Colour Q #96

This card color combo was inspired by this weeks Colour Q challenge .... unfortunately I did not get my act together in time to submit it ... I got distracted by some rather yummy naughty smoothies this weekend ... but love the colour combination! 

So inspired by the colour combination I went in search of a stamp set that matched the inspiration and came up with the new Up Up and Away stamp set ... I used my brayer on Whisper White paper to make a Bashful Blue sky and Lucky Limeade green space which was versamarked with Pocket Silhouette stamp for texture.

The Up Up and Away balloons were done in two ways - the middle balloon is versamarked and heat embossed with the Tempting Turquoise and that two balloons on the side are done with the Stamp Write Markers to allow for two tone balloons in Bashful Blue and Tempting Turquoise. 

 

The clouds, birds and baskets are in Basic Gray with a little Tangerine Tango thrown in for the sun. 

 

Happy Stampin' 

Forgive me!

I was playing with the embossing folder and gold glitter trying to get an idea for something else '50th Gold Themed Birthday' and this card just evolved ... I know it is summer and this is a Christmas card again but isn't it just divine?

I ran the gold cardstock through the folder to raise the embossed image and than brayered that image with versamark and clear embossed to make the gold 'two toned' and mounted it on black cardstock ... the Delightful Decoration ornament was versamarked on black cardstock and heat embossed with gold glitter emboss powder and punched out and adhered with dimensionals!

Quick, simple and yet elegant!

Happy Stampin'

Technique Tuesday - Brayer

Sneak peek of Tuesdays class card ... brayer with Pacific Point, Tempting Turquoise, Dafodil Delight, Tangerine Tango and Real Red were used to create create the lake and sunset...with masking to create the setting sun.


Pocket Silhouettes in Night of Navy to create the lake age and the Sailboat from Uncharted Territory stamp set in Basic Black to create the scene.

Watercoloring with a Brayer

This card was a lot of fun and I LOVE the way it turned out!

This technique used the watercolor paper, brayer and the classic ink spots to create my own 'kaleidoscope' ink ... i carefully inked up the brayer with the first colored spot in one strip of the brayer and than left a small space and inked up the other colors leaving a tiny gap .... than you roll it over the paper until you get the coverage you want - than spritz it with water and let the colors run together and lay flat to dry or roll over again with brayer if desired to get the coverage / blending you desire.

Once the water color paper was totally dry I rubbed my Embossing buddy over the card, stamped with black craft ink and embossed with black embossing powder both the sentiment from Word Play and the Boat from Uncharted Territory. I than colored the sun and boat with my Stamp Write markers to finish off and decorated my envelope with the Light house image!

Elastic Easter Blossoms

Hope I am not boring everyone with the brayer themed cards - but it sure has been fun playing with my brayer again - it really is a versatile tool that should be in every stampers arsenal!

For this card card I wrapped the brayer with three elastics and than inked up with Daffodil Delight and rolled over glossy card stock and repeated with Old Olive, Melon Mambo and Pacific Point. This created a background that reminded me of Easter Grass so I thought the Eater Blossom stamp set would be perfect to use with it!

I really love how the Eggs stamped on the glossy paper - you get a really strong sharp color which popped and the 'shine' makes them look more like authentic eggs!

And of course no card of mine would be complete without some sort of bling hiding in it - so accented with some Rhinestones on the eggs and sentiment!

Kowabunga Dude

Love how this card turned out .... another card inspired by playing with my brayer as well as sampling some new stamps from Sale-a-bration!

I used the brayer to create the sunset image on glossy white paper and than cut a 'curve' as a frame for the Skateboard stamp and than chose a sentiment for the Word Play stamp set... I think it came together just awesome and will make an awesome card for one of the men in my life - I left the inside blank until a need arises for a masculine card!

Reminded of being a kid ...

When I was a child one of my favorite things to do was go to the corner store with my quarter and buy a 'surprise grab bag' of candies!

Well I am all grown up now but have to tell you I still love a good 'surprise' ... this is no April Fool's joke looks like Stampin' Up is appealing to the kid in all us stampers with their current 'Grab Bags' ... stop by my online store and check out the clearance rack for more details on the various Grab Bags available!

Now on to some card sharing ... this is another card I made while playing with my brayer in preparation for my upcoming Technique Tuesday class!

This card using the 'bouncing brayer' technique which with my color palette choice looked remarkably like an underwater scene as it came together - however since I do not have any 'sea creatures' I was inspired by some samples on Stampin Connection to make my own little creatures using the Build a Blossoms stamp set and the Pocket Silhouettes for my seaweed. Sentiment is from the Occasional Quotes Level 2 hostess set.

I submitted this card over at A La Card Monkey as part of their Nature challenge to create a card with plants, animals or landscapes ... figured a nice underwater landscape with some fish in love would work!


April 13th Color Throw Down color challenge goes perfect with this card as well!

Playing with the Brayer

I have been challenged to get reacquainted with my brayer from a friend who just bought a brayer and is looking for tips in an upcoming technique class ... so this is a card that I made which used the brayer with the Texturz Plates through the Big Shot to create the pretty Plum paper in the back layer here.

Effect is created using Very Vanilla cardstock and the texturz plate inked up with the brayer filled with Perfect Plum -helps togives a nice 'vintage feel' to this card seeing it peek out from back there.

Also wanted to showcase the upcoming Strength and Hope set from the Summer mini which will be available as of May 1st cause it is just my FAVORITE out of the mini ... although there are a few others in there that customers are going to be loving I am sure!

I used all 4 of the stamp sets in this layout as inspired by a card I saw over on Splitcoast Stampers here ... love the 'word stamp' repeatedly stamped to make the background paper and well the H Hope stamp fits perfectly in the 1 1/4 square punch layered with the 1 3/8 punch over top of the 'swirl' stamp and well this little butterfly is just gorgeous - it almost looks like it is jumping off the card.

Also got a chance to incorporate some of the Chantilly Lace which paired well here I think - over all just LOVED all the elements in this card!

Serene Snowflakes

Here is a fun quick card with the Versamark Resist technique ... stamp with versamark using your chosen stamp set on Whisper white and using a brayer and ink of choice roll over the stamped images until the colour effect you desire. This card is using Serene Snowflakes and Not Quite Navy ink and blinged it up a bit with 2 way glue pen and Dazzling Diamonds and a little Organza ribbon and we are all set to go!