Mannequin CAS

 Okay this one went much better. It took me only one time to do this card.  I did use painters tape with this one and I used Distress Oxide ink to make the strip. I taped a strip on white cardstock and I took 3 colors of Oxide ink and colored the background inside the strip. I then took some water and sprayed it on the ink to make the spots.

Next I stamped the corner flourish with a gray ink before I removed the painters tape..

Then I stamped the mannequin stamp at the bottom with black ink.

 

Lost Coast Black Friday Sale

So I just found out that Lost Coast Design stamps is having a Black Friday sale.
Black Friday Sale: Save 20% on your total purchase (before shipping) from Friday, November 24th through Sunday, November 26th. Put Black Friday in the comment area of your order to receive the discount.

Santa

Over at Gecko Galz blog for the November challenge is Santa Claus Lane. They had Christmas music on the radio starting today so I guess It is Christmas time...
This is what I came up with for this challenge.

Clean and Simple card

This was a challenge for me. It took me 4 times to get this one card. I did it though and I love how it came out.

I started out with watercolor paper.( that makes a difference with this card)

Next I used masking tape.(I did try painters tape but it didn't work for me). I masked off a strip on the front of the card. Next I took my nuance powers. I must say if you have not tried these powders you should. They are so rich in color. I just love working with them.

I mixed the powder with some water to make a watercolor. I then took the watercolor and colored in the strip that I masked off. Dried it with a heat gun. Then I added more color to get the look I wanted. Again Dried it with a heat gun. You could let it air dry but I wanted to get to the next step faster. Then I took out my silhouette man with cane stamp  and stamped on the bottom of the card. Then I called it done.
  Please come and try your hand at CAS.
http://lostcoastportaltocreativity.blogspot.com/2017/11/challenge-42-cas.html
To link up your entry. Hope to see what you did.

Dia De Los Muertos

Hello all  here with a Day of the Dead piece .

I started of with a wooden stand and I painted it black. As it was drying I stamped winged skeleton onto white cardstock. Colored the heart with a red copic marker. Next I cut out the image. 

 

Then I glued it to my painted wood piece. Then I glued the flowers to the bottom.

Enjoy.

Day 30 of 31 days of Halloween

It started out as a box that had a pair of headphones in it.
Here is the front cover.

  Frist I covered the whole box with black gesso. Next I painted the whole box with black plaint that I mixed in some antique effect. (you can kinda see it in the next photo)

 I stamped the small skeleton on white paper. Tore around it and edged with brown ink. Added splashes of orange, brown and gray to skeleton. Added a rub-on. Raised it up with foam dots.  Distressed the edges of pattern paper and edged with the same brown ink. Then I added washi tape and layers of ephemera.

  On the side you need to open. I added the same distressed pattern paper and edged with the same brown ink. I used the rustic alphabet set. Stamped out OPEN and cut out and inked the sides with brown ink.

  On the other side I used the same paper and distressed it the same way and I took the small skeleton and just stamped the head 8 times and cut out and added it down the side.

 Back cover. Same paper, same distress. Added a large piece of  ephemera to the middle. I then stamped flying skull 3 times on white paper. Colored the skull with a cream colored marker and cut out. Glued in place. 


Inside.
I took some pattern paper and did the left side of the box. Edged with brown ink. For my scene inside the box I took a sheet of watercolor paper and cut it to fit in the inside of the box. I made the sky background using nuance powers. Once that was dry I took a stencil and added some stars with white ink. Next I stamped the small skeleton 2 times on scrap white paper. Fussy cut out one. Covered edge with black marker. glued him to back. Next I did some die cutting and made the grave yard scene.

 Last I fussy cut the hand and part of the arm and stuck it coming out of a grave.
Done.

Day 27 of 31 days of Halloween

Day 27

Here is a cute card I made for Halloween.

First I die cut the insta photo die out of ivory cardstock. Stamped isle of aud animals. I picked the giraffe out of this set but I think any of them would look cute in this. In the die set it had a witches hat and I knew the giraffe had to have it. Cut that out of black and yellow cardstock and glued it to the top of the giraffes head.   

Next I took my Copic markers in Halloween colors and dotted around the giraffe.

Then I edge the frame with brown distress ink. Stuck a word sticker on the front of it. Taped the inside down, used foam squares on the frame to give it height.