Manly Monday Fish on Black Paper Cards

I saw this technique on Splitcoast Stampers. When the card is in your hands the fish catch your eyes making you want to look at it more closely. 

I stamped the fish with Versa Mark ink and then dried the images with a heat gun. 

Then I colored the open area of the images in with some colored pencils by Stampin Up and Faber-Castell. The Faber-Castell pencils produce very vibrant colors that go well with this technique. I found that regular colored pencils didn’t show up on the black cardstock. 

 The fish stamps are by Close to my Heart

The hook die-cut is by Quickutz and the silver string is from my stash

The sentiment in the card below is a Lawn Fawn die cut.

For the next two cards, I think the bubble patterned paper is by Paper Pizzazz.

The sentiment stamps are both from Michael’s dollar bin

Best wishes sentiment stamp is hiding in my room. So I’m not sure on that one.

And the last card,

The sentiment is a Lawn Fawn Stamp.

The background paper is dry embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder.

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Thinking of you

Today's card uses the black magic technique. I stamped the SEI flower stamp with pigment white SU ink and then when it was dry I colored it in with SU colored pencils. The cardstock is by Recollections and the patterned paper is by Sunborn. I die cut the title from the Cricut but I can't find the cartridge and the ribbon is from my stash.

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Black Magic Thinking of You

I tried this tutorial from Splitcoast Stampers called Black Magic. It's where you stamp an image with white pigment ink onto black cardstock and either let it dry or dry it with a heat tool. Once it's dry color in the image with colored pencils. I tried 3 different kinds of colored pencils and thought the Stampin Up watercolor pencils worked better than Crayola or Farber Castell colored pencils. This flower stamp is by SEI. I did this technique with a filled in stamp but it also works on outlined stamps.

The sentiment is a Cricut die cut and all the black cardstock is by Recollections. The background is a stamp by Hero Arts that I stamped with Versa Mark ink and heat embossed with Ranger's red embossing powder onto Ranger's watercolor paper. Then I came in with red distress ink to cover the whole piece of embossed paper. After the whole piece was red I sprayed the cardstock with water mixed with Perfect Pearls by Ranger.

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SB.com Use your Stamps {flower and background}

SB.com- Cricut {Wild Card}

http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/ Thinking of you
http://www.craftysentiments.blogspot.com/ AG
http://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ AG
http://www.craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.com/ AG
http://eurekastamps.blogspot.com/ AG
http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/ AG Wild Card

http://lovetoscrapchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ AG
http://notjustcardschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ AG
http://sparklensprinklecreativechallenges.blogspot.com/ Embossing powder