Stretch You Stamps 2 Day 1 Kristina

I'm taking the Stretch your Stamps 2 class online and I will have some fun things to show you in the next few weeks. 

These first two cards were inspired by Kristina Werner's video and techniques however I don't have the BG stamp she is using or the watercolors or a big word die. So there was a lot of making stuff up to sort of fit in with what she did. And here we go...

I'm using THIS Retro Flower background stamp by Inkadinkado. I heat embossed it in clear on water color paper by Strathmore. Then I covered it with powdered chalk mixed with paint in the colors: yellow, orange, brown and green. {Would have been smart to photograph it before die cutting it apart. Doh!} I die cut the background using Papertrey Ink vase dies and also two rectangles by Lawn Fawn.

For the first card I used Tim Holtz flower stamps stamped in two Versa Color pigment inks. Then I inked the edges of the rectangle, dry embossed a piece of kraft carsdtock by Oriental Trading Co and rounded two of the corners with a CM corner rounder. I finished it by stamping a Gina Marie sentiment stamp from her Simple Sentiments stamp set using the same ink as used on the flowers and added some pearls by Want 2 Scrap.

So for the second card I used Stampin Up flower stamps, inked the edges of the vases and not the rectangle, sentiment is a rub-on and added the brown part of baker's twine with some old brads to hold it in place.

Thanks so much for looking.

Aqua Brick Card

For today's card I used two techniques from two different sources. I'll start with the background. I dry embossed this white cardstock with a Darice embossing folder. Then I covered the paper with Versa Mark ink and white embossing powder. I heat embossed the background giving the bricks a texture. I learned this technique from Pat Garvin at Mark's Finest Papers. 

HERE is another card I made using the same technique.

The second technique in my card is with the flower. Instead of using foam adhesive for the flower I learned from Jennifer McGuire to punch or die cut multiples of the same shape and glue them together for the added dimension. It's such a money saver considering how I pop everything up with foam adhesive. The flower stamp and punch and aqua cardstock are by Stampin Up. I stamped the flower with Hero arts shadow ink the center is a Sticko sticker by EK Success. The die cut is by Spellbinders. The sentiment stamp is by Just Right in black Hero Arts ink.

Thanks for looking.

Challenges:
http://craftybootschallenges.blogspot.com/ Flowers

http://lovetocreatechallenge.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://sparklensprinklecreativechallenges.blogspot.com/ Embossing powder

http://fattastictuesday.blogspot.com/ Anything goes square or rectangle

http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://artimpressionsstamps.blogspot.com/ Embossing

http://delightfulsketches.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/ Embossing

http://moo-mania.blogspot.co.at/ Texture

http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.com/ Anything goes