CASology: Week 61: SILHOUETTE

 

This card is for CASology Week 61 with the cue word silhouette.  I have made a few cards with silhouettes lately and I like making them.  This particular stamp I used a few weeks ago but was not happy with the results.  The stamp is line art so I had to fill in with a black marker.  I colored with both distress ink and SU! ink pads onto watercolor paper using a makeup sponge in a circular stroke.  The sky is tumbled glass, the ocean blue bayou, and the sand is a blend of frayed burlap, chocolate chip and basic gray.

Last week we took four year old grandson Jake to the beach which is about 20 minutes from our home.  This was our first time putting our feet in the Pacific Ocean in the two years we have lived here.  Jake had a terrific time and I enjoyed looking and analyzing the ocean, the sky, the sand and the surroundings.  And that being said it gave me a much better perspective on how to make this card and I am satisfied with the end result.

Stamp- Deep Red "Beach Chairs"
Ink - Distress Ink: Frayed Burlap, Tumbled Glass
    SU!: Blue Bayou, Chocolate Chip, Basic Gray
Ink: StazOn, Basic Black SU! marker
Other:  Watercolor paper

http://casology.blogspot.com/2013/09/week-61-silhouette.html

Less Is More Week 136 Colour challenge: Dark Green and Rust

 

 

I received this weekly stamp from Unity and decided to use it and submit a card for the new challenge at Less Is More.  The image was stamped onto Copic paper and colored with Copics and then die cut with an oval shape.  Next I took the next size die and cut and embossed the rust paper.  This piece was attached to white card stock with mounting tape.  The verbiage was stamped with Versafine and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. 



 

Paper - Copic, Kelly,  SU! Really Rust
Stamp - Unity "Acorn Greetings", Gina K "Blossum" (verbiage)
Ink - Memento, Versafine
Copics - E07, E23, E25, E27, E31, YR12, YR16, G24, G28, N2
Nestabilities - Classic Oval Large Die Cut
Other - Embossing Powder, Corner Rounder Punch
http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.com/2013/09/week-136-colour-challenge.html

Addicted to CAS - Code Word: MUSIC

 

The challenge for ATCAS week 21 is music.  I have a music embossing folder and I have this cute House Mouse stamp but instead of the folder I decided to photo copy a sheet of music.  The mouse was stamped with Memento ink and colored with Copics and then die cut and attached to the sheet music with mounting tape.  I stamped and heat embossed the verbiage and then cut it out with a SU! punch.

 

Stamp - House Mouse " Mice-tro", MFT "Fred Bear Has a Birthday" (verbiage)

Paper - Neenah, Kelly, Sheet Music (a stray found in the piano bench)

Ink - Memento, Versafine

Copics

Nestabilities - Classic Oval

Other - Embossing Powder, Punches, Mounting Tape

 



http://www.addictedtocas.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/atcas-challenge-21.html

CAS(E) this Sketch #44

 

This card is for CAS(e) this Sketch week 44.  I stamped the birds with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then colored them with copics.  I only used the branch of the matching die cut set and used a piece of leftover brown embossed paper.  The verbiage was stamped in Versafine Onyx Black and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  I applied Snow Marker to the cap of the center bird, and gave him some feather lines with a copic liner pen, and applied some random snow droplets.  This piece of card stock was trimmed and then mounted with pop-dots to a larger piece of white cardstock.

 

Paper - Neenah, scrap piece of brown

Ink - Copics, Copic Multi-liner, Versafine, Memento, Marvy Snow Maker

Stamp & Die Cut - Lawn Fawn " Winter Sparrows"

 

 

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CASology: Week 60: APPLE

Today's card is for CASology with the theme of "Apple."  I wanted to use this neat apple embossing folder and three attempts later I came up with this design.  The top piece of paper was embossed with the apple folder and then I used Nestabilities Classic Oval to cut the center.  Next using a folder piece of 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 piece of white card stock I stamped the apple with an embossing pad and used gold embossing powder.  Lastly I attached the apple embossed paper onto the folded piece of cardstock with pop-ups.  I like this card and will give it to my granddaughter for her seventeenth birthday in November.  The verbiage that goes with this Unity stamp is "apple of my eye," and that she is.

Stamp - Unity "Apple of My Eye"
Paper - Kelly white
Embossing Folder - Quickcut "Apples"
Stamp Pad - Top Boss
Embossing Powder - SU! Gold Glory
Die Cut - Nestabilities Classic Oval
http://casology.blogspot.com/2013/09/week-60-apple.html

Less Is More Week 135 - Use a Rubber Stamp

This card was made for Less Is More using a Penny Black rubber stamp.  I am working on silhouette cards and sponging techniques and this stamp fit the bill.

First I made a mask with a Nestabilites die cut and attached to a piece of watercolor paper.  Then I sponged two colors of distress ink and then spritzed with water.  I let this dry before I used Versafine ink and heat embossed the image.  I thought of die cutting the image and mounting it onto another piece of watercolor paper but then I decided less is more.

Paper - Canson #90 lb.
Stamp - Penny Black "Winter Ledge"
Ink - Distress Ink Squeezed Lemonade, Tumbled Glass and Versafine
Die Cut (for mask) - Nestabilites Curved Rectanglehttp://simplylessismoore.blogspot.com/2013/08/week-135-use-rubber-stamp.html

OLW 155 - SILHOUETTE

I made this card for One Layer Wednesday and the subject was silhouettes.  I just purchased this new stamp and this was the perfect time to use it.  Karen's water-colored silhouette cards are very inspiring.  In reading the design team's blogs Linda's directions made it easy for me and allowed me to use some old SU! stamp pads.
I cut a mask using Nestabilities Curved Rectangle and placed it over Whisper White cardstock.  First I stamped Buckaroo Blue ink on the bottom of the masked portion of the card and then I used Soft Sky.  The bridge was stamped in Versafine and heat embossed.  The verbiage was stamped and heat embossed after the mask was removed.

Paper - SU! Whisper White
Ink - SU! Buckaroo Blue, Soft Sky and Versafine
Die - Stampabilities Curved Rectangles (for masking)
Stamps - Art Impressions (bridge), SU! (verbiage
http://snippets-karen.blogspot.ca/2013/08/olw155-silhouettes.html