TCC53 Blessed to Know You

Hi Friends!!

Woohoo!!  It is time for the new challenge at The Card Concept and I was inspired by the bright, beautiful colors along with the texture for my Mixed Media card.

Just a reminder that The Card Concept is a bi-weekly challenge that has an inspiration photo along with a number of design styles that you can choose from to create your card- Clean and Simple, Clean and Graphic, Clean and Layered, Shabby Chic, Freestyle Collage, Classy and Elegant and Mixed Media.  

I have also linked this card to the Global Design Project #GDP031 "Nature" Theme Challenge along with the Splitcoaststampers’ MIX164 “Celebrate Spring!” Challenge.

 I hope you have a chance to visit us at The Card Concept and check out the rest of our Design Team samples as well as the Global Design Project and Splitcoaststampers challenge sites- fabulous inspiration from all!!

To create this card:

On a piece of Watercolor Paper, apply Gelatos®- Bubblegum, Aqua Dolce, Cotton Candy and Green Tea, spritz with water and use your finger or a sponge dauber to move the Gelatos® around on the paper.

Speed up the drying process with the Heat Tool.

Spritz more water onto the background panel, apply Ranger® Tim Holtz® Worn Lipstick, Broken China, Picked Raspberry and Mowed Lawn Distress Stains onto a craft mat, lay the moistened background panel into the ink, tilt the panel to allow the inks to spread across the page and heat with the Heat Tool.

Originally I inked the Hero Arts® Stamp Your Own Plant leaves with Mowed Grass Distress Stain and inked directly onto the panel.  FYI- While this looked OK, I was not completely satisfied, so I dried the panel with the Heat Tool, used the Embossing Buddy® to prep the page, and stamped the different leaves from Stamp Your Own Plant with Versamark® Ink and heat embossed the leaves with Stampin’ Emboss® White Embossing Powder.

I embossed the leaves in several steps so that they have the appearance of overlapping one another.

Use the Big Shot™ with the My Favorite Things® (MFT) Die-namics™ Stitched Cover-Up Vertical Companion Die and cut the Cover-Up from Basic Black cardstock.

De-static the Cover-Up die cut with the Embossing Buddy®, ink the sentiments from the Blessed (Mama Elephant) stamp set and Absolutely Fabulous (retired Stampin’ Up!) with Versamark™ ink and heat emboss with Stampin’ Emboss® White Embossing Powder.

Mount the embossed Cover-Up onto the embossed watercolor panel and adhere the entire panel to the Melon Mambo card base using dimensional foam.

Stamp Sets: Absolutely Fabulous (retired Stampin’ Up!), Stamp Your Own Plant (Hero Arts), Blessed (Mama Elephant)

Ink: Versamark™, Gelatos®- Bubblegum, Aqua Dolce, Cotton Candy and Green Tea , Ranger® Tim Holtz® Worn Lipstick, Broken China, Picked Raspberry and Mowed Lawn Distress Stains

Paper: Watercolor, Basic Black, Melon Mambo

Accessories: Big Shot™, MFT Die-namics™ Stitched Cover-Up Vertical Companion Die, Embossing Buddy®, Heat Tool, Stampin’ Emboss® White Embossing Powder

Thanks again for taking the time to stop by- I hope you can gather your supplies and pick a style to create your own card for our TCC53 "Bright and Fresh" gallery at The Card Concept!

By The Tide- A Color, Sketch and Theme Challenge :-)

Hi Friends! 

I hope you had a fabulous weekend!  I am sharing a card today that I created this morning using the Pals Paper Arts PPA285 Color Challenge along with the Freshly Made Sketches FMS221 Sketch Challenge and the Just Add Ink JAI296 "Just Add Nature" Challenge . 

If you have not had a chance to visit the above sites, I hope you will find time to do so- wonderful inspiration from all!

To create this card:

Ink the script stamp from By the Tide (Stampin’ Up!) with Pink Pirouette Classic Ink and stamp repeatedly onto a piece of Whisper White cardstock.

Ink the coral image using Tip Top Taupe Classic Ink and stamp into the corner of the panel, clean the stamp and ink the coral image again with Watermelon Wonder Classic Ink, stamp off onto a scrap piece of paper, stamp onto the panel and repeat with the coral image using Watermelon Wonder Classic Ink.

Ink the Nantucket image using Tip Top Taupe Classic Ink , ink the sentiment from Blessed (Mama Elephant) using Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink and stamp onto the panel (I used my MISTI® Tool to position and stamp this image).

Trim the stamped panel and mount onto Pink Pirouette cardstock.

Trim a piece of Whisper White cardstock for the background panel, mount onto Pink Pirouette cardstock and mount onto the Tip Top Taupe card base.

It is difficult to see the beautiful sheen from the Wink of Stella

Ink the fish and seahorse images using Stāz-On® Jet Black Ink and stamp onto Whisper White cardstock.

Color the images with the AquaPainter™ and ink from the Pink Pirouette, Watermelon Wonder and Tip Top Taupe Classic Ink pads.

Fussy cut each image, add a bit of Clear Wink of Stella™ and mount the fussy cut images onto the stamped panel using Stampin’ Dimensionals®.

Add the focal image panel to the card front to finish off the card using Stampin’ Dimensionals® to finish off the card.

Stamp Sets:  By the Tide (Stampin’ Up!), Blessed (Mama Elephant)

Ink: Stāz-On® Jet Black, Memento™ Tuxedo Black, Pink Pirouette, Watermelon Wonder, Tip Top Taupe

Paper: Whisper White, Pink Pirouette, Tip Top Taupe

Accessories: Clear Wink of Stella™, MISTI® Too, Stampin’ Dimensionals®

Thanks again for stopping by!!  Tomorrow will be the start of the new SUO-Only Challenge and Wednesday the new Card Concept Challenge begins- hugs and have a blessed week, my friends!!