Color Hues #59 and Double D - Green

After a long day of cardmaking at the Altenew Mindfulness Retreat on Saturday my mojo has been slow to rebound.  Fortunately I had a panel in my B&P box that works for both the Color Hues challenge of green and gold, and the Double D challenge of Everything's Coming Up Green. 

This was an alcohol ink panel I did a while ago and was just waiting for the right time and challenge(s).  All I did was cut a gold frame using WF nested A2 rectangles and add a gold embossed sentiment on a vellum banner. 

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Just Us Girls #589 - Color Week

Cecile is our host for Color Week at Just Us Girls and she has chosen

The first thing I thought of was alcohol inks so I got mine out to play and made a background.

Black is a great accent with those colors so I mounted my panel on black cardstock, added flower silhouettes from PB and SSS and a heat embossed sentiment from The Ton.

What do you see when those colors come to mind?  I hope we see your idea come to life in our gallery.  For inspiration please see what our guest designer Fran Wing and the rest of the team has done over on the blog. 

Just Us Girls #485 - Photo Week

The colors in Ina's photo for color week at Just Us Girls are gorgeous.

I tried a couple of ideas that didn't work so I turned to my alcohol inks.

I placed the die cut panel on black cs, added a flower silhouette and a tag with a sentiment from TE.

The Design Team and our guest designer Christine have some fabulous cards using this photo as inspiration.  We hope you'll make a card and enter it in our gallery this week.  If you are the winner, you will have a chance at being a guest designer in June.

Twofer Card Challenge #12

I always look forward to the Twofer Challenge.  It makes me think about design and different ways to use my stamps and dies.  This month's prompt is

I pulled out my SSS dies and went looking for paper.  I found some leftovers of Brusho and alcohol ink backgrounds and they became my balloons.

The cheer card on the left uses the alcohol ink scrap.

I also found the already cloud embossed panel and added a die cut cloud heat embossed with the Stampendous sentiment.  You can see the shine better here.

How lucky was it that I actually had three small Brusho pieces in primary colors perfect for a birthday card.

I tied button thread to each and then using a needle punched through the letters on the PTI sentiment.  The top two are foam mounted.

This was such a fun challenge and I can't wait to see what next month brings.

Just Us Girls #444 - Trend Week

Alcohol inks have been all the rage lately and since I'm the host at Just Us Girls that's what I picked for the Trend Week challenge.

I have three cards to show you using alcohol inks.  The first one is a background done with three colors of ink and blending solution on Yupo paper.

Although you can't see it, the dark spots are gold foil that I pressed on when areas of the ink were sticky.  I got this idea from Kristina Werner here.  I added a frame and sentiment cut from gold foil cs.

For my second card, I tried to plan the ink so I could stamp flowers over it.  It started like this.

I actually did this twice, once on Yupo paper and once on glossy cardstock and only used 91% alcohol to blend.  This is the one on glossy paper.  It comes out  little lighter than on Yupo paper.

This is the same stamp set from EbyE stamped in Archival Ink on Yupo Paper.

I used Enamel Accents on the stamens and popped up the flowers with purple fun foam.

We'd love for you to join us in this challenge.  The Design Team and our guest Designer Hannelie Bester have some fantastic cards to inspire you.  If you are chosen Chic of the Week, you will be eligible to be our guest in August.

Twofer Challenge #5

Stretching your creative brain is a good thing and one challenge that calls for that stretch is the Twofer Challenge.  This is where you create two cards, for two different occasions using one word prompt.  This month's prompt is 'butterflies'. 

I knew what I wanted to do for my one card and it went together nicely.

I stamped the butterfly from HLS in Onyx Black and colored them with PolyChromos pencils to look like Monarchs.  The sentiment is from Verve.  The second card took a while to come together and I'm still not sure about it.

After seeing a gorgeous butterfly on the PTI blog, I bought some Frantage and embossed it on a vellum butterfly.  It has a little more gold in it that I thought it would but I carried that through to the gold embossed sentiment by PB.  I used a TH die to cut the corner and put a leftover alcohol ink panel from this card behind it.  I ended up trimming the panel with a jagged die because the original sentiment was crooked and I didn't want to just cover it.  I think it goes well with the jagged edges of the diamonds.

Thanks for another fun challenge, Darnell and Team.

Inkspirational #190

It's purple and gold at Inkspirational.  A very regal combination I do believe.  My colors are a little more muted.

I did the alcohol ink background a while ago and added a popped up frame of Plum Pudding which matched perfectly.  Gold and purple foil were die cut into a dragonfly (with a little purple vellum under the wings) and flower and a sentiment added in black.

ETA: I keep forgetting about the challenge at The Cat's Pajamas.  This month they are asking for die cutting so I'm going to sent this card to them. 

I hope you all had a wonderful Mother's Day.

CAS Christmas Challenge - April

I went to a local art show today and was surprised to see the number of artists who had used alcohol ink as their medium.  I don't pretend to be able to do with it what they did but it sure is fun to play around with.  Like for my card for CAS Christmas Challenge.

I cut the SSS mod ornament from gold and then inlaid the alcohol pieces.  The same gold makes a border and the die cut word from CPD. 

Thanks for dropping by.  I hope you had a great weekend.

Just Us Girls #437 - Color Week

That's right, stampers, it's Color Week at Just Us Girls and the color of choice for our host Carol is . .  .

I've had an alcohol ink panel on my desk for a while deciding what to do with it and this challenge sparked my imagination.

EbyE's Mondo Magnolia to the rescue.  I stamped it on the panel with Archival Ink and die cut it, adding a little green ink to the stem.  The die cut panel adds interest to the background and the PTI sentiment was heat embossed on a strip of black.  I still have a large section of the purple left so I need to think of a way to use it.  

I hope you'll check out the fabulous creations by our Design Team and guest designer Karren Johnson and then make a purple card of your own.  If you are chosen Chic of the Week you could be our guest in June.

I'm also linking this up to the Ellen Hutson PinSights Challenge where this mood board is our inspiration.

CAS Mix-Up - March

Happy Birthday, CAS Mix-Up!  I can't believe it's been two years. It seems like just yesterday I was having fun trying new techniques to make cards for your challenge.  This month it's working with acetate.

I used alcohol ink on acetate and then stamped the background stamp from PB (one that I forgot I had) in archival ink on the opposite side. I used a frame die for the sentiment and colored it with Distress Inks to match the alcohol ink. 

I hope you're having a good day.  I just returned from a wonderful Lenten Breakfast that the women of our church hosted for area churches.  Yesterday we made cinnamon rolls and I was in early this morning baking breakfast casseroles and making curried fruit.  My husband and a couple of other men did the dishes while we enjoyed a musical program.  Next week another church is hosting a Lenten Luncheon.  It's good to get together with a like community of women - sort of like our crafty blogging friends.

Addicted to CAS #129

Susan is our host at Addicted to CAS and she's picked a color for our challenge.

I wanted to play with my alcohol inks and used them to make this card.

The bottle calls it 'Patina' but I'm calling it teal.  I mixed in some silver and pounced with a blender pad which gave my panel a marble-y look.  The leaf is from PB and the silver embossed sentiment is from HA.

I wanted the teal border to be just a tiny peek and cut my first panel too small so I used it to make a second card.

This time I backed it with a panel using the tissue paper technique that I had in my drawer.  Although I hate to think about it, I am always needing sympathy cards.

Happy Little Stampers is our sponsor at ATCAS and the winner of the challenge will receive a $20 voucher to their store.  The Design Team has plenty of inspiration for you over on the blog.  Why not take time to make a "teal" card and enter it in the gallery.  Just be sure to keep it CAS (clean and simple).

Little Red Wagon #418 and 25 Tags of Christmas Day 1

This is my first time at Little Red Wagon but my friend Kate is the host and her choice for the challenge is "Owl About Me".  Now you know I could not pass up a challenge with owls in it.

These cuties are from Winnie and Walter and colored with Zigs.  I thought a little Glossy Accents on the ornaments was called for.

I also have a tag for Tracey's 25 Tags of Christmas challenge.  I saw this tag of Anita's on day one and jumped at the chance to CASE her.

I played with alcohol inks and cut my SSS trees from the resulting panel.  The Noel is from TH cut from foil cs.

I was out shopping today and got some metallic mixative and blending solution so I see more alcohol play in my future. While I was playing I also made my own blending pads from quilt batt.  I knew all those scraps would come in handy some day.

I'm so glad you dropped by.  I hope your weekend went well and you took some time for crafting.

Less Is More #349

Squeaking in under the wire for the challenge at Less Is More - Hot and Spicy.  I had an inspiration last night,played around with alcohol ink and finished up the card this morning.  I waited until the sun came through my craft room window to take a picture.

The bird and branch are from PB and the sentiment from Altenew.  My Yupo paper was big enough for a second card.

I used another Altenew sentiment and a die from AliExpress.  Now I have two more cards to add to my prayer stash.  It's going down too fast.

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