A Red Valentine and a Shiny Birthday

I've got two cards to post today.  First up a Valentine card:

Using mixed media cs, I sprinkled two shades of red Brushos through the hearts on a heart stencil and then spritzed with water. After it dried, I framed it with dark red cs with a large heart die cut in the centre. 

Next up, a birthday card:

I used the "black ice" technique.  I followed this tutorial on SCS.

To make the background, I took a piece of silver foil cs and lightly dragged my black Staz-on pad down it to create some streaks. I then stamped the wildflowers with the black Staz-On and then heat set just to be sure I wouldn't smear it. Then I lightly dragged a Versamark pad over it in the same direction as the black streaks, covered with clear embossing powder, and heat set it.

I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment in white on black cs and cut it into a banner and add it to the main panel. I bordered it in black and added to a white card base.

The first card is going to these two challenges:

Addicted to CAS "Hearts"
 

Tic Tac Toe Challenge - I used the left hand vertical row - Red, Heart, Sentiment

 

The second card is going to:

Seize the Birthday "Sparkle and Shine"

 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - PTI sentiment
Ink - Archival Jet Black
Paper - red cs, mixed media cs
Size - A2
Accessories - large heart die, Brushos (Scarlet, Brilliant Red), TCW hearts stencil

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Unity Insightful Meadow, SU sentiment
Ink - Versamark, Staz-on black, ColorBox white
Paper - silver foil cs, black and white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - clear embossing powder, white embossing powder

Autumnal Thanks and Masculine CAS

A couple of cards for a couple of challenges today.

First up, for The Color Throwdown and The Flower Challenge:

  

I'm going to friends for Thanksgiving dinner this weekend (Canadian Thanksgiving) and I  will need a card to thank them so the autumnal colours of the Color Throwdown are perfect.

The background was created by smooshing various Distress inks on watercolour paper. When dry, I laid the Harlequin stencil over it, then sprayed with water, immediately removed the stencil, waited 10 seconds, and then blotted with paper towel. Again when dry, I stamped with a bit of text.

The flower is stamped and watercolour with Distress inks, then fussy cut. The detail of the stamens almost disappeared when I watercoloured the flower, so I went back in with a brown marker and filled them in.

And then switching back to Christmas, a card for The Male Room's CAS challenge.

I struggle with masculine cards so am happy to have done this Christmas one:

I used a technique called "Black Ice" that I learned from a tutorial over at SCS last year.  I took piece of silver foil cs and lightly dragged my black Staz-on pad down it to create some streaks.  I then stamped the tree with the black Staz-On and then heat set just to be sure I wouldn't smear it.  Then I lightly dragged a Versamark pad over it in the same direction as the black streaks, covered with clear embossing powder, and heat set it.

I trimmed the panel and popped it up on fun foam on a white cardbase.  I added a white die cut sentiment and lots of clear gemstones.

It's far shinier in real life - just very hard to photograph!  It would have been perfect for The Male Room's previous challenge ("Use Embellishments") but I had missed the link deadline. 

Supplies for card 1:

Stamps - PTI sentiment, TH flower, unknown text stamp

Ink - various Distress inks

Paper - watercolour paper, white cs

Size - A2

Accessories - watercolour paints, brown Tombow marker, Harlequin stencil, fun foam

Supplies for card 2:

Stamps - unknown tree stamp

Ink - StazOn black, Versamark

Paper - white cs, silver foil cs

Size - A2

Accessories - clear embossing powder, clear gemstones, TH merry die, fun foam

Silver with Black Ice

I've been away on vacation so haven't posted anything for ages.  It's good to be home and back to crafting, gardening, walking my dog, seeing the horses and kids I volunteer with, etc.  I'll be very focused on Christmas cards in the next while as my fundraiser sale is coming up at the end of November.  So here's one for today:

The October colour challenge for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown is:

And the October CAS Mix Up challenge this month is:

Recently SCS posted a tutorial called Black Ice Technique.  It uses silver foil as a background so that seemed perfect for the 52CCT challenge.  And for CAS Mix Up, I have silver foil, black ice technique, stamping, and heat embossing.

I took piece of silver foil cs and lightly dragged my black Staz-on pad down it to create some streaks.  I then stamped the tree and sentiment with the black Staz-On and then heat set just to be sure I wouldn't smear it.  Then I lightly dragged a Versamark pad over it in the same direction as the black streaks, covered with clear embossing powder, and heat set it.

I trimmed the panel and popped it up on fun foam on a white cardbase.

It's very hard to photograph silver foil so here's another view of it:

Thanks for stopping by today!