Green Leaves

Hello everyone! I used the watercolor stamping technique to create the background on this card. It is one of my favorite techniques. I love how it looks different every time!

For this technique, all you need to do is ink up your stamp with several different colors of ink or varying shades of the same ink, spritz with water and stamp. Wipe off your stamp and repeat steps until your background is covered. Do not blot your paper, just let it air dry. It is so pretty once it dries and I never get tired of it. Once it was dry and cut down to size I inked the edges with green.

The dragonfly was embossed in black on green paper and fussy cut out. I had this guy in my stash of extras and he was made before the matching dies were released. 

Supplies:

From Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps:

    -Fall Background 

    -Dragonfly Dreams

    -Typewriter Text Background

    -Thanks Word Die 

-Ink

    -Vintage Photo distress ink

    -Dried Oregano(Nuvo), Grass Green and Fresh Asparagus(Gina K)

    -VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink

-Other 

    -White and Garden Green cardstock

    -Canson XL watercolor paper  

    -Foam Tape

    -double sided tape

    -A2 Stitched Rectangle STAX Set 2 Dienamics

    - Bearly Art precision craft glue

    -black embossing powder

   

 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Karen 

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Sweet Chick

Hello friends! I'm sharing two cards today I made for the sketch challenge in the Sweet 'n Sassy VIP Group on Facebook. I am a long time fan of sketch challenges because they give me a starting point.

For my first card, I decided to replace the circle with a square (see sketch below). I started by creating my paint splatter background using canson mixed media paper, artist loft paint and a small paintbrush. I dipped my paintbrush in water, then the paint and flicked it onto my paper. Super easy and fun!

I stamped the adorable chick from the new Springtime set onto the same type of paper with VersaFine Clair Nocturne Ink and heat set. I colored the image using bubblegum pink, orange, lemon yellow and light green Arteza Real Brush Pens and fussy cut out. I trimmed my paint splatter panel down and attached to a green card base. I cut the green square and cut and trimmed the end of the pink piece to look like a banner and taped both pieces to the card front. Next, I attached the chick and butterfly (taken from my stash of already colored images) as seen. I did pop the chick up with foam tape. Finally, I stamped the sentiment from Lots of Love onto the green piece with the same ink as the chick. Yes, I actually did that as the last step, because I forgot to do it before I glued down the green square. I sure was glad I did not mess it up!

For my second card, I followed the sketch and kept the circle. I started by using a stitched circle die to cut a piece from an ink smooshed background in my stash. The colors I used for the ink smooshing are picked raspberry, peacock feathers and twisted citron distress oxide inks. I also used an extra heat embossed dragonfly leftover from this card. Sometimes, it pays off to have extra pieces on hand to make a quick card. I used Texture Tiles 1 to create the pattern on the green and pink pieces. I stamped the words from Dragonfly Dreams onto the pink piece and wrapped the string around, taping it to the back. I attached all the pieces as seen popping up the circle, dragonfly and pink piece with foam tape. Last, I added the enamel dots from Gina Marie Designs.

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Dragonfly Dreams

I love to make cards with sentiments that will encourage the recipient! Often, a card with just the right words on it and some sweet handwritten ones inside are just what someone needs to bring a smile to their face or help them through a hard time. What are your favorite kind of cards to create?

I created this card using Dragonfly Dreams  and Inspirational Word Art 1 from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps. I made the background a few months back in my first and only attempt with ink smooshing. In my little mini session, I made six backgrounds and put them aside until I could find a use for them. I started with squeezed lemonade, picked raspberry and peacock feathers distress oxide inks. I decided I did not like the squeezed lemonade with the other colors and went over it with twisted citron. I actually dabbed it on more than smooshed it. I like how it turned out.

I had some extra dragonflies leftover from my Dream Big blog post for Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps earlier this month. I heat embossed the top layer of the large wing onto blue cardstock with versamark ink and black embossing powder, then fussy cut out. To be honest, this card went together really fast because I had so many pieces to pull from in my stash.

I die cut the smooshed piece with a wonky stitched rectagle die from Gina Marie Designs. Then I stamped the sentiment from Inspirational Word Art 1 on the front with Versafine Clair Nocture Ink. Next, I matted the die cut piece onto black and adhered to my hot pink base. Finally, I attached the dragonfly to the front with foam tape and glued on some sequins as the final touch.

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Karen

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February Blog Hop Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

Welcome to the Sweet n' Sassy Stamps February Release Hop!

There's another fabulous release in the SNSS shop that we've been stamping with and we're so excited to share our projects with you! Hop along and leave a little comment love for the designers linked below and you just might be a lucky winner! One lucky comment from all the comments along the hop will win a $10 gift voucher to the Sweet n' Sassy Stamps shop. Winner will be announced on the SNSS blog, Wednesday, February 19.

I made my card with the new sets Dragonfly Dreams and the stamp of the month Sentimental Mash-up. The dragonflies are a layering stamp set (it's amazing) and pairs perfectly with the mixed fonts of the sentiment set. I used a painting techique I learned watching a video Korin did live during the January stamp-a-thon in the VIP Group on Facebook.

I used Canson XL watercolor paper for the technique (it is the second one taught in the video). I started with dry paper and then using a damp flat brush I dipped each side into a different coordinating color of watercolor paint. I used artist loft brand from Michaels. I chose a green and blue hue that I thought would work well together. Then starting at the edge of the paper swipe the brush, repeat until one side is covered. Don't worry about being perfect or having even edges as it adds to the effect. You don't want your brush too wet as it needs to be on the drier side for this technique.

Then I added some paint splatters in green, blue and black, but felt like the background needed something else. So I pulled out Texture Tiles 1 and added some black grid marks and blue dots on the painted side and die cut the panel. Next, I stamped and heat embossed the dragonflies with black embossing powder onto blue cardstock and fussy cut out. I decided on placement of the dragonflies and adhered to the painted piece. I then stamped the words on the front with VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink. As the final touch I added three small sequins.

Thanks for stopping by and your next stop on the hop is the amazing Lee Ann Barrett!

Sweet n' Sassy Stamps

Julee Tilman

Ceal Pritchett

Diane Zechman

Esther Asbury

Jane Bosi 

Karen Decknick

Lee Ann Barrett

Lucinde van Ballegooijen 

Lyn Tomlin

Sheri Gilson