All posts filed under: Poppin’ Pastels

A Walk in the Woods

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One of my fabulous Twisted Sistahs is the hostess of the Timeless Tuesday Challenge this week!!  Way to go  Linda!!  Very exciting!! The challenge is to use our chalks.  I made this card using the poppin’ pastels technique.  I stamped the image in Versamark, then pounced the chalks onto the image.  I blew away any residue and gently erased whatever stray chalk marks I didn’t want on the paper.  I outlined the bird just a little with a fineliner brown marker for definition. I also used this week’s SCS sketch, so i punched out the image into 9 squares, mounted them on lime green cs, and popped them up on dimensional foam tape.  There is  a lime green layer of tissue paper and the base card is a deep chocolate brown.   The twine is wrapped around the squares a few times and tied off at one corner.  A couple of green dew drops in the corners and I was finished! What do you think?   It has a really woodsy feel to it doesn’t it?  I …

Trying to Impress the Impressive…

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The Stamp Simply challenge this week featured on Sharon’s blog No time to stamp, is to make a card inspired by, not necessarily casing,  the wonderfully talented  Julie Koerber from Out To Impress. She is RED HOT!  Heehee, and a little embarrassed by that statement used by Sharon, but really SHE IS!  Just going to have to get over it Julie!! 🙂  So, part of the challenge was that we had to use red, as that is a color she uses often. It was easy to be inspired by her classy style, but as I was going through my supplies, I realized something about my own stamping style. I do not use red very often! So it was a challenge to get this “simple” card off the ground! In the end I think it looks more rosy than red, but I did use red chalk for the flowers, which I stamped twice in versamark, and the sentiment, and I even used the new red riding hood cs from SU for the mat. Of course I …