Coloured on Kraft Series | ft. Clearly Besotted's "Sunshine & Smiles"

Hi everyone, thank you for stopping by. I hope you are having a great day.

It occurred to me that I hadn't done a colouring on kraft in a little bit, so I thought today I would do that. I mean we were dangerously close to having a streak of Halloween cards. Like in a row; and while that would be fantastic, I can't put them all out now, there would be nothing left for closer to Halloween. So think of it as like an intermission; the first of many.

To begin, I stamped the floral image from Clearly Besotted's "Sunshine & Smiles" set with VersaMark ink on 65lb Kraft cardstock. I used this particular ink because I didn't want the harsh black ink lines of regular stamping. As we all know, Clearly Besotted is fantastic at keeping their lines thin and crisp, but even still, there is a difference. Maybe I'll show you one day (foreshadowing? Probably.)

Next I stamped the greeting from CTMH's "Sending Smiles" in Memento Tuxedo Black ink. Then I coloured in the image using Prismacolor Premier pencils. These are a soft core, wax based pencil that lay down beautifully on nearly any paper. While I have my issues with this particular brand, they remain my favourite of the wax line.

Then, as I went to line the panel up on my standard A2 sized card base I discovered that I didn't line up my stamps at all. These images weren't even a little bit straight. Like I was on a canoe at the time or something. Maybe deep into the cups. I have no idea what happened. Initially I tossed it. Then I was sad about tossing it because I was really pleased with how the colouring had turned out.

So I fished it out, layered it at an angle on a piece of blue cardstock and then adhered it to my card base. Now, no one will ever know that I had messed up, right?

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This card is for:

CAS On Friday Challenge

#116 Color Me Pretty

The Flower Challenge

#12 Tic-Tac-Toe

(Sentiment, CAS, Colour - Blue)

Hello Halloween Series | ft. Simon Says Stamp "Trick or Treat"

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I hadn't intended to make today's card a Halloween card, I wanted to wait a few days, but something things just don't work out like that. Today's card was made specifically for the Muse Challenge (of which you know I am a HUGE fan). When I saw Anita's card, I wasn't sure exactly what I wanted to do at first, so I sat on it for a few days.

So when it came to me yesterday, I knew what I had to do. And I knew that I couldn't wait to post it.

To begin, I masked off the bottom left and the top right edges, and used a light hand to apply Dried Marigold Distress ink in the middle.

Once that was dry, I removed the masks and set them aside and prepped the panel with my powder tool. I then stamped the large greeting from Simon Says Stamp's "Trick or Treat" set with VersaMark ink and heat embossed it with black detail powder. I also stamped the smaller greeting on a different sheet and heat embossed that with black as well.

I then used the large and the small bats from the same set and stamped them randomly in the light orange area and heat embossed them with clear.

I then replaced the masks and sponged on Wild Honey and Carved Pumpkin Distress inks to create an ombre look getting darker as it went down the card.

I removed the masks again, and raised the panel up on foam tape and adhered it to a standard A2 sized card base. Then I cut around the mini greeting and used a black marker to finish off the sides. I then popped that up on a piece of foam tape and placed it just below the big greeting.

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This card is for:

Muse Challenge #232

With inspiration by Anita Bowden

 Thank you all for your votes once again!

Hello Halloween Series | Clearly Besotted "It's Good to be Bad"

Hi everyone, thank you for stopping by. I hope you are having a great day.

Though it may seem early, and the weather is still very warm (where I am, it's been a crazy hot summer. Like gross hot) I thought I would kick off my Halloween Series this year a bit early, because really, it's never too early for Halloween! It's like the perfect holiday. The warm, cozy smells, and the crisp air, the coloured leaves, the monsters peeking out of their summertime hiding places. It's just a wonderful time of year.

To begin, I stamped the cauldron from Clearly Besotted's "It's Good to be Bad" stamp set in Memento Tuxedo Black ink on 110lb Copic-friendly cardstock. I then masked that off and stamped the greeting and the old witch also masking her off.

I then took some Twisted Citron Distress ink and sponged a halo around the images. Once that was dry, I removed the masks and coloured the images in with Copic markers. I wanted everything to be black, but not the same black.

 I was able to use all of my different grays for this one. I used the cool grays for her skin, hair and the cauldron; warm grays for the shadows so it didn't look like they were just floating in the middle of nothing, and my neutral grays for her cloak.

I coloured the ooze with a single orange and then used Glossy Accents by Ranger over top to give it a liquid look. I had to get some sparkle so I used my Clear Wink of Stella pen over the metal of the cauldron.

I mounted the panel on a piece of coordinating orange cardstock and adhered it all to the front of a standard A2 sized card base. Finally, I added a scattering of purple sequins just to make sure that all of the Halloween colours were there!

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This card is for:

Addicted to Stamps and More

Holiday

Crafting from the Heart

Challenge #173