Thinking of You

Hello everyone!

 

I've still got a few cards that I haven't shown you yet.  Some of the supplies may be retired supplies, but that's just the way it is with me!  So let's not waste any time getting to today's card!  Shall we?

OK, so it's been something like more than a year since I made this card.  I'm pretty sure this card was from one of my Artistic Avenger DT challenges.  By the looks of things here, I was definitely in the "distressed zone"!!!  I colored this beautiful little guy in with inks and a blender pen.  After tearing the edges, I sponged around with Soft Suede to soften up the edges a bit.  To give my Little Leaves die cut some depth I made a line down the center with my fingernail.  No fancy tools there!

Have a great day!

Supplies:

Paper:  Sahara Sand CS, Marina Mist CS, Bravo Burgundy CS, Very Vanilla CS

Ink:  Soft Suede, Marina Mist, Bravo Burgundy

Stamps:  Young Vermillion, Three Little Words

Tools:  Distressing Tool, Big Shot, Little Leaves Sizzlits Die, Perfect Polka Dots EF, blender pens, sponges

You Are Simply Wonderful - FM111

Hello again!  My little lady was STILL sleeping, so I figured 'make hay while the sun shines' (even though it is pouring rain outside) and I decided to sneak in under the wire on another cool challenge I found.  The Friday Mashup.  

Here's the Mashup Challenge:

1. Create a project using "your choice of a Neutral & a Splash of one Bright Color".
2. Create a project "using a Pencil (regular graphite #2)".
3. Or Mash it Up and create a project "using pencil & your choice of a neutral & a Splash of a Bright Color".

I chose SU! Naturals White CS as my neutral.  Raspberry Ripple became my "pop of colour" and  I mashed it all up by distressing the edges of my main panel with the edge of my scissor and running my pencil along it to act as a "shadow effect".  Continuing with my "drop shadow" idea I also coloured lightly around my little bird and drew some darker lines in his chest area.  Behind my sentiment (stamped off Basic Black) I did the same thing using my pencil in a crosshatch pattern.  

Looking at my picture now, it's pretty obvious that I had a pretty light hand, since it's fairly hard to actually see (or is that because my screen has my two years old's fingerprints?)  In real life it is much more obvious.  And not to make excuses for myself or anything, but the picture kinda sucks because it is a gloomy day, so that doesn't help either!

Thanks for looking!  Leave me some love!

Playing Catch Up!

Since I've been making cards and scrapbooking for quite awhile now.... this is catch up time.  I want to get all the cards and scrapbooking I do into one spot so I have a visual record of what I've made. 

So... let's get to it!
 

This card uses the Young Vermillion stamp and a French Foliage (I think!) script stamp I printed out from My Digital Studio.  I used my blender pen with Baja Breeze and Soft Suede ink to color the bird lightly.  I also softly sponged around the bird, over the script to soften it up a little.  

I started with River Rock for a card base. To the panel of Cherry Cobbler I layered River Rock again.  To this River Rock panel I applied my script embossing folder and lightly sponged with coordinating ink to make the design pop.  I applied the focal image to some Baja Breeze cardstock after adding some ribbon and a button.  And as always... "no naked buttons"... so I tied some linen thread to the button!  Voila!  Done!

Anita