Happy Everything!

Today I'd like to link up to the following Challenges:

Shopping our Stash #193:  I Made This (make your own background)
The Mixed Media Card Challenge #9:  Hints of Spring (Bird optional)

I had this old can of shaving cream so I thought I'd use it up to create my background.  Bonus...it made the card smell pretty good too!

 

 

I spread the shaving cream on a cutting board and spritzed the cream with Fireworks Ink (Bahama Blue, Lulu Lavendar, Grape Jelly).  I mixed it up a little with a palette knife and then laid down a piece of Distress watercolor paper.  After a minute or so, I picked up the watercolor paper and scraped the excess shaving cream off, towel dried, and let the paper finish drying on its own.  After it had dried, I added a die cut butterfly and vellum shadow (Paper Artist), sentiment stamp (Great Impressions), and scattered a few Czech crystal beads adhered with Multi Medium Matte (Ranger).  I distressed the edges and mounted it on Grape cardstock (TSOL).  Did I mention it smells like aloe?

 

Thanks so much for stopping by...hope your week is going well and Happy Spring! 

You Make My Heart Sing

The Mixed Media Card Challenge #7 is to use something "new" in your project...a new technique, product, sentiment, etc.  There's a "tissue" option but I did not add that this time.

 

So...what's new?  Well, I used the new sketch from Operation Write Home, #246.  I kept the layout fairly true to the sketch without the additional layer.

 

 

 



The background was created with new Gelatos and I tried the baby wipe technique (new to me) to spread the color.  The great thing about this was that the watercolor paper did not get very wet at all and it dried quickly.  The sentiment was stamped in black Stazon ink and heat embossed.  The additional doodles and colored red hearts were added with PITT artist pens. The two enamel hearts (Pebbles) finished off the card. 

Thanks so much for stopping by!  There's still time to play along in a couple of other fun challenges for January...maybe you can check them out :-)

Cards in Envy:  Banners
Words 2 Scrap By:  #YouChooseTheWord(s)

Merry & Bright

This is my last post of the day...I promise :-)   A friend told me about The Mixed Media Card Challenge so I thought I would give it a whirl with this card.  It gave me permission to be messy and play with some products I had not used yet!

For my non-traditional Christmas card, I used mixed media paper for the background.  I mixed Perfect Pearls with my Koi watercolors for a pearlized, watercolor background.  Once dry, I grabbed my Dotted Tree stencil (Hero Arts) and used Dreamweaver Glossy White Embossing Paste.  While it was still wet, I sprinkled very fine Fairy Dust Glitter (Donna Salazar) on the embossing paste.  The "Merry & Bright" die cuts (Sizzix) were added once everything had dried.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you have a fantastic weekend!