Day 5 card for SYS2!

I'm back again with another card for OCC's Stretch Your Stamps 2 class - this time I used Jennifer Rzasa's Easy Watercolor Outline & Debossing technique which features outline stamps. My outline stamp is PTI's Friends till the End - it's really the only fine line/artsy stamp set I have and it's also my most used/love stamp set! Anyway's here's my take on the technique:

Here are some detail shots:

I was sightly off when I stamped into the debossed area - my stamp is so well loved that it isn't completely clear anymore!

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Ingredients: PTI Friends Till the End, Fabulous Frames, Tipped Tops

Card #2 for Day 3 of Stretch Your Stamps 2!

OK on to my next card for Day 3 of OCC's SYS2 class. This card utilizes Stephanie's Word Art Stenciling technique with sentiment stamps. OH how I heart this technique! I don't have any "scene" type stencils but I had recently made my own stencil using transparency and my Avery Elle Balloons dies so I used that.

Here's my card:

I love one layer cards that have fun techniques! Notice that stray turquoise balloon in the upper right corner? When I was shading my large balloon I missed protecting the corner and smudged ink in the corner, when I discovered my boo-boo I stenciled a naked (sans text) balloon to cover it up!

Thanks for checking out my card!

Ingredients: Winnie & Walter The Big, the Bold & the Happy; Avery Elle Balloons dies and stamps

Card #1 for Day 3 of Stretch Your Stamps 2!

I have been busy making cards/tags for class - so much inspiration and so many fun techniques - some will have to wait for future use which is why I love these classes - lifelong techniques. Today my card features my alphabet stamps - I admit they don't much use unless I need to put a name on a card/tag but WOW was I blown away by Debby's Stamped Die Cuts technique! I knew instantly what to make - a Christmas card. And I LOVE IT!!!

Here is is:

I would have had this card posted earlier but I wanted to get a green distress ink for the tree, so I got more mini distress inks at Michael's yesterday (they only had #1 and #2 - side note: I was saddened by the variety of Tim Holtz goodies there -- and what they did have (minus the minis) were older items! no wonder I rarely go there when you can find everything online! end of side note).

Here is a detail shot:

I love the color combo I put together and LOVE the stars that were made with another technique that I think Debby showed in the Stenciled class  - putting embossing powered on top of embossing paste! Yes Please!

Thanks for checking out my card!

Ingredients: PTI Fresh Alphabet, In the Meadow dies - Silhouettes, Snow Drifts; Paper Smooches Christmas Words die; Studio Calico Star Pattern Wonderland Stencil/Mask

Another Day 1 card for OCC Stretch Your Stamps 2 and for ME & Me!

I made another card featuring the Multi Layer Emboss Resist technique that Kristina showed us in class. The water colored panel didn't come out as clean as hers but I'm ok with it. My embossing seemed a little off too-maybe because of the design. I am also submitting this in the current Mama Elephant & Me August Challenge - Watercoloring + Birthdays.

Ok here's my card:

Here's a detail shot:

I bought some real water colors yesterday - they are Lukas Aquarell Studio - a travel size palette with 12 cubes of color (they are so cute!). I watercolored the panel and the balloons.

Thanks for checking out my card!

Ingredients: Mama Elephant Modern Borders, Good Times

Day 2 card for Stretch Your Stamps 2 class!

Time for my Day 2 card for OCC's Stretch Your Stamps 2 class. This time I CASE'd Laura Sterckx fab ombre card! I was blown away that she's only 16 - she has awesome skills!!!  My original background stamp I chose prior to class starting was Hero Art's Newspaper background stamp BUT when I watched the Day 1 videos I knew it would not do for these techniques SO I searched through my stamps and found a border stamp from Mama Elephant that I could use. Let me say that repeatedly stamping a border stamp in Versamark is not easy on the eyes but I digress!

Here's my card:

 (Sorry for the lighting - dusk was setting in!)

I loved that thread thing Laura did behind the sentiment and have seen others use, but I have not gotten the hang of that so I went with a doily die to create a similar look.

Thanks for checking out my card! PS - I'll be creating another card for Day1 later this week - I need to hunt down some real water color paints to finish my card.

Ingredients: Mama Elephant Modern Borders; Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler, Word Bubbles die; MFT Delicate Doilies 

Day 1 - Card for Stretch Your Stamps 2!

Yeah OCC's Stretch Your Stamps 2 class has started! Background stamps were the most difficult ones for me to find in my stash - I don't have a lot that are large background stamps and very few with a reverse image. Today's card features a reverse image stamp and uses Shari Carroll's faux watercolor stamping technique. While I love her tile technique - I stink at lining up shapes SO I  decided to do a pared down version of the tiles. I was inspired to create a halloween card based on the distressed-ness (not a real word likely) of the stamped background image.

Here we go….

P.S. I MUST get more mini Distress Inks like NOW so I can have more range for these water coloring techniques that I am loving right now! Shopping trip time!

Here is a detail shot of so you can see the glitteryness from my Wink of Stella pen…

Thanks for checking out my card!

Ingredients: PTI Boo to You (halloween word), Happy Haunting (ghost die, ghost eyes), One Liners: Happy; Misc Gems

A couple of cards….

I have a couple of cards that I made lately that hadn't gotten posted and were not being submitted in any challenges. Both of these cards use stamps and dies that I hadn't used yet (yeah!).

The first card is a Get Well card I made for my co-worker:

Ingredients: Paper Smooches Woofers & Tweeters, Sentiment Sampler; Hero Arts Word Bubbles; PTI Grid Card stock

The next is the graduation card I made for my son:

Ingredients: Lawn Fawn Hats Off; MFT Gift Card Greetings II, Blueprints #11

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