Card of the Day-Friday

Happy Friday!

Today I am sharing two sea themed cards featuring

Michael Strong's Sea Turtle and Seaweed stamps
and more wrinkle free distress backgrounds
using mermaid lagoon, peeled paint and crushed olive distress ink.

In this first card, I stamped Mike's seaweed stamp with pearlescent galaxy gold ink
but it didn't show up very well.
So, I embossed it with Adirondack butterscotch embossing powder,
purposely leaving some granules all over for a sandy, beach look.
The seaweed is still very faint.
Used mermaid lagoon distress ink for the Tim Holtz sentiment.

To ink the turtles, I placed peeled paint and crushed olive distress pads directly onto my craft sheet,

spritzed with water and placed the turtle stamp right into the puddle of mixed inks

then stamped on cardstock.

I used an aqua painter to color the rest of the turtles using
squeezed lemonade for the head and legs
 and mowed lawn for the shell.
Then I fussy cut the turtles and attached with dimensional foam.
Embellished with green baker's twine and gemstones.

For my second card, I stamped  Mike's starfish with scattered straw

and the shell with wild honey, then fussy cut and sponged edges.

Used dimensional foam to attach to card.

Embellished with fun fur and gemstones.

Green baker's twine wrapped on the 1st card.
Fun fur on the 2nd card.

Gemstones also were added.

Thanks so much for visiting!

Thursday Card of the Day

Happy Technique Thursday!

Can you tell I have been having fun with the bokeh technique on watercolor backgrounds this week?
Maybe I should call it the "LH bokeh", ha!
You may have guessed how I did this from looking closely.
It's very easy! I like quick and easy!
 For more info on how I made my watercolor backgrounds, click HERE and HERE

 For "my bokeh" technique on today's card, I used square stamps in addition to circle stamps.

I experimented with several white inkpads.
My ColorBox pigment ink just happened to be nice and juicy.
(my white brilliance pad was rather dry, so I couldn't use that)
I randomly stamped the circles and squares then clear embossed them.

You may have noticed that I clear embossed the circles on Wednesday's Dragonfly Card too.

This may not be official "bokeh" technique, but it creates a fun look and texture, IMHO.


To complete my card, I added some fine twine.
Then, using white cardstock and distress inks, I stamped
Mike's Cloisonne Sea Turtle in peacock feathers,
Mini Shell in wild honey
Mini Gecko in peeled paint
and Mini Starfish in rusty hinge.
Fussy cut them and inked the edges.Attached to card with dimensional foam.
Added some dots of Viva Decor's transparent pen, sprinkling glitter on top.

Thanks for visiting! I hope you give this, or your own variation of bokeh a try!
I would love to see your creations! Have fun!!!

Stamps: 

Michael Strong Cloisonne Cloisonne Sea Turtle

Mini Cloisonne Creatures

Hero Arts Quatros-Retro Squares and Box of Dots

Inks
Frost White Colorbox pigment
 Distress: peacock feathers, wild honey, peeled paint, rusty hinge

Viva Decor Transparent pen with Hero Arts prisma glitter sprinkled on top

July 31 Stampfest

Lynette and I had a great day stamping last Wednesday.

We pulled out the alcohol inks and the glossy paper and had a blast! 

Lynette's creations are shown on the top row and mine are below.

We had fun playing with Michael Strong's new Sea Turtle and Seaweed set.  

We made an embossed "frame" and placed a piece of our alcohol ink background paper underneath it. Our inspiration came from Heather Holbrook's Craft Gossip, Shelly Schmidt's My Creative Rumblings and Lori Rife's Creative Touches. The sea turtles and sea weed were heat embossed gold then trimmed. Our turtles were then placed as if they were swimming through the seaweed.

Lynette used a  palm tree die and embossing set and we made a beach scene with Mike's Sea Turtle.

I like to take photos of our stampfest because it's so much fun to look back at the great times spent stamping!