I Have My Eye on You with Lost Coast Designs

Hi Dreamers!

I am back with a really fun image from Lost Coast Designs called Face with Butterfly.  I made two pretty different cards with this stamp.  On the first card, I also stamped the Iron Works Border repeatedly on a background of brown packing paper.  On the second I stamped on white tissue paper.  As you can tell, I don't throw out all those interesting papers that come with shipped orders.  LOL  (I purchased all my inks and Markers from Blockheads Paper Arts.)

• Start by making a card base from Kraft CS and layering with  a bright green CS.
• On brown packing paper---the kind that is used to cushion items during shipping----stamp the Iron Works border stamp with Rich Cocoa Memento ink repeatedly.

• Stamp the Face With Butterfly with Tuxedo Black Memento ink.
• Color some of the stamped areas with Distress Markers by Ranger.

• Crumple the stamped brown paper and add some Tumbled Glass Distress ink.
• Add to card
• Tie a knot in a piece of ribbon and hand gather the tails.

The second card is a bit different from the first card. On this card, I stamped on white tissue paper.  

• Make a card base from Blue CS and layer with wine CS

• On a piece of white CS, stamp the Face with Tuxedo Black Memento ink
• Color this image with Copic Markers using bold colors.  Don't bother to do any shadowing and shading.
• On  a piece of white Tissue Paper, stamp the face again.
• Position the Tissue paper over the stamped and colored image matching up the images exactly.
• Wrap the edges of the tissue paper around the white CS and glue.

Love this soft effect that results from overlaying with the stamped tissue paper!!

I would like to enter my Face With Butterfly card #1 in the Simon Says  Stamp and Show challenge:
Use a background stamp in an interesting way  or use a stamp to create a background.----------
I used a border stamp to create an interesting background.

The weather is beautiful here in good old Michigan today!! Already 70 degrees F!!!  So I am going to head outside and get a bit of work done in the garden.  Lots of old dead stuff to cut down.  Doesn't that sound like fun!!??  Sure!   I will be back later this week with a Spring in Paris card made with Stampsmith stamps.  OHHH!  That will be fun!!
I hope you are having a great day in your little corner of the world.   Love ya.
Karen

Tea Pot and Cup with Tissue Paper

Hi Dreamers!
I spent the whole day cleaning my house yesterday.  Still have to do the upstairs, but now the downstairs is nice and clean.  Gave my new vacuum cleaner (Riccar -made in the USA) a good workout!  Last night I had some time to make these fun Tea themed cards.  I used stamps from the Relax A Bit Stamp set from Mark's Finest/Heinrich.   Take a look at the first card.  It is a smaller card measuring 4 x 4 1/4".

To create this soft and muted effect:

• Stamp the tea pot on white CS with Black dye ink.
• Color the image with Copic Markers.  Don't worry about shading.  Just use  darker colors
• Stamp the tea pot again on white Tissue Paper.
• Line up the image exactly over the colored image.
• The colors on the first image will show through the tissue paper.

• Wrap the tissue paper around the White CS and glue
• Layer onto blue CS and onto a Pink base
• Stamp this fun sentiment on the inside (also in the Relax a bit stamp set)

The Second card is made the same way.

• This time I glued the tissue to the colored image and then cut out both at the same time.

• I used a sketch from 365 Cards for this layout.  I dropped the top part of the sketch to the bottom.

• This sentiment is from My Favorite Things

• I used the same Copic Markers to color the cup

And, now a few fun challenges for my Tea Themed cards with Tissue

Mark's Finest: use tissue paper
Simon Says Stamp: something new---I used two new stamp sets
365 Cards: sketch day 305
By the Cute and Girly: cute and girly
Cute Card Thursday: something new--stamps

So, has everyone recuperated from the Holidays?  I am trying to play catch up a bit now.  I would like to make some changes for the new year.  Not sure what these changes might be--yet.  Maybe trying to sell my cards at shows, teaching ?? Not sure, but I like change.  I just feel like I need a change.  I will have to put my thinking cap on and come up with something.  LOL  What do you have planned for the new year?  Well, have  a great day!  Love ya.
Karen