Hidden Numbers

I made this for a numbers card swap.

I started with a diamond stamped background from my card stash. I added the numbers with a stencil

 and blending the ink. I then added the stamps and blending the images with ink to add depth.

 

Dragonflies

I dry embossed the background panel and added gold ink to highlight the embossed areas. I then stamped the dragonflies ink black ink and using a stencil, I added a flourish to the background. Then coloured the dragonflies with pencils.

 Supplies 

Couture Creations embossing folder - drifting endless

Dragonflies stamp

wink of stella clear glitter, flourish stencil colouring pencils, brilliance gold ink

C4C331 Textured background

Challenge day with the team from Crazy 4 Challenges and Rebecca has a fun challenge for us to try.

This week, lets get brave and try a new technique. Apply any type of paint, embossing or modeling paste or liquid medium (like gel medium or gesso) through a stencil and while you medium is still wet, apply some glitter! Using a wet medium has the happy side effect off keeping more of your lovely glitter in place and far less of it where you don't want it! Try white on white for a lovely tone-on-tone effect or jazz it up with more than one colour of glitter. Use this as a focal or as a background. I can't wait to see your creations!

For my background I used a sponge blending tool to apply abandoned coral and picked raspberry in random spot blending as I went. I then sponged a layer of wilted violet through the scribbles stencil. Then I added a layer of inka gold paste through the flourish stencil and while it was wet I added silver micro fine glitter.

I applied the Elizabeth craft designs dragonflies stickers to adhesive glitter foil which I had applied to white card and coloured them with sukura glaze pens. The dragonflies where attached with foam tape and a die cut Happy Birthday finishes the card.

Supplies:
Distressed inks - abandoned coral, wilted violet, picked raspberry
Tim Holtz stencils - Flourish, Scribbles
Elizabeth Craft Designs - peel off stickers, micro fine glitter, happy birthday die.
Viva inka gold texture paste, sukura glaze pens, foam tape, sponge blending tool, adhesive glitter foil.


Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

Frances Byrne
Anja de Regt
Barbara Anders
Jessie Rone
Joanne Grzelak
Karen Aicken
Vicki Burdick
Peggy McCurry
Raquel Mason
Rebecca Endie
Jen Benner
April Guest Designer Teresa Kline Papery Blooms

Cheers

Maryann

CCEE1421 Acetate

Today I have some exciting news to share with you I have been asked to be part of the design team for CCEE Stampers.... Cheer & Challenge Electric Ensemble. A group of stampers who share their passion of challenges.

Every week we will post a challenge for you to try and please link you work on our blog 

CCEE stampers so we can see it.

For this week the challenge is clear creations using acetate.

To create the background I use the Hero arts leafy vine stamp and stamped it on acetate with stazon ink. It was then layered onto glitter designer paper and attached with brads. Normally I would die cut the butterflies but I discovered these butterfly stickers at a new discount store and they matched perfectly for the silver, black and white theme.

 Thanks for looking
Have a great day
Maryann

Well school is back so it is busy at work again, so that means less time for stamping and other things,( it was hard to go back after 9 weeks off), so I thought I would share a card that I made awhile ago.

I have used green bazzill for the base card. The white dragonflies have been stamped with stazon ink on acetate. The word dragonfly was stamped using Karen Foster snap stamps and punched it with the label punch. I then stamped the dragonfly with Kaleidacolor ink layered it with black attached the ribbon and label on the front of the acetate, backed it with black card and attached it with black brads.

Recipe:

Stamps: Stamp-it Australia - Dragonfly, Karen Foster - snap stamps

Paper : Bazzill card, Acetate, scrap card.

Other: Stazon ink - white, Kaleidacolor- fresh greens, ribbon ,brads.