Seize the Birthday and Freshly Made Sketches

Looking at the calendar it has been almost a month since I submitted a card. I have been struggling with carpal tunnel in both hands but mainly my right. After two trips to the acupuncturist I decided card making was not the major cause but my I-phone is. I use it for everything despite the fact I have a computer and an I-pad. But wearing a brace and using a heat pad has not helped much so I have tried to not use my I-phone.

Today an order arrived from Unity and I had to color this adorable owl. I chose to enter it into two challenges Seize the Birthday and Freshly Made Sketches. The owl was inked, heat embossed and colored with Copics and  die cut with a circle die. On the designer paper I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment and then attached the image with mounting tape

http://seizethebirthday.blogspot.com/2017/02/inlay-die-cutting.html

http://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.com/2017/02/theres-still-time-to-play-with-sketch_25.html

Supplies:

Stamps Unity "Lil Bloomin Owl," sentiment PTI

Paper - Neenah, SU!, Penny Black

Copics, Memento, VersaFine, embossing powder

Die - MFT Pierced Circle

Freshly Made Sketches #273

I found a piece of background paper that I think I made using brushos. Next I stamped with VersaMark and used white embossing powder. The piece went in the UFO box until today when I thought I would try to make a card using this sketch. I die cut using MFT vertical strips. The sentiment from Paper Smooches was stamped and heat embossed, and then I mounted the strips.

http://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.com/2017/02/theres-still-time-to-play-with-sketch.html

NBUS Challenge #10 (Bubble Wrap)

Week #3 for Darnell's NBUS challenge. I have chosen to use three NBUS products and one NBUT (technique). First I attempted a new marbling technique using shaving cream, alcohol ink and a stencil. My plan was to teach this to 8 - 12 ladies but three of us made one big mess. This piece was die cut with NBUS (wonky) die from MFT. The dog was stamped (NBUS) and colored with NBUS Zig markers. I mounted the stenciled piece onto a piece of (smelly) foam sheet. The sentiment was stamped and heat embossed. I punched the small heart from a snippet of the background paper.

The option was to use bubble wrap and since I had none I chose the bubble stencil fromArtplorations.

 

Supplies:

MFT Blueprints 15 (NBUS)

Unity "...May Hope Sustain You"

Stampers Anonymous (NBUS) "Crazy Dogs"

Artplorations Bubbles Stencil

Zig Clean Color Brush Markers (NBUS

http://www.djkardkreations.com/2017/01/nbus-challenge-10.html