Dimension

The challenge at Make My Monday this week is to add some dimension to the project.  I've done this in a fairly simple way with multiple layers.  The embossed panel has some red gilding  wax added to highlight the texture; the next layer had texture paste applied through a stencil mask. then coloured with Distress ink; the car was from Creative Expressions stamped and embossed; fancy metal brads rubbed with gilding wax were added to the wheels.   I finally added a couple of tickets and a bow tied with some pieces of red waxed cord left from making a bracelet (knew it was worth saving them!!).

Quintiles for August

It is Quintile time again for the swap at Chocolate Baroque - for anyone who may not know, a quintile is a piece of art which is five inches square and because they need to be posted it was suggested they should be kept reasonably flat.  The theme this month had me in somewhat of a quandary because in fact there was no theme -'free choice' we were told with the usual proviso of using Chocolate Baroque stamps and/or products purchased from them.  I think this month has proved beyond doubt that I have way too many of their stamp sets as well ink pads and other forms of colouring along with CDs, papers, dies and so on - you get the picture I'm sure; but what to use??  Not long ago I purchased a gelli plate from them and thought I would use that to make the tiles before deciding which stamps etc to use.  I had a session of dabbling with acrylic paints and the gelli along with various masks, crumpled paper and so on until I had a reasonable selection of coloured backgrounds.  Below are my two final results and I have a few more usable backgrounds to play with for something else.

A long post today, sorry - details below each picture

Background made by adding gold paint to the plate and removing some of it with crumpled copy paper before pulling a print.  (not my idea, I saw this demonstrated by Barbara Grey on TV).  Once dry it was sponged with Distress ink which of course has been resisted by the gold and has coloured the card (originally white).
Image - CB stamp from Lily Pad clear set, paper pieced flowers and lanterns.
Background overstamping - CB stamps from Moonlit Waterfall clear set

For this one I added yellow paint to the plate, then used a mask from Special Touch for the first print, added blue paint to the plate and used a Glimmer Mist butterfly mask before pulling the final print.  I quite liked this result so didn't want to cover up too much of it.
Sentiment -  CB stamp from Live out Loud set
Butterfly - CB stamp from UA4SP0236 set

Sweet Home Alabama

This song title is the theme of the Sunday Stamper challenge this week and Hels is asking for something relating to home.  I've used a quirky house stamp designed by Sam Poole, stamped twice and part of it cut out to add some dimension.  It was clear embossed and then coloured with Distress stains and Distress ink pads. The background was made using the same colours and was embossed using a Special Touch mask which I inked with the darker colour to transfer some colour to the white card before adding more ink after it was embossed. (colours used were Seedless Preserve and Mustard Seed).  The 'graffiti' was sponged through another mask using black soot ink and a text stamp also by Sam Poole was put onto a scrap of torn card, a little punched and coloured flower just finishes the grungy homely look. I must say my hands needed a good scrub after all that inky play!!

New Challenge

There is a new challenge starting at The House of Cards and you can read all about it if you follow the link.  There will be opportunities to try out various techniques as we go along which should be great fun I'm sure.  This week they are asking for a cute and fun entry to include certain colours and I've used a cute pirate image from Polkadoodles which would make a great card for a boy - I've followed the colours as closely as I could without going out to buy any more coloured card. Backing paper is from my stash (Papermania) and the dark panel was embossed using a mask and then rubbed with metallic gilding wax.  Some lines were doodled around the edges for interest and a couple of buttons added in the corners. Take a look at what their design team have come up with and maybe have a go yourselves.

Make My Monday Challenge

I seem to have been out of the house pretty well every day this week but thankfully didn't need to go out this morning because it has been lashing with rain.  I've not made a card for what seems like ages and have nearly forgotten how!  The people at Make My Monday have returned after their short break and this week are challenging us to produce something using dry embossing. I've used a combination of masks and embossing folders to come up with three different sizes of dots for the embossing, also embossed the circle which has a tree stamped on it - Stamp is from Lovely as a Tree set by Stampin' Up and the circle is of course a Nestability die.  Backing paper was a scrap from my oddments box and the sentiment was printed and cut out with a punch.