Heat Embossed Reindeer Panel and Bleached Iris

For the ABC Christmas Challenge "E is for Embossing", I went with heat embossing.

I created a background by spraying some silver spray on cs.  When dry, I stamped the image panel in black and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  I bordered with silver glitter cs and mounted on a silver shimmer card base.

For the Penny Black Saturday Challenge, I used a lovely Penny Black iris stamp I've had for ages.  It's also for Seize the Birthday "Spring Floral" - the early small irises are starting to bloom in my garden!

 

 

I created a blue background by sprinkling with various blue Brushos and spritzing with water.  I let it air dry.  Then stamped the irises and used a small paint brush and bleach to lift the Brushos colour from inside the iris image.  Then stamped a few bits of random script around the irises and added a sentiment die cut with an oval and lightly sponged with blue ink.  Bordered with black cs.

 

 

 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous reindeer panel
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - white cs, silver glitter cs, silver shimmer cs
Size - A2
Accessories - silver spray, clear embossing powder

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Penny Black irises, Stampington & Co script, A Muse sentiment
Ink - Distress Tumbled Glass, Versafine Clair Twilight and Nocturne
Paper - black and white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - bleach, blue Brushos, Spellbinders oval die

Penny Black Irises

The August Penny Black and More Challenge is "Say It with Flowers".  I've gone with irises, one of my favourite flowers and made two variations using the same stamp.

For this one, I stamped and watercoloured the iris, then split it diagonally and cut out a small section of it, lined it up on the card base and stamped the sentiment, and then mounted the two sections on fun foam.

Here's the other variation:

Again, it's stamped and watercoloured but with quite different colours and popped up on fun foam on a coloured card base.  I added a bit of black splatter for interest.

Same image, two cards - which one do you prefer?

Supplies:
Stamps - Penny Black iris, unknown sentiments
Ink - Archival Jet Black
Paper - mixed media, white, and blue cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, fun foam

Iris Thank You

The Paper Players are asking for a Clean and Simple Thank You card.

Here's my card:

I stamped and heat embossed the iris in white, then watercoloured both iris and background, and then splattered some blue in ink.  I stamped the sentiment on a piece of white cs and die cut a window in it.  I popped the window up over the iris image and added it all to a white card base.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies:
Stamps - unknown
Ink - ColorBox white,
Paper - watercolour paper, white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - white embossing powder, watercolour paints, rectangle dies, foam tape

Quick and CAS Iris

A thank you card for a couple of challenges.  Very quick to make and very CAS.

The Paper Players set a tic-tac-toe challenge.

I chose a diagonal line - die cut, embossing, and floral.

And the AAA Challenge asked for:

I die cut the iris out of watercolour paper and painted it with my Gansai paints, then went back in with coloured pencils to add a bit more detail. I cut two more of the iris and glued them together for more substance to the iris.

I glued it to an embossed panel and added a heat embossed sentiment on a scrap of purple cs.

It was such a quick card to make and I really like the results so am tempted to make a few more to have on hand.

Supplies:

Stamps - Rubber Soul sentiment

Ink - ColorBox white

Paper - white and purple cs, watercolour paper

Size - A2

Accessories - Memory Box iris die, Gansai watercolour paints, coloured pencils, white embossing powder, Craft Concepts embossing folder

An Iris for the Flower Challenge

I love irises and this month's Flower Challenge is "Anything Goes" so I went with an iris.

Here's my card:

I die cut the iris out of watercolour paper and painted it with my Gansai Tambi paints.

I pulled a pale background out of my UFO box (a very late pull of a shaving foam background on coated cs). I glued the bottom of the iris stems down and popped the iris flower and bud up with foam tape.

I die cut the frame and put it on top using foam tape all the way around it. Added lots of sequins for embellishment.

Here's a closer look showing the dimension of the iris and the frame created by the foam tape behind them:

Thanks for dropping by today!

Supplies:

Paper - white cs, coated cs, watercolour paper

Size - A2

Accessories - Penny Black iris die, Gansai Tambi watercolour paints, foam tape, Lil Inker stitched rectangle, Spellbinders deckle edge rectangle, sequins

A Favourite Flower

This month's Flower Challenge is to use a previous challenge.

My card works with two of the previous challenges:

Irises are one of my favourite flowers and I have lots of them in my garden, including a whole bed of them in my lane.  Here are the ones in the lane at their prime:

And here's my card:

I die cut the iris out of watercolour paper and painted it with my Gansai paints, then went back in with coloured pencils to add a bit more detail. I cut two more of the iris and glued them together for more substance to the iris.

I glued it to an embossed panel and added a heat embossed sentiment on a scrap of purple cs.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Supplies:

Stamps - Rubber Soul sentiment

Ink - ColorBox white

Paper - white and purple cs, watercolour paper

Size - A2

Accessories - Memory Box iris die, Gansai watercolour paints, coloured pencils, white embossing powder, Craft Concepts embossing folder

Two Very Different Cards

A couple of cards from challenges over at SCS.  First up the Mix-Ability Challenge - "Masterboard Triptych".

I started out with a "paper towel background" in various pinks and oranges. This is a neat technique I learned from Loll Thompson where you save the paper towels you use to mop up various inks and paints from other projects and then transfer those colours (along with the dots from the texture of the paper towel) to a new project. See Loll's post here for details.

Over top of that, I laid a TCW stencil and used various colours of 3D glitter paint through the stencil.

I did a vertical triptych with the panel and added a die cut sentiment. I used a green glitter cs for the sentiment, but in hindsight, I'm wondering if black would have been better to give more contrast.


Then for the SCS Inspiration Challenge,  Audrie chose an Etsy site called "The Altered Diaries". I chose this diary as my inspiration:

The minute I saw it, I thought of a very old iris stamp I've had for years. It couldn't be more perfect as it has lines around the image as well as a similar looking iris.  So I created this card:

First I created the background by spritzing watercolour paper with water, then going over it with Antique Linen and Tea Dye Distress stains.

Using my MISTI, I inked it the stamp with yellow and green Distress markers, and stamped over the Distress stain background. I pulled some of the colour out with a brush and water, and when dry, I reinked the stamp with the markers and stamped over it again to put the outline back in.

I trimmed the stamped panel and added it to rustic cream cs, with a green sentiment stamped below. I popped the whole piece up on fun foam and added to a green card base.


I love the way challenges can encourage me to create radically different styles of cards!

Supplies for the first card:

Paper - green glitter, white, and mixed media cs

Size - A2

Accessories - TCW stencil, Tim Holtz happy birthday die, 3D glitter paints, paper towel, various inks and paints

Supplies for the second card:

Stamps - Lasting Impressions iris, Savvy Stamps sentiment

Ink - Memento Bamboo Leaves

Paper - green linen cs, watercolour paper, PTI rustic cream cs

Size - A2

Accessories - green and yellow Distress markers, Antique Linen and Tea Dye Distress stains, fun foam