February COF Journal

This month I have a journal from SandyP and she was asking for you to use any theme, just use one or more techniques.  Here is the page I came up with.

Using watercolor paper I stamped the clouds, mountains and water, all stamps from StampScapes.  I then painted everything with my H2O's, I like the soft colors and they leave just a hint of shine to them.  The lighthouse is stamped on StampBoard, it has like a clay base finish to them, with Staz-On ink in black and then using a blotting technique and water based markers I layered many colors.  I then scratched over the lighthouse to bring out highlights.

Gothic Arches - By The Sea

This week the theme at Gothic Arches is "By The Sea” and our hostess this week is Nellie van Leeuwen who came up with this beautiful arch and challenge. What comes to your mind when the sea is mentioned? Bathing along the beach? Lighthouses? Nautical? Whatever the vision may be we want to see it here in gothic form

When I think of the sea I think of Lighthouses -and for this challenge I got to use one of my favorite StampScapes stamps - Light, Rocks & Waves. I stamped on Glossy cardstock with Staz-On Black Ink and then used many blues and purples from Marvy Inks. I layered the clolors lightest to darkest and to get the white in the waves and rock I scraped off the colored inks. I added a bit of yellow for the light in the windows. I layered that piece on a piece of navy cardstock and added just a little glitter around the edge with a silver glitter pen.

Thanks for looking - Hope you like it.

Thank You Card

I put together this card last night for a friend:

The papers are from Fancy Pants, the stamp is from Stampabilities. I stamped the saying on the green paper with VersaMark ink and embossed it with Distressed Embossing Powder - Faded Jeans. I added a little green and pink glitter glue by Stickles to the flowers.

Thanks for taking a look and as always please let me know what you think with a comment.

Created By Hand Challenge

I took a class yesterday at my local stamping store A Small Cleverness using StampScapes stampes and techniques and I am so pleased with one of the cards that I am putting it into this challenge:

The two images were stamped with Black Staz-On ink onto Glossy cardstock. To get the streaking a light Aqua stamp pad was slid across the paper. A wave stamp was added in a Med Blue. Then layer by layer three different blues, and a purple were added using a ColorBloc Stylis to give all the different depths of color. All inks were from Marvy.

Please leave your comments. Thanks for looking.