Framed Cardinals and Framed Chocolate

Jingle Belles wants to see frames on our Christmas cards.  I framed some cardinals with a silver pierced rectangle frame.

The image is stamped and watercoloured. The sentiment is heat embossed. I went over the ornaments with Glossy Accents, and framed the image with a pierced dot die cut silver frame.

Festive Friday is celebrating World Chocolate Day.  It seemed a good opportunity to use a sentiment stamp I have that refers to chocolate.  I have these elements from the challenge list: a sweet sentiment, chocolates (in the sentiment), cream, and brown.

I sprinkled black and brown Brushos on cream cs and spritzed with water to let the colours run, then stamped the image in brown and heat embossed.   Since I had the pierced frame die out from the card above, I decided to create a frame for this card as well - this time in light brown - and then mounted it on a dark brown card base.

 

   

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Penny Black image, Rubber Soul sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black, ColorBox silver
Paper - watercolour paper, off white cs, silver shimmer cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, silver embossing powder, SU label punches, MFT pierced frame die, Glossy Accents

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Kay Foley
Ink - brown pigment ink
Paper - cream cs, light and dark brown cs
Size - A2
Accessories - brown and black Brushos, MFT pierced frame die, clear embossing powder

Metal and Rust

Some fun with mixed media!

The latest SCS Mixability challenge is "Petals to the Metal" - a mixed media project with flowers or petals made of metal of some sort.  And the SCS Ways to Use It challenge is "Shape Up" - make a shaped card - any shape except for the typical squares or rectangles.  I came up with this card to meet both challenges:

I chose a hexagon for my shape and created a poinsettia out of heated metal. I die cut it twice, shaped it, and then attached both layers to the top hexagon with a brad.

The top layer was created with a holly stencil and green spray, and then when the spray was dry, I splattered with some liquid copper paint and added a sentiment.


On Sunday, Christine (calex on SCS) of It's a Card Day's Night and I spent the day with Loll Thompson, experimenting with various new supplies and techniques.  One of the things we tried was rusting powder.  While none of us were too thrilled with our results (or with the bad smell it creates when you add the vinegar), I decided that I'd use a small piece as a frame for a sentiment on this card for SCS CAS challenge "I Love Chocolate":

It has a chocolatey colour so seemed perfect for the Kay Foley sentiment about Belgian chocolates.

The rusting powder was done on kraft cs by painting gesso around the edges, then sprinkling on the rusting powder, letting the gesso dry, then spritzing with vinegar, letting it dry, and repeating the vinegar a couple more times.

I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment, popped the panel up on fun foam, and placed it on a background layer of white cs.  I twisted dark brown and copper ribbon together and added it to the side of the background layer.

Thanks for dropping by today!

Supplies for card 1:

Stamps - Penny Black sentiment

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper - white cs

Size - 4.25" across the points of the hexagon

Accessories - copper, Tim Holtz Tattered Poinsettia die, Penny Black stencil, Mr. Huey's green spray, liquid copper paint, Spellbinders hexagon dies, black brad

Supplies for card 2:

Stamps - Kay Foley sentiment

Ink - Versafine Vintage Sepia

Paper - white and kraft cs

Size - A2

Accessories - gesso, rusting powder, vinegar, clear embossing powder, copper and dark brown ribbon, fun foam

Cards for National Chocolate Day

When I saw yesterday's SCS Ways to Use It challenge, I discovered that yesterday was National Chocolate Day - never knew there was such a thing, but I took it as an excuse to go out and treat myself to some lovely chocolates and to make two cards that refer to chocolate.

The challenge is "Celebrate Chocolate" by using brown, white and/or cream with the option of red, gold and silver.

I have two fabulous sentiment stamps by Kay Foley that refer to chocolate so decided to make two cards so that I could use them as my focal points.

For the first card, I used the option of gold:

I used cream cs, stamped the sentiment in brown, and framed it in brown. I stamped a bit of Gorgeous Grunge splatter on the card base and scattered some gold sequins around the frame.

And for this card, I used the option of red as it toned in well with the reddish colours that come out in brown bister:

I stamped the sentiment on a piece of coated cs that had been sprinkled with brown bister, spritzed, and air-dried. I then layered it with red and brown borders, and used a cream card base.

It will make a great get well card next time I need one.

Speaking of dogs, as the second card does, my sweet pup, Tessa, is growing so quickly.  Here she is out on the back porch soaking up some sun:

Thanks for dropping by today!

Supplies for the first card:
 

Stamps: Kay Foley sentiment, Gorgeous Grunge splatter 
Paper: PTI Vintage Cream, Bazill brown linen cs 
Ink: Memento Rick Cocoa 
Accessories: gold sequins, MFT pierced frame die  

Supplies for the second card:

Stamps: Kay Foley
Paper: PTI Vintage Cream, coated cs, brown and red cs
Ink: Versafine Vintage Sepia
Accessories: brown bister, clear embossing powder, fun foam, Nesties matting basics rectangles