I've cased another card.

I saw a card like this on Paper Craft Planet. You use all of your border punches to form the card front. I think it makes a very elegant wedding card. Rows 1 & 2 are Martha Stewart borders. Row 3 is EK Success. Rows 4 & 5 are Martha Stewart and the last one is a SU border. The butterflies are Martha Stewart punches.

Another Impressibilities idea

Stamp TV had a few more videos last week. The one technique I haven't been able to make it look right or at least make it look like I think it should. This one though is easy and you could use lots of colors to make your background paper. You start out by laying your Impressibilities on top of your card stock.



Then sponge your ink over the top of it. You need to use a pouncing type motion or you will ruin the sponge.



This is what you will end up with.

Happy Mothers Day

I had a very quiet day. Husband had to work and daughter was with the boyfriend and his mother for the afternoon. They did however cook me a delicious meal for supper. I actually enjoyed the afternoon. Hadn't had a day off in a week so these few hours gave me an opportunity to put some cards together. These were all made using an alcohol ink background. I am still working on what I will be showing you at the end of the month. The first one uses acetate.



I had fun with a couple Martha Stewart punches for this one. I treated myself to a couple of her border punches. I really like this one.



The last card uses a stamp from Flourishes. I popped up the little flowers.

Impressibilities

This is for my friend Kren who had asked my opinion of the Spellbinders Impressibilities. I was not impressed. And had heard others say what I was saying. They just didn't make a good impression. Well this week I saw the new ones especially the one with the sea shells and like I really need that one. Then StampTV had a video and now that I have high speed internet I was able to watch the video. I found out my main problem. PAPER!!! You need light weight paper. We're all trying to use the SU or the Georgia Pacific sold at Walmart. These are tooo heavy. So off to Joanns I went yesterday and bought a pack of the paper they sell and today gave it a try. This is what I found. This is your sandwich starting at the bottom. A plate- B plate- rubber mat-Impressibilities-paper-B plate-card stock to shim. I used 4. Although I still am not sure of the embossed side. The folders do a better job in my opinion.



But the debossed side is quite nice. This side could give you a very lacey effect. I really like the white outlines.



So am I going to order the sea shell Impressibilities. You know I am.

A couple of sample cards

We will be doing these 2 techniques at my demo. I worked very hard today researching and sampling. The ink is not where you think it is.

Alcohol ink can be used on more than cards

I have been wanting to do this ever since I saw someones heat gun on another blog and since I have the day off I am playing. So here are my heat gun (plastic) and this white box (metal) that you can find at Joanns or Micheals.



And here they are finished.



Here is what I used. You could use Alcohol Blending Solution or you can use 91% Rubbing Alcohol. There are different strengths of alcohol when you go looking for it. This is the recommended percentage to use. Several colors of Alcohol ink and cotton balls.




Soak your cotton with the alcohol and add several drops of each color of your ink.



Now start pouncing and keep pouncing adding more ink as needed to get the look you want.




Now one last step. Spray your finished projects. with Fixatif by Krylon. They will take a few minutes to dry.



I hope you take the time to alter something. The box can now have bling or ribbon added to it. Maybe some flowers on the top. You will have a pretty and very quick and easy gift for someone when you are done. These boxes come in all shapes and sizes. The possibilities are endless.

I'm doing a demo on Alcohol ink

And what I'm finding out as I get prepared for it is there is more information than I can fit into one demo. So I thought I would put bits and pieces here for you and finish off at the demo in May. The first technique I am going to share with you will remind of the shaving cream technique only there is no shaving cream. LOL Start out with a container that you can put water in. You need about 1" of water in it. Now drop a couple of drops of your first color.



Now add your second color and swirl the water around if you want.



Lay your card stock on top of your inky water and push it down. Lift out the paper and let dry. Here is a sample using regular card stock.



And here are 2 more samples. The one on the left is glossy card stock and the other one is regular card stock. The ink soaks into the regular card stock and sits on top of the glossy. The glossy will take a little longer to dry.



My first sample was stamped with Archival Black ink and a background stamp from Su. I then cut it out with a Nestabilities rectangle and sprayed it with gold Glimmer Mist for some added shine before assembling my card.




And here is the Glossy piece. I stamped the words right onto the background and added a tissue paper flower I sprayed with Glimmer Mist.



This next technique lets you use the alcohol inks to color your image. You'll need a pallet for your inks and either Alcohol Blending Solution or Alcohol. You will want to stamp your image with the same ink you would use for your Copic markers. Stazon will not work for this.



Take your pallet and add a couple of drops of the Blending Solution/Alcohol. Now add a couple of drops of your first color.



Using a brush color all the parts of the image that will use that color. When done clean out the section of your pallet and do the same procedure with the next color. Continue this until your whole image is colored in.



Now you can hilight and shade with colored pencils. And here's my card. I cut out the image with a circle Nestabilities and leaving the image in the die I added color to the background with a sponge applicator. This leaves you a nice clean edge all the way around.



The background is another Alcohol ink technique I will talk about later. I hope you enjoyed this and give both of these a try. I will be back with a few more ideas real soon.