New Challenges

 Hello all. A new month so new challenges. For Lost Coast it is Christmas in July for 2 weeks and for Gecko Glaz it is Sea of dreams. 

Here is a postcard I made for the start of the  Lost Coast challenge. 

Stamps Used: 
Flying Queen

Lily flourish 

Slim Line Bee card

 Hello all..I'm here with a slimline card for you using Lost Coast stamps 

Stamps Used:

Bugz Set

Large chicken wire background

I stared off making the the squares for the card. I used 2 yellow distress sprays to color the paper then I used a brown to add the spots. 

I then stamped the Large chicken wire background with  the same brown all over the square. I didn't ink it all over so there are some spots that a not there. 

Next I cut it in to 1 and 2 inch squares. When I had them all cut I stamped the bee from the Bugz Set with black ink on different parts of the 1 and 2 inch squares. I set that aside to work on my card base.

I used Kraft cardstock and that same brown distress ink and stamped the Large chicken wire background for the background of my card. As you can see I have a black strip of cardstock on my card because I didn't get the stamp lined up perfectly. 

I then arranges the squares how I wanted them on the front and glued them into place. Lastly I stamped the bee definition on the bottom corner. 

I hope you will join us with the challenge here.

Wild West Sweetheart

 Hello all I'm a day late with sharing these with you. I made some digital postcards.

What I used:

Rodeo Galz kit

Save the trees

 I'm here with a card for you. The challenge is not to use paper from trees for your stamping. 

Stamps Used:

Fortune Men

Pieces of Calligraphy 

Lily flourish

Okay this challenge stumped me I must say. I started out it a totally different direction. I ended tossing it in the trash. 

 Then remembered that Yupo paper is plastic. There we go.

I used my alcohol inks on the Yupo to make a background. Next I took my stamps and stamped them with archival ink and heat set them. Take a stencil and some alcohol and a sponge and sponge it through. You can use lift ink for that also. To give it another layer.  

Then I added a saying and layered it on a black card base. 

I hope you try this challenging challenge here.

under the sea

Hello all. I have a under the sea card for you. 

I used:

seahorse with rider 

I started off making the background. I used blues and purple and black distress spray. I sprayed them on a craft mat and smooched mix media cardstock into it. Dry the repeat till you are happy with your background. Set aside. 

Next I used a bubble die to use as a layer for my under the sea card in blue cardstock. When my background was dry I then took a bubble stencil and layered that on with distress oxide ink in blue, after that I glued the bubble stencil on top. Set aside to dry with something heavy on top to hold it down.

I then stamped seahorse with rider on a scrap piece of white cardstock and colored with copic markers. I added gold in for the horse's reins and some white highlights. I then glued that in place and that is my card. 

I hope you will join in the challenge here.

Secret Garden

 Hello I have 2 digital postcard for you. 

What I used:

Storybook garden

Garden sentiments

secret garden collage

fairy dust

Under the sea challenge

 Good morning. Over at the Lost Coast blog there is a new challenge. Under the sea. Here is what I made for the start of it. 

I used different colors of blue distress spray to make the background. Then I took a Taylor Expressions stencil. I used the new distress color for it. You can kind of see them. 

My anchor fish is a new stamp from Lost Coast. I tried the eroded metal that Tim Holtz has shown in his demos. I also did one other technique I saw him do was stamp and then paint then stamp again in archival ink. Did that on the fish to with the new color in distress.