Summer of Creativity Week 4

It's week four and our challenge was to use Archival Ink. I chose the Archival Ink resist technique.

I only have a few Archival Ink Pads: Black, Sepia, Maroon and Banana. The technique calls for light coloured ink, so I stamped the background butterflies and the polka dots in Banana.

It is interesting to me how the same Banana ink looks orange-gold when the Wilted Violet Distress Ink was sponged over top, and bright yellow when the Mowed Lawn Distress Ink was sponged over top. Both were stamped on the same glossy paper.

I stamped a Stampington collage butterfly and heat embossed, then added a die-cut butterfly that was also a resist on glossy using a script stamp. Thanks for looking!

All Tomorrows...

This card is a favourite of mine from the Splitcoaststampers marathon. It came together very organically with little forethought - just grabbing what was at hand and going with it.

The background is complex. It started out with some Tim Holtz kraft resist papers. I added some Distress Stains and stamped a Stampington collage cube damask pattern on top with archival ink. The Stampin' Up! sunflower is stamped with dye inks and cut out and popped on top. The sentiment is an Oxford Impressions stamp.

Green for Christmas

I only needed two more cards for Christmas and the Waltzingmouse Christmas Card Challenge for the month of December was to use green in our cards. The first one is a tri-shutter card:

What always amazes me about these cards is how they fold down to 4.25 X 5.5 inches. I have entered this in the Christmas Card Challenge here.

Second up is a card made using a resist technique.

I dry embossed the holly spray in a Cuttlebug folder, then white embossed music onto the raised holly. Then I coloured with Distress Inks and overstamped more music on the edges of the card with Vintage Photo ink. The holly berries are red Stickles. The text is also white embossed. 

This is my last post before Christmas so let me wish you all a very Merry Christmas. I hope it is relaxing and enjoyable, and that you find some time to create something, too! Thanks for visiting.

Irresistable Kraft Paper

How many of you have a pad of Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paper Stash Kraft Resist paper and have never done anything with it? I suspect there are quite a few as a Google search for images using this paper comes up pretty lean. Here is the pad I own:

I used a sheet of the ledger style paper to create my own feature sheet of paper for a coffee and tea themed card. The paper has numbers and lines that resist inks, providing a bit of a ghostly effect that I found impossible to capture in a photo.

I used Distress Stains and Distress Inks to colour swaths of the paper in a vertical fashion. I overstamped with a lot of stamps in the theme (I have quite a collection). Most of the stamps are from Oxford Impressions and Stampington & Company. I used a Stampington leaf stamp, embossing in gold, to provide another layer of interest to the card. 

Four brads and a navy border were all it seemed to want to finish this 9 X 4 inch card. It's a thank you card for a man, so I resisted (ha!) the urge to pretty it up. I have plenty of this customized paper left over to make a few other cards, and looked forward to working with the other sheets in the pack.

I am entering this in the Crafts and Me Challenge of Anything Goes.