic block.  I seen this done so many times and it comes out so cool, thought I'd give it a try.  I used a 4.25x5" acrylic block to smoosh Distress Inks (Fired Brick, Scattered Straw, Salty Ocean, Seedless Preserve), I added water on top of the ink until it beaded up and then turned it over onto distress watercolor paper.  I let it sit for about 10 mins before I took the block off.  Even though it wasn't dried, I used my heat tool to finish drying and set in the color.  I did this twice to get a deeper color. I didn't get the result with yellow or green that I wanted to, so I used  SSS Brigh...