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A Flourishes Celebration- Silke’s Pink Challenge

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It is Celebration Time for Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenges!    The week of February 2-8, 2010 marks Flourishes Timeless Tuesday’s ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY! I was absolutely thrilled to be invited to join in their celebrations by making sample cards for the Design Team challenges!!! I hope you enjoy them and they help inspire you to join in the fun too!!  There are six different challenges being posted and I have samples for three, so hold on to your crafting chair, you’re in for a treat!! There will be lots of amazing prizes at the Flourishes blog! Here’s my second sample card, this one is  for Silke’s “think pink” challenge (FTTC52D)! Please check out the Flourishes Anniversary Celebration post to find out how to play along! I thought right away of the “Think Pink” set for this challenge, and as I need more breast cancer awareness cards it was perfect! I stamped the dress in Versamark on glossy paper and embossed it with Super Fine detail embossing powder (Ranger).   I sponged over it with Pretty in Pink …

Emboss Resist Birthday

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I hope you’re not getting tired of seeing birthday cards yet!  🙂 I used an emboss resist on this one.  I stamped the flower from Fifth Avenue Floral with white craft ink on white card stock, embossed them in clear ep and sponged over them in Pumpkin Pie and Bashful Blue ink.  the base is chocolate chip cs. I also have a picture of the blog candy I am adding to the growing stash!!  If you haven’t already left me a comment,  please do so on the 100,000 Hits Blog Candy Post!  Thanks to everyone who has left their comments so far, it is so fun reading what inspires you all!! Don’t forget about the garden challenge going on over at Crafty Creations Challenges too!! I’ve seen a lot of gorgeous garden scenes around blogs this week!   There is still time to take the challenge… Have a creative day!!

A Sunny Day

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This week’s Flourishes Timeless Tuesday challenge (FTTC17) was set by guest challenge host Connie, and she is challenging us to use sponging on our cards.   I was up for that challenge!   I also used the colors from this week’s color challenge on SCS. I decided to make my background using emboss resist,  by stamping Fifth Avenue florals in versamark on whisper white paper, and embossing with clear embossing powder.  I then lightly sponged on bashful blue ink on the flowers and pumpkin pie ink around the flowers. Then I wiped off the embossed flowers for the finish.   The focal image is stamped in bashful blue,  and the pitcher is sponged in bashful blue too.  I lightly sponged the base area around the pitcher in pumpkin pie.   The embellishment is a button I covered with dp and clear crystal effects, and  the ribbon is So saffron ribbon from Stampin’ Up.  This card makes me think of the warm sunshine filled days of summer!  I can’t wait for those!! I think I’ll be sending this out …

A Natural Shimmer

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I made this last week while stamping with my friend Peggy.  We decided to play with glimmer mists.   I love  the the effects that can be achieved with these!  You always get a different look depending on the colors you mix,  and you can use just about anything as a mask to create designs on the paper. This time though, instead of masking i used the resist emboss technique to get my pattern on the paper.  I stamped the floral sprigs in Versamark on Fabriano watercolor paper, then embossed them with clear embossing powder.  Next I sprayed randomly with Tattered Angels Glimmer mists in Daffodil, Cinnamon and Coffee Shop.   A quick wipe over the embossed areas, to get them clean and it’s done.  In real life, this background shimmers beautifully.   It’s hard to capture that on camera. I really like the organic feel of this card, what do you think? I took the mojo monday challenge #73 for the sketch, used the top note that Peggy gave me for the main image, layered …

A Scene: Brayering, Sponging and Masking

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Making this was such a therapeutic process!  I really “got into it” if you know what I mean.  I used resist embossing, brayered ink, sponging and masking to create the scene. I made this for our Twisted Sistah challenge a week and a half ago.  I really enjoy making scenes, but I haven’t done very many.  I need to practice!! Here are the main steps of how I made this one. I loaded the bird image stamp first in versamark ink, then in jet black Archival ink, stamped it and clear embossed it. I colored it in using a blender pen and watercolor wonder crayons. I repeated the same process with the birdhouse and smaller bird in the top corner.  I first had a look at where the tree limb would hang, to figure out how I would place these, so they would look like they were on the branch and not in midair somewhere.  Once they were colored, I used my versamarker to fill in the  colored areas and clear embossed them too. Now …