Oldie but Goodie

 I'm back with another guy card I added to my stash. I love, love, love the grunge gears stencil!

I created this background with the reverse image from this card. To create the reverse image, remove the stencil from the current project, spritz with water and lay another piece of cardstock over it. When you remove it you have this cool watercolor looking background to use on another card. Plus, you are not wasting ink because you get two backgrounds from one inking with the stencil. Score!

I laid the mixed up stencil over the top of the reverse panel and inked it up with antique linen distress ink. Then, I grabbed my grunge dots stencil and randomly inked distress oxide inks (rusty hinge, vintage photo, ground espresso) over the top. Next, I added black paint splatters, die cut the panel, embossed the sentiment on the front with black powder and matted with black. 

I added brads in the corners and attached to a kraft cardbase. I stamped the other sentiment with black on a piece of white cardstocked inked with antique linen distress oxide ink. I trimmed the sentiment down and matted with black. I stamped and embossed the radio image with black ink and powder on brown cardstock. I fussy cut out and used an x-acto knife to cut around the inside of the handle. Finally, I glued the sentiment strip to the top and popped up the image with foam tape. 

Grunge Gears Stencil

 

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps:

Vintage Love 

Make a Wish

Mixed Up Stencil

Grunge Dots Stencil 

This post linked to:

 Dare 2B Artzy Challenge - Masculine 

 The Paper Funday Challenge - Anything Goes optional Masculine

 Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes

 Allsorts Challenge - Any Stamped Image

 

I hope you enjoyed today's card and thanks so much for stopping by!

Karen

Bright & Sunny

Happy Saturday! I am sharing a simple and cheerful card featuring the May stamp of the month Happiness Blooms and the new Mixed Up stencil.

 

I began by stenciling the background on kraft with white pigment ink. Next, I stamped the image on the panel with VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink, let dry and colored with polychromos colored pencils. It's my first time coloring on kraft with pencils. I left my stamp on my stamping platform and reinked the image with black again after I was done coloring it.

Next, I matted the panel on yellow, wrapped twine around it and attached to a white card base. Finally, I stamped the sentiment on kraft, trimmed to size and glued to the front. To finish the card off, I added some black gems to the flower centers and three small orange ones around the image.

Happiness Blooms

Mixed Up Stencil 

 

This post linked to:

Little Red Wagon Challenge - With a little help from my friends

Inspiration Station Challenge - Inspired by a Flower Shop inspired by the flowers(so many pretty ones)

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Layer it Up

 

I hope you enjoyed today's card and thanks so much for stopping by!

Karen

Mixed Up Birthday

Hey everyone, I'm back today with a mixed up birthday card. Why do I call it mixed up? I call it that because I used a lot of different products and I wasn't sure it was going to work out. My biggest concern was if the delicate flower would work with the bold stenciled background. I am pleased to say I really like it! My encouragement to everyone is to play and try new things because you never know how it will turn out.

 

 

I started by creating the background with the mixed up stencil(SNSS) and inks from Concord and 9th(ballet slipper, sprout and sea glass). I die cut the panel, matted with another panel inked along the edges with sea glass and wrapped some white twine along the edge. I used the same ink along with the shiplap background on the white card base and attached the panel to it. 

I stamped the images and birthday sentiment with VersaFine Claire Nocturne ink on white cardstock. I colored the flower and leaves with sea glass and ballet slipper ink. I wasn't happy with the color of the flower, so I went over it with an alcohol marker from Altenew(coral berry). I fussy cut the images and glued them to the stenciled panel. I trimmed down the sentiment strip and attached to the front with foam tape. Finally, I stamped the word happy directly on the background and added three colored dots to finish it off.

Supplies from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps:

Mixed Up Stencil 

Shiplap Background 

Encouraging Peonies

 Sentimental Mash-up

 

This post linked to:

Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes

AAA Birthday: Game #37 Let's Party  

Tic Tac Toe Challenge: #161 Layers, Bow, Floral

The Four Seasons Challenge: May Anything Goes Spring 

The Card Concept: #175 May Flowers I was inspired by the flowers and pink colors in the photo to created my mixed media card.

 

I hope you enjoyed today's card and thanks so much for stopping by!

Karen

Inspire

Today I am sharing a masculine card and creating them is definitely outside my comfort zone. My card features several products from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps new May Release. 

I created the background by cutting strips of white cardstock in various sizes and swiping two different gray inks across them. Then, I glued the strips onto another white piece of cardstock, inked up the shiplap background with a darker gray and inked up the panel with it. Afterwards, I die cut the panel, stenciled the word inspire, added the brown mesh(trimmed to the edge), matted with gray and attached to a white base.

I stamped the images with ink on 3 black, colored with alcohol markers and fussy cut out. I used my x-acto knife to cut the inside parts out. I left my boss lady apha die in one piece instead of cutting it all apart. I cut a bunch of letters from white cardstock. I used the outlines to hold the letters while I inked them up with a dark gray ink. I assembled the card as seen using bearly arts glue as my adhesive to affix the images and letters. 

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamp products.

Shiplap Background

Mixed Up Stencil

Boss Lady Alpha Die Set

Peace Be Still

 

This post linked to:

Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes

Tic Tac Toe Challenge - Game/Sport, Blue, Embellishment 

 

I hope you enjoyed today's card and thanks so much for stopping by!

Karen