Uncharted Territory ...

This is a card from tonight's Faux Stain Glass technique workshop ... I am loving this technique ... it is a little messy kinda like finger painting - but I find it very relaxing to move the colors around until you get the effect your like!

One of the things I like about techniques like this are that no too cards end up looking alike ... it allows everyone's creative juice to flow as they add colors and move them around!

Happy Stampin'

Open Sea Sneak Peek

Only two more sleeps until the Summer Mini goes live ... so excited!

This is a set that I have currently pre-ordered in My Digital Studio along with the coordinating Nautical Expedition designer series paper ... only because I love the versatility of the resizing of the stamped images in the MDS and well printing out the DSP as you need it requires less storage in my tiny space!

That said the more I play with hybrid projects the more I want the traditional set too! I just love watercoloring the ship and the complimentary pieces that go with it are just too cute ... I paired this set with the Uncharted Territory as well to dress up the envelope - don't they just go great together?

On this card I used the World stamp up in the corner punched out as the 'sentiment focal point' with the Teeny Tiny wishes set ... and well the Early Espresso and Marina Mist are just a striking combo specially with this set!

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!