Take Risks

If there is an age where you no longer have fun getting inky fingers, then I haven't yet reached it, lol. Today's card was a veritable feast of colour all over my hands, as you can see:

But it was worth it, I think. This card is for the Just Add Ink sketch challenge this week. 

It had me rather intrigued for a while, then I decided to see how it would look in a mixed media format and, well, here's the result.

This poor butterfly, tattered and torn, is still out there taking risks for the duration of its short life - kind of a metaphor for our own lives, don't you think?

Materials used:

• stamps - Attic Treasures, Remnants (Tim Holtz)
• card - crumb cake, early espresso, watercolour
• distress oxide inks - peacock feathers, evergreen bough, vintage photo, mustard seed, kitsch flamingo
• other - vintage photo, antique linen and walnut stain distress crayons (TH), Tattered Butterfly Bigz die (TH), Big Shot, blending brushes, water spritzer, heat tool, hexagon die, word chips (TH), fossilized amber distress archival ink, clear rock candy distress crackle paint (TH), sponge dauber, Dimensionals, distressing tool

Thanks for dropping by.

Cheers

Kerry

Edited to add: I'm thrilled to say this card was picked as the winner for this challenge. Many thanks to the folks at JAI. 

Welcome, Kitsch Flamingo

With a new distress colour released this past week, it was inevitable that I would be having a play with it. I chose to watercolour some flowers using this gorgeous new pink.

Materials used:

• stamps - Flower Garden, Attic Treasures, Tiny Text (all Tim Holtz)
• card - Sahara sand, soft suede, watercolour
• distress ink - kitsch flamingo
• distress oxide inks - kitsch flamingo, picked raspberry, fossilized amber, mowed lawn, rustic wilderness, speckled egg, weathered wood, frayed burlap
• other - Harlequin stencil (TH), speckled egg distress embossing glaze (TH), linen thread, word window punch, Dimensionals, shaping mat and tools, sponge dauber, crumb cake marker, vintage photo archival ink (TH), embossing dabber

I shaped the flowers a little to curl the edges and 'bowl' the heads for some interest and dimension. I love the way they spread out over the edges of the background piece. 

Thanks for calling in.

Cheers

Kerry

Spring Flowers

'Spring flowers' is the theme I gave my ladies this week and after browsing Pinterest I was inspired to visit my craft room for a play...

I'm still loving my Wildflower Stems dies and couldn't resist using the sweet daisies for my card, along with the newest (but not for much longer) distress colour, Speckled Egg. Here's how my card ended up:

Materials used:

• stamps - Damask, Attic Treasures, Entomology (all Tim Holtz)
• card - whisper white, Sahara sand, early espresso, mixed media card
• distress oxide inks - antique linen, speckled egg, fossilised amber, twisted citron, mowed lawn
• distress oxide spray - antique linen
• distress embossing glazes - speckled egg, vintage photo
• dies - Wildflower Stems (TH), stitched rectangle, stitched frame
• other - Big Shot, Dimensionals, water spritzer, aqua painter, white baker's twine, white gel pen, heat tool, Transparent Wings butterfly (TH)

There's a new distress colour coming out in a couple of weeks, so as you can imagine I'm getting rather excited about its release - not to mention constantly changing my mind about what shade I'd like it to be, lol. 

I hope you're finding some crafty goodness in your day. Thanks for popping in.

Cheers

Kez

Discover Yourself

I've been playing with my Tim Holtz "toys" again, lol. I originally thought of doing white on white, but once I decided to use heat embossing and texture paste, that plan went out the window. Eventually I settled for some soft and pretty shades of purple and again, intended putting this on a white base card until I saw how drab it looked. It really needed the black base to make the main panel 'pop'. The sentiment too, needed to be in black to stand out, even though I had the same stickers in white.

My process was to firstly stamp the script stamp with Versamark and clear emboss it. Then I inked over and wiped the excess off the embossing. The stencilled texture paste came next and once that was dry I stencilled again, this time with ink. That gorgeous butterfly is white embossed on vellum and fussy cut.

Materials used:

• stamps - Perspective (TH), Attic Treasures (TH)
• card - basic black, whisper white, vellum
• distress oxide inks - Victorian velvet, dusky concord, seedless preserves
• stencils (TH) - Harlequin, Roses
• other - stitched rectangle die, Big Shot, texture paste, spatula, white and clear embossing powders, heat tool, craft foam, Dimensionals, blending brushes, Chit Chat stickers (TH)

I'm very happy with this one - what do you think? I'd love you to leave a comment or tick one of the boxes below.

Thanks for dropping by. Stay safe.

Cheers

Kez