Ink Swipe Medallion

I pulled out an old stampset, the Medallion, so that I could play around with another watercolor trend in card making, the Ink-Swipe technique. Today's technique was given to me by my stamping, friend, Nan (Thanks, Nan!) at our last month's Stamp Club class. She shared how to ink up your craft sheet, give it a spritz of water and then use it as a stamp pad to ink up your image. I had better luck laying down my ink on the craft sheet like she suggested, but spritzing my stamp with water instead of the craft sheet, then placing it into the ink and proceeding to stamp on watercolor paper. Just my preference, as both ways turned out great.

One of the fun things about watercolor is you're always surprised. Ink and water never produce the same results twice. I love surprises!

So glad that you stopped by!

SUPPLIES:

INK: Strawberry Slush, Daffodil Delight, Coastal Cabana, Baked Brown Sugar

PAPER: 100 lb smooth watercolor paper, Whisper White, Coastal Cabana, Baked Brown Sugar

SS: Medallion (retired, but use any large stamp), Sweet Essentials (use your favorite sentiment)

PUNCHES: Petite Petals, Itty Bitty punch pack-Scallop

ACCESSORIES: Craft sheet, water spritzer, jewels-rhinestones

Visit my Stampin' Up! demonstrator, Amy Hooks, to order supplies

Faux Chalkboard You are Loved

I've been noticing how popular the "chalkboard" look is right now. I've seen it in advertisements, cardmaking, scrapbooking, etc., so I thought that I'd try the Faux Chalkboard technique out for myself. I found a great video tutorial HERE, which helped me to create this card. I liked this technique and had a lot of fun with it.
I used Stampin' Up's Whisper White Craft ink for the "chalk" look on Not Quite Navy CS, and a white Prismacolor pencil to outline the inside of one of the Labels Collection framelits and to create the banner for the stamped sentiment from the You are Loved stamp set.

Thanks for dropping by!

Supplies:
CS: Not Quite Navy, Whisper White, Crumb Cake
Ink: Whisper White Craft
Big Shot: Labels Framelit (125598), Framed Tulips EB folder (121809)
Punches: Itty Bitty shapes (126881)

Razzleberry Watercolor Wash

From Heidi...
We have a watercolor class coming up next month, so I thought I'd share a few of the cards I've been working on for it. This is the card we'll be making for the Watercolor Wash technique. I white embossed the retired "Happy Harmony" flower stamp before getting out my water spritzer, Aqua Painter. I used the new In-Colors, Rich Razzleberry and Dusty Durango, for the wash. I can't wait to share this card for our upcoming class. My inspiration for this card came from pouring through all the wonderful cards on SCS. The Dew Drops on the bottom of the card are the ones I made with my hot glue gun...they came out great!
Thanks for looking...have a great Monday!

Brayered In-Color Top-Note Card

From Heidi...
I've had a lot of ideas that I've been wanting to get to, but haven't had the time. This afternoon I was finally able to play around with some of the new In-Colors. I thought brayering would be a fun challenge to use to try out a few of the colors together and see how they looked. I also got to use Adriel's Big Shot, so that was fun, too. This is what I came up with.
I love SU's new Soft Suede CS. I lightly sponged the outside top-note frame with black which gave the brown an almost leathery look...kind of cool. I'd seen a tutorial on how to make your own Dew Drops, so I tried that out and ended up putting several on this card. I really like how all the colors look together, I'm looking forward to playing with the other colors. Fun, fun, fun!

Here's the supplies I used:
Ink:
Dusty Durango (Brayering)
Rich Razzleberry (Brayering)
Pretty in Pink (Brayering)
Old Olive (Brayering)
Basic Black (for stamping greeting and sponging leaves and frame)

Stamp Set:
Sincere Salutations


CS:
Soft Suede
Kraft for card base


Accessories:
Big Shot: Top Note; Birds and Blooms
Dew Drops
Brayer
Sponge

Stitching and Bleaching

From Heidi...

I started this card several weeks ago, but got interrupted with life and other projects, so I thought that today I'd better finish the card before I lost the pieces to it. I used the bleaching technique with the new Fifth Avenue Floral stamp set. I used tearing, sponging and stitching to get a vintage effect.

I agree with Adriel, I love this set. I made another cool card with it using paper piecing, so I'll have to share that one with you on another day. Thanks for looking!

Stamp-A-Stack, Feb. 17, 7-8:30 PM

From Heidi...

Here's are pictures of the cards we'll be making at this month's SAS. We're making two birthday cards, two thank you cards and a thinking of you card for a total of 5 cards for $10. Let us know if you can make it. As of today, we have 4 spots open.