Thinking of You

The Paper Smooches June Challenge has an inspirational photo. These colors were my mom's favorites, so I pulled out Pearl Alcohol Inks in pink and yellow to use on yupo paper for my background. While it was still tacky, I added some Deco foil in black. The stamping was done with Versafine Clair.

Paper Smooches stamps:
Butterflies = Graceful Beauties
Plant =Botanicals 2
Sentiment = Smooches

Inspiration Photo

Paper Smooches

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Autumn Leaves

This month, the theme for the Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge #19 is "Create a card with your favorite Autumn theme!" For me, that would be leaves. I grew up in New Jersey where we had delicious fall colors. Maybe not so much here though in southern Arizona.

I was very fortunate to have been able to go to Our Creative Escape (Kim from Paper Smooches) for Kathy, The Daily Marker's Road Trip. Kim did a little make and take using some alcohol inks. I decided to use the Paper Smooches set, Large Leaves, to cut out the pretty colors to make two fall cards. The sentiments are from Paper Smooches as well:  Thanks so Much and Thanks.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you'll take a look at the Three Amigos Blog Challenge for more inspiration.

Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge

Alcohol Ink Transfer

I watched Jennifer McGuire's recent video using a Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink Fillable pen to do an alcohol blend coloring video. I was enamored by the technique. I do have one of those pens, but mine is filled with gamsol and I use it with my colored pencils. Being too impatient to wait for a delivery, I grabbed an extra Copic colorless blender that I have and found it to work beautifully! Yes, it does stain, but I found it worked just as well with the stains. I will keep this one as a dedicated ink removal tool in my alcohol ink supplies box.

I found this cute little dragon already printed out on to cardstock. Ever run across stamped images and have no idea who they are from or what ink you used or what paper you used? Well, if anyone can "name this stamp" please do so in the comments below.

It's odd that I had just pulled out a stack of alcohol ink papers and had trimmed them to size. I had a pile of strips of Yupo paper with ink already on sitting on my work surface before seeing that video. So, I was ready to grab ink from the strips with my colorless blender and add them to this sweet dragon.

The Birch Frames Die are from C.C. Designs. (I am unable to find them to link.) I also made some rosettes (am I the only one who burns their fingers every time while using a hot glue gun?) with some of the remaining strips; why not? I found this to be a fun process.

Thanks so much for dropping by. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this technique.

Shared with:
Crafting With Friends
A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge
Digi Choosday Crafting Challenge
Crafty Catz Challenge

House Mouse Climbing Iris and Hummingbird in Watercolor

This week the option is to add stitching, real or faux, to your entry over at House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge.  I selected the Climbing Iris stamp and colored it with Windsor & Newton watercolors on Master's Touch Watercolor paper.  I created an easel card. Using Gina K paper for the card base.

The background was created with alcohol inks. I added a couple of pieces of Washi tape. The sentiment from Wild Rose Studio was embossed with white,  popped for dimension, and a few large white pearls added from my stash.

Also sharing with The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Contest.  

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