Morning all,
How's your Sunday shaping up? My OH is at his model club BBQ all day today so the day is MINE!!! I cracked on with the laundry and domestic chores yesterday so it really IS all mine today, I can craft my little socks off - mind you, it's too hot to be wearing socks in reality!
So, what did I achieve yesterday? Well, aside from the LIM challenge yesterday morning I faffed about with gesso drying and then crayons - fun, and not overly messy either!
How's your Sunday shaping up? My OH is at his model club BBQ all day today so the day is MINE!!! I cracked on with the laundry and domestic chores yesterday so it really IS all mine today, I can craft my little socks off - mind you, it's too hot to be wearing socks in reality!
So, what did I achieve yesterday? Well, aside from the LIM challenge yesterday morning I faffed about with gesso drying and then crayons - fun, and not overly messy either!
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| My card |
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| The inside of my card and reverse of my envelope |
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| The front and back of my card |
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| Hopefully, you can see the stickles here |
- White C6/A2, 300gsm, card blank and matching sized envelope
- White and red card for image panel, insert and matting
- Snippet of 300gsm water colour card, gesso'd
- Maped Smoothy gel crayons (like Distress Crayons) in yellow, red and pink applied to snippet and blended with a moistened finger
- Stencils from TCW and Stampers Anonymous used in conjunction with a moist (but not wet) baby wipe, to knock back from of the colour and also a piece of cut and dry and Ranger Archival jet black ink to add lines through the sketchy lined stencil
- NBUS (Thanks, Darnell) in the form of stamping gear images from Inkadinkado stamped using Ranger Archival watering can ink
- Inkadinkado sentiment stamped using Ranger Archival jet black ink
- Stardust stickles used to highlight some of the letters and numbers
- Crafters Companion Spray and Shine to seal and protect the water based products
My personal opinion (for what it's worth) is that this would make a cool exam congratulations card for a student .. what about you?
I'll be entering the above make for the following challenges:-
I'll be entering the above make for the following challenges:-
- Pixie's crafty workshop - challenge No. 241 - USE SNIPPETS
- WeLoveToCreate - challenge No. 16 - ANYTHING (Mixed media) GOES
- Craft Stamper Make It, Take It - August challenge - USE A STENCIL and/or A MASK
- Pile It On - challenge No. 113 - CREATE YOUR OWN BACKGROUND
- Stamping Sensations - August challenge - ANYTHING (stamping) GOES
I also discovered that I got a TOP 3 pick over at CASonSunday, thanks very much peeps
with this card 
13 comments:
Great card, Kathy, a really striking design. xx
Very nice. Have a great Sunday.Lx
Cor YEAH . . . that's FAB and I see you put your new stamps to good use!
HAPPY PLAYDAY xxx
this is really striking hun love it to bits,hugs Cherylxxxxxx
Gorgeous colours on your lovely card Kathy
Anne
Congratulations on being a top pick. What a fab card, definitely perfect for exam congratulations. Cara x
Love this Kathy and it certainly is perfect for a successful student. Can't say I ever hear of any that are unsuccessful these days though. Or is it me, am I getting old? Don't answer that!
Hugs
Di xx
FUN card - so much energy in it!
What a very pretty creation in such lovely colours, thank you so much for sharing with us at Stamping Sensations challenge.
B x
This is such a cool and youthful design!
Love all the background colors and how they blended together so beautiful. Thanks so much for joining us this time at the Pile it On Challenge, Elizabeth (DT)
This looks so cool ..... I love the black on the bright coloured background. Thank you for playing along with the Craft Stamper challenge xx
Love the vibrant colours and the stencilling, great card
Thanks for
joining us at Stamping Sensations this month
Joan
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