Using My Copics

Here is a card I did for Pay Date Cafe Challenge using  purples and greens.  The mat behind the flower is using a sprayed dye technique.  In order to get the colloring for my flower I looked at the hydrangea in my front  yard.  This picture gave me a chance to practice using my Copic markers.  Stamp is Rubber Stampede.

Cool Tilda on a Hot and Spicey Card

This is my first Magnolia stamp and I'm showing her off using Copic Markers.  She is Cool Tilda on a Hot and Spicey card.  Hot and Spicey is the theme for Week 57 Challenge on Just Magnolia.

The stamp is placed in a Torn Frame and the background is  Highlighted Cuttlebug.  The added spice to the card is the handmade flower which has been distressed with ink.

In Appreciation Of

my winning a sheet of stamps from Artistic Outpost . I decided to make a collage.  I have not had much experience at making collages.  I don't know why I don't do them more often as I enjoy making them.  There is the old adage "Practice makes perfect".  Maybe that could apply to me!

The theme of this collage is From Boys to Men.  I was thinking about Father's Day, but I have noone to give this to as my father passed away a number of years ago, but I often think about him.

This piece contains vintage clip art from Altered Artifacts and all the stamps are from Artistic Outpost.  The stamp sheets I used are Generation Redux and Steampunk.  In addition, on the collage you will find a chipboard key, a  Cricut diecut, and a bought embellishment.  A number of different papers was used in the background along with distressed ink.

Tag Without a Hole

I made this tag without a hole because I may put it on a card at a later date.  This tag has an embossed background which I love and has been highlighted in silver ink.  On it is a stamped cutout made from Artistic Outpost stamps  As an embellishment, I placed a string of pearls above the lace and placed a pearl in the center of the flower.  As a final touch I added a piece of strip of gold trim material that had tassels. 

 I had been out of town last week when these stamps arrived and I couldn't wait to get home and use them.  I think the final piece is pleasing to the eye.  Now I need to decide if I want to use it on a card!

PDC Challenge

This is the color palette for the Play Date Cafe Challenge for this week.  Below it is my creation for this challenge. 

First I made a tags using these colors.  I liked it so much that I wondered how it would look as a card.   The scan does not show  up very well the two shades of green under the blue writtng.  The flower makes scanning difficult.

A Busy Card

Here is a card I made for a challenge, but I didn't get aeround to scanning and posting it in time for the challenge.  I used Faux Designer Paper technique for the background behind the Artistic Outpost stamp.  I got a little carried away with this card.  The tabs on the side were from a scrapbooking embellishment package.  When I first got them I thought that I would never use the tabs.  However, I like the way they set off the image.  The strips were cut thin at the bottom of the card.  Can you tell what they are from?

More Flowers

I am still into flowers.  Here is a Flower Art Card with a collage of stamps from Scrolls Work.  All stamps have the Alice in Wonderland theme.  The edges are distressed and most of the stamps are stamped in cranberry colored ink.  The collage was placed on a piece of designer paper and in various areas I used sequin waste as a stencil and there are hearts outlined to emphasize the "queen".  In the top left corner is a handmade flower.

One Last Entry

This is my final entry for the Artistic Outpost April Referral Program.  It is an altered puzzle piece.  All stamps are by Artistic Outpost with the exception of the "Explore" ticket.

Entering a Design Sketch Challenge

Here is my entry into the Scrolls Work card design  sketch challenge.  It has a quilted-looking background.  The center is focuses two stamps from Scrolls Work and colored lightly with pencils.

Growth of Flowers

This is a last minute card I did for Gingersnap Challenge "Growth". and my entry on Ink on My Fingers for her blog candy.  I did a mosaic using a stamp from Stampers Stampede.  I like the way it turned out and this was an easy way to do multiple cards.

Brown Bagging

i still have a couple of flowers to do before I finish my flower bouquet.  In the meantime here is a card using the Brown Bagging technique. This is a fun technique. 

This particular card was made for The Sunday Stamper "Free Theme" challenge.

Stamps are from the Artistic Outpost Steampunk stamp sheet.  I love these stamps as they are so versatile and are great if you like to make distressed cards.

A "Geek" Flower

While working on my entries for the Gingersnap Creations Flower Art Swap, I decided to make one of mine a "Geek" flower.  I don't have many stamps with any particular theme with the exception of my Artistic Outpost stamps.  This flower is also my entry Ink on My Fingers Blog Candy Challenge.

I began by distress-ing the edges of the flower with a mustard colored ink from Stampin' Up.  After that, I gave the background a little intetest by dabbing yellow, orange, and light red ink through sequin waste.  The stamped images were stamped with Stampin' Up's pumpkin pie ink. 

Since this was a geek flower I just had to put on a piece of a transistor, the trademark of a geek. This was out of one of those cell phones we had been hording for the past 15 years.  At least I will be getting rid of that much!

The next flower I add to the bouquet will be  a more conventional one.