Winter Berries
Posted: August 21, 2012 Filed under: CAS, Penny Black, Stamped Landscapes, Winter Berries 36 Comments
The Penny Black blog is posting Designer Spotlights all this week and today is my day. I thought this card summed up some of my favourite techniques and preferences. I often make one layer cards and love to use sponging and masking; this card is an example of all those things along with my favourite image to stamp, a tree. If you want to know a bit more about me there is a profile on the Penny Black blog.
To make this card I stamped the tree twice, first in versamark and then in both versamark and colour applied with markers. The coloured image was stamped a tiny bit lower than the first image and then I embossed it all in clear embossing powder. Next I positioned a mask to separate snow and sky and sponged the sky in Memento Bahama Blue. I used several hill masks to sponge snow drifts then stamped the three slim tree trunks for a shadow.
This post is up a bit late because I arrived back from PEI last night around midnight after 17 hours on the bus! Thank you to all of you who wished my daughter well in the National Track and Field Championships; she had a great time and came home with a gold and a silver medal as well as a personal best time in her hurdle race. When I have had time to catch my breath I will have some photos to share. I thought Prince Edward Island was beautiful and, although I didn’t fit in much sight seeing, I did go to the beach for a short while everyday and swam in the Atlantic Ocean.
Supplies:
Stamps: Winter Berries, A Wish for Peace(PB)
Inks: Memento Danube Blue, Rhubarb Stalk,Tuxedo Black, Versamark(Tsukineko)
Also: clear embossing powder
OLW 101 Feeling Blue
Posted: August 15, 2012 Filed under: CAS, OLW, Penny Black, Stamped Landscapes, Winter Ledge 39 Comments
Blue has long been my favourite colour so I thought a One Layer Wednesday challenge with blue would be appropriate. It is a very simple challenge: Feature the colour blue on your one layer card. You can use other colours too but Blue must be the star of the show! To create my card I masked the bottom of the card with a post-it note and then stamped the Penny Black stamp “Winter Ledge” twice, one in versamark, then again slightly lower in black. Next I embossed with clear e.p. I positioned a hill mask and started sponging the sky; when I was happy with it I repositioned the hill mask and sponged again along the edge of the mask to create a snow drift.
I might not get to visit your submissions straight away as I am off to Prince Edward Island with my daughter for six days. She is competing in the Canadian Youth Track and Field Championships and I will be cheering her on and snapping pictures. I look forward to visiting your blogs when I return next week.
I have another card below which I made for the Penny Black blog today. It isn’t one layer but it features the same technique and stamp so I thought I’d post them both together.
Rules for OLW 101
1. A one-layer card is defined as a single layer of card stock folded in half. No other layers allowed!
2. Make a card using blue as your feature colour. Remember to keep embellishments to a minimum and NO ADDITIONAL LAYERS of card stock.
3. Post your card online and link it to the InLinkz button below. If you link to your blog, please link to the specific post, not your blog’s main page.
4. HAVE FUN!
Supplies:
Stamps: Winter Ledge, Christmas Fashion, Winter Magic (PB)
Inks: Memento Summer Sky, Danube Blue, Lulu Lavender, Sweet Plum, Versafine Onyx Black, Versamark(Tsukineko)
Pieces of Sky
Posted: August 12, 2012 Filed under: Birds on wire, CAS, OLW, Wishing You 21 CommentsI managed to create cards for two challenges this afternoon: the OLW challenge Cheryl set us to use some form of transportation and the Less is More challenge to feature fur or feathers. Let me tell you I was not overflowing with ideas for either challenge. But then I noticed the little airplane stamp in the set I used last week with the fish stamp. Perfect for transportation.
One of Chrissie’s cards for the Less is More challenge reminded me of my birds on a wire stamp, as yet uninked. Perfect for feathers.
Have a wonderful week.
Supplies:
Stamps: Wishing You, Birds on Wire, Happy Birthday (PB)
Inks: Memento Summer Sky, Danube Blue, Nautical Blue, Sweet Plum, Versafine Onyx Black(Tsukineko)
Less is More Fishy
Posted: August 7, 2012 Filed under: CAS, Penny Black, Wishing You 39 Comments
The challenge at Less is More this week is to use blue and green in a card. What better subject for a blue and green card than the ocean. I made the card below first because I wanted to try a narrow image panel then, because it worked, I did the same thing with a larger panel.
I masked first then sponged in blues and greens keeping the lightest sponging and shades at the top. When the panel was covered I used a straight strip of post-it to sponge rays with the lightest green, Memento New Sprout. Finally I dropped some water on the panel and added my fishy happy birthday stamp.
Supplies:
Stamps: Wishing You (PB)
Inks: Memento New Sprout, Bamboo Leaves, Bahama Blue Nautical Blue & Teal Zeal (Tsukineko)
Tag time
Posted: August 4, 2012 Filed under: CAS, Free Flight, Hello Gorgeous, OLW, Penny Black 8 Comments
Susan’s OLW challenge this week is to take inspiration from something on her Pure Inspiration board on Pinterest. I picked the line up of tags below as my inspiration then had to work out how to make it one layer.
To keep it one layer I punched a tag mask out of a post it note and sponged a base of Wheat Chalk ink inside the mask. All the stamps are from the Free Flight set except the tiny sentiment. I used the collage stamp to add background to each tag and then used the bird and butterfly as well as the lace edge and the postal part of the collage to be feature images.
Unfortunately when adding the last image to the last tag I smudged ink on the card base. Not wanting to start again I changed the size of the card and continued by adding a sentiment above the tags. It ended up crooked and really did not look good so I began again and ended up adding a tiny sentiment inside a tiny masked tag, then threaded the ribbon through a whole in the card base.
I was happy with my one layer card but didn’t want to waste the tags from my original attempt so I punched them out and made a layered card.
Supplies:
Stamps: Free Flight, Wishes, Hello Gorgeous, Letter Background (PB)
Inks: Memento Rhubarb stalk and Desert Sand, Wheat Versamagic Chalk ink (Tsukineko)
Cardstock: Penny Black Mix & Match Fall Festival
Also: Ribbon, Cord
New Leaves
Posted: August 3, 2012 Filed under: CAS, Foliage Fancy 8 Comments
ThePenny Black blog has started featuring brand new stamps from their Christmas and Halloween catalogs. My card today is made using the new Foliage Fancy set which includes outline and solid stamps in three different leaf shapes along with three sentiments.
I embossed the outline leaf with clear embossing powder first then inked the solid leaf with yellow, green and a touch of orange before stamping over the embossed images. I finished the panel with some sponging before matting it and attaching to the card base.
Just because the fall and Christmas stamps are out does not mean I am finished with summer. I am loving the weather, the activities and the slightly more relaxed pace. I’m in no hurry for September to roll around!
Supplies:
Stamps: Foliage Fancy (Penny Black)
Inks: Memento Daffodil, Cantaloupe, Pear Tart & Versamark (Tsukineko)
Cardstock: Penny Black Mix & Match Papers Grand Canyon & Olive Grove
Also: Clear e.p.
Another Butterfly Birthday card
Posted: August 2, 2012 Filed under: CAS, Flower among flowers, Penny Black, Social Butterfly 10 Comments
I don’t dare count how many birthday cards I have made featuring butterflies; I know there are many. My elder daughter turned 18 today and this is the card we gave her.
This is a very familiar layout from me; the little variation is that I brayered the background this time instead of sponging. The background flowers were repeatedly stamped to get the variation of dark and pale.
Thank you for the kind comments you left hear while I was away. I thoroughly enjoyed my week by the lake and then had fun catching up on the comments when I returned. Thanks to everyone who participated in my last OLW challenge; I haven’t caught up on commenting yet but I will visit all your submissions before my turn comes around again!
Supplies
Stamps: Flower among Flowers, To You…, Social Butterfly (PB)
Ink: Memento Teal Zeal & Versafine Onyx Black (Tsukineko)
OLW 97 Line Up
Posted: July 18, 2012 Filed under: CAS, Lace Delight, OLW, Penny Black, Puzzle Parts 6 CommentsI am challenging you to use lines on your one layer card this week. Straight lines, zig-zags or curves, just as long as they are obviously lines.
I created a set of little note cards each stamped in a single colour. The masculine one is full of lines.
When the idea for this little set popped into my mind I thought it would be so simple. But as it turned out, even with my new gridded acrylic block some of these little note cards took 3 or 4 attempts. Even though my lacey note cards are less linear I have still stamped a line or two of lace so I think they scrape in for the challenge too. To see a couple more pretty note card sets visit the Penny Black Blog today.
Supplies
Stamps: Puzzle Parts, Lace Delight, Flourish Thank You, Special Time, Round & Round , Free Flight. (PB)
Ink: Memento Elderberry, Tangelo, Bahama Blue, Rhubarb Stalk (Tsukineko)
OLW97 Rules
1. A one-layer card is defined as a single layer of card stock folded in half. No other layers of card stock allowed.
2. Make a card featuring lines of some sort.
3. Post your card online somewhere and link back to it using the InLinkz tool on the sidebar of Simplicity. If posting to your blog, please link to your OLW blog post, not just the main page of your blog.
4. Have fun getting in line!
I can’t wait to see what you come up with.
Butterfly birthday
Posted: July 12, 2012 Filed under: CAS, Social Butterfly 21 Comments
I have seen a few cards lately with backgrounds made using acrylic blocks so I decided to give it a try. I dabbed ink onto the block using the memento dew drop inks then spritzed it with water and let it blend and run on the block before stamping the block onto the card base. On top of that I stamped the maidenhair several times in three greens before completing the scene with a black butterfly and sentiment. I have seen similar backgrounds with a lot more colour and ink so I will continue experiment with the technique. We are enjoying gorgeous summer weather this week and I am seeing some butterflies too.
Thanks for dropping by.
Supplies
Stamps: Flourish Birthday, Social Butterfly (PB)
Ink: Memento New Sprout, Pear Tart, Bamboo Shoot & Versafine Onyx Black (Tsukineko)
Inspired by tiles
Posted: July 10, 2012 Filed under: CAS, Oh Spring!, Penny Black 13 CommentsI often find inspiration for cards in House magazines or flyers but I don’t always do something with the inspiration. When I saw the tiled bathroom wall below, however, I decided to turn it into a card.
I sponged all the tiles first by moving a post-it note gradually left to right and top to bottom sponging the edge after each move. The branches are stamped in versafine onyx black and highlighted with FaberCastell PolyChromos pencils.
It has been a bit quiet on the blog the last few days because we had a surprise party for my younger daughter’s 16th birthday. My older daughter made all the plans, contacted the guests, decorated and ran some games, my husband and I handled the food and my son lent his video editing talents to make a clever celebrity quiz. I had the job of getting her out of the house which was not too hard with the mention of shopping. The girls had a great time and my daughter was completely surprised!
Supplies:
Stamps:Oh Spring! , Free Flight (Penny Black)
Inks: Wheat Versamagic Chalk ink, Versfine Onyx Black (Tsukineko)
Also: Faber-Castell Polychromos Pencils
Heather Telford 